Posts by Andy 70

bollox

there was an initiative to bolt something on to bluetooth, where your car dumps the sensor information to your phone, and your phone generates the UI on the car's screens sort of like RDP or something.

i take it that's died a death then.

Gorgon Stare

Sorry, i read that as the Gordon Stare. I imagined Gordon Brown just staring at some MP for questioning his lack of ability. As a result i didn't think it would be much cop at object tracking - didn't he take a pie to the face?

beer. Friday fuel.

Architect....

I'm going to update my corporate brand right now! top buzzwordization! or is that bastardization? either way, happy friday BOFH'ing to all!

Uplay

i most most displease about having to install yet another bloody game client front end account info scraper. had i known i needed some poorly built 'going to be ignored in a few years' custom front end; i wouldn't have bothered with far cry 3

just like i gave masseffect3 a miss and a couple of other EA titles that are "origin exclusives"

the time i'll "log in with my facebook account" is the time that satan will go skating to work.

"maximizing the potential for shareholders"

translation:-

strip mine the company, and decimate the workforce. The rest can go to hell.

R.I.P. quantum. your SCSI fireball drives were the byword for speed and your tapes, reliability.

wheel another one to the tech graveyard of my childhood/adolesence

mankind's tombstone for eternity

at least something of mankind will survive the sun's eventual destruction, even if commities and budget cuts ensure that we don't.

provided it doesn't fall into a star or get eaten by a black hole. but given that [hitchhickers] space is so mind bogglingly big [/hitchhikers] etc. hopefully that won't happen for a while.

would help if all manufaturers who put MIDI sockets on their machines confirmed to the kind of standard.

had a yamaha something something stand in for a roland something else that had it's drum section on channel 10, instead of the seemingly agreed channel 16 that everything else expected.

made everyone jump when the melody kicked in. i remember their faces ....

good times, happy unbirthday MIDI. i might just dust off the old datel MIDI-X for the A500 later...

yeah, but....

functionality plays second fiddle to form. and really, when was the last time you used your DVD drive for anything?

anyway, they are just iterating through all the motions (cash generating steps), that will lead us to what will effectivly turn the iMac into; an ipad on a stand.

nice. so in 2020, we'll have what we had in 2010, and be told it's the next big thing. and you will all accept it, love it, and once again - you will all pay for it. isn't marketing great.

@ Thorne

judging by the pile-up at the ticket barriers as people figure out how to operate them, a good portion of the 25% can be found on the early trains into Liverpool street this morning.

never let any one stash for you!

have your own stash. and keep it.

at my cost, i sold at the time under much duress of convincing from family, a very expensive and custom video editing system. but i was good. i did my dutifull backups onto its DDS3 (3 no less!) scsi tape reassured in the knowledge that i would get back on my feet and i would own such a beast again. one restore and i would be golden. parents also had stuff in store, and offered to store my stuff which included generic nicknacks, about 1000 floppy disks, and the golden, precious tapes.

i now have enough of such a system back in operation, i have salvaged a known working DDS3 drive. when i asked about the stuff they had in store, i was told.

"oh we've got it all back, it was costing too much."

"so what about my stuff?"

"you've got it all."

"a vic20, a reflecting telscope, and a stick on garfield?"

"yes"

"no hundereds of disks or small stack tapes, or anything else?"

"no"

"..."

in that silence, the realisation that a section of my past life was consigned to history

breakthrough into link up gaming

two amiga 500's one properly wired 25 pin null modem cable, and countless hours lost. getting annoyed when the other player hits the armageddon button before you're ready.

or single player, and big maps being left to run overnight and during school hours - to be picked up when i got home and should have been doing homework. good times. not much homework done though ;)

so much for the looks

i don't care what they're called. still can't tell the difference between one of these and a super cheap acer from pcworld. (cheap and pcworld in the same sentence! i crack myself up sometimes....)

looks. isn't that what this is supposed to be about?

and what happens if your bubble bursts half way?

oh sorry, erm, your warp space containment field destablizes...

you can't exactly phone the AA to tow you home, and unless you're carrying enough exotic material on the outward trip to build another stargate doughnut the other end, it sounds pretty one way to me. As i guess there isn't a local tesco's in the alpha centari system to visit the meat counter?

also, how do you "arrive" at your destination? calculated bubble bursting?

"nav" computer to take into account destination system's velocity and direction, given that when we look at where it is from earth, the time taken for the light to reach us is where it was eleventy billion years ago, not where it is now?

calculated course will have to be re-evaluated and adjusted continuously over the course duration, getting more accurate as you go (the closer you get the more recent your visual positional data is). or do you just take a massive calculated punt that the block of nothing you're aiming at is where the system is at your arrival time, and not empty space.

over all, if there is a call up for pensioners to do test trips that may or may not get home, sign me up when i'm old enough!

spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!

yawn

nothing here that excites as much as the hardware specs would lead you to believe.

i think i've officially lost interest in "smart phones". andriod, symbian, windows phone, and after suffering the recent round of hype over the next device apple have released, i just don't care anymore.

nothing inspires, no inovation, no new ideas. just a revamp of the usual spyware and information gathering bugware that the general public have accepted as part of their personal 'information revolution' that everyone vaguely intelligent went trough in the late 80's/90's, before people became the products that kids now accept as the default settings for their lives.

fuck this, where's my nokia 6310? track me now you cunts.

chrome shmome

yeah, no wonder the install count is creeping up. every freaking install of adobe, or java, or somethingelseineed(tm) comes with "would you like to install google chrome and set it as your default browser?" that and the google/ask toolbar. people just click yes yes yes yes yes ohfuckwhatwasthatlastone? ahscrewit, yes yes yes finished.

and are they counting every android handset out there too?

fruggin grumble grumble IE9's too good for 'em... netscape 3.01s what they want....

i bought this over the samsung 8000

lovely picture, lovely screen, 3D gimmickery - erm i mean 3D bluerays work fine. not sure how you get cross talk on passive specs? btw, cinema passive specs don't work on passive TV's

here's what sold it to me.

watching a film on this and watching a film on the samsung 8000 side by side.

once i'd spotted the light pooling/banding on the samy's screen, and also leaking in from the edges plus spotlighting from the corners, i was spending my time looking for and finding imperfections. as once you'd seen them, you couldn't "unsee" them, as you knew they were there.

on the LG, i just got sucked into the film and watched it. even when i tried to snap out of it and hunt for jaggies, wobbly motion compensation, odd light gradients or pooling, i just ended up drawn back to just watching the content.

So, put money where mouth is, and bought one. Initially i was worried about smoothness issues replaying SD content. but those went away real quick. I think the review is a little down on what this set can produce, and sure, if you have the cash to burn, go for the higher end models, but it seems you're really getting into the realms of deminishing returns if you do.

so far, I have nothing to complain about, and especially, the missus likes it. surely that's _the_ rubber stamp of approval. Good HD on this thing is like looking out the window.

all in all, kinda agree with the final percentage score given in the review, (maybe i'd give it 5-9% more), its a good solid TV with a decent feature set. spend more get more, spend less get less, it's your money, you takes your chioce. there is no such thing as the perfect TV for everyone, it's always going to be a compromise. But i'm happy enough that i'm not planning to upgrade this screen now till 8KHD takes off.

well...

TechnicalBen, my take on it is that you have a pre-agreed way to read the numbers off of the light beam at both ends, and you just take advantage of the phase shift of the light beam itself and modulate accordingly to get your information there 'a tiny tiny tiny bit faster than light'.

nothing is physically travelling faster than light, just the numbers just ride the phase peaks like a surfer on a wave. like a stopped clock surfs a 12hour time wave to be right twice a day. provided you know when to read the cycle, you'll get the information you need. so each end has to know how to read and transmit the information accordingly.

meh, whatevs. probly wrong init. safe.

@lemmac

thanks for reminding me why i don't click on the "view comments" button too much anymore.

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another childhood dream goes down the swanny. i used to think i really wanted something like this, the idea's for it's uses go on and on.

but in reality the it'll track you, look at what you're looking at, hear what you're hearing, and sell all the info to the highest bidder.

nothing serves _YOU_ anymore. you are the product. not quite how i imagined a technological utopia of my future.

at least he only has to deal with the proposal day anniversery once every 4 years.

on the other hand, he'll be damned if he forgets! ... oh wait. that's just normal.