Posts by cyborg

Re: What, pay the creators?

I remember when geocities was around people were happy to make a hobby website on their subject of choice.

Some people just have a passion to share their knowledge and experience on the things they care about without worrying about whether or not they can get microtransactions out of people.

Which they presumably already have anyway given their current target platform of "any PC that will run it".

Re: You lot really have issues.

"Some of us have actually been there & done that."

Could you name someone who has?

Thanks.

Re: Honey someone's calling you

"people need to be excited about new tech."

No I don't.

Re: Ballmer shmallmer

Us throw-back twits like to use the command-line to automate parts of our jobs that you less productive GUI-tards will spend hours over thank-you-very-much.

Re: I don't even use twitter but...

In essence - it's ephemeral.

You'd barely even known our "digital society" existed if the power went out and our computers rusted and so forth but our carved monuments will go on for a few thousand years at least.

Re: Think Sony has dropped content management.

Are you being paid to manage this technophobe friend's iPod?

No?

Then tell them to get over it or they can't listen to music on an iPod and they should go back to hauling a trailer with cassette tapes in it or whatever.

Re: What I just don't get is.....

Do you also get confused between potato varieties? Just stick to the big bag of white and leave the King Edwards, Maris Pipers, Charlotte, New and Baking varieties to people who can actually deal with a "marketplace" with, you know, an actual range of items.

Re: @ robert_raw -

Unlikely - they made a big song and dance (almost literally for generous definitions of "dance") out of the fact Angry Birds: Star Wars is on Windows 8.

Re: .icant?

I'm a self-facilitating media node.

Re: Intelligence!

I believed you and now I have Malaria. :(

Re: Funny but wrong.

Actually the point of the thought experiment is that applying quantum mechanics to a cat leads to silly things like this so you shouldn't do it. Therefore I deem blink acceptable in this context.

Re: How ridiculously fast?

They've gone plaid!

Re: Hang on there Cheetah...

But people don't understand what tree structures are. They only understand the list structure. Where we're at the "top" of the list and everything else isn't.

Re: Unbiased != giving equal weight to all viewpoints

"Reality has a well known liberal bias." - Stephen Colbert.

Re: As a slight aside...

It's nothing new really. Hollywood actors are more than happy to appear in ads outside of the US. Just look for the Arnie ads he did in Japan for some whacked out craziness.

Taking the ad dollar domestically definitely gives a negative impression of how well they're doing.

But it does so here and the movie market is more international nowadays so...

In conclusion - no idea. Maybe Bruce Willis and Al Pacino owe Rupert Murdoch something?

Re: The purpose of Surface

Because the expectation was never setup.

OSX != iOS - Ok

Windows != Windows - WTF?

Re: In a word........ Why?

Yes, and this is why Enimem is at least original in this regard - there's even a skit on one of his albumns joking about it.

I would have to agree though that his early work is much better - not sure I'd bother beyond The Enimem Show.

Re: Mandatory Apple comment

"Patenting obvious is Apple's business"

They have a patent on it.

Re: Sam Coupe

Frankly you could do an entire series of articles on the stuff Eastern European coders did on the Spectrum waaaay beyond the end of its commercial life.

Re: Windows 7?

I'm sorry but Windows 8 to Windows 7 is not as a car is to a horse. You fail the IQ test.

Re: Green screen

"That way, I could (for example) superimpose Jeremy Clarkson over a background picture of a huge arse."

I believe that would be redundant.

Re: Why Kidz?

I believe you have your answer in your question:

"If you've got ground-breaking tech that performs a useful function, "

It's the useful part that's found wanting.

Have no idea why anyone would object to your comments but have an upvote on me.

The problem will be that even if you have a cure for cancers you'd have to be able to treat them on any vessel where you'd think it'd be likely - that'd mean detection and treatment equipment would need to be factored into the cost of the trip and it may not actually be reasonable to have that equipment available.

There are lots of medical problems - humans are just not built for space. Hell if we're going to speculate then why not start genetically engineering people to cope better in space?