Posts by Big_Boomer 1158 publicly visible posts • joined 18 May 2007
I'd buy a Win8 tablet/slab if they weren't so damned expensive. I bought a Galaxy Note 10.1 just after Xmas for £320 and wasn't going to pay nearly double that for 2" more and way less apps. iOS was right out of the question due to Apple lock downs on WiFi Analyzing apps and similar restrictions, as well as the price. Apps and price is where it's at. Fiddling with yer inches just gets you arrested. :-)
I have always hated all of these "add-on" fees. Be they booking fees, surcharges, cost recovery, or any other form of fee that the company will have to pay. So, here is a message to all companies that charge such fees:
Why not just include the "fee" in the price of your item? I have no objection to paying a slightly more to have tickets emailed/posted to me rather than having to travel to the theatre myself to buy them. I feel the same about the ISP con-artists who sell broadband at £3 a month (Plus £15pm Line Rental). Why not just say £18pm Including Line Rental? Be INCLUSIVE! And the first person to ban the practice of selling items at £189.99 or £199.95 gets my vote too. What a waste of space that is. Just sell it for £190 or £200. Nobody cares about the 1p saving.
Keep It Simple Stupid! 2 wires that run from the battery (via a fuse!) to 2 separate connectors at the rear of spaceplane. When the rocket fire the thrust will blast them out way before the spaceplane starts to move. You could even tape the bare ends of the wires to the plane with conductive tape as you only need the connection functional up to launch.
What is worst about the App is that you cannot uninstall it even on current phones without rooting them. It's a resource hog and I don't want it installed, let alone running. No I wouldn't buy any smartphone that was based on Farcebook, and if they keep this up I may well do what several of my friends (real friends) have done and shutdown their account. Have a website and an app by all means but don't try and force it on people who don't want it. All you do is alienate them.
She was Hog-Napped by our Alien Masters as during her ascent she witnessed that which must not be witnessed and now the MIB have her and are in the process of brain-washing her. She will be found on Wednesday with no memory of where she has been and what happened. All cameras will be broken and all memory wiped.
Hopefully ND will do the gig somewhere else It'd be cool to see ceramics slowly shake apart during a gig. Need to add Boltthrower as well as Carcass, in fact bring back the Grindcrusher Tour. If yer not an ND fan then don't go see them. Go see your beloved Justin Bieber instead. I like early ND for it's sense of fun but prefer their more "melodic" stuff like Suffer the Children.
I also find most site Apps a waste of time and most "mobile" website are irritating shite. I prefer the whole "desktop" website experience.
One of the things that the designers of mobile browsers might want to add is the Option to ALWAYS present itself as a "desktop" browser. I can do it in Chrome for Android but have to select it for every damned page,... after loading the page <Grrrrr>. On my 10" tablet I do not want to ever see a mobile website or be asked to download their App. If I think their App might be useful I can get it from Google Play. On my 4.5" phone I may use some Apps but even there I don't want them thrust at me like some company phallus begging to be fondled.
Now if it's something you access and use regularly then an App makes sense but the whole point of a web browser is it's versatility to display a wide variety of sites.
Anyone who wants to continue running XP, go for it. Just don't expect Microsoft to help you out of a hole. And please don't come whining on here about how unfair it all is. Companies have had plenty of warning that XP is a dead duck. Any IT bod with any sense would leave a company that insists on staying with XP.
Remember, when threatened by a wild animal, you don't have to run faster than the animal, just faster than the other people around you.
Some EUtard has just cobbled this together as a "negotiating" tool. When they are trying to get through something that they really care about, they will offer to "scrap" this pile of garbage for some other concession. Time wasting on an epic scale, much like the rest of the Commission. I have no problems with the Common Market but some of the more recent European Government shite is really starting to alienate people all over the EU. We don't want a European Government, and we probably never will. I grew up abroad and speak several languages and even I am starting to think that UKIP may have a point or 2.
Ahhh, my favourite word. :-) The volatiles that SS would add to Mars atmosphere are a drop in the ocean. It won't make any appreciable difference. You would need 10 of those a year for 50 years to make it marginally habitable, and even then the atmosphere would just bleed off again due to Mars low mass. Remember that Mars has a surface pressure of 0.087psi which from our point of view (14.69psi) might as well be a vacuum. Give up on terraforming Mars and other planets and learn to live in space itself. Cheaper, easier, and there is a LOT more of it.
is the problem. Whether they are driving or cycling or sitting at home watching TV. People = CO2 emissions, not to mention methane and other nasties. So, if the world wishes to sort out Global Warming and related issues, then POPULATION control/reduction is the only way forward. Even if we reduce greenhouse gas emissions to a certain level per person, if there are more people there are more gasses. Long term, ONLY population reduction will work. Either that or we will all eventually cook in our own juices from our own waste heat.
Perhaps that is what our Alien Masters are waiting for. A whole planet covered with 20+ Billion joints of slow- roast long-pig.
Oooohh, look at the nice Space Jellyfish. Obviously this was created by the Creator as nothing this complex could happen unless it was planned and pre-ordained. Perhaps that is the problem all these Creationists have with the world,... they can't handle the fact that some things are not and probably never will be controllable, so they invent a "higher power" who can control it. Religion as a psychosis?
Since the collapse of eastern european communism, the new "Evil" is far eastern communism, even though not ONE of them is or ever has been communist. China is now nearly as capitalist as the USA. What the US is afraid of is Chinas economic might taking control of the world economy away from the USA. As for the spying, everybody is spying on everybody anyways, so what difference will it make? I'd finish the cable, then swap it's use at the last minute with an existing cable so the financial cheating and double-dealing can be secure and the Chinese can spy on Silverburns Black Ops 2 sessions. ;-)
I am on Farcebook & LinkedOut but am considering trying to get shot of both. They don't add anything for me, don't help me with anything and are a constant drain on my time. I never bothered with Twatter as I hate the "cult of celebrity" and outside of a very small group of friends & collegues I don't give a **** what anyone else thinks. I do read postings on forums like this one and some of it is useful and some is entertaining, but this forum doesn't email me every 2 days to ask why I haven't been on the forum. Yes, it does seem as if there is such a thing as too connected.
Me, I'm going for Privacy now. I may be gone some time!
My personal experiences of both during my better half's recent surgeries were extremely varied. One of the Doctors I found to be human and responsive and warm. The other was cold and remote but an amazing surgeon and top of his field (I checked!)
A couple of the nurses in ICU were superb. Efficient and fully in control, yet warm and understanding. Others were cold and uninterested.
Once on the main ward most of the nurses were Ok but she did nickname one of them Hirohito and another one Hitler.
I consider myself pretty empathic and am one of the few men I know who can always see the other persons point of view, even if I disagree with it. However, I am rarely "passionate" about anything and before switching to IT I was an Electronics Engineer. Sounds to me like somebody already knew what results he wanted.
I want an intelligent smart-gadget. One that when I say "I am thirsty" finds the nearest pub that serves Hopback Summer Lightning and shows me the easiest route there. It needs to anticipate my every move and facilitate my every wish. Lets just call it a Genie and be done with it.
When are BT and the other "providers" out there going to realise that relying on a 50+ year old pair of corroding wires is no basis for a modern communications system? Are their sales people asleep? Start offering re-cabling to people out in the sticks. Charge a one off fee plus higher monthly charges on say a 2 year contract and many people (Drew included I am sure) would LEAP at the chance to get a high quality fibre phone/data connection. BT keep banging on about FTTC and their Infinity Broadband which is fine for towns and cities, but what they should be offering outside those areas is FTTH (Fibre To The Home). Finally, why do they try to charge extortionate "install" costs when more often than not they just clip the new cable (or fibre) to the side of the old cable.
Are these Politicians and Lawyers really as stupid as that? I guess they must be to expect such a law to get through. Might as well draft a law banning breathing. Would this post be illegal? I did call certain Politicians & Lawyers stupid. What with this and the Mrs Mays attempts to snoop the Interwebs it seems to be submit a stupid law week. Of course the defence against this pointless law would be to P2P the "defamation". Good luck in tracing that.
Whoever wrote that obviously doesn't speak much French as it is grammatically and culturally incorrect. Come on El Reg, try just a little harder to NOT be 2nd rate Clarkson.
Now if you'd said "Les sales Anglais ont saboté nos couilles,.. fils de putes et salauds" you may have been closer to the mark. ;-)
Concerning the comments above about Nuke Power Stations and their effect on sperm count,.... do us all a favour and speak up when you actually do know what you are talking about. Strange that all the monitoring programmes (and there have been a LOT) on Nuclear Power workers health have not shown any noticeable decrease in sperm count over the last 50 years. Besides, the French produce the radioactive waste and then send it by train to Sellafield for processing so we should be just as affected. Oh wait, X-Factor/Celebrity/BigBrother PROVES that we have been affected. <LOL>
We are all doomed. Repent and confess your sins to your one True God. My God is a glass of Rochefort 8, yumYUM! Is anyone else having a party on the 22nd Dec to celebrate that the Mayan Calendar doom-merchants were wrong? One of these days we may even get to have a "kick the environmentalists" party. <LOL>
Most of these are politicians and the scum that feed them or feed off them. So, I'm guessing that Mrs May and her cronies will be exempted from being spied on by Big Brother? Otherwise we would all learn even more about just how much certain people make from their various interests.
When will the state stop trying to be my Mum? I left home 31 years ago f.f.s and even when I was living with my parents then my Mum didn't spy on me anywhere near as much as the state does now.
Big Brother will never work as way before the state ever manages to implement it, even by dribs & drabs, we will reconstitute the state first. Note to all politicians, we pay your wages, we elect you, you are a PUBLIC SERVANT.
"We would like to object to the registration of the domains .object and .crookedbastards. These domains will obviously be used to point out what your incompetent governments/companies/organisations are up to and thus will reduce our ability to keep the rest of you in the dark for as long as possible, hopefully long enough that we can empty the coffers and get somewhere that doesn't have an extradition treaty."
Sounds to me like the AUS government thinks it is the worlds "conscience". Either that or else their "bent" politicians are a bit more open about their bent-ness than elsewhere.
Anyways, who cares about TLDs these days? As JG says almost all of us go to a website via either a bookmark or search engine results lists these days. I'm old school and even I only type in an address if it's quicker than searching for it.
Perhaps we should apply for the TLD ".crafwan" and then AFTER it's approved and in place we run a mass campaign to popularise the use of crafwan to mean "abuses others". Then we could register Cameron.crafwan, Saville.crafwan, and ICANN.crafwan. Why did I choose crafwan??? Short for Crafty Wankers obviously.
Does 2013 still have the "I'm a dumbfuck, show me pretty pictures coz I can't read" Ribbon? If so MS ain't getting my money. Office 2003 was about as good as it got.
I use 2010 every day at work and have done for over a year and I still can never find functionality when i need it without resorting to a Google search. If they don't deliver what I need soon then I'll get LibreOffice, or one of the other OpenSource office packages. Who the hell needs an "Office" suite that can edit web pages, login to Twatbook, have your babies, and arrange WORLD PEACE. I just want one that will let me write a letter, run a spreadsheet and check my emails.
Better yet brand, tattoo, tax and tag the morons who insist that anyone not like them is wrong.
A great many people stink, some of them it's because of their work and some are just too lazy to wash.
Anonymous Cowards stink too, mostly because they are cowards and smell of their fear is nauseating.
Yes, I would like to propose a "What you talkin' about dog-breath?" icon. Yes, I do know that it's a variation on Colemans catchphrase from "Diff'rent Strokes".
As for what could go, "a divine being" and "the spawn of satan" along with the 3 smileys and "Your foster parents are dead". I agree with the need for Linux, Windows, Apple, and Android fanboi icons as well as changing Paris to Lohan.
I am all for new words and the natural evolution of language but I believe that any addition to the OED should have been in regular use for at least 5 years before inclusion. Omnishambles is just the "word of the year". Nobody will remember it at this time next year. Clusterfuck has been around since the 70s and ranks up there with the 1940's military favourite SNAFU. Words like omnishambles are spawned by management types desperate to sound intelligent when in fact they end up sounding just as stupid as your local yoof wiv 'iz gangspeek init. They think that adding -ise to anything makes it a verb, so to follow their example I would like to propose the word "Mangleise" - to change or invent a word such as to make yourself seem trendy and with it.
would be a better example. The planet that Edward Elmer Smiths "Family D'Alembert" came from. They are all short and stocky and very strong. Not EE's best works but fun nonetheless. His best works are probably "The Galaxy Primes" and the later "Lensman" books.
@Cowslayer, cheer up mate. They might invent warp-drive next week. Then again the Aztec Calendar Doom Merchants may be right and we may all be dead come the 21st December. I'm having a party on the 22nd to celebrate that we didn't all die and that they were all wrong,... AGAIN!
The Fallout series is very good and while it's also an adventure style game it is an FPS. Surely the GTA 3 and later series warrants a mention as many aspects of it are FPS. How many hours have been whiled away sitting on a rooftop with the rocket launcher just mangling the Police choppers and tanks. :-)
The one I enjoyed the most was probably Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny. Compared to what else was around (Commander Keen anyone) it was groundbreaking. Another good one was Shadow Warrior. Basically it was Duke Nukem 3D with a Chinese main character and different taglines like "Ah so, he fall in half"
My top 3 for fun would be;
1- Wolfenstein 3D
2- Fallout 3
3- Duke Nukem 3D
...if you choose to rub your Gentleman Vegetables with a Droid or an iThing or whatever?
Whichever you choose you are still a sad moron who rubs his bits with a piece of plastic/aluminium.
Get a life and get laid, or go climb a mountain or go for a walk.
It really is not that important. It's just a bloody phone with a web browser that can run a few silly programs that you CAN live without.
The main reason why most people have gotten into the habit of waiting for "SP1" is to give the addicts plenty of time to find the bugs and "features" and get them fixed. So, by that time the rest of us can buy knowing that many of the most obvious issues have been resolved.
Personally I would never install a "new" OS on anything that I need to remain productive as you spend too much time trying to find new ways to do what you need to do.
RTM = final Beta release(s). Would it be any different if they called it Gamma or Beta-Final?
This is worse than two stroppy toddlers fighting over who gets the toy.
Do either of these idiot companies realise the damage these lawsuits are doing to their images?
Apple, the designer spoilt brat.
Samsung, the surly uncooperative brat.
I'm thinking it's time to buy HTC again or maybe Asus.
I ditched mine years ago and it was bliss as the telemarketers don't like calling my cell as it costs them money!
However, my better half has decided to to install a phone (I have the line for broadband) but I don't answer it so I don't care too much. It still bugs me a little and I occasionally take the phone from her and just hang up when it's obviously one of "them". She likes to play with them but that just brings in more calls.
All forms of INTRUSIVE advertising should be banned, not just telemarketing. I include door to door canvassing or sales, and all forms of "market research" that is not purely voluntary.
You WILL be assimilated!
Well, that seems to be what MS believe. Personally I avoided Vista at work, although I had a home PC that came with it, so I upgraded straight from XP to Win7 (and Vista to WIn7 at home) because it worked and made my life easier. Win8 looks like making my life more difficult, so MS can whistle if they think I'm spending money on it. If they don't make Win8 or it's successor "IT Dept" useful then I guess it will be a flavour of Linux that we use next.
I have a Win8 install running in VirtualBox and with some tweaks I have managed to solve the screen res issues and now have my Start menu back (thanks Classic Menu) and it's useable. BUT, it's slow, clunky and I seem to spend half my life having to find ways around things. It reminds me of Vista/2008 out-of-the-box security settings. Intrusive and counterproductive. I'm sure some people will buy it and it'll get it's own little user "faction" just like Windows 7 Phone and Palm got, but Android/iOS levels of market penetration? Nah!
The chances of them hitting something by accident is effectively zero. In reality you could probably fly through the most dense part of Saturns rings and and still not hit anything. Hitting something on purpose at that distance is difficult as hell. Around Pluto the matter density is way lower than around Saturn. Space is very VERY big and matter is very VERY small. The whole article is just a "don;t forget about us" or to use Forum parlance they have just been "bumped".
If you don't have enough time in the day, then you either work too long or have too many hobbies. If you work too long then you are either incompetent or just don't want to go home. I suppose there will be a few out there who actually NEED to work long hours but they are few and far between and normally self-employed.
Is there anyone else out there who is sick of this "I work more hours than you do" culture? Personally I'd prefer to hire someone who worked intelligently and went home at 5:30pm.
As for the QR code shop,... I'd rather shop online.
If I were promote the vilification of those who "Believe" would that make me a hate-monger or an anti-hate-monger?
Every time I hear the word "Faith" I feel the need to laugh hysterically. I find it stunning that supposedly intelligent people still wholeheartedly believe in something that in most cases has been proved to be 100% balderdash. I actually feel a little sorry for those who feel that they have to go along with their friends/neighbours/collegues just to fit in with them. I would rather not fit in and die alone than pander to that kind of Us & Them mentality. Don't they realise that it's never been Us & Them. It 's always been Me & Them.
As for the Bible, it's worse than the Qur'an as the Bible has been translated many times by many different people and is most likely the result of the worlds longest game of Chinese Whispers. That said, why anyone would want to live by a set of rules defined 2000 or 1500 years ago is beyond me.
Its the antenna from a buried spy robot from Wolf 359. Now it knows that Mars is infected with life the robots will soon arrive to sterilise the solar system. The first sign we will see will be when Pluto & Charon turn pink. From then on you have mere days left.
Now where to I go to register a Cult?
They will need to be VERY careful not to even inadvertently reveal the persons home or work address. I can't wait for the first case against them for aiding and abetting a crime.
Why does every cellphone/social networking company think they have the right to sell information about us? Keep it up guys and I will chuck the phone and cancel all my 'Social' network subs. Find another way of making money or be prepared to lose lots of customers.
LOHAN should be entirely SI as it's Science. The same should go for any other Scientific articles on The Reg. But, if the article is about exploding Bulgarian Airbags then any appropriate (or even inappropriate) measure is fine. Oh, and ASU (American Standard Units) are not the same as Imperial. Some are the same, some are not.
Me I quite happily work in whatever units are needed. If I need to convert, I convert. It's kinda like the EU where lots of different languages just makes it more interesting. Efficiency is VASTLY overrated.
As for NASA, well they measure everything based on the width of 2 horses arses. <LOL>
Tracking is just the latest bandwagon that advertisers have leapt on.
There will be another one along as soon as they realise that MS are not going to back down.
For the first time in ages I am tempted to go back to using IE.
Although that will mean Windows 8,...... hmmm, maybe not.
Some of our staff decided to upgrade to iOS6 on the day of release (muppets!)
The iPads subsequently couldn't connect to our corporate WiFi.
It seems that iOS6 has a bug (a big one from the sound of it).
I fixed the problem temporarily by installing earlier firmware in our WiFi Access Point.
When Apple release the fix I can bring the Access Point back up to date.
Looks to me like an issue with encryption and WMM.
Finally, I STRONGLY advised the muppets to wait a few weeks before installing brand new software in future.
Do I think they'll remember? <LOL>
The first 2 lines of the WhackoJacko song seem kind of appropriate too. <LOL>
It seems to me that there have been a whole passel of clusterfucks right across the board along with some peddling of political influence done by individuals and governments. The vast selection of crimes committed by certain government officials of New Zealand will become a long drawn out affair on the level of our very own Leveson Enquiry and Operation Weeting.
Maybe Dotcom is a crook, maybe he isn't, but either way his rights got trampled on like an empty beer can at a rock festival, and in the process thousands if not millions of people lost access to their personal data (some legal, some not).
Just stick the damn phone in a biscuit tin full of acoustic wadding when ya go to bed or don't want anyone listening in.
It'll struggle to hear you and won't be able to get a signal.
Better yet, just refuse to buy any phone that has this feature.
The manufacturers will soon get the message.,
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