Posts by 40k slimez

Re: Joysticks

Amstrad CPC had the cargo bay bug.

Buy the large cargo bay fill it with thargoids. Eject in your escape pod and u get your thargoids back + a whole new empty cargo bay. Did that a couple of times :)

Re: Don't be........

Tinfoil lined maybe for the best of both...

Re: backward compatibility NOT a thing with Micro-shaft

But they are God awful SL o o o o w when doing that.... And noisier too

Re: Ben Hur Moment.......

I think you'll find that

b) you are overtaking someone in the middle lane.

is the bit that's missing here....

.. and if thats the case then

a) it's safe to do so

at 22 mph is probably not true either.

Re: surely????

"it's a fighter jet for the love of dog."

Not yet its not ... you need version 4......

I think you'll find it was a Parallel ATA (PATA) drive - IDE being what PATA drives developed from.

The terms "integrated drive electronics" (IDE), "enhanced IDE" and "EIDE" have come to be used interchangeably with ATA (now Parallel ATA, or PATA)... but's not let facts get in the way of a good joke........ it was a good joke wasn't it??

Don't you mean "mind bogglingly fast I mean so fast you won't actually believe how fast it is!"

Re: Old-fashioned...

More like the record companies just want to sell the same formulaic crap that will make them the biggest profit.

Good music exists out there its just not mainstream and easy to find.

Re: There's an opportunity here

I'm sure when the UK GOV made that trade deal with china, basically it boiled down to:

"You can sell us any old tat and we won't try to stop you....."

Hence the certificate schemes have gone out of the window as cheap chinese "Gifs" flood the UK Market....

Re: And all the students that get stuck with Windows S!

They will let you..... after you pay them the $50 upgrade fee.....

Who says M$ don't know how to make money?!

"Re-install from scratch"

Re: Said it before, will say it again

And its highly likely that those services won't work on those self same android boxes as they are rooted, which is a real PITA when you'r trying to watch stuff legally.

That's because we don't have any factories any more....

Re: ,So there's an online fix for not being able to get online?

"My feeling is that every Windows PC should be supplied with a short, helpful user guide "

They used to call these User Manuals back in the day..... not seen one since Windows 98 from M$...