Posts by Pete James 360 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Apr 2007
Excellent post there Fluffykins. I never realised that video was for people who are a bit thick. I'll have to remark on that to a mate of mine who relies on videocasts. He's dyslexic by the way.
Next time, before you get all snooty and up your own arse about audio/visual media, try to remember that for some it's their lifeline.
You know, I'm the same age and height as Daniel Craig and I have blonde hair and blue eyes. So I reckon if I hit the gym from now until the film premieres in November I might have a chance with the ladies over Christmas 2008. If I wasn't such an ugly slapped-arse twat.
Oh well.
When Wiki first appeared I though it had the basis of a fairly good idea. Time has sadly only proved that egos and bias can all to easily mutate such a thing into a pretty nasty little animal that deserves only to be taken round the back and quietly shot.
I do find the continuing use of the word 'democratic' by Wales to be rather ironic in the light of the machinations of this project. Maybe it's some sort of wikijoke?
..... as Dr Richard Nicholson said, this could also introduce caring by numbers, and that sounds distinctly creepy to me. My Great Grandmother battled dementia for many years before succumbing at the grand old age of 94, but she received excellent personal care and that was a massive boost to her fight. Tags could remove much of the contact such sufferers receive and in spite of the positive side of the idea it needs a proper look to avoid possible pitfalls.
The moment you started cracking one off with your 'this is just like Nazi Germany' I sighed and moved on. Please, spare us the drama bollocks. Apart from cheapening the memories of the millions of people slaughtered by a twisted regime you decide to compare two vastly different times, cultures and ethics to promote a blatently immature view of data collection.
Grow up.
Blimey, this is a blast from the past! I was in a big reseller of Compaq tin for over 6 years back in the late Nineties and it was damned good stuff priced to fight. They gave Sun a good hiding when they brought out their rival workstation at under half the price of a Sparc and the tussles with Dell were huge fun to be involved with. The Digital notebooks were very classy bits of work - if I remember correctly the designer moved to IBM? - and to me it was the dying days of real thought in creating laptops with original thinking instead of incremental improvements.
Here's a Christmas quiz for everyone; What did Compaq stand for?
No Googling!
Security will never improve until company Directors are properly held to account with robust, easily understood law instead of the flannel we are working under. And no, UK law does not work in this respect - otherwise we would have seen some brought to book by now.
I'm a tad annoyed. You see, I don't like all this sneering at people who do blogs, or write stuff for publishing or stick up pictures. It's all very elitist to me, keyboard jockeys bitch-slapping someone who dared voice an opinion based on some pretty pathetic reasoning such as spelling. I don't think anyone has a lesser or greater right to publish something on the web than anyone else. If you disagree with something published then fine, but gleefully indulging in the pettiness of grammar or baying insults is a classic Nathan moment.
Oh well, if it gives you a little damp spot in your Y-fronts then so be it.
Happy Christmas Lester.
Have to say my Compaq Presario C700 seems to work fine with Vista. Office 2007 goes at a fair old clip, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat all spin up quicker than my beast of burden desktop back home (which runs xp although it does badly need a good service) and now I'm used to the revised navigation it's not bad at all.
Can someone explain to me what dek is on about?
If you want to talk about choice, how about having the choice to watch advert free telly? Or maybe the choice to listen to non-commercially driven radio, or download a website that informs and educates as well as entertains. Which funnily enough www.itv.com fails on all three counts.
Too many people like to make strident and rather pathetic accusations at the Beeb, whilst conveniently forgetting the value it brings to the citizen. Perfect it ain't but it's better than ITV. Or Sky. Primeval anyone? Thought not.
You're drunk and you can't dance. Go to bed Nobby.
Let's not forget that the media hate the BBC for good reason; if they can mutually kick such a massive competitor then they'll grab the chance with both hands. When push comes to shove would you trust the Beeb or would you side with Murdoch, Desmond or the Rothermeres? You'd still take the Beeb's view as fairly close to impartial, informed and trustworthy, the likes of the Dirty Digger, the Porn Baron or the Hitler lovers know that and will do anything to make you think differently.
The beeb's website remains the best place on the wires. Along with the Reg of course.
Paris because she's also misunderstood.
they commissioned this and not my idea of a drama-comedy about a Government department losing half the personal information of half a nation and the hilarious sloping of shoulders as entire management levels become blameless. Think of it of a mash of styles from Bird & Fortune, The Office and Yes Minister. I would add
They said something about my plot being too far-fetched.
ITV has some spotty kid winning a phone-in. Said adolescent records mildly tweaked song to make his svengali lots more wonga in time for the New Year sales (30 pais of high-waisted slacks, and make them elasticated!).
BBC decides to wee on his bonfire and gets everyone talking about some old Christmas song instead. Outraged population, headed by the fatsome Moyles, inadvertantly cause the old song to scream up to the top of the charts instead of acne-riddlled virgin and so Cowell's festive domination is ruined by a rather naughty little demonstration by a rival network on how to mobilise people to stop a rival making any dosh.
I'm dreaming of course, it would never happen. No, never.....
I'm curious to know if the word was red-ruled after extensive consultation with a broad representation of the homosexual community? Or was this done after 10 seconds with Peter Tatchell (which is long enough for anyone to be exposed to The Noxious One). Or perhaps was done by some faceless North London nonce desperate to be seen as on-message to their pluritan bosses and thinking they were doing the gay community a huge favour.
I know this is coming over all Daily Mail but it really is a bit pathetic as well as irrelevant to a certain extent; faggot is an American term, not British.
We are allowed to still use the term Christmas aren't we? Just thought it may be offensive to someone so it might be dropped. Or beeped out or blanked.
As Emma's possibly still smarting from the alleged recent bitchslap courtesy of TfL here's a route to take out some aggression created by those part-time liberal nonces. When the 999 staff take a call from some time-wasting pants wetter they could just bang them through to a suitably strident telling-off from Ms Clarke complete with a profane flourish just to make sure the cretinous listener gets the message.
While I sympathise with Vasco's plight it's a bit unfair to rule someone out due to their need to accept payments through a third party. And let's not forget there are many people out there happy to rip of genuine retailers too. To me there is a vital question of a need to trust on both sides of the fence - which parties such as banks and a bit of lateral thinking from ISPs could help effect but won't.
PS if Anonymous Coward Directs Comments does that make him AC/DC? We should be told!
The 20th Century history of Germany will take a long time to be shown accurately to the German people, let alone taught properly beyond "we won the war" lessons in primary schools here in the UK. To make comments that this is an issue of freedom of speech is ignorant of the specific problems faced by Germany; just as there were many people who did not vote for the tyranny of Nazism, so today's society tries to protect itself from a repeat of indoctrination of such ideals.
Besides, I struggle to see how the freedom of speech is a valid argument when applied to deliberate acts of human suffering. Can you?
We all had that hopeful dream about computers, the web, world peace and all that. But along comes someone who is determined to inflict pain on others despite being caught and punished before. Someone who is 20 and already married with two kids yet spent the proceeds on limo rides with friends!
Someone who, in other words, should be banned from using a computer or accessing the web. For a long, long time. And possibly only allowed monitored access afterwards as well.
I actually think this should be a de facto punishment of anyone who commits a crime. Deny them the liberty to communicate electronically with others for a set length of time. Female crime would drop pretty sharpish anyway!
Two old mates of mine had HD sportsters. You wouldn't have told them they owned hairdresser bikes. But then again, the local Angels chapter wouldn't have made such a remark to them either. Perhaps a little bizarrely they tended to make the first remark about them being very average bikes at best.
Nice blokes though, loved their mums and all that.
More chance of Jo Guest getting her bangers out in my car than a flying one being realistically available for the masses.
Besides which, do you really want the future iteration of a Nova-driving pikey chav to be allowed to annoy you with a Max-powered winged version? Heaven forbid!
Call me old-fashioned but I rather like English when it's spelt correctly. For example, chequebook. It's bad enough that this place is like the Grauniad at it's very worst these days, but sneaking in awful derivatives like checkbook will only have us fighting on the beaches etc etc.
I take my hat off to this lot. It's a pretty simple idea and it's been well thought out to cover the details, so good luck to them.
Of course, you could just make sure staff turn their machines off before going home, but seeing as the customer was a Local Authority - and we all know the plankton-like intelligence that exists in such bodies - then we'll forget that minor detail.
But also not necessarily on target. UK for example companies have to conform with a sizeable amount of legislation across a wide area; technology security is but yet another one to deal with. There's only so many times you can threats about fines, prison terms, loss of customer confidence etc levelled at you before their impact withers. In fact, I'd argue the sheer amount of FUD thrown around by vendor contributes to this problem. Perhaps if they made a decent fist of presenting a good case for their product then it stands a far better chance of being accepted.
Another thick Bennie. Sadly, people from that neck of the woods - Birmingham and the southern crescent underneath it - are woefully lacking in gorms. You should see their writing; punctuation and grammar AWOL, no idea what they're going on about, sad really.
Sounds a lot like Alan Donaly........
Said a Premier League Spokesman last night, "We own football. These little people who post highlights of a football game should remember who is boss around here. If they don't like it then go and watch curling, or speedway, or some other so-called sport that these peasents like to dribble over."
Pausing to breathe for a monent as his snout came out of the trough the spokesman continued. "We're making a simple statement to those who think they can share a video of a small piece of action from a game; Go and shove your money up your rectum you braindead football fan chav scum.
In fact, we're considering playing games without spectators. They're obsolete now, more trouble than they're worth. We reckon it could make us more money by encouraging them to watch via digital subscription and save on all the Policing, crowd control, heating and other energy costs. Maybe even use this YouTube scum to have pay-per-view highlights. Mmmmmm, another gravy train......."
By the way, did you know you can't publish the season's football fixtures unless you pay for the right to do so? I bet the printers are struggling to stack the fivers coming off the presses.
I had a NEC phone years ago and liked it. Showing my techno ignorance here but I still get along just fine and dandy with a Nokia 6310i. Have you seen how much they go for on eBay? Crikey.....
Anyway, that's not the point.
I've seen the iPhone thing, not impressed.
I've read about the mini projector in a phone, yaaawn
And you can FRO Motorola with your razor rubbish
But this I like.
It touches buttons on a purely silly level like the surfacing and lovely slimness. Wonderful.
I want one. In red. Now.
.....at the risk of sounding like a throwaway line from an episode of Morse.....
I think there needs to be a bit of clarification in some of the article. Firstly, I've always taken the Congestion Charge infrastructure to be cameras positioned at the entrance to the charging zone, not within the area itself as you allude to. There is a difference after all - otherwise how come I can sneek inside at night and drive around in the day without getting a letter from the newt lover?
Second, the use of CCTV for improper purposes has been going on for some time, and your rather crass attempt at a wake-up call in suggesting such an infrastructure could be used by jealous partners or stalkers is many, many years out of date. I don't doubt for a minute that the use of video technology will expand under the current administration - and I certainly don't like it - but please do try and bang out a reasoned argument instead of coming over all mumsy, eh?
Third, you guys really do have this obsession with making sneering remarks about the misguided people who attempted to create mayhem. We all know they failed. We all know their idea was pretty rubbish too. But do you really have to mock these people quite so off-handidly?
I used to be an avid reader of PB's bulletin board and loved their newsletters. These have all but dried up whilst the board has been taken over by students, nobjockeys and fantasists. Looks like PB is now turning into the very type of animal that it used to sink it's teeth in. Okay, sounding like a Punch reader here but it's just not as good as it used to be..........
For some years we've had drivel and utter lies from Oracle about the resilience of their products. Remember the "Can't Break it" campaign? What absolute toss. Perhaps we'll see some real effort from this bunch of clowns to get their act together. I doubt it though.
Never mind. Perhaps one day the world will wake up and fall in love with DB2........
Looks like in Giles we have the predictable responses there. Oh yes, it's down to money, evil stuff. Ban it, now. And let's stop one sport trying to be innovative and make it really boring with identikit cars and pointless pitstops. 'Scuse me while I fall asleep..........
Giles, Formula 1 has been about money for, ohhh, ever and ever. It was recognised from the start as being a way to show off a manufacturer's engineering prowess and has been the frontrunner in technical innovation of any 4-wheel sport. Some great ideas from some great men have toiled round the clock to find the magical answers to making a tub with four wheels go faster than anyone else. That includes Colin Chapman, who ironically also ushered in sponsorship with his Gold Leaf Lotus liveries.
The whole point of A1GP is to have an alternative form of open wheel racing with different rules to F1, so why the two sports should suddenly become identical, as per your suggestion, is beyond me. Besides, ever considered that A1GP is also a huge river of cash, flowing in less transparent directions?
Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, before you fire off keyboard jockey comments about McLaren being cheats, might be a good idea to either wait for the facts to emerge or at least know your motor sport history. Then you may well consider Ferrari, with its rich history of rule-bending, wilful breaking and sometimes hilarious melodrama when they don't get their way, to be getting a bit of their own medicine back.
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