Posts by Thecowking 550 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jun 2009
Possibly the worst of M. Night thingummy's works. It's a film about the devil using lifts to kill people. Why? Because he is the devil.
When my friend now asks "What's the worst that could happen?" "Devil" is my response.
It was worse than Highlander: Source, worse than the Robocop TV movies and even worse than Battlefield Earth or Gigli.
It's even worse than Silent Hill. Or anything by Uwe Boll.
it does that.
The navigation was actually pretty good, but once the novelty wore off, I was still happier using another piece of tech to replace it.
Glass as is just wasn't good enough to displace anything else in my tech arsenal and not good enough at augmenting them to be worth a purchase.
I'm hopeful that the new one will be better, because the potential was certainly there.
The battery was poor, the camera was impossible to focus properly and the controls were a little clunky.
I can see it being better in the future though, it just didn't do anything that my pebble doesn't do to a level where it's really worthwhile using it.
If it launches faster, longer lasting and a little sharper image wise. I'd probably give it another punt, assuming the price came down. I was borrowing them before.
Human poo is already used as fertiliser in the UK, most of it ends up on fields after treatment if I recall correctly from my days at United Utilities.
So there's no taboo, it's already been done. No one missed that we produce fertiliser, no there's not enough for all the fields, which is why we use artificial ones too.
Ubuntu Touch was RTM a few months back. It's meant to be hitting the markets in the next month or so (well, so Meizu say).
Of course you can put it on a wide variety of devices yourself already. Oh and it definitely runs on ARM chips.
I don't actually like the UI, but I do follow the mailing list.
This is the usual "We'll try and get it to you next day" which sometimes goes awry. That's fair enough.
This is "We're not actually going to even pretend to get you your stuff in the timescales you've paid for. We won't tell you either."
You _can't_ even choose actual next day delivery, so they've basically admitted that the service you've signed up to is not being delivered. Fie on the terms and conditions, they can write what they like in them, I don't care. It's all about what they sold, and they're no longer delivering on that.
I've not had an email saying "Sorry, this has happened" or even seen a notice when I placed an order. Nope, they've basically just removed the product I paid for.
Those terms and conditions don't mean much when they are not delivering what the headline feature of the product is.
They sold it as free next day delivery. Now it's three days for me to get a hat from them. I was planning on leaving when this period ran out anyway (the instant video is nearly worthless to me without it on Android tablets* or chromecast), this just made it certain.
Shame, I used to like Amazon.
Saying that the expansion is actually _really_ fun. I had cancelled my sub and not played for months at the end of MoP but I succumbed to the expansion on Saturday morning in a moment of weakness.
I am actually feeling like I want to play more again. I'm looking forward to raiding again. I am actually really liking the garrison mechanics and the perks it allows. Like a kind of external talent tree.
I'll be playing tonight as well, I've got my war mill and I'm questing in Nagrand for some tasty epics.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3322870/Gecko-lizards-inspire-Spiderman-gloves.html
Because it looks like it's 6 years later and pretty much what they said would be ready in 3 years.
Pretty fun stuff though, I expect it'll be useful on the ISS for tools and the like. And I personally would love that backing on posters.
I leave them all enabled because I use them.
Bluetooth is on when I leave my office so it pairs with my headphones.
NFC is combined with tasker to switch the state of my devices automagically when I put them down in different rooms. NFC stickers are pennies and it's an easy way to set your phone to a profile suitable for the room you're in
Wifi is always on because I'd rather use that radio than 3G because it's much lower latency for web.
3g is on because I can't always get Wifi.
Yes, there's a potential for attack in all these channels, no it doesn't bother me. There's risk in every activity, if you're aware of it and plan accordingly, there's no reason not to partake. I really love the capabilities of newer devices, I use them and they make a lot of things in my life a little easier, a little faster or a little more capable.
Sure it's not in everyone's risk appetite, but it is in mine. For me the pay off far outweighs the risk. Not everything is, I won't use a credit card in the US any more for example. (not until they get chip and pin at least)
It works on Tablets now? Is it US only? Because I've not been able to install it on a Nexus 7, or at least I couldn't two weeks ago when I complained about it to Amazon.
Just tried again and it installed on my Nexus 9 which is nice.
No videos work (this video is not available for this device), but it's slightly better. So while I briefly thought "Hurrah" now I'm back to hating Amazon.
The note 2 is a phone, not a tablet (just :P ), amazon instant video works on phones, because they've accepted that no one wants the fire phone, but they still think people might want the kindle tablets. Thus it won't run on android tablets.
That, combined with the fact there's no way to unbundle the instant video from prime and you have to just suck up the extra cost is why I'm cancelling my prime account after many many years. Shame really, I liked the free postage and the next day delivery.
Don't know yet, it's a bit anti-social to try them out at my desk, but I'll give them a go when I get home.
I had one brief blast when I tried opening a game at lunch (it hadn't set the sound off then) and that sounded quite good, but it was only a couple of seconds before I muted it.
I plan to give netflix a whirl on it tonight.
I'm really enjoying my nexus 9 (arrived this morning) I've so far found it to be fast and fluid, though the initial patch when I turned it on was a bit annoying.
I'm definitely looking forward to having a good play with it when I get home. Thus far though, it's a nice upgrade to my nexus 7. I just need to upgrade my pockets now...
Except things like skipping music tracks, playing and pausing, or whatever else an application binds to the accelerometer on my pebble.
It makes you look daft, but skipping a track by waving your hand gets normal surprisingly fast.
Of course people get used to you looking like a plonker at about the same speed, but I was already used to that :P
Personally, it's Ubuntu Mate for me rather than Xubuntu (I'm not averse to an XFCE desktop or two, but I prefer mate)
But the _best_ thing about GNU/Linux is that we're all using it and we all have what we want, even if some people like Unity, it doesn't mean we have to use it. So that's nice.
Oooh, egg tart.
I've not had one of those in years. Of course, I live in the desolate wastes of the South now (Cambridge has only one Greggs and that's a Greggs café, bloody barbaric I tell you), so such pleasures are lost to me.
Ask for a bacon barm round here and they look at you funny. Ask for a donner kebab and they serve you some anemic little thing in a sodding pitta rather than a proper portion in a naan like you get back in Manchester.
I do miss it there. One day I shall move back and revel in proper food and being near hills again.
Stop! You're making me nostalgic for my days on the WoW forums.
Ahh the way you could really annoy people by being completely literal. I do look back on those days with fondness. The best bait was to leave out a line which was sure to get some bites, then dissect every reply for logical fallacies which of course generated masses more ranting until you got people banned.
Such good sport.
I do still have a WoW account...
I've been playing WoW on Linux (Fedora core 6 what what I started with) for years.
I currently play Diablo 3 on Linux.
It's not hard to play Blizzard games on Linux, yes you need Wine, but it's pretty trivial to do it, especially with things like Play on Linux. They even do a Mac port of all their games so you get OpenGL mode as well as DirectX.
Complaining about not being able to leave Windows because of Blizzard games is silly.
I've assumed you mean Blizzard games as opposed to Activision games because you explicitly said Activision-Blizzard, as opposed to just Activision.
Amsusingly I can't play Diablo 3 on my Windows 10 test machine because the Nvidia Optimus drivers are borked on Windows 10. Other than that it's a nice little system. I was well aware of the tracking, it's a test release after all, it's expected.
that doesn't mean I need to get a card or phone out of my pocket?
I'm interested, I won't lie. I might look like a plonker waving my wrist at the till, but at least I'll be a plonker who can call it early adoption.
Hurrah! If I can add cash to it from my phone it'll make it extremely convenient for me. Hopefully it'll mean the end to my shrapnel piles around the house if it takes off.
As of yesterday, you can get instant prime video on stock android phones. It was added yesterday afternoon, just make sure your amazon app is updated and you can then use it to download the amazon instant prime video app.
It's not enough to make me keep prime after it runs out later this year, but it's close.
My office has them, had a play over the recent long weekend, and despite my being a complete google fanboy, they were much less impressive than I had hoped.
They did very little that my pebble doesn't do, except the pictures. Sadly as alluded to in the article, these aren't great. The navigation was a nice touch, but the voice recognition was terrible compared to my Nexus 4. Conversely I found battery life to be quite decent when integrated with my general working day, but I was never able to dismiss the overlay of the prism from my vision, it was very annoying.
General view for me was, it's fantastic for taking bad pictures quickly.
It's not like you need to understand the maths behins QCD to follow that reference. If you've done any reading involving snipers, bathtub draining myths or weather patterns, you'll be well acquainted with it.
Still, this has piqued my interest and I might just indulge in a new book for the bank holiday weekend now.
My pebble lasts a week or so quite easily, and I use it to control my music on my commute and netflix on the Chromecast at home. It also controls my heating (via nest, so I suspect a lot of commenters will loathe me on sight for such blasphemy as enjoying a connected house)
So weekly's good for me, only takes a couple of hours to charge too.
Though sometimes I do miss the reassuringly solid feel of my old Citizen ecodrive.
Indeed, I can't wait for this, if one charger does multiple devices, it's going to make my bedside table a lot neater.
edit: just discovered that you can already buy multiple device chargers for qi, well it's still nice, but I can neaten it up by tomorrow if Amazon Prime actually works today.
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