Posts by Martin Lyne

To be fair..

..at least they haven't been burnt at the stake.

Why would you expect an organisation hardly known for it's abundant inclusivity and liberal thinking, to allow you to use their sacrosanct premises to entertain a polar opposite belief system?

Would a pentangle of Satanists expect to be well recieved?

Aren't the woods the ideal place for witchy gatherings? Or the Crystal Palace/Fortress if you want to be a smart arse.

Aren't witches sexist, or do they allow warlocks?

Where's the IT angle? :P

Aren't we all God's/Gaia's children?

Where's the Love?

Why bother?

All important questions.

Patents

I'd like to patent the system whereby is a human is born they then proceed to old age.

I'll only charge 50p per lifetime use.

Mmm, £3B for me..

God clearly

God clearly made all the gay animals as a temptation (you know, like evil), so we'd see it, try for ourselves and then be TARNISHED BY SIN.

I knew a pair of lez spaniels once. Bless'em.

It seemed good enough for the Ancient Greeks..

Re: AC 14:01 & Ian Rogers

You both produced an uncharacteristically bestial laugh from me with those. Bloody funny chaps, bravo!

Perhaps

..if IE wasn't so unutterably shite then maybe, just maybe, people wouldn't feel it necessary to, you know, demand it's destruction.

People won't not-buy-Windows because it doesn't have IE. THEY WILL HAVE IT FORCED TO THEM ANYWAY. This just stops Microsoft wasting thousands of pounds of companies money by allowing ignorant users to continue using rubbish software.

Opera is free and works.

IE isn't and doesn't.

Feel free to continue using it, while you're there, send me some money for laughing in your face?

I hope there is a forced voting system for each browser. The blue E might be familiar.. but with 1.5 stars.. Hmm.. maybe this "Firefox" that I hear my IT literate friends talking about is worth a go with all those stars?

Version 8 and still not working properly. Time to give up the pointless fight Microsoft, it makes you no money, costs other people development time and for what? Brand presence? Yeah, should have considerer that before "Vista-capable" and then "Vista-itself". Now you'll sell us W8 like it isn't the same reheated shit with the broken bits taken out. Marvellous.

I want to Love Microsoft, they helped put computers on our desks, but instead of actually moving forward they just want to sit on their monopoly and watch creativity fester. Applications tether us to Windows, if a free OS let me play games...

Usage logging?

As in "anonymised user W went to domain X for Y amount of time from device Z"?

Or more

"Mr Orlowski went to domain www.napster.com for 2 hours from an iPhone"?

Former, good, latter, pfht. Plus, to brazenly say "look, we're spying on you! Aren't we great!" Seems silly. Sometimes schtum is the best tactic.

Cool

Hopefully be better than the movies though. They seriously lacked in laughs for the most part.

The ending of teh last implied something new for the franchise.. but I doubt it'll carry over (maybe first new episode)

Next up: FIREFLY, BITCHES.

Cool

Petrolheads won't have anything to whinge about soon..

Oh dear.

I hope they'll make a version for other phones.

Unless, of course.. it does work for all phones?

Nice article

Some most excellent phrases herein lie.

I think you missed a word though "approximately two and a half as much memory" + times?

Anyway. Nice one, informative and funny.

It must be the church.

Catholic Churches (the buildings) seem to blur the individual's ideas of right and wrong.

Architecture?

Lack of light?

Acoustics?

Chosen the wrong imaginary friend?

Who's to say?

But also: nice to see that priests are willing to help their flock. What else do they have to do? Build houses for the poor? Ha, yeah, right.

Re: Plant genes

You realise that everytime a farmer breeds plants to gain a specific trait he is taking it away from the base and "genetically modifying" it.

Monsanto are evil becuase of the crazy stuff they do to American dairy cows and their consumers to make more milk which, if memory serves, was in surplus at the time. New Zealand had a deficit and were buying in US surplus milk too.

Re: Article.

First gen crops, derivative but do the job.

Fourth gen crops, look a bit prettier, have a 40% larger footprint so less harvestable mass per-hectare.

Sixth gen crops have large, pretty flowers but the stems are so heavy they need to be held up with a weed bed beneath. Several flowers per hectare, insignificant crop yield.

Who'd buy Crops 7?

At least crops only last a year.. looking at IE6 here.

Er

So you, being a naval baddie, see a satcom buoy (or hear an acoustically encoded message), assume a sub is in the area and start active sonar pinging (it's not like they don't know you in your surface ship are there, considering a plane just flew over your area )

Would this work below the thermal layer?

Is it beyond current tech to make an extendable, floating, low-radar-profile, lots-of-slack antenna array that allows the sub to remain fairly submerged but still in comms?

Less messy buoys floating around. Less blatantly obvious medium-term visual cues

Dudu Topaz

Dudu Topaz. Seriously?

Could they sound like a scatological porn star more if they tried?

multiple chillers..

And yet they still manage to not have any overlap.

AKA

When 4 points of failure become one point of failure.

Also, is "uable" some sort of undocumented PHP array sorting function?

@ Andy O'Rourke

"If any of you commenting and moaning could claim some expense legally and get it signed off and approved by your manager and accounts department even if it was slightly "dodgy" (like claiming the full £50.00 accommodation allowance every night I was away but staying in a B&B for £15.00 and pocketing the extra because I didn’t require receipts) then YOU WOULD."

I suggest you keep your offensive projections to yourself.

While, undoubtedly, some people would do that, a majority of people 1) have a shred of fucking decency within them; 2) recognise that if everyone did that then your company would be fucked and you may lose your job. Nobody benefits in the long run.

I had to borrow 2p from a woman in the queue behind me yesterday and I felt guilty all the way home because she gave me 5p and the queue had been too busy to give the 3p back.

Most people don't want what isn't theirs rightfully. And those that do are theiving scum generally.

Paying expenses back isn't enough, the MPs proved they are bad people, taking public funds (we pay taxes so that we might help those in temporary trouble, provide medical care, keep our lands protected and so forth, by taking that for their own luxurious purposes they are even more despicable than the turds that mug you in the street [at least they face you when they rob you])

I rarely get the pay raise I want (never) but you don't see me taking a fucking computer home with me each Christmas to make up for it.

Round them all up and fist them to death, I say. Do the gene pool and politics a big favour.

hehe

More info at

www.timewarner.com

AOL Keyword: fucked

or

AOL Keyword: goodriddance

By the sounds of it..

Female techies complained. But it wasn't generalising to them, more to the "duh, I'l just buy the prettiest laptop and be done with it" sorts.

Female techies already know what a netbook is and what they can do. Tech sites aren't really gender specific, they're corporate. Perhaps because corporate IT is still viewed as a masculine-dominated area the generic corporate branding makes it feel masculine. I never saw anything on Dell's site promising their 10 incher would make me a 12 incher or have the sex appeal of 2.5 George Clooneys.

If they made 'splosion and nudity filled site to sell to "normal" blokes, I wouldn't feel offended. It'd just be funny. They already cater to me by not giving me bullshit and just laying down the specs.

Fox

Nobody is going to end up watching any of their shows BECAUSE THEY NEVER GET A FULL RUN AND THERE IS NEVER ANY RESOLUTION.

When will they accept that good sci-fi will never have massive ratings, they should just produce it becuase they aim to serve more than just the lowest common denominator. Perhaps by putting the shows on they would actually generate more interest. Or if they had a pay-per-episode service for the whole world to use.

Why don't the BBC spend some of my goddamn money making decent sci-fi? DOCTOR WHO DOESN'T COUNT.

It'll be ages before the next Hamilton or Banks book is released

"Do they HAVE a formalised right to free speach in Guatemala?"

Mmm Speaches and cream.

Issue?

Since when does an extra line consist of a "cluttered" interface? I've put my search bar on the same line as the file, edit etc., now it's nice and long and takes less space so I can read addresses and searches. Tabs below that.

It's not hard to mentally keep track of which sites you opened, nor is it difficult to use the favicons and, you know, text, to read what a tab is.

Why keep 20+ tabs open? EVER? How often are you actually keeping shit you don't need open, ''just in case', well Firefox, for instance, has a searchable history, also the feature where the address bar suggest something based on title not just address helps to solve this. Keep a 10 tab max, use search to find stuff you closed. Also tabs remember their own histories, so you can just go back and forward essentially re-using a tab. (For static unsecured pages)

I'm sure there are better ways to go about it, but I can't actually fathom people sat at their desks confused because of.. tabs. You don't keep 100 pieces of paper on your desk at once then epxect someone else to come and solve the moronic mess you got yourself in. In this analogy common sense and self regulation would be the filing cabinet you are looking for.

While I'm at it, the spelling and grammar in a majority of these comments is atrocious, making it hard to even understand some of them.

To the commenter that thought IE invented tabs first with IE for Mac, consider writing a patent application, then putting it at the bottom of a well. That's why there was no fanfare/recognition.

If someone thinks of something new..

..just keep your mouth closed and watch the remake of Evil Dead starring Miley Cyrus and some Disney characters.

Giant corporations with little competition resort to dulling their customers to an early grave with watery remakes and tired clichés.

They won't stop because we, in a desperate bid to entertain ourselves, will go see these films, which we cannot then claim a refund for, giving the company a false sense of achievement. User feedback is ignored. It is better to make one product viewed by millions of people than make several viewed by hundred of thousands.

Anyone who's enjoyed Firefly will understand. Even the film of that was watered down. Or seen "The Day the Earth stood still". Or was waiting for the moment the black comedy of 'Euthanasia Day' would kick in during "Death Race".

It reminds me of the dying empire in Asimov's Foundation series. Too sure of itself and formulaic that it shunned innovation and change in favour of successively degenerative iterations.

I've never seen Mona Lisa though, it's just a rant as I'm sure you could tell.