Posts by Andy Tunnah

Judge slaps Fasthosts for rubbish kit and support

@@@Not much compensation

you sire, should learn to pick up when someone is joking..

Japan runs out of Xbox 360s

not exactly a wii situation

its a lil different than the wii situation, because in the UK eeeeverybody wanted one; stock was sold out because altho there were tens of thousands being sent here, demand was outstripping stock 5-1 easily (i got offered £300 for mine but that look my nephew gives me when hes disappointed could make birds fall out of the sky so passed it up)

so in JP all they've done is underestimated it by a few thousand

and good for 'em! the more consoles out there, the more competition, the more ppl are gonna work hard to create better games and better products

i don't know about you guys but i'm a GAME fanboy and all this favourtism etc. well..its a tad pathetic :x

Goldfish customers sent wrong bills

@Gordon - get a life!

its people like you who are causing this society to end up like the litigious shithole that is now the USA

why should anyone get 10% off their bill simply for having the wrong one sent to them ? did it cost em that much ? does it warrant that much personal damages ?

meh really gets my back up these sort of statements

Ubisoft pirates game fix from pirates

give em a job!

its been long established that DEViANCE/RELOADED crackers are some of the most talented coders around; these guys work tirelessly on stuff like this (and not just the illegal stuff)

give em a job :p

Congress still afraid to define 'internet gambling'

MY HAT MY HAT I CAN'T FIND MY TIN FOIL HAT!

i read el reg every day and barely a day goes by where i read a story and there's some random comment about some sort of conspiracy theory behind the post. And 99% of the time i scoff at it and think "get a life"

but my god does this whole thing sound shifty; the US passes this law which basically cripples the internet gambling business, while boosting the flagging real life gambling industry, and now they're dragging their feet on defining it..

...i'll leave the coat, i know one of you bugged it :p

Enraged devil dog lover locks on to Reg photo team

meh!

altho the guy is well and truly worthy of wearing the FoTW badge, i just have to stick up for the poor lil bastards being slandered

the problem with staffies is the origins for which they come from. just like any dog, they can be vicious and switch if not treated right, but because they're a very tough dog, when they do switch they tend to cause a lot more damage

but also because they're tough, ppl think they'd make great show-of-force dogs, or guard dogs (they're SHIT guard dogs, too inquisitive, terrier nature) and its these ppl who are raising em wrong and raising them to be vicious

you check the stats for dog attack instances per breed over the last 20 years and staffies have only been rising since mid 90s or so when the prices dropped of pups (they used to be like 800, now can be 150) and they became another chavcessory that it started to rise

i have a staff and shes the sweetest dog in the world, and i've had 4 before her and never once have they gone for anyone, and when i play or fight with them they have an amazing ability to attack, pin, and subdue you without ever breaking the skin (very funny party piece btw)

we should just ban chavs from owning dogs and it will be fine :D

Grand Theft Auto IV misses week one million sales mark

wonder what would have happened if supply met demand ?

altho these figures are impressive, imagine how many would of been sold if there was actually enough copies to go around ?

not only was it sold out in every shop i went to, i even heard of some ppl who pre-oredered it not being able to get it because not enough copies were sent

where i work there's about 50 or so ppl waiting for retock so they can buy it

so i reckon that figure is only about 75-85% of the actual figure if the stock was available

Spyware targets frustrated GTA IV gamers

you think not getting it today is bad ?

i ordered it last week along with the console and have been told its not getting here or not getting posted til friday

STATUS

Preordered - Due for release: 02/05/2008

was hoping it was some sort of typo or something and got up early this morning to no avail

so booked friday off from work now hoping it'll come in then

Grand Theft Auto IV leaked online

this won't dint sales

i can't see this really dinting sales in the slightest - i've ordered the game and am waiting for it to come on tuesday but still go round my mates to play it on his, who has also ordered it

i know about 50-100 ppl with flashed xboxs and all of em have downloaded it but all of em are buying it at some point or another

its just one of those games ppl wanna own

Teachers crucified by coughing pupils

o god the good ol' days

as i'm only 23 my days in school were kind of inbetween the lack of violence towards pupils but the threat of it was still there - you were still convinced some of the meaner looking teachers would give you a clip (and some did but we deserved it)

my fave instance of all was in french, we had this beautiful teacher, mustn't of been older than 25 or so

so about 10 of us sang "loving you" to her, with this perticular weedy kid hitting the high note at the end, had her red as a berry each time :D

most annoying thing we ever did was prolly killing the power in the shop class - we had 3 cut offs spread around the class so when teacher was on one end we'd trip one, so he'd reset it and nobody would admit it, start up again - and someone else would do it

would conitnue til one day he went ape shit and started screaming at us all, calling us little bastards who have no respect haha

Mesh Ultimate Q8 Tri-SLI gaming PC

is it me or is this a bit..poop ?

lets do a lil tinkering..

2x800GT's

2x74gig Raptors, striped

keep CPU RAM optical drive and HD

swap screen for a 30" or at least a 27"

i bet it'd come in cheaper :P

when i get home i'm definately pricing it up

system just seems like a bit of a waste of money; you're paying more for bragging rights than performance as tri-SLI isn't that much of a bump over SLI, especially for the price premium of a 3rd GTX card (what are they, like 250-300 quid ?)

plus i bet your leccy bill would go up a fair bit ;)

BitMicro gives 1.6TB SSDs some SCSI lovin'

pedanitcness abound in this post..

get <i>to</i> da choppa!

..i'll get me coat

used to share a house with a german student who did the greatest impression of that

PH because ppl like her about as much as they like ppl who correct quotes that eeeeeveryone is fully aware of :D

Nexsan gives 42TB array a make-over for picky Apple fans

@wim

guess the "apple design approved" version avoids the heat because it is just sooo cool.

ahahahaha sorry but that made me laugh out loud :D

its just so...beautiful

not the apple-fied asthetic change to appeal to macboys, but the abundance of hard drives dipped in it..i wanty!

one thing tho, it doesn't look like it has much room for air flow - how hot does the mofo get ? i mean obviously they've sorted a heat issue out they're not that stupid, its just me who is..what takes care of the heat issue ?

Samsung shows very skinny telly

haha@"reviewer"

poor girl kept falling over her words like she wasn't sure what to say

as for the tv, meh, its good looking and everything but what exactly is the point in the tv being this thin ? it doesn't serve any extra purpose over the already waifovisions out atm

Tesco to start flogging Dell computers

i'll buy one when..

..they make decent systems with decent parts that are close to worth what they charge

dell *spits* scum of the earth :p

PS3 overtakes Wii in Japan

supply/demand ?

could this have anything to do with the fact that there aren't enough wiis on the market to be bought ? as can be seen in the news recently there's been a massive shortage of em so maybe japan has a shortage too, therefore not enough to sell to beat the other consoles =)

UK gov advisor proposes 'licence to smoke'

so all in all..

..what he basically says is that he has this idea but it wouldn't work coz it has so many potential holes in it..

slow news day methinks ;)

in all seriousness tho this is such a stupid idea, within 5s of it being announced you'd have 20 million ppl waving that poxy human rights bollocks over their heads going "o noes you're restricting me for my own good, give me money or i'll cry!!"

International manhunt tracks pedophile suspect to Thailand

Title

i dont think they're randomly going off the picture - they've collected information from so many ppl

plus there's the facts surrounding this guys appearance in thailand - he was teaching english in south korea and "fled" to thailand

hopefully he wasn't teaching school kids o_O

Bloke buys supercar 'without proper consent from the wife'

definitions..

..you all suck at em ;)

supercar's aren't *strictly* defined in the normal sense

the skyline is a supercar in my eyes, and a lot of ppl's eyes really...its extremely fast, AMAZING handling, looks beautiful..

the skyline is one of my all time fave cars..and if you wanna see a real supercar check out the z-tune skyline (google to the rescue)

o and whoever said veyron..thats a hypercar by everyone's standards :D

Connoisseurs go mad for £1,000 ham

i wanty!

i'd love to try some of this but think of the price of the sandwich..

..you're not exactly gonna bang it between 2 pieces of warbys and bang some hellmanns on it are you ?

so ad another few hundred quid for equally extravagent sandwich requisites :D

and haha@chris taylor, well said mate, what is it with every story of some luxury item you got some sad git whinging on how wrong it is

Toshiba to tempt Matrix buffs with freebie HD DVD player

what to do if you miss the comp..

..just get a refund ? :P

i liked the sequels, ppl are just being pathetic when they say they are a travesty etc.

were they as ground breaking as the first ? no

were they as good ? no

but that doesn't make em less entertaining than an old man's fart caught on tape

they were great films, great action scenes and enjoyable films

UK Gambling Act is now in force

ahahahaha

they have won a war..against PHUN

London man coughs to 172mph Porsche jaunt

blah blah

yeah he could of killed someone

he could of driven into an orphanage and killed hundreds of children

he could of hit a church and killed some NUNS

but he didn't

so there :P

US customs bust coke-smuggling 'submarine'

prices

"pay over 18 grand an ounce for their coke(in the US!) - someone should tell them they're being ripped off..."

thats for a kilo

Yes something seriously awry with their figures. 32 metric tons - or about 1.29 million ounces. Lets see... even at a <cough> street price of $100 (no way!) per ounce that's still only $129m. Where do they get $2.2bn?

its about $1200/oz for pure

Deceased Malayan hit with $218 trillion mobile bill

a theory on how it was done..

right roll with me here

he's dead yeah..died of old age so we're gonna assume he was a good guy so he went to heaven

they say in heaven all you have to do is think of something and its done

...he thinks about cloning his phone for all his new ghostie buddies

clones it for nearly everyone in heaven, they all have a bash at calling each other, voila, 727 billion hours of call time used in a few hours =)

Muffy Mount voted ultimate 'nom de sex'

best porno cover eva

i love the cowboy in the background!

classic work fellas =)

Suit blows £105k in London bar

about the prices..

if you think about it, if you're gonna spend a hundred grand on booze

a) service charge isn't gonna bother you

b) you clearly have over £50, prolly £100 million in CASH to play around with

c) they did it purely because they could and wouldn't have needed to do it to have people around them because this type of person doesn't travel alone ha

hedonismbot would be proud

Paris Hilton dereassigned back to jail

she was in serious danger and deserved to get out early, this is an outrage!

if you ppl could stop slagging off this poor downtrodden girl for a few minutes and do some investigating, you will find out the medical reason for which she was released and maybe you would give a little consideration!

'paris' friend said "its so cruel what has happened to her. she wasn't allowed to wax or use moisteriser..her skin is so dry right now!"

DRY SKIN PEOPLE! DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS CAN DO TO A YOUNG RETARDED BLONDE'S MENTAL STATE?!

you people make me SICK! now as punishment you must all go buy her CD and listen to it

SME sector to 'explode with blades': IBM

another theory on why

some reasoning behind the increasing usage of blade servers could be because, speed/power wise we've hit the ceiling and now need to start expanding sideways; no longer is 1 powerhouse chip enough, and they can't get much "faster" so some companies are turning to the solution of more is better