Posts by VinceH

Yeah... and the same with DVDs: Buy a particular film, and see different editions (or formats) of the same film appear in your recommendations.

Of course, part of the problem with DVDs is that different editions/formats are catalogued separately. Wouldn't it be nice if, when you searched for a particular film, the search results page didn't list each version of the film separately, then the close or related matches in the same way - but instead, the first result was just the film you searched for, then each subsequent result was just one result for each individual film Amazon considers a close/related match.

Click on the page for the film, and there it can list different editions in the catalogue.

Note that if you visit the page for a version of a DVD you've already bought, it tells you at the top you bought this item on such and such a date. By listing DVDs in the way above, it could say you bought "such and such a version of this film on such and such a date".

Under the current system, if you've bought "Popcorn Blockbuster 3: The Sequel's Sequel - Ultimate Edition" and you forget, you could find yourself on the page for "Popcorn Blockbuster 3: The Sequel's Sequel - Final Ultimate (We Really Mean It Until The Next One) Edition" and buy it again.

If the underlying database is per film, and the editions are listed under that, the problem goes away. Indeed, if Amazon did it like that, I'd quite happily tell them what films I've already bought from elsewhere. Sure, they'd be more than happy for me to buy the same sodding film twice, but they'd be providing a better customer experience, and in return for that I'll happily give them more data to make better recommendations to me, and therefore encourage me to spend more.

And while they're at it, including an IMDB link for each film as well would be useful.

Re: Ahh...

"Or that news stories about possible production problems function as advertising?"

Quite possibly, yes. News of a shortage could help ensure the true believers in Applanity fanbois are willing to queue up outside the Temples of Applanity Apple Stores days before the new Icon of True Faith shiny iThing is Rendered Unto the World of Men officially on sale.

Apple have an over-hyped reputation to maintain, after all.

Re: How about

Does handedness really matter when drinking? I'm right handed, but my drinking hand varies with seemingly no rhyme nor reason.

Re: So, exactly the same as BlackBerry's AppWorld_of_disappointment then...

"I don;t understand why IT folks aren't drunk all the time. Or, perhaps they are."

*hic*

That is all.

Re: This can't end well...

If you use NoScript, then by using Javascript it also can't start well at all, unless you specifically allow it. :)

Re: All well and good...

Excellent, thanks.

"and somehow would have to be retrofitted to older vehicles"

Quite - not to mention the inevitable risks from hacking (so bogus signals can be sent to other cars), jamming (someone's bound to... it'll be illegal, but someone will), and the communication being extended to become YATS (yet another tracking system).

A simpler, and probably safer, system would be entirely self contained. Put further time and development effort into sensors that will recognise other things on the road, and correlate them with the speed and direction of the vehicle, giving the driver signals and warnings as appropriate.

I've no problem with that data being recorded and made available to insurance companies and plod only where the car is then involved in an accident or is pulled over legitimately for some errant behaviour. It should not be routinely available.

Re: Fake?

How dare they steal Apple's revolutionary new idea and put it on sale before Apple even came up with it!

Re: fixed it for him

Hang on, I think I have a new game here to replace rock, paper, scissors - and is less complicated than Sheldon's rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock.

It's called: News of the World, Google, NSA:

News of the World beats (is worse than) Google.

Google beats (is worse than) the NSA.

NSA beats (is worse than) News of the World.

Does anyone think it'll catch on? I'm wondering if it's worth getting it patented with the USPTO!

Re: I think that it has always been the case

I've certainly received emails from time to time from Twitter to tell me that so-and-so has "favorited" my twittish comment.

Re: maybe they should call it…

Only if they first change the company name to "Piss", "Sod" or "Fuck".

Re: Oh, OK - Odd, But OK.

"Just for your other useless research, I'll add that when I'm drunk and using my computer, I;

post really ridiculous messages on forums with lots of typos and swear words"

Yup... That sounds like me when I was younger. I remember sending a few absolute, er, 'gems' to usenet back in the day. I'm a bit more controlled these days.

Re: The sharks want their LASERs!

"Except it's not specific, Sharks are known to chew on underwater power cables."

They need a source of power for their LASERs!

"Since when did routers and IP CCTV cameras become "IoT" devices?"

They're "things" and they're connected to networks/the internet - just like your computer.

Which is why IoT is such a stupid term.

Re: iTunes is pretty much malware under Windows anyway.

"I now use Songbird. Much nicer."

Or, rather, Nightingale, since Songbird was discontinued.

"What happens if the footage was taken by a monkey?"

I don't know about a monkey, but if it was an ape, I'm absolutely positive the resulting legal wrangling would lead to the ape leading his people in a revolution. Meanwhile, a space craft of some kind will be launched, and something would happen to it [and its human crew] and they'd return to Earth some time in the distant future, only to discover that man had fallen, and apes now ruled the planet.

All because of an argument over copyright.

We're doomed!

Doomed!

Re: Looks like Google Translate wouldn't make a good heckler

"Boll. Oh-see-kay-ess."

That sounds more like someone starting to call out bollocks, but half way through they suddenly realise/understand what the speaker is saying and then agreeing with them in an embarrassed manner.

"Boll... oh, [I] see, [o]kay, [y]es."

Re: Local Confusion

Even simpler, Bristol's website has a form to add or remove your details from the open register.

Unfortunately, though, all I need to opt A N Other in or out, regardless of their own preference, is to know who they are and where they live. There's also a compulsory phone number field, but that's (a) probably not checked and (b) something else I could very well know about A N Other anyway.

Re: Size Part 2...

The odd dot of colour isn't going to help one single jot if, as I suspect Andrew meant, you're reaching around to the back of the PC, effectively blind, trying to find where to plug in the lead.

Re: Who trusts a third party with their authentication?

"I see you got two downvotes immediately. That'll be one from the NSA, and one from GCHQ. Both of those love it when people put important stuff "in the cloud".

They'd love what I saw a week or so back: a password database that took the form of a Google Docs spreadsheet. I expressed my concerns at the perpetrator, but it was pretty much a waste of breath.

Re: @LarsG

" Your arteries say Thank You!

"NnnnnnnnnNNNnnngggggggrrrrrrrrrAaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! Make it stop! Yum. Yum. Nomnomnom. Aaaaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhhhhhh!!! Yummy. Oh dear. Make it st... Oh bugger it! Moooooooorrrreeeeee! Mmmmmmmm. Yum!"

Quite. It's his bathroom scales that are saying "thank you" !

Re: Mr Hawking – Over-rated - Big Bang Mythology

"I have never understood why Mr Hawking is so revered in the UK?"

Sheldon, what have I told you about logging onto forums under an assumed name to be nasty about people, just because they've upset you again. It's not big, and it's not clever. Stop doing it.

--Leonard

Re: another chink in the Musk armor

"If I were you I'd avoid short ugly eastern European women in comfortable shoes and lifts with disappearing floors for a while.

You'll also be last on the list to repopulate the earth with a sweet shy girl with big speccy glasses."

Are you suggesting that, perhaps, the people who were fired were the ones who were deemed unlikely to become henchmen?

("were deemed unlikely" because they were fired. If they were offered the job and refused, well, sharks in swimming pools and stuff.)

Re: I'd love one, but

Are you serious?? you went trough the trouble of finding a link to MS store where they sell them but couldn;t me asked to do anything else.. They are all priced already."

*checks again*

Sorry - my bad. I didn't notice that the pre-order button takes you to a website on a different domain - microsoftstore.com, on which I therefore hadn't permitted Javascript. The four alternative specifications therefore couldn't be selected, so I took that as meaning they weren't (yet) available as options.

I now see, therefore, that the one that closest matches my laptop in terms of processor/memory is indeed about twice what I paid - and the one with the most desirable amount of storage is about three times what I paid.

Yeah... I'll stick with a laptop for a while, and a separate tablet (which I only really use at home anyway).

Re: Is it just me...

I think you mean 617 Squadron.

633 Squadron (fictional though it is) flew Mosquito's

Joefish did say he was wildly inaccurate!

(And an upvote to him for mentioning such an excellent film!)

Re: No spare wheel?

"Not many of us carry a spare vehicle battery."

I carry a portable starter.

As well as food and water, etc., just in case.

Like I said, I occasionally (by choice) head for out of the way places - the fewer people, and cell towers, the better.

Re: I think they need a catchy name.

ITYM a backronym.

Internet Devices Integrated with Other Tat.

Re: Slater doesn't "Own" the photo, because he doesn't and the monkey doesn't

Indeed.

Any claims that the monkey is legally responsible - that's the cake.

Then claiming the monkey has no rights and the picture is therefore free - that's eating it, too.

In US Gov and US TLA agencies' eyes, US law is international law.

Re: Using pre-made services doesn't represent a skill

"Me? I'm over than 45."

To be fair, though, as an El Reg reader, you are not the typical over 45 year old they're talking about.

I'd bet that for most of the people I know who are about that age, the results would probably be as suggested. The exceptions would mostly have some knowledge in very specific areas, where they've learned how to do something because they have to do it again and again and again (but if the parameters changed, they'd be lost).