Posts by BRYN

Elon Musk living up to Spitting image song

Many years ago, at its peak the UK TV show Spitting image released a song

I've travelled this old world of ours from Barnsley to Peru

I've had sunstroke in the arctic and a swim in Timbuktu

I've seen unicorns in Burma and a yeti in Nepal

And I've danced with ten foot pygmies in a Montezuma hall

I've met the king of China and the working Yorkshire miner

But I've never met a nice South African

[Chorus]

No, he's never met a nice South African

And that's not bloody surprising, man

'Cause we're a bunch of arrogant bastards

Who hate black people

[Verse 2]

I once got served in Woolies aften less than four week's wait

I had lunch with Rowan Atkinson when he paid and wasn't late

I know a public swimming bath where they don't piss in the pool

I know a guy who got a job straight after leaving school

I've met a normal merman, and a fairly modest German

But I've never met a nice South African

[Chorus]

No, he's never met a nice South African

And that's not bloody surprising, man

'Cause we're a bunch of talentless murderers

Who smell like baboons

[Verse 3]

I've had a close encounter of the 22nd kind

That's when an alien spaceship (pop) disappears up your behind

I got directory enquiries after less than forty rings

I've even heard a decent song by Paul McCartney's Wings

I've seen a flying pig in a quite convincing wig

But I've never met a nice South African

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[Chorus]

No, he's never met a nice South African

And that's not bloody surprising, man

'Cause we're a bunch of ignorant loudmouths

With no sense of humour

[Verse 4]

I've met the Loch Ness monster and he looks like Fred Astaire

At the BBC in London he's the chief commissionaire

I know a place in Glasgow which is rife with daffodillies

I met a man in Kathmandu who claimed to have two willies

I've had a nice pot noodle, but I've never had a poodle

And I've never met a nice South African

[Chorus]

No, he's never met a nice South African

And that's not bloody surprising, man

Because we've never met one either

Except for Breyten Breytenbach, and he's emigrated to Paris

Yes, he's quite a nice South African

And he's hardly ever killed anyone

And he's not smelly at all

That's why we put him prison

[Outro: P. W. Botha, Mr. Welldone]

Frankly, Mr. Welldone, I'm fed up with people from Britain attacking my country for Apartheid

We treat the blacks very well indeed!

I actually employ several kaffirs here in my own home

But Mr. Botha, I haven't seen a single black since I entered this mansion

Haven't seen one? My God, man!

What do you think you wiped your feet on when you came in?

*Attackers storm in and stab P. W. Botha*

You can't put a better bit of Botha on your knife, oi!

It seems very apt right now..

not 100% accurate

Lets put some flesh onto the bones of that story.

Whilst true your rendition isnt accurate:-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argonaut_Games

"In 1990, Argonaut collaborated with Nintendo during the early years of the NES and SNES, a notable incident being when Argonaut submitted a proof-of-concept method of defeating the Game Boy's copyright protection mechanism to Nintendo.[5] The combined efforts from both Nintendo and Argonaut yielded a prototype of the game Star Fox, initially codenamed "SnesGlider" and inspired by their earlier Atari ST and Amiga game Starglider, that they had running on the NES and then some weeks later on a prototype SNES. Jez San told Nintendo that his team could only improve performance or functionality of the demonstration if Nintendo allowed Argonaut to design custom hardware to extend the SNES to have true 3D capability. Nintendo agreed, so San hired chip designers and made the Super FX chip. They originally codenamed it the Mathematical Argonaut Rotation I/O, or "MARIO", as is printed on the chip's surface.[1][6] So powerful was the Super FX chip used to create the graphics and gameplay, that they joked that the Super NES was just a box to hold the chip.[7]"

i've chipped in

Ok my first home computer was a ZX spectrum back around 84, then later a +2 when it launched. I have so many found and happy memories attached to the ZX Spectrum. I am so very excited to be onboard for KS2 having missed KS1. I know its a toy and I appreciate its expensive, and I know I can play all the games I love on an emulator. But its just not the same. I know technically I am only playing via emu on the Next too. But its flicked all my emotion buttons.

Anybody even slightly surprised?

I know I'm not

he made it to Wirral:-

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/breaking-boris-johnson-leo-varadkar-17062942?fbclid=IwAR3UXJG5bmZc1l9SJCNkRXsePZ63fdPXYnAUMvTzy1k2g5gaXIPAKHW8MWY

He is still an eejit

Can we take a moment to remember the Vega +

I like the fact the binary when entered into a converter is Turings birthday. That's a nice touch.

Too expensive to budge me from My Moto G pro and its excellent near 3 day battery life in my hands. No a bad camera either. But I aint a good photographer so what do I know.

I have a newbuild shoebox. My smart meters where installed when the house was built. No electric or gas company will sign me up to a smart tariff without replacing the smart meters with there own smart meters. The irony is the smart meters they want to fit are the same makes/models of what is already installed.

According to OMG Ubuntu your not 100% correct

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/11/apple-t2-chip-cant-boot-linux

Reported yesterday that it maybe/is possible to pay over the odds for the hardware and to run your free operating system on.

I see the $ to £ conversion rate means nothing

On Apple.com the price is $1,199.00

On Apple.com/uk the price is £1,199.00

on XE.com the current conversion rate says it should be £941.21

loving your work Apple.

Does ths mean....

that people are going to get massive .EBD files on there PC's? No such an issue on a machine with a 1TB drive. Might be an issue on say an tablet with a 128gb SSD. I certainly don't want my drive space being eaten by an ever increasing search catalogue database....

Buzzword bingo

Eyes down for a full house....

FUSE?

I thought it was common knowledge that it was using FUSE.

I wanted this to be a success and I was more than happy to have parted with good money to buy this once the device was released. I was so excited I nearly backed but a little voice at the back of my head said to hold off. I'm so glad I did.

I feel for the backers, who if they have received this have gotten a turd, and the ones that decided to hold off on the "blankety-blank" they look like they're not going to even get a turd.

I suspect this maybe the last nail in anything Sinclair and hardware related ever happening again.

Are you watching this RCL?

This is how you do an IndieGoGo campaign correctly RCL. Maybe you should hire these guys to rescue your flailing Spectrum Vega+ project *coughcough twoyearslateandcounting coughcough**

Am i imagining things but in the UK didn't Grundig become part of LG too?

the console was and forever will be vapour-ware.

There maybe around 50 units in existence ass alluded to produced during trial builds. But a retail product that doesn't make. I'm so glad i decided not to back this as IndieGoGo when my figure hovered over the button.

The whole thing is a farce of Noel Coward proportions.

Still funny, even after all these years

anybody thinking......

.... Big White Elephant........Nope

#KThnxBai

Ford can't even get my 2 year old car engine to start when I want it to.

Apple will not license out MacOS(X)

Whilst the idea of licensing out MacOS out has been mentioned it will not happen.

Apple isn't a computer company anymore they dropped the Apple Computers a few years back and became Apple Inc. In doing so they stopped making computers and became a consumer device, Like a DVD player or TV etc.

They don't want the hassle of having to support multiple possible machine configurations or devices. They build a machine that just works because they control every aspect of it. Hardware manufacturers also don't experience the compatibility issues because they have a much narrower target to aim at, generally if it works on one mac it'll work on all.

If they stop this it opens up a massive set as headaches. Hence no licensing.

https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareID=1349

Nuff said

Anybody actually want a free turd? I know I dont.

Sky and its parent company News Corp

are cancerous growths in the media world. They will not stop until they have absolute control of our media. They already have surmountable control of Australian media, massive influence in the US.

They need to be controlled vigorously..

Facebook

Is the first aggressive cancer of the networked age.

It needs to have controls placed upon it. Surely making unrequested changes to your data on the phone is covered under the Computer misuse act 1984 and the amended 2000 legislation. If not it must certainly be covered by Data protection regulations. At least here in the UK, I am sure other intelligent* nations have there own applicable regulations

*looking at you USA.

Michael Robertson

Do you honestly trust this man for commentary on anything see

http://freespire.com/

bitter truth from the man whose defended himself from Michael Robertson litigious nature.

How long

Until HP open sources the webOs and then licences it f to wwhomever wants to use it. It could be about to go into more direct comptition with Android, via third party companies......

Well thats me not watching F1 anymore

Congratulations to Bernie Ecclestone and co. You have lost me as a customer. I will no knowingly give Rupert Murdoch or any associated company 1 penny.

hmmm

wonder if is driven by FreeNas booting off a 512mb usb drive?