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21 posts • joined Saturday 3rd July 2010 15:04 GMT

Barticus
Big Brother

Is it just me...

...or did the person who came up with the name 'Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act' get told to cut it off two words shorter, just in case the plebs noticed they were having the piss taken out of them. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act Territorial Services maybe...or something.

Barticus

Re: I'm still curious to know

...and how many of those asked for a Windows 7 machine first only to be told that Windows 7 isn't available any more...here have Windows 8.

Barticus
FAIL

Re: What lax security?

2nd paragraph...

The patient had apparently overheard the login information from a member of staff.

Barticus

Re: ahhh .. .

One of these shops sells a product that makes you insensible, lose all dignity and even your grip on reality...

...whilst the other sells cider.

Barticus
Trollface

Re: Linux users.....

If you've ever frequented the Humble Bundles you'd know that out of Windows, Mac and Linux, the Linux users are the biggest payers by far.

There be a bridge over there. Get under it!

Barticus
FAIL

Re: Hmm

With you all the way on Minecraft and indie games.

For me, The Humble Bundle has always delivered quality games (with the emphasis heavy on the gameplay), on lots of platforms, without DRM, for a set-your-own-price fee...and you get more if you pay over the average (£6.50 / $10 always covers it for me). What's not to like?

<-- For Ubisoft, obviously.

Barticus
Joke

Re: So they cut some corners? There is patent for that!

Shirley that should be 'rounded' some corners?

Barticus
Thumb Up

1:1 Airfix model...

Didn't James May have a (sorta successful) go at that?

Barticus
Coat

Did anyone else read that as...

...my wife's ol'n'ugly Norkias. Bit unfair I thought.

Sorry...no, its not the one with all the iPhones on it.

Barticus

@Capt TickTock

Pray it never happens to Lester.

There...fixed that for you.

Barticus
FAIL

What's the point...

...of fining the council...the fine will only get paid with our money. Fine the fucking idiot that sent the stuff out...and then sack them.

Barticus
Mushroom

William the Conquerer?

I think Sun Tzu was recommending that approach way earlier.

Barticus
Headmaster

Something unproven is a theory until proved...

A hypothesis is a proposition that attempts to explain a set of facts in a unified way. It generally forms the basis of experiments designed to establish its plausibility.

A scientific law is a hypothesis that is assumed to be universally true. A law has good predictive power, allowing a scientist (or engineer) to model a physical system and predict what will happen under various conditions.

A theory is a set of statements, including laws and hypotheses, that explains a group of observations or phenomena in terms of those laws and hypotheses. A theory thus accounts for a wider variety of events than a law does. Broad acceptance of a theory comes when it has been tested repeatedly on new data and been used to make accurate predictions.

Theories aren't facts. Theories don't get proved right...a good one just doesn't get proved wrong for a long time.

[/pedant]

Barticus
Pirate

I was thinking more along the lines of...

'There's a Mr Grim here....he's come about the reaping'.

Barticus
Thumb Down

Why?

From the video it looked like he was using a standard mouse to control Fallout...so why should he have to pay through the nose to get a 'special controller' when he can obviously use a standard one.

EA are terrible at writing control customisation code. Case in point...when I bought BF2142 and found that it didn't save my mouse button customisations I complained...only to be told that 'its been that way since the first Battlefield game'...WTF?! EA really need to get themselves some programmers that actually know how to program.

Barticus
Flame

He who smelt it...

...dealt it.

Barticus

2/3 the way down page 2

Nuff sed.

Barticus
FAIL

I guess that makes me lame then...

BTW...can the PS3 run user-made mods for games like The Elder Scrolls and The Witcher? No? Awww, that's even lamer than not owning a PS3!

Skyrim and Assassins of Kings pre-order FTW! (pre-ordering is fine when I know the game will be worth the wait and financial loss...Egosoft, Bethesda, Firaxis, CDProjekt please form an orderly queue...EA, sorry, your name's not on the list you're not coming in)

Barticus

Does anyone else think...

...that robo-nurse looks more believably realistic than some of the botoxed and nip-tucked meatbags you see?

Barticus

Lego?

I think you rather mean Playmobil, sir!

Barticus
Linux

Windows netbooks will likely outsell Apple iPads in 2010

No big surprise there...although...

I bought a Windows 7 netbook the other day...the first thing I did with it was to dual-boot it with Linux (with Linux as the default OS, obviously). If I had been able to order a Linux netboot as easily as the Windows one I would have done...though hopefully it would also come with either a price reduction or spec upgrade to reflect the lack of Windows Tax.

I wonder how many other Windows 7 netbooks this happens to.