Comment Disney Watch (Score 1) 112
It looks just like something you'd expect from a Disney branded watch. Something an 8 year old would wear.
It's butt ugly!
And that promo video sounds like a remake of the Turbo Encabulator video.
Comment Re:Last gen systems are still news? (Score 1) 204
That was back when upgrades actually offered something substantial.
Nowadays, it's mainly all about the "social" bollocks and ways of screwing more money out of the customer.
The 360 is likely the last gaming machine that I'll own.
Comment Re:great antispam, please try to send me some spam (Score 3, Informative) 69
There are all ASCII in DNS:
Punycode
Comment Re:My first computer (Score 4, Interesting) 212
Most Spectrum owners can probably still recall the sequences for calling LOAD "", POKE and cursor keys with little trouble.
One of the emulators is called "jpp" for this very reason.
Comment I voted "Naked Eye" (Score 4, Funny) 106
But I have to resort to "optical telescope" when watching Natalie Portman. (She's a star, right?)
Comment Giving up passwords (Score 5, Informative) 575
Comment Talktalk and Sky (Score 1) 258
Both talktalk and Sky have been doing some aggressive marketing lately. I wonder if that's where people are going.
I don't have any personal experience but I've heard that they're not much better. In particular, I've not heard a good word about talktalk.
Comment Re:Sure, send me an invite! (Score 1) 1223
TY!
Comment Re:Sure, send me an invite! (Score 1) 1223
Any invites left to cover me?!? xmobuk at gm.
Cheers!
Comment Re:It's an entirely different kind of flying. (Score 1) 289
It's an entirely different kind of flying.
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose a Windows Laptop? 898
jfruhlinger writes "I'm a Mac guy. When our 2004-era Windows XP laptop, which was used primarily by my wife, died last summer, I got myself a new MacBook Pro and she inherited my still serviceable 2008 MacBook. But after about six months, she hasn't gotten used to it, and wants a Windows machine. I don't have an ideological problem with this — it'd be her computer, and we've got a bit of money stashed away to pay for it. But trying to pick one out is my job, and I find the the whole process bewildering. Apple's product differentiation is great at defeating the paradox of choice — you have a few base models, the difference between which is quite obvious, and you can customize each. The Windows world seems totally different. Even once I've settled on a vendor for a Windows laptop (something I haven't done yet), each seems to have a bewildering array of product lines with similar specs. Often models that you find in electronics or office supply stores that seem promising in terms of form factor are exclusive to those stores and can't be found online. Obviously people do navigate this process, but I'm just feeling out of my depth. How would Slashdotters go about picking a solid, basic laptop for Web surfing and document editing that won't be obsolete in two years?"
Comment The Response From Libya? (Score 0) 688
I can't help feeling that 747s etc. are going to start falling out of the skies on a regular basis as a result of this.
Comment Communicate first? (Score 5, Interesting) 662
Would it not make sense to communicate first? Radio at 20 light years is a 40 year round trip. You never know, somebody might answer with instructions on how to get there quicker.
Hey! That's given me an idea for a great film. Is Jodie Foster available for the lead?
Comment Re:Oh Oracle (Score 1) 342
And changing Solaris to SoLarry's.
Murdoch's UK Paywall a Miserable Failure 428
David Gerard writes "As part of his war against free, Rupert Murdoch put the Times and Sunday Times of London behind a paywall. Michael Wolff of Newser asks how that's working out for him. You can guess: miserable failure: 'Not only is nobody subscribing to the website, but subscribers to the paper itself — who have free access to the site — are not going beyond the registration page. It's an empty world.' Not that this wasn't entirely predictable." Update: 07/17 01:41 GMT by T : Frequent contributor Peter Wayner writes skeptically that the Newsday numbers should be looked at with a grain of salt: "I believe they were charging $30/month for the electronic edition and $25/month for the dead tree edition which also offered free access to the electronic edition. In essence, you had to pay an extra $5 to avoid getting your lawn littered with paper. The dead tree edition gets much better ad rates and so it is worth pushing. It's a mistake to see the raw numbers and assume that the paywall failed."
