@Steve Davies
Exactly...
"ID cards prevent terrorism" Just like they did in Spain the other year.
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"Just goes to show how daft the 'friends' concept is on social networking sites. People collect them as badges of honour to validate their pitiful existence and give meaning to their empty, howling souls."
I concur. I have a golden rule on Facebook, call me old fashioned, but If I've never met someone in the flesh (oooh errr), then they don't go on my friends list.
My brother on the other hand is the kind of "friend whore" you describe, and spends most of his time buried under application invites from his "friends". Me I'm brutal with the delete button even on real friends if they forward stupid things, this even extended to my sister in-law when she was the 3rd person to send the "Facebook need you to forward this message to prove your profile is active" message a few months back. I still haven't reinstated her!
As for Bill spending up to half an hour a day... Blimee, his PC must be running faster than mine! I wonder what version of Linux he's running?
Until you remove your head from your arse (ass) and look at the outside world...
19-0 is a perfectly reasonable score in Rugby for example. If that happened to be an England vs France match, then would we be prevented from rubbing
Gaelic noses in it from our T-shirts because of a ill-conceived US granted Patent?
Google for "19-0", there's plenty of previous examples... Although I do have to feel a little pity for the sucker who paid up for www.19-0.org.
Firefox has plug-ins that allow you to set a custom user-agent yourself... Plus half a dozen local PC privacy proxies will strip/change this.
As for ending up with it rendered in tiny mobile mode when you pretend to be a mobile app, just pretend to by Opera Mini, from what I've seen when I use it on my N95, it gets a full normal site and then renders it locally to suit the mobile.
Gotta love the 1970's porn movie soundtrack!
"What is it doing with that nossil?!"
I hope it has some kind of visual correction for the database, or can we look forward to every chav car that's been dropped on the deck getting it's rear quarter window punched out and the back seat covered in petrol?
Now I'd pay to see that!
And raise you the contents of my attic... (A quick look reveals...)
2 x Einsteins
1 x 4032 Commodore Pet
1 x ZX81 (with after market real keyboard add-on)
2 x BBC Micros, both with 80 track (200k wooo) 5.25" floppy drives.
Annoyingly I can't see the Osborne 1. I know I had one once, and would have thought it would be too big/heavy to loose, but somehow I seem to have managed it.
"it's a popular misconception that Hitler had brown eyes"
Well well, who would have believed it, I actually learnt something in the registers comments!
Thanks for that.
Does this mean the 2 pickled brown Hitler eyes I won on ebay are fake then?
Dammmmit!
Dead vulture? Well cos it looks like it's had its eyes removed!
Not quite sure what you mean by we're all related to Hitler... You do realise he had brown eyes don't you? (And was Austrian I believe).
He just realised that everyone should worship the blue eyed overlords a little early!
Now buy me a beer or I shall use my mutant blue eyed evil stare a second time.
(Does anyone know how to get the laser bit to work?)
Not quite sure how much use this is... Sure it's big number (woooo), but I for one wouldn't be tricked by the
"Would you mind standing in the helium tunnel for a second" trick if they wanted to shoot me, nor would I appreciate having to wear breathing equipment for a trip on Eurostar!
Paris, well anything is quick compared to her!
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"I'm so scared of aging migs and su fighters.
We could just get some f-18 and f-22's if that were even a remotely plausable problem."
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You should be... The Russians haven't just sat still either you know, IIRC, their air to air missiles are actually longer range than the American ones.
As for getting some help from the USA, we've only just finished paying for them helping us out the last time thank you very much! And even then they turned up late.
"it seems on the point of abandoning the notion of forcing ID cards onto the public via passport renewals."
Indeed... Why force people to get them with passports, when you can get far greater coverage by requiring them to open a bank account, change doctor or buy toilet rolls?
(Toilet rolls theory yet to be backed up by leak, but I wouldn't put it past HM Gov!)
I don't think many brits are nipping over to France to get unlocked iPhones, cos I don't think many people are bothered about the iPhone at all! All the massaging of the sales figures can't hide this!
I was in an O2 shop on their launch night, I used the late opening as a chance to get some free parking and buy a microSD for my phone before going on a trip, and the O2 shop were the cheapest high street source.
It wasn't exactly busy!
Sure the iPhone looks very flash, but as a phone it is seriously lacking in features the European market has come to expect. Plus the idea of actually having to buy a phone *with* a contract is just so last century!
It's just a case of Apple not understanding the difference in market (or maybe just not caring).
However, the iPod touch is a completely different story. The UI is gorgeous (as it is on the iPhone), but the product is an mp3 player with added browsing, and it does everything very nicely. I suspect that as the iPhone is only a barely passable phone, people that like the UI will now just buy an iPod touch and stick to their free Nokia phones with real MMS messaging and good cameras.
So 10% of the Sahara turned into a solar power plant... Ummm.
Am I the only person here who knows what happens to a glass panel when it's been in a sandblaster?!
Even with out that, the cleaning bill just to remove the dust after a storm would be terrifying!
And of course with 350,000 square miles of solar panels to protect, you just know some little toe-rag is gonna sneak over at night and nick the copper wire.
"Tiscali actually have a pretty decent policy, "Steer clear of our peak times, and we'll leave you in peace." For £18 a month, for a decent 8Mb line, I sure as hell ain't complaining with that."
Yes and no... That was what I used to do when I have a Pipex connection. Lasted many a year with my p2p client set to auto throttle from 6pm to midnight. Then when Pipex started looking as the bottom line total, I got the "You're a heavy user" letter, and I cleared off to Tiscali. (Silly me).
The problem with Tiscali is they block it completely. I happily schedule big downloads over night, but sometimes, you just need to get something during those peak times, and it's a complete no go. It's not throttled down, I can't even get a connection to the tracker! You're lucky if it's back by midnight.
They are just squeezing so many people onto their over-congested network. I can't believe they are inside their 50:1 contention ratio.
Luckily my contract is up in 2 months, and I'm off!
Form over function...
Complete lack of ports because they'd have made it thicker.
Complete inability to swap batteries on the go, or just buy a new battery when the old one dies, because that would have made it thicker (I suspect the battery is actually spread across the inside of the casing like jam!)
I wonder how long it will be before the keyboard is removed, just cos it doesn't "look right" and would give them another 1/8" back... Anyone else remember the ZX81 keyboard?
The only time this thin lightweight Mac is going to be thin and lightweight is when it's on your desk with you carefully guarding it. As soon as it comes to transporting it anywhere you'll have to put it in a steel box just in case someone puts a heavy post-it not on the top and snaps it!
I'm sure it'll sell a bundle.
If they'd sold shed loads we would have all heard about it.
If they'd sold out, and there were back orders (a la Wii), we'd have heard about it.
Instead there's been very little said, and then a gag applied to completely mute it.
Face it Apple, your over priced, under spec'ed (all be it with with a nice GUI) isn't going down well over here in the continent of picture messages and flash equipped 5meg camera phones you can get for nothing on a contract.
This must be utilising the little known "copyright" bit flag present in all tcp/ip packets.
aka, how exactly do they plan on spotting copyright material?
Do they plan on inspecting every torrent available on the net, and then telling AT & T the checksum? Blimee what a job that's gonna be. Although maybe I should apply for it... I'd be the only person on the planet authorised to download copyright material and paid to do it at work!
Note to self: Get job, take huge removable USB drive into office each day.
Oh, what's that? Encrypted torrents? Oh they can just block anything encrypted, after all, if you're encrypting data, you must have something to hide.
Ferkin' idiots.
I'd be interested to see this in action...
Given the dire support offered by most UK ISP's, you're lucky if the person at the other end of the support line can understand English, let alone understand a technical issue.
I remember having a huge argument with a large budget ISP about packet loss. Their support staff suggested I check my DNS setting in internet explorer. I asked how they expected this to impact a traceroute to an IP address, and could they talk me through doing it on IceWeasel. (debian's firefox)
Needless to say I assume I received a blank look from somewhere in India.
So would the record industry get a hot line number to a "real" techie? And how long before someone manages to find it and share it with everyone else?
Don't be sad Alan, you've got a light weight, compact, fast and cheap tool there. By the time the mark II comes out with the bigger screen and M$ onboard, you'd be hard pushed to tell it apart from all the other budget laptops available.
You only have to look at the enthusiast forums, when was the last time you saw so much fuss about one laptop? At £200 people don't mind pulling the top off and poking about.
If the mark II comes as M$ only, and therefore lack the required linux drivers, I'll still be buying a £200 mark I.
As a slight aside, Asus, forget all this wimax b*llox, you've got an RJ11 on the side of the Eee, now give us a damn V90/V92 for it, I've got several perfect buyers for Eees, if only you had a modem in it!
(And before anyone says USB Modem, find me one with linux drivers in the UK... Ta!).
HM Gov shows once more that it really doesn't know what it's doing, or what's going on in the big bad world.
Given that you can go down to PCWorld and pick up a perfectly internet capable machine, complete with all your office and internet proggies for £200 (Asus Eee), it's the cost of the broadband that's going to become the issue. So don't nag M$, we don't need them, turn your attention on BT's pricing and the cable co's who haven't invested any cash in connecting more towns for IIRC about 10 years.
Forget all that posh connectivity, you can all do most of that with a USB bluetooth dongle. How about making use of the RJ11 socket already provided and dropping in a V90/V92 modem?
I had a perfect users for the Eee, a little old lady who wanted a laptop to email the Grand children. Perfect I thought, except she has no wifi, or any need for broadband, okay, modem will do fine... Oh, except it doesn't have one... USB modem... Oh, except they're all winmodems, and the Eee is Linux... Cue major search for a source of a Linux friendly USB modem in the UK.
I emailed several suppliers, only to find that there knowledge of linux is just about on par with my Grandmother, who's been dead for a couple of years!
I gave up.
Posted Thursday 20th December 2007 12:56 GMT
Quote: [if u go and buy crap like nokia, you've got noone to blame but yourself. "I've got an n95 and only have to carry one extra battery round with me to last the day!!" losers]
I don't know where you get your information, but I'd take it back for a refund if I were you.
Sure if you have GPS turned on all day you'll do your battery in, even purpose designed satnavs like TomTom will only manage a few hours away from the car and on battery, it is the nature of the GS beast.
If you use the phone as a phone/mp3 player/radio, the battery life is fine. GPS is for those moments when you need a helping hand, which exactly how I've used it to find restaurants and bars... And the station after leaving the bar several hours later!
The recent(ish) V12 firmware update has made battery life even better, so much so that I regularly get to day 4 without having to reach for a charger.
And at least when the N95 battery finally discharges it last charge we can swap it out for another from a local store, unlike your iPhone (well you whine like a Jobite).
Thank you, and good night.
Does it matter? It gets Linux on more desktops.
A friend of mine recently screwed up his windows install on an old Evesham laptop. As he only had an OEM XP serial number on the bottom, and none of us seemed to have an OEM XP install CD, I convinced him to let me try Debian Etch on it. It installed like a dream, no driver issues at all, and now his wife is happily back on eBay spending all his money!
His kids had been nagging for Vista (where do they get this from? I thought even 9 year olds knew it was sh*t), but now they are looking down on their Vista'ed friends and talking about Etch and Gnome! lol!
By the time I've finished with them, they're gonna be more of a nightmare to their senior school IT teacher than I ever was... Then again, I did acquire root on mini within the first month and lock the head of department out. Yes it was me! Muwahahaha!
Has anyone else noticed, but given the number of complete a**eholes on this planet, you'd expect a few of them would contract something like this, but no, they'll still be there p*ssing us off well into their 90s.
National treasures like Mr P don't deserve this.
"Death isn't on line. If he was, there would be a sudden drop in the death rate. Although it'd be interesting to see if he'd post things like: DON'T YOU THINK I SOUND LIKE JAMES EARL JONES?"
You're certainly right there. Unfortunately this isn't due to better informed users, just that BT and SKY (2 of the big UK providers) now send out pre-configured boxes. However you could still get onto them with a little bit of social engineering, the key is on a sticker on the bottom of the box.
Now if only SKY would get a router/firmware that actually worked, I wouldn't have to spend half my life fixing "friends" home networks.