Posts by Captain Hogwash

Re: Was gutted...

I feel your pain. Was gutted to have to take any Sky channel when all I wanted was Film4 (it was £7/month on top on Sky subscription but not available standalone.)

Re: raising the subject of reform is still possible

Perhaps. But the two main parties will argue that the result was a vote of support for the current system. This means getting another referendum is probably just about as likely as if AV had won the day last time.

Re: Assembly, now that was Punk

The point about punk was that anyone could do it. You no longer had to be a virtuoso as the progressive guys had been - just pick up a guitar and bang out three chords. I graduated from BASIC to typing hex into the Pet's machine code monitor just as I graduated from three guitar chords to fancy quasi-classical finger style. So BASIC WAS punk, assembly was something requiring more skill (metal/prog/jazz?) and just running other people's programs was Bay City Rollers (manufactured - geddit?)

@fandom Re: Oh myyyyy....

Er, whoosh!

Re: Am I the only one...

No you are not. I too am concerned at the prospect of becoming 0xDEADBEEF.

Re: turned off registering

Maybe that's the point. Remember the poll tax?

Re: Lordy

unless these things fly themselves and drivers are required to get pilot's licenses

FTFY

Re: why does every small computer get compared to the Raspberry Pi?

Because, on the original BBC website article at least, it's the only thing most of the target audience will have heard of that conveys the essence of the thing.

Re:Glocester

Did you mean Gloucester? Or even Cheltenham?

Re: where you would end up

Don't worry. Apple would never let you out on the big bad scary roads. You'll be perfectly safe riding around inside the walled garden.

re: not mattering

Each to their own, live and let live, etc.

But this really baffles me. Why are people terrified of not mattering? It seems to be a widespread affliction.

Re: cannot remember what for

Probably to make it go faster. That's what I did on a Commodore PET to get over the atrocious speed of the BASIC interpreter. First I poked a subroutine in what was largely a BASIC program. Then on a more ambitious, machine code only, program it was SYS 1024 and start banging in the hex. The improvement was so great that I had to artificially slow it down to make the game playable. That would have been somewhere in time between the zx81 and the speccy release dates.

@Cuddles Re: Scandis

I didn't say or even imply that the article claimed the Netherlands is part of Scandinavia. Read my post again. The article asserted that two of Sweden, the Netherlands and Finland are Scandinavian. That assertion is incorrect as only Sweden is part of Scandinavia. As for Finland, whether it counts as part of Scandinavia or not IS very clearly defined as I believe a later poster has elaborated.

Re: Alternatively

When did you ever hear of a cult fostering individuality?

Re: Truman

I had the idea that this would actually be some sort of Truman Show/Capricorn One hybrid. I certainly don't believe this mission will happen as currently being touted.

re: load mouthed

eeuuwww

Re: Yet Another Anon Cluetard

Hi Matt. Fancy a big shiny spoon?

Re: Golly Gosh

They prefer dry ginger ale. A different thing altogether.

Re: Who's Big Al?

He has a notoriously low tulip threshold.

Re: the UK would still be in the dark ages

There's some evidence we are heading back there.

I like your post. Upvoted.