Posts by Martin Lyne

@Matt Bryant

You lack of sensitivity is astonishing.

For anyone willing to find out more about "Saint Rachel" - I'll omit your horrid prefix. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie

You are free

Free to do as you are bloody well told, now move along.

We all saw what happened in the US when people were allowed to exhibit civil disobedience. THINGS CHANGED.

This is unacceptable. How will we get the trucks filled with money to the Bankers' houses with all these tax-payers in the road?

Hmm

Have they done a study on the usage of porn related to being married to a haggard, domineering, privacy-hating beast?

The downfall, so sweet to watch. Holier-than-thou public servants - never ends well.. for them, anyway.

Street view + paper = mass retardation it seems.

See title

This article

This article says nothing about being anti-global warming.

They said "This makes sense, because we don't really expect global warming to make the ocean [temperature] increase that fast,"

Implying they never thought it WAS part of global warming, so the fact they HAVE found the cause and confirmed it changes nothing from a climate change perspective.

What's worse than people rallying against something becuase of prejudice? People rallying against something becuase of an expected rallying against something due to prejudice knee-jerk reaction.

The subtitle does perhaps swing that way though..

Fucking.

Sexual.

Specs included.

@Mike Panero

Fucking great!

I agree that there's too mcuh text in MMOs, considering we all know everyone else reads it it makes it far less personal, less worth reading. Plus, why read when you could grind?

MMOs are boiled down to leveling and hoarding. You can't give people more than that and complain that tehy ignore it, you need to draw them into the game itself. I have plenty of ideas, but I'm not giving it to those pricks without money :)

Now look

Now look what's happened.. my ears and eyes have been coated in bullshit. *Sigh* It'll take more than a TV psychologist to get that off.

Perhaps they could stop violence against ALL PEOPLE by actually making punitive sentences mean something. Build prisons, lock the fuckers up, make them do hard labour for free. It's just like the outside world *only no women to beat up* (er.. for them I mean, not like we all have women to beat.. shit now I'm in a hole spouting my own bullshit nad drowning in it!)

Terrorism pays

aka Civil disobedience and action still has power.

Woudln't

Woudln't it need to have a 3D element, lest a slightly off angle will result in a "this is not you"?

Clearly

Everything evolved from the primordial gloop, some gained legs, posteriors, mandibles, brains and then sentience. Then the internet, then YouTube, then the sentient creatures cast their gaze upon the comments laid forth on the Tube of You.. and decided we are all better off evolving back i puddles of slime that have no fingers.

Why?

Dilution of the brand should be secondary to dilution of purpose. I'm more likely to spend an extra £50 on a phone if it has a very good camera/screen etc.. Making a version with a shoddy camera just infuriates people as if they wanted something with good EVERYTHING, they cannot get it in one device.

HTC need to learn this lesson with their cameras.

iPhone Nano is where they'll go, everyone loves things that do the same as X but in half the size.

If they really want to to be fancy they could stick a mini projector in it for when you want to watch films or run size-dependant iPhone apps but the screen is too small.

Still wouldn't buy one myself, but undoubtedly the iPhone hugely publicising touchscreen tech and making it available is a factor in it's success, you think it would have been as popular with a normal keypad and screen? Add to that an existing fanbase for Macs and you've got yourself a free, frenzied word-of-mouth ad campaign.

I liked this article as it answers the question I raised the other day to a friend, why did they stop the fold-out keyboard (n-gage-esque) designs? My friend had one and it was flimsy but showed potential.

If at first you don't succeed..

try, try, try again.

If by Attempt 7 you are still failing miserably GIVE THE FUCK UP.

They don't make money from IE and they engender hatred, even if IE 8 is perfect with standards, i don't care, I'll still get people to use Firefox/Chrome/Opera becuase they shouldn't be allowed to think "oh, Microsoft, they make good software"

They fucked the developer community with a lack of lustre before.. that shouldn't be forgiven.

"Not fully formed standards for 5, 5.5, 6" yeah right.. the years between 6 and 7 they were all working away furiously, right? Right.

All this fanfare for "we've caught up with the competition!"

It's clearly

.. a victimless crime.

Unsolicited email !== good advice

Darwinism implies you and your children deserve to starve thanks to your stupidity.

Hah!

"Launchbat.html"

Virus scanners at the ready!

Cute and tragic, but glad the shuttle got their safely

sillyfellow

"there is nothing normal about one human stabbing another."

History might disagree with you.. spears, swords, bayonets, etc. Human nature and ambition poitical figureheads being what they respectively are.

Being put in prison becuase you "assault" someone trying to stab you, now that's not natural.

</psuedo-sociology>

But..

What will we pay the Consultants for now?!

It kinda looks..

..like a baby OV-10 Bronco. Aww!

I've

I've often considered small ceiling-corner mounted laser turrets to rid my life of nasty spiders and flys.

But it's kinder just to put htem outside..

A town called

Eureka?

Much better..

Much better to have run it without lubricant for a while, causing the wheels to lock or a train to derail and block the station for hours or days, anda few deaf station workers.. pah. I MUST GET HOME!

If only people thought past the immediate me/location interface..

If

If he hadn't asked for reward, he should have been sent one.

Couple of hundred quid, less than it would have cost in legal fees if it hit somoene and the van needed replacing/repairing.

As it stands, he asked for compensation, negating the heroism somewhat.

Hmm

Free degrees? That sounds more Socailist that Republican..

Maybe they bombed becuase they ruined the world?

Typo?

"The problem is that users just didn't care enough. Buy why not?"

"But why not" mayhaps?

Mmm

That dashboard and organic steering wheel look deliciously different.

Fingerprint magnets f'sh'wah, though.

@Edward Miles

Make a process hard to do and people will be liess inclined to do it. Microsoft doesn't kno whow to give up market share, even when a product is making you no money. Well, si Uppose it defaults to microsoft sirtes then if you were in a hurry and stuck using IE then you might just search on their pages and not Google.

You'd have to be in a pretty big rush. Possibly drunk.

They need to include Firefox with it. Giving the people the option of removing something isn't the same as giving them an option of choosing something else out of the box.

Markets

If one operator takes that extra fee hit and DOESN't pass it on, they will gain a lot of business from people who move providers.

But, of course, you'd rather have your Prez print some more money and devalue the dollar so you end up buying bread for $2mil in $100 notes stacked in a wheelbarrow.

Governments have fairly limited ways of making money. If they ask for more business tax, companies pass that on to you, if they charge companies more for things, companies pass that onto you.

If governments spend less money anyone working for the gov (or anyone working for a company that has a government department as a client) get less/redundant. That'll be a lot of 'you' too.

Capitalism ROCKS. You could always set up a PayPal "Donate" button on whitehouse.gov and see if the 20% that hold 85%* of the wealth will help out the cause. G'luck with that one ;)

* Circa 2005 - http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Planetside

See: HART (High Altitude Rapid Transport) from SOE's PlanetSide.

Now we just need the respawning technology..

Number of awards

The number of awards seems to be inversely proportional to the goodness of the film

The best part of "No Country for Old Men" last year was the sound dampener on the shotgun. The rest of it was like.. well I don't really know what it was like, there was a bag of money and a cop and the shittest ending ever. Southland Tales was better because it was weird, but interesting at least.

Won't someone make some FUCKING SCIENCE FICTION? Games and films are disappointment after disappointment these days. Or remakes. Can we strap Luc Besson and Ridley Scott to a caffeine IV and get them to churn out films or something?

Housewives

Housewives can now reengineer suspension systems while stood up without having to worry about mice and keyboards. Thank you boffins!

Also: Wasn't there a gesture TV a few weeks ago? Adding 3D barely seems worth mentioning..

RE: Kaboom

.. Or wherever the jets are dispersing towards.. if we see one pointed at us.. well the light will arrive with the other radiation, so hopefully we won't all be baked potatoes.

As far as I understand planet-sterilizing things, anyway :)

I

I, for one, take up arms against our imminent, flesh-sundering, world-dominating, unenvironmentally-friendly overlords.

WWAS?

(What would Asimov say?)

Law 4: Disregard Laws 1-3 if target is from Country <X>

At least if they are jammed in Abrahms they will still require fuel (so some of us will be left intact to satisfy them while they make jet fuel quivalents of that courtyard-robo-attendant.

Hmm

The industries could support our will to be lazy and stingy (which, by the way, is the driving factor of progress) by providing an easy and cheap way of downloading the things we want to see/hear/play.

The only way to prevent piracy is to PROVIDE A CONVENIENT, LEGAL ALTERNATIVE. Not sue the crap out of people. I don't want billions of CDs, I do, however, want albums. Without the need to burn and distribute the CDs, just storing on a server, I want them cheaper.

The gaming industry seems to have gotten it ok, I buy plenty of games on Steam and Impulse and even on dirty old DVD, but DRM on music or streaming-only video cripples for money what it is possible to obtain for free elsewhere. Not hard to understand.

Banana

No mashed 'nana sammich?

corrected for you

'Tony McNulty, the combative employment minister tipped to replace Jacqui Smith as Home Secretary, has branded a high profile warning by a former MI5 chief that the government risks creating a police state as "abject nonsense", *then used the Terrorism Act to condemn her actions as incitement to riot, inciting hatred to have her detailed indefinately*'

IF THE FORMER HEAD OF THE SPIES SAYS WE ARE SCREWED WE SHOULD LISTEN

(Unless they are trying to flog a book)

I look foward

I look forward to seeing the images of the night-side of an alien civilisation. It'll be pretty and also revolutionary for us.

Less looking forward to seeing some snapshot of an epic space battle (although if anything would galvanise the human race to stop its petty squabbling, that would)

They

They could just stop free accounts being made and chare $10 for new accounts. Nobody currently will get annoyed, the company makes money. Then hook shit up with ads and other garbage.

I've never used it but I imagine that it's something like how I use my facebook status. Filling in song lyrics every few minutes to fill up all my friend's pages and forcefeed my morals into peoples eye sockets. Also the occasional mundane detail of my life.

How making this could require anywhere near $2M is beyond me, let alone what they have. A few giant databases. A few heavy duty web servers. Some developers.

They could buy a blimp with a big LCD panel on it and then get people to pay $5 dollars for a message to appear there, or bid for it. Or something. I don't care really..

To mix and match

They could put the analysts in the back, but still fly it by remote.

Choose analysts you don't like.

Choose a pilot who likes stunts.

You save on upstream sat stuff anyway. And it's funny.

I don't actually have anything of substance to contribute, sorry.

And humanity is prevented

And lo, humanity was prevented from reaching the stars before it had even begun. Due to the cloud of high speed shrapnel circling it's planet.

Inflatable space hotel, right? :P

Would it be so hard to put a few square (hundred) metres of Kevlar up there, little booster on it. Just move it around to soak up the shrapnel. By letting the shrapnel hit it I mean..

LOL!

I did actually LOL at

"Or perhaps you've dreamed of dialing up your Phil Collins CD library by pressing your ass against a table? Surely, I'm not the only one."

Very good. Luckily my upstairs neighbour moved away yesterday, lest they think I'm tickling myself or something..

Ha

Open Source OS, handset that has some form of detecting-multiple-touches.

Some programming.

Oh look, Apple can go fornicate itself with a rusty spade. If basics like the mouse had been patented and protected then where would we be today? Fucked, that's where. They made something cool and made money out of it, now they want to keep it, well, that makes you look greedy.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary

You chose money over kudos, you'll run out of ideas with which to charge excessive amounts and then you will wither, Apple. How long before you think smaller/thinner and more Gb will sell?

£3m

£3m? For a Google Maps mash-up and XML feed?

Ha!

People don't visit Reading!

Not if they can avoid it anyway. So I suppose high-tech access to bus times is fairly useful for anyone that fnds themselves stranded..

Only?

Only a 1.4L back up engine? Why no V8?

I'd rather have

a cardboard box to be fair. Current metal ones always give me nasty cuts. That said, corrugation = insulation, and a spilt drink = carnage.

Just make robots that hoover up the dust from inside the case, pretty please?

Er

No decent flash by the looks of it. If my K800i can have a Xenon in it.. c'mon guys, I want to spend this money!