Posts by FartingHippo

A strange game

The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

Re: Here we go again...

People have been getting that one wrong since Metropolis was released. Writers especially are HOPELESS at predicting the rate of technological advance.

- Blade Runner was set in 2019

- Back to the Future 2 went forward to October 2015 (we have 3 months to develop proper flying cars sky, hoverboards, and Mr Fusion systems)

- 2001: A Space Odyssey

- Space: 1999

Etc, etc.

Re: there's plenty of people willing to see ads

there's

What do I win?

Re: Confession

No. Go for a nice walk instead, and meet a pretty girl. Or boy, if you like your toast buttered that way.

Re: Am I the only person...

That's all well and good if you can afford it, and actually want the product. If I want to watch I'm a Celebrity and Corrie - paid for in full by the advertising - why should I have to fund the BBC?

The situation whereby a house on the breadline pays the same, mandatory fee as a millionaire, under threat of inprisonment, seems incontrovertibly unfair.

Add into that the adsurdity that watching catch-up TV does NOT require a license (just a PC or set-top box, which many poor households do not view as a priority) and the whole current system disappears up it's own arse.

Re: Not just ports

Haven't you seen what fanbois and fangurlz look like. CGA would have been better.

Grauniad

Browser is ok. Some sites are atrocious, Grauniad, but ...

That's not the browser.

Re: really!

Maybe, but the £400 a seat difference is three-quarters of f*ck all compared to the total cost of running 300 boxes in an enterprise. Staffing, software, 24/7 support, servers, bandwidth, peripherals, etc. Over three years it's pennies per seat, per day. Rounding error, in other words.

If you have a half-way compelling reason that Macs offer an advantage over PCs for your particular business, then the cost difference is so small as to be an irrelevance.

Trust

I think you have to make a leap and trust something to hold everything.

Pick a password safe (carefully) and lock it with the one complicated password you make the effort to commit to memory. Then write down that password on an anonymous and otherwise blank piece of paper and leave it in that decorative tea-pot your mother has. Just in case :)

Re: Flying squid

Escape velocity? The celestial wandering squid would have to be prised off with [ten] crowbars, at least until she gets to within springing distance of Earth.

Paris because, you know, suckers.

Re: I think we have to ask ourselves two questions

Well bugger. I don't even have a decent excuse. I'll share a mildly amusing venn diagram as a penance.

Way too minging. I do not wish to look like a cast member from a 70s SF show.

Re: For once the news on the battery front may actually lead to something.

These are rechargeable, aren't they? So comparing to a standard Duracell seems a little misguided.

I'd happily take a battery with 25% of the storage capacity of a Duracell if it would recharge in 5 minutes. Monster savings, both financial and environmental, to be had.

[Also, the fact that this made it into a publication as hefty as Nature gives me a lot of hope this will actually deliver something in the future.]

Re: Newky

Man's best friend :)

Re: ER...

Only if you view apple.com as a pr0n site.

Which, to be fair, doesn't seem to be a very rare opinion amongst iFans.

Re: To be fair...

The Jawbone is obviously a piece of shit because:

a) It does not include the letter 'i'

b) It is not sufficiently shiny

c) It is not absurdly expensive

Re: Public Broadcast Service

This. A hundred times this. Soap operas, game shows and reality shows should not be funded by a mandatory licence.

The BBC is now a hugely inefficiant, tentacled monstrosity which massively distorts the market. There's a place for the BBC delivering genuine, quality, non-commercial services. Most people would be happy with that, I think, especially as the licence fee would plummet.

EDIT for the AC: Farm it out to the private sector and bung a couple of ads at the start.

Re: Sounds great..

Huh? Is it sausage flavoured or something?

And Barry Scott and his Cillit Bang (and the stain has gone!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gKjjEctWuo

Re: "THIS BUDS FOR YOU"

They're hidden by drinkers vomiting up shitty, tasteless beer.

Re: Update Manager

Maybe not, looks like you've already got the jitters.

Re: Yes, but

I'm not afraid of curry. It's delicious. That first twinge in the bowels though, some time the next day, makes my knees turn to rubber.

20 minutes of weeping later I have a backside like the Japanese flag, and I'm promising myself "next time I'm having a Korma". For some reason I never remember that ... wait ... hang on a minute ... damn you Turmeric!!