Posts by Mike Brown

Re: I wonder...

I dont think you understand how microsoft work. They buy things they want.

Re: How much?

indeed. i just bought one. At £72 it seems to be a steal. Googles nexus slab will have to be mighty cheap to beat it.

Elop. And his masters. There is no way he would allow Nokia to release an Android Lumia. Then everyone would see how good it could be, and winpho 7 would be even deader.

Re: "Phone-hacking" please, not phone-hacking

or about the correct and snappy: "it has been reported that News Corp, which owns News International, is facing three charges of accessing peoples voicemail"

Re: TV market is brutal not the place to start a recovery

They used to be.

Re: Those stats sum up how shuttles never lived up to the sales pitch

Exploration of space is dangerous? Really? Well fuck me with a bargepole and call me lucy! Of course it fucking is. Exploring any new frontier is dangerous. Its part and parcel of the job. If we gave up any new endevours becuase they were scary, the Americas would still be uncolonised and we would all be sitting in caves, eating berries and leaves.

Re: either they're faked or they aren't

wait and see. if this case gets settled out of court for a redonkulus amount then we know who was lying. There is no way zuck will give him 50% of facebook.

im surprised this is still going on. and that surprise fills me with suspicion....

Re: this is fairly easy to fight

well yeah. thats the real issue involved with patents huh? its not the idea that people can fight, or can use them to "extort" money, its the fact that even if you are in the right you may not have enough money to fight your corner.

what is needed is a seperate legal system for patents. one that is free, and is unbiased towrad those with money. Like an obudsman.

Re: Bar room lawyers assemble!

I think youll find that the amount of damage, and the cost of incidents caused by cyclists is so tiny that setting up a reg scheme to police it would be a massive waste of money.

besides its easy to track a cyclist that has been in an accident: they are the bloody scrap mark on the road. just rifle thro thier pockets and find some ID.

Re: Sometimes the hard times make you strong,..

"why has the position become vacant" and "what is the average length of service of the team members".

great questions. i shall remember those

Re: Ok, we can work out how they know it's Apollo 11 later.

its a tax loop hole. if they send dvds from there they pay less VAT

Re: Retaliation?

if he really wants to kill the murdoch empire it would be fairly easy:

regulate what football can be shown on the telly. Ensure that Sky cant have a monopoly on the footy, and people will leave Sky. This has the added benefit of making "call me dave" look like a champion of the comman man, as he opens up football to the FTA channels.

might take longer than 3 years. but the only thing keeping Sky going is football. always has been, always will be.

Re: No More Privacy

"it cant be rolled back"

yes it can. put the mouse down, step away from the keyboard.

do something, and dont tweet about it.

Its very easy to roll back, and eventually people will.

Re: Innovation

he is kind of right about this. The move controller was conceptualised back in 2003 or 04 it was dropped tho, as sony didnt think it would sell.....

Re: In the UK the new iPad won't have 4G

ah, thanks for the correction.

Re: It didn't take a rocket scientist

@ ShelLuser. have you played the fighting bit of sport champions? with swords and shields? amazing, and the reason why a lightsabre game would work wonders on Move. All i could think of while playing, is how good a star wars game would be.

The controller is ideal for simulating a lightsabre. the ball on the end could even change colour depending on the colour of the blade. and the 1-2-1 movemtn means that wherever you swing the controller the blade goes. it even does depth well

My ideal game would basically be dark forces 2, possibly in 3rd person, so you can actually see yourself, but using the move controllers and better graphics. The controllers would even work for force powers. Press triangle, aim at the rebel scum and hoist them into the air by thier neck!

Damn George Lucas, and his need for cash, and damn micrsoft for buying titles. A lightsabre game would rock on Move but it will probably never happen.

Re: That picture is not a squid...

thats pic freaks me out slightly. bleurgh

your right. damn that thing called physics!

Re: Same here

you might be waiting longer than you think. ive heard that the cards are encrypted so SD cards wont work, even with a convertor.

I dont think £40 for 16gb is too bad. I remeber buying a 2gb card for the original psp for £100. and i thought it was a bargain!!

Sacculina! dear god. inflation of 5%, and less holidays seems trivial now.

proof

"The Seti Lot have long wondered why they cannot hear anyone out there (in space) quite simple really, an intelligent race gets to analogue RF broadcasting, then discovers digital, gets it genome burnt and either switches over to fiberoptics thereby going dark to outgoing RF transmissions or goes extinct due to too much genetic damage having been inflicted on its population."

or that space is vast, and the chances of us pointing our telescopes at the exact spot to pick up weak signals are quite slim? nah, must be a some sort of conspiracy