Posts by AceRimmer
312 posts • joined Monday 15th June 2009 07:57 GMT
Re: Ad industry least innovative
Have you not seen PlayStation Home in action?
Posted in SimCity 2000
Having a map large enough to build a dozen huge metropolises miles from each other, linked by super highways with various smaller settlements along the way, would have been really cool
Like SimCity 4?
Re: Cat's not friendly.
I can't be bothered looking it up to confirm but I was under the impression that CAT make specific modifications to the bulldozers for the Israeli army effectively turning them into an arms dealer
Re: @Fink-Nottle (was: 3.2 Million reasons to love speed cameras)
Indeed one of my gripes is that UK cops will often ignore traffic driving below the signposted minimum speed on motorways
Apart from a couple of exceptions there are no minimum speed limits on any UK roads including the motorway
There is a mention of not holding up traffic if you are driving a slow moving vehicle but it is not law
Like all semi-incompetent programmers I get Google to do all the hard work for me
Now we know what hair styles Winston and Julia would most probably have
Posted in SimCity Classic
Re: Donuts
roads have traffic and pollution problems
no roads means only ignoring complaints about a lack of roads
Posted in SimCity Classic
Donuts
For me donuts were a fairly obvious method of maximising space for buildings vs space for roads. Infact in the versions I played (Amstrad CPC and SNES) you could get rid of the roads altogether and just build rail.
Industrial complexes were best placed at the edge of the city, that way some of the pollution ends up "off map"
Re: @Vladimir (was: @stanimir (was: JPEG -- @DAM 08:24 (was: ::yawns::)))
It is possible to enjoy masturbation AND socialising, just not at the same time
Re: He's quite right
The high streets with proper local shops are doing ok.
Think large village high street with independent butchers, cafe, book stores, antiques etc...
The town and city high streets with their identikit HMV, Boots, WHSmiths, H Samuels, Argos H&M chain stores deserve to die.
Re: Meanwhile...
Slight difference unfortunately, Tax avoidance vs Tax evasion
Amazon and Google declare all of their UK profits, which just happen to be almost zero thanks to some legal accounting fudgery
This pair didn't declare what they should have declared and so have been sent to jail
As Denis Healey said:
"The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall."
@Z80 Re: American Broadcasting Corporation?
I'm thinking about removing the "Ace" and fully embracing my inner Rimmer
You could always
Get a degree in the subject
http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/study/postgrad/degreedetails.asp?17
Re: American Broadcasting Corporation?
"Why does the Beeb like to use units of measurement which are totally meaningless to its audience when trying to make things meaningful?"
RTFA
I know there is a growing trend amongst hard of reading wing commentardship to prevent facts getting in the way of a decent rant but the BBC didn't make that comparison, that image was from Maersk
As the text under the image states
"This image from Maersk shows what 18,000 shipping containers look like in the wrong place"
Top 1%!
I'm in a select group of 2 million linkedin members
Re: Wow, like playing darts.
You say it like that's a bad thing
Re: @Thorne
Wrong time? You're holding it wrong
Re: Maybe he read Richard Dawkin's "The God Delusion"
"It's possible for a man to be arrogant and correct."
I reject that reality
Re: be of zero interest to 99.9% of the population "
And yet history has shown that the more shite that can be pumped through a distribution network the faster prices will drop. This has been demonstrated in
Paper based publishing
TV
Fixed line internet
and now broadband internet
The market is already driving increased bandwidth for lower prices and will continue to do so.
Re: It is absolutely amazing. One of the most remarkable technological advances in modern....
WTF did you think it would be used for?
The alternative would be to limit usage to pursuits with the aim of benefiting mankind which would be of zero interest to 99.9% of the population meaning that your mobile broadband would cost £1000's per month
Re: @frank ly
Note that the SIM only One Plan is a rolling one month contract
Mine is on a 2 year contract, I tether to my tablet during the day too and regularly get through 10GB a month
I've not used more than 3GB a day though
Re: The arrogance
Next you'll be telling me that I shouldn't base my opinions of minorities on the contents of The Daily Mail
Re: Data cap anyone?
Three mobile offer unlimited data, as do Giff Gaff, not too much use to you in the USA though sorry!
Re: The arrogance
The competition is proof that they thought that someone else could achieve what they admittedly failed to do
You'll also notice that what you quoted is a quote from the original article, not a quote from the scientist. The original article continues with a real quote from the scientist:
“This is a proof-of-concept demonstration that we can bring people together not only from different schools and different disciplines, but from entirely different economic sectors, to solve problems that are bigger than one person, department or institution,”
Re: Being driven in droves to LibreOffice??
Failing back at you
Office starter is only available pre installed on new PCs, I can't go out and buy a copy. It exists purely to suck people into buying a proper version
Office web apps is online only and doesn't even come close to being something that could be used every day
Re: Am I the only one who likes the Ribbon interface?
My daughter (age 8) frequently asks questions about where is such and such a function
Name one
Re: Am I the only one who likes the Ribbon interface?
I fail to see what's difficult about it
Re: Being driven in droves to LibreOffice??
It's not always been like that; The Office license used to allow installation on a desktop (primary computer) and a laptop (secondary computer).
The current licensing strategy is going to hurt sales and revenue and Microsoft really need to look at releasing a low cost basic version.
Am I the only one who likes the Ribbon interface?
I like it too, in fact I would hate to go back to the old menus now. The ribbon has everything a mouse click or two away and has functionality grouped in a sensible manner.
One of the best things about it is that when I go and use someone else's PC I can actually find stuff. The old menus were far too easy to customise and made.
Anyone who still finds it difficult after 5 years shouldn't be calling themselves an IT pro. Strangely enough though it is only "IT" types who I ever hear complaining about it. The rest of the world just seems to use it and get on with their lives
Posted in Why you need a home lab to keep your job
Re: Alexei Sayle
Is that Alexei Sayle the renowned metal and wood worker?
Leave comedians to their comedy, it's only ever got enough fact in it to make it funny
@acobley
If you were storing tweets you would want to break each tweet down before storing it:
A back of a fag packet design would give you:
1 table containing all @ mentions in the tweet
1 table containing all hashtags in the tweet
1 table containing all words in the tweet (with a position indicator)
other tables might store all sentences or recognized word combinations in the tweet of which "the register" might be one.The ETL feed would run against a master data table which itself could be populated from mined data from the previous million or more tweets
Storing the data in this way would mean that it could be properly indexed in the RDBMS and avoid the use of the dreaded '%the register%' comparison which would kill query performance.
@Kubla Cant
In an RDBMS system the level of at which the data is deemed to be atomic is determined by the database design. Each column holds one piece of information.
If the system using the database needs to be concerned with the individual characters in a string then a string is no longer atomic and storing that data as a string is breaking a fundamental RDBMS rule.
To put it another way, you wouldn't store comma separated values in a database column, you would split those values out into proper columns or rows depending upon the structure of the data. The exception to this would be if the database or the systems that used it were designed to not care what was in the string or care that it was comma separated values; it is just a string to be stored, read and reproduced as is.
This is also why database designers HATE free text fields, they always end up being abused and used as data stores for non-atomic data as a short cut for changing the database and/or user interface
(I think the DOB was a typo that got past the editor)
Re: Why?
A thousand apologies in advance to the commentard grammar nazis for using "your" in place of "You are"
Re: Why?
Your thinking of unlocking from carrier restrictions. i.e. which SIM cards will work inyour phone.
This unlocking removes the OS level restrictions of what the user is allowed to do/install on their phone.
Re: Hackers these days...
Given how long its been around, I'd have thought that l33tspeak would be out of fashion with teenagers by now
Re: Order posts by postdate
and is preferably tapatalk compatible
Re: How many creatures do humans kill each year to feed cats ?
"This is because when salmon are in abundance the bear will eat just the most nutritious parts, such as the head, and leave the rest for scavengers. This behaviour does not show "greed" as you seem to think, it is simply the most efficient strategy for the bear in times of abundance. When salmon are fewer they will eat the entire thing."
The bears don't leave the fish for the scavengers, they just leave the fish. Scavengers happen to pick them up afterwards but this is of no concern of the bears
At a fundamental level greed is energy efficiency. Grab what you can now whilst its easy and to hell with every one else.
Re: Where are we?
"WTF is a BluRay Monday?"
Its a High Definition Monday, which seems like a waste, I'd rather have a High Definition Saturday and Sunday
Re: How many creatures do humans kill each year to feed cats ?
"I have much respect for animals, they are not motivated by greed."
All animals will consume as much as they can, in the wild there are usually limiting factors outside of their control.
Re: Surface - if you buy one and then jump through hoops to work around its failings
My 64GB iPad is full, excuse me whilst I go and copy its entire contents to a brand new 128GB iPad
The story exists to counteract the large number of tech articles which have appeared over the last 24 hours praising apples bold move and saying that the android tablet manufacturers will be shitting themselves:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2013/01/29/apples-128gb-ipad-just-gave-every-android-tablet-manufacturer-a-headache/
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/510506/with-a-128gb-model-ipad-throws-down-to-surface/
At what point
is it cheaper and simpler to build a jet engine rather than build a simulation of one?
Re: I admit
Not really
unless
1. People in the future start walking round with their arses hanging out (could happen!)
or
2. The grannie ends up old and bitter about life and the tattoo is a reminder of something unpleasant.
But having made that comment I assume you don't have tattoos.
Re: One of these is false
Re: I'm no expert, but...
I'm pretty sure that the masses already own iPhones
