Posts by Grimster

GIMP open source image editor forked to fix 'problematic' name

Pronounced Jimp not Gimp

Just to reignite the Gif/Jif argument again.

Tech giants at war: Google pulls plug on YouTube in Amazon kit

Re: YouTube, not an essential service

Damn @Missing Semicolon

You have access to my Youtube history?

Elite: Dangerous 'billionaire' gamers are being 'antisocial', moan players

Tickets

Since early December still not addressed. Support system is either horribly overwhelmed or very lacking.

Facebook swallows Oculus VR goggle-geeks. Did that really happen?

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks.

That is all.

New Lumia 925: This, loyalists, is the BIG ONE you've waited for

Dream Nokia

Nokia 6230.

Add 3/4G, include tethering, upgrade the bluetooth and switch the damned MMC slot for micro SD. You'd have a phone with a half-life of probably at least two centuries which is small enough to carry everywhere and you don't have to worry about dropping or benchmarking it's O/S.

I'll get my coat.....

YouTube channels at $1.99 per month could launch this week

Re: I'm rather looking forward to this

Pay for no adverts? Just employ Chrome and adblock for free. Not seen a Youtube advert for a couple of years.

Oh the irony!

UK.gov's love affair with ID cards: Curse or farce?

Re: ID cards - good, database - bad

SQL admin claxon just went off the scale.

Next Xbox to be called ‘Xbox Infinity’... er... ‘Xbox’

Re: Split Screen Required

The savvy might say they want you to have TWO consoles.

World's first 5mm-thin gyrating models paraded on disk catwalk

Re: World's First?

Indeed. I had one in my old Palm Lifedrive, exactly the same size (and compatible with) CF cards as far as I recall.

Strategic SIEGE ROBOTS defeated by 'heavily intoxicated' man, 62

Please put down your weapon

You have 20 seconds to comply.

Or not.

Nexus 1 put in orbit to prove 'in space, no one can hear you scream'

Re: Hang on....

Well if we've got that crap floating around the planet anyway, what's the reason for not shooting all our nuclear waste at the sun rather than contaminating Cumbria for the next 80-million years?

We could ask the Norks for a delivery system as we appear to have been unable to come up with that new fangled rocket stuff since 1971.

What's the worst that could happen?

Huh?

John Sweeney: Why Church of Scientology's gravest threat is the 'net

I clicked here

Looking for bewbs.

left disappointed.

Firm moves to trademark 'Python' name out from under the language

Isnt EvE Online built on Python?

I do believe the UI is (was) Python based.

Twitter translated to LOLCATZ: Strangely this had not been done

Sic transit gloria mundi.

Apple users: Only Apple can track us! Not Google

Forgive the irony

But the inference is that people browsing pr0n will in turn be the recipient of pr0n ads therefore ruining their lives.

Sounds like win/win to me.

Trollface because - yeah.

Worst broadband notspots in the UK named and shamed

Rural

I blame the trees for blocking my internet speeds.

Trees and sheep

Trees and sheep and grass.

Trees and sheep and grass and snow.

Oh, and BT who appear to have blown fibre to the cabinet 500 yards up the road, and decorated said cabinet with a brightly coloured poster stating the the fact that 'Fibre is Here'

My cabinet has no such poster.

DAMN YOU BT! DAMN YOU!

China may axe 13-year console ban, games OK for kids after all

Dont do it!

You're bound to wreck the physical and psychological welfare of the young!

And divert attention from the gold farming industry.

Or something.

Brit robojet ‘Taranis’ set for Oz test flight

Yes, yes me!

British armed forces get first new pistol since World War II

Re: Suck my Glock..

Ball generally makes a hole, hollow point spends its kinetic energy in your body and forces you to stop what you're doing.

Both however, when injected at speed will make you feel somewhat unwell.