Re: how many bottles of wine fit in a double decker bus
Olympic-sized double-decker Bulgarian wine-bags?
Posts by AbelSoul
749 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jan 2013
China 'evacuates' 9,000 around monster radio 'scope
Facebook tells Viz to f**k right off
How to build a starship - and why we should start thinking about it now
Friday 29th January 2016 09:18 GMT
Re: What you need are Dilithium crystals
Too late, I'm afraid. The cat's eaten them, you see. (3mins 20 secs in)
Come on kids, let's go play in the abandoned nuclear power station
How to help a user who can't find the Start button or the keyboard?
Friday 22nd January 2016 16:16 GMT
Re: And if he answered, "I don't. I'm a zombie."?
That would at least have been vaguely amusing.
What I got instead proceeded rapidly through the three stages of:
1. I have no idea what you could possibly mean. I *am* an honest IT expert just looking to help you
2. Well, this is the only way I can earn any decent money, even if it means ripping off your granny.
3. A bunch of English expletives, delivered in a thick, Indian accent,* followed by him hanging up.
* to be fair, number three was also amusing
Friday 22nd January 2016 11:40 GMT
Re: no idea other operating systems existed
Very similar thing happened to me 3 years ago, albeit I was using a Mac at the time. Strung "Microsoft support" along for over an hour, including two ten minute spells of leaving the 'phone sitting on the table whilst pretending I went "to the east wing of the house to see if the router was switched on".
Eventually started to draw to a close when I got bored and asked how he slept at night.
It's 2016 and idiots still use '123456' as their password
Eighteen year old server trumped by functional 486 fleet!
Friends Reunited to shut down. What do you mean, 'is it still going?'
NASA books space shuttle delivery truck
Probe launched after mischiefmaker invades US spyboss's Verizon broadband account
Obama: What will solve America's gun problem? What could it be? *snaps fingers* Technology!
How to log into any backdoored Juniper firewall – hard-coded password published
Tuesday 22nd December 2015 09:48 GMT
Re: the Backdoor Man has arrived
The men don't know but the little girls understand?
(Yes, I know Willie Dixon did it first...)
Google chap bakes Amiga emulator into Chrome
Thursday 17th December 2015 12:11 GMT
Re: hooky copy from the Barras
And here was me thinking I was the only poster here with such a sordid past.
I spent many a Saturday afternoon down there, rifling through mostly public domain floppies but, aye, I too occasionally succumbed to the lure of the hooky copy... Flashback springs to mind.
Grim-faced cosmonaut in ISS manual docking nail-biter
ISS 'naut trio return to snowy terra firma
Enraged Brits demand Donald Trump UK ban
Beardy Branson bangs birds on Boeing
Boffins could tune telescopes to listen to lasers on Mars
British woman loses £1.6 million to romance scam love rats
Hungryhouse resets thousands of customers' passwords
So why exactly are IT investors so utterly clueless?
Samsung Gear VR is good. So good 2016 could be year virtual reality finally makes it
Thursday 26th November 2015 10:01 GMT
Re: Film makers?
I have to confess to being a bit skeptic regarding immersive VR films as an art medium
If you get a chance, you should check out Sonar, a flawed yet charming short film made by Filmacademy Baden-Württemberg. It's pretty immersive and gives you a sense of the possibilities VR can bring to the movie industry.
Thursday 26th November 2015 09:47 GMT
Re: Electric Chairs, Anyone?
The real problem is in-world movement such as walking, running, driving, flying, roller coasting, etc. with NO corresponding head movement, and only a motorized chair can mitigate that.
A motorised chair won't help you with walking or running. For that you either need to go down the HTC Vive route or have one of those 360° treadmills.
A motorised chair would certainly enhance roller coasting, driving, etc. but those experiences work well already.
Thai women drugged punters 'with Xanax-spiked nipples' – cops
Google launches virtual plastic pal who's fun to be with
Tuesday 24th November 2015 09:09 GMT
Devs need only make a change to code and run it to see alterations reflected in an on-screen emulator. That's apparently a rather swifter and more elegant arrangement than was offered in previous versions of the tool.
That's sounds pretty similar to how it already was but it certainly wasn't quick so good on them if they've improved the speed,
How TV ads silently ping commands to phones: Sneaky SilverPush code reverse-engineered
Red dwarf superflares batter formerly 'habitable' exoplanet
3ROS exploit wins plaudits for the prettiest Mal-GUI ever
Now we know why Philae phouled up comet landing
Drug-smuggling granny's vagina holds Kinder surprise
Feeble Phobos flaking as it falls to Mars
Europe's Asteroid prang probe plan calls for cubesats
Biggest problem with virtual reality: It can be a little too real for people
Thursday 5th November 2015 09:32 GMT
Different for everyone
I have a Gear VR and spend several hours a week using it, usually without any problems. On the other hand, I've had a couple of friends start to feel sick after just a few minutes. From a personal point of view, motion sickness has never happened. I have, however, had some stomach lurch similar to going over a humpback bridge in a car.
Even that is pretty rare for me and the intensity of it varies depending on the game / experience and my own condition (e.g. if I'm a bit pished, it's more likely). The worst it has ever been was the first time I tried a roller-coaster app; I'd had a few light refreshments and just as it went over the drop my stomach lurched so much that I had to rip the headset off. Tried it again five minutes later and I was fine.
Another one is Temple Run VR. I can usually play it and not notice anything but if I've had a few then there's usually a very mild stomach lurch which I actually find quite pleasant (I'm weird that way ;-)).
'Anonymous' says anonymous KKK dump wasn't from Anonymous
Ice 'lightning' may have helped life survive Snowball Earth
Why was the modem down? Let us count the ways. And phone lines
Has Voyager 1 escaped the Sun yet? Yes, but also no, say boffins
Friday 30th October 2015 10:35 GMT
Re: the "solar system"
Seems like a pointless discussion, really. When does summer become autumn?
True but we're a species that likes compartmentalising everything.
That's why there are indeed various definitions - albeit questionable ones - of when summer ends and autumn begins.
Balloon-lofted space podule hits 30,000m
No, seriously, NASA will fly a probe through Saturn's moon plumes
Bacon can kill: Official
Google and pals launch Accelerated Mobile Pages project
Microsoft's HoloLens: Here by 2016, mere three THOUSAND dollar price
Terror in the Chernobyl dead zone: Life - of a wild kind - burgeons
Indianapolis man paints his ball every day – for FORTY YEARS
All in all, it's just another hit in the stalls: Roger Waters The Wall
Friday 18th September 2015 08:05 GMT
Great show
Saw this at both the start and the end of the tour. Separated by years, I was surprised to enjoy the second outing even more than the first.
That said, I wasn't planning on viewing this but this lovely review has made me reconsider.
(Off to see his old nemesis, Gilmour, in London next week too.)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
