Posts by LuMan

Jobbing Actors Required

Well, seeing as this is a Hollywood flick, historical accuracy will be somewhere in the car park (or 'parking lot', as our cousins over the pond would say) so, with this in mind, I think Jackie Chan should play the young Jobs, striving to make a name in a strange land after being stolen from a Triad-controlled Chinese workhouse, and then Ving Rhames to play an older Jobs who takes on the might of Nasty Rival Company (with a despotic, evil, bastard of a boss - played by a Brit, probably) through the use of guile, sex appeal and bloody big guns and explosions.

The plot will write itself, of course.

Loved it!

An excellently written and put-together article. The Reg bosses should be proud of you. One of the best articles I've read on this e-tome for a long time.

WRT Mr Jobs - the discussions in the workplace, pub, breakfast table or anywhere will continue to portray a man deserved of both like and dislike. We've seen in these forums how he has been lambasted and revered in equal measure (and you can make your own mind up as to whether he deserved it or not).

My tuppenyworth: The world needs people like Jobs. They may not always be liked, but they give us fuel for debate while, more importantly, moving us forward. I liked the man. He will be missed.

Downvotes - and my bit!

Strangely, every single post has a downvote. This one will possibly have one too, soon.

Anyway, dickhead downvoters aside, I reckon this gun looks effing cool and the engineering prowess of the bloke who build it deserves a pint of best! More please.

Jaw Dropping

SotC is nothing short of beautiful. Even on the PS2 it looks fantastic. I remember playing the demo when it first came out on an OPS Magazine coverdisc and stopping dead when I first saw your initial colossus. Cries of 'How the bloody hell are you going to kill THAT?' echoed around the room, along with plenty of 'whoa' and 'woo!' sounds when you get Aggro within stomping range.

Right, I'm gonna finish at 2 and hit the gameshop on the way home!

But what about....

.....Surfin' Bird, as sung by Peter Griffin?

Hoo-bloody-ray!

At last, a pad manufacturer/supplier/whatever with a sensible attitude to what folk might actually want. Simply make your choice - root it and void your warranty, or don't and keep it. Most of us are adult enough to make our own decisions. Not to mention that, at that price, you could buy one to hack and one for keeps.

It's also worth noting that not all hacks are bad. Some even enhance the operation of the original firmware and OS.

Good going, Amazon. Let's hope others follow suit.

QLogic delves in trousers, whips out impressive tool

TBH I didn't actually read the article, but I wanted to comment on the excellent tag-line. Made me think of an old porn flick I watched involving a broken dishwasher and moustachioed repairman...

Well done!

Not an attack...

..she just wanted to show the bank she had a sole....

..yep, I'm off.

Utter brilliance

I remember many a late night stuffing disk after disk into my Amiga (until I got that massive 20mb hdd). This game was (and still is) the best adventure game ever made. Better than Day Of The Tentacle, better than Simon The Sorcerer and better than Flight Of The Amazon Queen.

My pal got the iPhone version with updated visuals, but he still reverted to the original graphics 'cos they're soooo much better. If you find the right SCUMMvm you can pretty much play this (and others) on any device. Sheer heaven.

"You make me want to puke!"

"You make me think somebody already did!"

Not good

Despite peoples' view of Sony it's still sad that we hear news like this. At the end of the day someone's going to lose their job and there's every chance that it's not a well-paid manager or board member.

Trading under administration is nothing short of soul-destroying. It happened to me about 16 years ago and all the thanks you get is turning up for work one day and finding a note on the shop door and an envelope with your cards in it.

OMAP

I had a quick run through the TI wbsite and had a look at what the OMAP had to offer. If this thing uses OMAP5, and makes use of its full feature spec, then we could be looking at something very nice.

Of course, if it doesn't......

Aesthetics

Am I alone in thinking that this looks a little ugly? Apple seem to spend a long time on making their stuff look pretty (definitely form over function), so who's going to want to shove it, end-wise, into a black lump of plastic? Even the 'cheap-as-chips' Kensington jobbies we have at work add a bit of style to the less-than-attractive Lenovo StinkPads we use, so I'm sure designers can come up with something better than this.

Brilliant!!

Now we just need a report saying that booze makes you drive better and we've hit Utopia!!

Re: My Earlier Post

Yep, a quick Google and there you have it:

http://www.meccano.us/difference_engines/rde_1/

Quality!

Hand it in to Police?

I can just see that at my local cop-shop:

"'Allo, 'allo. What's this, then?"

"It's a small piece of downed satellite."

"Look, I'm busy drinking tea and doing the Sun crossword. Do you know the penalty for wasting Police time?"

"But, sir. We're supposed to hand these bits in for you."

"Really? Who told you that, then?"

"NASA."

"Oh yeah? And I'm bleedin' Sherlock 'Olmes! Go on, get out you bleedin' idiot!"

At which point NASA send round the big, black limos to 'take care of you' for not returning their smouldering lumps of space crap.

Still, the light show should be good.......

Despite the pic being of only 2 dots...

...that is one HELL of an impressive photo!!

Soap?

Andrew - did your review version of the peripheral come with a bar of soap to wash out your foul mouth? Don't get me wrong - I'm not a prude, but I expected something slightly more professional for an opening gambit. I can perhaps see why you did it, but a prime example of 'good idea - bad execution'.

Leave the bad language to those of us who don't write professionally and can't think of anything smarter to say.

Mobile Gaming

Hmm.. I used my wife's mobile phone upgrade to get a shiny Xperia Play and think it's brilliant. As any fule gamah noes, there's only so much you can do with on-screen controls and proper, hardware buttons are a must for any serious gamer. I'll be getting a Vita because (as has been mentioned in earlier comments) the games lend themselves to a more immersive and rewarding experience. So, Xperia for sneaking a quick bash on Asphalt on my lunch break at work, and the Vita for getting a proper fix while the wife hogs the telly. Win-win.

Original

Er, not exactly off-topic, but am I the only person who prefers the original version (with the narration and proper ending) to the Director's Cut version?

Units

So, say 3.5 units a day, this means I can have 24.5 units a week. With one unit equalling about half a pint this means I can safely drink 12 pints when I get home. Or, less safely, drink 12 pints on my way home.

Brilliant. I like these articles. Is there one for pies as well.....?

At Last!

A decent use of 3D!! More please!

Good gadget

Despite the fact that you could just as easily punch the mute (or channel up) button on your remote, I do like the look of this. You could have loads of fun altering the code so it mutes, volumes up, channel hops whenever a word is mentioned.

I'm sure there could be serious applications for this too, but the fun ones are better.

Google

So, can Google actually have a Google+ account then? I'm not aware that Google has a surname.

Unless Google IS the surname... and the first name's Fuckingbloodyuseless!!

Tough Justice

This has been doing the rounds in our office this morning. General consensus is, "Good. Make an example of 'em", with a few folk saying that the sentences are too steep.

Either way, whether they were joking or not (and probably not), they deserve a fecking kicking. People are now dead and scores of people have had their lives damaged or ruined by the actions of the rioters.

Personally, I think they got what they deserve. Don't drop the soap, boys!

WOW!!

Wolfenstein 3D for DOS is still available for $15??!! Really?? Hasn't everyone downloaded it for free yet. Seriously, though, I did think it was a freebie now.

WRT not being able to aim vertically, there's no need. Even in Doom. The engine only requires you to aim in the horizontal direction of the baddie as the vertical component is non-existent in Wolfenstein and forced in Doom. Now, Hexen on the other hand...

Still love the game and will play it at tea-time (like the old days).

Thumb drive...

.....or thumb-up-bum drive.

Wrong Hardware

Dirty great satellite dishes and radio antenna arrays aren't the way to contact for off civilisations across space. All you need is a circular saw blade, Speak & Spell, a brolly and a few other things found in a 10-year-old's bedroom!

Yeah, but..

..does this mean we actually get a real-life Wayne's World!!???

Er...

..sorry, Caleb. I'm not sure if you're being positive about this item or not. It seems straightforward to me - uses a heat source (electric or otherwise) to make the picture/print, and then that's it. It can be viewed as normal paper and re-used when you've done. Sounds like a good invention. Buy a newspaper made of the stuff, read it, then get it updated the next day. A bit like a Kindle, but without the electrical gubbins.

Plus, it won't lose all your info when it gets shaken around.

No Picture??

How do we know if she was worth the extra??

Can't we at least have a Playmobil mock-up????

Ah, but...

...will the head of his PR Dept get the sack?

Cello

Ha! That cello reminded me of my old Epson dot-matrix printer. It used to make noises like that all the time... without the cello, though.

Cracking stuff!

Not surprising at all.

This isn't the first time this has happened - particularly at Dixons (or DSG, or DSGi, or whatever they call themselves this week). I remember being made redundant from DSG nearly a decade ago, not because the company posted a loss (it didn't), but because it didn't make as much as the 'analysts' suggested it would. Cue: shouty shareholders and the CE decides to dump a load of staff.... and then awards himself a cash bonus which would have kept a couple of us employed for another ten years.

It's politics. The board exists to keep the shareholders happy and the rich-club rich. The workers? Just a means to an end and disposable. Sad. Very sad.