Posts by Big_Boomer 1158 publicly visible posts • joined 18 May 2007
All races will be shown on the BBC.
Some will not be live, some will only be the highlights.
You just have to WAIT a few hours.
If you can't wait then I guess Murdoch has your balls in a vice. <LOL>
I already have Sky+HD and I most probably won't be watching it on Sky F1 unless it's massively better than the BBC. I already see too many advertisements and have no intentions of watching more.
Raise the penalty for anyone found to have been texting or emailing whilst driving to Reckless Endangerment. Also allow anyone injured in any accident caused by the texter to sue the texter (NOT their insurance company) for compensation. After a few people lose their car the rest may start to think "is this worth the risk?"
Nah, who am I kidding, as with all such things the only real solution is the FINAL solution.
Carbon, the WONDER-ELEMENT!
Just Carbon all on it's own is a remarkable element, even before you consider what it can do with other elements.
We have Diamond the Hard, Graphite the Slippery, Buckminster-Fullerene the Globular and it's extended Nanotubes, and now Graphene the Super-Conductor / Semi-Conductor / Alcohol Concentrator.
Not only that but someone at El Reg does seem to be in love with you Carbon. ;-)
What Google need to do is rename their service in France to "Googlé", make sure that Le Président de Googlé is a prominent Frenchperson, and finally start doing designer "Googlé" headers on their search page commemorating Charles de Gaulle, Brigitte Bardot, Louis de Funès and other famous Frenchpersons.
Others could follow suit with Mozilla FeuRenard, Microdouce Bureau 2010, and of course the French almost certainly already love the stylish designer products of Pomme. ;-)
until Amazon release the KinFart to the world market.
I'm no Fanboi but there is no point comparing market for the iPap to the KinFart when nobody outside the USA can get one.
I'd love an iPap but they are over priced.
The KinFart is the right price (although here it probably won't be) but is not here.
The Andrug devices are so varied that it's difficult to decide which one to buy and which is decent value. So far I am leaning towards the Asus but if the KinFart had been released here they would probably already have won.
At work I use Office 2010. At home I use 2003.
Personally I would rather stick with 2003 as I find the ribbon just gets in the way and takes up far too much screen.
2003 already had too much functionality. Who on earth is asking for more functionality from 2013?
I can see more and more businesses going to Open Source alternatives as they all start to realise that the Open Source apps on their iPoop or Andrug phones are just as capable as Office at doing everyday tasks. 10 years ago there was only the PC. These days people are MUCH more aware that there are alternatives.
We'll all be dead before they manage to prove it one way or the other.
Climate Change happens. It has happened since the planet first realised it had a climate.
The causes are varied, complex and constantly changing.
What the "Scientists", as usual, are failing to state is that they don't know.
They "believe" but can't prove but are adamant about their beliefs.
And these are the same people who deride the "Creationists"? <LOL>
Nah, I'd worry more about the cameras that seem to festoon these things.
They are probably the heaviest part of the assembly and at 500Mph would go through a plane windscreen like a bullet.
However, you have to be unbelievably unlucky to have that happen.
Yer far more likely to run into an alien spcaecraft. <LOL>
The engine would eat one of those balloons and spit out burnt shards, without really noticing.
You'd be amazed where Newts can get to and they are very difficult to get anything to stick to due to their ability to wriggle out of most situations.
Also remember that he will be up against a negro incumbent and that this is the USA, otherwise known as the country with the worlds highest concentration of Christian Fundamentalists.
People outside the US will be hoping that Obama will get re-elected, but inside the US they seem to be hankering to put another dribbling moron in the White House.
Thats what you get for using "free" software.
One way or another, you will pay for it.
TANSTAAFL
If you don't want to be identified then don't sign up. Simples! ;-)
Remember that there are BILLIONS of people out there who are NOT on GooBook and many of them have fulfilling and meaningful lives.
You have got to be kidding!
I have yet to meet a CIO who knew the difference between an IP address and a MAC address.
These people are managers and are invariably pulled from non-tech streams to manage techies as most organisations are scared of the idea of tech capable managers.
and it is getting cheaper and cheaper. Soon you will be able to buy a box for £200 that does it all.
I know a company that sells very solid filtering systems to schools and colleges as schools/colleges are already aware of the need to control access via their networks, especially w.r.t. mobile devices via WiFi.
These systems actively block external proxy servers and most of the other methods that todays canny Teens find to circumvent many web filters. Websites are categorised and allowed/blocked according to their category. The SysAds can allow normally blocked sites and vice-versa but most are pretty happy with the standard categorisations. Not only that but if someone goes to a new/unknown website, it is blocked by default, but it also sends a message to the software developers and that site is then visited and categorised by a robot, and occasionally by a human.
While I can see the need to filter what kids get access to there is still the question of what the cut off age is or do you go for a phased approach. Legally at 18 years old, you can only restrict access on a network that you own.
is a stopgap, nothing more. We need it to tide us over whilst we get Fusion working reliably and safely. That said, personally I would rather have a Fission reactor next door than a Fusion reactor. One is a contained (and massively slowed down) atomic bomb, the other is a contained HYDROGEN bomb. :-)
Coal, Oil & Gas (even fracked methane) are all cheap but are CO2 producers on a massive scale.
Renewables have to be subsidised even more than the French subsidise their Nuke industry.
So, everybody has a choice. Either we go Nuclear (Fission, then Fusion) or else stop having babies! Give a woman those 2 choices and see which way she votes?
but iWill take this opportunity to state that iShall never buy an Apple product, will do everything iCan to avoid using any of their software, and will jump on every chance to diss their products and denigrate the people who do buy them.
So, iApple can iKiss my iBig iFat iArse
Not that anyone gives an iRats iArse what iThink. ;-)
They will start screaming about Communist water and invade Canada to give themselves a buffer against the onslaught of the Red Tide.
The North Atlantic Conveyor (Gulf Stream) will be most affected by the Greenland melt.
It won't "shut down" but may well move further south leaving the UK feeling more like Norway in terms of climate.
The computer is winning and the sooner the better.
Humans are in general pretty crap drivers. Our reflexes are slow, we cannot concentrate for more than a few seconds and we simply don't care enough to pay attention to what we are doing.
So, the obvious solution is to take the human out of the equation completely. Even if all the computers crashed every day it would still be a safer/faster/smoother/more economical/more environmentally friendly way of getting about.
I ride motorcycles and whilst I would hate to not be able to ride on the roads any more I would willingly exchange that for the ability to not get cut up every damned day by some dipshit who can't seem to understand that driving is a SKILL, not a right, and that skill needs to be maintained and practiced.
So, in the automotive world I say bring on our Digital Masters so I can sell my road bike and buy a trackday loony machine. :D
Who cares if it's an iDroid, Symdows or PalmRIM.
It's a ****ing smartphone.
You don't have to defend it like your daughters virginity!
Did you buy the phone to join that particular "Gang"?
Then you really REALLY need a life.
I bought mine to make calls, listen to music and surf the web.
My last phone was Symbian, current phone is Android, next may well be Apple or Windows.
Just because you bought a particular "brand" doesn't mean you have to defend it against all comers, doesn't make you a "superior being", and definately has no effect on the size of your Member or your attractiveness to the opposite sex.
STOP BELIEVING WHAT THE MARKETING PEOPLE ARE TELLING YOU! THEY ARE ALL LIARS!
I would love to buy 2 seats but I AM NOT ALLOWED TO!
All airlines flying out of the UK require a passport number for each seat.
I only have one passport, so can only book one seat.
I have always tried my damndest to not infringe on other peoples space but at 6'4" and 360lbs it's not easy in a seat designed for a 5' tall size zero waif. Yes I could diet but the width of my shoulders and my height would not change much so I would still struggle to fit.
My solution is to avoid flying if at all possible as I don't want to pay to be uncomfortable, bored and stuck in a stinky tin-can full of selfish arseholes.
I am all for this, but have no desire to buy a BMW or a Porche (intentional mis-spelling!)
I used to drive a Vauxhall Carlton which was comfy. I was given a Corsa courtesy car once during a service, and you didn't sit in the seat, rather on it. Every time I went round a bend I damned near ended up sitting on the handbrake.
I'm also 6'4" so can hardly get in and out of my partners Focus and with the seat all the way back my knees are still jammed against the dash on the passenger side.
I have very broad shoulders (and size 15 feet) so my choice of car is very limited.
So, I drive a fat lardy old Honda Legend which only does 20Mpg.
That said, the cost of replacing it just isn't worth the effort so I will drive it until it dies.
And to all the scrawny midgets out there,... yer just jealous! <LOL>
You are more likely to die from being hit by a Duck Billed Platypus driving a Monster Truck than from a Comet strike.
As for the stupidity of the "Internet", myself and some friends formulated a theory one night after a few beers. We believe that intelligence is inversely proportional to the number of people in close proximity.
So, 2 people with an IQ of 150 would have a combined IQ of 75.
3 people would be a combined IQ of 50.
You can just imagine (and experience) the combined IQ of a football stadium or an "Internet".
My Dad & Sister live abroad in the EU and both regularly have to ask me to buy something for them because the narrow minded UK company won't ship abroad. Yet I managed to buy motorcycle boots from a company in Germany and they even have their site in German, English and French. They have better service than any of the British companies I contacted at the time and they were cheaper even once you added in the extra shipping.
Growing up abroad I speak a few languages so I am used to navigating sites in French, Dutch or German, even Italian occasionally, but prefer to use English.
The only country more narrow minded w.r.t. languages are the French. Quelle surprise! ;)
Well, if you want business from people in the EU, you will need to display your wares in their language as many of them don't speak yours. You will also have to be willing to ship abroad and accept credit cards from abroad.
Finally someone else speaks out against the iPoop.
Overpriced, underspecified, designer rubbish for the terminally gullible.
You will overpay for the phone, overpay for your airtime contract, and overpay for any apps.
When it was new it was a revelation w.r.t. having a moderately well designed user interface.
But now,...it's outclassed by almost everyone.
At the moment the best time to go shopping is "Prime Time" or as I like to call it "Sheep Time".
Anytime between 7pm and 10pm on a weekday the supermarket is pretty empty and almost totally devoid of trolley zombies. On the vague off chance that I might miss something interesting, I just record it.
As for the TrolliPad it'll never happen but just in case I claim Copyright on that name. ;-)
It just goes to show how far up there you have to be to be an iPoop owner.
Mmmmm, SHINY SHINY PRECIOUS!
Gullible, Sheeplike dedicated follower of fashion more like.
Same people who buy Audi and BMW and they don't know how to drive those either.
Do these people know that we mutter "Tosser" at their backs? <LOL>
blowing right to left. The wind is picking up a darker material and causing the marks. It's obvious as the marks are narrow on the right and wider on the left. Wind is blowing the material through crevices. Probably a seasonal wind, hence the seasonal variations.
Bloody scientists are so wrapped up in their ivory towers they've never seen the world around them.
You just need to account for the very thin atmosphere and low gravity and they look quite natural.
After a particularly bad commute on my motorcycle on the M25, I turn to GTA4 to relieve my stresses.
After 45 or so minutes of mayhem I am much more relaxed having taken a virtual revenge on the 40 or so people who today tried (mostly due to idiocy, but a few deliberately) to knock me off my bike.
I am not a violent person by nature and although I may look scary at times (6'4" biker) I am the quintessential gentle giant.
I have to agree with Carmack. I think that loonies play the games and then try to act them out in the real world. How long do you reckon it will be before that Norwegian nutcase tries to blame computer games?
abolish the BBC and leave us with 100's of channels of endless repeats of mindless vampire "dramas" and similar shite. I'm sorry you don't like the BBC a great many of us do. We hate having to sit through endless adverts, we hate the "lowest common denominator" targeting that most TV shows are now made for, and we hate being told what to think, or in many cases not to think. If you don't like it, don't watch it. If you don't want to pay for it, move abroad! I've lived all over the world and there is NOWHERE that has TV as good as the UK and its because of the BBC.
As for climate change, its been changing for billions of years and will keep on changing for billions of years. It doesn't care if homo-sapiens wipes itself out or if an asteroid/super-volcano/aliens/disease wipes us out,..... or not. The climate will change. Undoubtedly some of the recent change is man made, some may be due to the likely Maunder minimum we will shortly be dealing with, some may be due to spontaneous methane releases from methane hydrate deposits in the oceans. These all or nothing merchants are only trying to drum up more funding for their research. Otherwise they'd shut up and just do the research.
Olympus Mons is a little bit bigger than Everest.
Everest = 88xx metres above sea level, which is 10,971 metres above the lowest point.
Olympus Mons = 21,229 metres above the average and nearly 30,000 metres above the lowest point. The ring wall on the crater of Olympus Mons is nearly 8,000 metres tall.
As for why, well the Chinese only conquered Tibet so they could lay claim to half of the tallest mountain in the world and now they need to justify the huge investment for what is mostly a high desert and bare rock. If they argue about it in a diplomatic exchange then it must be worth arguing about. (Diplomacy = circular logic)
LOHAN is too low brow, beside which most of the team would probably end up in pokey after refusing to attend the Betty Ford clinic.
Personally, I believe it should be an evolutionary name.
PARIS SSC? (Plastic Aircraft Released In Space Surely Some Cockup?)
PARIS TNG (Plastic Aircraft Released In Space The Naughty Generation)
PARIS The Quickening
Ok,,, I'll get my coat!
Well as I see it the insurance has a choice.
They can either start treating people fairly, or they can get regulated to treat people fairly.
Since they seem to do such a bad job of treating people fairly, the regulation is starting.
It will get a LOT worse and not before time.
Undoubtedly they will use this as yet another excuse to make even more money, and to avoid reporting much of it using their usual convoluted (but legal) accounting practices.
Everyone should look forwards to their insurance bills going up again, but then again they always do don't they. Every year, yet another above inflation increase.
How else will we be able to download SUHD (Super-Ultra-High-Definition) 3D porn movies to store on our 1000Tb USB12 external drive, to later view on our 200" LED wipe clean wallpaper screens.
Why only 200" screen you ask? Well, that's the size of the biggest wall in my living room. ;-)
..... more of my hard earned taxes pissed away by a bunch of incompetent chair shining waste of space government employees. Sooner or later they are going to have to start either employing competent people, or else we will have to consider having our very own "Arab Spring".
Still, I guess a lot of Consultants got paid well for advice that was ignored by their management as usual. I have never understood why they even bother hiring consultants in the first place if they already know more about IT than the consultants do.
I calls all those "budget" airlines together under the category "Conair".
If traveling for business I will search for an alternative rather than use any of them.
For personal travel I would rather drive for 8hrs than sit in a Conair cabin for 2hr.
However, we are to blame. Yes that includes YOU!
The British have developed the culture of the "Bargain".
What this means is that something is sold for £100 for 2 days and then "discounted" to £50.
Womens shoe shops and most furniture retailers are masters of this kind of con.
In reality, if you pay cheap, you get cheap.
So, if you want less hassle, less chance of getting ripped off, and a decent product, then always avoid the cheapest item. It's usually cheap because it's crap!
I fly AirBerlin and am impressed with no-fuss websites, no add-ons, useful flights, clean aircraft and mostly punctual flights.
Cheapest? No.
Best value? Definately.
Paris because she NEVER shops at "bargain" shoe shops!
I have always hated those parts in games where they throw an almost impossible challenge at you and the only way to get past it is to save the game, die 60 times whilst figuring out the exact steps to get through it, and then finally progress to the next level/room/plane of existence.
The early games did it as a demarcation point with their "Boss" levels but we have moved on a little since the awesome (at the time) Wolfenstein 3D.
The only games I have enjoyed in the last 2 years were Fallout3 & NV, and GTA4.
I am bored of online Deathmatches and I find the Muds (WoW, etc) difficult as I am only an occasional game player and so cannot get involved in a protracted campaign with others.
One of the better games of previous years was Prey.
It had challenges that could be solved with some thought, had action, had a storyline that was mildly creative, and had that addictive "I'll just play one more level" feel.
The first F.E.A.R. was bloody scary but the gameplay wasn't all that.
It was good enough for me to buy the 1st expansion pack but nothing since.
Come on games designers & developers. Stop acting like Hollywood producers with their endless rehashes of the same old shite and try something a little off the wall. Yes, you may make a PoP (Pile of Poop) but you may also create a GTA3 or a Duke Nukem 3D.
A PC game needs to be original, entertaining, and involving.
If you can't provide these then you need to look at working in another industry.
Both Apple and Samsung should hand over their products to a neutral assessor who then decides and documents the similarities and differences.
That way neither of them gain any advantage.
If the assessor later uses any info gained then they get to be locked up with Big "Bubba" Smith, the rectal scourge of the US gaol system.
What, but then Apple wouldn't be able to either iPad their pockets with Samsung money (if Samsung have been naughty) or gain a tech advantage over Samsung (same money but now flows directly to Apple rather than via Samsung.
Ahh the joys of a "Patent" system that lets you patent stuff that should be copyrighted instead. <LOL>
So, there are all these 8 year olds wondering why all the words that they hear every day at school, and frequently from their parents, are nearly never heard on TV, unless it's from one of Dad's badly acted naked people videos that he keeps in that box on top of his wardrobe.
Censors are all backwards stnuc.
MS are king. Apple is king, Linux is King,......
Jeez people, they are just operating systems and you lot are acting like these are your babies.
Then again, for many of you the only experience of sex you will ever have is with your computers. ;-)
Just remember, whichever OS camp you are in, what goes up MUST come down and NOTHING lasts forever.
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