Posts by FartingHippo

Re: Tell me why I don't like Moon days

You're both right.

It's so bad, it's good :)

Re: Shareprice in freefall

"Lets wait until the price settles before we start with the snarky remarks shall we?"

That would be no fun at all!! Nothing cheers me up on a morning like a dose of fanboi angst.

Re: Impossible to forge?

A lot of people here with only a vague understanding of how the product actually works are confidently stating it's crap and unworkable. They might be right, BUT...

Say what you like about investment bankers, but they hire some very smart people and I find it unbelievable that £15m has been spaffed on a technology that could be as trivially circumvented as has been suggested.

Re: Not a NZ Citizen = not an MP

Not sure why it's a fail. He hasn't claimed to be running for office, just founding a party.

I wish him luck. It's a much more grown up approach to changing the system than those eejits at Anonymous have ever managed.

Re: Exactly

The lack of Milla Jovovich in my real life is probably the most important and most depressing difference.

Re: says

Still beats a helmet in your crack though.

update wikipedia

Well, someone's done it now.

Re: Missing a laser

Upvote for provoking a misty-eyed reminiscence. All that joy in just 16kb...

Re: Really

"he can always call on the Great British talents of Sir Clive Sinclair"

My favourite thing about Clive is that he's married to an ex-lap dancer 35 years younger than he is. And why not; after all, you can't take it with you :)

Re: Eh, it's not a real tea-tasting unless you have.....

The tea wasn't that good.

Re: Meanwhile, Mr. Assange™ Says...

Julian's going to end up looking like a less-affluent version of Howard Hughes in a couple of decades.

You sound in dire need of a smart phone to give you more interesting things to do :)

Re: Well of course he's aided the enemy

And yet he's been found not guilty by those with far more information than you...

So it seems I need to read posts more carefully before firing off a reply. Still, good news he's been cleared of that charge at least.

Re: Robotic Skin?

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. I saw stretchy circuits glued to an arm. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Re: @Wolfgang Schäuble

Indeed. It's times like these that you realise just how misguided CND are.

Oo, oo, I know!!

Is it a part of the business famed for its simian boogying?

...torches can be like pencils or tape-measures...

Pencils and torches i can understand: both are cylindrical and will roll quite happily under the washing machine or workbench or whatever.

But tape measures? I must go through 4 or 5 a year. It might explain what the tooth fairy gets up to in the daytime, though.

Re: This guy has done loads of stuff.

Welcome to the real world. It's a dark, depressing and utterly cynical place.

And with that nihilistic thought, to the pub...

Re: Feel sorry for the saps

It must do(1). Wherever I go(2) there are people telling me how Opera did everything years before everything else.

Notes:

1) I have no idea whether Opera can do this

2) Which is quite clearly nowhere exciting

@ Great Bu

Rather, if there is a god, it is a cruel and sadistic one.

<--- my face after clicking link. Nearly saw my pain au raisin for the second time this morning.

Re: I look forward to payin £20 per disk for this sort of technolgy

"Does anybody still copy music tracks to CD's or DVD's?"

Yep, and pictures too.

Admittedly I'm a paranoid SOB who wants a hard (well, physical) copy of his data in case the internet breaks at the same time as my laptop. Or, more likely, my backups on the cloud are lost/deleted/corrupted/seized-by-the-feds, and I only find this out when I'm trying to restore everything after my laptop gets nicked/burnt/dropped/hit-with-an-EMP.

Re: To be fair...

Do not take up politics, far too many facts and reasonable analysis there.

It's all about the blame. Gov 1 : G4S 0.

Re: MICROSOFT FAIL FAIL.

@ 1st AC

I think you missed the double 'fail'.

You are not not a moron.

Re: Nothing that will convince a kid that's never worn glasses or a band to wear one.

Forget that, just partner with Ray-Ban and tint them brown.

Changing from glasses to sunglasses makes them instantly cool. FACT.

You could. But it would cost one hundred beeeeelion dollars.

Re: I think he holds both patent and prior art ...

Now wait a minute, that's really not fair: you missed out "salad-dodging".

Re: Whilst I fully support "MOP" as a unit of mobile data use...

Oh, no, no, no.

The mop (it's lower case) is defined as "the data required to transmit the 11th minute of Debbie Does Dallas encoded in the MPEG-4 Part 14 format (2nd edition), at a definition of 640x480"

Re: Tools

And that may be why the iWatch sweeps all the other contenders aside. One thing for sure, it'll be a whole lot better looking that the fugly mothers in the article.

Shoes are the way forward...

Those crazy Japanese with their shoe-cameras:

In 2010

And 2011

It happened in the UK too. A certain...oh, I see a theme here...Ryoji Ogi of North Finchley.

Re: Same Sex Marrage

Really? Whenever there's a gay scandal*, odds on it's a Tory MP.

*Why being gay is viewed as a 'scandal' in this day and age is a whole other topic.