Posts by Tom 35

Re: Are there any good reasons for adding more TLDs?

Well someone has to pay for their junket to Beijing for "Public" meetings.

Re: Pink Car

Maybe they are taking Barbara Gordon's car for a joy ride.

Re: Is there another side?

No, you might have a troll with one patent, but the mega-corp will have their own pet troll with hundreds of patents.

We would be much better off if there were no trolls. If patents were use it or lose it a lot of crap would disappear.

Re: Devious and Disgusting

Even a drawing is enough it seems.

Re: Westboro Church and Scientology doing just fine, thanks

I'm not so sure. The Toronto scientology office no longer has people out on the street trying to sucker people into a "free stress test". Something that they have been doing for decades before the protests.

Re: Won't someone think of the children?

No problem, they will just sell new rings ina 4 pack.

The TV will come with a built in Kancho game.

There are a couple of UI annoyances

No, just one... It's crap.

And if you have not noticed, most people seem to think Unity is crap too, for a lot of the same reasons.

Re: Funny Stuff

"5) I've worked for banks too, I can assure you that this is not the case."

You might want to read the card agreement that came with the chip and pin cards. At least in Canada there are paragraphs of text that boil down to chip and pin is perfect, it's your fault. All of this text was new for chip and pin cards. In any case where chip and pin is used they assume you gave your card to a "friend" who bought stuff while you setup proof that you were someplace else at the time, then got the card back later.

Re: Spanners They make prisons...

No they have a different name for rich criminals. They call them bankers and investors.

Re: TV - Iplayer

I expect 99.5% of that .02% is catchup TV and movies (that is more TV) not web. Who is going to type stuff using a remote?

The other .5% is people updating the crap buggy software in the TV to still crap buggy software with more useless services added.

I don't remember there being problems with the original PC BIOS

If you bought a Dell or HP and never added anything to it maybe.

Something like an ASUS motherboard BIOS would be FULL of problems for the first few versions, but even a Dell Optiplex 960 had a Display port that didn't work. With version 06 Bios it would work if you plugged in the monitor after Windows booted, it was not until version 08 of the bios that it would boot with a Display Port and VGA monitor plugged in.

Re: This is just so moronic

That's only the secondary purpose, their main purpose is to make lots of money. They will sell you an expensive patented pill with loads of side effects where an aspirin would do.

Actually I think not paying any tax might be #2.

Not that that's an excuse for the people hacking them, it's just more people who want to make lots of money.

Apple are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

Re: Is there any point at the consumer end?

For broadcast, we need to get 1080 first. Right now what we get is so compressed on cable that you really can't tell the difference between an up sampled DVD and what they call HD. And there is the Hollywood crap "Ultraviolet" for more compressed to hell junk.

If he did try it on some ones front door, and even helped him self to a TV, and some how the cops bothered to look for him I don't think he would be spending any time in jail.

His other fault was not kissing the Judges arse.

Re: $urface

Are you really that stupid or are you just pretending?

If it's just the same people who bought XP Tablet, or Win7 Tablets then Surface will be a total fail. MS is NOT looking to sell to Engineers, they want to sell to all the people buying iThings. They want BYOD people to buy them.

They are selling them from booths in shopping malls. They are running lifestyle ads for them.

Do Engineers buy their specialized tablet computers from a booth at the mall?

Re: Why give them 15 days?

They need the two weeks to register the new company name, notify their costumers of the new company, and strip all the assets of the old one.

Re: Ultraviolet?

I could see them counting the digital copy thing.

I've tried using them twice. Had trouble with the code both times, the one that I got to work looked like a VCD.

Most of the time they have expired when I get around to buying the disc anyway. I'll just rip my own copy thank you.

Re: Cor blimey!

I've never seen that, but I have seen...

Going into the stall (so no one can see it?) and pissing all over the seat.

Texting while pissing one handed.

Re: Vote with the old wallet, theyll learn (probably)

No, they will say... Our stuff is not selling, piracy is taking all our money, need more DRM!.

Re: Soo...

Only install on one computer - F-ing Bastards.

Only install it on one computer at a time (2010 allowed more then one install) - Just regular Bastards now.

Re: Anti hunting hypothesis

If it was that easy, someone (or lots of someones) in China would already be doing that.

Re: Definition please

It's mostly marketing fluff like 4G.

Just look at Bell Canada, they now sell smart phones (HSPA "4G") and "Super Phones" (LTE) and I expect them to claim 5G any second now.

There is no definition. Obvious at the extream ends, but just a big gray blob in the middle so they can draw the line where ever they want to get the 50%+ calm.

Re: Hahahaha

That 30 pin port is not always the same. There was the 5v 12v charging thing that affected a lot of people. I had a remote/radio for my iPod nano 2g (Apple not 3rd party) but when I plugged it into my iPod touch 2g it just said it was unsupported device.