Posts by stucs201

Er, what destruction?

Angry as he was all he did was exile a few people. The whole "standing in Gallifrey's ashes" thing seems to actually just mean he was there at the end of the universe when it had reached that state by itself.

Re: Portsmouth Sinfonia,

Hmmm, that rendition is a good match for my early attempts at docking in Elite.

Re: Ah - memories...

Selling gold for profit was good to get started. However once you'd got one broadsword, piece of chainmail, etc. a much more direct cheat was to 'drop' a negative amount of them.

Don't bother doing that with things you only needed one of though. 10000 men with only one small boat , oil lamp and shovel between them was fairly typical for me.

ALL YOUR MEN ARE DEAD

OK

Re: 'Has to have been a US Air Force Pilot, Like Always'

Because things have apparently changed, see Buzz's tweet about it which links to a NASA myth debunking post...

https://twitter.com/TheRealBuzz/status/661998252305154052

Re: pull yer finger out

I actually see Space/X and REL as nicely complementary.

The Sabre engine is good for the taxi service to LEO and the occasional satellite.

That frees up Space/X and their conventional (ish) rockets to concentrate on the heavy lifting and far-off destinations.

One might be more exciting than the other, but both are necessary.

Re: Reboots?

Even the new films aren't a conventional reboot. A typical reboot starts over with no explanation. The 2009 Star Trek movie establishes a parallel timeline where some characters (old Spock and the bad guy who's name a I can't remember) lived through and remember the original timeline but was involved in the time-travel event which changed things.

The second one get a tad more confused and more like a conventional reboot, because now some things prior to what should have been affected seem to have changed too.

Re: I'm disappointed...

Or alternatively fried bread to ensure maximum absorption use of the lard/bacon drippings mixture. I suppose there's no reason not to butter it as well after frying.

Re: The end of PCs...

Practical jet-packs. Viable fusion reactors.

Re: Bacon !

Well at least you explained. Though I'm slightly surprised you took as a serious comment on the greatness of sliced bread (I agree it's not necessarily amazing), rather than a reference to the phrase "the greatest thing since sliced bread", which is reasonably common whether you agree with it or not.

You're probably the only person around here to ever downvote a reference to making bacon sandwiches.

Re: Of nelogisms

But not as good as it's less polite equivalent which was mentioned earlier: clusterfuck.

Re: Polarizing filters

See the first reply to the first post...

It's a plastic fibre. I think this 'works' (*) by using the laser for it's property of being a single-frequency light source, not for being a straight narrow beam. Apparently the frequency is chosen to affect a certain molecule in the hair or something.

(*) for very loose definitions of works.

Re: 22nd century technology

It did work. The Dr points out he doesn't need the translations. They carry on with them for the crew & audience.

Re: etch-a-sketch

More like the world's worst magna doodle.

Re: Price

Perhaps a better price comparison is with Google Glass. That was $1500, rather more than Occulus, half the price of Hololens.

Dammit, I came here to say it wasn't an ear but was the weird looking VR console from Existenz. Beaten by mere seconds.

Re: What was the business model here?

Well the obvious would be:

1) Charge people to have "their" profile removed. AKA blackmail.

2) Put ads on it. Most web-based business plans seems to start and finish with selling adverts.

Re: Poor guy...

Or here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ-lJpL2oVg

Re: I remember reading about haptics years ago...

The first I remember about haptics was actually in relation to mice, not touchscreens. My recollection is that the aim there was also to provide some tactile feedback about the UI elements under the cursor (e.g. a 'bump' on the edge of a window corresponding to the visual bevel) - additional feedback on pressing buttons would be largely pointless on a mouse with a naturally clicky button. Obviously this was back in the days when the visual design of UIs had 3D effects to emphasise edges, rather than everything being flattened like it is now.

Re: It'll be a rock

*IF* it was covered in life then that would merely be appropriate hype. But the reaction we always get to the pre-announcement turns out to be over-hype when yet again the rock isn't covered in life.

Re: the bad news is Nasa is now in charge

I'm not so sure that would be bad news...

Casio here, but similar sentiment. Watch security should mean a strap that won't accidentally fall off your wrist.

Even worse some people have even had to use their phones to make phone calls.

Re: Raise your hand if...

I think I do actually have a copy of colossal cave on a 5.25" floppy somewhere. I've even got a PC with a suitable drive (not as ancient as you might expect - it's a 1.2GHz Athlon).

However I decided instead on digging out the version of the source code I've got which has been adapted for Windows. I had to use XP mode to get the 16 bit installer for the necessary Fortran compiler to run. The resulting Win32 executable seems to run fine on Windows 7 though.