Posts by MJI

Fifa, Uefa lose free-to-view footie challenge

Don't worry

The car makers do not want F1 on pay TV they and Bernie INSIST it is shown on free to air TV.

If it is not shown, the public will not see the cars and the team sponsors.

May promises £63m for cybercrime fight

Ok who instantly thought of James?

When I saw the headlines my first thought was "What did this have to do with James May?", then I thought not Brian either - then realised Teresa.

CAN WE HAVE FULL NAMES PLEASE!

Channel Five reborn as Channel Five

There are other good channels

Freesat 108 109

Freeview 9 15 80

Most of what we record are on 108 and 109

I hate logos and they drop viewing figures

I used to watch a lot of C5 during their dogless period, now I don't even watch the Gadget Show and that was the last one I did.

Poor channel, knows how to annoy viewers.

AND I HATE THOSE BL**DY DOGS.

Nail'd

I'll stick with Motorstorm

Nail'd sounds pretty poor.

We have all of the Motorstorms, now they are a really good offroad racer.

I like the Patriot Rodeo, Monarch Claymore (a Bowler), the blue tanker lorry (Hydroaid?)

It's official: Nokia bets on Microsoft for smartphones

No more Nokia

We have had company Nokias for a few years, currently an X6.

Looks like we will have to go elsewhere at contract renewal.

Perhaps it will be Android time

Wii Countdown conundrum brands family 'SH*THEADS'

Sun readers- oxymoron

can they actually read?

'Tree Octopus' proves journos no smarter than 13-year-old Americans

Running on water

I have seen trains running on it - they have large tanks for the stuff

Tree octopus

We all know they live on a Pacific island and don't let them think you are a coconut!

Britain takes delivery of first Nissan e-cars

You can buy a proper Nissan for that

370Z for similar money

Skyline for quite a bit less to £10,000 more

Half a GT-R

Can I have the funding for two please and get a GT-R

Aussie advertisers call for more bloat in web ads

Yes occasionally watch live

Sometimes you catch up, sometimes while skipping you see an interesting advert.

Or children are watching CITV.

It does happen even if you have 3 PVRs.

Ads are responsible for their own demise.

I am not bothered by non animated banner ads and have been known to visit the sites (specialist forums). But a few years ago I was forced to start blocking them.

1) Popup adverts covering the site - kill them.

2) Huge ads taking up too much screen.

3) Animated ads - as bad as animated TV channel logos - evil.

4) Ads with sound - **** off!

5) Sites where we already pay - looking directly at Ebay here.

And there you are, a lot of web users were happy with them until you started assulting us with them. We knew they paid for the site but we do not want to be assulted.

HINT: TV ads if not watching a recording, due to advert volume I do not turn down the volume I MUTE.

Republican reps push for mandatory gun ownership

Predator - great film

I had completely forgotten than quote - thanks for reminding me.

You know why Aliens don't visit us?

They are scared of Arnold Swarchenegger

Sounds quite good

I am another person who is going to say I am glad we have the NHS.

No - I want a Gau 19

If it is good enough for Drake it is good enough for me.

Anyone guess the reference?

ICO drops BT, ACS Law probe

Save it up for ACS:Fail

Sue them out of existance

Court orders seizure of PS3 hacker's computers

Cars - similar to PS3 in this case

Yes you own the car, yes you can swap bits over, but the car firmware rights still belongs to the manufacturer.

Different rooms! and I still like Steam

TV is quite a way from the PC.

Also I am not that great at FPS so mainly PC game during Dancing on Ice/XCraptor.

Downloaded PC games - just Steam - they work

Blacklisting - who loses?

I buy what is good, manufacturer doesn't matter.

Sony make some of the best video cameras - so when I needed a new one - what did I get? I am not going to buy something else just due to brand - that is a little silly.

I would even buy Apple of they made something I wanted and were best or good at it.

Don't forget Uncharted Series

One of the best series of this hardware generation.

May be sequels - but really good sequels

When you have a series which you enjoy, which gets new and exciting games which provide different stories you are happy with sequels.

HL2 metioned before - sequel

Portal 2 soon - sequel

To many gaming fans near the end of the year there are two "3" sequels being released, my favourite series Uncharted and a lot of peoples favourite Mass Effect.

Why are they worse by being sequels?

Well they are not, they are well respected series.

Aghh - why fight?

We have a PS3 and a PC well capable of gaming.

I prefer sitting on a comfy sofa to sitting on a dining room chair.

I prefer our 46" TV to the 17" monitor.

I like the holdability of a controller over KB & mouse.

Yes I do both.

And I am using a rather DRMed PC gaming system, but everyone loves it - Steam.

PSP 2 'as powerful as PS3'

They are trying to make us buy it.

A new Uncharted no less.

If it is any good (as it is not a Naughty Dog production) it will be a system seller.

Smartphone makers to embrace multi-core chips

I think Cell is on its way

Read rumours there will be a mobile version of the Cell processor.

That would eat batteries.

Mass Effect 2 for PS3

Even better now

I Platinumed last night, too many games too little time.

Tempted by ME2 but not sure if I will like it.

Do I buy it?

4 goes through I think

Normal

Hard

Crushing

Get the rest of the trophies on easy

One bit of advice - in the generator room - make for the door, unlimited respawn.

I managed it last night on Crushing no deaths in the bunker area.

Also USE COVER

More privacy for the Queen, less for everyone else

President?

However where would they come from?

Do we have President Blair, Brown, Harperson, Wogan, Forsyth, Branson, or AntandDec?

I am now having nightmares.

I bet if he stood WIlliam Wales would win!

Harder to read = easier to recall

I used NVidea control panel to read

And it looks worse normal way up!

Took a little while though to reclick default!

PlayStation Phone spied in China

No UMD no sale

If you already have a PSP and a few UMDs how can you play them on the PSP phone?

Remember that PSP Go was a flop

2011 Games Preview

Overhyped!!!!

So what if there are a lot of sequels, perhaps it is because they are good series.

Portal is anything but overhyped, I just hope Move support is added as I prefer comfy settee to sitting at the PC.

Uncharted - well it is possibly the best console game series of this generation, or it could be Mass Effect?

Lots of really good games, so what if they are sequels?

I'd say the Uncharted series are fun

Great sense of humour and very well written

Expensive year

Some of the top series, I am looking forwards to finally using the Move controller for more than stacking blocks. There are rumours Portal 2 MAY support Move. But it will get used on Helghan anyway.

But the best for me is in November when Uncharted 3 comes out, gives me time to Platinum Drakes Fortune and Among Thieves and to try to get to level XXX (currently X).

First purchase is LBP2 for the children.

Got to say must be the best year so far to own a PS3.

EU law not tough enough for online piracy, says Brussels

Piracy - no it isn't

I am completely fed up with copyright infringement being classed the same as stealing a super tanker.

Somebody tell these people to sort out the Somalian real pirates first.

Spam volumes shrink over festive season

Or has there been more spammer disposal?

Well it worked in Russia.

Where the spammer ended up.

Ford cars get draconian parental controls

Parts availablity with old cars

I used to have an old car which was popular in club level motorsport in the 1980s (and also RAC rally), so parts were easy to get - IF they were competion parts.

I had a nice 2" bore twin box exhaust. Sounded meaty but not over loud.

Fun for suspension components and engine parts.

Yes I used to pick on the boy racers in their hot hatches

This is when an old car was fun

I had this years ago, so I carried on faster than them, they swerved back before I drove into them.

I managed to get the idiot dealt with after other problems with them by a friend with a white company Vauxhall Senator

Enraged wives hand Pakistani polygamist vicious shoeing

Perhaps they look after the excess wives?

That would solve it.

Or a wife have a few husbands?

Gifts for the Geeks

aghh not clear so stretch bolts on the cam shaft pulley

It only jumped 180 degrees as well

Passenger BANK BTW aghhhh

Yes a V6

Yes proper wheel drive

Yes I had to remove heads originally to replace oil seals all 24 of the little pests.

And stretch bolts are used on the pulleys to cams

Only if you have a laptop, and it is small enough.

I instantly though car maintenance.

Would have saved lifting a head when I had a passenger back inlet cam sproket jump last year to check valves, all 6 were fine.

Moral is alway use new stretch bolts.

Boffin pic. because fitting cam timing belts is at that level!

Endoscope

What diameter is it?

Could be great for peering into car engines

National Identity Card holding chumps have buyer's remorse

A fool and his money are easily parted.

The writing was on the wall before they were implemented so no refunds.

Sony PlayStation Network vs MS Xbox Live

Beta & Vhs

Definately.

The owners of Sonys top end VCRs were rather critical of the opposition.

Mind you the 4 top end VCRs were THAT good.

The first smallish portable, the first full featured home deck, the first Beta HiFi, the ultimate fully loaded SuperBeta.

Pretty interesting

With 6 PSN accounts we wouldn't be able to afford XBL.

I will say that I only got into online gaming due to the fact it was free, if I had to have paid I don't think I would have bothered.

Regardless of console more dedicated games servers are required, P to P can be so laggy.

But the online generation consoles have all increased chatting to people you would never have met.

All in all PSN and XBL are good things.

ITV, C4 catch-up players coming to PS3

I think they managed a couple this year.

I did enjoy Downtown Abbey, and er what was the other?

Xbox 360 outsells PS3 2:1

Quad core rules

Nothing wrong with PCs for gaming, I like Valve stuff.

Orange box keeps me amused through all the reality gumpf on TV

Feel a prat regardless of controller

Lets think.

Wave around like a wally?

Wave around like a wally with a sex toy?

Wave around like a wally with hand held fridge lookalike?

Sit down with sex toy and point at TV?

All we want is a lightsabre and a game we can use it with.

Or sit down with conventional controller.

THIS is the answer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtWxRM_Vw3w&feature=player_embedded

This time for games I think it is

For the PS3 2007-8-9 were good, LBP in 2008 was very interesting. 2009 for UC2 again. Only really a few this year - GOW3 (GOD this time), Heavy Rain, GT5.

But there are a large amount coming out next year of established series, and third party developers not called Insomniac have finally got a handle on PS3.

I just happen to see what is being released and think - how can I afford them all.

3D - I think it will stay but not be popular.

Motion here to stay but hopefully optional, the best to use being the 360 Dancer, PS3 sports and PSN Tumble.

Bye the way casual games bore me - I want to be transported off to some exotic location and play as an interesting character, don't care if Soldier, Spaceman, Lombax, Assassin, or fortune hunter, just entertain and astonish me.

The huge this generation third person games to me are my favourites.

Software is important

Will you want to play a dip in type game on the TV, will there be all the good console games on it?

There are already 3 advanced formats to handle for the multi platform.

Will the MS and Sony exclusives go there?

No

Wonder controllers

I think the MS Kinnect games will keep on as party games, I think exercise and dance will be best usage, basically where the camera will track and compare rather than use as controller.

The PS3 will get loads of naff ports of Wii stuff, and a few well used "normal" games.

I don't think either will get dumped but I can see them being the equivalent of the Wii balance board - only used very occasionally.