Posts by bluesxman

RE: tar dead

Pain killing drug kills pain?

There's a concept that will surely corrupt society to its very core. Its core I tells you!

I don't recall any hoo-hah about the similar idea in the Max Payne games ... does using a fictional/generic drug to counteract the effects of being shot not count as "rewarding" drug use with a "positive effect"?

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Actually most of the recreational drugs I've come across have a (perceived) positive effect. Surely they're just showing it like it is? :)

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A simple hack to change it to something other than "morphine" could do the trick (assuming they're being entirely transparent about the reason for the ban); rather like the use of green blood (etc) in games of yore.

Oh and @Andy Barber -- Godwin's Law invoked.

RE: I've got one...

"I'd recommend it."

But not so much so that you'd be willing to put your name to it? :)

overcharged

No, not the battery. Yeah, yeah I'll get it in a minute.

Just the other day I managed to pick up a (surprisingly) decent little Sagem on one of the better UK networks for £20 (including £10 mandatory top up). The battery was roughly 50% charged too.

Looks a helluva lot nicer (and smaller) than that colourful (-blind?) monstrosity.

What exactly are we paying for here? The convenience of a pre-fitted SIM?

RE: Huh?

I presumed what he was trying to say (rather ineloquently) was that when you're stoned, you tend to empathise more and get engrossed in things; the more feeble minded amongst us might not be able to "switch off". At least that's what I *think* he was getting at.

However, I've never, EVER known anyone to become violent when stoned, quite the opposite. More weed = more placid, at least in my not-inconsiderable experience... now if we were talking about alcohol...

But I digress.

My point is: yeah, he's a twat and clearly full of shit. :)

flawed

... the Wii wheel is (or maybe I'm just crap with it) ... either way, I'll be sticking with the Nunchuk configuration.

@Pondlife

"Will somebody please think of the children?!"

I think it's the possibility of people /thinking/ of the children that started this whole silly hoo-hah!

RE: Flash Snails

"heat light food water ?? surely something will do it?"

Sodium Chloride.

Where do you want to crash today?

That is all.

RE: I love it!

Did you mean "be" or "appear to be"?

Your level of geekness is what it is, presumably you just don't want your friends (?) and family to know how high that is.

cognition?

To quote the receiver of the preposterous bill "It's lucky they didn't send this bill to an old age pensioner. Luckily, my daughter was with me when I opened the bill and told me not to worry about it" ... I'm a little concerned that, had her level headed daughter not been present to think on her behalf, that she might have taken the bill seriously and would've re-mortgaged her domicile forthwith to make the first payment.

Decoy it might be called...

... but it entirely fails to distract my attention when checking out that picture!

the jury's out

The inherent problem with Micro-SD is that the cards are just so damn fiddly.

It'd be all too easy to butter-finger your entire music collection 'twixt the cushions of a train seat while swapping it with another card or between devices.

This issue is exacerbated when you've got one of those bloody spring loaded card slots!

RE: spoilt brat

"No IT angle, the man's a twat."

Oh I don't know, twats seem to come the the territory when you work in IT, at least in my experience.

RE: Human Computer

I don't think masturbation counts as replication :)

@BobVB

"watched a blu-ray 1080p on my set up with a 60" at 7' away and they were blown away." ... by the heat, eye strain and ear-bleeding level you probably have the amp turned up to, I assume :)

so that's where...

... Mr Wonka got his Oompa Loompas (as seen in the original movie.)

RE: caption

Shurely "wii-semblance" is what you meant to say...

CD on the outs?

I'm sorry, I didn't realise they'd come up with a suitable like-for-like replacement.

SACD? Kind of a non-starter. I think I own 1 hybrid disc album.

DVD-A? Another non-starter. Again, I think I own 1 dual disc album.

MP3 etc? You've got to be shi**ing me!

FLAC? A fraction better, but I begrudge parting with cash for an intangible; and I'm fairly confident that a good chunk of people feel the same way...

oops

It seems that that whole site is NSFW here:

Your request to website <<removed for brevity>> was denied because of its content categorization: "Job Search"

Now let's just hope they don't log IPs...

hoping for good portage...

... cause then I've finally found my living room PC. As long as the price is right...

sweet...

...I've always wanted a toy that could make me vomit. Reasonably priced too *cough*

RE: Tar Dead

as title

solution looking for a problem

Like so many have suggested, pre-pay would prevent the need for such costly devices.

And would you really want the option of keeping an angered petrol thief on your forecourt in full I'm-going-to-cut-you-like-you-cut-my-tyres mode?

@ Nick Drew

Thanks for pointing out the obvious... Since the article states "car thief" it's pretty much safe to conclude it wasn't their car!

cheap gold ring?

Presumably they'll be knocking these out at Elizabeth Duke before we know it ... Now if they could just attach a nano-sovereign the chav's would be all over this shit for their youngens (relatively speaking) ... zygotic bling anyone?

where's the IT^H^H angle?

No, seriously, what's the story here?

I quote: "There is probably something out there but I've never seen it" ... wow, that's some revelation. "I kind of believe in something I've never seen, nor seen evidence of". How insightful! I can see the tree-killing Red Top headlines now -- "Astronauts in 'there might be aliens' shocka!" ... it's about as newsworthy as "Regular bloke in 'there might be a god' shocka!" ... albeit the former sounds a lot more likely ;o)

As for the mooted alien attacks, whilst I think it would be so ridiculously unrealistic to believe that life HASN'T evolved elsewhere in the universe, it's also ridiculously arrogant to believe that it's coming HERE.

Oh sorry, I've totally glossed over that unbelievable discovery that a new space stations smells a bit like a new car inside. Riveting stuff, El Reg.

pathetic punning

If only he hadn't stuffed it up, the law wouldn't have fingered him and he'd have made a clean getaway.

I'm going, I'm going ... wonder if there's a job for me at The Sun.

"Plus Sweden has penguins."

The BBC-sponsored flying variety? ;o)

differences...

Off the top of my head (and to the best of my recollection) these are the notable differences I'm seeing (NB - I'm disregarding a LOT of the dross I'd never even go near, not to mention the semi-pointless regional variations they're using to fill up space.)

Compared to my Stanard Def SKY FTA service...

Missing:

Five

FIVER

Five US

SKY Three

SKY News

Film4+1

ROCKWORLD

Additional:

E4

More4

BBC HD

Compared to FreeView (forgive errors and omissions, since I don't have this)...

Missing:

Five

FIVER

Five US

E4+1

More4+1(?)

Dave

SKY Three

Virgin 1

Additional:

BBC HD(?)

In my mind I see the three services as a Ven diagram, with some significant overlap between all, but no one service having everything (worthwhile) that the others have. Though overall I'd say that Freesat looks like the worst of the bunch. I think I'll stick with cheapo SKY FTA for the moment.

What do you?

Why not encourage more widespread adoption of ReCAPTCHA? At least that way these nasty little bots can be doing something useful with their time as a side effect.

Paris, cause I think she could be squinting at a CAPTCHA image that her computer can read that she can't.

where's the...

Oh ... it's Bootnotes. Fuck.

;)

escape

Presumably they simply had to traverse some stairs in order to render it harmless.

in your general direction

I'm sure it would display the "shock" face if I were to "pass a little wind" over it.

triangles

I'll avoid pointing out that Pythagoras didn't so much invent the triangle, rather he figured out some neat stuff about it (oops, poor evasion by me) and get really picky instead.

Even if the concept of patents had existed in the days of Pytho (that's what his homies called him), and I'll hazard a confident guess that they didn't, it would have pretty much expired two and a half millennia ago.

Paris: cause, despite her studious pose, I bet she doesn't know what the frick the square of the hypothalamus- er hypodermic- er hippopotamus is equal to.

:)

great idea

take something simple and effective and make it inherently less reliable by adding technology ... how does that camera cope in the dark and with head-light dazzlers?

title? we don't need no stinking title.

At least they know from the get-go that he is^H^Hwas a crook. An open and *cough* honest politician? Novel concept...

@ LaeMi Qian

"MoPho" ... now there's an abbreviation I can get along with.

You can screw this "m*be", "l*ppy" (etc) malarkey, just keep your hands of my MoPho, mofo!

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Twitter? Sounds like a big bag-o'-wank to me.

hardly a new scam

As an impoverished student I remember some dodgy geezah approaching me in a supermarket car park (blocked me in actually, tosser) trying to sell me a jen-u-wine Tag Heuer for about a ton "just like the one pictured in this BMW magazine I happen to have with me". Span me story about how he had these left over samples he had to shift, or some such malarkey.

I pointed out I was a) a student; b) in possession of a shiny new watch I'd just been given for Christmas; c) brassic; and d) simply not fucking interested in his dodgy knock-off £10-a-go-from-some-market-stall shite. OK I didn't actually mention "d", I value my teeth.

Anyway, this was early 1995 and I'm sure it was an old ruse even then. Point to my story? Not a great deal.

what next?

Perhaps hurried warnings about a sharp increase in the number of Cake deaths?

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_Eye )

@ Paul Talbot

I'm afraid I have to pick you up on RE4 (though I've not played all of your list on the Wii).

I borrowed RE4 from a mate a couple or so months back. I can safely say (IMHO of course) that whilst it might be visually pleasing (and contrary to just about every review) the control system is a little broken. It's that, and that alone, which stops me dead in my tracks every time I think about having a play.

Well, more specifically one aspect of the control system. Oh wait, I think I can I hear the mantra rolling around my head even as I type ... "Why can't I strafe?" ... "WHY can't I STRAFE?" ... "WHY CAN'T I FVCKING* STRAFE?" (*that's the Latin spelling)

From what I'm given to understand strafing is lacking in all RE games ... with the close quarters combat style of gameplay inherent to the series, how in merry hell does that happen?

... well, it certainly bugs the living shit out of me.

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this will no doubt be a runaway success...

... in much the same way that MiniDisc and UMD have conquered the world.

In fact, with their optical-disc-in-plastic-caddy pedigree I'm surprised that Sony aren't backing this amazing and worthwhile new format.