Posts by goats in pajamas

It's a conspiracy

I saw a video on teh youtube that said that 5G is how "they" are going to kill us all.

I'll get my coat.

It's about removing human beings from the decision making process. Just like the banks. So the end result will be "computer says no" followed by "I have no power to override the computer".

You may choose to die, or suffer appallingly, in your own home, or in a cardboard box if your home is not your own.

priceless

So, one spit roast for every two kids cartoons and "no age restriction required". Job done. Law circumvented. Another classic example of clueless dweebs in the corridors of some Ministry not understanding anything.

Who is writing British SF?

Depends on whether you mean for the screen only or in general?

Books wise - Alastair Reynolds - astrophysicist. Many fiction books - stuffed full of great ideas. Kind of like the spiritual successor to Asimov/Clarke - in that he's a scientist first and a writer second.

I don't really read much scifi these days, but always take the time to get his latest book.

Got as far as...

In today’s different world that same grid continues to work well when supplanted by distributed inputs from photo-voltaics and wind power... and stopped reading because you'd strayed into dishonesty. The grid works perfectly well without such inputs as the inputs from said methods are neglible and unreliable.

I'd forgotten how crap this site can be these days.

Thanks for reminding me.

Never give a monkey...

...the keys to the banana plantation.

The end result is always 'no bananas'.

Remember when?

We used to look at each other and talk to each other?

Remember when the people you were in a room with were the people you were with and you didn't sit with one group of people and talk to another? Remember when relationships were deeper and more satisfying?

Hmmmm.

I binned both emails, presuming them to be phishing attempts - they listed accounts I didn't recognise the name of and seeing as I don't ever have any money, I don't use my bank card online with gaming sites.

Added to that, the return email address looked extremely dodgy, being a string of letters some 20+ characters long.

I tend to avoid buying games from the bigger companies these days as they've screwed them into the ground trying to control the market. The worst example being "one time activation, no selling on".

Screw the lot of them.

I don't own an x-box...

...but feel compelled to add my 2 cent's worth.

Microsoft, grrr, tut tut tut, typical, what else do you expect, developers, monkey boy, grrr.

What;'s the difference between...

...UK Government unemployment figures and Microsoft sales figures?

None at all.

Already happening.

I have some PC games that no 2nd hand shop will touch because they have a 'one time only registration' along with 'permanent Internet connection required'.

It's quite outrageous that these sorts of systems are even allowed in the market place as they drive a coach and horses through previously understood concepts of seller and buyer and what happens to the property as a result.

I have another few games that I discovered trawling torrent sites, downloaded and tried and went out and bought the legit' discs for, only to find that 6 months later I can't play it without cracking it anymore because I've "exceeded the maximum number of permitted installs" (I went through a period of trying various different Linux distros, looking for the best implemenation of WINE (LinuxMint if you're interested), so the game was reinstalled a fair few times over a period of a few weeks).

And they wonder why people pirate software.

Self appointed elite.

"Hur, hur, hur, everything I post is from the same IP address, registered with my ISP (and probably my country's Security Forces too) but sometime I tell them live on a different continent. Hur, hur, I'm so clever. They'll never catch me. Hang on, someone's knocking at the door."

For "most Windows like"...

read "developers have stuck most closely to the so called 'universal standards' for GUI's, in that they haven't become collectively insane and are not busy stripping out functionality and common sense as fast their little fingers can type."

Economics

And a Europe wide trashed economy, widespread uncertainty and record unemployment have nothing whatsoever to do with sales figures?

Reality

Despite the initial reaction of "this is public money being used to play market rigging on behalf of proprietary vedors", the reality is that the Met Office would struggle to accurately predict Christmas.

If you want more informed content then weatheraction is where you want to be.

Meanwhile, back in the real world

America still hasn't closed Guantanamo, the UK still locks unaccompanied immigrant children up indefinitely, Syria is a nightmare, Iraq is a nightmare and Afghanistan is a nightmare, but hey, lets go after game players hey?

Remind me what the Red Cross is for again...

Microsoft...

...are the scum of the earth.

Imagine if a car maker came up with a new device that meant that other cars would only be able to drive on the same roads if they adopted a new device to counter it.

They'd be in Court so fast their feet wouldn't touch the floor.

Linux Mint 11.04

Just like Ubuntu used to be but even better.

Gnome 2.3

Beautifully rendered UI.

Nice fonts.

Driver support.

Everything that used to be good about Ubuntu before they crapped all over their own product.

A promise to stick with Gnome 2.3.

Evolution not the 'out-ofthe-box' choice, but installable.

Synaptic still present.

Choose sides now...

...in the forthcoming Corporate Domination Wars.

Followed by...

...a 10% cut in the successful running of the IT system.

"Well, they break down you know, tut tut tut, terribly complicated".

This being the UK.

Expect this to screw the current broadcast system in to the ground.

Expect large profits going overseas, or at least, going untaxed in the UK.

And expect the Minister to curiously end up on the board of one of those companies that benefited most.

rofl

Apple sell piece of junk with little useful hardware remaining and a list of reasons why it's both crap and extremely expensive.

Punters queue up to purchase.