Posts by MJI

2011's Best... Cars

We can dream

Our 6 numbers could come up

1 I like and 1 which is a good city car

The Fiat is supposed to be pretty good fun.

But I would like the McClaren.

Navy training mine washes ashore on Miami Beach

Navy - not the proper navy

It was confusing, I expected Lewis Page and the RN.

Sony region-locks digital content on PS Vita

All PS3 games are as well

I expect it is to do with the copywrite holders - like that mob in America.

But games are fine as the producers are more sensible.

Why 3?

We won't all be playing at once.

IF we do get one we wil lhave to set up a new PSN account and then ask about sharing to another PSN account, if it can't do that they have lied over the abilities.

May be lost sale here

Got 3 people wanting to use 1 Vita.

We want our own PSN accounts on it.

Otherwise game sharing is a total waste of time.

B*****y idiots!

Smartphone-shot movie guns for cinema release

You can get cheap MiniDV cameras for less than the price of the phone.

I had to use a couple of phone clips in my last holiday video, shockinly bad compared to the rest using HDV.

My comment vanished

Not even listed in my forums - so must entered thin air.

What a silly idea!

Why mess about using a phone camera with there poor resolution and over compression?

Would be better off using a £200 Mini-DV camera.

My last holiday video had to use some phone footage and the quality was horrible and mixing 30FPS low def duff with 25 FPS HDV was horrible.

Cnet slammed for wrapping Nmap downloads with cruddy toolbar

I hate toolbar installers

They make such a mess it is a nightmare.

Cleaning up after one can take ages, then the sites HAVE to be blocked at HOSTS.

All for some freebie (which never arrived) on some Facebook game.

I think me taking 1/2 hour to fully untangle was a point made

TV writer quells rumours of Doctor Who movie

Bring it on

Writer - Stephen Moffat

The Doctor - Matt Smith

Producers - Spielberg & Jackson

James Bond savages the Kardashians

Nick Clegg

Son of Norman Clegg, and his constituency is about 25 miles from his dads home.

Who are the Karwhatevers?

Hear them mentioned like they are supposed to be well known.

I have no idea.

Geek seeks cash for Top Trumps-style CPU game

Ace Trumps

A lot of us had these.

I had a complete set of British Rail Locos stolen but they left the DMUs.

F1 - if you had the worst car you chose capacity 3000cc

Supercars my favourites were the Countach and the Monteverdi Hai

NASA wants space washing machine for ISS, Mars bases

Caravan washine machines

There are already a few out there.

Some resemble a bucket!

Ofcom boss threatens nuclear option on 4G squabble

800MHz

Phone companies - kindly eff off

This is TV spectrum and is more usefull for that.

HD at a decent bit rate please

Spillover from 400lb man squeezed fellow flier into galley

This sounds pervy

as above

Sort of both

Nasty fall a few years ago, stopped me moving around so much, weight went on. Foot problem weight went on.

Trying to lower it - time is now the issue - I don't actually eat that much.

HTC faces Xmas sales ban misery in Germany

Be cheaper to wipe out IPCom

I am surprised this has not yet happened

Sony demos Augmented Reality on PS Vita

Motorstorm RC looks good

Why is it that there are already 5 or more games I want?

Apple telly may sport Sharp screen tech

Just learn the numbers

I know the 5 I need

1 BBC1

2 or 102 BBC2

80 or (I never use it on Freesat) BBC News

108 BBC 1 HD

109 BBC HD

What are Sony playing at with panels?

My TV is an S-LCD panel TV. I remember that the replacement model had a slightly lower spec screen.

Microsoft pitching Kinect control tech to telly makers

PS is a different tech

PS Eye does a similar job but does not have depth perception.

Kinnects main SP is depth perception.

As someone said we need buttons to press.

Move tracks controller position and angles, uses the camera to track in 3D space and gyroscopes to track orientation.

Kinnect tracks the basic body positions in 3D (arms legs head).

This means one is great for sports games where accuracy is important (like a tennis of golf game), or for first person shooters as a gun. But pants as body position games.

Kinnect is very good for dancing games, no so hot for sports games, and forget shooters.

Errr

That is a PS Move controller, commonly found in use as a table tennis bat/bow & arrow, sword, or rather nicely a gun.

Exoplanet ranking suggests INTERSTELLAR WAR imminent

Send them some TV

Old Star Trek episodes

Russian diplomat caught driving while 15 TIMES over booze limit

0 alcohol is fail

Natural level is higher than that!

As to accidents - I am sure that tiredness combined with alcohol is a major problem, compared to alcohol alone.

As before our limit is fine

No wonder he was so pissed

Such a low limit - not even half a pint, if you are going to break it might as well do it properly.

And he did.

BTW I feel that the British limit is about right.

Gates: Novell are sore losers, Word trounced WordPerfect

I prefered WordStar

And was using it until recently

Now using Orifice (at work) and the ribbon interface is vile. Pity our 2003 CD got damaged.

Kids demand Apple kit for Chrimble

What a sad little boy

But then mine will mention their Minecraft/Club Penguin/PSN IDs

My childrens wants

Daughter has an Android phone, does music OK not bothered by a PMP. However wants a laptop.

Sons, want anything which plays games. Don't have phones as their school does not allow them, but if they do there is an old one they can have.

The twin boys however want a Vita more than anything in the world, they will get 1/3 of one each next year, and that will be it.

None of them are that bothered by Apple products - except daughter who uses Macs at school, but is happy with a PC.

Assassin's Creed: Revelations

Will be getting eventually

Still need to finish the side missions in AC2B before it grabbed me and forced me to complete the story first.

First was good but very repetative, artwork very good, some graphics (for early game) astounding, but suffered severe frame rate drop & screen tearing.

Second was a lot better, stlll has the same clunky controls as now, but texture pop in is more prevelant. I still remember running along a clear street then a load of baddies materialised straight in front of me.

Second part 2, better engine, not quite as clunky, but getting too many games.

Second part 3, will buy eventually. Doesn't sound that special.

I still have a huge pile of games I haven't got my moneys worth out of. Yet I do not feel the need to replay AC single player much, did half the first one again until I discovered Uncharted.

Couple rewarded for naming newborn after Elder Scrolls Skyrim hero

Not that bad

There are much worse names.

This is just unusual.

Better than being named after a Z list celeb.

Better than a deliberately misspelt name.

Naked vegans target Prince Harry over meaty 12-incher

We are omnivores - that is it

Digestive system is a comprimise, we have a single stomach, we do not eat our poo for a second go, we do not ferment our food in our stomachs.

Longer than a carnivore and shorter than a herbivore.

Teeth front teeth are good for biting fruit or cutting into meat, rear teeth are also a good design for breaking down meat, as well as veggies.

Eyes - why do we have hunting animal vision rather than defensive vision?

Sweat - why are people able to run in really hot conditions when other animals are too hot to move, hence able to convert that animal to a meal.

Lots of plants are poisonous to us, but edible by most herbivores.

Cats of all sizes can thrive on a meat only diet, we eventually get ill. We need plants for a lot of the vitamins which carnivores can make.

Unfortunately I don't like preserved meats

Don't like bacon, don't like ham.

I like pork though!

I know

Remove the bacon/ham and I'll have extra sausage and pepperoni(which I do like - wierd eh)

No hormones added to beef

Source: farming relations

Swearing doesn’t help pain if you do it too much

Hospital

Managed to get to sleep after an abdominal operation, sleeping well, they wake me up in middle of night to measure things - talk about agony.

Only after Morphine could I bear it.

Why couldn't they let me sleep longer?

Too rude for the road: DVLA hot list of banned numberplates

I knew of a few

Back in A reg times, a local BMW dealer grabbed a lot of plates.

I remember such ones as A323BMW on a ... BMW 323i I think they managed most of the models.

Seen A1 LBW - used to be a sponsor car for a cricketer, last saw with a white bloke & suit on a Cavalier, rather than black bloke in cricket whites on a base level 3 series.

Also seen MY 750 on a BMW 750.

I wonder?

If Smith or Moffat will get that one

Stripper nicked for 'nicking knickers' with kids in tow

Pastie Club

Better off going to Cornwall then.

I am hungry now!!!!

Bagged salad contained decomposed AVIAN CORPSE

Prepare it yourself

This is how to avoid such nasties

A pint a day keeps the doctor away - scientific FACT

I drink regularly but not a lot

About a bottle of decent cider/lager/beer a day, 500ml to 568mm (pint).

I should be fine.

Cider - I avoid all those factory ones with syrup and imported junk #

Beer - whatever is on offer in bottles are not mass produced junk *#

Lager - should be Czech *

# Why is cider imported into the UK? We produce lots but the supermarkets are full of imported stuff and the mass produced syrup boosted stuff.

* Not that easy to get, I think we are supposed to drink the mass produced stuff anf the American stuff

*# Getting better, small brewery stuff is more popular as most people are going for the junkier lagers and ciders now.

Bishop to bless road salt supplies for added winter safety

Does it matter?

What harm is there doing this?

We are still more or less an Anglican country.

It is the sort of traditional thing the clergy do.

Don't come down too hard on the Anglican clergy as they are generally decent people.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition

Only the first few were PC

Keep meaning to try one

Are the PC games worth it?

I asked about them once but got a rubbish reply from the shop.

Just want to have a go but not getting a whole console to try it.

'Hands free' pissing contest games installed in boozer

Hands free =

wet clothes

BT Tower falls over, crushes X Factor hopefuls

My wife was commenting on this

She watches it on chase play so to cut out a lot of cack, sometimes that can be a large section of the show.

I prefer the adverts!

Crap TV ruining my gaming

Got all this cack on late, X Craptor, I'm a nonentity.

I want to go online and shoot other people "Death to the ISA"

Judges

** Note - my wife watches this - I am on the PC **

Well they are all irritating

Clarksons Mate with better music taste than the plastic man who isn't on.

The Sackgirl.

The irritating yank.

The miserable git who dreses like an OAP.

Then they have lots of crap karaoak acts.

AntandDec - Antordec

I think they should have A and D tattooed on their foreheads so we know which one is which.

Lay off SCD

Nothing wrong with skin tight catsuits.

Facebook boss-lady is up the pole on the glass ceiling

There is no ceiling I know of.

If a woman wants to get somewhere she can do it.

Why do they need help?

I'm sure the first British woman PM got there on her own.

My wife reckons that people who say women need help ect (not child care but preferential treatment BECAUSE they are women) to get somewhere are insulting women.

And I do think ambition is the key, if you want it get it, but then the above PM also managed children