Posts by ShaggyDoggy

arghh

It's wookiee not wookie

Oh ...

... It's not about shellfish

I need to get out more

ASDA

Full marks to ASDA then for restricting their lorries to 40 mph even on 60 mph roads. And they boast about it on the back of the trailer.

What happens - a huge tail-back of cars taking increasingly mad risks to get past it.

Well done guys, what's next, cheap petrol ..........

Oh no !!!!

All our stuff runs on a BLADE SERVER !!!!

Pages

I think the AC was trying to be smart in that a sheet can hold 2 pages.

Of course he is presuming that they were all printed on.

"If a side of a sheet is not printed on, is it a page ?"

Unless of course it's an IBM blank page with "this page intentionally left blank" printed in the middle of it, thus renderinng it non-blank.

Those were the days, you can still do that with PDF files of course

mod con's

I'm not buying one unless it has a built-in CD player and aircond.

Oh and ABS

@ mark

It doesn't have to be art to be copyrighted.

Have you heard of this stuff called software ?

Insurance

Indeed, the life insurance industry will cease to exist.

I somehow don't think they'll want that.

Important

Do they ever send out unimportant updates ?

Immies

If the immigrant-haters leave England and go to live in another country, won't they themselves then be, oh no, immigrants !!

@plpl

In the EU trade is meant to be carried on without restriction.

By saying that Product A can only be sold here and not there and there, is allowing cartels to control the market and of course it ceases to be a 'market' the instant that happens. No amount of corporate-speak exclusivity upper-echelon nonsense makes one jot of difference, it is still a restriction of trade.

So is it ok then for these big shops to get "authorisation" which they have to BUY (it is not 'given') ... I don't think so.

Even high street retailers do that with records, if you want your album on their shelves you have to pay 'for customer face management' WTF

Pricing

What's the betting that when it arrives in the UK that 99 cents has morphed into 79 pence but the same server is used to deliver them worldwide

What's the betting also that a 'premium' service is launched where you can get 256kbps versions (which are upsampled-on-the-fly 128k tracks so no quality increase) and are 99 pence per track

What's the betting also that from 5.5 million tracks there's none of the ones that I want e.g. KS's UE

However all academic since no Real products allowed on my comp.

@Michael H.F. Wilkinson

Betamax lost because Sony was trying to use it for world domination.

VHS won because JVC released it licence-free.

There's almost a parallel here, but Windows had already got its foot in the door, and so all subsequent OS's have something of an uphill struggle to usurp it.

However, if a 'killer app' OS comes along, that allows you to retain your investment in Windows software and hardware, and is free or very cheap, and works exceptionally well .... I think the word would start in the online community first, spreading to the manufacturers etc.

It's all a bit like the rise and fall of an Empire

Computer says no

As a matter of interest, can I, uncharged, refuse to have a DNA swab taken ?

so last year

give me FUD anytime

but then I'm and old RPG'er

40 mph

This is the same Asda whose HGV's travel at 40 mph in the 60 zone. They even have a proud sticker on the back commending themselves for this action.

Of course the net result to road safety is that the queue of cars tailed up behind start to take ever more dangerous risks to overtake it. Anothr good move there Asda.

aha that's what it's for

now I finally know what the 'off' button on my computer is for

@ A J Stiles

Copyright law is civil law not criminal law.

The police can not arrest you for possession of copyrighted material.

How would they know, for example, that you don't have a letter back at home from the copyright holder giving you permission to use the material.

@anonymous coward

"The act of deleting shows intent to comply."

"- Oh no it doesn't; it is a sign of a guilty party trying to cover up the evidence"

Here in the free world we are innocent until proven guilty

Re: Guilty until proved innocent

Been there, had that.

I bought a branded Kingston 2Gb usb memory stick off ebay (from a reputable big-name seller) and paid with paypal.

A few months later I decided to sell it on ebay.

Within hours of it going on my ebay account was suspended due to 'inappropriate activuty'

They even suspended my paypal account as well, even though I was not asking for paypal payment for the item (and isn't paypal a separate entity under the law even though wholly owned).

It took 2 months to get back.

Some twerp from Kingston flagged my item as counterfeit, apparently they have a program that searches ebay listing looking for "Kingston" and then they tell ebay it is counterfeit - whether it is or not - because they don't like "thier" product being on ebay - well sorry guys I bought it so it's MINE

the whole thing stinks

Whose data is it anyway

Surely in a normal world the data belongs to the user who

input it, not to Facebook, so the user can do what they like

with it. But wait, this is Web 2.0 so there's probably some

small print on page 93 of the Facebook user 'agreement'

that states that everything you input they own, of course.

Can I wait for Web 3.0

and the rest ...

These are the ones we're being told about.

How many more are there going missing etc

And that's without 'enemy' activity ....

DVD

How come they included the BD drives in consoles, but didn't include the DVD drives incorporated in consoles ?

No need to answer

Npunner

Npower are clearly suffering from ampered judgement.

@Michael, etc

It's Red Army Fraction, not Faction

BBC and others please note

not me thanks

My 2 sons both upgraded to Vista solely for DX10 which a lot of the newer games require.

Both working well thanks. Their machines make Roadrunner look a bit pale though ...

Me, I'm sticking to XP, which I changed to from Win98 only about 3 years ago

Brundle

Since Martin Brundle made the comment in Canada, and is thus subject to Canadian law on the event, the only beef that Ofcom can have is with the broadcaster in the UK

Boom boom

@Maurice Shakeshaft

The Thames (Dartford) crossing is not a motorway, it's an A road.

It's the classic quiz question - Does the M25 encircle London ? No (not quite)

4 corners

All four corners are cut, but two of them are cut in a different dimension, and you'd need either a laser refracting anti-gravity cosmotron or a piece of greaseproof paper to see it clearly. Don't try this at home.

Tic-tac-toe

"Hello Joshua"

Daylight lights and Volvo's

I've never been able to understand why Volvo cars have daylight lights on but Volvo trucks do not.

Hahaha

Not a surveillance society - what we get is pictures all over the internet of some guy mooning in a Beamer, whose driver of course was not doing a traffic offence at the time. But the system still took his picture, and it got published. Was that a case of "appropriate, brief, and for the purpose" ?

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Duet Diligence

Virgin won't prosecute anybody.

Virgin won't cut anybody off.

This is entirely an exercise in being seen to do the right thing.

And it gets their name into the news for a day.

And the BPI's. Ah yes the BPI.

Remember that the BPI is not part of the UK government.

It is a pressure organsisation created and supported by the majors in the music industry.

It is not the same as Defra etc it is a private organisation put in place to lobby and defend those majors when things happen.

Moreover it is NOT another organisation called MCPS or PRS,

Those are the ones who collect royalties and distribute to the artists, not the BPI.

Please remember that, The BPI does NOTHING FOR THE ARTISTS it is there to protect the interests of the record industry majors and their shareholders, not the artists.

Killswitch engage

Do you really really really really think that Windows does not have a killswitch that can be activated remotely ?

Hot plates

I think he meant that if multiplied up to a 'normal' hotplate size it would be etc etc

... or maybe I'm being too kind here