Posts by Nev

Fair Play To Him!

People who get up after being asked to stay seated are self important morons.

Hope the arse who dropped his case on him was severely inconvenienced by the ensuing delay.

Gadget Madness

Health Authorities love spunking tax cash on useless overpriced gadgets.

Just look at those special, over priced "Clean Me!" keyboard that were installed in some UK trusts.

They now get cleaned as regularly as a normal keyboards would (never) but with a nice LED to say it's not been cleaned.

How much were they each...?

Kerching!!!

Too heavy

Who wants to hold that up a heavy version iPod Touch for a couple of hours when you can have an entertainment screen that is it built into a seatback or onto armrest pull-out arm?

Radio4....

...exists to give politicians a good kicking some mornings on the Today programme.

What, no built-in remote Tase facility?

Complete Fail.

They need ...

...Sanyo Eneloop batteries.

Good thing she doesn't live in France

She could have opened herslf up to arrest.

All looked okay...

...up until that PFI bit at the end.

Pure Genius.

That is all.

Don't get it.

Can someone explain the point of contactless credit/debit cards?

What has been gained by "removing" a layer of security?

Are they being introduced anywhere other than the UK?

PETA...

Those wacky, anti-pet owning, terrorist-supporting, mass-killers-of-animals are at it again.

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

How the mighty have fallen(behind).

There was a time when the UK excelled at this stuff.

Here in France I recently bought a Philips TNT/HD TV and can now watch French channels in HD with an English soundtrack , when available.

If the French have pulled their fingers out for most terrestrial channels, why can't the UK?

3D TV

Every 15 years-or-so we see film studios and broadcasters trying to resuscitate this "technology" from the late 1800s.

3D technology without the need for stupid glasses exists.

If they aren't using that, I'm not interested.

That goes double if Sky/NewsCorp are involved.

Never mind Judge Dredd...

... sounds more like Rogue Trooper.

They've already found/recovered...

... 9 million of it.

Why do iPhonists...

...keep asking for cut down iPhone versions of sites when they have good access to full sites via the gesture version of Safari?

(Same goes for any other device using Opera Mini.)

The IRA may no longer be a threat...

... but what about Kitten Kong?!

The big question is...

... when are Columbia (The outdoor garment people) and Sun Microsystems going to have-at-it?

Their logos are almost identical.

Obviously the "coat" icon was required.

ip57?

If your going to shell-out for a functionally cut down handset, surely it has to be rated to at least ip65?

Already here in France

Very annoying when you mistype something, get redirected to another

(ISP hosted) page and you can't just quickly correct your mistake in the address

bar as it now contains the diverted URL.

Arses.

Still better than their Barclaycard service in France...

They just cancelled all tge cards and pulled out leaving

all their customers in the lurch.

Sour Grapes

Most of the above comments seem to be a bit sour grapes as the French workers still have rights, legal protection and actual industries to work in whilst the UK employees* just get fucked at every turn.

*I'd say workers, but with hardly any industry in the UK most people are just "employees", aren't they?

PETA: Animal Killers & Terrorist Supporting Scum.

'PETA's Alisa Mullins simply says of El Prez: "He isn't the Buddha, he's a human being, and human beings have a long way to go before they think before they act."'

Really? So enlightened human being shouldn't swat flies, kill mosquitoes or any other parasite bearing insect?

Why does El Reg give voice to these arses?

I'm wondering what animal derived products this pampered western-world living spokesdroid uses?

After all they have a VP who is against using animals for medical science, but is unworried about using the resulting medical breakthroughs. Hypocrites.

Barclaycard

Bloody Barclaycard pulled the plug on operations in France and cancelled all their customers' cards!

Thanks a bunch Barclays.

Mines the one without the Barclaycard in the pocket anymore.

[cough]scientologist [cough]

He doesn't have a leg to stand on!

(PS Well said, Ian Chard)

Thumbs up rom me

Just grabbed one of these.

It is a great little camera with a rich feature set.

The 2 drawbacks as pointed out by the review and others are the stupid flash that pops up all the time (firmware fix please, Canon?) and the use of a Li-Ion battery.

Although not using AAs does mean that the flash recycle time and battery life time especially when using the flash are significantly better than my A720 IS.

It is more solid and more pocketable than the A720.

Yawn

This was on Tomorrow's World about 20 years ago.

I seem to remember they reported that it'd result in pink skies.

The Irony

As PETA exterminates a bigger percentage of animals they "rescue" than any other animal welfare org., maybe they should look at sorting that out before wasting their time on nonsense like this.

Oh, and they support terrorists, so **** them anyway.

If PETA rescued a penguin, chances are they'd kill it.

Sales Tax on Displays

Anything bigger than 17" Add a BBC levy. Sorted.

Here in France it's automatically added to your council tax.

And the TV & Radio programmes SUCK.

As anyone who has to deal with them knows....

... they are just rats with bushy tails and good PR.

So, just a replacement for boarding cards then.

Wow, how very 21st Century.

Yes that's mine, I took it off whilst standing in line at security instead of waiting till I'm at the metal detector so that I can make everyone wait a few minutes more whilst I struggle to take it off.