Posts by Thomas 4

Dear Lord....

Australia is rapidly disappearing up its own backside as it tries desperately to shield its citizens from everyday life. This new law will have some extremely unpleasant fallout, not just from artists but other mediums that use nudity as an artform. A recent game I played called The Void has a large number of nude figures in it, although unusually for a game, these most definitely fall within artistic bounds than voyueristic. The recent changes in the law will prevent such games becoming available there.

I applaud Rebellion's approach to the issue - rather than release an edited down version of the new Alien vs Predator game, they simply refused to release it there, pausing only to make an extremely derogatory remark about Australian censorship.

Perspective

"However, that doesn't mean that the introduction of full-body scanners - particularly with regard to younger travellers - isn't going to raise some uncomfortable issues; not least for Gordon Brown."

Or indeed the poor bastard watching the nude-ray as Gordon Brown passes through customs. Mine's the one with the lead-lined glasses in the pocket, thanks.

£10,000?!

For something a first year programming student could bang out in about a day?

I need to find myself a government sponsered software development company to work for.

Distasteful...

I disagree - it depends on what you fill the glass with.

I salute you, Mr Haines....

Just when I thought the content on El Reg couldn't become any more depraved, you once again, excel yourself.

o7

I've been waiting for this announcement..

...please, El Reg, can you do us a review of this thing before the offer expires, so that we know whether to take advantage of it?

While the Moderatrix's away.....

...the commentards will play.

I can't help but feel that Aaron Kampf needs a suitable nickname for taking up the temporary role of comment scrutineer in Miss B's abscence. Suggestions after the beep....

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Not bad...

....an unusually well thought-out and reasoned article from TD. Unfortunately, its not just tech writers such as the one the article mentions that will be hailing Chrome as the next coming of Jesus. Once the mainstream media gets a whiff of a real challenger to the Microsoft crown, they will be Googasming everywhere as well.

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against any form of operating system - I'll try any OS once to see how well it works. However, unless Google can persuade the big hardware manufacturers like Nvidia and the like to write easily installable, effective and compatible drivers for Chrome then this exercise will get as far as the netbook market and little further.

I'm sorry

...but these images are quite clearly photoshopped.

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD.

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