Re: Doesn't have to be smurf blue
Yeah it does to be a Polestar...
Posts by Tom 11
166 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Aug 2009
Volvo V60 Polestar: Speak softly, carry a big stick, dress like a Smurf
Grand Theft Auto 1997: 'Sick, deluded and beneath contempt'
Tuesday 20th January 2015 14:58 GMT
Re: I loved the top down GTA Games
The side of the road we drive on derives from days gone by when we used to walk small trodden paths and carried swords.
We walked on the left hand side as most swordsmen sheath their sword on the left hip to be accessible by the right hand. Walking to the left ensured that the pommels of each carriers swords did not mesh when passing closely. This is true for Japan also, another civilisation with strong warrior roots.
iPhone user shamegasm: 'I beg of you', delete sex app from my purchase list
Revealed: GCHQ's beyond top secret Middle Eastern internet spy base
E-cigarettes help you quit – but may not keep you alive
Thursday 22nd May 2014 15:28 GMT
Re: 'vaping' == drug paraphernalia
@AC re: added extra.
Sorry dude, that does not work. You have to boil the active herb component in alcohol, filter the gunge, reduce it down, filter it again on a 2nd boil off run and then mix it with the PG / VG and you need a huge quantity for it to work, so therefore, it's never done.
Time-rich Brit boffin demos DIY crazytech wolverine talons
Wolfenstein: The New Order ... BLAM-BLAM! That guard did Nazi that coming
Russia to suspend US GPS stations in tit-for-tat spat
Star Wars Episode VII: The Ancient Fear of, er, a cheese-tastic title?
Wednesday 7th May 2014 14:34 GMT
@ Nick RE: Efron
Obviously you've not seen him in recent titles where his character has actually got a proper brief rather than make the girlies squeal. Most stuff he's done in past 2 or 3 years where he is clearly trying to move away from this type-casting have been great. Watch 'The Paperboy' he's pretty damn good in that, and I for one am looking forward to seeing what he can do in Starwars!
Audio fans, prepare yourself for the Second Coming ... of Blu-ray
Wednesday 16th April 2014 15:25 GMT
Re: A good whine: @Cupboard
What the hell! is that site real? I have read it twice now and I am still howling, might have another dip in later. Has been shared with all my producer friends. How can that tool have such a self belief that he will bare facedly ignore the operational principals of digital music and data transportation.
'Graceful' solar flare erupts from surface of Sun – NASA vid
UFO, cosmic ray or flasher? NASA rules on Curiosity curiosity
Improbable: YOU gave model Lily Cole £200k for her Impossible.com whimsy-site
No Notch niche: Minecraft man in rift with Oculus after Facebook gobble
Vote now for the top reader Limerick limerick
BuzzGasm: 9 Incredible Things You Never Knew About PLIERS!
Xenon: Bitmap Brothers' (mega)blast from the past
Beastie Boys settle with toy maker over Girls copyright dispute
Police pen shortage threatens Irish public order
Women! You too can be 'cool' and 'fun' if you work in tech!
Why can’t I walk past Maplin without buying stuff I don’t need?
Friday 7th March 2014 11:55 GMT
Arrghgghghghg MAAPLIIIIIIIIIIIN
Robot kits, hover bots, soldering makes, home disco. What is not to love? I went in for screen wipes yesterday and came out with a Corsair K60 keyboard, a 64gb flash drive and the wipes and had to stop myself on the quadrocopter as I could not think of a feasible way to expense it :(
Bugger the jetpack, where's my 21st-century Psion?
Friday 7th March 2014 10:53 GMT
Well we almost had it
Up until about three years ago there was a plethora of full QWERTY landscape phones, I loved them. Had an N97, N900 and a HTZ Desire Z. Then everyone got scared by Apples business model and decided to drop a perfect form factor and go solely to touch screen, I hate being forced to touch screen, it has ruined the modern vision of a true palmtop.
Just picture this, Samsung Note 3 with a full QWERTY and track pad slide out keyboard....
Woman claims she was assaulted in Google Glass 'HATE CRIME'
BOFH: He... made... you... HE made YOU a DOMAIN ADMIN?
Reports pump fuel into iCar gossip: Apple in 'talks' with Tesla
Wednesday 19th February 2014 09:53 GMT
@ GD
While premise of your nay-saying is sound enough, I have evidence to the contrary. I work in the materials science sector and I can tell you without jeopardising my job by going into details that Hydrogen storage for automotive purposes is much more advanced then you seem to believe. I have seen a pressure vessel for this purpose capable of over 3000 atmospheres, and that includes the seals and delivery valve system.
Want to remotely control a car? $20 in parts, some oily fingers, and you're in command
fWHoaR! Researcher crack eternal mystery of what women want in a man
Fancy a little kinky sex? GCHQ+NSA will know - thanks to Angry Birds
Japanese quantum boffins 'may have the key to TELEPORTATION'
Furtive ebook readers push Hitler's Mein Kampf up the charts
CIOs, IT chiefs: ARRGH! What do you MEAN, HR just bought 400 iPads and didn't tell us
Tuesday 26th November 2013 17:18 GMT
Seeeeeeeeeeeeeth
Where does this prick live, I've got some innovation right here for him! this type of tom-fuckery is the bane of my working life, and it's always the damn magpies in finance that do it, then they start budget fisting when you want to bang an extra PoE switch to support IP telephony, all because they have spunked the contingent wad on 4g iPhones in a non 4g covered office and tablets that will not run AX.
World's first selfie found on Wayback Machine
JESUS battery HEALS itself - might make electric cars more practical
Unsung DEAD WHALE EXPLODER hero, who gave the early internet a purpose, passes away
Forget invisible kittens, now TANKS draped in INVISIBILITY CLOAK
Baldness fix from foreskin follicles
WikiLeaker-in-chief Assange refuses to meet Benedict Cumberbatch
US parents proclaim 811 'Messiahs'
Now that's real science: CYBORG MONKEYS with PROSTHETIC ARMS
Apple's Steve Jobs was a SEX-crazed World War II fighter pilot, says ex
WET SPOT found on MARS: NASA rover says 'high percentage'
Steve Jobs' boyhood home may become protected historical shrine
Total cost of THAT axed NHS IT fiasco to taxpayers: £10.1bn
Tuesday 27th August 2013 08:16 GMT
Re: How many lives
Nope, no stooge. I left a long time ago. The project was badly managed with too many fingers in the pie. What I am saying, which you conveniently gloss over, is how this would've helped the NHS and the nation if it was realised as a fully implemented solution of the original vision.
Did I mention the cost of PACS? yep, I think I already acknowledged the budgeting problems, but the system was good, it worked and saved time.
SCR was good, the only reason it would have sparse info would have been down to the staff that use it, you can't expect a data base to fill it's self!
I smell a know-it-all e-insider goon! (over pampered ex-GP per chance?)
Al you're doing here is backing up my post, if you actually read it properly instead of frothing at the mouth you'll see I refer to all the criticism you level.
Thursday 22nd August 2013 17:32 GMT
Re: How many lives
Plenty of lives were saved by this project, if it had made it to full fruition then many many more would have followed. The problem here was not the product but it's deployment realisation and continued interference from the Government which led to cost and corner cutting of the highest order while still trying to please everyone.
Hospitals which managed to implement a full solution (and anyone that is unenlightened enough to think that a central record is all that this was about, like the author of this poor excuse for journalism, should fuck off and stop making comments until they properly understand the processes in place, or head over to the daily mails' forums) saw waiting lists plummet, responder save rates rocket, cost reductions for baseline services and diagnosis scales well reduced.
Yes it went tits up in a very big way, I am not defending how this was done or the budget spent, but the goals set and achievements made cannot and should not ignored. Simply calling it a waste of time / budget squandering / of no benefit, etc, all off the back of hysteria whipping journalism, such as this, does not do credit to the reform they DID manage to get in place.
Or would you rather we continued wandering about with bits of paper and carrying x-rays beween wards, posting medical records between facilities for those people admitted to A&E when involved in accidents out side of their PCT?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
