Posts by armyknife

Titles are for toffs

They should make a tough multi-screen smartphone, it could have several 6-9 inch screens supported in an unbreakable steel or iron grid, which could be painted bright red, so easy to find if you misplaced it.

Titles are for toffs.

I wonder if racism is one of their other fascistic tendencies?

Why Print Anything?

I'm interested that in a world of ever increasing processor power and general computerisation, consumer still buy into the notion that ink should rightly be one of the most expensive commodities on earth.

titles are for toffs

:Nelson:

Nook Care Issues

Just looking at their twitter feed, weird that it's the only way to get a response from them, and it appears order numbers are now 300,000 higher than my still to be delivered one.

I don't think that means there are several hundred thousand orders for the e-reader outstanding, I only found out about the site from a comment here. So I suspect those ord.nos are generate for all sales including ebooks etc, possibly worldwide sales too ?

As it is, I'm not holding out any hope of getting one, it'll probably drag on for weeks, and ruined any chance of me getting one elsewhere. Though no doubt ebay will be awash with sales from people trying to make five quid on the thing.

I wonder if I'll get one ?

Looks good, ordered just the one, for my old dear, so she can borrow fiction from the library.

Job Search ?

As an 'enduser' of the jobsearch website, the experience has led me to conclude it's an utter joke; if you think you're going to get a job solely through there you'll be sadly mistaken.

'We' need to do this.

'We' need to do this.

After the first step, humans seem to have stumbled, time to put the other foot forward, make an footprint in the sands of time and see humanity eventually get into its stride.

titles are for toffs.

That's maybe 30% of approaching 99c for 25 billion downloads minus modest infrastructure and marketing, to sell other peoples content.

So in the high single digit billions, quite a cash cow and possibly more than the major 'evil' record labels' profits in that period; you know the people who at least sometimes help develop the content.

Did it ever go away?

Still using it today, indeed it's often the first application that gets fired up in the morning. :gasp:

Titles are for Toffs

Zynga had a games designer, who knew.

Greens and Blues

Oh look the OS 'banter' wars continue into 2013; didn't ancient Byzantium have a solution to this problem?

The 4th Console War

About time too, we need a new installment of the console wars, the whole apple vs the rest was getting So stale on here. :-)

Quality products?

Bought some sony rechargeable batteries a while back, worst NiMh batteries I've ever encountered, some failed rapidly, others would barely hold a charge; batteries I've pulled from used garden lights have proven better quality.

Repeat, Repeat

Virtually all of these are sequels, what about some review of original games or do those not exist anymore ?

It's a Conspiracy

I've a theory, but not as we know it Jim.

There I think I've managed to make a sentence that makes as such sense as the 'OMG the UN is taking over the world crowd'.

That's not to say they're not coming for your guns, in that fleet of black helicopters.

Clocking An eyeFull

Nice story, but I think my title would have been better.

Amazing.

Wow, what amazingly creative people; to think in the past we had to just put up with those only capable of building bridges, railway lines, defeat fascism, create the welfare state and so forth.

G.Orwell - " Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. "

Swiss Neutrality ?

I would big up Swiss neutrality in WW2 or Hitler being enraged by them, iirc Switzerland will still providing Nazi Germany with weapons and especially munitions in early 1944, they only stopped in May 1944 because the Nazis ran out of hard currency/someone else's gold.

The Americans and other allies weren't best pleased with them in the immediate aftermath of WW2.

Bass Chord FTW

I thought the signature element of Motorhead's classic sound is the bass playing of Lemmy, so why do these headphones boost the guitar/'metal sound' ?

Wouldn't it make more sense to have whatever quality near 'neutral' sounding speakers/headphones you can afford and then crank the volume up to whatever you're comfortable with and/or feel reproduces that Motorhead sound the best ?

End of Humanity ?

Is this what we've been reduced to, arguing the toss about the virtues or otherwise of a piece of shiny plastic/glass ?

How about we redirect some of this passion towards somewhat more important issues, be those in your own lives or the wider world ?

Thorfkin thanks

That's exactly was I was interesting in knowing; I just need a modest pc to play the occasional non-cutting edge game in addition to the usual range of pc uses.

Titles Are For Toffs

Self-selecting 'sample' ?

titles are for toffs.

How much ?

At least I hope The Register is earning some good click thru revenue from reviewing all of these 'high-end' products.

Now for the rest of us how about review speaker systems that cost up to and around 50 quid ?

Titles are for toffs.

Lewis is again missing the point, 'suborbital space tourism' is about the next level of conspicuous consumption, plus they get to REALLY look down on the rest of us.

titles are for toffs.

F******* Facebook Friday - now that today's IPO estimates the 'values' of mine and everyone else's facebook accounts at $115 each, I feel the need to withdraw this product, ie me, from the market place.

So if like me, you've had somewhat mixed feelings about using the website and the positives, some types of social interaction, have been balanced by the negatives, loss of privacy and the wrong sort of on site inaction, why not take this opportunity to close your account and grab back those supposed 405 minutes a month each of us give to it ?

Let the Web 2.0 bubble start to deflate.

* It's not what you think, farewell doesn't have 7

Titles are for toffs

Home taping is killing music.

Titles are for toffs

"Incidentally, the Lumia 900 has excellent call quality and picks up a signal strongly"

Why is this an incidental, what with the product being a mobile phone ?

titles are for toffs

Tool makes tool fail ?

Keith Vaz is a Hypocrite

So he blames a video game for real world violence, but doesn't bat an eyelid in voting for a war of aggression, that's resulted in tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dead, the photographic evidence of which has been largely self-censored by our media, as likely to be too upsetting for our delicate stomachs.

http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpid=40358&dmp=1049

And he then went on to resolutely oppose a thorough investigation into the Blair governments probable criminal actions:

http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpid=40358&dmp=975

Truly yesterday's 'gone tomorrow' politician, still struggle for some delusional self-importance.

Tool fails to use correct tool.

Titles are for toffs.

Y.

Change as good as a rest

Well it makes a change from the usual management pissing contests.

Titles are for toffs

Does almost every activity and experience just HAVE to be mediated through a smartphone or ipad ?

CBA

How much ?

That's a lot of **** and *******.

Pure Comedy Gold.

""Governments will be able to spot the economic makings of a crisis before they happen"

Maybe the technology played a role in enabling or enhancing the financial crisis, wacky idea I know?

Thumping One Into The Top-Right Corner From Outside The Box

What if you don't like football ?

Cashing In On Ebay.

One of the two 'sellers' on ebay, had on offer 49, which sold out by 11.30am. Have a look at what he sold them for:

http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsLogin&_trksid=p4340.l2564&rt=nc&item=290677406685

But according to the firs feedback he's recieved, he's been let down by his suppliers !

Hopefully he's going to get his fingers burnt over this and his feedback trashed.

Pinball Wizard

I hope they play a certain Who song as his funeral.

re; Confused @James Hughes1

Yes, apparently the camera and video recording isn't very good, but that's offset by some minor features:

"The 2Mp auto-focus camera is a very basic affair and will only record video at 175 x 144 @ 15fps but to counter that the call quality, rear speaker and signal reception are all excellent."

I guess it's good that it's functionality as a phone even got mentioned, but why can't call quality and signal strength be discussed near the top of, your know all PHONE reviews ?

austerity what austerity ?

Given the state of the public finances and the necessary cuts, could they forgo the majority of this for a couple of years ?

After all "every little helps"

Maybe you're not a very good driver ?

See title.

"Generally" is an understatement it should read "Always"

I've investigated the Facebook cookies and this is what I've found:

I have numerous website tabs opened in Opera, that start up before I connect my ADSL, so the webpages load from cache and the cookies don't get updated as there's no connection. One of the opened pages is facebook, so when online I refresh it and check the facebook cookies from within the browser, there's 12 of them, all but one updated, showing "lasted visited" time of when I reloaded the page. So I log out of facebook, and the time of the cookies is updated.

Then a couple of minutes later I refresh a random page, happen's to be a DM page about the Queen and quess what, ALL 12 facebook cookies have updated time lasted visited to exactly when I refresh the page.

The Guy Has A Sense Of Humour

It's as if the profile was written by someone with a self-deprecating sense of humour. :gasp: