Posts by Iain

Savings

100GB/8GB=12.5

12.5*£14.99=£187.87

Saving in buying 12 8GB flash drives from mymemory = £156.13

Prices accurate as of 3/9/08

Buy?

Sorry, is this journalism or an advert? I gained no more useful info from that article than from reading the back of the box.

At least the papers have the decency of putting "Advertisement" above their full page adverts.

Indeed

Tosh is good, before it was stolen (from my house, not my back seat, I ain't no fo') I had managed to drop it numerous times and expose it to harsh conditions of a british summetime on a garden bench plus coffee related experiences. (Yes I'm clumsy) and it still rocked on like a trooper!

Anyone remember Time? They were the worst manufacturer of all (ironic) time, my old time laptop actually spent more time (again) in the shop than it did on my desk. It eventually was subject to an 'accident' and was replaced.

My current laptop is a Philips and I have to say I am impressed with it. I even bought it from PC World and it still works 2 years on. I like.

Quantum porn

Quantum porn jokes are funnier.

Frankie Boyle would have wiped the floor with them

iVibrator

Umm, so obvious it HURTS

I'm sorry

but shouldn't the title have been the 'ten best bluetooth stereo headphones for the chronically overpaid'?

Even the philips pair at 10 cost £14.01 than the quality Jabra set I bought which I have to say sound beautiful and, apart from some initial connection glitches and a size:attachment issues when cycling over 25mph were wonderful value for money.

Who the f*** pays £200 for a set of headphones? (session musicians etc aside)

Nostalgia

At least good ol' sex, drugs and rock n roll got you out in the open air (Glasto...)

Paris because I used the word sex.

Energy

Aren't we in the middle of an energy crisis (or something like that)?

So, instead of switch closes circuit, allow leccy to flow to lightbulb we now have:

Wifi lightswitch needs power source

Wifi light wifi reciever needs power source

Light needs power source

Huh?

Toight

"can only safely accommodate a todger of up to 6.5in. "

I don't wish to boast, but quite frankly it wouldn't fit.

I thought the national average was 5.8in, so not much room for... expansion.

Hell, how can you even use inuendo here?

From the Antiwues Roadshow viewer

Buy them and for God's sake KEEP IT IN THE ORIGINAL PACKAGING.

Because quite frankly you can't actually want to use it. Or get it out in public.

Paris because she knows all about getting it out in public. <--Unoriginal, but true.

Comparison website

Dell is like a French car. If it works and stays in one piece it's a pretty good thing to have (CV5!). But unfortunately fairly regularly you get a blooper which tells you that 2+2=blue screen+(smoke x new fuse). My Dell has been a right little trooper (apart from having to manually percussively adjust the case to fit a new graphics card) after nearly 5 years, but friends have had Dell's which passed on to Silicon Heaven after just 1.

The only major problem I had was the keyboard. Which I replaced with a superiorer one anyway. Umm. Not sure what my point was. Be lucky, I guess.

Paris, because I would like to see her @

Surely it would be easier...

...just to ban the Real World(TM?) and have done with it?

Just had to take a bnuch of exciting diazepam (FO3-"triazepam"?) for my damaged back... please don't moderate me!

Why oh why

I am sure that the technology will break down somewhere along the way with predictable consequences, but it sounds like a pretty good idea.

But you couldn't just admit it was a good idea making appropriate use of modern technology could you, no, had to put a negative spin on it in the last sentence.

You bunch of pessimists and naysayers. It might just work! (although I did see the M-word in there)

Good effort...

...but completely pointless.

I get a good 5 months or so out of 2 AA batteries [sic] in my wireless 'board, pretty much only 4 a year. When it comes to saving the planet I think there are possibly better ways to expend brain power. And £65? It would take 20 odd years to offset the cost of batteries+regular wireless keyboard. The chance of a coffee related accident in that time must be very high reducing the average keyboard's lifespan considerably.

War on Laden Bin, possibly?

I thought this was going to be story about terrorists injecting deadly diseases into food stocks destined for GB. I was obviously mistaken. Maybe I should sell the possibility to the Mail (calling myself an 'informed source close to MI5').

" bulging, turgid Anaconda "

Sounds a bit like... bum!

Mines the one with the BA(Hons) in Pop Culture References certificate in the inside pocket

My PIN number is...

So all your info is stored in a single location?

Eggs?

Basket?

Surely

there is going to be a point at which Windows 7 overtakes Vista, with several sources citing the release date as mid to late 2009.

Apart from the fact that W7 is going to be buggy as hell when it first emerges (blinking, into the silverlight? - 8 down), surely it is a bit of a waste of money getting Vista?

So, the police check your phone...

...post mortem. If I die suddenly, and, lets face it, shit does happen, I would not really fancy the police poking through my electronic equipment. I wonder if you can be prosecuted posthumously under the new Criminal Justice Bill...

Whatever, I wouldn't fancy my grieving relatives (I hope they would be grieving anyway...) being old by the police 'Oh by the way your son/brother/husband/nephew/uncle is a massive pevert' (according the the government).

Apart from that aspect, I have various bank details and accounts stored on my laptop. Lets think how that would go:

I die.

Police take laptop to check wasn't topped by irate forum moderator.

Police forensically delve into files, unencrypt bank details.

Police lose laptop.

Criminal finds laptop, rinses my accounts...

Incompatible.

No, having tried the beta versions of 3 I have found that none of my favourite and most useful add-ons are compatible, so I'll be sticking with 2 for the next few months.

Quick list of incompatible features:

advanced cookie management add-on

side tab bar with extra tabbing features

ABP

GSpace

Sidebar thingy

None of the appearence add-ons are compatible meaning aaaargh cluttered screen.

And most important: Download manager

I like

At present I am using the U600 which has the opposite arrangement, normal d-pad but touch sensitive call/hang up and select buttons. These are infuriating beyond belief because when on a call you cannot hang-up without either opening and closing the slider, or pressing unlock unlock cancel. Very happy Samsung have listened to may rambling letter of complaint about this issue and made some change just for me. Do I get a free one?

Original idea?

Where is the original idea angle?

Talkie Toaster (TM)

I would draw reader's attention to the Red Dwarf episide 'White Hole' where the actions of a toaster, similar to the description offered, wreaks havoc by having its own bright ideas after reading an operations manual. A salutory and cautionary tale for all those who do not own their own rocking chair. Or shotgun. Or whittlin' knife.

Runs Doom

I bet SP3 would still break it. Oh, wait a minute, maybe that is what SP3 was tested on! (Note owner)

Nothing useful to say

My AMD PC nearly died because of SP3. At fist I thought it was because of Spybot blocking some registry change, several hours for trawling through restricted lists came up with nothing, then I noticed the blogs. D'oh. I only got away with it because my PC is so slow at booting I managed to open and activate system restore before it realised what was happening. Take that SP3 evilnesses!

Thanks for the tip off about the ISO, will be trying it. Once it d/ls.

Police Shows

Should spice up the tired old cop show format a bit. What would be even better is to but cameras IN THE BULLETS!

Castle Wolfenstein? Castle Crapenstein more like!!!!!!!!

I'm sorry, but Wolfenstein was crap. I understand there there have to be certain steps on the way to brilliance (Doom) but why oh why did they have to be published? Oh look, another brick lined corridor with bats in it. Shock. More excitement in original Pong (or whatever its first incarnation was called, can't remember, sold the box at a car boot, now kicking myself)

@ David Gosnell

I have to completely disagree with your assessment of the old cassette converters. I wish I still had a tape deck in my car so I could make use of them again, they were wonderful, basically turning your car stereo into a universally compatible amp. I never found auto-rewind a problem (it never kicked in because the 'tape' never ran out, maybe your adaptor had a sticky reel causing it to make the car think it had reached the end of the tape) and the sound quality was, whilst not your 256Kps (or whatever), as good as any genuine tape and when actually driving the road noise made a mockery of any quality anyway.

These crappy 'jack in to a radio frequency' devices they have these days are twice as expensive as cassette adaptors ever were, are interrupted by even the weakest local radio station and have to be re-tuned every 100 miles anyway. If the batteries last. Which they don't, and I hate having bloody trailing wires from cigarette lighter everywhere.

Yes, I would love one of those stereos that had a jack in, but frankly I can't afford a new car stereo. I guess I just miss the nineties.

Mine's the one with the rolled up sleeves and 'NAFNAF' on the back.

Agree with Jason, disagree with radian

Good for kids, good for music festivals, gigs, camping, abroad. Also good for people on a limited budget (so long as they are cheap).

So, radian, it's nice that you have so much money that you can piss it away on over-priced penis extensions like the Jesus phone, well done, ten points, but not everyone in the world is so fortunate. Why should the less well off not benefit from modern technology?

I see a problem

When I do google searches for images I often find I get quite a few identical images of different sizes and quality. From the sounds of it this system would identify a good picture of say, Paris, and then lots of copies of it. I hope there will be a way of filtering potentially duplicate images and only displaying the best resolutioned (sp?) one. At the moment just changing 'large' 'medium' 'small' is not entirely helpful.

Worrying

These are links to the proposed statute and the explanatory notes.

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmbills/130/07130.43-46.html#j400

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmbills/130/en/07130x-f.htm#index_link_104

There are going to be a lot of people who may wish to engage in or view images of BDSM activity who will now be in serious danger of being imprisoned for up to 3 years.

The act itself seems hypocritical if it's purpose is to prevent copycat violence (which is generally considered to be a minute problem anyway, see Bowling for Columbine) but still allows the very images it wants to prevent so long as they have been classified. Under the act possession of a copy of the particularly eye-watering scene in the new Casino Royal where Bond is tortured by whipping between the legs would be illegal and punishable by 3 years inside if it was in a pornographic context. What's to stop someone watching that film for sexual arousal and the deciding to go out and do the same thing to someone. Just because it isn't on the top shelf doesn't stop anyone getting sexual pleasure.

Stop me if i'm wrong...

but if the answer is "let the courts sort it out" surely that means the government is condoning an potentially illegal activity just to see if it is illegal or not. Lets examine that logic for a minute.

The way I see it is that what the government is saying (leading by example) is that if I want to find out if something is illegal is to do it, and see if I get convicted. Now, where's that axe?

It has to be the government's responsibility to give a definitive answer when asked a question like that, and if a minister does not feel legally qualified to produce an answer there are whole teams of lawyers and judges who examine legal issues day in and day out. Cop. Out.

Mine's the one with the one-way ticket to Australia in the pocket.

Pretty colours

I sense a little aspect of the pretty colours here. I always questioned it in the film, what exactly is the point? Apart from being able to see people slowly dying is it much use? Surely the traditional method of lieutenant asks sergeant "are you ok?" and sergeant replies "we're getting FUBAR" is more efficient. I think there is the risk, as in many areas of life, of over-teching things. Just another bit of equipment to go wrong and become so much dead weight?

Um...

...because we need this service? Why?

Or am I being totally ignorant and should really realise it's another jamster squeezing hard signed-on-for money out of Joe Chav. So why do I care? *Arrogance*

Disgusted

I personally find it utterly ridiculous that a well respected source of informative and entertaining current affairs such as "TheRegister.com" should find it necessary to engage it's formidable phalanx of mental power in constructing an article which pandered to the whining content-nazis (and yes I am aware of Godwin's Law and believe that it too was invented by the same people who continually complain and use the comments page for vitriolic and non-sensical rants which seem to meander on and on and on and never actually come to a conclusion or indeed a sensible point and ignore any form of grammar or punctuation except where totally inappropriate and fill up valuable space on "TheRegister.com"'s servers and I just have to ask myself why oh why oh why can't there be some sensible IT oriented content on demand when I want it now I want it now give it to me now. I am now thoroughly disgusted and my bookmarks will be 0.5kb (approx.) lighter.