Posts by MrXavia

Re: Looper

actually looper made no sense at all to me... the scars 'appearing' when the time traveller would remember all that... and just by being captured could be prevented from jumping back and escaping....

Re: It's not nesessary the evil

many of us are old enough to remember the threats and attacks from the medieval terror bastards IRA long before the events of 11/9 and we didn't need our privacy and liberty destroyed to deal with them."

Exactly! We don't need useless legislation that won't even protect us.

Re: Opportunity knocks.

Maybe, but motion detection on even the most expensive cameras is pretty bad....

And they are terrible in changing light conditions... sure ok if your indoor curtains closed, but useless outside..

Re: DNA living on?

Buried in the hole they drill so not so harsh

" This mode just has to connect to the galaxy servers for environment updates"

That is not the issue, the issue IS that you need to be connected to play, its not for environment updates its for anything such as ship purchases, cargo, upgrades, etc...

That is WHY he flipped out... the planet was not there...

Re: Eye laser surgery is not for everyone.

Everyone is different, and its true you should have a doctor who would refuse your treatment if you were not suitable, I myself had laser eye surgery, I chose the company carefully and only after a recommendation from a friend (not optical express)

Sure its not for everyone, but I am very happy with my results, I know my eyes will still likely deteriorate, but this gives me many many years until I need glasses daily again (or another surgery of some kind)

I am crossing my fingers they will be able to grow new lenses/corneas by the time it gets too bad so I can get my eyes fully fixed (I dread the years where I'll need reading glasses because my lens hardens...)

Re: Disagree

I agree, first half was great!

Re: Hmm

I thought the same? I assumed they had the power to knock on the door of a registered gun owner and ask to see the firearms and how they are stored?

Surely this is good sense, no?

I don't own firearms, but I love shooting, when my kids are older, I plan to purchase a nice variety of firearms, and I would expect the police to come and inspect my storage before I am granted my license AND on occasion afterwards....

I would even go so far to insist all gun owners pass a safety course...

Re: @Ben Tasker

"The simple fact is women objectify men too. Not every woman does it (just as not every man does it), but it's all too often characterised as 'men objectify women, the pigs' when it swings both ways."

Speaking as a male, I don't mind being objectified by women...

Re: Not for Fanbois.

But the spinning rust can barely keep up..

I have a 1Gbps LAN at home, its not the LAN that slows up data transfer, its the spinning rust...

Re: Well this is fun but...

Costs will drop once SpaceX get their rockets & capsule fully reusable...

Costs will drop again once(if) Reaction Engines get Skylon off the ground.. (which is looking more likely with every milestone they conquer)

SpaceX = Evolutionary

Reaction Engines = Revolutionary

Both concepts are great ideas and have a market.

Only problem with Three is coverage in the countryside, and their femtocell is a bit wimpy.

Deal wise they are great value and their speeds are good.

Re: why goes it have to be the game?

I thought the Adventures of Clutch Powers (a Lego cartoon) was much better than the lego movie (I think my sons agree) I would much rather they make a sequel to that

Re: Like your mom said ...

"If everyone was jumping off a tall building, would you do it too?"

It is probable, because my friends are quite sensible folks, so if they are jumping there must be a very very good reason, like the building is on fire and they are jumping into the pool of the adjacent but lower tall building...

Re: Don't get too upset

""guess where I'm calling you from" for hours on end at 30k feet."

I can do that anyway, seat back phones in the flights I usually take... but oddly no pricing information is easy to hand....

Re: Gigabit over copper?

yeah, but gigabit CAT5-E uses 4 UTP to give that speed, all four channels are used.

by comparison, your phone line has two wires... and its spliced in ways that would make ethernet cry...

but in all fairness I would run cat6 to the edge of my property for them to get higher speeds, but i'd be happy for 100Mbs each way, no idea why anyone needs gigabit internet connectivity at home...

Re: "A little eBay shopping and you can find 128GB Micro SD cards for under a tenner"

And always go for a big brand MicroSD, or they fail...

Even SanDisks have issues, (although I suspect I had 3 x 32gb from a bad batch)

the only ones i've had that never fail on me are Samsung ones

Re: Speedo?

"Do we really need to ensure we are always dead on 50mph?"

yes, otherwise you'll get fines & points on your license, that is of much more importance than actually keeping your eyes on the road....

Re: Consumers who care about quality?

4:3 stretched to 16:9 is awful... I cringe whenever I see that...

The others are much more like the LG Prada than the iPhone really... and the iphone is not the first smart phone out there, the only good thing Apple did was stick the capacitive touch sensing into the screen... and to do that they brought out a company that made amazing keyboards....

other than the screen, the iPhone was naff.....