Posts by Martin Lyne

Er

Wasn't this story from several months ago, I'm sure I even read it here..

Give it a good camera

For the love of all that's holy. A decent camera and flash and YOU HAVE MY MONEY HTC. WHY DON'T YOU WANT MY MONEY?

We all know

.. that it's much easier to sell a house that has no phone coverage. People want peace and quiet at home. Duh.

Clearly

Clearly a squared off back and a wake. Who's first reaction is "monster" then "maybe it's a boat on this famous tourist attraction". Sigh.

Halo

Halo looked so promising in the early days, then it went from an open-world, wildlife inhabited ring world, to a series of boring, copy-pasted corridors and outside sections with incessantly respawning enemies with the occasional view of the rest of the ringworld behind it.

The last level was honestly the most blatantly effortless bullshit I've ever played. The buggy sections and fighting with friendly forces were the highlights.

MechWarrior 4 is still a great game, non-cheesy FMV too.

Because

Becuase there isn't enough variety in feckless managerial idiots smiling as their salaries increase for holding meetings about meetings imagery laying about on stock photo sites. No. Let's instead photoshop one. Badly.

Automatic rifles + Zombies

= a virus saturated blood vapour cloud.

And now your front line of soldiers are feeling a bit woozy.

Consider if birds or rodents become a vector: Fallout from nuking a city is bad, having to nuke some rainforest too.

Just get lots of thick, bite-proof jumpers and leg it!

Fucking

spare me.

I've got a billion ideas for a devent movie or TV series. Just wait Sci-Fi fans, once all the retard currently at the helm are fired or sued into oblivion for plagiarism I'll rise and dominate.

Coincidentally, I recommend G.I. Joe (the new film). It eschews moderate realism that films seem to like lately and just shoves cool stuff into your eyepieces. A few cringy bits a few funny bits, lots of "I could watch this all day" bits. Forgettable but very fun. Remember waht that was? Hint: it's not watching a rehashed film with bland actors and, because it's rehashed, you don't even get to predict the predictable ending becuase it's already part of common lore.

WWAD? What would Adama do?

Launch the alert fighters!

PS: Can someone ressurrect Gene Roddenberry?

Here comes the future!

Sounds good to me. But 2011.. why? Sooner they get made and sold the sooner the price can come down..

What I'd really like..

is a way for it to save the size of the SQL Pane when table viewing. And to be able to set the default query for the "view 1000 rows" and "edit 200 rows" to be shown in reverse.

Resizing the window and typing ORDER BY ID DESC is getting OLD.

CURE FOR CANCER FOUND

If you are allergic to bee stings - tough.

Make with the nanites already, then we can have long lives and overnight body reshaping and self-building spacecraft.

Hurry!

Ha!

A religious spokesperson railing against imaginary friendships.

Yup, heard it all now.

And yet..

You have to pay for penetration testers.

In so far as I understand, he caused no damage - cost incurred were to fix the security hole he used.

Clearly

The safety comes from all the passengers sitting on giant dildos, stopping them sliding off the seats when cornering or slowing down (or even after they lose all motor control after realising what they just wanked away all their money on)

On a more topical note: I've been to the future the new cars have less wheels and more propellers. And life vests.

The plus sides to this design are: it looks light. And, er, it's nice to look out of a window while being driven around.

There's a reason all cars currently look mostly the same: they work, they're efficient (spatially) and they don't require a whole fucking car park to themselves.

A fold out car would be far better, small parking footprint, expandable to meet needs, requires lightweight materials though. Or crazy nano-shit that morphs around you and jets you off like the Rocketeer.

Nothing in the quoted design is technically infeasible now, it could be built. They have BWMs that drive by radar and infrared, add gps and voice recognition and off you go.

Still, nice renders

Hmm

I predict a lot of children typing that in. As a kid I knew not to type 999 EVER. But other random combinations seemed ok.

Dare I suggest 888 or 555? Or just call the operator and ask..

Quick boys!

Quick boys, shuffle some papers and move some people about, make it look like we're doing work!

Units sold: 0

W7 is just them pressing CTRL-Z about 50 times to undo the shit they did broke in Vista.

And if they change the names of things in the control panel one more time.. I'll hit the fucking roof.

I love

I love the way it slipped into fiction there.

OR DID IT?

Woudln't it be easier to make dirty pikey robots that unscrew stationary car fuel caps and sup the octanous liquid within?

No robotic masticating needed then. Also - recon is meant to be slightly stealthy, a trail of munched crops and a plume of smoke/steam on the horizon may give it away. What happens when it rains?

Will it have a battery backup, just in case? Or is the motion mechanical rather than steam->electricity? No, I refuse to clickon the link to learn more.

I think

the technology probably just detects a phone in a bad area and then singlas an alarm, rather than actually WHO you are. Spoofing an authorised phone ID would be more effective, no phone is effectiver.

Jamming is also an issue, or modulating phone IDs (so insterad ofone phone moving they'd see different phones randomly appearing for a second, this issue could be circumvented if the system alarmed as soon as it detected any phone, althought htat might cause issues, if it watches a phone for X seconds then alarms - hopping would work.

Alternatively, hire security instead of paying thrice as much for easily foilable tech widgets.

RE: #c_530910 (Zzz)

Who cares? How about people that have to write software to cater for as close to 100% of that market as possible?

If I saw IE's share go to 0% I would be a very happy man.

Are we sure

Are we sure they didn't just set them aflame to destory evidence gathering equipment before doing something "naughty".

The TV Show Idael's cop for instance. Or battering a protester or something.

So..

so when something happens and a camera might be useful, like a kid gets bitten by a spider and they person takes a picture of said arachnid so that a correct antivenom can be chosen - there are no cameras to hand.

Cameras are in most phones, if the landlines fail they'll need one.

How about "don't let people likely to take inappropriate pictures of kids work in a place filled with kids"?

You see what I did there? I addressed the issue at it's source. Or we coudl just all eat some bananas and it might quell the rampant kneejerking.

http://www.ionchannels.org/showabstract.php?pmid=2264069&redirect=yes&terms=banana+twitch+potassium

FPTP

El Reg sporting first past the post? Tsk. I voted for lightspeed travel, so I can swan off and leave the stinking mess of humanity behind me. But I'd rather like to live a long time (this would be a massive disaster if it was created at present, resources are stretched anyway)

World Peace wasn't on there either (that'd be some sort of mass-extinction ray)

Settle for alternative fuel (or more efficeint PV panels) though.

Ha

Thos screenshots look decidedly homemade. Why do I get teh feeling eople are being roped in to publicising something they normally wouldn't?

Please charge more in Europe

.. then the monopoly might end and people will start developing PC games and app versions for Linux. EVERYONE will be happy!

Hmm

Maybe downloads are decreasing because you download it once, and there you go. I use eclipse at work and home, so that's 2 downloads for 40 hours a week usage.

Hmm, wonder if there's a typing char/word count stat monitor plug in?

At least the Nissan

At least the Nissan ones might end up giving something back to typical Americans.

How many people will ever own a Tesla? Will the thrid party parts being amde in teh new plant be for other exclusive EVs?

Perhaps it'll help lower the cost of their future vehicles? That would be a nice turn of events.

Got nothin' agaisnt Tesla, just think that they should have a bog-standard version.

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"Thanks to Eugene Meany for the tip-off."

Meany in torture claim shock!

Sorry.

"Is it secret? Is it safe?"

You'd have thought the guys woudl have had enough left over cash to hire someone to do this for them, or at least to have the financial nous to know that, unless he was defrauding them, the money was just as gone for him as them.

Hmm

Front cover(age) was, sadly, not worth the risk of clicking it at work, more Jubs!. All the superiors are elsewhere today anyway. So no *actual* risk.

I'm a vegetarian

I'm a veggie, and I think this is shite.

Do they propose we don't take antibiotic, to save the bacteria? What about tapeworms, should we just grin and bear them? Parasites are animals too..

These animals will eolve to learn not to fly in human personal-airspace, those that keep their distance propser. Those that don't. Don't.

Finally..

an affordable e-car!

Soapbox?

I might have used it if they called it something more 2.0 like.. Wang or Dild. Or Flangr.

Who'd have thought a crappy, derivative web 2.0 fluff site would fail against a pre-established, well known rival?

Compete with rival for profit in a service that isn't even breaking even for them and will cost you development, maintenance and hosting. Recipe for fail. I'd rather have a cheaper Windows thanks, but feel free to wank away your money.