Posts by GrumpyJoe

Just like Bruce Forsyth's wig

I can see the join...

So if they don't have confidence in their products

why should I?

£46 for 6 months?

Bugger that.

So...

who do I go to to opt out? Doctor/PHT/Hospital/DOH?

When something sounds religious...

you can tell it's gone off the rails - at this moment EVEN IF the evidence was ultimately correct I think I'd STILL have a knee-jerk reaction to ignore all the preachy, hand waving bullshit the 'holier than thou' group have at their disposal.

It's Catholic guilt, but instead of GOD being mad at us and us being bad and sinful, it's GAIA that is sad with us being bad energy consuming wastrels. If only we listen to the eco-friendly and their preaching of a low-energy future where we can all EQUALLY share in the poverty and disease, all the while peddaling the bicycle with the dynamo attached to power the one surviving piece of medical equipment per village.

Too ranty?

And it stays the same as it ever was - can you imagine any of the current Chinless Charlies bunging money at something like this? No imagination...

I took one look

and realised enterprise dev (esp. in java) seems to be nothing more than writing glue code to join other people's stuff together.

Yawn.

Given all this 'no enterprise' stuff emanating from Adobe

I'm personally worried about the future of software like Coldfusion (inb4 detractors). Luckily there are open source clones of this as well (Bluedragon and railo).

Not so cheap anyway

I checked out the MW3 price - it was cheaper in Asda on launch day.

I'm SOOOOO GLAD

I have no ambition to work in finance. I'm sure it's the same all over recruitment wise, and I am struggling to think of the last job a recruiter got me anyway.

Jobsearch engines will remove the middlemen - can't happen too soon.

(Did I fall for the bait?)

And so the slippery slope is amply greased

How many more sites are going to find their way onto this list?

Gave me a headache

I downloaded the demo on my PS3 and it was too fast - I just couldn't get an idea of what was happening - I think it has something to do with LCD refresh rates (37" LG flatscreen a few years old).

On a CRT the manic pace could be fun - but unless you have one of the 600Hz sets and switch that on, most of the time all you see is a blurry, line-seqmented shape onscreen.

Sad really, I LOVED the original.

Whenever I see news like this

I can't help but think - 'self-fulfilling prophecy'. The powerful read this news, it reinforces their fear, they restrict hiring, hiring goes down, prophecy fulfilled.

Is nobody willing to even 'TRY' to be positive? How many news items on tonight's news could be classed as positive (I challenge you to do this).

Fear sells. This is not the zombie apocalyse. Remember the fear over bird flu/swine flu.

F**k them all.

Are we still on the "NAT is security" myth?

A Firewall is security, and I'd LOVE every device I have to be single address routable from anywhere.

Cardiff has something similar

not the size of this, but I was reasonably impressed with it - can't seem to find much info about when it was launched, but the main site to check via web is http://cardiff.acislive.com/web/default.asp

I use the park and ride - cheaper.

Have you READ the link yet?

It's the conspiratorial ravings of a lunatic - I'm sort of glad I don't seem to be able to get this on Freeview.

I'm all for getting a different perspective, but I'm not going to get it from the old man shouting at pigeons in the town centre.

Bought

and trying to explain to my work colleagues why I'm crying... it's not easy in a way that doesn't get me fired for lewd conduct.

Anne Franks' Drumkit - FFS!!

So now I have to call the Indian call centre for Virgin and explicitly ASK for access to knuckle-shuffling material? That seems the wrong way to go about it.

I manage my children's access online, and I don't feel I need permission to look at perfectly LEGAL things...

Can we clarify, are Virgin et al blocking ALL access by default or offering some numpty desktop app that will do it?

I'm getting sick to the back teeth of the bandwagon hopping - killed my Facebook account ages ago and don't miss it one bit and my limited feedback from friends and family is that they are getting 'bored' with it.

Tying your colours to another person's mast is NOT a good idea - let's ALL give Facebook the Crown Jewels to look after!

Anything that implicitly ties itself to Facebook is coming for a reckoning as numbers drop. And they will.

Pensions just don't make sense as a concept any more

They were fine when you worked for one company your entire life and retired at 65 and died at 67. They don't work any more. Yes, save, but don't tie it into an annuity, keep it handy, you'll never know when you may need it.

Old idea is old. New idea please - one that keeps track with the notion that I may live for 20-30 years AFTER retirement?

I just upgraded my broadband from the 10Mb

and I was offered 20Mb or 30Mb - same price! I asked if the 30Mb needed the superhub - yes.

I went with the 20Mb. I have a network infrastructure already (Clearos and Wifi hub), I manage my own network, I don't want that investment to go titsup just because VM want to cobble their accounts with a shit hardware solution to combat BT's hype machine.

Now, if this patch comes off that turns it into a dumb modem? I'll bite. But not before.

My kids tried one in Game

they tried to get their heads 'just so' for the 3d, failed, and pushed the slider down to 'no 3d'. At this point they are playing with an expensive DSi - they already have one of those - so for my kids at least this was a no purchase for me.

And motion-enabled games? Have you tried to get your head in the 3d sweet spot for those?

Nah, forget it.

Are optical drives

THAT out of date? Or is Uncle Steve expecting us all to suck at his digital teat for all our media needs?

So I have to tie myself into

Facebook to get access to these BBC assets?

No.

Why is it always followed my marketing bull

about 'enhancing online market opportunities'. NO WAY I'm buying these games, and don't get me started on the 'Buy' option on the PSN Movie store - anybody who's EVER done that deserves a wedgie a day for the next 10 yearsfor encouraging them.

I'd like to thank you

for embedding that tune in my head all day. No really, thanks.

I'll return the favour - Sonic the Hedgehog, Green Hill Zone!

Now it's in YOUR head (audio virus ahoy).

Got a friend in the Electrical Engineering industry...

he's SEEN some of the equipment Virgin inherited fron NTL. Some of it is older than the dinosaurs, so it wouldn't surprise me that different people in different parts of the country get different experiences...

I don't think they've got the money to upgrade it to the point it is actually useful... but... it's STILL faster than any ADSL connection I could get from BT where I live, sadly.

At the moment

I'm struggling to think of what they could ADD to the PS4 that would make it worthwhile other than a bit of extra graphical 'oomph', and to be honest I'm quite happy at the moment with what I have, especially as the better games at the moment seem to be indies that can quite happily run on existing ps3 hardware.

Anybody have any suggestions on what they 'could' add apart from more polygons? I'm all ears.

It's all Google's fault

most people (shamefully me included sometimes) just type the name of the site into google and get the domain from there.

I remember when .ltd.uk was created, companies bought them and then it went quiet, because those companies also had .co.uk and everybody went to that domain by default (remember .biz?).

I would've been more in favour of a limited release (like .movie) rather than a free-for-all.