Posts by Rob 1524 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Apr 2007
I think this sort of thing should be stopped, it's getting to the point where taking advantage of rich peoeple is becoming a sport, when we shoudl really be treating them like fragile retarded members of society that they really are, iPhones, fonts, Gorden Ramsey reciepes, when will it all stop.
(I don't have a coat, I sprayed it with a can of gold paint from halfords and sold it to a rich twat)
People don't trust free, they won't place any trust in it, but by offering a full blown support service and marketing it in such a way should help shore up that defence. Although there are a number of basic home users out there that will ask why something for free needs so much support.
It still has an image problem of being an OS purely for techies/geeks by the general public that have even heard of it. Prehaps instead of Free he just aims for incredibly cheap.
.... because wide spread adoption of these sort of vechicles will probably bring it to a grinding halt.
This will also be very expensive for the home user for the plain reason we have no price cuts to our electrical bills now, they buy stock of energy from the futures market so even though energy prices are low now our leccy companies have already bought high price stock. Electricity might be the way to go for the environment but it definately isn't the way to go for the consumer.
This seems to be another case of technology surpassing law. I have a number of characters I've created (note the word created) and I pay to futher their develop on a monthly basis. These are my property, how they look and what they have is down to the time, money and effort I have dedicated to this hobby. If someone hacked into my account (even after I had taken every measure to make sure it was secure) then I would expect the company who runs it to step in and resolve the issue, if they couldn't I would consider whether I could take it further.
In reality it probably wouldn't get anywhere with our fuzz as they don't undertand that these virtual figures are creative property that has had in some/most cases money invested in them.
I agree with previous posters though, you give your password away and your case is severally weakened. Whether the sentence is fair for the crime is down to the Japanese justice system, if 5yrs is what they usually give to cases of damage to property which is all they could possibly boil it down to.
I think there will be a growing increase in these stories, hence why the law needs to catch up with these issues.
By all means let me know if it's a completely stupid idea, but when discovering said lines from the Koran, would it not be prudent to ask a Muslim Scholar or Imam(s) on whether they think it would be insulting/offence?
If nothing else this could be a lot of fuss about nothing, Islamics may not be bothered about it in which case this is just another PR story that isn't doing them any favours yet so far it doesn't appear they have had any say in it.
Completely agree, the more safety gadgets in the car the less likely one of the early morning death brigade will kill me because they don't pay attention.
I have no problem with a 2hr drive to work in the morning, but the other drivers on the road scare the crap out of me and their complete lack of concentration. To the point where I have little sympathy for the roadkill I drive past that has just added another hour onto my journey.
Makeup can be done at home, calls can be taken on a bluetooth headset, how do we deal with retards that have been given a license to drive though.
Like David Einhorn is a morally just person, isn't part of the financial meltdown due to these financial people/companies short sellin and such like.
At what point do we get justice and these people get some sort of punishment, hefty whack across the knuckles at the least (with a large stick with rusty nails attached, possibly coated in diphtheria as well for good measure).
Avid player of WoW (although don't play it enough compared to some people), can't really see the point of a CE. I'd get a collector's edition of something with the thought that I might want to sell it a few years down the line when it's value has increased, can't really see that happening with a computer game.
@ratfox, aye they usually have US and European server regions, the 2 don't allow mixing and matching of game clients.
Don't NASA or the AirForce have a plane that does this already for training purposes, if I'm thinking of the right thing then it's a lot bigger than the one picture in the article and doesn't require any other stages.
Also I thought the point of the X-Prize was to get an alternative to the shuttle, whats' the point if it can't reach orbital velocity, or is that a development still on the cards?
Paris, 'cause I'm as confused as she is.
"DARPA*, the renowned Pentagon crazyscience bureau whose nuttiness can only be properly expressed in terms of a conceptual Tardis-style hyperdimensional fruitcake, able to hold many times more nuts than can fit within its apparent measurements"
Are you sure your reffering to DARPA and not some new breakfast ceral.
Mine's the one with the pockets that don't work until high speed
.... some lecturer who salivates over his iphone thought it was a good idea, convinced his numpty of a manger (who was probably a lecturer 3months ago and has no managerial experience but was promoted anyway). Before anyone with any kind of sense knew about the course it was being advertised by said lecturer in the usual appalling word art poster way (cause he probably believes cause he owns an Apple something he has design skills) and it was all too late then.
The above can be applied to most new courses that don't really make sense to us normal folk as to why they are being run.
And overall, you've done a good job and weathered the storm quite well.
At the end of the day if people like the content you all produce, then unless the design is so bad it's making people vomit or get a headache they'll stay. Except the proper retards who love cutting off their nose to spite thier face.
And in the words of Johnny from the Fantastic 4... flame on
@The Fuzzy Wotnot - I have a solution to that, it works very well. Wait for said idiot to stop in front of you and barge really hard into the back of them, they will either drop their phone or they will fall flat on their face. If they complain just say sorry you were looking at your mobile phone :)
@Simon Brown - yup there is, it's called a BMW or Mercedes (can't remember which models coe with this HUD and phone features).
I've been waiting for someone to write about the money Blizzard makes on this game. Glad to see my calculations worked out about the same as well.
Whether you like the game or not, you do have to hand it to Blizzard for the formula they have, I did a few beta tests of online games before WoW went RTM and one of those beta tests went RTM then folded. I think they ended up making arrangments for thier subscribers to get a cheap deal and transfer to EVE online.
If they want to follow cults because they don't/can't use their brain to reason otherwise is good for the rest of us as it will clearly label them as someone to avoid, whereas without this label we could waste valuable minutes talking to these nutters before we come tot he conclusion that they are a nutter.
(Where's a Tom Cruise icon when you need one).
Good job, like the design.
In regards to mobile devices, absolutely Fubar on my Windows Touch Plus, okay if I go through Google's mobile portal, but I don't really want to do that.
Can people also stop comparing to Facefcuk as well, there are many other sites out there that used a similiar layout before that atrocity of a site.
Icons - like'em generally but do miss some of the old ones, I also miss the thundercats and ulysses but they ain't coming back either so who cares.
"The waiting will be over soon, anyway. The magno-tunnel doughnut was chilled down to hadron-headbang operating temperatures last month, and will generate its first circulating beam next Wednesday. Shortly thereafter an opposing stream will be fired up. Then it'll be time to start loosing off the twin proton cannons into each others' muzzles on full auto (Ed: and shout yee-hah) and watch the chunks of weird-o-frag fly."
After reading that, I want one of these toys, sorry scientific apparatus, to play with they sound like proper fun :)
Mine's the one with the exotic particles in the pocket
"It seems sending one of the minions off to do a chemistry or biology degree would (should?) be the first step for 'terrorist' groups. Using headline causing substances in an ineffective attack is less scary than an efficient, knowledgeable group."
Sod all that, smart terrorists would send their minions on a PR & Marketing course, they could cripple countries over night with our hysterical main stream media. (Stop feeding the media E numbers, they are far too hyperactive).
(at no point was I trying to include the El'Reg in the sweeping statement above, I still love you all, I wouldn't be able to do a full days work otherwise).
I stopped buying from Dabs when they started using Home Delivery Network. Unbelievably poor, enough so that I will never shop with Dabs again until I hear that they have changed their delivery service.
Least I suppose they live up to their name, they deliver to the home, just not necessarily the right one.
Would make a good TV show for public sector organisations.
The Corporation is at fault for not providing encryption, but also I think the Manager is at fault for leaving his laptop in his car.
Simple rules from the anti-car crime adverts, don't leave it on display, like the sign says on work vans, no tools left in van overnight, my laptop and other media kit are my tools. This manager is also a tool.
"The chance that we are following this correctly is roughly equivalent to that of a man with no arms throwing a handful of jelly through a falling doughnut at fifty yards without touching the sides."
Have you tested this out? If so I want to see the video, purely for scientific authenticity you understand and not for the sole purpose of laughing my arse off.
I say maybe cause I lost the will to read through all the posts (seems nobody can resist a dig at the US government muppets).
The trick being pack your devices full of Virus' cause you can bet your bottom dollar that they won't have any virus protection when checking/scanning through your kit. What's even more likely is that they would also be networked to the rest of the US gov including defense.
... I had a similiar problem with T-Mobile awhile back, just moved into a property BT didn't understand what a phone line was so I resorted to using my 3G mobile, so I phoned up and got my package bumped up to the all-you-can-eat-data-plug-it-into-your-PC package so that I wouldn't get hit by large bills. Lo and behold, I get cut of 2 days later as apparently they didn't apply the upgraded tariff and my bill was about £2k, suffice to say it was already sorted out.
What alarmed me the most was that they had to up my credit limit (from £2k) so that they could lift the ban via their systems, the money couldn't be refunded on the bill until the next bill date. So not only are they at the mercy of their systems too much but each customer seems to get an automatic credit allowance of £2k!!
They did sort it all out and we're extremely apologetic, although I'm still slighly peeved as to why I have to pay extra for call divert from my mobile to a landline that I would otherwise get for free if it was my digits pressing the numbers.
"Our biggest concern is the lack of a memory card slot which on a high-end smartphone in this day and age is tough to explain or justify."
Do you know how much real estate a memory card slot takes up on a phone motherboard? A lot when the phone is that size and offers all that tech.
Part of the reason memory cards have gotton smaller over the years has been driven by phone manufacturers wanting more space on their motherboards, gave them room to squeeze on GPS as well as Bluetooth and WiFi, now they want to squeeze on graphic chips as well!
Wish I hadn't locked in for 18months with a Touch Dual now, want this phone :(
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