Posts by Simon Ward475 posts • joined Tuesday 3rd April 2007 11:52 GMT
OK, so they'd probably have the purists frothing at the knees, but any game that lets you play as an Imperial Sniper and award points for capping Ewoks deserves a mention :-)
They don't show me ads at all - AdBlock Plus and a few custom filters FTW.
To Facebook, I say this: "My data, personal or otherwise, is mine to give, not yours to take ... bitch"
"The world needs more Heath Robinson contraptions. There ought to be government grants for any new construction or product brought to market that can involves a demonstrable Heath-Robinson-ness."
Don't we give BAe Systems enough money as it is?
Dropzone was written by Archer McLean, not Jeff Minter.
If I had to put a C64 game in there, it would be a toss-up between 'Bruce Lee' (one of the first licensed games that *didn't* suck, despite having a couple of insidious bugs) or M.U.L.E. (OK, it was originally written for the 8-bit Atari, but was one of the first games I bought after I'd saved up for ages to buy a 1541)
You must be *so* proud.
Whaddya want? A medal?
Someone did a 'Paradroid' clone which ran under Linux; can't for the life of me remember the name of it, though.
Can't really argue with the contents of the list, although Jeff Minter is notable by his absence. I remember spending far too long playing 'Elite' on the Beebs at school instead of doing my O-level Computer Studies project, and 'Chuckie Egg' must be one of the most infuriatingly addictive game ever.
Was never that keen on 'Manic Miner', though. 'Jet Set Willy', on the other hand ...
True - back in the day I remember someone getting their 1541 to play "Daisy Daisy" - thoroughly buggered the alignment of the read/write heads, though ;-)
... but the Amazon listings for the 7" and 8" versions state that they run Gingerbread, not ICS.
So, who's right? If the 7" version is running ICS (ie. Amazon's listing is incorrect) then I'd definitely be tempted, otherwise no sale.
Swine-squashing subjugation by assorted angry avians :-)
or even "pig popping punishment"
The 'Danger Zone' levels are well worth a download (OK, having them as an in-app purchase on iOS was a bit sneaky, but ...) - when they said these levels were difficult, they weren't messing about.
69p well spent, although I hope they don't make a habit of it.
Nathan Barley, white courtesy phone.
Nathan Barley to the white courtesy phone please.
Could this be the new El-Reg standard unit of time?
Jeff Minter?
It's LaCie - you're paying for the name.
External power brick is a fail, though - once of the nice things about the PogoPlug is that it has an internal PSU, which doesn't add a great deal to the overall size of the device and means that there's one less power convertamajig to lose.
I'm sure I saw definitions of those in the Viz Profanisaurus app that I downloaded yesterday ...
Android 2.1? Please tell me this is a typo and it should read "Android 3.1" ...
Funnily enough, that's precisely what one of my cow-orkers said when I mentioned it to him.
Whilst the 'Pro' version of the device looks nice enough, especially for the price, I think I'll wait and see if they come up with a 3G version - for the sort of things I'm likely to use such a device for, GPS functionality of some sort would be a definite plus. That is but a minor niggle, though.
You can also flash the bootloader and get them to run the ARM version of ArchLinux of an attached disk. Of the four Pogoplugs I own, I've done this to three of them and they make very good, low-power Linux boxen.
I remember playing a hooky copy of this (on two floppies, no less) when I was at university. Between this, Wolfenstein and Doom I shudder to think how much time was wasted during the first year of my PhD :-) I think it's largely because of the original Civilization that most of the games I play nowadays are either turn-based or real-time strategy games.
Unusually for sequels, the follow-on Civ games (and Alpha Centauri) were just as good, with the notable exception of Civ5, which turned out to be an absolute dog.
Nuke, 'cos that's what I always aim for when I'm playing Civ4 :-)
Chances are the 'mystery customer' is DB Schenker/EuroCargoRail/EWS/WhateverThey'reCallingThemselvesThisWeek - I imagine that tracking freight consists and the like across pretty much all of Western Europe is a bit storage intensive.
Mine's the anorak, ta.
... bunch of W4NKRs
Irrespective of my stance on prat plates, good on him for telling the DVLA to sling their hooks.
1024x600 - fail. 'Nuff said.
Presumably this is O2's way of saying "we weren't able to install our own insidious brand of shovelware onto the device"
They've just created the next generation of recruitment/HR consultants.
Wonder if it'll work with my 6-string bass :-)
Unfortunately, it's ultimately a FAIL because UbiSoft are involved.
... who read "mam milk" as "man milk"
*shudder*
... considering that the black, unlocked, 16Gb fruitPhone on the desk beside me cost £510 direct from Apple (plus a tenner to have my stuff transferred to a microSIM, but even so ...)
... but his soundtrack for "The Ipcress File" is, for my money, about the best thing he ever did; it took a good film and turned it into a bloody brilliant one, and I'm not exactly a fan of the whole 'spy film' genre.
RIP - about the only famous musician to come from York[1]
[1] - Shed Seven don't count.
I think we know how the rest of that little proverb goes.
ThinkGeek sell some interesting stuff, but boy will you get mauled on import duty and VAT if you're outside the US - I learnt this one the hard way.
Quite why they never set up a UK/European tentacle is quite beyond me - they'd have made a (caffeinated) mint.
Damn tootin' - the brown sugar was enough to put me off, although I can't quite see it working as well with artificial sweeteners, somehow.
As well as being diabetic, I'm also teetotal and lousy at thinking of names but I'll be the first to admit that the end result looks pretty epic.
¡Salud!
What he said ...
Were it not for the fact that my old Nokia 6300 is still perfectly functional, this sort of thing would be perfect for slinging in my saddlebag for long bike rides and/or keeping in the glovebox of the car for emergency use.
Function beats form every time, and that's coming from someone who owns several devices from a certain Fruit Company ;-)
"What's next .toon for geordies?"
Personally, I thought they'd have gone with .yi ...
So that'd make at least one place that actually *takes* Amex then ...
Couldn't give a hoot about it, to be honest.
However, having recently encountered the folder functionality, courtesy of a newly purchased iPod Touch, it can't appear on the iPad quickly enough for me
Anyone want to take any bets on how much a capacitive 1920x1080 (or whatever) touchscreen is going to cost? Vague answers such as "a metric shitload" will not be accepted ... you can bet that even by Apple's standards, this isn't going to be cheap.
Hopefully they'll resist the temptation to put iOS on it - there's an epic fail in the making if they do.
Still, it'll give the other manufacturers a bandwagon to jump on - rather like they did when Apple started putting those horrible chiclet-style keyboards on their laptops.
Take whatever respect and good-will your fans might have left and piss it against the wall. Yep, that'll work.
The bank balance looking a bit peaky, is it?
"pics or it never happened!"
The grubby one, thanks.
We can but hope ...
Heh - the lads in my Computer Studies class were never bored.
We were too busy playing 'Elite' :-)
Although I dislike satnavs intensely, preferring the analogue version known as a 'map', I feel a sneaky reflashing of SWMBO's TomTom coming on :-)
Chiswick! Fresh horses!
He might not have been just north of Aberystwyth at the time, but I certainly was - was during either the second or third year of my first degree (studying planetary physics, no less)
It's *very* rare to see aurora that far south, and fairly rare in the UK as a whole, although I've often seen 'airglow' (aurora's little brother) in the far North of Scotland.
I took some long-exposure photographs which, if I recall, came out quite well. Wonder if I've still got them ...
Personally, I use a set of digital scales which cost me all of a tenner from Asda and an OpenOffice spreadsheet. No doubt someone skilled in the black art of circuit bending could perform some suitable hardware hacks on the scales if they so desired.
Simple, effective and cheap, although it is reliant on the user a) remembering to weigh themselves and b) put said value into a spreadsheet.
[*] - More Money than Sense.
(19st 6lbs, for anyone who gives a damn)
Almost as unheard of/unusual as someone admitting to being in an 80's-inspired hair metal band, in fact.
"The AC100 has 512MB of DDR 2 memory on board and an 8GB SSD - you work in the cloud, see?"
No I bloody well don't.
OTOH, since Android is probably less bloated than Windows and, to a lesser extent, a full-on Linux distro, it could be that 512Mb is plenty - I'm going out on a limb here since I've never used Android.
Liking the carbon fibre look as well, even if the 1024x600 screen is a fail.
... drive make either, as far as I could tel, other than the obvious exceptions of the units from Seagate and WD (and possibly Samsung). This info is a constant omission from a lot of hard drive reviews, and it's not as if it's difficult to find either.
For a lot of folk, myself included, anything containing a Seagate drive will be disregarded completely because of their (mis)handling of the Barracuda firmware debacle.
A reluctant thumbs down, since the article was otherwise excellent.
"But that’s the beauty of a voluntary scheme and a democratic society. You can choose to have one or not"
So there you go - nobody put a gun to your head and told you you had to shell out £30 for an ID card. You made the choice, knowing full well that your precious bit of plastic would be worth less than nowt after the election if the Tories got in.
You made a choice which, as it turned out, was the wrong one. That's life - deal with it. Consider your £30 to be your contribution to the moron tax and move on.
In the meantime, cry me a river ...
Probably won't be long before Western Digital come up with something similar.
Seagate - just say no!
... what make are the drives inside? If they're Seagate then no sale.
