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128 posts • joined Saturday 29th July 2006 10:47 GMT

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Nigel Brown
Meh

Do the maths

A medium skinnychocamochadecaffadoodah is what, £2.30 ish? Almost £5 an hour for 'free' wi-fi?

No thanks, I'll stick to Cafe Nero, you only need 8 stamps to qualify for a free coffe there as opposed to several hundreds of points at Costa Packet. 3G coverage will do for me whilst out and about.

Nigel Brown
IT Angle

Here it comes...

Only cocks ride Beemers anyway...

Nigel Brown

Haa haa haa

I'm with $ky, I still get access to Newzbin. I suspect I will continue to get access to TPB should I ever need it.

Fail, utter fail.

Nigel Brown
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I recently switched to Sky Unlimited upto 20 meg

Having place the order, their techy bods did various line tests and told me my speed would be between 11 and 15 meg. They are spot on, I can sustain a 15 Mbps at most times of the day, dropping occasionally to 12. I would have liked to have got closer to the 20 but at least I'm getting what I was told to expect, and that for me is the crucial bit.

Nigel Brown
Coat

Good.

The sooner they all piss off back to the 2013 equivalent of Bebo the better. I have a handfull of teenagers on my 'friends' list - family members and the offspring of some good friends, who are all there only out of politeness. I have had to set every single one of them so that I dont see any updates from them due to the sheer amount of drivel they post. Half of them seem incapable of using the private message function for a conversation, so you get a constant stream of teen-speak crap infesting your feed. Add to this the never-ending links to Youtube of some appalling R&B act or otherwise unknown 'pop star'.

If they can take with them the adults who have to share every damn 'funny' picture they ever see then even better.

Coat, mines the one with Victor Meldrew on the label.

Nigel Brown
Childcatcher

Ooh ooh, can I be the first to say...

won't somebody think of the children?

Nigel Brown

Why should the copyright mafiaa give a toss?

The increase in price for the comsumer will be tax, and therefore go straight to the government coffers, not those of the movie/music industry.

Did I just sort of defend the mafiaa then? Think I need to go and lay down.

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Nigel Brown
Joke

@Roger Greenwood

It's just off the Basingstoke roundabout, hop in, I can take you that far..........

Nigel Brown
Coat

What was that aboot the land of the free?

Oooh the irony.

Nigel Brown
Joke

All jolly clever

but will it be linked to the interweb by Schroedinger's cat5?

Nigel Brown
Facepalm

Lets be honest

Will this in reality affect anyone with more than half a clue? Newzbin showed how p*ss easy it was to get around the site blocking, and no doubt TPB will be able to do just the same.

Nigel Brown

@Robert E Harvey

No no, the correct term is twatdangler.

Nigel Brown

It's not just at national level though is it....

A major supermarket chain in my small market town has just pushed through it's planning application by offering what is known as Section 106 (I think that number is correct) money, a large chunk of wedge for the council to spend in 'improving' the town. What do you think would happen if I offered a few hundred quid to hurry through the planning application on my extension or conservatory?

Nigel Brown
WTF?

My two pennorth

2 years ago I took out an iPhone contract. Happy with the phone, did all I wanted it to do. I recently renewed my contact and opted for a Samsung Galaxy S2 this time. I figured if I was tying myself into a new 24 month contract then I wanted a phone that felt different to my iPhone, otherwise I might just have well have not bothered upgrading and stuck with my 3GS.

O2 have ubnlocked the iPhone and I now have a PAYG Voda sim in it, for those occasions locally where the O2 coverage is flaky (mainly the local villages). I dont class myself as a fanboi of either camp, they're just phones FFS.

Nigel Brown

I bet

eel be feeling a bit of a dick now.......

Nigel Brown
WTF?

All jolly clever and all that but...

Are people really that sad that they cant even watch a movie without having to be fed tweets throughout?

Nigel Brown
Joke

Twitter...

is the bit between the twat and the $h1tter.

Nigel Brown
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Cable laying?

Henceforth I shall refer to 'taking a number two' as 'laying a Vince.'

Nigel Brown

But...

I thought everyone used horrid little samples of R&B songs as their ringtones these days, certainly the vast majority of phones I hear do.

Nigel Brown
Facepalm

Why the hell would you pay by the minute..

..when there's a Muccy D's with free wi-fi on almost every street in the big cities.

Nigel Brown
Pint

An arrogant Frenchie?

Whooda Thunkett?

Nigel Brown
FAIL

Another stupid government promise

from another stupid government that just doesn't have a scooby about how computer-thingys and telecoms *actually* work.

Nigel Brown
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@AC 12:29

If you attempt to murder someone but fail you still get done for attempted murder. Failure in your intention is no defence.

Nigel Brown
Pirate

Well seeing as the programs have been aired and therefore seen..

..then this makes me free to torrent the jaysus out of the Beeb's back catalogue.

Avast me heartys.

Nigel Brown
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Typical bloody accountant

They know the price of everything but the value of nothing.

Nigel Brown
WTF?

No need to pay Murdoch a penny.

There'll be plenty of links to live feeds from around the world, just need to tune into Radio 5Live for some halfway decent and hopefully English commentary.

Nigel Brown
FAIL

Tish, bah and humbug

Factions are letting it be known that workarounds are already in place. The studios are merely tilting at windmills.

Nigel Brown
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The one teeny tiny drawback is

that the iPhone Facebook app is a bug ridden piece of detrius that crashes more often than a drunken chav in a souped up Nova.

Nigel Brown
Boffin

This is all jolly good and well...

...but has *anyone* bothered to feed Schrödinger’s cat lately?

Nigel Brown

Dearest (alleged) pirate

Please to be forwarding a processing fee in advance of your fine to our Lagos office by Western Union.........

Nigel Brown
Stop

Lets just have a quick sniff of the old java beans eh

and remember that the Mirror isn't exactly fond of the Murdoch empire. Points scoring and trouble making are clouding the truth of what's happened.

Nigel Brown

It's all a buch of tree-hugging hippy crap.

"many professional climate scientists do not believe that variations in the Sun have any significant effect on the Earth's climate"

Because they'd rather prolong their careers built on blaming mankind for climate change.

"there is intense hostility to the idea from the green movement as it could de-emphasise the importance of human-driven carbon emissions."

Oh yes, mustn't let scientific fact get in the way of a nice little spiteful war on motorists must we.

Nigel Brown
Facepalm

If you bother to look

You already have the option to exempt 'friends' from appearing in your news feed.

Nigel Brown
WTF?

Sir.

So what happened to "call me Dave"s rhetoric about getting tough on Europe, tearing up the loony diktats, and putting people first?

What's that? It was all bull just to get elected??

Surely not.

Nigel Brown
Unhappy

A pity

I've always felt these guys were the best of the bunch, far far better than the Currys mob.

Nigel Brown
Stop

Meanwhile, in another part of the schoolyard..

Bored with self-opinionated, self-righteous little twats now.

Nigel Brown
Facepalm

Opening the floodgates (sorry)

for any eejit to pee in the water - 'for teh lulz.'

Nigel Brown
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Those about to binge..

We salute you!

Nigel Brown
Mushroom

Cue the backfire from an ill thought out publicity stunt

I sincerely hope that this site now comes under a sustained attack from the less aesthetically-pleasing members of the hacking fraternity. Not everyone has such a high opinion of the beautiful people as they themselves do, and I look forward to reading about their pretty but empty head being shot off now it's breached the parapet.

Nigel Brown
FAIL

Unfortunately...

..at my local NHS theatre of fun the nurses are more Hattie Jaques than Babs Windsor :(

Nigel Brown
Holmes

Yawn.

British consumers get shafted again.

Ok, move along, nothing to see here.

Nigel Brown
Joke

Problem solved...

...just call the dog Sambo.

Nigel Brown
Joke

What you have all failed to grasp....

is that being from Norfolk, he was in all likelihood in possesion of enough fingers to be able to keep a couple on the wheel while the others were otherwise mobile-engaged.

Nigel Brown
Unhappy

Damn damn damn

Beat me to it.

First time I'd left the PC all morning............

Nigel Brown

Etcetera etcetera etcetera

Another argument against electronic babysitters.

Nigel Brown
FAIL

Einstein got it right

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.”

Nigel Brown
Paris Hilton

Hmm, a quandry

I used to wonder why anyone gave airtime to this collection of pre-menstrual, hysterical saddoes. Now I'm considering joing purely for some Friday night fun.

Paris. Explanation not needed.

Nigel Brown
WTF?

But should it be decaf?

Medical opinion used to hold that caffeine over-stimulated the prostate, I was told to switch to decaf to ease on the nocturnal yo-yoing twixt bed and bog.

Nigel Brown
Joke

Ahh, dear old Facebook

the natural home of those planks who fall short of length requirements.

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