Posts by CmdrX3

Apple vs Bank of China in iPad Shanghai showdown

Re: Hmm

No it's not really up to one Proview unit to sue the other. If my son sells my car without my permission to someone, and I say "oiii hang on a sec, that's my car, he didn't have permission to sell it... I want it back". I don't sue my son, I get the police to return my car and it's up to the purchaser of the car to sue my son for his money back. Obviously things are a little more complicated than that and that's a very basic analogy.

Personally though as regards to Proview and Apple, I could care less either way. I don't plan on buying an iPad so whether they are available or not affects me not one jot.

Obama pushes 'bill of rights' for punters' privates

Why bother, the man has been the most ineffectual President the US has seen in a while, probably on a par with Carter. Once you get past being the first black US President and getting Bin Laden (although he probably had little to do with that other than giving the go ahead) what have you left. Gitmo is still operational, the banks still got their money and no accountability for it, the Health Care bill was so watered down and concessioned to death that it's practically useless. Quite frankly his rally cry for his next campaign should be "No we didn't".

Sadly, the US is now likely to get some Republican lunatic (probably Mitt Romney) as the next President, although to be fair he seems to be a good bit less loony than Bush, Boener, Palin, McCain or indeed 75% of the other GOP representatives.

MP allegedly cuffed after scrap in Commons bar

If there is any justice

He should get away with a fine....... of £1M

Microsoft denies report of Office coming to iPad

...and of course as we all know, Rupert Murdochs publications both online and in print are a wealth of truth and honesty.

LOHAN's flying truss: One orb or two?

Sidewinder missile style (except vertical)

What about one single balloon in the centre of the platform with the avionics and camera where they are. At the tip of the platform a vertical launch guide rail and at the opposite tip a counterbalance. Not sure of the width of a fully inflated balloon but even so, placed at the tip of the platform it would allow the launch trajectory to be reduced and more vertical.

Virgin boss victorious in .xxx Branson pickle

Yes you could, if you had applied for it. There would also be absolutely nothing RB could do about it. As it would be your own name and you genuinely made porn movies, then the name would not have been registered in bad faith. It's more than likely RB would have had to just suck it up (so to speak)

LOHAN flashes fantastical flying truss

In regards to horizontal stability

As you are already putting some electronics in there, would it be a big problem adding a tilt sensor connected to a small motor that could move a counterweight back and forward along underneath the length of the platform. I don't really know how much extra weight or power that would require, but it's couldn't be that much

Brazilians unveil Microsoft SkyDrive's secret – revealing pics

Re: @ The Reg...

The trouble with that logic is that everyone also calls the TV channel ITV already anyway. Even here in NI where it's actually called UTV people still call it ITV. There's also this..

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/televisions/itv-warns-apple-off-itv-name-50006932/

Pirate Bay AND its users violate labels' copyright - judge

Re: Buy your media secondhand

Which is fine for for most things except PC Games which are usually tied to specific accounts now, so I'm stuck with several copies of Bad company 2 which I played for a week and 2 copies of Black Ops which to this day don't work right.

Chinese woman sparks net craze with virgin website

I'm not surprised she's managed to stay a virgin, she's a fecking moose

Proview fears fanbois will derail iPad export ban bid

Re: Here's a thought

Because if they did that an iPad would cost £1999.99 because of the higher wages and they wouldn't have ANY customers for it. Just because it's a US company with US customers doesn't mean they should manufacture them there or any less American because of it. If companies like Toyota, BMW, Sony and the tens of thousands of other non US companies all took the same kind of xenophobic views on manufacturing as you suggest American companies take, the US would be in a hell of a lot worse state than it is now

Apple CEO defends fixes to suppliers' working conditions

No Toga party??

What a fighting tightass!!!

Troubled Game wins reprieve on debt, mulls axing more stores

I would agree on the stores. We have six Game stores within 2 miles of my home, and ten stores within 12 miles. Too many pointless stores creating too many extra costs.

They should investing more in their own online downloads service.

40,000 Apple fanbois demand ethical iPhone 5

@BillG

I hate to burst your bubble but in general Western society just doesn't care, as long as they get cheaply manufactured goodies of every description, it doesn't stop at Apple and their iPhone users. The average bloke or blokette that walks into their local phone shop or electrical supplier just wants to buy their gadge at the lowest possible price. They couldn't give two monkeys whether their kit was put together by a half starved low paid chinese work slave or by a 9 year old child working 12 hour shifts.... as long as they can get it for £20 cheaper, the conscience generally remains at home. Am I one of those people, yes sadly I am, and I don't have a bit of Apple kit to my name.

TripAdvisor: OK, not all our reviews are trustworthy or real

Exactly right, if 20 out of 30 people say the food is nice, 5 say it's bloody fantastic and 5 say it's absolutely horrible, I tend to assume that 5 people are very easily pleased, just happened to really enjoy the food, or the owner and his family posted reviews. I would also assume that 5 people got really unlucky the night they visited or just tried the wrong food, or that they the kind of people that nothing would please them. In the above example, I would go with the consensus and be willing to try it out.

I have left several reviews on trip advisor myself, so I know there are definitely genuine reviews, and probably many (if not most) of them are genuine reviews, but as said any review sites should only be used to AID in a decision about something and not the definitive truth about something.

Newt Gingrich wants Moon to be 51st US state

I'm sure it could be done

While I think its certainly possible I think its highly unlikely. I'm sure there were many who thought it was a bit of a loony idea when JFK made the moon challenge but with determination, the will and lots and lots of money they succeeded. However, in this case it's nothing more than vote catching from a creepy old politician desperate for a bit of power. Shame really as its the sort of thing we really need to happen to progress space exploration further.

Congress puts PIPA and SOPA on back burner

Fairly compensated!!

I'm all for them being fairly compensated for their work, but miners in the high deserts of Nevada (or practically anyone else who works for a living) doesn't still expect to be getting paid for the work they did 40 years ago.

'Space Monkey' craze: Texan students 'get high' by choking each other

Done this in the 80's and I'm sure others did it long before that. Every new generation thinks they are the first to do something that most generations before them have already done. E.g Today they sniff aerosols, in my day it was glue, lighter fluid and petrol, in my great grandfathers day it was probably something like ether.

More Brits desert high streets to spend £50bn online

The trouble with your steel box idea though is that unless you have a camera recording what is going on it's too easy to abuse. If you have two deliveries for example, what's to stop the second driver from nicking your first package and blaming the original driver, or for them to use the code then not put the parcel in the box. They simply need to say they delivered it and the customer is trying it on. Now I'm stop saying delivery drivers are thieves, as I used to be one myself and like in any other job they are normal honest people, but also like any other job there is always a few bad apples.

Virgin Media broadband goes titsup for 3 hours

I agree. I didn't actually notice any downtime, but there was definitely big problems outside of those times. I was having trouble connecting to quite a few websites at 3.45pm.

Seagate mulls flogging precious drives at auction

You are probably wise to keep them. At the moment I have a hard drive that may not be too far from failing, so I've pulled out a few older smaller capacity HD's. they are like little lifeboats at this point in time. Prices do seem to be dropping a bit though now but it seems to be mainly the slower 5400RPM drives.

India threatens to block Google, Facebook and chums

Democracy in action... I'd say hypocrisy in action

It's perfectly acceptable for millions in the country to live in squalor many of them without any form of education, clean water or electricity but post a faked naked picture of the idiots that continue to allow them to live in those conditions whilst partaking in the delights of the widespread corruption and suddenly their sensibilities need protected.

Vauxhall prices up Ampera e-car for Blighty

Optional Extras....

Interior trim that doesn't fall off if you touch it too hard and a horn that still works when you turn the lights on.

Gartner: Ultrabooks aren't tickling anyone's fancy

Well for a start...

It would make all those I'm a Mac, I'm a PC ads look a bit stupid and pointless (even though they were anyway). On top of that you have a shed load of Apple users who would rather have their toenails pulled out with a pair of pliers rather than admit to owning a "PC" when in actual fact what they own is a "Mac" or a "Macbook" or an "Air", etc and what they most definitely don't have is a "PC". Basically it's just something that's stuck over the years and to be honest it works perfectly well. you either have a PC which can run Windows, Linux, OSX and god knows what else and you have an [Insert Apple band name here] which can run OSX, Windows and I don't know what else as I don't have or want one.

Doomsday Clock ticks one minute closer to annihilation

Most are not "deniers" they are sceptics, there is a big difference. I have also heard the climate research fundraisers equate "climate change deniers" to Nazis. When I see such a propaganda machine in effect, it makes me doubt the message they have to spread. As the saying goes... the bigger the lie the more people will believe it.

Xbox 720 and PS4 on show at E3 2012

Shortcutting...seriously, are you taking the piss or what. You do realise that the XBox 360 is six years old don't you, and why is it THEIR problem if Sony is a year behind them. I have some truly idiotic posts on here (I may even have posted some myself) but yours makes the majority of them look like well thought out reasoned arguments.

Cops cuff rectal shoplifter

Bummer!!!!

'Mainstream media' mute in SOPA piracy debate

"Thieving is wrong"... it is indeed, and yet to date I've never seen anyone convicted of theft in regards to copyright infringement. I've seen other trumped up charges which have failed to secure a conviction, but as far as I recall theft has never been among them..... and rightly so.

Satnav mishap misery cure promised at confab

I don't know about TeleAtlas

but I wouldn't bother submitting any changes to Navteq via their "map reporter". I submitted quite a few changes to them including a two way road that was categorised as a one way. A pedestrian only road (with no through route) that was marked as a normal road. An alleyway at the side of a house that was marked as a road and a road that was separated in the middle by a fence, and a largish gulley with a river running through it that was marked as a normal connected road (even though it's never been connected). Of the dozen or so changes I submitted nearly two years ago, they have completed only two changes which was to add an Iceland supermarket and remove a petrol station from the POI's. To this day the rest are still "In Process". Needless to say, I didn't bother wasting my time submitting any more.

PayPal dispute ends in 'violin destruction'

If they are taken to the small claims court which they likely would be as the value is only $2500 then it will probably be the smarts of the judge and not the greenbacks that decide the outcome. Besides, for the piddling amount of money that it is in the grand scheme of Fleabay/Praypal income I hardly think they would attempt to bribe or coerce a small claims court judge into finding in their favour, and given the facts as they "appear" to be, then any judge with at least relatively modest smarts would find for the seller.

'Mobiles bake men's balls' bog ad is cobblers - new ruling

Oh dear!!!

Alex Jones called, he wants his speech notes back.

Microsoft de-cloaks Windows 8 push-button lifesaver

Well a fully updated Windows 7 backup system image with a few extra apps takes up about 17GB and takes about 10 minutes to re-image a hard drive at which point I would usually update everything and do a new backup image which takes 15 to 20 minutes. Considerably less than the 3+ hours it takes the normal way). With drives the size they are nowadays, it's not exactly occupying all the space. There may be easier ways to do it with Acronis or something that take up less space but for me it works and it works well.

I imagine that Windows 8 will take up around the same give or take a GB or two.

Smut baron buy-up of Vatican.xxx rumour exploded

Bindingly obvious

"Third, ICM has a strict policy prohibiting the use of a .xxx domain name to suggest the presence of child abuse material."

That'll be why they've blocked Vatican.xxx then.

Channel 5 snubs Freeview HD again

Is The Gadget Show still on? Anytime I view the timeslot it used to be on there seems to be an hour long iPhone advert on instead. Funny thing is, it's the same people in the iPhone advert that used to do The Gadget Show. Oh well, maybe they'll bring a new gadget program out that concentrates on gadgets rather than things the iPhone/iPad can do, things the iPhone/iPad can control, things that fit onto the iPhone/iPad, things that the iPhone/iPad can fit onto....... and hoverboats (that can probably be controlled with an iPhone/iPad).

Doctor Who girl Amy Pond axed in 'heartbreaking' exit

Well if they were to look through some older episodes I can think of three previous guest stars that would make good potential companions. Michelle Ryan (Lady Christina De Souza), Carey Mulligan (Sally Sparrow) or Georgia Moffett (Jenny).

TV writer quells rumours of Doctor Who movie

Don't let America anywhere near it

They've already completely fucked up Torchwood, God knows what they'd do to Doctor Who. Not that all American shows are bad, Breaking Bad for example is outstanding, it's just that they don't really translate British TV shows very well. Skins is another example that they screwed up.

RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook rooted

Well that's good news then...

The eight people that bought one will be well chuffed.

Microsoft! among! suitors! hungry! for! small! bite! of! Yahoo!

Grab your zimmer frame Yahoo! You time is almost up

I wouldn't give them 15p per share. Yahoo's day and come and gone and they certainly fucked up when they rejected the Microsoft offer. I had Yahoo messenger installed on my PC at one point with about 30 to 40 contacts on it. the last time I was signed in on it (quite a while ago) there was one of them online. Yahoo is really nothing more than a pointless leftover from the dot com boom that failed to keep up with the times. It's like a desperate old uncle trying to cling on to it's youth and wanting to stay cool and hang with the kids when in reality it's just getting old, tired and wrinkled. I doubt there is any fountain of youth waiting for Yahoo!!!!!.

Acer, Samsung, Lenovo line up behind Nvidia Tegra 3

I suppose for the same reason I have a 2600K and a GTX 560. So that when I decide I want to do something other than visit a website or write in a forum, like play a game of BF3 or take a little fly around on FSX for example, I have the power and ability to do so.

Ken Russell dies aged 84

Guess I'm the only one then...

I thought his films were self indulgent shite. The usual quirky British rubbish that usually wins awards and makes no money, because it's "cinematic art"... i.e. shite. I'm sure he is a lovely guy and many will miss him, but I just didn't find his films entertaining.

Microsoft pitching Kinect control tech to telly makers

errm because it would be extremely useful.

I actually said in a comment months ago they should be doing this as well as pushing it to monitor makers to integrate. The fact that it was one of the biggest selling gadgets of all time and took the T3 Gadget of the Year pretty much puts paid to your statement about it not being wanted.

Fortunately there are quite a few people in the world with considerably more vision than yourself that have seen the possibilities that what was a simple gaming gadget would bring. Even Microsoft have caught on to the fact that it has much much more potential than just gaming and is taking the opportunity that it sees.

Maybe it's time to get the chip off your shoulder about Microsoft and move on with your life.

Microsoft to offer dual upgrade path for Windows 8

To be honest the upgrade procedure has never bothered me in the slightest what has always bothered me is the fucking hours of installing updates, patches, service packs and seemingly endless net framework updates we usually end up having to sit through. On this one I've got to give it to Apple (much as it pains me). One large combo update every so often with a few updates in between. Even on a reinstall of OSX it's basically install OS, install update combo and possibly a few program updates and it's job done. It's a shame it's such a dull OS.

Bill Gates drops $1m on laser-based malaria fighter

Controversial thought....No! Extremely stupid thought... most definitely!

Natural selection wasn't good enough while we were improving the quality of life for the richer Western society, but find a way to help fight malaria which is more likely to affect the poorer nations and we are interfering with natural selection. Get a grip.

.....or perhaps it's simply because it's Bill Gates.

Father of Lisp and AI John McCarthy has died

Does he make really expensive shiny things

No!! Move along then, nothing to see here.

Sadly another loss that will be ignored by the many.

How Jobs bent reality with LSD, Apple hype

Do me a favour

Will someone please wake me up when it's all over.

Jobs: 'I'll spend my dying breath destroying Android'

And what did you expect. If you buy a budget smartphone, why would you expect the performance of a high end one. I don't go out and buy a Kia and expect it to perform like a Porsche, get a grip.

Crap alchemist jailed for poo-into-gold experiment

It worked for Gerald Ratner, he sold crap for years, even said so himself.

Three months... for being stupid, bummer!!

Paris can turn shit into gold as well.

Debt collectors warned off pursuing punters on Facebook

That has got to be the stupidest idea I've heard in a long time. Do you have any idea of the amount of people that would running up a stupidly large debt, then simply not pay it, just so they literally buy the get the goods for a tenth of their value. Get real!!

I have a better idea, how about people just pay off their debts. The number of people who probably say they can't afford to pay off the 50" LCD they "bought" but can still manage to buy a packet of cigarettes everyday would probably scare us. There are genuine reasons for getting into debt, but very few genuine reasons for at least attempting to get out of it. The number of people that can't afford at least a £1 a week is not high.

Vegas man begs web for $1m to fix gigantic scrotum

Ok, that one made me giggle.