Posts by Haku

Cineworld flaunts '4D' movies

Seat but not floor?

Nice gimmick making the seat shake, but shaking the seat alone is not enough, the floor under your feet need to shake also to convey the immersiveness the shaking is supposed to give.

Orange to impose overseas data cap to beat bill shock

Something smells fishy.

A mobile teleco does something positive for its users?

What aren't they telling us.

Syndicate

They turned a unique game into yet-another-FPS-shooter?

Damn them!

Syndicate, the original, was, sorry, is ace, there wasn't another game like it, part point'n'click strategy and part shoot-em-up, and completely great, I can't believe they wrote off the original gameplay to jump on the FPS bandwagon.

3D is the future of cinema?

I like 3D movies, but...

Not every film lends itself to the medium, and then there's the problem of 'psuedo-3D' films polluting the 3D films list, they were shot in 2D and then altered to look 3D.

If you're going to watch a film in 3D at the cinema, make sure you know what you're getting, Real or Fake 3D.com has an extensive evolving list of 3D films in two categories: Real 3D & Fake 3D

I think the 3D modified Star Wars films will be interesting, but I don't know if I can put myself through watching the abomination called Phantom Menace ever again, and then there's the problem of A New Hope being bastardised by having crucial pieces altered (Han shot first, and there was no Hayden Christensen as a ghost in the Star Wars I know)

Comic Book Men

Comic Book Men

Anyone else following this new tv show?

Drew's Cookie Jar - psst. want a forum upgrade

Re: Re: Long time el reg postard here

Excellent, I shall give it a whirl.

Long time el reg postard here

Can I get an upgrade please so I can post links :)

Hey Commentard! - or is that Commenter?

hey what?

who do I have to bribe to get links working in my posts?

Re: Re: I am a commentard.

At least The Onion don't discriminate, nobody is safe from them: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tInDH2FeXaM">Autistic reporter</a>

@AC 15:12

Yes, I love that show and it was an epic episode.

Even moreso when I saw the making of which showed how they go from idea to broadcast in just 6 days.

AppAware

I wasn't too 'appy about it myself.

That was an appalling sub-title.

You should appologise.

Smart telly trends make Apple 'iTV' a certainty

Smart TV? No thanks.

I like my screens to be dumb input devices, but even that seems to be asking too much, some tv's nowadays which aren't 'smart' will often have some retarded menu selection method of choosing which input to view content from if you wish to use an external video source. Do the people who make these things actually use them at home, or even for more than 5 minutes?

My mum got one of those freeview satellite DVRs for christmas (finally ditched the VCR) and she does like it, but I was surprised to see an actual physical on/off switch on the back, it wasn't until the box crashed whilst my mum was trying to use the programme guide one time that I realised why - it was the only way to reboot the thing! It makes you wonder how many times people will be reaching for the physical on/off switch because their 'smart' tv crashed...

Dick estate gets stiffed

Terminus

Whilst people are on a Philip K Dick wavelength, at the beginning of the sci-fi film Terminus (1987) a chauffer driven car has the registration plate "PK DICK".

Due to the nature of the story, see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092070/plotsummary I can only guess that the film has some sort of connection to Philip K Dick, either the writer was influenced by Dick or used a part/idea of one of his stories.

I've not found anything during websearches because the film is quite obscure and only available on VHS (apart from the dubbed Germany DVD), does anyone know if there's an actual connection between Terminus and Philip K Dick?

Music fans not welcome in RIAA-backed .music

That's ok, let them have their little TLD.

We've got the rest ot the internet to play in.

And it means we can add *.music to our browser blocking.

Space: 1999 returning to TV?

Can't they just give the money to Joss Whedon instead

so we can have another series of Firefly?

Uh-oh.

My major gripe with films & tv shows having a sequal/prequal/remake decades after the original was created is that too often the producers try to rely on modern day whizz-bang special effects to cover up the fact that the plot & acting stinks.

Revealed: Apple's plea for fairness in mobile patent war

A bully wants everyone else to play fair?

Yeah like that's gonna happen.

Google goggles with Terminator HUD 'coming soon'

Head twitches?

If wearing some bulky strange shaped glasses somehow doesn't make you look like a loon, twitching your head whilst wearing them will!

High Street chains vow to play fair on warranties

From what I gather, the Sale Of Goods Act (SOGA) says we have 2 years warranty on goods because we're part of the EU and consumers rights last for 6 years (but doesn't automatically mean a replacement or repair or refund), which means the companies selling 2 year extended warranties are actually conning the uninformed.

http://www.oft.gov.uk/saleofgoodsact

And I totally agree with you on the use of the word extended, if I bought a 2 year exdended warranty it should mean the item is covered for 4 years.

Millions face Megaupload data deletion by Thursday

To the people who have lost legitimately owned data on MU:

I'm genuinely curious, are you pissed at the copyright infringers, the MPAA/RIAA or someone else for the loss of data?

North Korea labels phone users war criminals

HELLO?!

YEAH, I'M IN NORTH KOREA!

NO IT'S RUB*BANG*BANG*BANG*

Scalextric restarts space race with Star Wars craft

Lucas dropped directors fees in exchange for rights to merchandising.

Which was how he made $500 million between 1977 and 1980 from the merchandise...!

So no wonder new toys are continually being created long after the films are (apparently) done with.

Nice! Can someone make a Tron Lightcycles set please?

With original and Legacy cycles.

SOPA is dead. Are you happy now?

The Fifth Element

In the film The Fifth Element, Chris Tucker wears some very flamboyant outfits, in order to get him to wear those outfits, Jean-Paul Gaultier first showed him some that were even more flamboyant to which his response was along the line of "hell no", then when the less flamboyant outfits (the ones used in the film) were shown he agreed to wear them.

My worry is that with the SOPA crushed, the lobbyists will come up with something that's not as bad as the SOPA (on the surface) but will still have a far reaching negative impact to the online world, and because it isn't as bad as the SOPA it will pass.

Ten... laptop accessories

You're not wrong!

I've lost two 16GB flash drives over the past few years which has left me a little cheesed off (nothing of importance on them) but they only cost me around £16 each, if I'd spent 10x that on one of those USB 3.0 drives I'd certainly be be 10x as cheesed off if it went missing.

I got a replacement for the two lost drives recently, a Play.com 32GB stick for £16.01 on a 1-day sale, it's always nice to see the price of perfectly adequate quality flash drives from reputable sources dropping year by year.

Phone maker punts AA-powered blower

No screen?

Monochrome LCD displays use extremely little power - a battery the size of an asprin can power a digital wrist watch for 5+ years, so why have they excluded even a basic LCD display?

iPad SURVIVES FALL FROM SPACE

Apple publicity stunts

The next time some marketing hack comes up with the idea of putting an Apple (or any other "must have") product into space, can we send them instead of the object, *without any oxygen tanks*, so we can stop this bloody "first in space" nonsense.

Steve Jobs action figure set for shop shelves

I can't wait for the Steve Ballmer doll

with realistic chair throwing action!

Not realistic enough

It's missing the batteries and ultra bright LED to simulate the sun shining out of his arse.

Anti-piracy laws will smash internet, US constitution - legal eagles

I can forsee the future news headlines...

AMERICA CUTS THEMSELVES OFF THE INTERNET

And nothing of value was lost.

Creepy photo-tagging tech slotted into Google+

"Google+ is superior in every way to FB."

Isn't that like saying cat shit is superior in every way to dog shit?

Brits turned off by Smart TVs

The ONLY function I'd want on a "smart" tv is one that..

..automatically mutes the goddamn adverts!

Lord British: Games consoles 'fundamentally doomed'

Full immersive gaming on public transport?

You're just begging to be pickpocketed.

The BBC Micro turns 30

BBC Master Compact

I still own one of those, tucked away in a drawer somewhere, it ran off 3.5" floppy discs instead of the previously staple 5.25" discs and had to buy an expensive 5.25" disc drive to accomodate those.

One day I'll dig it out of storage, wipe the dust off it and see if it can be brought back to life - I had many many hours of enjoyment programming & playing on BBC Micros as a kid in the 80s, so much so that I'd get stick from other fellow computeers because I would stay after school in the computer room filled with BBC Micros for too long and after school computing would be banned for a week. That happened several times.

'Apple's iPhone 4S ate our SIM cards'

I am an equal opportunitist - I hate ALL mobile phones.

It's just that you get better reactions poking fun at the Apple users.

'Occupy Flash' web hippies aim to rid world of Adobe plugin

Geocities called

They want their web design layout back.

Seriously, a whole website on a single page with all the text formatted by a <center> tag?

I suppose we should be greatful they haven't learnt about the <blink> tag.

Open source team creates apocalypse survival kit

3D printer

Yes it bears an uncanny resemblance to the RepRap Mendel...

http://reprap.org/wiki/Mendel_mechanical_construction

Sony HMZ-T1 3D head mounted display

Price

Considering Sony's previous venture into high resolution head mounted video displays some 13+ years ago (the Glasstron PLM-S700 being their best with true 832x624 resolution, which I own a set of) cost over £2000 when new, £800 in comparison isn't that bad, especially as they're 3D capable and OLED not LCD.

I'd very much like to own a set but don't have £800 kicking around, I can imagine the next generation of consoles will have some strong 3D display support and these sorts of glasses would be ideal for that. Just a shame they didn't bother sticking any sort of headtracking means into the gizmo for more immersive gaming capabilities.

Go back to the future with Red Dwarf

Quality vs quantity

I would prefer to have 6 great episodes than 20 meh episodes.

Fan-smegging-tastic!

It's going to be interesting seeing how old the actors have got since their last 'Dwarfing'. I'm so looking forward to this.

P.S. Would anyone like any toast?

Death match between site and writer over Twitter account

I would suggest El Reg organise a pub meeting near christmas for forum posters so we could argue the finer points about life the universe and everything face-to-face, with everyone wearing name tags showing their forum name.

But I suspect too many people would turn up wearing V for Vendetta masks and name tags saying "Anonymous Coward"...

Mozilla updates to Firefox 8, disables add-ons

Thanks but no thanks, Mozilla.

I upgraded FF on this machine to 4.x and then had to spend time tweaking the settings and installing plugins just to 'undo' certain changes from 3.x that they implimented because they mistakenly believed we'd like it. So god knows what they've ruined in the interim stages between 4.x and 8.x. My other machines are still running 3.x and will likely to contine to do so for a long time.

With the advent of social media crap being embedded within the browser and the inability to install plugins they've turned something which was great into a true rival (in terms of suckyness) of IE.

So thanks but no thanks, Mozilla, I'm sticking with my older versions which allow me to have plugins installed that give me some control over how my web pages are presented to me and what cookies/tracking I will allow..

When I can no longer view major websites properly with what I have I'll undoubtedly move onto a new browser, but it looks unlikely to be one from Mozilla.

Profiteers cash in on Steve Jobs' signature glasses

Agreed.

He was at heart an opportunitist, seeing potential in previouly existing products and copying the design but crucially engineering it to be an Apple 'idiot proof' product, where previosly you had to know some of the ins and outs of using a traditional computer (such as the early days when a computer meant ZX Spectrum, BBC Mircro, Commodore 64, Amiga, XT PC etc.), he gave the average consumer the ability to use high end hardware/software without the need to know how to use a computer, just how to move a mouse, or as is the case nowadays, touch a screen.

Do they come with a free black turtleneck sweater and a smug attitude?

Nude lady recreates Star Wars tauntaun scene in dead horse

Damien Hirst

I bet he's kicking himself he didn't think of doing that first, although, judging by the sheer size of the building he now owns just down the road from me in an industrial estate he could go one better; have a person inside a horse which is inside an elephant which is inside a whale... Russian doll tauntaun scene!

Americans' right to hang fake balls on trucks left dangling

Truck nuts aren't offensive.

They do make you look like an ass though.

Disk prices double after flood - and could 'double again'

SSD still too expensive for bulk storage

A quick look on Ebuyer shows that a 2TB SATA drive can still be had for less than a 120GB SSD SATA drive, a 1TB SATA is at the £100 mark and a 600GB PCI-E SSD is over £2,400!

I would love to be able to buy SSD drives for as little as SATA drives, even at todays prices.

El Reg in email address blunder

El Reg venture into Social Networking

Give them a chance, even Facebook had to start somewhere.