Posts by VinceH

Re: "Answers on a postcard, please."

"grey icon depicting a pill dropping into your wine glass"

That's one hell of a pill.

We're gonna need a bigger boat wine glass.

Re: Dan Brown

Oh, horror. By posting that link you have reminded me just how awful The Da Vinci Code was - that being the one and only book of his that I have ever read, or ever will. (And I only persevered to the end out of sheer "I've started, so I'll finish" stubbornness. I wish I hadn't.)

Re: Silly comparisons

"Whereas an unmodified and fairly empty S3 crashes regularly and without good reason."

That's not fair - mine has never crashed. What am I doing wrong, please?

Re: "beats exceeding 300 beats per min"

"And I don't think that 10^5 people ever managed to form a mosh pit either. That either deserves a Guinness World Record or a Darwin Award - not really sure which...."

I think the reference to numbers is for the crowd itself, not the numbers in any mosh pits that form.

Optional

"Thank you, Microsoft, for making this an easy choice. Now I want to see what Sony offers. If PS4 can play used games offline, then that's my next console."

Nah - with what I've read about the options for playing older games on the PS4, I think I'll stick with my PS3.

Even when the supply of new games runs dry, there will still be plenty of old ones available second hand - and, TBH, although I used to play quite a lot, these days I switch on infrequently enough that my existing collection of games (most of which I haven't even started playing) will probably last for the rest of my life anyway, so even the second hand market is largely irrelevant.

So, it looks as though both Microsoft and Sony have helped save me some money. Nice one, guys.

Re: Well...

He posted screen grabs of the emails he received from Paypal. This one says that "To be eligible for the Bug Bounty Program, you must not: [...] Be less than 18 years of age."

Re: I want my...

"all of those are mythical"

So we just need a Dragon Factory and a pair of evil twins. (See my post further up!)

Re: Cook says:-

" If you have to wear glasses to read your email or look things up then you (a) can't look cool in shades and (b) wear your usual glasses."

But you can get shades that match your prescription (as I have, sort of*) - so (b) is covered, though (a) is an arguable point, both with shades, and shades that match your prescription.

* Prescription updated, shades not. Must rectify that at some point!

Re: the key question....

Can we fix the lettuce while we're at it?

TIA

Optional

"(try a RasPi running RISC OS 6, for example)"

RISC OS 5.xx, not RISC OS Six (which is really RISC OS 4 with a silly name).

Now that just made me think of Jaffa Cakes.

There's probably a good joke to be made out of the idea of a Jaffa-cake Interchange Format, but I've no idea what it is. Although it probably has a smashing orangey bit in the middle.

Re: NASA computers...

"Perhaps they could use some of their budget to buy something a bit less 1980s?"

Listening to the voice-over on the video, I think they blew their budget on trying to synthesise a woman's voice.

Re: So Applecare will cover all of your Apple products?

"So this is basically Apple iNsurance?"

The iThing approach doesn't really work on the word insurance because of how it's pronounced. :)

My thoughts, though, were of the times they've been slapped down in some places for selling Applecare to people who don't need it. Wrap it up differently, try again...

Re: am I strange?

"I welcome a few hours without gadgets."

I was going to say no, because I'm the same - but then I remembered that most people I know think I'm strange for various reasons, so you probably are as well.

Re: New product?

"I've never seen anyone say "It's an Apple product so I will buy it no matter what""

I've never seen anyone say it, either - and for that matter, nor have I heard anyone write it - but I have seen plenty of people *doing* it.

Re: @VinceH - Instead of

"In this case the advice was not for you."

Comments posted in a public forum can attract responses from people other than those who the original comment was aimed at. And in other news, the pope shits in the woods.

"Carry on using your Windows, that's all!"

I'd rather not, thanks. It's a case of needs must.

Re: I might have thought this was a good review until I got to this bit:

"Yeah, I started referring to it as the "USS Kenny"..."

Okay, so you were talking about Enterprise, but the classic Kenny scenario is in STII & III:

"Oh my god, they killed Spock!"

"You basta...."

"Oh, no, it's okay. We've found a new one."

Re: But you can already get.....

"and stuff"

Even if there's nothing you can find in the local area, there's a chance you'll have something on you that you could use in a pinch.