Posts by jonathan keith
157 posts • joined Tuesday 14th August 2007 17:00 GMT
Yeah, right
Have they hired some new coders to replace the bunch who write their legendarily awful drivers?
Replace Zardoz...
with Logan's Run and you're nearly there.
Er, no
So what about my media library on my home server? DNLA will quite happily handle any and all content I have locally. Doesn't sound like DIAL will.
Headline
Berserk.
That is all.
Looks like Pete Cooke
I was wandering around on the surface of Tau Ceti III in 1985. Admittedly, I was doing this on a ZX Spectrum.
Er, did I miss something?
"Instagram users own their content and Instagram does not claim any ownership rights over your photos. Nothing about this has changed."
Indeed. In fact, as I recall, the problem wasn't that Instagram were trying to claim ownership of one's photos, it was that they wanted to claim a license to monetise those photos without having to make any payment to the owner.
I don't see that the PR fluff from Systrom does anything to change that particular point of contention.
Here's a mad, crazy idea.
How about the government use the 15 years worth of breathing space - and some of the revenues - that fracking offers to develop and build a sensible and effective renewables infrastructure, so that the lights won't once again go out when another of our limited resources is all used up?
Posted in America planned to NUKE THE MOON
Nuke the moon... from orbit?
After all, it's the only way to be sure.
Lovely
Can't find the answer to this - does anyone know if it's going to work on a Nokia N900?
Re: Merlin engines?
But they do, if you're watching Doctor Who...
Posted in Samsung Galaxy Note 2 review
Tizen
Put this out running Tizen and I'll have one as soon as I can get to the shop.
MS and Windows gaming
Microsoft have managed to fuck up every aspect of gaming on windows machines that they are able to. For example;
Closing their MS Flight Simulator studio and killing Flight Sim, putting out a pitiful free-to-play microtransaction-driven "game with aeroplanes in it", wondering why no-one used it and then killing that too.
"Games For Windows Live". A cataclysmic fuck up that still, after years, is an abomination. The conspiracy theory is that MS wanted to make PC gaming such an unpleasant experience that everyone would end up buying Xboxes.
Having the rights to magnificent titles such as the MechWarrior series that they just sat on for years and didn't use.
And a million and one other bits of PC games-related fuckwittery. The people who make their strategic decisions are just clueless, which is tragic because there have been some genuine masterpieces released from their studios.
The only way to be sure...
Can't we just nuke Apple from orbit?
Balls.
"It's an expensive mistake for VM, which spent a whopping £52.6m on marketing costs in its first quarter."
It would have been an expensive mistake if they'd been fined that much money for running a 'misleading' ad (i.e. lying through their teeth) but they weren't.
If, however, they had been, perhaps these lying liars and all their lying friends would stop lying to us.
Looking forward to the future of advertising: "buy our cake, it's cake".
Paris!
She's working at CERN too now? Is there no end to her talents?
And what about...?
Maemo? Excellent, and killed by Nokia. Meego? Equally excellent and ...killed by Nokia.
Good luck to the Mozilla boys and girls, but in the meantime I'm looking forward to the first bach of Tizen phones from Samsung. If they will fully support a properly open-source OS with a great range of handsets then android and all of google's "right up to the creepy line" nonsense will have some proper competiton, never mind the Jobs' mob walled-garden control-freakery.
Totally unbelievable
An Apple flack talking to The Reg? Come on, what do you take us for?
Shocking news
Insecticides harm insects. Who could possibly have forseen such a thing?
Just to say...
... I love science. Go, boffins.
Posted in It's game over for pinball pioneer
Pinball
Still the best way to teach shoolboys about Newtonian physics.
Reg Special Projects Bureau
I suggest that the El Reg Gentlemen Amateurs solve this over tea and pipe tobacco in their shed following LOHAN's glorious success.
"I'd still hit it"
That is such a grotesquely ugly phrase. In fact, I can't think of another phrase that's more demeaning to a woman.
Posted in Dumb salesmen are hurting us – Nokia CEO
Who?
I'm waiting for Samsung's new phones that run Tizen (Meego's successor) to appear. Then I'll replace my N900.
Paedophryne amauensis
I expect there are mobs of angry, thick tabloid readers heading to the rainforest right now.
Posted in Ford unwraps '2013 Mondeo'
Does that mean that the new car that Aston are unveiling this year to replace the DB9 will look like a Ford?
Or...
I think it's because they've just been reminded by the other particles that it's their round.
Hosts blocking
If you're comfortable editing your hosts file, there are several good lists available for download that block huge numbers of URLs, including advertisers and tracking servers.
Very, very useful. There's one here:
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
Tossbag Australian?
Not these days. He's been a naturalised American citizen since the mid 80s. Otherwise he wouldn't have been able to own all those US TV channels and newspapers.
Can't think why we don't have such rules over here. Bueller? Anybody?
Book?
That's like a Kindle, yeah?
Game Controller fail
No Kempston Competiton Pro? No (as mentioned upthread) Quickshot?
No HOTAS flightstick?
And no mouse and keyboard?
Consoles. Toys for Children. Real gamers use a system that requires a keyboard.
Rocket
Can the solid fuel rocket motor be detachable, like the Shuttle boosters? Then you can have LOHAN sitting on (or hanging under) the motor which drops away when spent, leaving LOHAN lighter and better able to glide?
Possibly also avoids the issues of bits of LOHAN exposed to the rocket exhaust too.
Diddums
"They have to connect magsafe, ethernet, USB, and Firewire 800 (for external hard drives)."
Poor them. That must take at least the morning, and then there's the difficult question of where to go for lunch. It's amazing they get through the week at all.
Posted in Dinner Spinner
I'm as sober as a judge, and furthermore I'm a magistrate.
Just here to say well done for the splendid Henry Rawlinson quote.
Posted in Cowon D3 Plenue Android media player
Still no gapless playback?
Sort it OUT, Cowon! How hard can it be?
Count me out
I'm not knowingly going anywhere near one of those things. I've seen "Invasion of the Bodysnatchers". I know what happens when someone notices something new on a plant and says "Ooh, that's an interesting flower"...
Posted in Microsoft finally says adios to Autorun
Win98
I've got a Win 98 box still running, for my old games. It's going nowhere until X-Wing or Tie Fighter get remade properly.
Paris, because she's good for old games too, allegedly.
Money
I've got no objection to Egyptians making a better living for themselves. But that's the point. For themselves, as opposed to ridding themselves of one lot of venal bastards just so they can work 18 hours a day for pennies on behalf of another bunch of venal bastards.
Marvellous
No, really, it's wonderful that an attempt by a people to free themselves from oppression is viewed simply as an opportunity to exploit them instead. Well done! You must feel so proud.
Panorama
When did Panorama turn in to the Daily fucking Mail on television? I remember when they actually used to do some proper investigative reporting instead of this tabloid shitfest.
Paris, because she's a bloody disgrace too.
Posted in iPhone 4 gets slide-out keyboard
Or, you know...
You could get a Nokia N900. And it comes with flash.
Posted in F1 2010
Hmmm...
BRAKES, FFS. I certainly wouldn't want to be driving a car that breaks.
Also, as previously mentioned: Crammond's GP4. Still hasn't been bettered.
@ JasonW
You mean "run over Phorm's top brass", shurely*?
(*cont. p94 for spelling pedants)
I'd Rather Jack...
... Than Fleetwood Mac.
Now, The Reynolds Girls. There was real talent.
Posted in Waterfall Niagara speakers
Yes, but...
What do they sound like when you play a downloaded mp3 through an ipod, yeah?
Only useful to me...
When Adobe pull their fingers out and get round to releasing a 64bit version of Flash.
Blimey
0 - 600mph in two seconds? Are they going to be taking the astronauts out of it with a spoon once it lands?
Yup.
At just about the same time as the four horsemen are saddling up.
Subs, please check.
"Running under the covers is Windows 7"
I would think this fact alone would deserve a headline of it's own, don't you?
Posted in Palm Pre
You what?
Qwerty smartphones and there no Nokia N900 in the lineup? Are you all mad?
