Posts by Mike Lovell

No balls!

"it has at least eighteen processing cores (I've stopped counting already), enough interface to keep ten people occupied, fills up entire walls & consumes an efficient <2kW all-on"

If I wanted a troll to respond, I'd have printed it out and stuck it up under a bridge.

"...& Vista is still too unready to run it. Though, as XP, Win98 would still be capable of doing a sterling overall job"

Hey, don't blame me if you can't get it working mate. Call in an IT professional to help! ;o) ... Have you tried plugging it in? Then stuff should come up on that big TV above the typewriter. I advise caution though, when you turn it on sometimes the coffee cup holder will shut and spill your beverage everywhere.

". Diddums, you can keep just your laptop. Some of us have bigger, harder & more dynamic monsters to master"

So have I, stashed down my slacks! If you consider fixing your Mums PC that hard, maybe you should just pack it all in.

Talk about rash

I think the 'problem' with Vista is that it's quite a bit different. Everything has been renamed and moved about a bit. XP was like your old comfortable slippers, and you don't like breaking in your new shoes.

It does take a little time to get used to, but I don't think I'd like to go back now.

What it sounds like has happened is people will install it, use it for 20 minutes, then go “I don’t like it, I want my Mummy (Sorry I mean my XP installation)”.

Runs fine on my laptop, I actually get better battery usage as it seems to rope in my speedstep a bit better when I tell it to change power mode. If your computer doesn’t run it – Get a job you hippy! Get yourself a real mans PC!

Only thing I don't like is that it takes so many clicks to actually get to your network adaptors to disable/enable them.

Office 2007 totally kicks **** also! Go MS! I love you! I am your biggest fanboy! Give me more copes of Vista to do thy bidding!

Big wow!

140mph! Big wow! I do that every day down the M25. I was much more impressed by that guy that got into the 170's.

I can't believe someone would be proud of that pansy arse speed. Definitely wasn't worth recording.

Lucky I wasn't there, I'd be in the background on my push bike flashing him to let me pass.

Also I'm pretty sure if you try and play the smart arse and claim the speedo was wrong they'll get you on something even worse, you know what they're like!

Wow

Well of course my definition of "in the road" is that they're causing an obstruction. I mean if they're just walking by the side of the road (if there's no pavement for instance) then I'd probably just clip them with the wing mirror --- Nothing serious, just to warn them.

Now you mention it I do actually live in America now. I barely leave any survivors when I'm out in my humvee.

I'm with you mate, “safe speed”. I rarely go over 150mph, unless I'm in a hurry.

P.S. Are you aware of the term “tongue in cheek”?

Pedestrians "are" idiots

That's where we disagree, the road is for vehicles.

If you're walking in the road when I'm driving, then prepare to be picking bits of my car out your body for the next few months. I may even swerve to ensure a "clean hit".

Quite frankly driving in London I'd have to say pedestrians "are" idiots. The amount of times you see:

- Step into the road

- Look the wrong way down the road

- Look the right way down the road

- <Shock> there's a car there!

Maybe if I'd borrowed Richard Hammond's rocket car for the day you may be able to use the excuse "I didn't see him coming" - Of course I'd want a thorough safety inspection of it first, I hear those things are dangerous.

Grrr, annoying speed argument

I find that guys "speeding at 'x' miles per hour does more damage" comment very annoying. Just like those adverts (such and such chance I'll die at 35mph, such as such change I'll live at 30mph).

Personally when I'm driving I like to seriously spank it everywhere I go. If people aren't waving frantically at me from the pavement shouting "slow down" then in my opinion I've failed.

Now when I'm a pedestrian what I tend to do is look both ways before crossing the road, not cross right on a bend and also listen out for vehicles. It's amazing how little I've been hit by speeding traffic! I feel I really must spread the word, I know it's a very tricky concept! :o)

Quite frankly whenever I see some idiot step right into the road without looking I don't think “If I was going slower maybe I could better avoid this poor fellow” - I'm more of the thinking “If only I was going a bit faster I could rid the world of this arse”