Posts by JDX

Re: Not just Oz.. happening in the UK aswell

A vacuum cleaner is fine, it will be smashed to pieces inside.

Squishing leaves a really ugly mess and the whole glass/piece of card thing is not suitable for real arachnophobes.

If it's too big to fit under a pint glass, maybe just let it HAVE the house.

Re: Any SF author want to take this idea and run with it?

Web, by the great John Wyndham. An excellent book, and exactly what that photo brought to mind.

Re: Premature

We are (over)due a major update to the Mac Mini though.

Is the SSD also soldered in - raw chips perhaps - to get the required slimness? Or can it be replaced?

Re: Twats 0 Football Fans who actually want to watch the match 1

I'd rather sit next to someone with an iPad than the kind of person who thinks punching the person next to them is a good idea. The people who put people off going to watch football are not the ones with tablets, but the ones who scream 4-letter tirades and throw stuff at the players.

Re: No reason to use a tablet

Why are they holding it up at your head height, not their head height?

Re: How about a more realistic reason....

But that's not why they SAY they're doing it.

Re: You think you have problems......

2 espressos in one cup. Is that a bit like a double espresso?

You don't see ristretto that often but probably it's not very popular. My favourite would be espresso macchiato but that's not always available and often you'll get some frothy latte thing instead if you don't check.

Re: Scarcely relevant musing

We're watching Friends right now and I cannot recall anyone mentioning it except in passing. Cappuccino seems to be the beverage of choice.

Re: I really have ....

Never tried BK coffee. However since coffee became "a thing" in the last 10 years, you can now actually get freshly made coffee virtually everywhere. It's rather uncommon to find places serving instant coffee these days. So while one can be snobby about which bean they use, frankly it has to be a good thing when somewhere like McD or even SubWay can sell you a cup of coffee made from actual beans!

Re: Scarcely relevant musing

Maybe it's because being English, we can have our own pronunciation? Italians don't say "pizza" with the same inflection we do either.

If you just want OK coffee, no frills, McDonalds is surprising good and very cheap. Also Wetherspoon, though they object to you trying to take it with you.

Re: Builders don't put up with this shit

>>Tea that built an empire.

I think the people who built the empire drank delicate tea from fine china cups, not a mug of stewed floor sweepings.

Re: You think you have problems......

Complaining they aren't a proper coffee-house because they won't sell you a cup of espresso is like complaining your Indian isn't a proper curry house because they don't sell vindaloo.

Re: I'd love one, but

I disagree 12" is too small for the ultrabook market. My mum bought a 11" (I think) 2-in-1 tablet/laptop recently and I was quite impressed how useful it was. I wouldn't choose to work on it 8 hours a day but that's not really the intention.

Re: I'd love one, but

You can't get a similar laptop for half the price. That's like saying you can get a car with the same handling as a Ferrari for the half the price... the packaging matters to most people.

I do agree though that the pricing is off if you want to market it as a tablet. Competing against the MacBook Air, it looks nice. Competing against the iPad, while internally it's in a whole different league, most consumers aren't going to know that.

Whereas you have been once and never returned, making a generalisation on the entire restaurant chain based on a sample size of one?

Well done.

You can have a relaxed conversation over your meal (your snotty comments on the quality are neither here nor there) regardless. Not having to wait for a waitress to come and visit you, especially when you want to pay, would be nice. Trying to pay is the area I hate in nearly all restaurants... you feel bad walking up to the till but often when they clear away your plates they assume you don't want to pay, or ever leave!

Re: X customers

It's not like they sold a lot of X phones.

Re: No Lumia?

I was about to say the same thing. El Reg spends a lot of time talking about how well MS is doing in this price bracket, in fact how they're only doing well in this price bracket - and has given lower-end Lumias very favourable reviews against similarly-priced Androids in the past.