Posts by Martin Lyne

I..

.. have long been a trekkie and all round sci-fi fan, but managed not to see the original trilogy until I was about 16, whereby I was thoroughly disappointed. Luke being a girly, boring hero. The newer films were interesting but not great. More lightsabre fights = win.

Rather watch Babylon 5 (minus Crusade which managed to look worse than it's parent series and also shun most of the races and lore for lacklustre weekly monster tripe)

Jedis are the best and most salvagable element of Star Wars, some of the games are great..

What was I doing again?

Listen closely

Schools -> Evidence based theories

Churches -> Crap that people though up and refer to "faith" as the proof of.

You can tell me as many times as you want that we can't ever know something, but we should still believe it, and I will still tell you to shut up and come back when you have something that doesn't require an imaginary, unknowable creature to validate it.

Bad for 2 reasons

1) Obvious SkyNet/Matrix/IDon'tWantToDieAtTheColdMetallicHandsOfASoullessRob't

4) In the interim, where they obey their masters those masters will use them for war atrocities and protecting the elite while fleshy (and therfore persuadable) people will be phased out. First they'll blame "glitches", then they'll tell you to shut up unless you want a robofist in your face. Preemptively squashing proletariat uprisings.

AI might be good for future RTS games though.

QUEL SUPRISÉ!

There is no justice in this world. If I go to great lengths to make a site conformant to standards then IE puts a goddamned broken page next to it I'm going to fornicate someone with a rusty garden imlement.

Everyone should stay detecting IE browsers and boycotting IE users with a "Please use a stands compliant browser such as Firefox or Opera found at.." message, then display a giant picture of a middle finger instead of the intended page.

Another

attempt to get us all to re-buy our collections. I think NOT.

Credit crunch.. but buying the Rambo box set in BluRay is more important than feeding my proverbial kids.

Stupid greed, pure and simple. Only real market it has is people who own a PS3 and no dvd player (buying a £15 DVD player would still be more cost effective on the initial purchase compared to just getting BR films)

Or am I missing something? Does Blue-Ray make you feel like you can actually lick the sweat from the make-up-filled pores of the actors? Is that worth money?

Surely..

If someone hired me to consult for them and I told them Company X made bad software, that's legit.. but if McAfee do it then it's willfulling hurting a business?

I think doing stupid things in the first place is what wilfully hurt the business. Case closed shithead.

Even the adverts

show hollywood's lack of hummus.

The new orange one showing in cinemas? Rob Lowe pitching a film that's not only a remake.. but a remake of a film from 30 years ago. The actors in it aren't even dead yet!

Is it unwitting satire? A sad testimony?

Oh and how is someone unfamiliar with something meant to write up a story about it?

Some guy does stuff with ajax, gets paid too much money for it, adds bitch on to sentences and realises he can't make money back from it. The end.

Dull!

Make Hackers 3

So

Would that stop rusting if adapted for use on metallics?

Does it do anything to stop water leaking through fibres? A gooey spray might fill small gaps, wheras this sounds like it wouldn't.

Still.. FREAKING COOL.

Let's all pretend..

..that historic naval life was not like this at all. Sanitised history is CORRECT history.

Pirates killed raped and pillaged, but they wstill appear in kidds books as just lovable characters. We need to harden our kids. SHOW THEM THE UNDERBELLY!

Can we..

get it to hit the moon and give us a pretty ring around Earth?

As for nuking it.. yeah.. we'll slightly irradiate it and THEN it'll crash into us.

Can't we just build a magnifying glass (but not glass, as that'd be a nightmare to shunt up) and focus some sun onto it (the whole of it, not a part of it).

Same sort of idea as the paint/mylar, but we'd also have some cool giant sun-focussing thing afterwards SO WE CAN SOLAR POWER OUR NEW MOON BASES!

Ha, I fucking hate that humankind is so backwards. The first person to mention "cost" of a potential planet-saver should be shot. Or better yet, shot AT the asteroid. Deflecting disaster one idiot at a time..

Mine's the one with a stasis pod, ion engine and an EeePC with Homweworld installed.

Re: "Runnng Vista"

I hope you plan on it being 64-bit, otherwise you're going to have a small* amount of wasted capacity..

* Fuckloads

As an aside though.. my Vista Ultimate runs just dandy on 2Gb, 8800GT, Q6600. No game settings can slow it down (Same can't be said for some java apps though)

What slows Vista down is.. all the goddamn pops, 2 for making a new folder. I'M A GODDAMN ADMIN!

Isn't..

..this just the rich-man's equivalent of domain squatting? Only with PHRASES.

Head-in-the-cloud computing™?

So..

Could we add a further graphics card to boost performance? Or woudl that slow things down or be entirely unsupported?

Just curious.

So..

You're willing to defend this practise becuase it adds safety. Would it not make more sense just to.. improve the QA procedure instead?

No refunds, no faff, just release to beta testers first, then to general public. If need be tell the user that the application they have installed may do this or that which is "bad", let the user decide.

Temporarily locking an app remotely that warns a user of the issue and then allows them to unlock it at their own risk maybe? Does it not make sense?

I know a person

that gets to fire lasers at fullerenes. With some sort of £100k laser (but it's in a box, not fired from the hip, sadly)

Re: "It's never going to degrade": If it's tough enough not to get damaged or at least, vapourised, then I'm not too worried. Plus I can programme it to defend me against the Grey Goo™ or something. I'm sure they'll throw in some nanites for self-repair.

If they start making it into Depleted Uranium-esque tips for tank shells, however, then we may have an issue. Because DU's 4.5 BILLION YEAR HALF-LIFE isn't an issue. ANd that's not being vapourised against the side of armour. Oh wail.. Unless you're just worried because it might be a risk *specifically to you*? How noble.

While we're on the topic of Buckys, anyone think they should remake Bucky O'Hare? But, like, for adults.

I for one..

..welcome our new man-munching, alternate-universe-dwelling reptillioid overlords.

Alternatively, I welcome our bespectacled, lab-coated, flop-sweat-generating, poindexter overlords.

(No, I actually read New Scientist and love scientists, so I am well aware they make scientists in the sexy female model nowadays, too.)

Are..

..they expected to be able to correctly spell "Criminology" on thier CVs? Or is it just meant to be a padding degree where they never get jobs? If i was reading a CV and they had left typos in - bin.

If you're about to say "But they would pay more attention when writing a CV" then THEY SHOULD PAY ATTENTION WHEN DOING THEIR/THERE/THEY'RE/THAR/THUR DEGREE!

I loved the way my maths lecturer corrected my borked roman numeral page headings (It was an accidnet, on the second set I had only one sheet of paper, accidentally wrote 1 and didn't want to cross it out for neatnesses sake.. so I went with II, it went squiffy at 7 I think. VII or IIIX?)

More pedants, less "I can't be bothered to mark things" professors.

Oh and less people that say "think" instead of "thing", Somethink? TELL ME THEN, WHAT *DO* SOME THINK?

*Pants, breathes, trousers*

Aliens would learn English proper.

@ Surfacing?

Submarines?

Could it relate to...

..the godawful adverts currently showing at Odeons (and probably others)

I've seen it 4 times and still can't understand half of the dialoge or, indeed, the point. MARKETING FAIL.

I choose...

to abstain.

Fuckwit A or Fuckwit B? Hmm..

We know politicians don't do most of what they promise, employ complete retards like Ms Blears (airsofter around the UK will know and loathe her for attempting to destroy our hobby because, clearly, plastic guns incite "Violent Crime". Cue massive rise in knife crime regardless. GOOD JOB!

I'd like to see more referendums about important stuff (you know, where I actually get a say not where I choose once in a blue moon who makes stupid decisions for me) and ministers who know *something* about what they are put in charge of Politics degree, years of political underlingitude != "I can make defence policy now!"; Pointless legislation that merely restates other existing legislation, banning public protests (becuase the MPs don't want to have to drive AROUND the commoners in their motorcade to go down the road to their 4th house, they might TOUCH one and catch MRSA)

Oh but yeah, they give me a sticker. I'll vote now.

But seriously.. why isn't there an Abstention tick box? I want them to know that I think all the options are abominations. Perhaps the Monster Raving Loonies are a good choice, at least they're honest.

Companies. Are. Stupid.

How to make a great phone:

Take a K800i and add..

- 2 memory slots so when you upgrade you don't have to just replace the old one.

- A Male USB pull-out cord thing so you can interface with computers without carrying extra gubbins

- A less annoying "I didn't have a dictionary reference for the thing you just tried to type in"

- Wi-Fi

- Ability to share Phone internet with a computer (reading on a small screen is hard)

- A laser keyboard so you can prop it up and bash a text out instantly. Maybe.

- GPS (optional)

Any thing that doesn't have at least 4 of those things added on from prior models is a waste of money. If I'm upgrading I want it to be WORTH THE HASSLE. After reading the 950 horror stories and seeing 2 N95s fall apart I'm sticking to my K800i for now.

Sony Ericsson, I love your phones, just make them good rather than slightly-different-with-a-new-quirk.

I don't know about you..

.. but I'm fairly use it's Violent Game PROTESTERS that encourage me into massive, violent rages.

And parents that buy kids games with OVER EIGHTEEN ONLY plastered on the front.

Did Pong inspire a generation of Ping-Pongers? How many plumbers do we see nowadays trying to rescue princesses from apes, I ask you. NONE.

If you are susceptible to imitating a computer game then either you (being over 18) should be destroyed or your parents (if you are under 18) should be informed of their error and destroyed.

I don't know whether to laugh, cry or 'jack a car and stab someone..

Hmm

RObots fighting robots each with partial autonomy controlled by several human interactees.

Does this sound like Total Annihilation/Supreme Commander to anyone else? Granted, we aren't fighting for resources on alien planets. Just ours.

We'll have robots on the ground and robots in the air to protect the robots on the ground, presumably you won't even need soldiers to go in and secure a region once it's been attacked, you can just send in bureaucrats to begin signing reconstruction deals with the natives.

For all the comments on intelligence..

..the spelling in most of the comments is bloody atrocious. Freedom to question (i.e., without being burnt as a heretic) is surely a factor? Admittedly, increased intelligence might have been the cause of the releasing of constrictions and inquisitions.

But then we all know religion is a power-tool, so perhaps intelligent people just don't want to be manipulated so they do what you can when given new inquisitive freedoms and destroyed the control mechanism (albeit, personally).

If you think "God" put fossils in the ground to "make us question" then, I'm afraid, you are massively deluded. Occam's razor.

3 billion quid

£2,999,999,500,000 on PR and consultants

£500,000 on equipment.

How much would providing decent buses cost?

Christ, that's enough money to put a massive dent on world poverty or probably coving the whole of Manchester in solar panels! I actually feel sick.

A half-arsed forced-car-share would work better probably, costing considerably less.

Joke because.. well, please tell me it can't actually cost that much. Value for money anyone?