What is needed to keep everyone happy (except the music thieves) is for all suppliers of playback equipment to agree to ONE format of DRM protected file format.
That way when I move my music from my old iOS device to my new 'Droid I could still play these files. If I bought a file online I could play it on any device I own. Won't happen as they can't agree and even if they did, how would you manage backups and such?
Realistically, if they'd gone for this 15+ years ago they might have managed it, but the music industry dragged it's heels and the world blew past it and now it is desperately trying to stay afloat.
Short term not much will change except that the sensible musicians will market their wares themselves online, and will price their product such that they make a decent living.
The years of the super-rich musician is nearly over and y'all better get used to the idea.
The protectionism by the music corporations is just their long drawn out death-rattle.
Why have so many succumbed to the habit of repeating something that was shown earlier in the same show. Cheap padding is what it is as it adds NOTHING to the program and has many people yawning and changing channels or picking up their phone/pad and looking for something more interesting to do, like designing wallpaper, or that card game you have played to death for the last 15 years.
It is one of my pet hates and I have started to avoid most shows that do this.
Your audience was watching and they haven't forgotten what they saw in the last 30 minutes, so why repeat it? Is it dumbing down to the level of goldfish, or just lazy producers/editors who can't be bothered to actually produce a 45 minute show, so produce a 30 minute show with 15 minutes of repeats/padding.
As for reality TV, soaps, et al, the TV companies produce what people watch.
It's not their fault that their audience IQ is so low, or that the same audience is more susceptible to the advertising that funds their programmes.
The "possible" punishment they would suffer "if" they get caught does not occur to most criminals. If it does then most of the time they convince themselves and/or others that it's "worth it".
The Death Penalty is probably cheaper than keeping someone in pokey for the rest of their natural life. Yes there are moral implications but under the current system they spend most of the day watching TV, reading, working out, getting wasted, and occasionally doing some useful work, all at the taxpayers expense.
I'm not for or against the Death Penalty but such things need to be considered on a great many levels. Knee jerk reactions against it because someone innocent may be put to death need to be balanced against the chance that this person could be "cured" and released, and STILL re-offend. Both have happened and no doubt will again.
What happens when the database crashes and your servo driven love-puppet has an epileptic fit mid-bonk? I guess the hospitals would welcome a change from getting milk bottles off cocks and removing various objects from front and rear bottoms.
"So, did sir turn the simulated orgasm to 11 did he? Won't do that again now will he?"
The titles at both ends feature the superb track "Oh Superman" by Laurie Anderson.
Music in the movie to be provided by Leonard Cohen, Morrisey, and ColdPlay.
Storyline is that of a Human who is persuaded by the evil corporation Pear to spend all his money on their shiny-shinies to such an extent that he ends up being owned by Pear and forced to work in a megafactory run by that exploiter of the masses, Wolfcon.
In the final scene he commits suicide by slitting his wrists with a broken piece of Pear glass and his body drops onto the rubbish mountain outside the factory.
FanEmos will love it, but everyone else will stay away in droves.
The only job I do in the kitchen is the washing up and I don't see any gadgets for that.
My better half (who is an excellent cook) would possibly be interested in the Coffee machine and the Fridge but we have a perfectly adequate fridge and coffee maker.
Now if the fridge had a tablet built into the door that warned you what foods were approaching their use-by-date,... or the coffee machine had AI and told you that you were a coffee snob and most likely couldn't tell the difference between Arabica and Deer droppings (abusive Talkie Toaster anyone? <LOL>) , then I'd be interested.
Finally I'd like to see a dishwasher that loads itself, cleans the dishes, drys the dishes, puts the dishes away, and then cleans itself. If it gives BJs and wears stockings, so much the better. ;-)
It's a personal thing. I hate the thumb controllers.
It's almost as if the designers thought "Lets design a controller that uses the LEAST co-ordinated digit for all the fine control".
If you are in any doubt about this then try playing an FPS online against someone on a PC who is using a mouse and keyboard. You'll get yer butt kicked.
Even console games ported to PC can be bad. Batman Arkham City is one of those.
The GTA series however has always been excellently ported from Playstation to PC.
As for my most anticipated games for PC, I guess GTA5, Fallout 4, and HalfLife3 (or at least Episode 3) would be mine. That and any other game that has an extensive world to explore and some interesting challenges to solve that don't require me to have 4 prehensile thumbs in a particular position whilst standing on my schlong in a bath of green custard,.... just to get past that particular section. Having to "master" a particular key combination is BORING!! Been there done that,....... games designers, please find something new.
It's amazing that someone with all those letters after her name can be so stupid.
Perhaps if she ever crawled out of her Ivory Towers and did some real work in the real world then she may recognize that suggesting that everyone else should think what she thinks is tantamount to proposing global brainwashing. Land of the Free (to do and think what you are told!).
I prescribe 3 months of working in a soup kitchen helping feed the homeless.
That should give her a reality check as to what really matters to people.
because soon nobody will releasing games in a box and you will have to buy it via Steam (or similar) where it will have zero resale value to you. In effect you will be buying a single user LICENSE to play the game and not buying the game itself.
You can bet that the prices will rise too once the suppliers stop selling boxed games.
It will soon be the same for consoles as Publishers start releasing ONLY via Xbox Live or PSN.
Personally I am already buying all my new games via Steam as I got sick of retailers refusing help when I had problems installing the game. Some of the game publishers were pretty crap at support too. Steam on the other hand are very good but rarely needed as I have yet to have a Steam install fail.
Nice Shiny-Shiny for people with more money than sense.
Is there THAT big a market for iPoop speakers that you have to review a load of them at least once a month? I thought ElReg was Sci-Tech News,.... not "What iPoop Speakers Monthly"
1- If the Regulator goes faulty then they almost always fail open-circuit.
2- Most phones can survive 9v for a little while.
3- Smoothing capacitor not needed as there is nothing to smooth. They are only needed if you start off with an AC power supply.
However, the best method is to rub your smartphone against your nipples and crotch whilst making groaning noises. It won't charge your phone and definitely won't help find your hotel, but that nice man with Guardia-Civil on his jacket will almost certainly put you up for the night in one of his nice cells. <LOL>
Some will not be live, some will only be the highlights.
You just have to WAIT a few hours.
If you can't wait then I guess Murdoch has your balls in a vice. <LOL>
I already have Sky+HD and I most probably won't be watching it on Sky F1 unless it's massively better than the BBC. I already see too many advertisements and have no intentions of watching more.
Raise the penalty for anyone found to have been texting or emailing whilst driving to Reckless Endangerment. Also allow anyone injured in any accident caused by the texter to sue the texter (NOT their insurance company) for compensation. After a few people lose their car the rest may start to think "is this worth the risk?"
Nah, who am I kidding, as with all such things the only real solution is the FINAL solution.
Just Carbon all on it's own is a remarkable element, even before you consider what it can do with other elements.
We have Diamond the Hard, Graphite the Slippery, Buckminster-Fullerene the Globular and it's extended Nanotubes, and now Graphene the Super-Conductor / Semi-Conductor / Alcohol Concentrator.
Not only that but someone at El Reg does seem to be in love with you Carbon. ;-)
What Google need to do is rename their service in France to "Googlé", make sure that Le Président de Googlé is a prominent Frenchperson, and finally start doing designer "Googlé" headers on their search page commemorating Charles de Gaulle, Brigitte Bardot, Louis de Funès and other famous Frenchpersons.
Others could follow suit with Mozilla FeuRenard, Microdouce Bureau 2010, and of course the French almost certainly already love the stylish designer products of Pomme. ;-)
until Amazon release the KinFart to the world market.
I'm no Fanboi but there is no point comparing market for the iPap to the KinFart when nobody outside the USA can get one.
I'd love an iPap but they are over priced.
The KinFart is the right price (although here it probably won't be) but is not here.
The Andrug devices are so varied that it's difficult to decide which one to buy and which is decent value. So far I am leaning towards the Asus but if the KinFart had been released here they would probably already have won.
Personally I would rather stick with 2003 as I find the ribbon just gets in the way and takes up far too much screen.
2003 already had too much functionality. Who on earth is asking for more functionality from 2013?
I can see more and more businesses going to Open Source alternatives as they all start to realise that the Open Source apps on their iPoop or Andrug phones are just as capable as Office at doing everyday tasks. 10 years ago there was only the PC. These days people are MUCH more aware that there are alternatives.
You'd be amazed where Newts can get to and they are very difficult to get anything to stick to due to their ability to wriggle out of most situations.
Also remember that he will be up against a negro incumbent and that this is the USA, otherwise known as the country with the worlds highest concentration of Christian Fundamentalists.
People outside the US will be hoping that Obama will get re-elected, but inside the US they seem to be hankering to put another dribbling moron in the White House.
I have yet to meet a CIO who knew the difference between an IP address and a MAC address.
These people are managers and are invariably pulled from non-tech streams to manage techies as most organisations are scared of the idea of tech capable managers.
and it is getting cheaper and cheaper. Soon you will be able to buy a box for £200 that does it all.
I know a company that sells very solid filtering systems to schools and colleges as schools/colleges are already aware of the need to control access via their networks, especially w.r.t. mobile devices via WiFi.
These systems actively block external proxy servers and most of the other methods that todays canny Teens find to circumvent many web filters. Websites are categorised and allowed/blocked according to their category. The SysAds can allow normally blocked sites and vice-versa but most are pretty happy with the standard categorisations. Not only that but if someone goes to a new/unknown website, it is blocked by default, but it also sends a message to the software developers and that site is then visited and categorised by a robot, and occasionally by a human.
While I can see the need to filter what kids get access to there is still the question of what the cut off age is or do you go for a phased approach. Legally at 18 years old, you can only restrict access on a network that you own.
is a stopgap, nothing more. We need it to tide us over whilst we get Fusion working reliably and safely. That said, personally I would rather have a Fission reactor next door than a Fusion reactor. One is a contained (and massively slowed down) atomic bomb, the other is a contained HYDROGEN bomb. :-)
Coal, Oil & Gas (even fracked methane) are all cheap but are CO2 producers on a massive scale.
Renewables have to be subsidised even more than the French subsidise their Nuke industry.
So, everybody has a choice. Either we go Nuclear (Fission, then Fusion) or else stop having babies! Give a woman those 2 choices and see which way she votes?
but iWill take this opportunity to state that iShall never buy an Apple product, will do everything iCan to avoid using any of their software, and will jump on every chance to diss their products and denigrate the people who do buy them.
So, iApple can iKiss my iBig iFat iArse
Not that anyone gives an iRats iArse what iThink. ;-)
The computer is winning and the sooner the better.
Humans are in general pretty crap drivers. Our reflexes are slow, we cannot concentrate for more than a few seconds and we simply don't care enough to pay attention to what we are doing.
So, the obvious solution is to take the human out of the equation completely. Even if all the computers crashed every day it would still be a safer/faster/smoother/more economical/more environmentally friendly way of getting about.
I ride motorcycles and whilst I would hate to not be able to ride on the roads any more I would willingly exchange that for the ability to not get cut up every damned day by some dipshit who can't seem to understand that driving is a SKILL, not a right, and that skill needs to be maintained and practiced.
So, in the automotive world I say bring on our Digital Masters so I can sell my road bike and buy a trackday loony machine. :D
It does look quite scratched and dinged though but then being in the Asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter it's bound to get hit by other bits and pieces occasionally.
I wonder if it contains the user manual for the solar system?
You don't have to defend it like your daughters virginity!
Did you buy the phone to join that particular "Gang"?
Then you really REALLY need a life.
I bought mine to make calls, listen to music and surf the web.
My last phone was Symbian, current phone is Android, next may well be Apple or Windows.
Just because you bought a particular "brand" doesn't mean you have to defend it against all comers, doesn't make you a "superior being", and definately has no effect on the size of your Member or your attractiveness to the opposite sex.
STOP BELIEVING WHAT THE MARKETING PEOPLE ARE TELLING YOU! THEY ARE ALL LIARS!
I would love to buy 2 seats but I AM NOT ALLOWED TO!
All airlines flying out of the UK require a passport number for each seat.
I only have one passport, so can only book one seat.
I have always tried my damndest to not infringe on other peoples space but at 6'4" and 360lbs it's not easy in a seat designed for a 5' tall size zero waif. Yes I could diet but the width of my shoulders and my height would not change much so I would still struggle to fit.
My solution is to avoid flying if at all possible as I don't want to pay to be uncomfortable, bored and stuck in a stinky tin-can full of selfish arseholes.
I am all for this, but have no desire to buy a BMW or a Porche (intentional mis-spelling!)
I used to drive a Vauxhall Carlton which was comfy. I was given a Corsa courtesy car once during a service, and you didn't sit in the seat, rather on it. Every time I went round a bend I damned near ended up sitting on the handbrake.
I'm also 6'4" so can hardly get in and out of my partners Focus and with the seat all the way back my knees are still jammed against the dash on the passenger side.
I have very broad shoulders (and size 15 feet) so my choice of car is very limited.
So, I drive a fat lardy old Honda Legend which only does 20Mpg.
That said, the cost of replacing it just isn't worth the effort so I will drive it until it dies.
And to all the scrawny midgets out there,... yer just jealous! <LOL>
You are more likely to die from being hit by a Duck Billed Platypus driving a Monster Truck than from a Comet strike.
As for the stupidity of the "Internet", myself and some friends formulated a theory one night after a few beers. We believe that intelligence is inversely proportional to the number of people in close proximity.
So, 2 people with an IQ of 150 would have a combined IQ of 75.
3 people would be a combined IQ of 50.
You can just imagine (and experience) the combined IQ of a football stadium or an "Internet".
My Dad & Sister live abroad in the EU and both regularly have to ask me to buy something for them because the narrow minded UK company won't ship abroad. Yet I managed to buy motorcycle boots from a company in Germany and they even have their site in German, English and French. They have better service than any of the British companies I contacted at the time and they were cheaper even once you added in the extra shipping.
Growing up abroad I speak a few languages so I am used to navigating sites in French, Dutch or German, even Italian occasionally, but prefer to use English.
The only country more narrow minded w.r.t. languages are the French. Quelle surprise! ;)
Well, if you want business from people in the EU, you will need to display your wares in their language as many of them don't speak yours. You will also have to be willing to ship abroad and accept credit cards from abroad.
At the moment the best time to go shopping is "Prime Time" or as I like to call it "Sheep Time".
Anytime between 7pm and 10pm on a weekday the supermarket is pretty empty and almost totally devoid of trolley zombies. On the vague off chance that I might miss something interesting, I just record it.
As for the TrolliPad it'll never happen but just in case I claim Copyright on that name. ;-)
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What is needed to keep everyone happy (except the music thieves) is for all suppliers of playback equipment to agree to ONE format of DRM protected file format.
That way when I move my music from my old iOS device to my new 'Droid I could still play these files. If I bought a file online I could play it on any device I own. Won't happen as they can't agree and even if they did, how would you manage backups and such?
Realistically, if they'd gone for this 15+ years ago they might have managed it, but the music industry dragged it's heels and the world blew past it and now it is desperately trying to stay afloat.
Short term not much will change except that the sensible musicians will market their wares themselves online, and will price their product such that they make a decent living.
The years of the super-rich musician is nearly over and y'all better get used to the idea.
The protectionism by the music corporations is just their long drawn out death-rattle.
****ING Repeats!
Why have so many succumbed to the habit of repeating something that was shown earlier in the same show. Cheap padding is what it is as it adds NOTHING to the program and has many people yawning and changing channels or picking up their phone/pad and looking for something more interesting to do, like designing wallpaper, or that card game you have played to death for the last 15 years.
It is one of my pet hates and I have started to avoid most shows that do this.
Your audience was watching and they haven't forgotten what they saw in the last 30 minutes, so why repeat it? Is it dumbing down to the level of goldfish, or just lazy producers/editors who can't be bothered to actually produce a 45 minute show, so produce a 30 minute show with 15 minutes of repeats/padding.
As for reality TV, soaps, et al, the TV companies produce what people watch.
It's not their fault that their audience IQ is so low, or that the same audience is more susceptible to the advertising that funds their programmes.
Deterrence DOES NOT WORK
The "possible" punishment they would suffer "if" they get caught does not occur to most criminals. If it does then most of the time they convince themselves and/or others that it's "worth it".
The Death Penalty is probably cheaper than keeping someone in pokey for the rest of their natural life. Yes there are moral implications but under the current system they spend most of the day watching TV, reading, working out, getting wasted, and occasionally doing some useful work, all at the taxpayers expense.
I'm not for or against the Death Penalty but such things need to be considered on a great many levels. Knee jerk reactions against it because someone innocent may be put to death need to be balanced against the chance that this person could be "cured" and released, and STILL re-offend. Both have happened and no doubt will again.
Inhuman?
For those who are commenting on stuff like "it wouldn't be the same as with a human",...
What's the difference between a faked orgasm and a simulated orgasm then,... ???
Paris, the ultimate faked orgasm.
Urkkkk!
What happens when the database crashes and your servo driven love-puppet has an epileptic fit mid-bonk? I guess the hospitals would welcome a change from getting milk bottles off cocks and removing various objects from front and rear bottoms.
"So, did sir turn the simulated orgasm to 11 did he? Won't do that again now will he?"
iHuman
The titles at both ends feature the superb track "Oh Superman" by Laurie Anderson.
Music in the movie to be provided by Leonard Cohen, Morrisey, and ColdPlay.
Storyline is that of a Human who is persuaded by the evil corporation Pear to spend all his money on their shiny-shinies to such an extent that he ends up being owned by Pear and forced to work in a megafactory run by that exploiter of the masses, Wolfcon.
In the final scene he commits suicide by slitting his wrists with a broken piece of Pear glass and his body drops onto the rubbish mountain outside the factory.
FanEmos will love it, but everyone else will stay away in droves.
WHATS THE IT ANGLE????
The only job I do in the kitchen is the washing up and I don't see any gadgets for that.
My better half (who is an excellent cook) would possibly be interested in the Coffee machine and the Fridge but we have a perfectly adequate fridge and coffee maker.
Now if the fridge had a tablet built into the door that warned you what foods were approaching their use-by-date,... or the coffee machine had AI and told you that you were a coffee snob and most likely couldn't tell the difference between Arabica and Deer droppings (abusive Talkie Toaster anyone? <LOL>) , then I'd be interested.
Finally I'd like to see a dishwasher that loads itself, cleans the dishes, drys the dishes, puts the dishes away, and then cleans itself. If it gives BJs and wears stockings, so much the better. ;-)
I hate Consoles
It's a personal thing. I hate the thumb controllers.
It's almost as if the designers thought "Lets design a controller that uses the LEAST co-ordinated digit for all the fine control".
If you are in any doubt about this then try playing an FPS online against someone on a PC who is using a mouse and keyboard. You'll get yer butt kicked.
Even console games ported to PC can be bad. Batman Arkham City is one of those.
The GTA series however has always been excellently ported from Playstation to PC.
As for my most anticipated games for PC, I guess GTA5, Fallout 4, and HalfLife3 (or at least Episode 3) would be mine. That and any other game that has an extensive world to explore and some interesting challenges to solve that don't require me to have 4 prehensile thumbs in a particular position whilst standing on my schlong in a bath of green custard,.... just to get past that particular section. Having to "master" a particular key combination is BORING!! Been there done that,....... games designers, please find something new.
Twatter
Says it all really.
Arrogant and stupid
It's amazing that someone with all those letters after her name can be so stupid.
Perhaps if she ever crawled out of her Ivory Towers and did some real work in the real world then she may recognize that suggesting that everyone else should think what she thinks is tantamount to proposing global brainwashing. Land of the Free (to do and think what you are told!).
I prescribe 3 months of working in a soup kitchen helping feed the homeless.
That should give her a reality check as to what really matters to people.
Be VERY careful what film you nominate
The wrong film played on an iPhone or iPad could cause untold damage.
Charles Stross knows what I'm on about.
Some of the films nominated can suck out your soul, then pickle, bottle, and sell it to an unsuspecting housewife as Soul Chutney.
Get ready to pay full price
because soon nobody will releasing games in a box and you will have to buy it via Steam (or similar) where it will have zero resale value to you. In effect you will be buying a single user LICENSE to play the game and not buying the game itself.
You can bet that the prices will rise too once the suppliers stop selling boxed games.
It will soon be the same for consoles as Publishers start releasing ONLY via Xbox Live or PSN.
Personally I am already buying all my new games via Steam as I got sick of retailers refusing help when I had problems installing the game. Some of the game publishers were pretty crap at support too. Steam on the other hand are very good but rarely needed as I have yet to have a Steam install fail.
OOOOOooooh Goody, even more iPoop speakers.
Nice Shiny-Shiny for people with more money than sense.
Is there THAT big a market for iPoop speakers that you have to review a load of them at least once a month? I thought ElReg was Sci-Tech News,.... not "What iPoop Speakers Monthly"
1- If the Regulator goes faulty then they almost always fail open-circuit.
2- Most phones can survive 9v for a little while.
3- Smoothing capacitor not needed as there is nothing to smooth. They are only needed if you start off with an AC power supply.
However, the best method is to rub your smartphone against your nipples and crotch whilst making groaning noises. It won't charge your phone and definitely won't help find your hotel, but that nice man with Guardia-Civil on his jacket will almost certainly put you up for the night in one of his nice cells. <LOL>
Who remembers bad films? If it's bad enough you press stop or change channels.
If you watch it all the way through then more fool you.
Worst film I managed to watch all of was probably Dusk 'til Dawn.
The first 45 mins is the worst shite ever. Utter drivel
But starting with Cheech Marins "Pussy" spiel the last 35 mins is a blast.
So, can I nominate half a film?
Cold
If you've ever felt one you will notice that it's cold.
An ex had to have one Funbag installed due to cancer.
With one real and one silicone you can really tell the difference.
Chances are it's down to reduced blood flow.
Pint coz it's hometime on a FRIDAY! :-)
Wheres my tin hat gone?
Oh no, the basts have stolen it.
Once they have the internet and TV then they will control the WORLD!
Oh wait, if I don't watch TV or browse the web, then I won't need my tin hat will I?
Can they beam thoughts into my head? Is that what 4G really is?
Mr McDowell sounds like he has been bitten by the paranoid bug.
Methinks he needs to spend some time in a quiet room.
Bored
Is anyone else bored of hearing about the Apple girly slapfights?
Why don't these childish idiots get together in a meeting room somewhere and sort it out.
Not that Samsung/Motorola/HTC are any different but it almost always seems to be with Apple.
F1 on BBC
All races will be shown on the BBC.
Some will not be live, some will only be the highlights.
You just have to WAIT a few hours.
If you can't wait then I guess Murdoch has your balls in a vice. <LOL>
I already have Sky+HD and I most probably won't be watching it on Sky F1 unless it's massively better than the BBC. I already see too many advertisements and have no intentions of watching more.
Penalties
Raise the penalty for anyone found to have been texting or emailing whilst driving to Reckless Endangerment. Also allow anyone injured in any accident caused by the texter to sue the texter (NOT their insurance company) for compensation. After a few people lose their car the rest may start to think "is this worth the risk?"
Nah, who am I kidding, as with all such things the only real solution is the FINAL solution.
You are NUMBER 6
Carbon, the WONDER-ELEMENT!
Just Carbon all on it's own is a remarkable element, even before you consider what it can do with other elements.
We have Diamond the Hard, Graphite the Slippery, Buckminster-Fullerene the Globular and it's extended Nanotubes, and now Graphene the Super-Conductor / Semi-Conductor / Alcohol Concentrator.
Not only that but someone at El Reg does seem to be in love with you Carbon. ;-)
Frenchify
What Google need to do is rename their service in France to "Googlé", make sure that Le Président de Googlé is a prominent Frenchperson, and finally start doing designer "Googlé" headers on their search page commemorating Charles de Gaulle, Brigitte Bardot, Louis de Funès and other famous Frenchpersons.
Others could follow suit with Mozilla FeuRenard, Microdouce Bureau 2010, and of course the French almost certainly already love the stylish designer products of Pomme. ;-)
This article is useless,...
until Amazon release the KinFart to the world market.
I'm no Fanboi but there is no point comparing market for the iPap to the KinFart when nobody outside the USA can get one.
I'd love an iPap but they are over priced.
The KinFart is the right price (although here it probably won't be) but is not here.
The Andrug devices are so varied that it's difficult to decide which one to buy and which is decent value. So far I am leaning towards the Asus but if the KinFart had been released here they would probably already have won.
Why?
At work I use Office 2010. At home I use 2003.
Personally I would rather stick with 2003 as I find the ribbon just gets in the way and takes up far too much screen.
2003 already had too much functionality. Who on earth is asking for more functionality from 2013?
I can see more and more businesses going to Open Source alternatives as they all start to realise that the Open Source apps on their iPoop or Andrug phones are just as capable as Office at doing everyday tasks. 10 years ago there was only the PC. These days people are MUCH more aware that there are alternatives.
Who cares?
We'll all be dead before they manage to prove it one way or the other.
Climate Change happens. It has happened since the planet first realised it had a climate.
The causes are varied, complex and constantly changing.
What the "Scientists", as usual, are failing to state is that they don't know.
They "believe" but can't prove but are adamant about their beliefs.
And these are the same people who deride the "Creationists"? <LOL>
Playmonaut? Balloon?
Nah, I'd worry more about the cameras that seem to festoon these things.
They are probably the heaviest part of the assembly and at 500Mph would go through a plane windscreen like a bullet.
However, you have to be unbelievably unlucky to have that happen.
Yer far more likely to run into an alien spcaecraft. <LOL>
The engine would eat one of those balloons and spit out burnt shards, without really noticing.
Don't discount Newt
You'd be amazed where Newts can get to and they are very difficult to get anything to stick to due to their ability to wriggle out of most situations.
Also remember that he will be up against a negro incumbent and that this is the USA, otherwise known as the country with the worlds highest concentration of Christian Fundamentalists.
People outside the US will be hoping that Obama will get re-elected, but inside the US they seem to be hankering to put another dribbling moron in the White House.
Yahoo! Gargle+ Facebook?
Thats what you get for using "free" software.
One way or another, you will pay for it.
TANSTAAFL
If you don't want to be identified then don't sign up. Simples! ;-)
Remember that there are BILLIONS of people out there who are NOT on GooBook and many of them have fulfilling and meaningful lives.
CIO,... Techie? <ROTFLMAO>
You have got to be kidding!
I have yet to meet a CIO who knew the difference between an IP address and a MAC address.
These people are managers and are invariably pulled from non-tech streams to manage techies as most organisations are scared of the idea of tech capable managers.
Web filtering exists...
and it is getting cheaper and cheaper. Soon you will be able to buy a box for £200 that does it all.
I know a company that sells very solid filtering systems to schools and colleges as schools/colleges are already aware of the need to control access via their networks, especially w.r.t. mobile devices via WiFi.
These systems actively block external proxy servers and most of the other methods that todays canny Teens find to circumvent many web filters. Websites are categorised and allowed/blocked according to their category. The SysAds can allow normally blocked sites and vice-versa but most are pretty happy with the standard categorisations. Not only that but if someone goes to a new/unknown website, it is blocked by default, but it also sends a message to the software developers and that site is then visited and categorised by a robot, and occasionally by a human.
While I can see the need to filter what kids get access to there is still the question of what the cut off age is or do you go for a phased approach. Legally at 18 years old, you can only restrict access on a network that you own.
Nuclear Fission...
is a stopgap, nothing more. We need it to tide us over whilst we get Fusion working reliably and safely. That said, personally I would rather have a Fission reactor next door than a Fusion reactor. One is a contained (and massively slowed down) atomic bomb, the other is a contained HYDROGEN bomb. :-)
Coal, Oil & Gas (even fracked methane) are all cheap but are CO2 producers on a massive scale.
Renewables have to be subsidised even more than the French subsidise their Nuke industry.
So, everybody has a choice. Either we go Nuclear (Fission, then Fusion) or else stop having babies! Give a woman those 2 choices and see which way she votes?
Errrr, are they the same car?
2013 Tesla, 2013 Mondeo.
Separated at birth (or at least they will be).
http://www.reghardware.com/2012/01/09/ford_unwraps_2013_mondeo_foundation_the_fusion/
I know that modern cars are getting samey but this is ridiculous, or did Ford buy Tesla?
iHesitate to waste my time,....
but iWill take this opportunity to state that iShall never buy an Apple product, will do everything iCan to avoid using any of their software, and will jump on every chance to diss their products and denigrate the people who do buy them.
So, iApple can iKiss my iBig iFat iArse
Not that anyone gives an iRats iArse what iThink. ;-)
Don't tell the Americans
They will start screaming about Communist water and invade Canada to give themselves a buffer against the onslaught of the Red Tide.
The North Atlantic Conveyor (Gulf Stream) will be most affected by the Greenland melt.
It won't "shut down" but may well move further south leaving the UK feeling more like Norway in terms of climate.
Anteaters?
You are so lucky to be only 46 anteaters from your HSBC branch.
My nearest one is over 420 lemming leaps away.
It's happening NOW!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16197664
All your car are belong to me. Ownzed! <LOL>
Soon you will all be ex-drivers
The computer is winning and the sooner the better.
Humans are in general pretty crap drivers. Our reflexes are slow, we cannot concentrate for more than a few seconds and we simply don't care enough to pay attention to what we are doing.
So, the obvious solution is to take the human out of the equation completely. Even if all the computers crashed every day it would still be a safer/faster/smoother/more economical/more environmentally friendly way of getting about.
I ride motorcycles and whilst I would hate to not be able to ride on the roads any more I would willingly exchange that for the ability to not get cut up every damned day by some dipshit who can't seem to understand that driving is a SKILL, not a right, and that skill needs to be maintained and practiced.
So, in the automotive world I say bring on our Digital Masters so I can sell my road bike and buy a trackday loony machine. :D
It's a DVD!
Vesta is a DVD! Who woulda thunk it? ;-)
It does look quite scratched and dinged though but then being in the Asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter it's bound to get hit by other bits and pieces occasionally.
I wonder if it contains the user manual for the solar system?
Get a life people
Who cares if it's an iDroid, Symdows or PalmRIM.
It's a ****ing smartphone.
You don't have to defend it like your daughters virginity!
Did you buy the phone to join that particular "Gang"?
Then you really REALLY need a life.
I bought mine to make calls, listen to music and surf the web.
My last phone was Symbian, current phone is Android, next may well be Apple or Windows.
Just because you bought a particular "brand" doesn't mean you have to defend it against all comers, doesn't make you a "superior being", and definately has no effect on the size of your Member or your attractiveness to the opposite sex.
STOP BELIEVING WHAT THE MARKETING PEOPLE ARE TELLING YOU! THEY ARE ALL LIARS!
As a fattie and longie,..
I would love to buy 2 seats but I AM NOT ALLOWED TO!
All airlines flying out of the UK require a passport number for each seat.
I only have one passport, so can only book one seat.
I have always tried my damndest to not infringe on other peoples space but at 6'4" and 360lbs it's not easy in a seat designed for a 5' tall size zero waif. Yes I could diet but the width of my shoulders and my height would not change much so I would still struggle to fit.
My solution is to avoid flying if at all possible as I don't want to pay to be uncomfortable, bored and stuck in a stinky tin-can full of selfish arseholes.
Me,me,me!
"the bikini makes it clear she doesn't have a whole lot to fall back on"
She can fall back on ME any day of the week. :-D
As for the rat,... err,.... Chihuahua, never did understand how anyone can get attached to them.
Nasty little ****ers!
Apple are ownz all your ass!
Bend over and take it like a man FanBoiz!
Apples are rather fruity and full of seeds. ;-)
As a big fatty...
I am all for this, but have no desire to buy a BMW or a Porche (intentional mis-spelling!)
I used to drive a Vauxhall Carlton which was comfy. I was given a Corsa courtesy car once during a service, and you didn't sit in the seat, rather on it. Every time I went round a bend I damned near ended up sitting on the handbrake.
I'm also 6'4" so can hardly get in and out of my partners Focus and with the seat all the way back my knees are still jammed against the dash on the passenger side.
I have very broad shoulders (and size 15 feet) so my choice of car is very limited.
So, I drive a fat lardy old Honda Legend which only does 20Mpg.
That said, the cost of replacing it just isn't worth the effort so I will drive it until it dies.
And to all the scrawny midgets out there,... yer just jealous! <LOL>
You are more likely to die from being hit by a Duck Billed Platypus driving a Monster Truck than from a Comet strike.
As for the stupidity of the "Internet", myself and some friends formulated a theory one night after a few beers. We believe that intelligence is inversely proportional to the number of people in close proximity.
So, 2 people with an IQ of 150 would have a combined IQ of 75.
3 people would be a combined IQ of 50.
You can just imagine (and experience) the combined IQ of a football stadium or an "Internet".
Stilts?
Large parts of London are built on a flood plain.
Naples is built next to a highly active Volcano.
The Bay Area is built on a VERY active fault line.
All very stupid, but then people are stupid.
You pays yer money and takes yer risk.
Just don't start bitching when it happens.
The British seem to be worse than most
My Dad & Sister live abroad in the EU and both regularly have to ask me to buy something for them because the narrow minded UK company won't ship abroad. Yet I managed to buy motorcycle boots from a company in Germany and they even have their site in German, English and French. They have better service than any of the British companies I contacted at the time and they were cheaper even once you added in the extra shipping.
Growing up abroad I speak a few languages so I am used to navigating sites in French, Dutch or German, even Italian occasionally, but prefer to use English.
The only country more narrow minded w.r.t. languages are the French. Quelle surprise! ;)
Well, if you want business from people in the EU, you will need to display your wares in their language as many of them don't speak yours. You will also have to be willing to ship abroad and accept credit cards from abroad.
Lewis, I love you!
Finally someone else speaks out against the iPoop.
Overpriced, underspecified, designer rubbish for the terminally gullible.
You will overpay for the phone, overpay for your airtime contract, and overpay for any apps.
When it was new it was a revelation w.r.t. having a moderately well designed user interface.
But now,...it's outclassed by almost everyone.
Buy GM?
If they are going to track/log my data, then the obvious solution for me is to NOT BUY a GM car.
I guess that all the other car manufacturers are rubbing their hands in glee.
It's all about timing
At the moment the best time to go shopping is "Prime Time" or as I like to call it "Sheep Time".
Anytime between 7pm and 10pm on a weekday the supermarket is pretty empty and almost totally devoid of trolley zombies. On the vague off chance that I might miss something interesting, I just record it.
As for the TrolliPad it'll never happen but just in case I claim Copyright on that name. ;-)
HP?
Hyped Poop
Highly Problematic
Humpy Punters
Humble Pie?
Hardly Probable!
Hateful Phonies!!!!
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