Posts by DaeDaLuS_015

If i was that much of an idiot, i think i'd plead guilty as well.

I wouldn't have thought it'd hit hidemyass too hard since their competition is largely subject to the same rules i think?

Damp Squid?

"Q3’s traditional back-to-school sales period proved to be something of a damp squid, sales wise, as has Intel’s new laptop sales drive, the Ultrabook."

I'd really love to believe this was a vague reference to the I.T Crowd.

Trolling?

I think it can hardly be called that.

Apple has shipped a device that doesn't function as intended, they have then handled the PR around it "somewhat" badly and now it is being reported on.

Which bit do you exactly take offense too? I mean it must cause you offense to be considered trolling?

Is it the reporting you take offense with? Presumably it wouldn't be the device itself and i doubt anyone is really that bothered about Apple's usual attempt at making the best of a bad situation (blame the users).

No, i think it is more your various cries of "Trolling" only do more to highlight your obvious bias in this matter which is then reinforced by your need to shout down the author with cries of "Troll!".

I'm sure you would all like it if every article on reg was about how great the iPhone is but that's not going to be the case and i for one would prefer it to stay that way.

I wouldn't have been able to resist

"Oh you're coming back on Friday! Why don't you bring us a coffee?"

"We would but the coffee shops are shut, you are all here!"

Rage

Google should have stood their ground, they were right to refuse to remove it in the first place and should have stood by that.

I'd write more but i think i'd only be repeating what has been said above.

Video calls them violent, they protest by being violent, etc.

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I think it's more amusing that it's all such terrible music!

Makes sense i guess, not worth paying for.

Meh

Contrary to what is written here, i prefer CS: S having played them all (competatively, for a long time, on CS: S). I don't like the way the guns feel in CS: GO, then again i didn't like the way they felt in CS 1.6 either so that's just me.

The graphics aren't the best (could everything look more round? It's almost like someone has attacked the screen with a brush to make damned sure you can never see a jagged edge on anything). The guns all look like twigs when you hold them, the rifles look like a damned joke, have any of you seen a rifle? They are big, not like some fisher price toy.

Gameplay wise, it's fine, more counterstrike, not much in the way of innovation going on there and as someone said it's the same maps but then, people love the maps so i don't have much of a problem with that. None of the guns seem to be accurate at all (yes, yes, ofcourse it's my aim, thanks for pointing that out) after the 20th time of scoping a guys head, firing and hitting nothing it gets old.

It's bad enough that it's gone on the stack of games i probably won't play again, still in it's defence, atleast it was cheap.

Flame away.

Microsoft is bad? Maybe. This is bad? No.

Surely this is only a good thing?

Even if Microsoft has done this to completely blow apart the DNT setting due to the agreement it would not be set to on by default it doesn't matter. All this does is take apart a system that was, clearly, already broken. I don't see how in any way this is a bad thing. Whether Microsoft are evil is up for debate but this particular action in isolation is only a good thing.

Even if it does make things worse for now. Destroying a lie isn't much different than exposing a half truth.

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Good work!

I just hope he doesn't buckle later on. . .

Hmm, fair points and i conceed. There is a lot of legitimate use for the bandwidth (i myself thought of my 100+ game steam account that is single handedly occupying one of my hard drives, after i submitted... /facepalm). I personally don't download illegally/stream illegally/etc. I have no real need too, most things are free regardless (such as tv shows on bbc iPlayer, etc). I think usage wise there are a lot more people using the bandwidth for illegal purposes than legal ones and that was my point, i just put it badly.

I'm of this opinion because ISPs are like any other company, they aren't trying to protect your freedom by not complying / stalling. Somewhere, somehow, it is making them more money.

By this logic...

If everyone has a good look around their garden tonight there is a reasonable chance one of us will find an alien probe?

right?

!

About damned time. Although you say 10 million vs 11 million as attrition over a year. That's like saying "we were making a LOT of money" and "we are still making a LOt of money". It's not exactly falling over fast is it and WoW's subscription base has always peaked and then declined, they've been up and down for years between expansions. It all comes down to that old battle between new content and the rate at which players complete it.

Anyway, who cares about WoW, i just got a text telling me my skyrim has been posted, i expect it tomorrow (and here's to hoping that, unlike BF3 which i also got a day early, i can actually play it tomorrow). Bring on Thursday or Friday!

This whole thing seems insane to me.

I admit some people may be confused (what, with google's search being called google, the same name as the company) but i think google can do what they please with their own search engine. If people are that bothered they will stop using it. If these other companies have such an issue they can write their own search engine and get it to where google is now because, at the end of the day, that's what this is really about... google's position, not what they do with their products. Everyone wants a piece of the guy in front (Just look at Apple).

It's awesome..

Hands down an awesome game, they need to patch some stuff up (mainly a server side lag problem EA/Dice intends to remove next week) but it doesn't detract from the gameplay which is awesome. If you come from BFBC2 it's basically bigger and better (+ the damn shiny visuals).

One thing i think the review didn't say but i noticed was that in this as compared with BFBC2 the classes seem to be even more differentiated (seems my combo of an automatic shotgun + recon is no longer viable). They all play quite a bit differently.

I've played about 4 or 5 of the missions in single player, is a load of "meh", nothing special if SP is what you want i'd go with MW3, they'll do it properly but if MP is what you are after, BF3 is that good that activision may aswell have just dropped the MP from MW3 if i am honest, especially with the new counterstrike on the way, the middle ground isn't the place to be. There's not room for all of them!

Censor the internet?

If people want to access things, they are going to access things. Simple as that really.

"You can't stop the signal Mal."

opt in/opt out

This is one thing that drives me mental on forms. There should be a law created outlawing the use of "opt out" boxes because they are a trick in essence. People are far, far too busy doing other things, if you don't tick something it should not under any circumstances include you in something. Seems obvious really.. So incredibly tedious. The local council got one of my relatives with this, all of a sudden you can find her address, phone number, how many people live in her house, etc quite easily on the internet because apparently even the local f*****g council is selling details on... and for paying a damned tax of all things. It's disgusting.

sigh, this is going to far...

I suppose this also means that the ability to enter a password into a password field via a touchscreen display is also patentable because, afterall, if you had not seen a touchscreen then how would it be a natural thing to do?

Apparently that's all that is required for the farse that is the patent system.

gasoline?

If you pour gasoline on a white dwarf will it really explode?

ergh

For the love of [insert deity here]. Given the profile of Sony's last hack is it not reasonable to assume they have become a target of what, the majority of you seem to keep forgetting, is a criminal activity? Yeah sure it's all Sony's fault for somehow not being able to secure it's network, point in case is they shouldn't have too. I see not one post on here condemning hackers targetting PSN, a service used by millions, yet i see a damned lot of slating of Sony's security.

I'll tell you what i'll get a victim of violent crime and bring them out here and we can all tell them how pathetic they were for not taking self defense lessons of some kind. Yes, that is exactly how rediculous the majority of people are being regarding Sony's repeated attack.

For every attack you hear about that works, i bet they fend of tens if not hundreds of other attacks which don't work, especially given the profile of their "rubbish" security. You all need some perspective.

Also the data was from a third party site [supposedly], if that's not a sony controlled one then it's not even remotely their issue and clearly they have reacted appropriately.

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prices?

I've always wondered, if apple dropped themselves (or had their product priced? Not sure how it works) below the price of other phones, would they still be as popular?

I suspect not.

outraged?

They were so furious they felt the need to link to it from their own site and further promote it?

/facepalm

sigh

This makes no sense, why care that another useless hacker got caught?

We all know we wouldn't do anything dubious through the HMA proxy because, well, we aren't idiots. I would think you could assume that anyone like him doing things like that through a UK based proxy service is a complete idiot.

Now isn't it reasonable to assume that he can form a representation for all HMA users? If he was such a "1337 hax0r" then i reckon most of HMAs users are going to care even less than he did about whether they log information or not.

I can't really see this affecting HMAs userbase at all and to be honest, i'm glad the little tit got caught, as you all should be!

Stands to reason..