Read the Article
Amazing how many people rush to slag off the beeb for wasting our money on costume dramas.
Read the article - it's on the radio, so will consist of three people standing in a room, reading a script.
Posts by c price
18 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Apr 2007
Beeb reworks Wuthering Frikkin' Heights
Replicating DNA
Tuesday 11th November 2008 10:57 GMT 
Caught the tone
A good effort, although I think you're a little late to pitch for the new book.
What's more worrying is that does seem to be how publishing works these days.....
Like the graph - sets the bar about right for the new one. I'm not sure how anyone can ruin the legacy more than DA did with the last two books...
Heart because I don't think I've seem it used anywhere else!
Full-size Roman siege artillery offered on eBay
Noel Edmonds defies BBC's jackbooted enforcers
Friday 19th September 2008 12:57 GMT 
Well someone's got to...
"There is no IT angle to this story. What is it doing here? I am removing The Register from my bookmarks. Please cancel my subscription. I am also dissatisfied with today's weather. Please make the weather the way I like it. Goodbye."
Seriously, can I be the first to welcome our bearded, jumper wearing overlords....
Acer Aspire One A110
Monday 18th August 2008 15:28 GMT 
Extra memory without the HDD
I really like the AA1. It just annoys me that I can't have the extra memory without also having a HDD instead of SSD. What is the point of 120Gb in this type of machine anyway?
It seems that to do the memory upgrade yourself requires taking the machine apart...
Think I'll wait to see how much it costs with the bigger battery and 3G.....
El Reg nails Street View spycars to Google Maps
Tuesday 15th July 2008 14:51 GMT 
A title is required.
Black cars, black helicopters, they are all the same.
Here's a competion suggestion - a stack of El Reg goodies to the first person to find a picture of themselves taking a picture of the google spy cars on street view? (Something to do whilst looking for bulgarian airbag snaps anyway.....)
How to be an instant Web me-2.0 developer
Boozers rejoice - it's the USB wine tap!
BBC, ITV, Channel 4 plot single broadband TV player
Friday 15th June 2007 12:01 GMT
RE: virgin charge for bbc
Virgin don't charge for their "Catch Up TV" Service, over your regular monthly subscription. This allows you to watch "selected" shows from BBC, Channel 4 and Virgin own channels (Bravo, Challenge etc) for 6 days after transmission.
The keyword there is "selected". You have no way of knowing in advance if the programme you want to watch will have been saved.
There is also a pay-per-view service, which allows you to buy episodes of older series, including BBC content. But this is no different than buying it on DVD or from iTunes or similar.
So they do not "charge" for BBC content.
BOFH: PFY spreads his wings
Why do robot experts build such lousy robots?
Doohan's last landing party missing in mountains
Currys to cease stocking cassettes
Tuesday 8th May 2007 11:41 GMT
Currys pull free publicity coup again
Great, so Currys/Dixons have managed to get a load of free publicity by announcing to big fanfare the death of a old format.
By my reckoning that's at least the third time they have pulled this stunt, having previously anounced the death of floppies and VHS.
Looking at the Google news link shows how many journos have bought it. I'd moan about lazy journalists, but I can't be bothered....
Woman serves hubby really crap curry
BT brings Wii-like remote control to PCs
Chocolate the key to uncovering PC passwords
Tuesday 17th April 2007 10:52 GMT
Missing the Point
Of course lots of us would lie to get our free chocolate, and walk away thinking how we've beaten the system. Meanwhile the researchers chalk up an alarming high statistic on how easy it is to get passwords, which they can then sell on to companies selling security software. And by the time they quote the stat, the details on how it was obtained are quietly dropped.
There are lies, damned lies and Market Research....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
