Posts by The Corner of Moron

Re: Not as green as 25kv overhead

They do, but I think I read somewhere that one of the next stages will be to look at moving these tanks out of the carriage to somewhere under the train.

It'll be interesting to see how it all goes.

Re: It helps to have the world's wussiest burglar break into your house...

Depends...did you buy your balaclava on Amazon? You probably did in which case the security drone doo-dah knows who you are and is already emailing you...

"People who got caught in this Balaclava also bought..."

Re: 6 -> XS

Indeed, I'm very happy with my XS after upgrading from a 7.

My battery life is great, I used to plug in my phone every night but don't bother with the XS, knowing a little Car Play juicing on the commute will keep it chugging along nicely.

Since the XR came out however (and seems to be so good for £250 less than my XS) I was kicking myself a little bit for splashing out.

I think that the sheer size of the XR would have been too much for me though, the XS is pretty much as hefty as I want a phone to be.

So yeah, a XR would have been more than enough phone for my use, but I'm a happy XS customer.

Re: Finally!

It is mine also, that makes a grand total of three people I know using it.

Hands up everyone!

Re: Why oh why

Did you actually get some thermal paste? I asked the shop floor grunts where it was and they told me they didn't sell it. I'm not certain he knew what is was.

My best PC World story is when I needed a PS/2 keyboard (a few years back now).

Me: "Excuse me mate, do you sell PS/2 keyboards or just USB?"

Grunt: "errr.....just USB I think, let me check with someone"

Senior Grunt "No we don't have PS/2 keyboards, it's all PS3 now really isn't it?"

..........

Me: "Ok Thanks" (swift retreat)

Being a PC World store I didn't think I'd need to spell out the fact that I was talking about an interface port.

I no longer assume.

Re: Shrinking the image?

Methinks this is probably a temporary 'toggle' feature allowing you to access the screen parts that one hand otherwise could not reach.

Likely the same thing that Apple does with a double-tap of the home button to bring the entire display down to the bottom of the phone, only with the whole screen still visible.

I have reasonably sized man hands but can't reach to the top right of my iPhone's without adjusting my grip.

Do I want a smaller phone because of this?

Nope.

Re: Fix content availability and usability, and "piracy" will mostly disappear

I agree with the sentiment, but in the case of Channel 4 it's not entirely the same.

I believe that Channel 4 don't operate for profit per se, instead ploughing anything they make back into programming.

However, as they don't receive any license fee money as the BBC do, I guess they feel the need to add extra ads to their site.

Still don't like it, just how it is.

...and elephants. There should be more elephants.

Ah dammit man, you beat me to it!

Re: I blame the T-Shirt

My company used to buy blue shirts with yellow embroidered logos on for all it's staff.

I lost count of the times I'd been shopping in Ikea after work and was accosted by EVERYONE asking everything from "Where are there more of these lamps?" "Where are the toilets?" "Where is the exit?"

Like everyone who enters Ikea....I can answer none of these questions.

Re: Eagles

Either that or a massive sign saying "Welcome To Royston Vasey!"

Re: Giant Sugarlumps!

Perhaps if someone expressed it in terms of London Buses, we could all visualise it?

Re: Boring...

Can we wait until the device actually arrives before slagging of its tardiness?

Sometimes it's more fashionable to be late to the party!

Re: A fool and his money are easily parted.

Not seen this site before...

"Sonic Tonic Anti-static Spray" - WHERE CAN I GET SOME????

Re: Nice. Very nice, but...

.....they have a dog.