Posts by Haku

Re: CFL

I've been experimenting with LED lighting, in this case those 5 meter 300x 5050 sized LED strips that are great for whole room lighting once installed right (pointing at the walls/ceiling instead of directly down works well).

I found that the normal white LEDs are too 'cold' and blue in colour whilst the 'warm white' ones are almost too yellow, but if you use an equal mix of the two types you get a really nice daylight-ish white. Throw in some dimming circuitry and you can fade between the two types of white to get the 'perfect' blend.

@thefutureboy

I also own that double pack DVD set, only watched TBB2000 once, which was one too many times

My brother managed to buy the original film without the abomination sequal, we both love TBB and he hasn't (luckily) seen TBB2000 and I will not ever subject it to him, ever.

P.S. Orange whip?

Re: Painful

Forget about the flowers, think of the poor defenseless light bulbs!

Re: "Mr Shatner was not above making jokes at his own expense"

Ah, yeah, sorry about that I forgot just how racy the roasts can get :)

The full roast is an hour longer and very funny.

Re: TSA fun continues

I dare you to print out your next boarding pass on an industrial sized plotter.

Re: no no no...

Prior art - lexigram keyboards, created for primates to interact with researchers.

Re: Still accessible for me

I'm confused about the timing though, the blog post on Be saying they were going to comply with the order overnight was dated 6th June, today is 7th June so shouldn't it have happened already?

@Andrew James

You make an interesting and valid point, so far he has been the champion of the consumer as that's what he has been, but now he has some 'real' money he's going to see another side of the banks and investment industry, which hopefully he'll use it to his advantage and do some investigating and reporting.

The tablet would need to run Windows as there are some programs I use on my Asus Eee's that just do not exist on other OSs and there are no equivilants that do the same job.

Re: mercedes are trialling LED headlights

Car-to-car comms could be used to find out traffic conditions ahead of you; average speed, density of vehicles, traffic jams, roadworks, roads closed (signs could put out their own signal) etc. by cars automatically transmitting data to each other.

But a significant amount of cars would need to have the system installed for it to be any use.

@Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse

Watch this and tell me he wasn't just an actor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsSdLD_YodQ

Re: LEGO

Well if we're going down the pronouciation route, try asking an American to say "solder"...

Re: Prince

Thank you for your confirmation of my oddness :)

Re: Petrol, pasties, granny tax, caravan tax...

You know those 2012 predictions where people think this year is going to be the end of civilisation? I don't think they're far off actually, it looks like the beginning of the end of being civilised.

Re: Resellability affects perceived value.

Totally agree.

If you spend £40-£60 on a new game and you really enjoy it then you'll likely to keep it and feel you got your monies worth, but if you don't like it very much you can sell it to recoup some of your investment and you (hopefully) won't have lost too much money in the process.

However if you spend £40-£60 on a new game which cannot be re-sold and you discover you don't like it then you're less likely to buy new games in the future for fear that you'll just waste your money again, even if you try & like the demo it doesn't mean the entire game will be as fun - just look at movie trailers compared to the actual films.

@Crisp

I tried but it overshadowed the leaflet campaign line, the best I came up with was:

"The Committee for the Lynching of Innocent Taxpaying Organisms and Removal of their Internet Serivce"

Re: I must like shit movies then

<AOL> ME TOO! </AOL>

and Double Fine Adventure

They were the first to break the $3m barrier on Kickstarter.

Re: Seems different

Iris projected imaging has been around for a while and is still being worked on, some guy recently took a Microvision ShowWX (pico projector that uses RGB lasers), added a very thick optical filter and projected the image straight onto his retina:

http://hackaday.com/2012/04/09/projecting-video-directly-onto-the-retina/

I wonder if the Google Goggles will use a retina projection technique, it'll mean you can still see the image in daylight conditions.