Posts by Amorous Cowherder

Re: Oh Dear god - not again

Dangerous path you're treading there! Suppose we all had an outbreak of common sense like this, my God think of the state the world would be in?! ( cue images children from all faiths and nations dancing under rainbows )

We must have pathetic knee-jerk reactions to issues! How else can MP's justify pay-rises to 6 figures plus unless they're appearing on talk shows and current affairs programmes playing to the gallery of the rabid, loony-right, Sun and Daily Mail reading, NIMBY populace?!

Sex on the sofa?

"Things you will no longer be able to do in your own living room:

Have sex on your sofa (or wank) - assuming all your porn legitimitely aquired"

If you've nothing better to do than watch me making a desperately poor attempt to please the Missus, be my guest! I must warn you that it'll be 4.2 seconds of your life you'll never get back!

Re: Read the story

"And just yaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeedddddd.

The only people who care about this must have sad, insignificant, inconsequential and unimportant lives."

Cue obligatory "You read it so you must care diatribe...."....is it the weekend yet?

Re: The PirateBay

Blocked by a UK ISP?

Plenty of proxies on offer if you bother to fire up Big G's website and look for them!

Threads

I bought Threads on DVD about 6 months ago, pretty scary stuff and worse when you think we came pretty close it becoming a reality. Has a young Reese Dinsdale who starred in "I.D." another nutty role in another nutty film!

Being a spotty 16 year old thrash metal fan in the late 80's we got a regular dose of being told that the end is coming whether you like it or not, so stop worrying and just get out and party just before you get wiped off the face of the earth!

Re: There's a lot more detail in the BBC article than here at the Reg which is surprising...

Love Fallout and Skyrim too much to part with my 360. Still at least getting spares or replacement 360's should be a darn sight easier, I bet the prices have dropped through the floor on Fleabay already!

Re: So insubstantial you will fall through...

I think you've just summed up practically every project I've had the misfortune to work on!

Re: Evil.

Google don't pay taxes. Governments don't have as much money. Care homes get closed or have less money. Kids at risk. Ergo Google are Evil!

Is it not diversity as you've suggested in you references to lots of technology? Are we seeing more diversified use, ie horses for courses?

I was a PC fanatic but I find that an XBOX does fine for my gaming, the PC for my photo editing and uploading to sharing/stock sites and practically everything else is on my tablet, including checking on my social networks and general browsing. Slouch on the sofa, tablet up and running in seconds flat and you're chatting to Auntie Doris in Oz on Facebook, while watching an episode of something on TV or possibly in another window on the tablet itself.

We have so much more choice of device now, ones designed to perform certain tasks perfectly, the PC is not the one-size-fits-all it used to be and is therefore fighting to maintain our attention when it comes to upgrade time. We often can't afford to upgrade all items at once, the manufacturers are cutting great deals on cheap tablets so being savvy consumers we're upgrading those while the prices are reasonably good.

Re: Itchy and Scratchy money is like real money, but more fun.

Spot on sir, exactly what I was thinking!

Ha ha! Funny!

Knowing how much this software is used by the world and his dog, I give it less than 24 hours after each release and there will be patches and patched versions available from your local "freetard trough" site!

Re: So many complaints all about the same thing

The quirky, gimmicky style of your post combined with that dreadful last line leads me to one of two conclusions, you're either an MS ad agency shill trying to "get hip" and "down wiv da MS 'friends' " ( customers as adults call them ) or you are in fact a 14 year old ICT student who's entire IT experience started with Windows XP3 and has seen nothing of the evolution of consumer IT development in the last 25 years!

Re: Worse Than Jason Voorhees

"Do the security services really want it though?"

Not really, they have enough to do but the management in said services need to have some sort of justification for all the money they siphon from our taxes. Junkets to far flung places and new Bond style gadgets need to be paid for somehow!

Re: unintended f*c*i*g consequences.

Yeah well the Yanks seem to have this obsession with treating anyone older than 6 months as an adult, forcing kids to grow up as fast as possible and they wonder why the place is full of radicalised nutters who never had a childhood.

FFS! Whatever happened to giving teenagers a bollocking for being bloody stupid and leaving it at that? Oh no, we have all this complete and utter waste of public money prosecuting some dopey kid who fancied messing about. They should have marched the girl in question straight to the head of the science dept for a discussion about to safety and chemicals, the teacher gets to know their students better and might prevent a student from seriously injuring themselves in the pursuit of science, the student gets to understand how daft unplanned experiments can be. Oh no, let's have a panic situation and whip the miscreant off to Gitmo for being a trainee terror suspect and all because some complete fecking local nutjob somehow managed to get a job as the state prosecutor and wants to justify their budget and get their name in the industry press for preventing a disaster!! FFS!

My Dad told me he got a severely thick ear off his grandad once when my Dad, being a dopey teenager at the time, him and his mates thought it would be bloody funny to hide bangers and aerosol cans in a bonfire. The resulting explosion frightened most of neighbours and his Mum to go slightly deaf in one ear. If he tried that now, his feet wouldn't touch and he be in a Police cell quicker than you can say "police state over reaction"!

Re: You' re just seeing future echos.

"So what is it?"

Re: so...

They all do it and on any price ticket too. I go to some less than wonderful little dives in London, the tickets are sometimes as cheap as £4/head but you buy online and they instantly slap a £1.50/head booking charge and £2.50 to post. I've even been charged a "postage" fee on an eMail only, PDF ticket FFS!

Re: Ancient and cursed ring?

Exactly! My car has cost me a bloody fortune in the last 6 months every month something has gone wrong on it , "It is bedevilled and cursed by Lucifer himself!".

Nope, it's just come out of it's 5 year guarantee and done 80,000 so some of its bits are knackered and need replacing. Nothing to do with curses, simple and modern variation on Sod's Law, "The split second anything comes out of its guarantee period, the only guarantee left is that it will go wrong!".

Re: If only someone would invent a "search engine"

Well done, you've more or less summed up exactly why the education system is in such a mess in the 21st Century! "Yeah, I'll just go on the internet and read someone else's work, no point if it's already been done!"

Ever wondered why kids in the upcoming 2nd and 3rd world nations are 10 times smarter than our fat, complacent little offspring?

Re: Wow so he knew about all the chip roadmaps.....

Just what I was thinking when I saw the title. To quote Rodney from one episode, "Mum always had something to say on her deathbed Del. That woman must have done nothing but rabbit in her last few hours!".

Re: Doesn't he know...

Being into computers when I was at school back in the 80's kept most blokes away let alone women, when it was practically about as pure as girl repellant could get!

Re: The most amazing thing about this....

"It does, and so does Chernobyl/Pripyat."

My mate went, took a load of pictures and video, came home and set the lot to a Joy Division track which darkened an already depressing set of images!

Re: A little historical context

If you realy want to know what happned at Bletchley Park, get hold of a copy of the excellent BBC radio comedy "Hut 33"!

"Yes hello Alan this is Ian Tretn ( IT ), it's not working? Have you tried turning it off and on again? OK, there you go!".

You, I and most of the proper backroom boys and girls on Reg know that, but management cut costs on the IT support and you get what you pay for!

Re: Sounds like they asked for it...

It's all gone a bit Ratners!

Re: We are born, we live for a while, we die.

"I am here, now. The next century is out of my hands."

Good job our ancestors didn't think like you else we'd all still be sitting up trees picking nits off each other!

FFS, grow up!