Posts by Alex 241 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Oct 2007
I remember it carrying on..
"Hitler has only got one ball, the other is in the Albert Hall. His mother, the dirty bugger, cut off the other when Hitler was small. She threw it into the deep blue sea, the fishes thought it was time for tea. The fishes, got out their dishes, and had scollops and bollocks for Tea!"
That came from my Grandfather who had his crew singing it during torpedo runs whilst being the "belly of the iron beast" (Chief Engineer on RN and Merchant ships)
Watch that figure JUMP significantly like Ross and Brands...
I have Bandwagoners.... There should be a time limit for registering your complaint to stop would-be Beep slaggers, and making their argument about licence fee instead of the real complaint.
Mine's the one with "How to lose friends and alienate people" in the pocket...
A reasonable "um" considering there's a US company that has made a non-restrictive armour vest that was going to be put into production for full body armour (note the "full"). I thin kI'm right in saying it's the chap that showcases his body armour by pointing a gun on himself and then firing - to prove it works... Nutter, but a good way of proving his armour works.
"Um", why not put your caustic comments to good use to "um" world peace instead ;o)
"The majority of preventable deaths come from loss of blood resulting from leg and arm wounds that is not protected by body armor"
Um.. then why not develop flexible armour for those areas then.... A healthy, able soldier is better than an incapacitaded one.. especailly considering he/she still has use of said limb!
I suppose it's a way forward... in some respects.
"Muslims concerned about the game’s audio content should, instead, have been given the choice not to buy the game. "
A very sensible answer that more groups should adopt (I'm looking at you, "Christian Foundation Against Manchester Cathedral In Games")!
In fact, this would work for MANY models, including films, internet, music etc...
...that BR discs have dropped to around the 10-15 quid mark? Also started noticing that (FINALLY!) the content is considerably more...?
i tend to find that the films I look for and want to buy are in this price bracket; considering that this is roughly what DVDs were for the first two years of being available, i'm seeing a trend. guessing the more players sold and the more discs sold, the more the price comes down.
@ AC "A Title" : You'll always get them ;o)
Paris, because her new 'amateur' films will be in BR soon, I'm sure of it!
Probably because there is a high percentage of epilepsy sufferers who do not know that suffer from it... You don't have to be born with it, and you certainly don't know you have it until it is too late (generally).
That'll be the reason why. I do sympathise, but I also know (second hand) what undiagnosed epilepsy can do to you...
Has to be said that they are progressing very well. Yes, they seem to be 30-40 years behind the US, Russia, EU. But even so. At this rate, they'll have Moon Base Crouching Dragon all set up before NASA has a chance to sneeze.. I feel that the Chinese will surpass the rest of the world in a matter of years.
Am sure this will ruffle feathers in a few years, but hopefully this will also urge the rest of the world to get back in the saddle and push the boundaries of science in Space Exploration...
Buck Rogers is cleared for more nonsense! "Ok, Buck!"
(...as long as Wilmar is there in all her spandex, lipgloss and charm... ooohh... what a woman! A Cold Cloth is needed!!)
Mine's the one with the 1981 Buck Rogers Annual (25th Anniversary) in the rather large pocket..
The idea of a credit card disk isn't new, and bare in mind that sim section is a snap off, and no, you don't put the whole card in.
no fears about what it would do to a conventional dvd drive, but as yet, I have not had the cahones to place one of these babies in a slot drive.... any other drives are fine.
Ah-so. Indeed, I agree. We use physical hardware with new Cisco kit at the live site, and a virtualised environment with slightly older Cisco kit at the DR site. We use the DR site as a high availability system too, so if server hardware were to drop, the system at the DR site would be called into action.
I'm not 100% sure about wixing OSs and plavours of packages, as there is a big risk.... IMHO
I suppose, the way you've described is very plausible. Just not sure about the author, but I'll pend passing judgment.
hang on.. You aren't seriously suggesting that you would use a different system at your DR site are you?? You HAVE to use the SAME systems at your DR site to provide continuity!!
Now, if you were saying that testing of new software needs to be done off the live systems, then yes you are right (naturally) but have written it extremely poorly. Testing of new software should be done off network (if you have the means) and at the very least on a test system.
Do not, under ANY circumstances, try to say that you should be using differing systems between your live and DR site...
Am baffled by this, but can only say that you have (hopefully!!!) mis-written what you mean.
Sod the meteors! What about the monthly quakes that happen??
In my heart, I truly want the moon to have somesort of highly technical space port there, but in reality, I think it'll prove to be not the best idea...
@E: I think I'm right in saying the the core is solid, yes, but the outer core is still fluid? Drilling down would be pretty labourious and down-right dangerous. Maybe someone with larger frontal lobes can elaborate my thinking...
You have a cotton picking, darn-dastardly, good point there!
We hear about DR this, and DR that, but even the 'big cheese' of British communications didn't have a DR plan or BC policy...
Shocking!
But a damn good point, well highlighted.
@AC RE: Steve Evans"
Poor fella, now get back to work, you! ;o)
Ok, I know this maybe a bit off the wall and (to some) pointless, but what I really want is a book of e-ink pages that I can load pages from a book on to. Ideally, you could have differing sizes and pages for each model released. I hear there is something along the lines in development, but I'm as of yet unable to find it (albeit not trying very hard...). This would mean that for those that wish to 'turn pages' can.
Getting quite excited about this (EASY!) and find this a much better way of reading an e-doc.
Good good, carry sir!
Oooh.. that's a bit controversial! He does/did have talent, but he was so smacked out and drunk that he fired off the very reason they were all famous: the rest of the band! From what I saw at Download 06, he was just a grumpy old twat with no respect for anyone else..
He was a songwriter, and one of the most recognisable vocalists in the rock business, but to say he had no talent..? Naughty Graham, naughty..
@AC above: Agreed. No need to listen to anything new from G'n'f'n'R as Velvet Revolver did a good job. Just glad they binned off the anorexic junkie... Should have stayed as the EX-Stone Temple Pilots front man.
Anyway, Chinese Democracy was just a disaster waiting to happen... It doesn't matter who releases it first.. it's still shite
Paris, because she knows when she needs to release some good stuff on to the net.
I truly can not believe that mate. The only peeps to actually buy a PS3 for the BR purely would be a (and I use this term loosely due to these guys paying stupid money for AV hardware) cheap-skate AV-phile. Again, the vast (VAST) majority of PS3 owners ARE buying games. It's only (and even though this is a guess, it's probably VERY true) a % or two that would consider buying it for just that. No one in their right MIND would buy a PS3 purely as a BR machine... I agree with you, it was the best BR machine out there, but even so! If anything, the PS3s AREN'T being used for BR, but that's another topic, and flame-war that is already going on.
Every single person I know that has one is a hardcore gamer. The majority have a Xbox360 and the majority of the latter majority (still with me?) have a Wii. Yes, some do own just a Xbox and wii, and no I'm not going to get into who has what.. Counting off the top of my head, that's approximately all of my mates, brothers mates, and people at work (guessing around about 40-50 peeps). So say 30-35 have a PS3; ALL of them have and play games. Not one has just bought it for a BR..
Iain, mate, not trying to antagonise you - just my experience.
Maybe it's the social circles we mix in ;o)
Anyway, prices change, and it's not surprising that the SCC isn't going to announce a price cut 4 months before Xmas (Naughty El' Reg for trying to stir...). It's a prize time for console sales. I would expect a price cut on all consoles for Xmas (apart from handheld NDS and PSP)
Agreed with the more realistic pricing, Timi. But I'll bring you up on one major flaw in your theorem:
I very much doubt that the majority of PS3ers bought the console PURELY for BR. Nope, not even a single percent (i'm sure). BR is an added bonus. The PS3 was benefited by sales coming from peeps buying it becasue it had BR INCLUDED, yes, but I can not accept your comment. Put it this way: would you prefer to have an off contract certified boiler engineer fix your boiler, or your Gas Supplier? (I know which one will be cheapest AND be certified at the same time! ... yes your supplier) So why buy a standalone player, when for the price of say 90 pounds, you get BR as well. Job done
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