Posts by Cosmo

Sprayed with breast milk eh???

Some blokes would pay good money for that...

It's bloody good I tell thee

As per title

Almost.... almost.....

We're getting close now! I'm happy to pay £200 - £250 for an Android tablet, but it must have at least 3.0, a good quality screen and be Android market compatible.

Of course, there are hacks out there for the Vega etc. But if - in maybe 12 months time - I can get something like the above right out of the box, then my credit card will get a workout.

Wait... what

She spends her time texting in all theatres that she goes to?

However, that was an awesome A+ rant - worthy of Register flame-bait - plus I love the literal text used for the subtitles. Brilliant!

Chelsea Charms - take note!

Using growth hormones on your melons can make 'em go pop!

ITV Player

Will this be on the ITV player? I'll check once I get back home from the pub this evening :)

MPG

I've heard various claims that the >60mpg is very difficult to achieve and that lots of TwinAir owners aren't getting anywhere near that. Of course the manufacturer's claimed figure is always pie in the sky, but it seems for some reason that FIAT's seems to be well off for this model

Looks like we should move pr0n production

To South America. Big jubs and todgers!

Nothing new here

People have been complaining about these class 450 3+2 seat patterns for years now. I'm fortunate that the train I normally get into work from Portsmouth to Basingstoke is a call 444, but if the trains are swapped around and it ends up being a 450, it's a nightmare.

The leg room is not enough for anyone who is 6ft+ and the only way you can sit in the middle seat of 3 is if you sit bolt upright with your arms tucked in by yours sides. Not comfortable for any journey over 10 minutes.

SWT used to wheel out some sort of design study that they had done when anyone complained during the "Ask the manager" sessions, but the fact that their PR department always spout weird and wonderful BS when pressed on the matter indicates to me that they know full well that these seats are not comfortable.

Ironically, if the ripped out the aisle seat in the 3+2 combination seats, more people would probably sit down

In the words of Vader

Nooooooooooooooo! Oh Nokia, what have you done by getting into bed with Microsoft. Android was the way to go. RIP-

Three... Two... One...

Bad Robot!

Traction control permanently on?

What about if you need to drive in snow? Sometimes turning the TC off can make driving in snow easier.

Was it just me...

...who read that as "Blog network must label porno content under OFT glare"?

Paris... because she's good at labelling porn

33%

33% - I failed. I'd better get out!

It's not often I say this but...

...what a bunch of tossers. Nicking a bus, driving on the wrong side of the road, crashing into a car, but most importantly...

FILMING THE THING AND PUTTING IT ON YOUTUBE?!?!?! Showing their faces, using their real names??? I hope they have to work or do community service for years to pay for the damage

Don't be evil...

...was so 2000.

And if you HAVE to be evil, then blame it on a lowly code monkey...

Shame for her...

...that she wasn't driving a Toyota. She could've just said that the car accelerated all by itself.

Paris, as she likes a close shave.

My PS3 phat seems to work

I tried a quick test by trying to join a COD MW2 multiplayer game. It signed in fine. My 80GB PS3 was bought about two months before the PS3 slim came out. I'm not sure if there was a subtle change in hardware as time went on...

May I be the first to say...

pwned

Reminds me a bit of FaceParty

I remember last year or the year before, FaceParty attempted some PR BS about how they were immediately excluding all over 35s from their site because of the risk of pedophilia. Obviously utter rubbish, as the real reason was that they lost their advertising revenue and couldn't afford to keep up the servers for the amount of members they had. As a result, it degenerated into a cesspit of 19 year old single-mother-of-fives with their saggy tits hanging out and chav-infested blokes with dodgy Vauxhall Novas.

This is most likely a PR stunt to generate traffic to their small website. If pushed to look deeper, they probably only removed the accounts of people who hadn't logged in for the last 12 months or something similar.

Paris because she's probably a member...

No more bleeding edge

I've taken the executive decision with new phones - that there is no point paying money to be a beta tester. I've decided that from now on, I'll get a free phone on contract that's about 12 months old, so that the firmware updates are done and stable. Sounds like people are having trouble with the brand new HTC Touch HD2 as well.

I'm sure the Satio (and HD2) will be a great phone... in 3 months time when all the bugs are ironed out. Till then, it sounds like a paperweight. I'll get an N85/N86 now, and this time next year have a look at one of these babies.

Survey stats

I assume that the majority of people who answered this survey are young to middle-aged technically savvy males.

It would be interesting to see how the usage type varies when you throw women and teenagers into the mix. (and dumb blondes like Paris...)

Creative Zen?

I was surprised not to see the "original" Creative Zen on this list. I bought one about 4 months ago for £55 for the 4GB version and it has worked pretty well for me.

Wow

I was a member (and probably still am) of FaceParty, but haven't logged in for about 2 years. I received an e-mail a while back telling me they were going advert free and how wonderful it was all going to be (positive spin for the fact that the site was dying and no-one wanted to advertise with them anymore).

I wouldn't be surprised if they never come back - it looks and sounds like it's run by a 14 year old who's just thrown their toys out of the pram :D Never mind guys, you tried the whole social network thang and it didn't work for ya - good luck in Burger King.

Almost getting worthit

I don't use my phone as heavily as I used to.... but if I paid £99 for a £30 18-month contract, then for a shiny new 3G iPhone, that's pretty reasonable! Kudos for Apple not doing the normal $199 = £199 thing.

Too simplistic

The problem is that if you hike up the cost of petrol, it doesn't just affect the motorist. As someone earlier pointed out, buses, cabs, lorries and trains all require this oil-type stuff to run.

If you start raising the prices, so will the bus companies (Stagecoach and First - I'm looking at you. £1.50 for a single 2 mile bus ride???). Cab drivers will factor that into their fares, which will cost the public and businesses more.

All those lorries delivering food to the supermarkets will have to factor in the cost and go bust. And what about everyone buying their CDs/DVDs/Washing machines online? They don't magically turn up to your front door.

I'm not entirely sure what the solution is. More efficient cars, definitely. Maybe the government subsiding public transport to an extent? Loss leading routes available so that people who don't live on top of a train station can actually get there?

eBay is horribly broken

I usually buy reasonably low-cost stuff on eBay which isn't too much of a problem, but I wanted to sell my old Sony Ericsson k750i just before Christmas to raise a bit of cash. I had to watch the last hour of my auction like a hawk, as I had no less than 3 hijacked accounts bidding stupid money on the phone - either for kicks or to send to Nigeria presumably... Yes I may have eventually cancelled all the bids and done a second chance offer, but it was so much hassle. Until I can be sure that eBay can stop these fraudsters messing up auctions, I won't be selling any high value stuff again.

As for those defending deliberately high P&P charges... well. I don't buy from sellers like you. As people have previously pointed out, I don't want to get refunded £1 of a £29 item if something goes wrong with it.

What happened to Otto?

Daymn

Otto really has it in for Facebook. What happened - did Zuckerburg steal his girlfriend or something? Alright I know that's unlikey. Was it a doughnut? A can of mountain dew? Inquiring minds want to know!

Bwahahahaaaa - It's all a hoax

I've just pissed myself laughing at all of these comments from smokers and non-smokers bitching and sniping at each others, since the story is a COMPLETE AND UTTER HOAX!

http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKL1445404420080114

They Spammed me too...

I also got several spam e-mails from Evesham around 2003 which pissed me off no end. It wasn't as if it was just one - there were several, day after day. I thought that maybe the company was on it's last legs. It lasted longer than I thought it would. I'm desperately sorry for those who have lost their jobs, but like another person I explicitly warned people away from buying from Evesham as someome up in management obviously thought they could save some cash by buying dirty e-mail lists. Not the best way to run a company methinks. Ah well.

Pre-Release

Whilst some people are up in arms about the police wasting their time arresting people for downloading (and it appears that the initial reports were negative-PR spin), can you really be surprised that they want to crack down on people sharing pre-release music?

So what about his REAL racist statement

“people who have to deal with black employees find this not true”. Why are so many people who are harping on about exact quoting missing this blatantly racist statement. He DID say it. The original Times article is here:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2630748.ece