Always on, and ending

What always concerns me about this always on bollocks is not necessasarily the being online part.

What happens when they decide supporting the console once it is no longer economically viable? You can bet they will drop the Xbox One the second that is true.

Some of us like playing ancient games, i still occasionally dig out old stuff for a quick blast about. I don't want to be dicking about with any fake auth servers or anything like that.

Cleaning products

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Does this mean that over time its name will change to CIF to be in line with European cleaning products?

Backwards compatibiliy

A lot of the reason machines and servers end up with old versions of Java is the lack of proper backwards compatibility. All to often there are programs that will only work with a particular version of one particular JVM. As someone who has to deal with this, i do get rather frustrated with Java. My arse is more backwards compatible than this.

Microswitches

You cannot beat a proper microswitch keyboard. It is worth all the comments from people about how loud you are typing to actually be able to tell when you are pressing the keys properly. And they seem to last forever, My Dell keyboard has been going strong for at least 12 years, which is odd because the company i work for never had any Dell servers or desktops. I will be keeping it when i move to another computer. I expect i will have to buy an adapter for it as noone seems to make new computers with PS/2 connectors anymore.

waah waah waah..

.. i'm a big girls blouse is what i heard from the Apache guy here.

He has found an angle to have a go at MS and big up his own software. Are we surprised?

Bored now.

Doubt it....

If you are going to be using "the cloud" as storage, the disk makers are still going to be selling plenty of drives. To the cloud providers.

I am more or less assuming that disk usage in the cloud will even out between being able to store more than one users data on one disk, and the need for RAID and data duplication to keep everyones data.

Also i am not sure we are going to see any significant alterations in network speeds at the user level, plus with the general unreliability of the wireless networks.

Hackers

When i see stats like 779,816 infected machines like in this article, i am reminded of the film Hackers when Zero Cool hacked a pitiful 1706 or whatever machines and got black-ops guys bursting though the door.

Would an infection of 1706 machines even make the radar these days?

Ford Granada

I would make an offer on that Ford Granada :) . Better than the Cortina.

Memory

Can someone explain to me how i can remember exactly how to march through this game, knowing every turn and door to take, where the secrets are etc, despite having not played it since i had my 80386, but i can't remember where my sodding socks are in the morning?

28mph

even 28mph is not particularly fast.

I can maintain that pace on my road bike for a mile or so.

Those that ride the Tour de France maintain almost that as an average.

Why not allow the allow the bike?

Fools. Although part of me does think that if you get on a bike you should bloody well pedal it yourself.

30%

Until you realise that Apple would want its 30% cut of anything you transferred into the bank. :)

Discriminatory?

Am i the only person who thinks the Govs of Jersey and Guernsey are insane for trying to claim that it's discriminatory that the unfair advantage they have is being closed?

Fairer tests.

Why do we never see these tests of observed sound quality performed under anything even approaching a fair test.

In a world where so much of sound quality is perceived, and there seems to be a lot of snobbery amongst audiophiles separation from the system is essential.

In my mind the sound quality should be reviewed in a dark sound proofed room. The reviewer is told nothing what-so-ever about the system they are reviewing. The reviewer may have any music they please played for them, and for as long as they like, BUT they under no circumstances get to touch or see the kit until after they have written the review of the sound quality. This review is then sealed away from them and may not be altered.

Then and only then may they be permitted to see the kit to give the review of the aesthetics of the kit.

Monolith

Where was the Monolith? I clearly saw it in that previous footage. Also what happened to Richard Strauss' music?

The Paris angle? Her backside will never look that rugged. :)

Snow Job?

I dont suppose someone with the pre-requisite coding skills would like to write an app that generates lots of fake data? Then we could just wander about the shopping centres and make a pigs bottom of their trending data.

Dry cleaning?

I am wondering a dry cleaning mechanism might work.

Dry cleaning machines are a closed cycle, and never run hotter than 30c anyway. All the solvent is recovered. Could use the vacuum of space for the evaporation phase.

Lock-in works then!

Coffee

How does it cope when i have left my coffee on it and spilled some of my dinner? :)

Other than that, cool, but pointless.

They both sucked/

Ami Pro was better than both!

/troll

I don't think Ami Pro even made it to 95 at all.

Feature

Isn't this just akin to the standard practice of relabelling a bug a feature and pretending it's not there?

newness

While i realise that there isn't really a lot of innovation left to be done on the standard mp4 player. It does seem as though they have missed stuff?

Previous A series players have had active sound cancelling in them via microphones in the headphones. Does this one have it?

Either way i have an old Sony NWZ-A829 and i am glad i paid the £12 to get a replacement battery for mine. Back to 36 hour battery life! :)

longer car journeys?

Perhaps longer times spent in the cars could be because modern cars have quite good air filtering for the cabin. Longer times in comparitvely clean air helps?

Lots of gas?

So if you have a meter reading of say 1000, and then over the course of a billing period manage to use 10001 units, your meter ought to read 1001, would you only be charged for 1 unit of gas?

Time to put the gas on ultra!

I suppose to make it less suspicious you should use 10400 units or something similar.

Also useful..

... if like me you find the Zune software a painful experience.

crazy

Am i the only person who thinks that is the stupidest dock in the entire world?

A straw poll of the office laptop dock users suggest that all users want access to the Laptops own display.

Why are there only two usb connectors? If there is one thing i have noted over years of computer use, it is that you can never have too many USB connections.

Also do the vents for the cpu etc not exit via the back of the case? IIRC these would be blocked when the lid is shut? I dont have access to my MacBook right now to confirm.

Sam Fisher

Exactly this technique was used as a plot device in one of the early Splinter Cell games by Sam Fisher. Albeit using his own thermal camera mode. Follow the guard through the pin coded door by looking at the heat given off by the pad.

Wonder who has the idea first? I could see UbiSoft claiming the IP on it and then demanding all the money from the criminals who use this technique.

Call Apogee and Say Ardwolf

This was the first game i ever bought, i remember it taking an eternity to arrive as it had to be posted from the USA.

The only thing it missed was being able to do the whole strafe left and right thing now assumed to be the default today.

Twas also the game that practically forced me to get a SoundBlaster 2.0 card in all its 8-bit glory. Just to hear Nazi after Nazi in their death throes.

First Amendment?

Wouldn't this fall foul of the First Amendment? Surely they can't censor it for that reason alone?

Meh

Am i wrong for thinking that having Windows Phone 7 on a Nokia sullys the Windows Phone 7 brand?

Hills?

I live in Bath, a town surrounded on three sides with hills as is a good part of the west country. Anyone know how these things cope with hills? Will the regenerative braking be of any use?

Pity the whole car is a ugly as sin.

Shrug

Personally i only use the pin code on my phone to prevent pocket-dialing and the like. I am sure any hacker who wanted in to my phone and had stolen it could do so.

Perhaps others do the same?

Don't use one of those codes though.

Shareware?

Am i the only person who thinks the patent sounds like the Shareware model of software? I am sure there will be many examples of this that predate the patent. All you would have to do if find one that was a version that was distributed as a whole and then unlocked with a code.

On another note, when are we bringing in the death penalty for patent trolls? I for one am fed up of hearing about this nonsense.

Joo Janta 200...

A pair of the Joo Janta 200 Peril sensitive glasses came with the Hitch Hikers guide game. They were implemented as a black cardboard cutout of a pair of sunglasses. :) Just give them to the nearest Daily Mail reader, and they are in the correct mode constantly.

Useful...

I used to have a Compaq keyboard with nothing written on it. It was useful for learning to touch type. :)

Reception

Getting better reception in the Mk. 2 version shouldn't be that hard. All i think you would need to do is to attach the antenna to the coupling for the water and use the pipes in your home.

That should be a somewhat better solution than the wire coat hanger.

HDMI

Why not put a HDMI connector on it? Also the MegaDrive had stereo sound! That thing only has one connector.

hmm

How about instead of tarting up the stores they replace the arrogant and ignorant morons that staff their stores?

Orange data correct?

10MB fair use on WIFI? That seems wrong. I am sure all of use who visit this site could fart and accidentally download 10MB. 10GB surely?

(insert standard grumble about the misuse of the word unlimited here)

Control

If MS now have effective control of the botnet, couldn't they instruct the compromised machine to run a clean-up program?