Posts by Shakje

Re: Same Old Tories

Indeed. The best bit is that this is just a more obvious example of the majority of their current policies which are:

1. Tell people we will abolish something that was recently in the headlines

2. ??????????

3. Election

Except with the extra steps:

4. ??????????

5. Profit

They're basically opposing anything that any member of the public finds remotely offensive about the current government and not bothering to explain how they will do things differently.

Thumb up, because David Cameron can stick his woolly policies on it, sit on it, and spin.

@chr0m4t1c

I'm not bashing your choice of PC, purely questioning your point on pricing. How much more did you pay to buy the Macs in the first place? I'm guessing it was at least in the region of 200 quid extra (exponentially greater as the quality of the machine increases) for each when compared to an equal PC. I've cited it before, but I did post a comment on here somewhere ages ago, comparing my PC (which cost about 600 quid including OS and peripherals) with an equivalent Mac, and the price difference was about 800 quid. I personally think it's foolish to spend that much on hardware, but that's just an opinion, my real gripe is that I don't think you can compare the cost of the OS upgrades because there's lots of other considerations to take on board (how about the extra cost of getting Mac branded hardware to go with your PC for example?) that make the difference in upgrade price moot.

Zzzzz...

"just most of the Macturds are too busy pulling off to pics of Skeletor Jobs to notice" there's an app for that.

@Simon Banyard

Maybe it is, but insulting someone like that over the internets makes you look even more of a prick. Have you ever met Steve Jobs? Maybe he likes being called skeletor, but you wouldn't know that would you? And breathe.

@People getting mad at Lord Elpuss

It was clearly a bad joke, and the caps were meant to highlight that. Anyone who thinks that something that ends with "IF MORE PEOPLE LIKE ME HAD THE BRAINS TO STAND UP TO THE ADVERTISNG BRAINWASHING WE WOULDNT BE IN THE STATE WERE IN WITH THE COUNTRY GOING TO THE DOGS AND ALL." is not meant to be a joke is clearly an idiot.

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@Steve Brooks

That's your fault for not scanning your USB stick after plugging it in. Has it occurred to you that the infection could be spread to executables on the USB stick instead of using Autorun? If you're negligent enough to grab media from an infected PC and assume it's safe to plug it into someone else's PC it's your own fault when it goes tits up, nothing to do with Autorun. If you're really that adverse to it, hold down shift.

@JC 2

So how many people do you think have writable CDs/DVDs sitting in their drive at time of infection?

Stop being stupid...

Say you have a solid holographic cube, no matter where someone stands they won't be able to see the insides of it, therefore you only need to render the outward facing parts. Kind of like a holographic BSP tree I'd expect. It's got nothing to do with occluding different parts based on which angle you're viewing it from, but occluding parts that can't be viewed from ANY angle. Imagine an animation where a horse is going through a tunnel, when it's in the tunnel you'll be able to see some of it from different angles, but not all of it, and you can calculate which parts are never visible.

Re: @Graham Lockley

So, anyone who has looked at a lyric on an unapproved site, or watched some music on YouTube, is a pirate. So much for illegally downloading music, it would seem that printing off lyrics or tabs is just as bad.

@Fraser

Photoshop is a bad example, as there ARE good alternatives out there. Eg. Paint .NET which is one of the best image-editing packages I've ever used. However your argument doesn't quite work out, as the alternatives to the paid version quite often are distributed as free. They don't have the same featureset as the paid software, but they also don't make any money, they're just left as downloads all over the net. I'd guess that you can probably get most free software from download.com or similar sites, and if you get it from there the original creator isn't going to get any advertising revenue (AFAIK) or have any knowledge that it was downloaded unless the creator monitors all of these sites.

Of course, your argument also forgets that the possibly 'crapper' versions that are available for free might never be used at all anyway, simply because they don't do what the user wants them to. There's no lost download (which is of minimal impact anyway), or lost sale of the professional software, as the user may well just not have bothered if the fully featured software wasn't available for free.

Let's say you had pirated your version of Office, what would you use instead if you didn't? OpenOffice? Are you seriously suggesting that OpenOffice are damaged by you not using their software or do you think that they are quite happy with the fact that they're popular and don't really care that you don't use it (yet).

All this is bollocks anyway because the original argument was about proving that a license is lost by a company when you don't buy their software, which is clearly addressed and proven false by the AC. The other manufacturers are not addressed in bit lawsuits where the pirating is seen as a loss from the person you pirated it from. That is what the AC was addressing. Maybe if the FOSS solutions were better publicised (why not upload torrents of their own software if it's free and tag it with the name of their common competitor so that people who are trying to download illegal content see them first as a free, good, legal alternative?) maybe they'd win over some of the pirates, as it is, if you know about one big product, and not the competitors you'll get the big product every time, won't you? And if you couldn't buy it because of the cost of it in the first place, it's not a lost sale. Simples.

Presumably...

It'll cost £10k, have half the features that other TVs have, only allow pple approved channels, and blow up in your face if you look at it wrong.

The title..

Thought it was about the e-sports player Fisker starting out a racing career

Having developed for winMo

I can say it's stupidly straightforward if you're already do .net development. Once you get used to the mobile SDK then you can (as with most C# apps, I find [and I'm originally a C++/Win32 coder) code what you want in a relatively short space of time. We had a client app talking to our legacy server (with an in-house messaging protocol) within a day, and most of the time was spent getting the UI right. I would say that the only painful thing I've experienced is setting up the UI.

Compared to other phones, the fact that we could get the PDA on our VPN with little fuss, meant that it was even easier to test with our dev server. I'd write an app for it any day. Having played around with the Nokia SDKs, if it wasn't for Java it'd be all right. I don't hate Java as a language, but it's a nightmare getting an IDE that's of the quality of VS (when using C#, it's still a bit flaky with native C++), even though I find NetBeans reasonably good. As for the iPhone, I'll probably never know, as I've no need to develop for it (and no wish to develop in Objective-C), and if I ever develop anything of worth for WinMo or Symbian I can quite happily sell it independently for whatever price I want, through whatever means I want. Oh, and I'll get all the money for it as well.

As far as the iPhone is concerned itself, it's clearly a fantastic success, but the majority of people who bought it because it's cool, not because of ease-of-use, but because of marketing, and little features that make it look cool. Ease-of-use is something that you just expect from Apple. However, it's still a waste of money when compared to equivalent phones.

@Fraser

So presumably you believe that:

a) The Tories will actually honour all of those policies

b) you agree with all those policies

Just having policies on lots of things doesn't make a party a better party to vote for, otherwise you're legitimising the BNP and UKIP.

Ok...

"the guiding principle appears to be that where there is even a remote possibility that interaction between adults and a vulnerable group might lead to the creation of a "relationship of trust", individuals should be checked and registered."

Well yes, because the media bay for blood whenever someone who has a relationship of trust with a child is someone who you wouldn't want anywhere near kids. I'm not saying that's wrong, of course it isn't, but the quoted point doesn't seem to make much sense to me.

All in all, the media seems to be saying that on the one hand we need to perform checks, on the other hand we don't want to be checked ourselves. On the one hand the system is failing at the moment, on the other hand we don't want to have to look at another system which is providing better checks. On the one hand we don't think the government of today has any common sense, on the other hand, let's childishly jibe at the prime minister.

I'm someone who has lost a lot of faith in Labour (I probably wouldn't vote for them in a general election), but this seems like a silly jab.

From the Telegraph article

"In February last year the Home Office claimed that samples taken from people who had never been convicted of a crime had led to matches in 14,000 crimes since 2001, including 68 sex attacks and 55 attempted murders.

The UK's National DNA Database is the largest in the world, with more than 5.8 million profiles. "

So there have been 5.8 million profiles taken, and only 14,000 matches? I can see the system works now.

Films in order:

AvP: Not a terrible film, drastically spoiled by its happily ever after ending

AvP2: Better movie than AvP, but still a bit too optimistic about itself, and too generic to work with the franchise.

Alien: Don't even need to say anything...

Aliens: In Hollywood, taking a film and going in a completely different direction like Cameron did was not only unexpected, but one of the best sequel-moves ever.

Alien 3: Pretty good film, if it wasn't for the precedent set by the previous films it would have done a lot better I think. The setting is as grimy as the first film and it's realised that everything's already been done, so adds a bit of splatter to proceedings.

Alien Resurrection: I've spent a while working out why this is terrible, because occasionally I do that strange thing of "oh it can't be that bad" and watch it, then promptly realise what a twat I've been. The problems that I see with this movie are - direction isn't great, it's too "French", lots of stupid facial angles, bright colours, and too much Americanised comedy (ie not the dry and occasional wit of the other films, even in Aliens) and action. The whole place is too bright, and it just wrecks the atmosphere, never mind the fact that the film doesn't kill enough people off, there's far too happy an ending. The 'baby' alien looks shit, I know what they were trying to do, but it's still shit. It looks like a person with a broken face covered in phlegm. If the whole film was the guy talking about the butterfly it would be 300% better. Aliens swimming is just natural, but there's no real terror involved. They should have cut the power in the first 10 minutes of the film and then let loose a swarm of aliens on the base. The grenade moment pisses me off, it's just rubbish. It's like they took Commando, mixed in a bit of Amelie, and then grabbed the colours from The Wizard of Oz and pasted the Aliens on top. The film makes me angry.

However, the prequel may well turn out pretty good, there's clear prior knowledge shown in AvP so I don't know why anyone thinks that the Nostromo was the first encounter. The first game was also pretty enjoyable and kept the dark foreboding nature of the (first three) films (particularly good is the level that is based on a space station, if anyone is interested, think it's about level 6 or something).

With Ridly Scott in charge it's going to be interesting at least, and I can see him doing something good with the film (if not something great). As mentioned by someone else, at least it's not Michael Bay.

People who are still complaining about security

are just showing that they still have no idea of how Unite works. There isn't a security risk from running Unite, and the complaint that leaving your computer on is a security risk in itself is stupid, if you've got an infested PC, leaving your PC on isn't the problem.

@Matt 89

1. Nope, just as long as the two coincide at some point it's fine isn't it. What might be great is if there was a Skype style service written, so it would be as easy as talking about something in a conversation, hence knowing the files are available.

2. Why do people even have connections that need to be told to go online anymore?

3. Good point, work that out all by yourself?

4. Already dealt with. RTFM.

@Ken Hagan

You clearly don't have a clue what you're talking about either. Well done.

1) Well yes, they do, you choose which folders to share and then manage it just like any other folder.

2), 3), 4) Since you haven't bothered reading a single word about how Unite works, I'll waste no further words explaining it to you.

@Chris C

1) Comcast? Verizon? UK site. Other than that, it's more like normal p2p than hosting a web server.

2) Over a reasonably basic connection (with low upload) I can quite happily stream my music folder to my work PC and listen in decent quality, go figure.

3) LoL. Close Opera, continue talking. Sorted. Of course, this only matters if lots of people are viewing content when you're in the middle of a conversation. That's by-the-by anyway, I don't understand how this can be a factor when you can use Ventrilo + not see any noticeable speed problems in gaming connections on a basic connection?

4) Only a requirement if you know people who want to look at it every minute of the day.

5) People lose interest because they can't be arsed uploading things from their PC to the web. This helps because putting the items on your PC (in the correct place) is the same as uploading it.

@jake('s wife)

No-one is actually on your PC, they're looking at folders that you specify. You maybe reasonably tech-savvy, but you admit that jake is the one who writes the web pages, and not everyone has that person to help them. Once again, there's no security risk, it's dead simple (far easier and simpler than having to mess around with FTP), and it's a really good idea.

There needs to be less people being such spotty nerds in this comments section, it's depressing.

@Lindsay Roberts

No wonder your customers ARE NOT HAPPY!!!1 They're paying someone almost $10,000 who DOESN'T under$tand HOW to USE CAPS LOCK or a $ sign. Seriously, Windows Update updating a piece of software? Who'd of thought.

In related news, what twat thought this was a good idea? Although Fink's link is actually worse..

As with so much of current democracy...

The NUS, by condemning binge drinking, are alienating the people they are meant to represent. Twats.

@Bug

It's been shown time and time again that every song you download loses the company nothing, but it loses the artist hundreds of thousands of pounds, funds terrorism, turns you into a spotty nerd with glasses who nobody likes, causes impotence, and kills kittens. Think of the children you vermin.

@jai

The vast majority of iPhone owners are arrogant, attention-seeking and needy, constantly calling other people jealous because if everyone else is right they've paid stupid sums for a terrible phone. For argument's sake it doesn't particularly matter about 3.0 if you didn't consider it when you got your iPhone, seeing as you handed over money for a phone with less functionality than a 90s Nokia. Good job jai, shame I'm so jealous.