Posts by Bad Beaver

Why would anyone run their own base station?

Bullshit.

That's what that is.

Disney punts hetero luuurv to wide-eyed kiddies

Go for it

Honestly, I cannot wait for a Disney movie featuring or promoting gay homo love (as Princess Clara calls it). Just to see what happens and how long it takes for the studio to be firebombed. They ain't never getting no G-rating for sure. OTOH, you never know, maybe old versions of Disney classics were steamin' with hot leprechaun on leprechaun rainbow action — which was subsequently edited out, like they PC-ed "Song of the South".

People just not that into Blu-ray

Why bother?

Blue-ray players, expensive. Blue-ray discs, freakin' expensive. Blue-ray selection, meh. Blue-ray DRM riddles, high, confusing, constantly changing.

Videophiles with money love the quality and give toss about the rest, as usual. Normal consumers keep buying DVDs because they don't give a damn about Blue-ray. Cheapskates whose fathers educated them that C-Copy VHS are fine keep stealing low quality DVD-rips from the intertron, as usual.

Galactica 1.3

slew of replies

@ AC 20th June 2009 09:17 GMT

One would think so. Maybe the reviewer was so disappointed with his <£1 purchase that he just HAD to share.

@ Jason Bloomberg

Do you see anyone out there rating according to such an onerously realistic and useful scale? It might not be most advisable if you are actually relying on ad-revenue.

@ Philip Teale

Dubiously labeled articles are part of the fun of this site, but I agree that such a label would be helpful and appreciated.

I guess

you should try it while on some trippy drugs, that might be much more interesting.

Ten of the best... noise-cancelling headphones

Bose? Recommended?

Really?

Herschel space 'scope flips its lid

exhilarating

They totally pressed the button.

The lid totally opened up.

Yamaha TSX-130 iPod dock

What, no inputs?

Off to the landfill! If this had optical / analog inputs, the latter a truly unforgivable omission at any price, it would make for a swell around-the-house system.

Orthodox Jews tuck into kosher Koogle

Teh Awsum!

A service that takes away the need for awareness and discipline in a religious practitioner, that's just superb. I guess you could make a big pile of cash if you tailored this to individual religions...

German lad hit by 30,000 mph meteorite

Lucky kid

Head apparently missed by a few degrees in the right direction.

Philips GoGear Opus personal media player

I see...

"just like sleeping with a close relative, it does feel rather unnatural."

Ah, really?

Apple punts batterylicious MacBook Pros

RE: Want 12" back

I never gave it away in the first place ;) just put in a new battery.

Whee, the 13"

They finally found out it's a MacBook Pro, now who would have thought? So it's ok to come with Firewire now? Now thank you very much, it was about freakin' time! One can finally think about buying that book again.

On the dark side, no Express-Card on the 15" will be a serious bummer for some, if not for me. I am also partial regarding the internal battery aspect. It has very little consumer advantage. You can already buy a host of rather expensive external juice-jobbies for your MacBook, which will then clutter up your setup. Now looking at this issue with the realist's goggles on — who will be really affected by this? In a car you can use a charger, on a plane, train or boat you can use a charger, in a hotel you can use a charger, in a conference room you can use a charger, and up on a mountain you are running a generator anyway. When was the last time you ran out of juice on the go? I think Apple themselves should be offering an external battery at the same price as former internals, that would solve it.

Note to employers: Better sex = happier workers

In other news

Pope catholic.

Forrest full of bear droppings.

Fulfilling relationship has overall relaxing effect.

What's the news?

Now that 3-headed-muta-rodent story, that would have been something. Please don't tease us with something like that and then fail to even provide a link.

ANYONE GOT A LINK TO THE RODENT THING?!

Transition flying car into 'beta test': Deliveries from 2011

Nice

I can totally see people from more remote regions all over this. Mericans, Australians...

David Carradine found dead in Bangkok

Oh no.

What a shame to lose him. RIP, man.

Smera tilting e-car debuts in Paris

"Smera"

"Smera" reads suspiciously like something Germans are not able so search on BING.

Also, €30k "because it bends"?

Bada Bing tickles UK fancies

Cookies

Mommy said I should never ever accept cookies from strangers, you never know what's inside.

Honestly, of course the cookie-issue is the same with Google. Unless you allow cookes — at least for the session — you cannot save your changes.

The DIFFERENCE is that Google will not tell you "you can't have that, go search for something decent". If you tell BING you're from Austria (and of course allow cookies, as if you do you can tell it whatever you want), it will give you all the smut you desire. If you tell it you're from Korea, you will be allowed to search for smutty pictures (but not video), but the results are not as good and for some reason involve Super Mario and George W. Bush.

Call me old fashioned, but I simply want a search-engine to process my query. I don't want it to filter my results by location unless I opted for that, and I most definitely don't want it to tell me what is not ok to look for.

@ Antoinette Lacroix

Changing anything apparently does not work unless I allow cookies, which I won't.

- changing location to another country changes nothing, the country will revert once you press search

- changing the language in options will not work, as soon as you press "save" it reverts back

You can actually play funny guessing games on which queries it will allow and which not:

"vagina" works

"penis" doesn't

Also, I would appreciate it if you would not disqualify my valid criticism (it does not work, it's arbitrarily patronizing) as "whining". I have wasted enough time on "bing" already. I will now go back to an engine that will not constantly refuse results.

brainfry all the way...

@ The Dark Lord:

Apple runs a search engine?

@ AC: 1st June 2009 14:08 GMT

You seem to be on something interesting. Please share name & dosage.

ok, so I've tried it

... and while without allowing cookies the wretched thing will not even allow me to change the language and there WAS NO OPTION to turn-off safe search, entering "sex" got me:

"Die Suche sex kann jugendgefährdenden Inhalt zurückgeben. Ändern Sie Ihre Suchbegriffe, um Ergebnisse zu erhalten."

which is bland German for "the query sex can return content unsuitable for minors. Change your query to get results."

There is not even an option saying "that's fine with me, carry on".

This is probably the shortest way *ever* to show why I just cannot bother with MS products in my life. Not because they won't get me porn. No, because they think they can tell me what to want. It's a search engine, you wussies! You don't question your users' intentions, you FREAKIN' DELIVER RESULTS FOR THE QUERY.

Scotland welcomes back wild beaver

@ Darren Tuffs

"thing is they dont have a clue whats going to happen for all we know we could be up to our necks in beaver before too long."

That'll be easily cured the way one got rid of them the first time around: you eat them.

wild beaver...

... can't have enough of them. Good move, Scotland!

Sharp creates true-hue five-colours-per-pixel LCD

Neat!

Gimme!

@ Robert Hill:

Thanks for that, I had the exact same thought. "Thoughts", to be exact, as the second thought after "like print" was "I want this to view my Foveon shots on".

Palm Pré plays nicely with iTunes

If it had a cardslot

that would actually be interesting. Scratch that. Proper iTunes Sync is a great feature that I wholeheartedly welcome in every device whose maker is interested in my money.

All for nothing though, since I will not buy a Eurp-Pre if it cometh locked to a single provider.

Microsoft announces Zune HD

RE: Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 27th May 2009 13:08 GMT

"I'm still amused that commenters on the Register still think that drag'n'drop file management / using your audio player as a mass storage device is something anyone really cares about. Most people just use a memory stick for file transfer, and evidently prefer the managed library approach (i.e. the further they can get away from a file system the better)."

See, the thing about the drag'n'dropsters is that they are so very... verbal about their OCD. They've spent months setting up their "individual" folder structures all night long, usually filling them with some obscure format like OGG that hardly any device can play in the first place and now they bitch and moan whenever they are forced to realize that 99,998% of people enjoy listening more than filing and therefore are fine with whatever iTunes does.

Then there is the other group that is not actually suffering from OCD but they are notorious pirates and 95% of their low bitrate MP3s has filenames like 198225541bzcz_u.mp3 and was never tagged properly meaning they are stuck on folder structures "under their control" for the bare ability to ever find "that track by CCR" again.

It's a harsh, harsh life out there.

Sound quality

Folks, the audio quality of devices is mostly defined by their innards, so the DAC and especially the amp-stage. If you have proper hardware, even "not so good" files will sound great, while with "just about works" hardware even HQ lossless files will sound anemic. That's why Sony could sell Minidisc Players back in the day. Good hardware and lots of amp-power made the heavily compressed ATRAC files sound fine. I still have a portable recorder whose DAC/AMP stages are so decent that I often use it in a big stereo setup as a dedicated DAC. What you find in today's portable devices is for the most part CSFC, but even with CSFC there are differences.

I thhoght this board was full of engineers? ;)

Ah well...

Why am I under the impression that MS would be far more successful with the whole ZUNE thing if they actually bothered to sell it to people. Like, in Asia or Europe or so...

This new thing is quite the purdy for something out of MS, reminds me of a early 90s upscale Discman. I also hear from the US that ZUNE devices feature good sound quality. Sadly, I won't ever be able to find out.

Brusa weaves sexy, sporty Spyder

The nice!

This looks great! The range is a sick joke, but the car looks swell!

Toshiba Qosmio X300

MY EYES!

This... thing... will be right at home... somewhere. Don't want to know where exactly, though.

Inside USB 3.0

Firewire...

... is more expensive to implement. That is why USB is what it is today. If I get the option, I always choose Firewire over USB. It is superior in every way. Faster, more reliable, more versatile. Sure, it's overkill for small-scale transfers, so USB does have its place. It will be interesting to see USB 3.0's real-world performance.

E-cars are a dangerous myth, says top boffin

Shhhhht!

Hush, spoilsport!

Sims 3 leaked two weeks before release

New Sims game?!

Awesome, soon I'll be able to go to some friend's place and watch him watch his Sim watch TV. But with all new graphics.

University emails 'blocked from Hotmail'

Hotmail users

They are familiar with pain by default, they do not desire or deserve anything else.

iPhone users to walk and read at same time

@ Paul McConkey

From the continent, admittedly ;)

Agreed, "OI!" is much more efficient, more... guttural. You do not even need the rest of the sentence if you put in enough repugnance. "DUDE!" might contribute to the confusion faktor though.

RE: That's just what we need

"I already have to dodge absent minded people non stop during on my daily walk to and from the station. The ones who think they don't have to look where they're going and everyone will just clear a path for them."

If you have the corresponding physique you can afford to cancel that behavior. They may "think" that everyone will clear them a path. They could suddenly learn that they are wrong and BOOM they are on the floor. Then yell "DUDE, WATCH YOUR STEP!" right in their face so they do not even remotely get the idea that it might be your fault. Wouldn't do it if I was short or light, but that might also work if you put enough force into it. It is amazing how easily people are intimidated, especially when distracted.

Otherwise, this software is quite a neat idea.

Jail for Hong Kong techie who exposed stars' sex snaps

1300 pictures?

Apart from the tech being a n asshole —

What was the other guy up to? ifuckasianstarlets.com? Why would you give away your computer with compromising pictures, let alone such an amount of them, to some random repairman? Either he was extremely eager for publicity or he's extremely... dumb.

Kanye West doesn't have a f***ing Twitter, OK?

I hear

Mr. West loves fishsticks.

Taiwanese rat snake bites Taiwanese trouser snake

The Glory of Globalization...

... is in the constant flow of terror-tales from rural Asia. Unhappy with your insignificant worker bee existence in the first world? Fret not. Thanks To The Internet you know that in rural Asia, people are so poor they have to use their own dicks as bait to catch their dinner-snakes. You sure remember the rat problem in rural Asia that resulted from people snacking away all the snakes, too. That's the people wo were not killed in the latest bee-transport vs. rural road disaster. So cheer up, shut up and get back to work, before YOU get outsourced to rural Asia too.

Greece grounds Google's Street View fleet

Thumbs up

Nice move, Greece. Now if the rest would smarten up too, pretty please?

Black hole swallows Barbarella rehash

re: Uwe Boll

I found POSTAL quite enjoyable. It all is a matter of your expectations.

Phew

now that was close.

Palm Pré to launch right ahead of iPhone 3.0?

I've said it before

and I'll say it again, in very plain words:

If Palm pulls any sort of "exclusive Carrier" nonsense in Europe, they can ram the Pré up their collective rectum.

Nokia's E-Series has proven execeptionally worthwhile in the last couple of years and they are available all over the place, at whatever terms suit you. If Palm wants me to replace my Nokia with its expensive bells and whistles plastic-blob, it better not limit my choices.

Sikh coppers request bulletproof turbans

Pity

really. Looking at their history, I would assume the Sikhs themselves would rather not care about the helmet in the first place. It is the regulation that insists on officers using one.

How about a helmet designed to look like a turban?

2060: Humvee-sized, bulletproof meat-eating spiders attack

@ Nexox Enigma

Yes, the book has its moments, as all Heinlein does. The movie is fun too, but it is a completely different animal.

Regardless, I seriously doubt I want to perform an orbital drop just to battle these spiders for fun... especially not if my powered suit was red. It has bad implications per se and could easily turn into a... drilling experience.

Here's a tip:

Aim for the nerve stem, and put it down for good.

Amazon big-screen Kindle sails this week

@ AC

You likely saw a reader by iRex. A bigger Kindle better have a touchscreen too. It would be useless for textbooks otherwise. Can't wait for the next generations of readers, they've become really interesting. Publishers need to think up some incentives, like significantly lower prices, regular free updates and the like. I still think it would be best to receive a free digital copy along with the printed matter.

Nikon Coolpix P90 bridge camera

65%, what does it actually mean?

Do things ever get <50% these days? If not, we must assume 50% as the new zero, meaning this camera comes in at what, 30%? Sounds round about right from the pictures.

Videogame history project successfully emulates CRT on LCD

This

is interesting.

LoTR fan film set for net premiere

speaking of HOPE

I hope this will be available for download, in a decent format. I'm sick and tired of these performance guzzling Flash-stream-jobs.