Posts by Haku

Gawp Goggles.

Re: Whats up doc?

Yes it's a terrible situation that Warner Bros. cartoons have been put on YouTube, especially since I grew up watching them on tv as a kid and now I only have one brother due to an anvil incedent inspired by Wile E. Coyote.

Re: Conundrum

"Maybe ad-blocking should be a paid-for service, with some of that payment being compensation to the businesses whose (paid-for) ads are being blocked"

Are you fucking serious? That's a mafia tactic!

"Say that's a nice clean fast mobile device you got there, it'd be a shame if something were to happen to slow it down, use up your monthly data allowance and clutter up the screen pestering you to buy things all the time..."

Re: Sheep may safely browse

But back then Demon did have a COW (Center Of World router) called Ermintrude, which then split into two COWs as Demon grew, one called Ermin and the other called Trude.

/useless fact of the day

Re: Sorry, too small, too slow.

Like the poster above, I bought my Grixx sticks from 7dayshop.com

From now on whenever I need to buy a USB memory stick I'll be getting USB3 type as they leave virtually all USB2 sticks in the dust when it comes to transfer rates, even when plugged into USB2 speed ports.

Re: Blogster Dabbsy

If he did videos of his 'screwing up tests on new products', I'd imagine it would be something along the lines of Techmoan crossed with Ashens

Techmoan reviews little known (usually on the cheaper end of the scale) technology items often with full in-depth showing of the features of said tech. Factual and formal.

whereas Ashens gets hold of the cheapest tat you've probably never seen before (from 99p stores etc. and items sent to his po box from across the globe) then promply verbally and often physically tears it to pieces with his scathing wit and his disembodied hands (the camera always points at his sofa where the objects of not-desire are perused). Amusing, often funny, and sad when you realise people are actually buying the showcased products because they mistakenly believe they want them....

Re: Quick! I have to stop the terrible thing that... might not happen!

For those who love Futurama and were saddened by it's demise when they cancelled it, twice! I strongly urge you to check out Rick and Morty

Re: I'll sit back and see

I'm with you on the sitting back and seeing, what with the potential competition and that Facebook own it, however, like with most things that have a continuing 'invention evolution' if you will, if you're interested in getting some good VR kit then you'll have to make the plunge at some point, making the wisest decision you possibly can for what you buy at that moment in time, or you'll be forever sitting on the side waiting for the holy grail whilst watching everyone play with their new toys and not being able to join in on the playtime.

Don't forget the ID-Ten-T part of the equation,,,

Hey, I really like The Blacklist, I showed the first episode to a couple of friends and they got hooked to the point of binge watching all the episodes to date.

But everyone else who does like The Blacklist should also check out Banshee

"Personally, I don't buy games that need a remote connection to work"

I fully understand where you're coming from, hence my upvote, especially with the debacle of the Sim City game that required you to have an active internet connection to play the game despite it being a single player...

However I've become somewhat addicted to GTA Online, which I won't go into detail about how much I play except that I'm level 502... but I do realise eventually one day the GTA V Online servers will be taken offline so I'm making the most of what I have right now, and when the servers do go cold I'll still have the offline version of GTA V to play, which is still fun but sadly I'll lose a whole heap of content and idioms of the game the Online version offers.

Re: It's all about the target market

I've given my Samsung S2 a tempered glass screen protector and a rugged case (a rubber holder with a plastic outer case), making it very tough, and easier to hold because without the thickness the protection layers give I found it quite awkward to use because it was too thin and slippery to hold propely.

My phone is a tool, not a fashion statement.

Re: Men dressed as women, it must be a couple of FBI agents.

Or Adam Sandler is making another movie.

Re: Helium inside and nobody made a turbo boost joke yet?

So I should only make jokes that the majority of society will get?

That's not a world I would like to inhabit.

Re: "It's not 1080p, WAAAH!"

Yes I certainly expect to see small portable projectors with full 1080p today.

Why?

Because I have some Sony Glasstron PLM-S700E video glasses which have tiny 0.7 inch LCD screens in them that have a native resolution of 832 x 624, and those video glasses were made back in 1998, 17 years ago!

Re: Hmm...$10,000...

For the longest time (nearly a decade) a TS-150 thermometer watch

Then I got a TSR-100 infra-red thermo-scanner watch

After that a CMD-40-1ZT infra-red remote control watch

Now I got a smartphone for my time telling needs... but I still have those watches (and many more with built-in games)

Re: Uh-oh

"just expect it to work"

You're not wrong there, if it looks like a lightbulb people will expect it to behave like a lightbulb - give it power and it lights up, but with new fangled wireless control technology embedded inside them they may not behave as expected by looking at the exterior.

Perhaps a new, standardised name is needed for them to distinguish them from ordinary bulbs, dare I suggest iLites? Because everyone knows when you put a small i in front of a word it somehow indicates it's special in a technological way... well, except when used for place name like iNverness or iSle of Man.

Re: Still got my original blue Traser,

The price has certainly doubled since their introduction, I seem to recall paying about £6 each for my pair somewhere in the region of 15 years ago:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/21/light_up_your_life/

A shame because I'd definitely buy a couple of normal sized ones now if they were £5 each, at £10.99 my wallet is staying put.

Re: Originals still going strong

I also have a couple of traser glowrings from about 15 or so years ago, still glowing but not as bright as they once did.

They're stuck either side of a light switch now, very handy when you're coming in at night.