Posts by Zot

What's it written in?

Is it Java? Will it it work on a tablet?

And I guess you'll have to have one for different languages and cultures. It may get expensive for the artwork alone.

Everyone should just change their avatars to this:

http://images.t-nation.com/forum_images/d/2/d2f6f-fe00b_l_e898f7a2677f4313879af51e9b078e87.gif

Imagine if millions of people did that.

: )

It's bright yellow, has the wrong coloured moustache, and it's not round enough by far.

And it holds its helmet on with its mouth!

Yeah, uncanny.

Other companies are filling their ship with water...

As they sit in the nineties and stare at a blank wall. Silly bastards, they can't even catch up with things happening in the last decade, they frustrate me so much, it's getting annoying now. Come on MS get some hardware nonse about your selves! Developers, developers, developers, are using more popular products to push their software. It's getting dark for them, argh and it's horrible to watch. No I can't watch. ;(

People confuse 'new' with the word 'improved' all the time.

An OS should just be a background management system. Barclays Bank uses XP, and many shops use XP. Last time I looked, a high street phone shop used a DOS like system. The guys working there hated it, but the guys that wrote it know what it's doing at all times, as the users don't go on the Internet, and don't bend rules, they are perfectly controlled. And the computers are really, really cheap.

MS, Apple, and Google are in the business of selling the 'new' and 'improved' and a lot of trendies buy it because it's all about being with the highest version number they can get, which is kind of sad. These companies are in the business of making people jealous of others with the latest bit of kit. It's their business model.

I bet If Apple invented the guitar, they would have redacted the strings long ago! ;) Hah.

But that's not the point. Being a software developer makes me one of the trendies, but not the majority.

My old dad uses XP, he can print stuff, use the Internet with Chrome, and write emails in Thunderbird; what do most people use a computer for? Human stuff, of course. Many, many millions of non-tech people that don't need change for the sake of it, and they think their ten year old PC is actually still 'new?' Wonderful.

I wonder what..

..software they'll use? It sounds like a complex layout of work that needs to be enter and organised, and there won't be any off-the-shelf Arm products available.

They'll get it next year as well.

Because of the new Mac Pro! ; ) The central cooling 'chimney' is a neat idea:

http://www.apple.com/uk/mac-pro/?cid=wwa-uk-kwg-mac-aos

But I'm sure the haters will conjure up some similes for us to roll our eyes at. Yes, yes they will.

I felt slightly dizzy watching it, and it's pointless anyway.

I turned off the background tilt shift thing immediately as it's also pointless and it zoomed my back picture in a bit to achieve the effect without black borders appearing.

You can turn that little effect off, but you CANNOT turn off the massive zooming in and out animation!

They must be so proud of it, that they didn't want anybody to disable it. Either that or they've given up actually testing stuff with normal people, just like MS! : )

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I stopped reading when...

...I saw 'Windows 8.'

A track pad and Windows 8? - A hideous mixup of ideas right there.

It's a nice spec though... I don't want one.

TuneIn radio app for me

I use it all the time. With thousand of radios stations, and blogs, and the ability to record and set sleep timers, it was quite a natural switch over to Internet radio. I really don't think people need DAB in their homes.

I've heard of an Internet radio station that tried to go DAB, but they could could only afford mono(!), and only in London. Why would anybody bother using DAB instead of the Internet for broadcasts.

In TuneIn I've got a favourite channel that broadcasts 24-7 Goon Show back to back, with no advertisements. Now that's entertaining.

Concert copyright infringement!

They'll demand you remove this article , then haul you off to jail, screaming and waving frantically as your heels scrape backwards across the office carpet.

Probably.

The problem with toy cameras like the ones in all phones, is that the lens is far too small to take low light shots, and the shutter needs to be open for longer to let more light in. This in turn means blurred low definition pictures, as you can't possibly hold the camera still enough.

My download was less than 700Mb.

And the download was less than 10 minutes. If you!re not going to use WiFi then it's your own fault for long delays.

The video posted on the article called 'listening to these days' only has audio up to 20 seconds on my ipad 2! I don't know if that's an update problem though.

I don't like the look of the icons now. They've taken too much corner off, and it looks like a robot's sweet shop.

But people don't care what goes into burgers and sausages.

This stuff, if true, comes from a gland, not it's turd chute.

Sausages contain said chute, the contents of the whole inside of an animal, and anything they jet wash off the bones.

Fry them up with a couple of chicken abortions and you've got yourself a lovely breakfast.

Can you use an animated GIF?

Oh wait, this is getting too complex, let me just type a password in please.

[Shakes had slowly]

[Goes to next article with disinterested eye-rolling]

And Facebook keeps all those pictures.

They just remove your ability link to the images. Party on, don't mind us using your face for advertising do you? Even if you've deleted your account? Yes? Well tough, move along now.

It may not be very accurate.

And it only covers part of your thumb, and it's against the law to retain fingerprints at will. We don't know what data it takes or stores, it may not even be like traditional finger print at all.

So would the Sheepdroids please stop sneering and get back to stealing software and dodging viruses.

It's pronounced 'Laddie' - just in case someone didn't know.

Title.

: )

I never saw this as a serious 'law'

I always thought it was just a casual saying, that stuck around because of it's fairly amusing accuracy.

Neighbourhood has a 'u' in it.

I thought this was a UK site?

All those brightly coloured bars at the counter...

...are there for the kids. Why are you adults even eating kids treats?

Lol. Sorry, it really is my view about chocolate and I don't have any fillings either.

There's a stack of slightly similar games now by Big Fish

They seem to be firmly targeted at women. They are often based on 'hidden object' games, but some are quite sophisticated puzzles, but they are generally a ghost story in a spooky mansion kind of thing.

Although none of them as hard as Myst, simply because they know their target audience is 'casual' and they'll not want to write things down on paper whilst playing.

There's loads and loads of them, look:-

http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/genres/21/adventure.html

The effects will look worse.

I thought the SFX shots were all originally done in 70mm to try and avoid the matting grain.

Some digital films look really good, so why not use technology when it's available?

"How Olivetti stitched up Acorn"

[url]http://elleeseymour.com/2012/02/24/how-olivetti-stitched-up-acorn/[/url]

Watching the NHK channel last year had...

...Doctors advising pregnant women to move away from open windows. This was their best advice because, well, what else could they do? It impossible to figure out what's real in that situation.

Although we don't know the real long term effects of the damaged rector are, it would be nice to know whether the Japanese government is going through total denial of the situation, or whether everything really is safe for now.

But this is not the main problem.

The only problem Apple needed to fix is the 10 minutes after someone has entered their password. During that time the kid is handed back the iDevice and does not need to enter the password again for 10 minutes. This happened to the family who won compensation for the costs run up by their little monster, through further 'items' bought in the game. "Do you want more gems?"

In App purchases have wrecked gaming IMHO, and turned it into something like the cash grabbing arcades from the late 80s.

The original started surprisingly raw and gritty.

The new one will have young dimwits having 'issues' and dumb grievances that are easy to write and understand by the sober and inexperienced suited guys who don't know what they are talking about.

It will.

I was going to use the cloud for an external backup.

By 'cloud' I mean a flashing black box in an unknown room, in an unknown town, in an unknown country, owned by an unknown individual, to store my personally valuable source code. Then I thought, I wonder how big the largest password key can be on WinRar? And thinking about folding it more than twice inside other passworded RARs...oh dear.

In the end I put it on a flash drive and gave it to a disinterested (not a computer person) friend to look after away from the house!

Paranoid? Not one bit. Happy about the backup's security? Hell yes!

Too many mistakes?

I starting to look forward to MSs next mistake! As horrendous as that sounds, it does seem fun to wonder what they're going to fuck up next. Holy crap, even their adverts are hilariously bad, and far too cheesey for the UK.