This sounds like a load of cobblers to me.
He must have been pretty wasted to mistake a heavy iron for a phone receiver.
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I like the BBC. Some of it is shit, but for the most part it is pretty amazing. And unique. Having been around the world and seen what else on offer I would rather have it than not. The alternative is lots of lowest common denominator programming and lots more adverts.
US commercial television is for the most part utter shit, apart from HBO, which is pay per view. I think the BBC keeps the standard of the commercial channels from slipping into the shit.
Ha ha, The Boys is the only thing I've bothered with in the last few years, apart from 2000 AD. Mostly because I don't really like superheroes much.
When I was a kid, the only reliable source of Thrill - Power in Manchester was Magazine & Poster Centre under the Corn Exchange, later Odyssey 7 (it's not there now, a victim of the bomb, the new one is now a Forbidden Planet). The bottom 4 shelves were all comics of every shape and size, but the top shelf was full of porn mags. A bit of an eye-opener I can tell you as it catered for everything. (I used to go to a comic shop in Leeds that did the same thing can't remember it's name though).
It was a bit like shoe repair shops that also cut keys. Perhaps they should start doing that again.
That's why a lot of them are written for grown ups; most of the audience are old buggers like me. 2000 AD is a classic example, it's readership gets older every year as a block of (currently 35-45 years old I would guess). Downloadable versions are a step in the right direction though. I still get 2000 AD (Marvel and DC never held my attention for long, soap operas in spandex. Meh.) and my attic is groaning under the strain of progs going back to about 400 (ish).
The current 2000AD run of Judge Dredd has been fucking awesome and the prog 1708 was a wonderful and unexpected surprise. I love that they can still do something totally unexpected after all this time.
Also, Carlos is King!
The grown-ups and the other kids are all laughing, which of course only makes it worse. Eventually pigtails get pulled or lemonade is spilled and the birthday boy has to go sit on the stairs.
Grow up Apple, you seem to have a license to print money and people can't get enough of your tat. There would have been less fuss if you had quietly complied instead of behaving like a bunch of nobheads.
I have to agree, it looks like a houseboat and was clearly designed by people who have little concept of seaworthiness. Philippe Starck is a past master at form over function as anyone who has ever tried to use his orange squeezer will know.
Perhaps in a few years Hoseasons could get it at a knocked down price and do canal holidays with it?
something like the monsoon that did massive damage to the hard drive manufacturers would be more plausible, if difficult to implement. Or if he wanted to hit other hardware, somewhere like Shenzen would be an ideal target. He could hold Apple to ransom if he managed to threaten new iPhone production. Imagine the psychological damage to the fanbois if their fondleslabs were delayed.
Bond of course would be unflappable as he seems to favour Sony tech.
Breathe slowly and deeply and keep reciting, "It's just a phone, it's just a phone."
I used to be able to get excited about new technology, but successive gaming PCs have taught me this is folly. You are never ahead of the curve. And there are far more important things in life.
Has Paris Hilton got hers yet? Fnarr fnarr.
I bought a Tesco Value DAB about 4 years ago. It sits on my desk at work and works like a dream, albeit a slightly tinny sounding dream. Think it was a shaving under £20.
There must be loads of cheap ones. A review of the best of these would be far more useful. What sort of buffoon pays £200 for a radio?
A review of in-car DAB sets wouldn't go amiss, either.
No no no. The Stallone film is a massive pile of arse. There is one shot right at the end with him on his lawmaster which I will concede looks great, but the rest of the film is a massive pile of shit. The scenes with Stallone and Armand Assante are laughable, the plot takes half a dozen stories from the comic and then grinds them in a pestle, tips the ground contents into a bucket and repeatedly pisses and shits on them.
HE TAKES HIS HELMET OFF.
The uniform is like something the Mega City Village People would wear (shortly before being arrested on JIMP charges) and Stallone has a different uniform to every other judge. The scene where they reconstruct a photograph from FUCK-ALL. Rob fucking Schneider.
Also, flying Lawmasters? Fuck off.
Cases like Apple vs Samsung are just examples of why such a system needs monitoring and adjusting, not ditching entirely.
Also, good sausages can be appealing before cooking, but they're best on a plate with some bacon and eggs. And maybe some black pudding. God, I'm hungry now. Why did you have to go and mention sausages, Andrew?
It depends on how extravagant you want to get.
Once in a while I like a BLT on thick sliced seeded batch loaf, but I add some slices of stilton as well and top off the lot with HP or Reggae Reggae sauce.
But I'm just as happy with 3 slices of bacon on Tesco Value white bread with a bit of Ketchup.
...better than Street Fighter at any rate.
There's a couple of CGI Resident Evil movies that are not bad - kind of like cut-scenes from the game expanded into a film (with acting to match unfortunately),
First Tomb Raider film was okay, first Resi film was great fun, especially the laser grid scene. Also Michelle Rodriguez, cor.
and to him it was just his job. And the fact he didn't make a massive song and dance about it, though I suppose most astronauts have to be pretty cool customers.
It's still amazing to think we've been so far and so sad to think we stopped and never went any further.
Well, it's up to you how you play but seriously, Steam is a decent platform for buying games. Some corking deals if you keep your eyes peeled as well.
I speak as someone that endures the abomination that is Origin in order to play BF3. It's like they looked at every feature of Steam and said lets do that, only shit.
Re: original topic, Ubisoft can take a running jump.
There is a petition going to try and save iGoogle.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/dont-kill-the-igoogle-webportal.html
It's just crawled to an epic 197 signatures, I think it needs our love, people. Get on there and sign it!
I like having iGoogle on my desktop and I don't want to have to fuck about looking for stuff when it's all already there on one page. I don't own a smartphone or a tablet and I don't want Chrome (despite Avast helpfully installing it last night, even though I unchecked the fucking checkbox).
Stupid Google.
... if they spent less time hiring lawyers and bitching about people stealing their stuff and instead spent that time making their peerless products even more staggeringly attractive and wonderful.
Hey Apple, ever noticed how all smartphones LOOK THE FUCKING SAME, so what does it matter if HTC make a phone with a similar looking grommet which does similar things ever so slightly differently?
All anyone cares about is can they use it to cheat in the pub quiz. And does it do the Facebooks or not.
Yeah, trollface. What can you do?
Stronger/longer legs in 80 years due to natural selection is entirely possible. If the conditions favour longer legged toads, then that is what you will get.
Extra legs (like longer legs) is a mutation, that will be unlikely to spread as the article points out that the toad in question was clumsy. We can assume clumsy toads will be less successful than their long-legged brethren.
Short answer: Don't expect Zergs rushing to knock down your door anytime soon.
Most kids are watching CBBC or CBeebies anyway, not BBC1. They're looking for their kids programmes there, so it makes sense to shift it. Of more concern is what they decide to replace it with. More of that bald Dom bloke chasing dodgy builders? Or something about antiques, more likely
Okay, we've shot the solar powered route down. Why not a combination of solar and wind ( would be popular with Register staffers, ha ha ha) ? Run the thing constantly, even out of drought and use it to top up aquifers and the water table.
Set up a few smaller plants along the estuary and leave them to keep working, then we'd have plenty of cheap water with less whining from the hand-wringers.
Well, it worked in Sim City 2000.