Comment Maybe try not killing them? (Score 1) 1160
The USA could always try not lowering themselves to the hideous and depraved moral standards of those they execute...
and just not kill them.
Comment How much will they pay her to keep schtum? (Score 1) 177
oops
Comment My lost car keys? (Score 1) 544
So that's where I dropped my car keys. I know it was a good night, but when my mate said we'd been to Mars and back, I thought he was joking!
Comment Isn't it just down to Tolkien? (Score 2) 516
Is it not just because the classic fantasy authors (Tolkien/Carol) are English? Just like American villains are always English due to the English being the baddies during the American civil war?
Comment Poor online.. get BF3 instead (Score 2) 201
Just get BF3 instead... been a while coming but my it's good and essentially designed for the online multi-player experience.
Comment Re:If Microsoft made TV... (Score 1) 133
Oh, boy, this is comedy gold:
If Microsoft made TV...
When you change channels, you will occasionally get an hourglass for a few seconds, for no apparent reason.
Every time there's a change to the channel line-up, you'll have to download a 300 MB update, wait ten minutes for it to install, and then restart your TV.
Instead of the NTSC color bars, during "technical difficulties" they will show a blue screen with white text.
Every year they'll change what all the buttons on the remote do. Next year volume up/down will be mapped to numbers 2 and 7.
"Hi there! It looks like you're trying to find something good to watch. Would you like me to suggest something?"
how's Apple TV doing?
Man Spends 2,200 Hours Defeating Bejeweled 2 179
An anonymous reader writes "A California steel contractor spent 2,200 total hours over the last three years racking up a high score in Bejeweled 2. He exceeded the 2^31-1 maximum score programmed for the score display, proving that there is, in fact, an end to the game. I suppose congratulations or condolences are in order."
Shuttle Reentry Over the Continental US 139
TheOtherChimeraTwin notes that the shuttle Discovery will land at Kennedy Space Center on Monday morning at 8:48 EDT. The craft will make a rare "descending node" overflight of the continental US en route to landing in Florida. Here are maps of the shuttle's path if is lands on orbit 222 as planned, or on the next orbit. Spaceweather.com says: "...it takes the shuttle about 35 minutes to traverse the path shown... Observers in the northwestern USA will see the shuttle shortly after 5 am PDT blazing like a meteoric fireball through the dawn sky. As Discovery makes its way east, it will enter daylight and fade into the bright blue background. If you can't see the shuttle, however, you might be able to hear it. The shuttle produces a sonic double-boom that reaches the ground about a minute and a half after passing overhead."
Designer Builds Coffin For Xbox's Suffering RROD 118
angry tapir writes "The Xbox 360 RROD coffin was created by Aussie designer Alexis Vanamois, and it does exactly what it says on the tin. It's the ultimate final resting place for 'bricked' Xbox 360 consoles that have suffered the Red Ring of Death; it even has a cavity for your controller!"
After 2 Years of Development, LTSP 5.2 Is Out 79
The Linux Terminal Server Project has for years been simplifying the task of time-sharing a Linux system by means of X terminals (including repurposed low-end PCs). Now, stgraber writes "After almost two years or work and 994 commits later made by only 14 contributors, the LTSP team is proud to announce that the Linux Terminal Server Project released LTSP 5.2 on Wednesday the 17th of February. As the LTSP team wanted this release to be some kind of a reference point in LTSP's history, LDM (LTSP Display Manager) 2.1 and LTSPfs 0.6 were released on the same day. Packages for LTSP 5.2, LDM 2.1 and LTSPfs 0.6 are already in Ubuntu Lucid and a backport for Karmic is available. For other distributions, packages should be available very soon. And the upstream code is, as always, available on Launchpad."
Comment get out - it's called boredom (Score 1) 601
Get out of the business... it's called boredom.
I have - suddenly I don't just sit blankly in front of a computer all day. Life is good!
Comment Mac Vs PC AGAIN!!! (Score 1) 858
yes we know... macs are great.. will probably save the earth from global warming, create rains in africa and feed the starving...
if i want to spend gazillions of £ on a computer that looks pretty and works well then fine, to be honest you can't do a like for like comparison because they're are different things.
i drive a van.. it slow, but it gets me and all my stuff where to go... i don't want a sports car pointless for what i do.
same thing applies with computers. if i want all the extra freeware / shareware / supported apps / gamess etc that a pc gives me can i just buy one and not be made to feel like i'm not in with the style crowd? PLEASE!
Comment I made this on Fomalhaut (Score 1) 113
I created DNA for this express purpose.
I'm from a planet near a place you call Fomalhaut, and I am the intelligent designer some of the more clever amongst you call the creator.
Unfortunatly you are simply a bi-product of our search for the perfect computing system.
Yes - you're an accident, sorry.
