So now they're selling livers to buy iPads as well are they? Well I suppose when you've flogged your kidney you have to move on to some other body part :-)
My browser fills in the rest after I've been there once, so it's all a bit pointless really.
Type f for facebook........
I know, I know, I should have better things to do with my time than facebook, but it's free OK? And more enertaining than the drivel on telly these days.
Well I still come top if I search for me so I'm alright!
Helps if you have a unique name though :-) Was surprised that 192.com thought there were 4 of me until i checked with them and they were all me. I suppose if I keep moving house I could have even more of me! Coincidentally I did find some new stuff of mine online whcih was a pleasant surprise, but whether thats because of their changes or just my international fame is another matter.
And he said it was the best Xmas present he's ever had. Provides endless amusement chasing the cats. He even tried it outdoors (once) and was surprised when it blew over the house and crashed in the alleyway. It survived though. And one which fires missiles sounds entertaining too, not sure what the cat would think of that. ;-)
Not only does the Sun have girls with their tits out, it has an iPad app where you can spin them around (the girls not the tits). Not that I would ever pay for the priveledge, (the thought of giving money to that nasty little man is just wrong) I recycle my Suns from the train on the way to work and then share it round the office. Green thinking soft porn, welcome to the 21st century! Oh and the iPad app has a 1 month free trial ;-) Herhehehehehe
That cash-rich corporations started spending their money on space-ventures rather than leaving it to bloated over-spending government agencies. OK they might kill a few people from time to time, but a bit of competition is bound to spur things along and speed them up. The tech exists, we just need the people to make it happen. And we've conveniently got a few mega-rich people who seem to want to spend their money on thsi at the moment!
It is a small anomaly that some software is sold as "owned" and some as "licenced". You don't see companies going down to CeX to trade-in their old copies of SAP, MSOffice, WindowsXP etc so why should Joe Public be able to resell his old copy of a game he's finished / doesn't like 'cos it's crap / hasn't played for 2 years then? However as long as computer games have existed we have had that right and we are generally more than a little aggrieved that they are proposing to take it away from us. Downsides of this proposal are that once a game is out of production you won't be able to get it anymore, and I'm sure that there will be unscrupulous persons who will find ways to side-step these measures as they have done with all previous attempts to prevent people from copying software. Pirates won't buy more software, they'll either find ways round the protection or just go and play something else.
I saw these rather funky electric height adjustable desks you could sit or stand at depending on your mood. Always thought they were a wonderful idea, but then they also had massive amounts of space per person compared to the pitiful conditions we have to work in here in the UK. Oh and a vending machine that dispensed beer. :-) In the office. Honest!
I mean what's the point of a watch? To tell the fecking time. Well you don't need one anymore in *most* scenarios, we now carry these small computerised devices called phones which do that. And why you'd want to strap a huge chunk of metal onto your wrist is just wayyyyyyy beyond me. It's just blokes showing off about how flash they are, and then you get the total eeejits who spend over a hundred quid buying "replica" watches to look flash for less money. Puhlease!
made a point of going in and using up any credit i had on my store card. Only problem with that was I could only spend it in chunks of £2.50 and so wtih what I'd gained by buying the first lot of games (well they were quite cheap) I had gone over the next £2.50 level. Which I then had to go back and spend another day. lol.
It is good that someone is doing something inspiring for one
All these people earn mega-bucks and sit in their mansions, then this guy comes along with a vision of doing something awesome. The rich guys who get remembered are te ones who do stuff whcih benefits others, and getting our race off this single planet has got to rank way up there. Yeah, he may miss by a bit, but he's doing alright at taking on NASA et al at the moment. Give the man a beer :-)
Since they've never had them. They just buy them in the hope that the eternal upward spiral continues. A little dividend is just a bonus to them. So how long before Apple returns to $6 a share as it surely will one day. Nothing lasts for ever......
If the breakdown cost of the iPad2 is what they cost when first released, or what they currently cost? I'd be surprised if this hadn't reduced in the year since it was released as technology improves. This could reduce or even eliminate the apparent difference in price.
Perhaps if UK boffins published the information instead of our cousins across the pond, then the times would be in GMT. Why should hard working journalists have to translate times for us when they can just cut and paste the article and let all of us scratch our collective noggins to work out what the time is in real units.
OK, OK, I'm leaving, I know should bite the hand that feeds that bites the hand that feeds IT.
The government wrote a law forcing satnav companies to use better algorithms which took into account factors such as vehicle type and road type to stop sat navs sending people down unsuitable roads.
I've only ever had a mobe for work purposes. At my last employers I made them buy me one, as it was them that wanted me to have one. Oh and I got to choose the phone too ;-) Whilst they can be useful in emergencies, there is very little in our lives which couldn't wait just a few minutes / hours to be communicated. Personally I love the sense of freedom I get on the occasions I forget to pick up my mobe. Don't think this makes me a luddite, I just like a little peace and calm every now and then. Oh and it winds the ex-wife up when she can't contact me for some reason. hehehehehehehehehehehehehe!
Could be a bit tricky given the up to 22 minute delay for message transmission, so thats 44 minute round trip. Nice scenario, astronaut needs operating on, have to wait 44 minutes for the next set of instructions to come through whilst they bleed to death on the operating table.
Well it's right next to Sainsbury's so when I go shopping for food, it's not difficult to persuade myself to pop in and see what I can find. Admittedly I only ever buy their second-hand stuff as new games are stupidly expensive and I've got a big pile of games to work my way through anyway. But at least my g/f likes (nay encourages) me to play them and sits there and watches and makes (helpful(?)) comments so I stand a chance of getting through them.
Maybe I should start shopping at Tesco's, but then if Game do go bust, there will be some reall bargains to be had, and I'll have to go back to e-bay. lol.
I want a fish-tank with these, so then I can have sumbarines and monsters chaing real fish! lol. Or Ships dropping depth-charges into the fish tank. The possibilities for silliness are endless.
That the vast majority of people on here, who one would assume are reasonable intelligent articulate members of society given the nature of the site, who have partaken of "illegal drugs" for either medical or recreational purposes are reporting positive experiences. I count myself in this category :-).
So why on earth we have to put up with all this sanctimonious bullshit from politicians telling us how bad they are is beyond me. It can't *just* be about money (which let's face it most things boil down to), 'cos there would be a fortune to be made out of the regulated sale of recreational substances, most people wouldn't be bothered to grow there own if you could go down the road and be presented with a selection of goodies to choose from.
And think of the benefits of making a whole criminal underclass unemployed, or possibly raising some of them out of a life of crime by legitimising their work. (Or is expecting crims to pay taxes a step too far? lol) But it is stupid the way the current system forces the millions of drug users to deal with "criminals". Grrrrrrrr.
i do love my occasional weekends in Amseterdam, and it is such a sham ethat they seem to be getting fed up of being used as a drug takers paradise, if only the rest of the world followed their example, then their problem would go away and only people who wanted to look at windmills, tulips and van goghs would go there.
You guys (or gals) are a bunch of cynical bastards (or bitches). Surely there must be large-scale IT projects which run to schedule and budget? Somewhere? Anywhere? Hello? Oh dear I seem to be on my own here......
Who would have thought just a few years ago that you would have errrr movies that took up more than 10 Gigabytes (errr theoreticaly speaking of course). Why on earth would anyone ever need that much storage? lol, although I have to admit 100EB is a bit of a jump isn't it :-)
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I guess the only downside.....
Is the mess you make when you upgrade your servers. But I guess you can run your car on the old oil when you change it ;-)
Back in realitysville
Do the unions really think the management give a flying feck what they think or do?
Oh dear......
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Common Sense 0
So now they're selling livers to buy iPads as well are they? Well I suppose when you've flogged your kidney you have to move on to some other body part :-)
Sony and my wife are so similar.
Nothing is ever her fault either. Or so she tries to make the rest of the world believe.
I think I'll have a beer now :-)
Like who types the full URL anyway?
My browser fills in the rest after I've been there once, so it's all a bit pointless really.
Type f for facebook........
I know, I know, I should have better things to do with my time than facebook, but it's free OK? And more enertaining than the drivel on telly these days.
Perhaps that was a subtle attempt at sarcasm?
Yeah right.......
He only owns 39% of them, so he clearly has no influence whatsoever over them.
Paris, 'cos he clearly thinks we're all dumb blondes who'll believe any level of crap they spout.
(Before the blondes start shouting that they're not dumb, you are, OK?)
Well I still come top if I search for me so I'm alright!
Helps if you have a unique name though :-) Was surprised that 192.com thought there were 4 of me until i checked with them and they were all me. I suppose if I keep moving house I could have even more of me! Coincidentally I did find some new stuff of mine online whcih was a pleasant surprise, but whether thats because of their changes or just my international fame is another matter.
think I'll have a beer to celebrate.
Bought my brother in-law a mini copter for Xmas
And he said it was the best Xmas present he's ever had. Provides endless amusement chasing the cats. He even tried it outdoors (once) and was surprised when it blew over the house and crashed in the alleyway. It survived though. And one which fires missiles sounds entertaining too, not sure what the cat would think of that. ;-)
Helicopter icon, obviously.
What is this with short-haired PC nerds, have they never enjoyed how great it feels to have long hair?
girls with their tits out
Not only does the Sun have girls with their tits out, it has an iPad app where you can spin them around (the girls not the tits). Not that I would ever pay for the priveledge, (the thought of giving money to that nasty little man is just wrong) I recycle my Suns from the train on the way to work and then share it round the office. Green thinking soft porn, welcome to the 21st century! Oh and the iPad app has a 1 month free trial ;-) Herhehehehehe
Well it's about time
That cash-rich corporations started spending their money on space-ventures rather than leaving it to bloated over-spending government agencies. OK they might kill a few people from time to time, but a bit of competition is bound to spur things along and speed them up. The tech exists, we just need the people to make it happen. And we've conveniently got a few mega-rich people who seem to want to spend their money on thsi at the moment!
Hmmmmmm
It is a small anomaly that some software is sold as "owned" and some as "licenced". You don't see companies going down to CeX to trade-in their old copies of SAP, MSOffice, WindowsXP etc so why should Joe Public be able to resell his old copy of a game he's finished / doesn't like 'cos it's crap / hasn't played for 2 years then? However as long as computer games have existed we have had that right and we are generally more than a little aggrieved that they are proposing to take it away from us. Downsides of this proposal are that once a game is out of production you won't be able to get it anymore, and I'm sure that there will be unscrupulous persons who will find ways to side-step these measures as they have done with all previous attempts to prevent people from copying software. Pirates won't buy more software, they'll either find ways round the protection or just go and play something else.
OK
Hands up all those governments who're going to go along with the FBI the next time they try a stunt like this?
Ahhhhh hello? Is there anyone there?
OK I'm leaving too.....
Epic failure
10/10 for impersonating a rich famous dude
0/10 for using the card in such a way that he got caught immediately. Duh!
I have a genuine ITVDigital monkey :-)
He was very excited to see himself on television the other evening, he's getting annoyed with tha fat bloke and the copied monkey advertising teabags!
In Germany
I saw these rather funky electric height adjustable desks you could sit or stand at depending on your mood. Always thought they were a wonderful idea, but then they also had massive amounts of space per person compared to the pitiful conditions we have to work in here in the UK. Oh and a vending machine that dispensed beer. :-) In the office. Honest!
Flash watches are just a load of old cock
I mean what's the point of a watch? To tell the fecking time. Well you don't need one anymore in *most* scenarios, we now carry these small computerised devices called phones which do that. And why you'd want to strap a huge chunk of metal onto your wrist is just wayyyyyyy beyond me. It's just blokes showing off about how flash they are, and then you get the total eeejits who spend over a hundred quid buying "replica" watches to look flash for less money. Puhlease!
That's why I
made a point of going in and using up any credit i had on my store card. Only problem with that was I could only spend it in chunks of £2.50 and so wtih what I'd gained by buying the first lot of games (well they were quite cheap) I had gone over the next £2.50 level. Which I then had to go back and spend another day. lol.
Re: Oh no!
First rule of forum club:
Never question the moderators!
Anyone got a spare Ipad sitting in a cupboard?
I'll give it a home and promise not to put it in a cupboard.
Swap it for a beer?
It is good that someone is doing something inspiring for one
All these people earn mega-bucks and sit in their mansions, then this guy comes along with a vision of doing something awesome. The rich guys who get remembered are te ones who do stuff whcih benefits others, and getting our race off this single planet has got to rank way up there. Yeah, he may miss by a bit, but he's doing alright at taking on NASA et al at the moment. Give the man a beer :-)
no-one buys apple shares for dividends
Since they've never had them. They just buy them in the hope that the eternal upward spiral continues. A little dividend is just a bonus to them. So how long before Apple returns to $6 a share as it surely will one day. Nothing lasts for ever......
I wonder
If the breakdown cost of the iPad2 is what they cost when first released, or what they currently cost? I'd be surprised if this hadn't reduced in the year since it was released as technology improves. This could reduce or even eliminate the apparent difference in price.
pre-owned stuff is not ripping off devs
Or is buying a second-hand record from the 60's ripping off the Beatles too?
Re: Reap what they sew
I'll give you a tenner for an unopened Skyrim.
Re: Any chance of times in GMT?
Perhaps if UK boffins published the information instead of our cousins across the pond, then the times would be in GMT. Why should hard working journalists have to translate times for us when they can just cut and paste the article and let all of us scratch our collective noggins to work out what the time is in real units.
OK, OK, I'm leaving, I know should bite the hand that feeds that bites the hand that feeds IT.
Well
I for one welcome our new flaming several hundred metre in diameter asteroidial overlords.
Yeah roaming sucks
If you thought the EU was bad, just got back from Egypt, call charges £1.50 a minute ffs.
Facebook died
And the world carried on as normal!
Maybe it would be better if...
The government wrote a law forcing satnav companies to use better algorithms which took into account factors such as vehicle type and road type to stop sat navs sending people down unsuitable roads.
Work has a lot to answer for really......
I've only ever had a mobe for work purposes. At my last employers I made them buy me one, as it was them that wanted me to have one. Oh and I got to choose the phone too ;-) Whilst they can be useful in emergencies, there is very little in our lives which couldn't wait just a few minutes / hours to be communicated. Personally I love the sense of freedom I get on the occasions I forget to pick up my mobe. Don't think this makes me a luddite, I just like a little peace and calm every now and then. Oh and it winds the ex-wife up when she can't contact me for some reason. hehehehehehehehehehehehehe!
Escape - obviously.....
Ummmm medical support to Mars
Could be a bit tricky given the up to 22 minute delay for message transmission, so thats 44 minute round trip. Nice scenario, astronaut needs operating on, have to wait 44 minutes for the next set of instructions to come through whilst they bleed to death on the operating table.
Perhaps the Doctor in question
Should have posted his reply anonymously........
I'd have been more impressed
If the man looked even remotely like Stevie boy.
You can always....
Add the sound effects yourself!
I still use mine :-)
Well it's right next to Sainsbury's so when I go shopping for food, it's not difficult to persuade myself to pop in and see what I can find. Admittedly I only ever buy their second-hand stuff as new games are stupidly expensive and I've got a big pile of games to work my way through anyway. But at least my g/f likes (nay encourages) me to play them and sits there and watches and makes (helpful(?)) comments so I stand a chance of getting through them.
Maybe I should start shopping at Tesco's, but then if Game do go bust, there will be some reall bargains to be had, and I'll have to go back to e-bay. lol.
Look it's just a bit of fun!
If those are your arguments against it, then why have we been giving children toy guns since we invented them (guns that is not children).
All my lava lamps are on remote control and I would love to use a remote control shaped like a gun, it's just so much fun!
Mines the one with the gun in the pocket.
Good it wasn't just me then....
Who thought it was all arse about face.....
Keep your feet on the ground
But keep on reaching for the stars. OK?
Paris - because she thinks she's a star clearlygo.
Well that's a nice little earner for somebody.....
isn't it?
rofl
Carbon-based life-forms have no sense of fun!
;-)
Optional
I want a fish-tank with these, so then I can have sumbarines and monsters chaing real fish! lol. Or Ships dropping depth-charges into the fish tank. The possibilities for silliness are endless.
:-)
Maybe.......
They're saving up to buy a small country? $100 billion dollars should get them somewhere fairly nice shouldn't it?
Well it does seem from the views here.....
That the vast majority of people on here, who one would assume are reasonable intelligent articulate members of society given the nature of the site, who have partaken of "illegal drugs" for either medical or recreational purposes are reporting positive experiences. I count myself in this category :-).
So why on earth we have to put up with all this sanctimonious bullshit from politicians telling us how bad they are is beyond me. It can't *just* be about money (which let's face it most things boil down to), 'cos there would be a fortune to be made out of the regulated sale of recreational substances, most people wouldn't be bothered to grow there own if you could go down the road and be presented with a selection of goodies to choose from.
And think of the benefits of making a whole criminal underclass unemployed, or possibly raising some of them out of a life of crime by legitimising their work. (Or is expecting crims to pay taxes a step too far? lol) But it is stupid the way the current system forces the millions of drug users to deal with "criminals". Grrrrrrrr.
i do love my occasional weekends in Amseterdam, and it is such a sham ethat they seem to be getting fed up of being used as a drug takers paradise, if only the rest of the world followed their example, then their problem would go away and only people who wanted to look at windmills, tulips and van goghs would go there.
EOR
(Time for a nice pipe I think)
Jesus.........
You guys (or gals) are a bunch of cynical bastards (or bitches). Surely there must be large-scale IT projects which run to schedule and budget? Somewhere? Anywhere? Hello? Oh dear I seem to be on my own here......
So where.....
are they going to pay GCT then? ;-)
Maybe they hid it in my coat......
If you invent it, they will fill it up
Who would have thought just a few years ago that you would have errrr movies that took up more than 10 Gigabytes (errr theoreticaly speaking of course). Why on earth would anyone ever need that much storage? lol, although I have to admit 100EB is a bit of a jump isn't it :-)
I'm sure she'll put up with it for a while....
Gotta be better than being homeless surely?
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