Posts by illiad

Re: The end of XP?

I remind you about the 5% who have any clue about the internals of windows... many are using xp due to win7 cost, and usually have only 1 or 2 pcs... much more are using win7 happily, due to network needs, driver support, etc.. try connecting your brand new smartphone to XP by usb, and you will see why... :)

I think it is the desperate drive by shops to get new stuff, to get more customers, that seems to have blinded them to the fact win8 is for *touchscreen* PC only... 'I see dumb people' indeed... duh, it must be better, is new...

Elmer Phud - Re: Google+ over Facebook any day of the week.

Elmer Phud: and how is that different to how Facebook owns you??? No seriously, do tell!!

Re: Taking bets

IR light?? you mean the sort that ALL remote controls emit????

Re: Microsoft is going away sooner...

ROFL !! no chance of that!!! there are just **too many** idiots who *still* dont have a clue about stuff!!

eg.. a real coversation, would you believe he is a banker???

where's my internet??? / wheres google???

its on your screen, look for explorer..

huh????

{groan} the blue E...

what?????

{goes to his computer} see that? {points to icon}

uh why didnt you say that blue thingy??? where's my google???

{gawd how is this no brain alive?} - puts home page to google..

thanx mate..

Re: £31-a-month deal with 500MB

so are you one of those crazy guys that wants to d/l a distro with your phone????

Re: Russians - hard as nails, not fazed at all

well on RT at about 8Pm, that is exactly what they said... :) :) "какого хрена это?!?!?!?!?!" or similar things.. they may have removed that in some news channels, though... :P

"I know exactly what you mean. Check your bandwidth on speedtest and it shows me getting full speed. Try to actually download anything real or stream video and you get 1Mb max...

The speedtest sites need to start using other protocols than simple http port 80 as clearly that's not being throttled. it wouldn't surprise me if they just hardcoded these speedtest sites in so that they are never throttled."

If you dont thrust them, try a REAL download from http://distrowatch.com ... :) make sure you have a *proper* speed monitor like netmeter first...

Re: Originality?

the point about Thunderbirds, is it is NOT going to be 'original'!!! unless you mean EXACTLY like the original???

If you are an old fan of StarTrek, the new 'prequel' film ripped most of the heart out of it.. the kids loved it of course, but not the fans...

I can only wonder what freakishly new designs, backstory, characters they will make up to make the 'kids' happy, but not the old fans.... :( :(

"Let's imagine someone tries to call your home number; there's the phone plugged into the wall in the house, plus maybe mum, dad and a couple of kids. Whose phone rings?"

Doh!!! ALL the phones that are connected to that plug, of course!!!!

Re: Free as in "complimentary for paying customers"

LOL just get a email like 'send spamhere@gmail.com... :) details like your local post office postcode, etc, etc... :) :)

Re: No surprise

yes, and they usually forget to say WHAT OS they are using!! - the wrong one, causing more crashes... :( :(

- only use a forum, and if no answer, forget it!!! :(

Re: Spam filter rules.

"Umm, choosing Gmail for email is swapping spam for advertising"

that maybe so, but adblock means I dont get their ads!!!... :) :) :)

Re: ...choosing the bird with the biggest Bulgarian AirBags

man, if they get in the way, they are silicon... REAL big boobs are much softer, and the girl is more used to controlling them in a good sexy bra...

or you just need more practice..

Re: Christmas Lights vs. Room Lighting

LOL :D you havent been spending enough on your decs then!!!!

Re: h.264

"One thing I don't understand, why pirates continue to convert the material they want to share to something else than mpeg4. As that is the format/containers the original source had from the very beginning. Kind of stupid but what would you expect."

there are **lots** of other codecs that devs love much more, that compile better, cheaper, etc, etc... NO that means **in their mind**, mostly.. :/ if you d/l a lot of *non-youtube* vid, go check how many are the above...

I find FLV (using AVC / AAC) is the most prevalent, followed by WMV and AVI.. but some are just renamed!!! get 'mediainfo' for the real story!! :)

this link also shows FLV uses most of the codecs talked about here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video#Encoding

see this for the problem about 'to many standards' ... :/

http://xkcd.com/927/

Re: Wrong picture

so, a 'horned devil' (*two* horns!) or antelope, or even just a male deer ???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antelope

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Deer

http://traditions.cultural-china.com/en/210Traditions9158.html

or even

http://io9.com/5964879/no-the-north-korean-government-did-not-claim-it-found-evidence-of-unicorns

Re: Note on Sagan

huh, if god does exist, he is a very evil, totally ignorant one... just think of all the very good spiritual people that die in awful ways...

Just remeber a good quote " anything sufficiently advanced, looks like the work of god, to a primitive society" especially if they do not know any truth about how the human body works...

My answer is, that god *may* have existed, but saw how stupid and evil people got, ignoring and totally changing his teaching, to just make money out of peoples suffering, etc, that he gave up on his 'project', and went away to another place, just leaving the mess behind....:(

Re: Limits. @ relpy

I dont think that falls into the 'laymans' language...

i,e, what is the closest 'black body' in the solar system???

:) hint, it is something that reflects NO light.. all the planets do.. :)

Re: time travel?

LOL, so little is known, that you could say just about anything.... :/

If you fell asleep during the lecture, the problem about going even near to a black hole, is that gravity has a high gradient, ie it changes very fast!!

going feet first...

note the numbers here are only for demonstration, not reality!!!

your feet will feel the the force of 100G, your middle will feel the force of 10 G, your head will feel the force of 2G... end result, your body will be stretched out to more than 100 times its length... think you could survive that???

so IF you could time travel, etc, the only thing that arrives would be atoms or human soup!!!

Re: Sheesh!!

yeah.... simple really!! :D

1) find some 'exotic material' (eg unobtainium ) and make a ring out of it... Hey, Alcubierre has the specs!!

2) wait a few million years, to get enough antimatter to power it..

3) find a way to keep it supplied with power, while not destroying all it accidentally touches...

wot you waiting for?? get constructing!!! :) :)