Posts by Neur0mancer

Bloated Office 2010 kicks dirt in face of old computers

I don't like Office 2007

It has a horrid ribbon and I don't know where the options button is. I have had to install a third party 2003 style menu bar. Backwards looking? So?

Lenovo talks up LePhone launch

What's with this 'candy bar' nonsense?

It's a chocolate bar. Even for cell phones.

Nice

This looks really cool actually. Is the the playa we have been looking for? You know, to take on Nokia and their ilk.

Super-soldier exoskeleton to get 3-day fuel cell powerpack

Christ

This is all going to go completely wrong. I can see it now, exoskeletons sprinting at 200kph with their ragged dead soldier strapped into it, fighting a war to end all wars with other exoskeletons based upon the single digit difference in their serial numbers. Disease-ridden children weeping until they are hurled into the sky as as missiles themselves by version 8 predator drones, aircraft carriers sitting up and sprouting legs and fighting herculean battles with an animated giant super norad robot.

Pass the Jamesons please.

iPhone keeps buried earthquake victim alive for three days

hehe

I think those fluids would be preserved somehow.

Ask Paris.

I think I would have...

...taken advantage of the time alone and had myself a 65 hour wankathon.

Nokia apes Google, gives gratis satnav route guidance

Oooh!

So when will this Map Navigation be available on the iphone?

Garmin adds satellite imaging to satnavs

Hmmm

"But it doesn't provide the turn-by-turn spoken guidance that the Garmin satnavs will offer."

Not yet anyway.

Gran Turismo 5 launch delayed

Wow

So when was this meant to be out? I have been hearing about GT5 seemingly since the NES days.

Multi-touch gaming notebook launched

Interesting...

...If true...

PsiXpda pocket computer

Looks OK

But as other people have commented upon, the price is ludicrous. With all of the other options out there I honestly cannot think of who would buy this.

As an aside, I wanted to buy a netbook a few months ago but once I got an apple-themed telephone i didnt feel the need.

Sony Ericsson Aino

Ho Hum

SE phones used to be superb. Now? Not so much.

Googlephone sales off to a sluggish start?

I have one...

...And the geek prestige I have in my office is unparalleled. The phone is pretty gash though :-(

Peugeot designs Hybrid4 concept coupé

Nice

I definitely would.

Samsung Omnia II

Hur Hur

Strap-on

Paris because...you know

Google preps business-grade Nexus One

Now that's what I'm talking about

Smack those rimsters about a bit.

Paramount prepares to scale Dune

As a Dune aficionado...

There are good points and bad points of both adaptations. The casting for the film was almost there, and there was a certain majesty about it being filmed on an actual desert. But the effects were terrible and worse, distracting, and the interpretation of the various clothing/building styles wasnt great either. Also, it was probably 'inspired' by Dune the novel, as opposed to being a filmisation of due to the swathes of material either not filmed or cut or new material added. The eyes of the 'Ibad' were well dodgy too.

The mini series won points by being more faithful to the book and also having more Duncan Idaho, as the film sadly lacked more than a tiny bit of that character. But it looked cheap, the desert was filmed on a set, and the majority of the characters portrayals were rubbish with the exception of James McAvoy who did a decent job of Leto II in messiah.

The best adaptation? In my head every time I read the books although I would like to be surprised by a new adaptation. I also thought that LOTR couldn't be filmed and I was wrong and pleasantly surprised there too.

Amazon Kindle International Edition

Format and price

It has been commented above but these are the key issues for me. There has to be an initial 'mp3' for books before the majority of people buy into them.

There also has to be a decent pricing structure. The point about £12 for a 60 book is well made. What the fuck?

Unless these two issues are sorted then the highbrow 'book buccaneers' have already won. The usenet peeps will sort out the format and the price for you.

Steel-woven wallet pledges to keep RFID credit cards safe

Pretty cool

If it does what it says it does. Do they do a similar range in head gear for the tin foil hat brigade?

Walking With Dinosaurs star goes walkabout

The secret ingredient is...

...LOTUS X...

2009's Top Android Smartphones

Android

Android is most certainly the mobile OS of the future. But not yet.

NHS hurls iPhone into booze abuse fray

Actually

I have started using this and I am quite impressed. It says that I am on average 12 units over the safe level on the last rolling week. Oops. It's 12 units a day. Meh, what does it know?

Sennheiser parades "world's best Bluetooth headset"

Ok

They do look like (and hopefully sound like) the shiznit, but at that price? Great Scott!

HP rolls out business-friendly smartphone

Hmmm

Looks quite nice actua...WAIT A MINUTE! It's running windows mobile 6.5. Turds cannot be polished (effectively).

iPhone conquers half the (smartphone) world

"broze"?

Eh?

T-Orange puts names on dotted lines

Oooh

There is now an Orange Wednesdays app on the app store.

Windows 95 to Windows 7: How Microsoft lost its vision

Hmmm

Interesting. If true.

Call of Duty PC gamers peeved as dedicated servers ditched

Meh

All the METAL players will be on the consoles anyway.

Wikileaks publishes BNP 'member list' (again)

Ooops

Time to move house again methinks.

Apple unbans banned 3G TV app

iphone.tvcatchup.com

It's a fantastic site and it gives you a nice wee icon when you bookmark it to the home screen. WIN

Palm Pre smartphone

PROPREPRI

I had a play with a Pre in an O2 shop at the weekend. I would really like one, but it did feel a bit cheap and plasticky.

Vodafone joins the iPhone throng

Well.

Well well well well well. Well.

Futuristic head-mounted PC launching in 2010

At last

The gargoyle tech from Snow Crash will be available.

iPhone rescue girl gets head stuck down bog

I used the toilets at Reading...

...and I wouldnt have rescued my own mother from that festering ammonia and shit reeking trench.

Xbox 360 'least reliable' console

Yup

I love my Xbox but I have had the RROD twice. Every single one of my friends in real life and on my friends list has had it at least once.

BMW unveils futuristic Vision

Holy God

That is gorgeous.

How to run Mac OS X on a generic PC

Hehe

I loved the 'apple labelled' computer.

Orange prices up LG 3G watchphone for UK

Hmmm some clarity

As to the left/right conundrum. It is standard practice in PR/marketing firms to publish mirror images of pictures if they look better. Don't ask why, only they will tell you.

As to the phone itself, yeah it's kinda pricey, but coupled with a discrete blue-tooth headset i reckon this could be the future.

HTC Hero Android smartphone

Introducing...

Jay Leno: The Phone.

Man blames cat for child porn downloads

Lets be honest

It could happen....hehe

O2 data fails, again

Back now

It was irritating. I was temporarily without my mobile por...newspapers

O2 data network falls over again

Oh noes

My personal iphone data is down, but my corporate blackberry is working fine. What gives, O2?

Fujifilm confirms 'world's first' 3D stills and films compact

Awesome

This is the future. I'll bet it will cost £23 Quadrillion pounds though. And not American quadrillions, good old fashioned British ones.

Samsung intros skinny watchphone

Video calls

I made a video call once when I got my first 3G video call phone. I have never made one since. Is video calling the future??? How is it useful?

This watch, with an unobtrusive bluetooth headset = WIN

Samsung i8910 Omnia HD

I wanted this phone.

Orange wanted me to pay £200 quid to upgrade for it though at the end of my contract. So I bought an iphone instead for cheaper.

Analyst confidently lays out GTA timeline

One Halo Will Appear On A Phone In Some Form

I too, require paying for my unnatural soothsaying

Sir Alan Sugar hits eject button at Viglen

Surralan

He is actually a below average lucky businessman but profited immensely from the short term boom in property. Now that has fallen on its arse it's a miracle he isn't signing on.

Open-source handset sales to soar

I used to have an Open Sores OS

It was called Windows Mobile 6.1

Camera catches Samsung's OLED iPhone wannabe

Meh

PR Rule No. #78: Never get Antipodeans to demo anything other than lager and bbqs. And sheep dip if they are from NZ.

Apple admits to iPhone 3GS heliophobia

iHeater?

Come on, some mactard will justify this somehow.