Posts by MJI

LG to offer subscriptions for appliances and televisions

Problem for them is

I still see Lucky Goldstar as a cheapish reasonable kit company, not a top end one.

Why would I spend a lot for them AND a subscription?

Re: piracy warning

I stopped buying them due to that, also when I had to rip and burn rentals to avoid copywrite shite it was the end of DVD more or less.

Bizarre backup taught techie to dumb things down for the boss

Re: "you have to wonder how they get home each night

Tube schedules.

Well what are they?

If I am travelling by train I look up the timetables, so it is an obvious question.

Re: I need my Trash

Ah Netware deleted files.

Recoverable until disk space needed

Judge shoots down FTC attempt to stall Microsoft-Activision merger

Re: Get stuffed both of you!

Dog of course f is next to D

Re: Get stuffed both of you!

>> the big guys were start-up indy companies too

Lots of first party Sony studios started like this, eg Naughty Fog

Re: Fuc.k Activision

Hmm Phil, bog off back to C4 and look at houses with Kirsty please.

Re: Get stuffed both of you!

I bought an AAA game in a sale late last year £25, 200 hours of fun, huge studio, was orignal. Gave up waiting for a PS5 (orignal no purchase reason), so got PS4 version.

Looks amazing even on a 10 year old console.

Horizon : Forbidden West.

Very difficult explaining without spoiling but near end a great alternative to fast travel. They actually made a game to have fun in and delight the player.

Re: Brexit may be cheaper for MS

Arkane pulled, Bethesda pulled, does anyone care about COD?

That said 2 console generations ago COD players invaded a FPS I used to play, they could not hack a slow tactical FPS.

Not getting a dirctXBOX as I still have it in for MS after causing me tons of extra work, and slowing our main software down, (RIP Netware)

Fuc.k Activision

What about Arkane and Bethesda and the cancelling of already in progress Playstation versions?

Judge is either ignorant, paid off, or family connections.

MS cannot be trusted

Man who nearly killed physical media returns with $60,000 vinyl turntable

Re: Poor design in my opinion

I have one of those, pees me off as it is ridiculous.

But it is what they had, and still quite cheap.

Re: Poor design in my opinion

And different levels of shielding.

Worst - composite only

Low - only shielded as a whole

Good - all wires shielded

BEst - shielded as much as possible and good construction techniques.

Impaired hearing my thoughts

OK My hearing is damaged, but find I need good quality stuff more than ever.

Rolls off at 12KHz, bad tinnitus.

MP3s now sound like a squelchy mess, I can't understand speech on some TV channels (shITV).

I need really clear audio.

No, posh watch is just for posing.

Re: Poor design in my opinion

SCART I did find an improvement between my £10 and my £40 cable, the cheapest SCARTs were unusable due to lack of wires.

When the display was top end and the source RGB you can tell. Basically a cleaner picture.

It is heavy though!

Re: Poor design in my opinion

My DVD SCART was £40.

I found it a bit better than a £10, which was 100x better than a cheapo one.

That TV did not appear to convert RGB to component to RGB but run RGB straight through from any RGB source, it was a Digital Wega.

Re: Maybe not.

Yes, the ones with systems which they can afford and enjoy using for the music.

(OK my amp was £500 and my front speakers around £450, and they are over 20 years old)

Re: Maybe not.

Same here. My cheapy TT has failed and I have about 20 LPs still.

I use a DVD player now for CD as it is pretty good for CD. It is a Pioneer.

one end kettle like, other end BS1363

Re: Poor design in my opinion

Fronts sit on the floor, rears run under the wood flooring but not next to each other.

Re: Poor design in my opinion

Digital signal.

Buy something mechanically well made and solid.

Analogue signal

Buy something very well shielded and decent thickness.

As i own a premium quality SCART lead I can tell where the VFM is.

I could tell between a cheap SCART and my good SCART, all due to better shielding in the cables.

My HDMI are decent mechaical quality but no different picture wise to a freebie one.

Speaker cables, just thick wire, biwired due to I had it.

All is base audiophile/AV system level. Good enough to last and not ruin the picture or sound.

I also run Castle speakers.

Bosch goes all-in on hydrogen with €2.5B investment by 2026

I was expecting

Worcester Bosch Hydrogen boiler article.

RIP Cecil Duckworth

Obscure internet boutique Amazon sues EU for calling it a Very Large Online Platform

They missed Ebay

They need plenty of regulation.

Very awkwards to report stolen goods on it

Post-Brexit tariffs on cross EU-UK electrical vehicle imports still going ahead

Re: Fuck business

farage

string up the froggie named traitor

Re: Be proud

Yes brexshit was a religion rather than a sensible move.

And it is failing, however the fall out will result in the death of pound sterling.

Of people my childrens age, so far one is a leaver, most of the rest are rejoiners, a few have no opinion, the two youngest had no choice, and they have to live with it.

Yes rejoin with the euro, free movement, just what the leavers wanted as we had an excellent deal, best in the EU. It will happen.

They may let us have King William on the euro currency though.

Re: Be proud

Ah the latest failed brexshit religion

Lamborghini's last remaining pure gas guzzlers are all spoken for

Re: Lamborghini going EV ?

Just parking to shop!!!!!

Re: Countach

I had a poster

Re: Lamborghini going EV ?

And V12s sound nice. Much better than a I4.

I also like seeing supercars out and about, they are getting used.

Seen a Ferrari at Tesco.

Firefox 115 browser breathes life into old operating systems

Problem is

No suitable native WIN32 running OS for 7 yet.

Going to have to do more WINE research.

Brit broadband subscribers caught between crappy connections and price hikes

Re: I will admit I use BT

I have friends who were with Tiscali and it got taken over by talktalk, bad.

Plusnet, by BT, still quite good.

I use BT to avoid the others!!!!

Had poor service from Onetel.

(Oh and BT were the only people who could quickly move me from ISDN to BB).

I will admit I use BT

Costs a bit but been reliable and no one has taken them over and ruined the servce.

Re: Speed issues

One son has a dongle to connect his phone to an ethernet cable.

The other wiried up any student accomodation so has plenty of cables to wire up.

Re: fibre

I'm on fibre not fiber.

Microsoft puts profanity filter on %@!#ing Teams transcripts

Re: whose swear words?

Online games

Had Yanks saying no curse words please.

So plenty of British swear words.

Some Yanks actually like the swearing.

Who knew that they get upset with damn?

Google accused of ripping off advertisers with video ads no one saw. Now, the expert view

To some people

ITVX does not exist.

Something to do with Sony not liking ITV doing too many ads.

Re: Good Old Days

The more obnoxious got presents from the rear ends of pets.

But I do read

The ads in magazines I buy.

Usually properly targeted.

Not anad for something bought recently or a random POC, or some gambling rubbish.

The ads are totally relevant to the subject, somone trying to sell a new model of item X where X is something people want, could be to varous people a camera, a game, a model kit, an aftermarket car part.

Internet adverts are there to block

The number’s up for 999. And 911. And 000. And 111

Does it have to be a 911 or

Can a Boxster, 928, 944 owner use it as well?

Oh could also be for Lotus Sunbeam owners, but not the push rod lumps.

Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office

Re: I went into the office for 40 years

I did threaten to bring in my dog, but then I think they would like to meet her.

That good Indian developer

Will already be earning the same or more.

The good ones know it.

And balance against fuel and

car wear and tear

£300 a month less expenditure

Back to office?

OK

1 you have to give me a lift

2 I will need a day off to recover afterwards

3 Mortgage has insurance, I can ask my GP about retirement through ill health

Lift in once a week, and a slow day the day after.

Not driving solo again apart from very short trips.

Microsoft's Activision fight with FTC turned up a Blizzard of docs: Here's your summary

Re: Sony

Gaming houses who at the time were only making PS1 or PS2 games.

Naughty Dog and Guerilla are exclusive as owned by them but chose to be bought, also both were PS 3rd party before.

Insomniac still do mobile and one Xbox game

Bungie are multi plat

Sony have not bought up huge studios and scrapped XBox dev.

Unlike Starfield.

Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them

Forced to change

I liked my old N8, but no 4G and 3G is going.

Work phones since then Android and they just tend to break

Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new targeted-advertising API

Only ads of worth are

Ones relevent to the site you are on.

Car spares for car sites.

Shiny new hifi gear on audio sites.

And so on.

Those do work, and work well/

Mark Zuckerberg would kick Elon Musk's ass, experts say

Does Musk have a donkey to kick?

Or just his white cat?

FTC pulls emergency brake on Microsoft's marriage to Activision Blizzard

Re: "Microsoft is appealing against the [CMA]'s final decision"

Well after the dropping of nearly finished PS versions, it is NOT in the gamers benefit.

And before people say things.

Most PS only studios were small ones nurtured by Sony,and their most recent acquitision in still multi platform.

Oh and MS, I still remember what you did to Netware!

Re: Triple-A gaming is a mess and a ripoff

My most recent purchase was a sale copy of Horizon Forbidden West, 150 hours in for 25 quid.

A nice big backlog so still no need for a current generation console.

Re: Triple-A gaming is a mess and a ripoff

Indies.

You get weird stuff like

Journey

Everyones gone to the rapture

Unfinished Swan

All of moderate length finishable in a reasonable time but remain in memory.