Posts by James R Curry

Excitement.

"This experiment in crowd-answering was not a great success: it was an exciting day when a Q&A got five responses.

Fast forward to 2012 and the new El Reg Forums, where commentards are beginning to set up their own Q&As. Perhaps these grass roots initiatives will fly a little higher. Let's see if we can help."

Well, this is comment number three, and there's still no helpful responses. Maybe we can get to six and totally smash the previous record.

Wow, this is kind of like Yahoo Answers, isn't it? Only with far fewer fundamentalist nutjobs.

Disagree..

While I oft-agree with your characterisation of freetards, I strongly disagree in this case.

AT&T are selling blocks of data -- already limited blocks of data. It seems like a cash grab to expect people to pay more depending on the device they use to consume them.

Just my two cents (per byte).

Bull.

I logged into Facebook this morning and was forced to change my employment and location information into page links, with no option to keep this information private.

Is this an example of the simplified privacy? Removing more options and forcing users to publish by default?

I left the location information. I deleted my employer from my profile.

Dreadful.

Twitter is ghasty, just ghastly to begin with. Others have explained with ample eloquence just what's wrong with this service. The idea that people will pay, PAY 15 cents to send and receive such drivel is utterly staggering.

What a complete rip-off.

@ian

Uh...

Since when? I'm a British expatriate living in the United States, and as recently as this year, Budgens were perfectly happy to accept my US credit cards while I was back in old Blighty.

Frankly, I'd have been *supremely* pissed off, had they not.

Bargain!

...look at that! $48!

I better stock on on batteries before they're sued out of existence. ;)

At least he was SUPPOSED to be acting a role...

...and not reviewing the product.

My memory is hazy, but I believe it was the Future Entertainment Show (rather than the ECTS) where myself and a large number of other punters stood in line for over two hours to try one of those "state of the art" virtual reality arcade games with the goofy headgear. If anyone even remembers these things, it was the game which took place in a large chessboard looking world with pteradactyls.

So after this interminable delay, the infamous Andy Crane shows up with TV cameras in tow and is immediately rushed to the head of the line to record a piece of hype for "Bad Influence!".

He puts the VR helmet on his head, grabs the joystick, and spins around on the spot for a minute or two, craning his neck like a prat and waxing lyrical about how incredible it is, and how it appears that he's actually there.

Sixty seconds of fluff recorded, he removes the helmet and departs as quickly as he'd shown up.

Of course, during his spiel about how lifelike it all seemed, the spectator screen off to his side had shown the onlookers exactly what he'd been looking at the entire time: A blinking "Game Over" message for the whole session.

Now THERE'S objective journalism!

In their defense...

...Gatwick is about three quarters of the way to anarchy at the best of times.

Not entirely true...

"But reality TV from the news department is always a one-off - there will be no sequel."

Not so. Even now, OJ Simpson is gearing up to take a starring role in the sequel to his erstwhile hit reality series from the mid-1990s.