Posts by M Gale

Re: PC games?

Steam wouldn't exist without Steamworks, and even the KSP devs say that they are selling through Steam because for whatever reason, there's people who will ONLY buy games through Steam (despite the game being available more cheaply direct from their own website). They've stated the game will remain available through their website for the forseeable future, and as far as I'm aware, in a pitifully rare exception for games in general, they're not using Steamworks or any other DRM. Therefore, KSP will actually work without Steam running. Hell, you can just copy the game from your Steamapps folder, put it where you like and it will still run.

However, Steam would not exist without Steamworks, and you can "offline mode" me as much as you like. "Offline" mode isn't, and you know it. Unless of course I can install and run a Steamworks-hobbled game with no Internet connection whatsoever and without logging into Steam, and with a guarantee that nothing is going to phone home to anybody in order to decide if I get to continue having the use of a toy.

Re: "The 200 year old booze, which was the oldest ever found"

But I fail to see what 20th century fascists have to do with Jaques Cousteau...

Just pointing out that even the biggest cock-ends may have done some things that might be considered useful. It doesn't stop them from being cock-ends. Or genocidal maniacs.

In other news, Isaac Newton was also interested in the Occult, and Alchemy. Yes, the whole lead-into-gold thing. So crazy batshit insane in many ways, which doesn't detract from his quite useful (if superceded in more recent decades) theories on motion and gravity.

I think they are slightly uncooler than bluetooth earpieces. Both cause me to want to take them off the wearer and stomp on them. Both of those devices rank up there with people on the phone in the bathroom; I make sure I flush the toilet repeatedly.

Well you sound like a fucking shitload of fun to be with.

Also what are you doing, sneaking into people's bathrooms to flush the bog while they are in there? Bit of a wierd fetish going on?

and like fiat currencies, they can create more.

I still want to see how the deflation that is going to happen, or rather is happening with BTC is any better than (moderate) inflation. Don't forget that debts rise in real terms as well as the value of the currency, in a deflationary situation.

Re: Usenet anyone?

Not much point in issuing take down notices for Usenet posts.

If only that were because of the decentralised nature of NNTP, and not because USENET died on its arse under a flood of spam a decade ago.

Mention USENET to most Internet users these days, they'll probably give you a blank stare and say something like "so it's a bit like Google Groups, then?"

Sigh.

Re: Err, what?

Planning on making love atop a substation transformer?

Strapping electrodes to your bollocks?

A lightning rod to your gonads?

Is your other half into some kind of TENS fetish?

I'm wondering how conductive spermicidal lubricant is now, come to think of it.

Re: Hey EU, are you listening?

I already have one. It's called Grub.

Doesn't make any of the software work outside of Windows though.

Well, so long as you don't mind Amazon peeking at everything you do and potentially stealing your idea.

Re: Flabbergasted

No, just a lot of people that can see through transparent bullshit being peddled by the likes of Fairsearch.

Google are not some innocent flower, but you are not forced in the slightest way to use their search engine. Neither is anybody else. Don't you remember a few years ago, when people were cheering over Google downgrading listings from the very same "vertical search" companies that are now trying to force Google to put them back in the top ten?

You want their search engine to go back to the way it was 5, 6 years ago, where far too many search results pointed at search engines, which pointed to more search engines, which pointed to more search engines?

it just looks like outsiders who know nothing about what is considered their local culture enforcing standards upon them

And what would giving people dolphin meat disguised as tuna sound like to you?

Follow the money.

Isn't that what Bitcoin is designed to prevent?

Re: All suspects are guilty. Otherwise they wouldn't be suspects.

Alternatives are there yes but your comparison to OSs is dis-ingenious seeing as there have always been alternative OSs too.

As I pointed out, I would like to see you running all that lovely commercial software in something not Windows. Enjoy your pain. I'll be around later to sweep the hair up that you've torn out after enough battling with WINE to get a few percent of it sort-of half working.

Now, firewall Google's entire IP range out of your system. Observe that the rest of the Internet still works. Flawlessly.

Re: search on this

Matey, I'd use a tablet to take photographs just to piss that guy off.

Maddox is funny when he's pissed off. Doesn't make him always right.

Quite right when comparing his phone to the original iPhone 1 when it came out, though.

Re: Been done before

"and has a powerful version that is entirely free."

So long as you're not developing for mobile. Or expect to run things multi-core. Or in 64 bit (except for Linux, apparently). Or want a more recent version of PhysX that actually uses hardware acceleration.

Then it costs £1500, and that only fixes the "developing for mobile" problem. Cheaper than some game toolkits to be sure, but hardly "free".

Re: On the spectrum of coolness

In American.

In English (and possibly Australian), it's "Bum Bag".

Re: Budget Design

Not really. I don't see the masses of fuel transfer pipes and modified asparagus staging leading to a rocket that looks less like a rocket and more like a pancake.

Still want to see a real rocket use some asparagus staging though. If only for the geekgasm.

For everyone who can be bothererd to sign a petition, there are probably 20 people who feel the same way but couldn't be bothered to sign.

Though, I'm sure Google can ignore 1.6 million people as easily as they ignore 80,000. Maybe direct action is a better approach?

In other words: Troll the shit out of everything. Make them regret their decision. If they undo it, the few people that actually like G+ can get back to liking it and leave the rest of us alone. If not, well, I'm sure drowning in a sea of filth will be awesome.

Best part is, you really can do this from your armchair.

Nononono. Struts are for when it moves when it's not supposed to. If it doesn't move when it IS supposed to, the correct response is "moar boosters".

Re: CALEA

I think the idea is that various agencies can tap as much megabit-key-encrypted info as they like. It'll do them no use without a few billion years of supercomputing time.

Am I high?

Because that Martian post nearly made sense.