Posts by envmod

the imac audio stutter fix is long overdue

i've been having problems with intermittent crackly and stuttery audio (i am a music producer) for ages on my 2011 imac. will be bloody pleased to get this fixed.

World War Z

I recently purchased a Sony Xperia Z and was wondering if I'd regret getting it and not waiting a few more weeks for the S 4. I can now say that looking at the specs and features there's very little difference really and the Xperia Z also has the bonus of being waterproof. Plus it's made out of glass and i think looks a bit nicer. Only trouble is the screen, which whilst very impressive viewed directly-on, looks quite washed-out from shallow angles... it's a shame, but wasn't a deal-breaker for me...was wondering if anyone thought that this issue could be fixed with a software update though? Surely the screen is just the screen - 1080p, 441 ppi etc...it's the software controlling it which would need recalibrating right?

I just switched from iPhone to Android

I'm on a pretty hefty contract which just expired. Couldn't really get excited about the iPhone 5 but was kind of resigned to it as I run Macs at home so iPhones have always made sense. When I discovered that even on my contract I would have to pay £150 for anything but the 16GB iPhone I thought screw this and took the plunge with Android. Now rocking a rather lovely Xperia Z and the switch from iOS has been easy-peasy! Virtually painless... I feel refreshed!

man's cup of tea

strong, spot of milk + 2 sugars. drinking anything else is for girls.

14mbps??

lol on what planet? i have been and used internet all across the UK and (apart from fibre lines) have never seen a connection greater than 8mpbs. and that's pretty good. 4 - 6mbps is more usual and i believe much closer to a true national average.

tried both

found lovefilm slow and frustrating

found netflix quick and easy

went with netflix

70s pr0n

RTL used to be great for late night soft pr0n in the early 90s when i was just a wee lad and staying 'round my mate's house who had sky. it was all pr0n from the 70s of course. plenty of bush. oh the bush...

*revels in the memories*

Bas-Lag

Chine Mieville must be mentioned when considering steampunk.

Perdido Street Station

The Scar

Iron Council

All excellent steampunk (amongst other things) novels.

it's got to hold at least

4 London Buses. At least....maybe even 5.

aaaaw, look at his little chubby face

I think he's alright you know...I can see him opening up N. Korea starting to repair international relationships. Kim Jong-Un for Nobel Peace Price 2015?

don't speak too soon

i wouldn't discount a BT mobilr network completely. they are well aware they should have held onto O2 and definitely have desires to re-enter the field if possible. not saying it's definitely going to happen, but i wouldn't write the idea off by any means...

The one that decays into the Z boson is obviously the dreaded

Zod Particle.

KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!

what can i patent?

i'm going to try patenting the square, cat food and trees.

don't care

fuck julian assange. geezer's an idiot.

Sony's been shit for years

In fact they were only really any good in the 60s/70s/early80s - been trading on their old rep for far too long and the bubble had to burst sometime. Old Sony silver hi-fi gear from the 70s/80s is very nice though.

I have always had a soft spot for Panasonic and would be sad to see them go. Hopefully it won't happen.

They found...

The Mayan Calendar 2012 - 6014

Woz for CEO

With no Jobs, Woz is the next best thing.

WHO THE FUCK CARES???

nobody cares. both of them are behaving like children and should be ignored as such.

laughable

as someone else said - the idea of a facebook phone is laughable - as laughable as a myspace phone, or a linkedin phone or a pinterest phone. also, nobody will buy it anyway - facebook has no brand. they obviously believe that they have a valuable brand, nut they are very clearly mistaken, as their rapidly dwindling stock value is proving. social networking is like, so passe anyway. it was a craze for a bit in the late noughties which is now dying off (thank god).

masses ruining it for the masses

anyway, it's only the masses of idiots who like to listen to (and by extension illegally download) rhianna, gaga and the like that are causing all the problems. if people actually thought about what music they like and actually explored stuff beyond the mainstream, they would find that a lot of independent and non-signed stuff is available perfectly legitimately for free anyway. it's the age-old problem - most people are fucking dumb and like whatever they are told they should like. i'm totally for a mass human depopulation exersize based on music taste.

that's a point...

windows 8 hasn't got any windows. why is it called windows? they should have called it boxes v1.

RE 1 & 2 = Good

all the rest, especially 5 which i just could not get into at all, have been disappointing. i love the first two though and still play them now and again...none of them since (i guess maybe 3 a bit) have captured the sense of menace and evil in those two.

old news

jesus, who HASN'T got a lvl85 character these days? I've got 4, and that's pretty shit.

So yeah, The Bible never even mentions an apple but even if it did - how can something that is IN THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE (ie the idea/story of Original Sin) be insulting to the Christian faith?? They're basically saying that The Bible is insulting - I mean, I happen to agree about that, but I think these people have not thought their argument through.

die!

oh i hope facebook dies soon.

Avrocar

The Avrocar that people know about and see in footage did not perform well no. However, they made several refinements to the design (as well as producing other models) which improved the performace dramatically. As soon as the thing started working properly, the whole project went "deep black" and nobody knows what developments there have been since. Project Silverbug is an interesting related topic to this. Anyway, I always think that if the USAF were working on stuff this radical in the 1950s, then what the fuck must they have now??

lol

i haven't logged in since MOP came out, tried to the other day and realised my account was out of credit. thought about spending some money to top it up, then a bit more to download the latest expansion and then thought "what's the fucking point?".

wtf

what the actual fuck? seriously, the republican party is a fucking embarrassment. they're less cool than microsoft...

durrr

i think it's quite obvious to anyone with a brain that iran sponsors, sanctions and encourages terrorism against the west on a regular basis. so this news does not surprise me in the least.

Just FYI

BT Openreach IS A STANDALONE COMPANY and has to bid for the business of BT Global Services or BT Retail (for example) just like anybody else. BT has effectively been "broken up" into seperate entities which are not allowed to favour each other or give special pricing due to anti-competitve laws. So all this talk of breaking up BT really does smack of ignorance and the standard practice of internet person being a know-it-all yet having none of the facts.

i can testify that they are rubbish

oh yes i can testify!

testify!

testify!