Posts by Martin Lyne

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Do they pay people to stick it to the car or do it themselves? Easily catchable for numerous offenses if its them themselves doing the sticking..

Also: Hide in car with shotgun. I'm just saying..

Re: Daniel Jarick

Astrophysicists generally have a hard time turning their knowledge of gravity and such into chemistry, as you suggest.

Also: Ignorance and a deeply flawed monetary/banking system led us here, so why not pull our remaining hopes on THAT. Yeah, right, good idea. Some of us are looking for a planet to escape to before capitalism and greed have finished ravaging this one.

Sitting in the gutter, staring at the stars.

Er

999 Operator: "Does your street belong to, figuratively, the King?"

Dying person: "I've been shitting stabbed, just send an ambulance to S74 88ED!"

Thin end of the wedge of ignorance.

@ JonB

I'd be a bit annoyed if the BBC spent my money on RnD instead of, you know, stuff to watch. Not that I watch TV.

Use that tax money

Take that money, give to record/movie/software companies (according to actual UK download distribution), tell them to stop whining.

Fight a P2P tax just to make a "think about P2P tax"?

How many

How many decent sci-fi novels are out there waiting to be made fantastic films.. but no. Let's remake.

Takeshi Kovacs, where are you?!

Imagine

A refuller the size of the double decker.. that's a lot of fuel.

Er

How to tell when a brand/product is dead: Telling your employees to tell/beg their friends to use their half-baked, legacy-canoodling, standards-defying, user-infuriating, developer-destroying, virus-enabling, shit-bag output.

They're just mad at Goodle and becuase Google fund Moz/Chrome, we MUST COMPETE!

Roll over and die. Good dog.

And yet..

And yet.. 100% of IE users will always be using an insecure browser.

Presumably

CCTV cameras are all going to wave and say "Hello, I'm filming you becuase we presume you are all guilty of something, we just need to catch you doing it before we fine you!"

They're a government, they don't feel like their doing their job if they aren't introducing unnecessary laws.

Harf!

"Alas, no plans to LAUNCH either the Wii-like toaster.."

I added the emphasis.

Also: heated plate = carnage if you cut hard witha knife, or plan to wash it (I'm sure there woudl be an engineering solution able to waterproof the plate though)

I was hoping the toaster and plate were wirelessly connected - much more fun if it calculated the angle and such itself. Red light if our of range. Granary bread = grape shot. Man the guns!

Yes Jade..

.. we *can* see your kebab.

IWF Approved

AKA

These materials are rated EC-10 for emotional content and are subject to immediate incineration.

Behold! The government unnecessarily stepping into our lives to save us form things we may want to do/re-legislating things that were already illegal.

USIdent anyone?

4 Billion

It doesn't you get as much as it used to..

You can only get ona and a half Microsoft™ Surface™'s for instance.

Perhaps MS shoudl have done the Satyam thing. Pretend you have 5000 more employees than you really do. Then when times are "tough" you shed them to keep the greedy shareholders happy.

1) Wealth -> Few

2) Profit! (for some)

3) Economy Fail

4) Epic Economy Fail

Er

What is a Plucker?

Oprah died a long time ago, she's just a hologram run by the US Networks now. Like Sean Pertwee in Equilibrium

100% TRUE FACT.

Kate Winslet, Double Golden Globes?

Guffaw!

Democracy

They're doing it wrong.

Windows Registry

Oh dear, it still looks like a pointlessly obfuscated piece of shit.

Erm

Why not just make the retards that think loud music *promotes* socialising turn it DOWN?

If you want it louder, they can give out wireless headsets or something. I don't know anyone that complains it's too quiet. Apart from in horror films. Too damn quiet..

So..

Nobody's going to be watching the inauguration online then.

Patience

Patience is also a prerequisite of using most Microsoft products.

But I agree with AC @ 00:49, also hate teh fact MS seem to want to compete for competitions sake. It's not real competition (like a new company making Silverlight would have been), or IE vs Standards browsers, they use their heft to steal/cling on to market share and then everyone ends up worse off.MS have more customers, sure, but some developer somewhere will be lamenting.

That..

..is the sort of stuff that will sell.

I'm just wondering what tech it uses to track, what the range will be and how susceptible it is to accidental activation. If they sort all that out hen it's goodbye remote.

I feel dirty

For wanting one of these.

How do you text back though? And is there microphone on the inside of hte wristband s you dont have to twist your arm when talking? I would suggest wearing it facing inwards as I normally do for phones, but I get teh feeling that would be scratch-tastic.

RE: Doug Glass

"My generation calls that selling oneself to the devil"

Yeah, next time we'll tell everyone to use substandard jets and poorly trained crew, and then when some fictitious overlord doesn't step in to save them.. we''l it must just have been "their time"

Good job pilot and crew, good job Airbus.

Bad job whoever created Geese. Not to mention Canadian Geese blighting Blighty's lakes and canals.

Ahh Doom 3

You could buy a new computer, hoped it worked.. or just put a cardboard box on your head in a Kinghtmare-fashion and walk around with your mates jumping out at you.

Didin't play it past the first level as the enemies spawn behind you and it was too dark to see anything. I'm all for atmosphere and story (and I loved the human models in it, and the interfaces) but the gameplay lacked a lot for me. Ditto for Quake 4. Built for the consolers.

It's..

It's Battlestar Galactica all over again! (The new one, about how the Cylons WTFPWNED the up-to-date fleets.)

Schools

Schools + proprietary software as a requirement = fail.

Is it me?

..Or do they look like renders opposed to pictures?

Hmm

The spare parts they'd require to satisfy 100 years of maintenance? Probably about 4 machines worth. Seriously, how many maintenance requests do Pioneer get for these things?

I've not seen a laser disk on sale in recent memory..

Eirah

I think you should see if an admin will remove your email address from the post tile, lest you be inundated with Viagroids and Erectile Dysfunctionists.

As for the podule.. I shoudl hope it has some sort of emergency foam-auto-shooting filler thing to prevent tiny holes becoming a major snafu.

They could install a MTHEL too, to shoot the debris.

Couldn't they deploy several think layers of metallic film over it to pretect against the rads? (The tinfoil hat methodology)

Exposure to this picture may cause aggression

"Exposure to this picture may cause aggression"

Funny that, after seeing this I did want to tear things off some people.

Do they have warnings on guns?

We shoudl reject the phrase "Politically Correct" as it is factually incorrect. "Politically Afraid" would be a better term.

"Do X incase Lobbyists Y accuse us of letting mororns/children perfom Z/use Z without us protecting them"

Just let Darwinism run it's course people. "Billy kept asking for the game where you hack people up, and after we bought him it he killed the dog. I blame the game!" Logic fail.

Dashboard

Blinding when bright

Hmm

"They've been shooting at each other for the last 30 minutes, officer! What? No, there's been no broken glass or sounds of movement"

They probably called them to get them to turn the noise down, gonna be more careful with the volume if the ARU bust through your window one night..

*Takes note as he lives directly behind a large police station*

WHAT?!

You say that straight lines with many joinings are EASIER to remember and traverse than curved, irregularly joined ones?

ABOMINATION!

LIES!

BASIC OBVIOUSNESS!

Pfht.

News just in: Israeli professors drink cocktails while scooping from the pork barrel.

Er

What do those symbols mean on the circular context thing? What's meant to be special about he map pictures? The white version? If so: a resounding "Meh".

Presumably I'm missing something

It's a business plan.

They're storing all their data in "THE CLOUD!"™. It's backed up on thousands of criminals computers, all over the world, and can be recovered with a quick and simple police raid/hack attack!

Hopefully

I'll be able to get it for another accelerometer phone.

Erm

If they are "outside the benefit system" then surely they don't want benefits? How many people don't know about benefits? How many poor old people, presumably with nothing else to do think "I won't bother calling the benefits people"

Er..

I think that the Faceprty one should be changed. Clearly people were moaning about expecting things they hadn't fully read the information about. The team specified a date, they people moaned before that date.

User 2.0 ignorance rather than developer tardiness.

So..

..do they need to show us all what happens when a car runs out of petrol when far from a petrol station?

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

This is sad news indeed.

Er.

A bit of rain would kill it, but multiple reentries and exposure to mostly-vacuum and micrometeorite impacts..

Oh well. I'd love to see one up close, a reminder of mankind's golden age of space-faring. Back to the caves we go.

Ohnoes

Royal facebook!

Er..

Hydrogen is great, assuming you could get the electricity-hydrogen conversion efficiency up, and we had safe means of transporting it en masse.

It's not like electricty is already piped all over the world and new battery technology allows for faster recharging and you can reclaim energy dynamatially whilst driving, is it? Oh wait..

Hydrogen is a waste of time without a green way of making electricity, even then it's still a PITA to make and move. Batteries can be made robust easily. Any super-safe hydrogen transportation (new carbon nanotube hydrogen-sequestration things look cool) is going to be heavy, wheras batteries will be getting lighter and/or more capacious.

Diversity is good, having to build new worldwide infrastructure for hydrogen is fucking stupid.

Storage + infrastructure + generation for hydrogen.

Storage + improvement on existing infrastructure + already-required-generation for electric.

If they make tiny, high efficiency coverters I'll gladly retract my criticism. High being equal or greater than transporting electrictiy and storing it in LiIon or modern equivalents.

PlanetSide

Anyone fancy a PlanetSide revival?

A game where people work together to actually do something that lasts for more than an hour against other people, and not just "questing"

Tabula Rasa was alright, WAR is good enough, but the MMO thing does nothing for me. I like to have an element of skill not just click click click victory.

Persistent world, FPS, squad tactics. Anyone that has plaed PS has at least 20 good stories to tell. One of which will involve comedy transport antics. Classic.