Posts by Mr Fuzzy

Re: McDonalds, a firearm, and you call it a boot?

It's perfectly reasonable for a UK based publication to use British terms.

By the way, in the colder months my head is sometimes under a hood.

Re: Use your own equipment

Not everybody has a full range of ISP options available. Complexes.

You appear to be doing the thing you're complaining about.

Re: As long as it is removable

Sod the warranty. If the thing is munged enough that it has to go back without being able to revert to stock it's munged enough that nobody is going to be in a position to peer at the state of the firmware.

Battery life

Mine arrived this morning and the standby power use was baffling at first.

It turns out that things improve a great deal if you're rooted and can change the governer from interactive to something more reasonable and drop the minimum processor speed from the insane 900MHz it's pegged at by default.

Re: Congratulations!

@ GitMeMyShootinIrons

"The NHS is a wonderful, but flawed ideal that is based upon a myth of being "free" and yet consumes (tax payers) money like a Hoover, while offering services well beyond its remit (boob job anyone?)."

Like reductions to prevent a life of crippling back pain or reconstruction after a mastectomy?

Re: Its not smart to buy a smart TV

Give or take the murder of the old YouTube and the more recent versions no longer having the ability to pair.

Re: Bah!

Despite? So-called? Scientists?

You might find a few engineers taking exception there, what with the machine managing to perform even though it was multiply knackered after many years in a brutally harsh environment.

Re: Anyone remember Dragon Warriors?

Criminy, it's a long time since I've played Amber.

I fondly remember being a wrong'un in that and running a tobacco empire on the back of enslaved hobbits.

While I may agree with many of your points,

Could people please lay off with the "sheep," or "sheeple," thing?

It's hackneyed to the point of uselessness, comes off as smug and superior, and turns away the very people you might hope to sway.

A better option than a new flash for mobile would be for people to just stop using it on their sites.*

*This comment comes with a free significant look directed at the masthead.

Re: Siemens: To be fair...

It's pretty safe to say that the BBC have enormous amounts of personal data.

Given the prevalence of password reuse, they hold plenty of concern even if you only think in terms of email/password pairs. That said, I do see your point. Anybody with best practices in mind when watching “World's Craziest Fools," is fine.

*nips off to change some passwords*

The real biggest holdup

I don't care what device you have, someone will decide they want to build the new version at home. The real problem is chip manufacturers deciding that you have to be in their special club to get the datasheet for a device you bloody own.

This nonsense of commercial non disclosure agreements for how to operate your own hardware strikes me as adding costs to absolutely everybody involved.

Re: Haters hate...

But only if you use US English as the system language. Nobody else is deemed worthy of shouting at a device without jabbing at it first.

Re: I don't get it

Did you really just equate avoiding intrusive advertising to actual theft?!

Wow.

"No, but your time is obviously worth a lot less than mine..."

Given that you troubled yourself to go AC and make a fool comment on how somebody else entertains themself, I suspect that might be a naughty fib.

Re: The proof is in the....

Er... I'm not sure that's entirely relevant. Estimating required capacity doesn't have a lot to do with the flavour of the downloads.

Re: Texas ADULT who posted threats about killing school children can't make bail

You do realise that jokes in poor taste and proper satire are not purely the reserve of the young, right?

Re: Yes please amend

Yup, a shark'll just take your leg. A lawyer will also take your house.

Could be worse

Although it's sad to lose a series which still had legs, it's far worse to see something that was good running out of steam.

Re: What sort of cretin buys a Amazon Swindle anyway?

Someone who knows they'll accept mobi files and uses Calibre for library management?

Re: I wonder

" I actually look forward to the day when one of the licence enforcement monkeys turns up at my door so I can tell them to piss off."

You probably won't even need to do that. I pointed them to the obviously analogue only CRT TV connected to a cobbled together media server and they told me they needn't waste any more of my time. It was amusing how quickly they accepted things and left after the doorstep tough guy approach.

Re: How can this be viable

Less of a problem than you might think if lots of gas cells are used - imagine jabbing a knitting needle through a roll of bubble wrap.

"Not that liberal stuff again."

Are you sure that word means what you think it means?

Re: T-mobile Vivacity

Crap? Only if you're taking the same standpoint as someone who drives a high end car and looks down on those in hatchbacks. Given the difference in price versus the difference in performance/features a budget smartphone is an eminently sensible choice for those with a slimmer discretionary wad.