Posts by Darryl

Re: Dell service

I didn't know their on-site service caused random carriage return bugs.

Re: I just wish I could remove the ****ing Facebook app

You can disable it... Not as good as uninstalling, but at least it stops trying to hog your bandwidth and processor, and it won't want to update every two days.

But yeah, it would be nice to be able to uninstall the crapware without rooting.

Re: "Patch Tuesdays" for cars?

<Fumbling with various levers sticking out of the steering column>

"Hi! I'm Clippy! It looks like you're trying to turn on the wipers. Would you like to:

- Dim the headlights

- Crank up the stereo to 11

- Just f off and leave you alone."

But then they couldn't sell you the extremely expensive Thunderbolt to 10Gig adapters

Re: "fruity firm"

So you're saying that Old Handle is holding that exclamation mark wrong?

Lemme guess, there are 9 in total?

Re: Help

Beats the heck out of only have a 3 1/2 inch one

Re: JB? I Dream of JB!

The other option is to dump Telus. They're masters of upping your charges every time you sneeze.

Re: "unmodified Androids provided they were connected to a computer."

Details like that don't generate as many scary 'We're all DOOMED' headlines

Re: Don't mention the war between BP and TNMOC

Kind of ironic that it was all set up to help win the war and is now the victim of a war

Angry American

I've always thought they looked more shocked (get it?) than angry... Either that or reminiscent of blow-up sex dolls' facial expressions

Re: Netflix/Lovefilm US v. UK

Thanks for the 'hint' - I'd never heard of Media Hint, and Canadian Netflix is the worst of the bunch. Wish there was some way to run it on my Roku though...

Re: Once again, the USPTO invites keel-hauling of itself

The good ol' Apple 'on a mobile device' method of repatenting previously patented items.

Re: possibly some shit sherlock

Are bears Catholic? Does the Pope shit in the woods?

As for bears, the grizzlies and black bears in the Canadian Rockies seem to prefer cutlines and access roads, and the occasional highway...

"Is he trying to make quick profits on his investments? Or maybe he just like seeing his name in the headlines?"

Yes

Re: El Reg is missing the real story

Er, if someone leaves something on your property for months after you've repeatedly asked them to remove it, isn't it considered abandoned, and you have the tight to dispose of it? Maybe a letter to that effect sent to the company would hasten the removal process?

That's why there seems to be a push to rename all of the varieties of rape seed 'canola' even though that's only one of the many variations.

That site should be renamed 'How long is my password'

If you type in the uber-secure aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, it claims it would take 13,000 years to crack.

Re: Smile?

My thought as well... Why do they need the 3D/4D scans of the fetus if they only supply one of two poses?

Is that where the camera zooms in on your face after the winner was announced and you have to plaster on a fake smile and clap a few times to show what a gracious loser you are?

Re: Fire the spokesman

It's sad - seem to be seeing a lot more of the 'We haven't done anything wrong" responses lately (or so it seems). The Snapchat fiasco springs to mind.

No, but 'homes' shouldn't be plural.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

Re: Spoonfull of Scare Mongering

Thank you.

These things aren't Cinderella's carriage or something.. They'll still work the same after midnight.

Re: Seems odd, when compared to other tech buyouts

Yep, I think Tiny has hit it right on the head. Time Warner is just under the misinformed assumption that they're actually worth that much per share.

Re: Stats

Yup, before that, it was a lot harder to snatch a person's iMac out of their hands while they were using it in the subway station.

Re: Apple's Objections of November 27 ..

Plus there's the whole "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." angle... The more stonewalling and complaining they do, the more it looks like they have something to hide.

1) Probably those 'idiots' were expecting to buy a working, non artificially crippled piece of software. As has been proven by the hack writer (and now by Maxis), the game didn't need to be connected to the servers to run, and because they wrote in locks to disable it when it wasn't connected, it was a useless lump when their servers went down. That's a bad product.

2) Why wouldn't a retailer halt the sale of a defective item from their inventory? Any retailer is going to pay attention to hundreds of bad reviews by their customers and stop selling the item that is pissing them off. Only seems like good business habits to me.

Just an opinion based on my experience. Bought a pile of 60 GB Vertex Plus disks for upgrading desktops at work, instead of replacing the desktops, dirt cheap and the failure rate (so far) is zero, while there's been a noticeable speed boost in the machines.

Re: the government refuses to properly invest in fledgling technologies

Must be different in the UK. Here in Canada, the assorted governments seem more than happy to piss away loads of money to subsidise wind farms, based on questionable predictions of return on investment which never seem to pan out.

Re: I would really like to consolidate these devices into one

Two words:

Duct tape

Re: why?

Thing is, if you just spent 40K on a projector, surely you can afford to get a specialized screen or at least a large wall in your large house prepared to adequately reflect the image?

Re: It's a weebil

Thanks a lot guys. Now I have that stupid jingle stuck in my head...

"Weeeeeeebles wobble, but they don't fall down."

Not worth reading comments on Samsung reports; too many Apple trolls around whining because people have the nerve to like Samsung.