Posts by MJI 6874 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Mar 2009
Cheating
A common one I found was glitching off the map and sniping from a distance. I once got a really good kill streak along with a Medic with revive, hiding under cover from the glitchers, catching them as they attempted to glitch from their spawn.
I died once (thanks Medic) but ruined their cheating game.
I am glad that idea has been dropped as I see no reason why my backups should pay for some randon band. Why my holiday videos (on DVD or now BluRay) should funda random film.
And so on.
It could be terrible, I could end up funding Wand Erection or silent C as in Rap.
Or bad fan fiction films of Twilight.
Obsolescence
My previous CRT woul dhave been obsolete after DSO, but I sold it to a Sky user for £50, not bad for a 10 year old CRT.
This an expensive TV with superb picture quality, flat WS tube with arperure grill, and a rather good digital tuner.
The manufacturer kept it well supported for 5 years, dealing with BBC scrrew ups on service numbers, Ondodgy CAM support £3 PM for 15 channels.
Eventually HD called too hard.
But just after I sold it I found it was not DSO compliant.
Anyway the replacement was trying to be smart, runs Linux, but AFAIK not updated recently, smart was view photos via USB, but no problems there, nice easy menu, resembles the same companies games console at the time, also why I wanted HD.
So for smart features lets look at what is plugged into the TV, a games console with BluRay playback, and LOTS of streaming services, recently joined by its replacemment model.
So the semi smart TV is not updated, but the slightly older box is still updated,
Hmmmm
Now Andriod.
Not sure if I would want it on a TV. My TV riuns Linux fine, my PVR runs Linux fine, both have decent enough UIs and no involvement from 3rd parties.
The consoles run forks of BSD, but have lots of support and supported applications, applications running from 50GB games to BBC IPlayer.
So my advice is ignore the TV Smart features and plug in a decent Freeview.HD / Freesat HD PVR
and a well supported games console.
Why games consoles?
PLENTY of support.
Plenty of grunt.
Not likely to get plug pulled as there are 10s of millions out there.
A couple of MPs chatting
"Well I liked the BBC coverage of F1 but they stopped doing it live."
"I know, and I really liked Outcasts but they pulled that."
"I can't stand The Voice."
"Yeah they got rid of F1 to pay for that rubbish."
"Oh well at least the next series of Atlantis will be good, they will be on the Argo."
"Haven't you heard?"
"What?"
"BBC Cancelled it."
"So they cancel my favourite sport, a fun fantasy series and an interesting SciFi series?"
"Yes. And now the shocker."
"Chris 'Ginger Twat' Evans is taking over Top Gear."
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Why do we need the BBC?"
"Exactly."
But you have the important ECU for the engine, and that is it.
Anyway who cares about the windows and the like when you have a fun engine under the bonnet.
For the people who do not understand here goes.
Apart from ECUs failing (buy a spare coded to your injectors) only a crank sensor can stop the engine.
Yes the engine looms may seep oil (keep a spare injector loom) sometimes the injector seals leak, (keep spares). But there is not much to stop his Land Rover. And it has a modern engine with excellent performance.
Oh and I paid as much for my late Discovery 2 as some people paid for Discovery 3s. My car is easier to work on and has less electronic gumpf to go wrong and I still have at least 5 ECUs!
I did run a routine to see what could be installed, but too many games will not run on 8.x/10 according to it. (eg Half Life) Also something missing from the CPU.
I _PAID_ for XP Pro on my PC, it still works well after a full rebuild a few years ago with a quad core CPU.
My PC still works fine, apart from Linux I have to buy an OS AGAIN, but I have paid for an OS and the one I have works.
So people think I have to abandon paid for games, working PC hardware, for OSes which are strange (8.x and 10) or near end of life (7), or require all software replaced (Linux).
Well I am going to see who long my PC lasts with firewall, AV, and being carefull, off site backups of any important data and see where it goes.
I have been burnt by paying for OSes, deliberate EOL, removal of too many features, so stuff it Mint here I come. Oh and carry on the WINE experiments.
The point of these Subarus is for driving on crap surfaces with a road oriented car.
They are good at what they are, they are not proper offroaders, but much better cars than the softroaders.
If you are driving on tracks and loose surfaces but not tackling deep mud they are ideal.
This is a car for country vets.
And people do not think you are a cock.
Oh and where is the WRX version?
An example I know of.
Troll picks on hardcase.
Hardcase finds trolls real ID
Troll gets warning phonecall and his real ID spread over the afflicted sites.
Troll stops trolling as his wife bollocks him.
And the question is
How the hell did he manage to get a wife!
Because I did not know what it had done, so I looked it up on the internet, on a PC with a working network connection.
You see not everyone is an expert in operating systems, to me they are a tool, and nothing else, as long as they do not annoy me (and many do) and I can run what I like I am happy.
But I have been working in the world of Xbase now for around 30 years.
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