Posts by Martin Lyne

You fail to mention the biggest omission

That's right. It didn't have a plot.

Oh well

Saves paying redundancy money, right?

Off to go buy some ridiculous rights-destroying project with the proceeds!♠

If Cylons made cars..

..they'd probably be the angriest cars in the world.

And look like this, of course.

As a Trekkie

I was a bit disappointed to hear it was a prequel film originally, but this trailer has changed my mind.

Looks visually interesting, might stimulate a new series being created too.

Could the ravine not be the trench left by the big laser thing from the start of S2 of Enterprise?

For me, Trek is about what humanity can do if it sets aside its prejudice, bickering and greed-inducing monetary system, and then layered on that how human interactions change/remain in this new epoch.

I'll be happy with ships exploding realistically. A reworking of TOS with more TNG seriousness would bea good thing, not to mention modern effects. None of this "what is this Earth thing you call "kissing"" crap.

As for Cloverfield.. you barely get to see the only good character in it (the monster); The online hype-generating content was completely removed from the content of the film and the film itself barely touched upon the monster's.. anything. Near invulnerability, some parasites. No real motive for destruction rampage. Not very fulfilling. A follow on about the world living with monster attacks and survivors fighting back would be very welcomed.

Died from..

..an overdose of drugs prescribed *to treat depression*

Should they, perhaps, not give them out in sufficient numbers to cause death to people who may well be inclined to use them that way?

Not blaming the authorities, if someone wants to kill themselves then that is their prerogative, going to all the trouble of allowing people to witness it.. I can't help but wonder if they expected to get stopped by the police/ambulance/etc before the end.

Here's a zany idea..

How about this for a ker-a-zee idea.

Save everyone billions in developments costs and JUST PUT AN ELECTRIC ENGINE IN AN OTHERWISE NORMAL CAR.

Redesign it a bit to adjust for the wheel motors and lack of giant engine etc, obviously, but that's engineering not design. Rest of the car - leave. Or at least put real designers onto it not the concept designers.

Then it might, you know, actually get made.

I..

I haven't plugged my TV in [to anything other than my computer] for 5 months or more now, and it's great. A little iPlayer now and then, but I can definately say my life is better without adverts. (I simetimes go to the cinema late for a viewing just to miss the adverts too, marvelous, catch the trailers though)

Also: is it not the fact that people who don't have people to socialise with will watch tv becuase they're lonely, which leads to not being happy. Do yourselves a favour and unplug the bugger. At least buy some games, where you can take part in the action.

The only thing that could improve Eastenders et al is, basically, a tactical nuke.

Don't

..all young people have shorter attention spans than older people?

Perhaps if there were more interesting 3 hour TV episodes it owuld dcondition the next generation to have longer trains of attention?

EPB

I'm fairly sure DARPA will make them EMP resistant. You could cover one droid in smelly human clothes hopefully leading the other droids, equipped with sniff-sensors, to attack it.

We can still mentally out-manoeuvre them my juicy, marrow-filled compadrés.

Isn't

"Groupthink" from The Chrysalids?

It doesn't

..matter whom has access to it, a bungling IT Contractor will outsource it/put it on a USB/laptop/mobile and lose it. Then we can all access it on BotTorrent/eBay/iTunes/whatever.

They should just look at the flip side and say "how can this information be misused?" and then limit usage accordingly.

*Sigh*

I..

..for one welcome our nuke-wielding, high-yielding polarbear / penguin overlords/terrorists.

So..

I'll be charged out the arse for using a rival/friend's charging station, charged if I pick up a friend, charged if I want to listen to music while I drive, charged more if I drive over a border.

Cheap car: cool. Mobile industry as base: Not.

Rather buy my own and a super-efficient solar panel or something. Middle finger to the Energy Resellers and their price-hike/oh-no-record-profits-during-a-recession-qul-suprisé! profiteering.

And a hand-crank of course, being Englandish.

Ooh

Want!

Oh noes!

A joke!

Sack everyone that ever made a Jack the Ripper or Harold Shipman joke too, will you? In fact, better lock up all comedians, just in case right?

Or we could just take a breath and stop our knees jerking.

I doubt..

..it will be crystal clear sound as clearly a cat will end up sitting on it. Even if you don't own one they will hear about your expensive cat cushion and come from miles around to experience it. Apparently when they humanoid is home it even massages your furry cat-flanks.

But seriously. Who's decor is that meant to blend with? It'd be nice if it had some sort of hook so you could sling it behind a LCD monitor or perma-open door or something. Out of eyeshot basically.

For. Fuck's. Sake.

It's not hard to come up with a list of things that are NEW and GOOD to put into a phone.

If the shitty N95 has it then something brand new should too. Had this had Wi-Fi I would have considered it over the SE X1.

Now I'll just wait some more until someone can actually put all the good shit together in one package. Fast, quality photos, 2 memory slots, touch screen, keyboard, preferably a proper 'phones jack, wi-fi, 3G, MMS, decent battery life (2 days with moderate texting), nice styling and can withstand a few drops.

Fuck it, I might just design my own and see if I can bodge it around a G1 or something. Doesn't anyone actually want my shitting money?!

Won't someone..

..think of the Octupii?

Ha!

I laughed so much in this article I had tears in my eyes! Scathing ignorant people with big words should be an olympic event...

We

We so need a new party. This 2-horse shit-fest is long dead. To quote Anti-Flag (quite out of context) "A choice between shit and shit is still shit".

I've not voted because I've never felt a representing voice, the Lib Dems being the closest but always giving off a sense of trying to prove themselves to be as good as the "big boys", which'll lead to them becoming the same most likely.

Screw it though, they're getting my vote next time. To quote Bad Religion: "How could hell be any worse"? What'll happen? A recession? War? Repression? Ha!

Also: Ms Blears. Fuck you. The "Violent Crime Reduction" Act re: Airsofting is a prime example of how the current regime would screw us all in thier never ending urge to legislate. Making a new law that mostly cripples a sport that was already covered by existing laws just so they could say "look, we aren't getting paid for nothing you know!"

No, you're getting paid to put us all in prison (read: fine us) if we don't want to be bossed around by a system we never chose.

I'm also marginally pissed that I accidentally completed Fallout 3. Thus bored.

Also

They make us wait for horrid console "port"s (a real port would require effort, unlike for instance, Star Trek Legacy which had some things you couldn't do becuase my keyboard doesn't have a shoulder button, fucking imbeciles)

Or things like Live which still have XBox button icons.

Or maybe that developers keep churning out shite?

Far Cry 2, Fallout 3, Spore, Dead Space, all great games, some I bought 2 of. For a friend.

They should make online sales cheaper, EA don't seem to understand this and think charging me the same for less (I don't get a box and manual to thumb through whilst sat atop the throne) will work.

Stardock have recieved a lot of my money for their excellent games and delivery system also.

Maybe it's just cannablism though, PC gamers moving to consoles rather than just "growing out" of it (see the Times' coverage of this story and my probably-excepted comments revoking games being for "spotty teenagers" until late)

There are some things that will just be annoying to do on consoles, like shoot accurately without auto-aim (which, when they don't take it out of the PC version, amkes for a ridiculously annoying 'feature').

Consoles will just be PCs with super-DRM and fiddly controls soon anyway.

You realise..

..that slating the Reg, then posting as AC won't actually stop the Reg people finding out who you are, if they want. Right?

:)

For all NASA know the core of the moon may well be cheese. Not entirely implausable that some ancient alien cheese transport got disabled, ended up being dragged into dust loud.. blah blah.

I don't care about apple and their gubbins, of course. But I'm sure somone who was waiting for that new thingamabob to come out to buy for christmas will be able to use the information..

@ Sam

"it shall forever be dull and grey and a shade too builtup...."

Having lived in Coventry for a few years until recently Brum is a rainbow :)

The parks in Cov are lovely though, I only wish Sheff had more. Walking to the Peaks and back is hassle. Probably.

I think

They should seriously consider a homogonised robot system. Rather than have one for flying one for swimming one for butrrowing and all that. Who want's to find themselves in a pinch and have the OTHER kinds of robots for the job they wanted?

Take five distinct robots into the shower? Not me.

Typo

"from a rack and then open it to fix it, you can't appreciate you much of a pain in the neck this is"

How much of a pain this is?

Unless I am personally being used to quantify amounts or something? Not impossible..

Friday, yay!

The benefit of all-in-ones..

..is not that you can have one remote in your living room. It's so you can have 4 remotes in your living room that all do the same thing.

I hate it when people put the remote by the TV.

OH LOOK, YOU JUST NEGATED IT, GOOD JOB!

Erm

Doesnt the stand make it unweildy and table-requiring? Design fail perhaps.

Not quite..

Not quite the "we do what's best for the people" image the Co-op likes to sell. Which is a shame, it'd be nice to see someone not willing to screw people for profit. Sell contract to a typical company -> they see outsourcing profit opportunity -> jobs lost, service degrades, profit!

Fail.

No mention of..

Far Cry 2? Why can't we get to see a System Shock 3? Bioshock just seemed like a pale imitation..

Imagine..

Being an alien scientist, receiving this huge data stream one day, then rushing to decode it. To understand what these new aliens have to say..

Then reporting to the Alien President (or whatever) the decoded information. Some banal drivel from youths who want to act (but can't be bothered to use correct punctuation or grammar when sending THE FIRST FUCKING MESSAGES TO A POTENTIALLY INTELLIGENT SPECIES) and doubtless some who say "I don't know what to put here, huur!"

You never know your luck though, they might come here and offer > 90 IQ humans a chance to colonise other worlds. Worth the cost of cryogenic insurance I think.

Did they think to include some sort of dictionary at least? Not Alien-English obviously.. but for their reference.

They'd need

..to cover the whole interior with towels and/or plastic lining. Probably dangerous.

Also, very likely a poorly-aimed shot would ruin some other passengers flight. And for £200k you'd want your flight to be low-flying-jizzum free.

That.

Is a remarkably lovely cat.

Commentably lovely?

I think..

This should actually be listed under "Rise of the Machines"

Sofwar

Managemen

and others..

Cisco supercomputers gaining sentience, start by restructuring simple words under the guise of an accident, subliminally sending us signs to go to war and that it wants to control humanity.

Probably engineered the credit crunch too.. get us at each others' throats!

Hmm

Why was my comment not allowed? I think one of the mods (inexplicably) has it in for me..

It was entirely on topic! (AFAIR)

@Wow!

3 megapixel videos aren't worth the bother, and I don't see what's ugly about it. A screen and some buttons. The button decals do look a bit 80's.. but considering it'll be covered by your thumbs, pressed agaisnt your face or in your pocket, not really a bother. The back should be pretty though. And the interface. That's where prettiness counts.

> 1 Memory slots would be nice. And the list I usually go on about relating to phones.

WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE USERS!? :)

Erm

The article says "zero emissions", the car says "hybrid", lack of exhaust seems to imply the former. Do other languages use Hybrid interchangeably with ZE?

All I care about..

.. is how long it takes the Reg to get one. Will this be the phone I've been waiting for? (Read: will version two of this be the phone I've been waiting for?)

I was thinking

just last night playing Spore

"What would happen if we joined teh galactic community and a race already had a planet called 'Earth'"? [Or something very similar]

Sol 3?

Some standardised galactic reference grid? I'm sure other races name thier stars sexier than our "M0343" or whatever (I think M may be galaxies though..)

We on't have enough words for all this stuff, we're just making it eaier to converse about before it becomes a big issue. Unlike Stargate characters, real people don't find it very easy to remember 8+ digit numbers in reference to it [after hearing it once]

Makes them easier to find in wikipedia too :)

Erm..

The EV1 could get 50-70 miles per charge, that was years ago

http://www.ev1.pair.com/charge_across_america/charge_html/faqs.html

Perhaps its the inclusion of the heavy petrol engine that is decreasing its range?

No production til 2010? So.. just designing it to look environmentally friendly, then lease not sell them and recall and crush them again?

We can do better than this, I'm sure. And they better stick a solar panel on top, there is no real reason not to.