Posts by Joel

Mummified?

How so? Was he doing an experiment or something? Did he wrap himself up? And surely the wife would have smelled it?

Ebay

Shame they pulled the listing.. maybe you should have a questionnaire before you can read articles like this.

"Do you work for Ebay?"

"Yes." "No."

FF

Will they have servers without Friendly Fire turned on for the yanks?

Erm..

"Err.. that's one.." .. "That's one too I guess.." .. "yeah that one about that stuff..", "oh yeah there's one there too.."

"how many's that? 4? .. damn, that's no where near enough.."

"Oh there's another... that makes.. 235!"

Re: Motivation

Yeah, that's total BS. They might as well ban re-takes... would that not motivate people to study hard and pass first time, because if they don't they're screwed for life?

Wehay.

Finally, the corporate hypocrisy that is Tesco may get some comupence. Work there.. all eejits :P

Driving to work.

You could even set up little signal transmitters along your route to work, telling everyone else to go elsewhere because it's all jammed up, leaving you with a nice free road to get to work on time :)

Youtube?

Seriously.. why have I not been able to find any videos of this alleged "crrrrraaazy" party? Even the lamest parties get put up on Youtube. If I was there and had filmed things.. even before I'd seen the news I'd whack the videos up... and then afterwards whack them up again.

If anyone finds any videos.. please, do tell me :)

Adults?

How disappointing. I was really looking forward to reading the immensely immature comments for this article.

Just wondering if he had to 'give back' the porn he stole, and if not can he not re-sell it .. or perhaps just sell his computer on eBay;

AMD Athlon 2.4ghz

2gb RAM

160gb HDD (3gb remaining)

Eye beams?

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b202/imfletcher/robojacko.jpg

On another note... is this again not just a premature April fools joke? If not.. I pity the young of Las Vegas.

Toilet Myspace?

I can see this becoming the new Myspace for lavatories, they can have pictures of themselves, post blogs about who came and pissed in them, perhaps even have live webcam broadcasts.

This is a new era of the internet for WCs around the globe.

What they said ^

The lack of visible sarcasm in this article is what makes it my top read of the week. Good job, haha.

Ugh?

So again, another classic story and character-set gets stolen to make a few measly dollars and a god awful film. This could be the worst possible Trek film to date.

Casting Matt Damon is probably the most disgusting thing i've ever heard. Sure he's an ok actor, he does good action and was great in Good Will Hunting, but as Kirk? The eccentric, seductive, masterful starship captain? Pfft. It's insulting.

They're going to ruin something that William Shatner worked so hard to create.

Either way, First Contact is and will always be the best Star Trek film ever made. Nothing will ever match it.

Meh, I honestly can't be bothered to go on... how many times to people want to screw Star Trek over?

Woah

Wow, I didn't realised they could get people's names from their DNA. That's impressive.

Owls.

.. er .. I mean Wolves.

I think this kind of scheme is excellent, and I'm appalled that it got rejected. After hunting down and destroying a species for no decent reason, aren't we obliged to give something back to them?

So what if a rambler gets attacked every now and then, or a few sheep or chickens go missing... we took their species in the thousands, and they didn't have a chance.

Wolves are cool, that's all there is to it.

Rather Interesting?

I've been using Game Maker for some years now (since version 4.0 (it's currently on version 6ish)), although I did stop using the development tool due to being busy in other aspects of my life.

I got to the stage in learning where I was capable of creating games of some stature, but never managed to get around to doing it.

There are some good points about Game Maker and some bad ones. I think that the book that Mark Overmars has written here should be a wonderous help to all those "n00bs" (as they get called at the Game Maker Community Forums (not always the friendliest places)). I do hope it becomes popular, because I'm sure it will aid new-comers in the development process of Game Maker.

I myself have moved away from Game Maker and have recently been looking at several alternatives (the main being using C++). I know I'll probably go back to Game Maker, perhaps when the new version comes out (and now Mark has finished the book he can work on the new version!), but I don't feel that I need this right now.

If the book is marketed correctly, aimed at the right readership (which tends to scale from 10 year old boys to 40+ men), It should do well, and as long as the users are notified of the book before purchasing the registered version of Game Maker, I'm sure that many people will find it handy.

In summary, it's about time something like this was made, if only it had been made 3 years ago so that I wouldnt have spent 2 years trying to learn GML with multitudes of people shouting "READ THE FUCKING MANUAL!".