Posts by Toastan Buttar

Hyperbole much?

"the tower helped establish Google as a search colossus whose thumb is now on the throat of the web and society"

Thank goodness

Thank goodness he didn't leave a Goatse egg.

Can't wait

Can't wait to see the movie at the cinema. I don't really care about the story; I just want to be absorbed back into the world of Tron in (true stereoscopic) 3D for a couple of hours. The Recognizers looked 'kin menacing in the trailers. Yeah, I enjoyed Avatar, too - so sue me.

Five minutes in...

Five minutes into a good movie, the overall picture quality becomes largely irrelevant. Unless it's a mangled old VHS tape, of course.

iPod Touch FTW

Nintendo must have got a real fright with the iPod Touch. With games and other apps costing from free up to about £1.99, it makes you wonder how the DS range continues to sell.

Bar room boob bet

"I bet you a quid I can grope your boobs without taking my hands out my pockets"

(Takes hands out pockets and gropes boobs)

"Well worth a quid, thanks!"

When the elvish conference ends..

..."Elves have left the building".

Defrost

I had to defrost the car this morning. How does that fit in with these so-called "Global Warming" theories?

PMSL

* snigger *

Burninating the countryside

Any chance it will render Flash animations on Apple devices?

I miss HomeStarRunner.

Preview (prehear) options...

Spotify ?

"store it in vast silos" ???

Vast silos protected by frickin' sharks with frickin' lasers?

Michael RAAM

I like it.

Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated

"Hey, where's Pery?"

Purchased at Pen Island?

http://www.penisland.net/

Spotify

"Legal services like Spotify might stand a greater chance of swimming, as opposed to sinking, if they did not face the challenge of competing with illegal, free services,"

Spotify is THE way to listen to new music on a try-before-you-buy basis.

Search -> Click -> Listen. Instantaneously.

It kicks illegal file sharing in the arse.

Who other than sentimental geeks?

Who would ever want one of these systems other than a hardcore geek recalling his misspent youth?

Yes, the Amiga was a cracking system in its day but that day has long since passed.

Working week

"the controversial Shenzen facility where 300,000 live and work on Tuesday "

What do they do on the other days?

Re: Tinfoil Hat

Obligatory:

http://xkcd.com/538/

Microsoft

Reading the list, it looks like the free Microsoft Security Essentials package is immune.

Silver Medal Rating...

...for a program you can't even get to install ?

How does that work then ?

S'up dawg ?

I heard you spying so I put secrets in your secrets so you could spy while you spy.

Hellish Merdepit

"Mobe-packing but khaziless Indians can at least take consolation from the fact that they benefit from a reduced risk of dropping their device down some hideous crapper and then getting their head trapped in the hellish merdepit while trying to retrieve it."

Never seen Slumdog Millionaire ?

Who'll develop for the older machines now ?

Are all new games and utilities from the App Store going to require OS 4.0 and the more advanced hardware ? How long before owners of 'limited' machines (e.g. 8GB iPod Touch) are left behind with a static catalogue ?

Or will developers of backwards-compatible apps reap the rewards of being loyal to their existing user-base ?

Will Jobs try to find a way to...ahem...disuade development of backwards-compatible apps ?

On the plus-side, Spotify running in the background sounds like a win to me.

NFC

Yep, I read that as "No F***ing Chance", too.

Re: They're insane

This is a geek news site. We are not yer average consumer.

"Everyone knows" you need AV products for every piece of computer gear you own. Intego WILL make some money out of this scam.

Hell, I've been using Windows XP for the last three years without any AV product and I remain malware-free to this day.

@ Adam 10

"Put me down for a chocolate shake".

Would you like that served in one cup ?

Paris, cos she's one girl.