Posts by AC 124 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Apr 2008
I hope to see you over at focusstoc.com then? I'm already there ... (;
I don't think I'd buy a leccy ST unless it was just so much cheaper I'd be silly not to, but if the costs are comparable then I'll stick to burning petrol. There's plenty of petrol stations to keep me going but no charge points where a leccy car would be charged in 5 minutes (to name but one issue).
I don't expect it to get any better in 5 years time. In fact, I expect leccy tech to fail miserably and that hydrogen will be the tech to take us forward.
ASBO AWAY :D
I'll stick to my noisy, supposedly environment destroying Focus ST thanks.
I can see a problem arising though with leccy cars, two in fact. At the minute they are exempt from VED and they don't use petrol. That's two massive taxes the government want to throw away. I'd love to hear how they plan to fill that void.
I'm not exactly offended by holocaust deniers, it simply helps seperate the retards from the those with normal intellect levels.
Same goes for those saying 9/11 was an inside job, those saying co2 emission are destroying the world, those saying man made global warming is real etcetc.
Without freedom of speech we'd have no way of making sure who those complete moron worth ignoring are.
is to make a speech that goes as global as the Conservative MEP who said he was "a devalued prime minister of a devalued government" in the vain hope of getting some sort of support.
Well I've got some news for you clown. You're a twat and I'm counting down the days until your pathetic attempt at a democractic government are voted out by one of the widest margins ever seen.
"what you really want is companies to go to 100 per cent green power and to reduce their power usage"
Not in the slightest, what I really want is for the evironMENTALists to shut the fuck up.
I couldn't give a shit what effect some uninformed douche thinks we have with carbon emissions.
What I want is for companies to continue to develop and release fantastic products that either speed things up or simply make my life easier. They could cut down a rain forest for all I care so long as I benefit.
You need to stop publishing such utter drivel and maybe then, God willing, they'll finally realise no-one gives a fuck what they want as it really will make zero difference.
"I'll sell you this car that I can't let you see, just send me some money and I'll send it out to you."
How can any sensible person think that is anything other than a scam? I don't think the idiots should be reunited with their money but the ass scamming them can safely be shot and left to bleed out.
I'd side with privacy fears but they have to be well founded. Finger printing in schools for example, is something that we don't want or need.
But in this case, PI can fuck off. Street View is as big a threat to your privacy as your goldfish. It's just so plainly obvious that you struggle to argue your side. Google take pictures while out in pubilc and put it online. Wasn't there a big uproar when the police tried to stop US taking pictures in public?
Maybe these morons just don't like successful, large and profitable companies ... at least they are showing the same level of intelligence as the greenpeace wankers do.
You're right, there is a simple solution to it indeed. Let the landlords decide whether they want smoking in their establishments or not.
My guess is that if you got two proper pubs that were exactly the same and allowed smoking in one then one of these pubs would do very well and the other would stuggle.
Can you figure out which one would do well?
No because everyone understands what a car is and the obviousnesses about how to steal one or indeed make one secure.
Not everyone understands what the little grey box under their desk really does and as such when you say to them "you can take out any internet site of your choice" they go "yeah yeah, but what does that mean?" so then you need the practicle demonstration.
Or were all your science lessons at school theory based with no experiments?
why would anyone coming to el reg fail to know what php was in relation to the word "languages"
Or is there a new breed of people that speak English and PHP to each other?
"Hi Dave"
"echo 'Hi Mate!';"
"How are you?"
"call thoughtProcess(); thoughtProcess() {if ok then ehco 'Fine mate, you?' else echo "Shit mate, you?'; } "
Not sure it's going to catch on to be honest.
Back in the day, getting gear off t'interweb required skill and knowledge. Now any old twonk can do it. At least if they (wholley illegally) implement basic site blocking, it will then be only those who know SSH tunnels, proxies and basic encryption left to download which sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
Having said that, I'd much rather let the retards download than let any sort of All Powerful Bunch Of Cunts govern what we are allowed to see on the web. In short, when can I expect to able to emigrate to Mars plzkthx??
please fuck off and die? All the hot air you are pointlessly producing is harming my oh so precious environment.
I can't stand global warming/climate change morons, when history looks back at them they will be thought of in the same category as those that thought the sun revolved around the Earth and those that think the Earth is flat. How stupid do you consider those people historically? Pretty fucking stupid. Exactly.
CO2 is 0.0384% of the atmosphere around us. 0.0384%!!!. For those of a curious nature, the other atmospheric gases are nitrogen (78.0842%), oxygen (20.9463%), argon (0.9342%) and 'other' (0.0020%). Of that 0.0384% which is CO2, 90% of it occurs naturally. 10% is man-made. So the man-made percentage of CO2 is 0.00384%. That's GLOBAL CO2 EMMISSIONS. If you could somehow magically remove EVERYTHING that spits out CO2 you would make exactly FUCK ALL difference.
Why are simple facts never presented in such cases? Ah, of course, because the morons don't want to listen to simple science and facts, they just want to fuck everything up for everyone else. My car tax has unnecessarily gone up just because it emits 224g. Thanks environMENTALISTS, you just cost me my money and that makes this war personal.
Is it illegal for a registered sex offender to use a social networking site at all times?
What about those sex offenders only had their friends on their profile and weren't messaging every 12 year old they find online, are they still banned from the site?
Seems a bit crap to me but then again, I don't care too much. "Peederfiles" sure, ban them, shoot them and the like but as has been stated sex offender != peederfile.
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Hello. How may I help you?
AC: hiya, I've read your KB article (http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931) about your drives having dodgy firmware, I'm wondering what I need to do to update the firmware now to fix the problem
Matt C.: We won't have a firmware update for those drives until Tuesday of next week
AC: ok no problem, will you update that KB article with a link to the update or will I have to contact you guys again?
Matt C.: depending on the capacity of the drive, you may have to call in for a firmware update
Matt C.: chat can only update firmware on the 1.5TB drives
AC: hmm, ok mine are the 1.0TB drives
AC: what do you recommend I do?
Matt C.: I would wait until next tuesday, and call 1 800 SEAGATE
Matt C.: they should be able to help you with firmware
AC: I'm in the UK so that contact number's no good for me :/
Matt C.: I can get you the uk number
AC: if you wouldn't mind that'd be great
Matt C.: not a problem
AC: How will the update need to be applied. Will it be done when booting with a floppy or can it be done when in Windows?
Matt C.: 00.800.4732.4283
Matt C.: you will download the firmware, and there will be a text file that explains everything.
AC: cool, sounds simple enough, thanks a lot Matt
Matt C.: no problem, a firmwae update is pretty easy to do. You should be fine
AC: out of interest, what happens if the update fails and the drive is bricked? Can we return it to you for a new one free of charge?
Matt C.: it's fairly straightforward, the text document you get with the firmware download is pretty good.
Matt C.: if the drive is in warranty, you can return the drive at:
Matt C.: https://store.seagate.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/SgCheckWarrantyView?langId=-1&krypto=lZV0ifY90uy6PUbeNYxmlJ%2FeOamQTU8vX%2FyVcskL7Ra8YMmV34QjfaXbpO6NlvwR%2BTEC3tVdnhJ0%0AtmaQWKyGUNscSUkjrgNNSrX6sZWZFxPTN7qiNOvGlw%3D%3D&ddkey=SgSSORedirect
Matt C.: Our drives come with a 5 year warranty
AC: sounds good, so are you sure of your timings on the update or is there a potential for it drag out until later on in the week do you think?
Matt C.: I was told that they will have it available in Tuesday
Matt C.: on Tuesday
Matt C.: they're testing it now, so it should be out then.
AC: ok Matt, thanks a lot you've been most helpful
Matt C.: glad I could help. Is there anything else I can assist you with today?
AC: not unless you can give me some winning lottery numbers (;
Matt C.: I wish I could
AC: I guess I shall leave you to it, you've answered all I can think of asking you now so thanks
Matt C.: you're welcome
I used it for a month or two after a hdd failure and figured I'd give it a whirl.
it was crap, want it to interface with your hardware? Sure no problem just edit files manually, compile this, install that add on, stand on your head, do the macarena and you might get limited functionality.
want that very same piece of hardware to interface with windpwns? sure, turn on machine with hardware installed, click on "next" and then click on "finish", functionality now at 100% (and that's under vista!)
I have no doubt that ubuntu is useful if you want to do incredibly technical things with it, but for general use every day normal computing its a giant pile of horse manure. You fanbois go back to sitting in ur darkened server rooms and cheese snacks.
well I wasn't exactly going to suggest he was raped in prison but i was certainly going to say that he can fuck off to t'other side of pond and face his comeuppance for his crime.
its not exactly as though he named his teddy mohammed at home and is now going to be deported to $muslimNation where he's going to get a public flogging (no offence to muslims but that was the quickest example i could come up with :P).
he committed a real crime and as such can be thrown to the dogs.
Funny, I was thinking of refering back to my previous comment about shooting those clucking funts making that malware and saying how I'd like to extend the remit to shooting stupid bitches like this one.
Gene pool cleansing, it's for the greater good.
shoot them.
it's not like we'll miss them and it's not like they are doing anything useful. Once you start to shoot them, others will think again and if they don't we'll shoot them too.
Whether you're a cyber criminal stealing peoples' money, a rapist, a murder or a credit card skimmer (etc), we don't need you and it's expensive to pay for your upkeep in jail so we'll shoot you. Sounds more than reasonable to me.
that you expect companies to fork out for christmas parties as though it is a right of the worker? Unless it's in their contracts that they will be provided with free cash monies for xmas then I really don't see the issue here.
If they want to go out and party privately, what's stopping them? Oh right the bill of course, surely their employers are liable for their personal expenses ?!?!?
how 500 is a lot less the 30,000 complaints that Bland and Toss got for radio2?
auntie would be mad to sack clarkson as that would be the end of top gear, it's not been about reviewing cars for years now and the fat oaf is the heart and soul of it.
I'd rather see that twatting MP is sacked for not representing his constituents.
They tested games on 9-18 year olds. I wouldn't have thought your average 9 year old rated game is that violent. Perhaps the researchers forgot that the violent games come with 18 ratings and perhaps testing them on 9 year olds was pretty stupid?
Gotta be some sort of massive fail of a parent to get GTA for your 9 year old
Not that these guys are biased at all to a candidate ... I wonder how many times they tried to ring/con obama?
us presidential elections become more and more like juvenile school playground bickering every tiem they roll round. it would be funny if the "winner" wasn't in control of such power.
with the way it looks, we are going to have a complete wanker in the white house like some sort of bizarre hippy fantasy. time for a 4 year holiday to the moon or mars me thinks.
mines the ones that actually a space suit
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