Posts by Thomas 4 1519 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009
They could all sign up for Meego....oh wait....
This is somewhat troubling news. My Nexus One is a faithful and solid little beastie - not the fastest but never crashes. My next phone will probably be a Nexus S. My first Android phone was the Motorola Milestone and the build quality was lacking to say the least. Not sure how well it will bode for Google's supposed flagship range if it's being made by the same people.
But the feel I got from the article was that everyone should stop making tablets because they'll only end up as inferior iPad clones. Is this really what we want? The iPod did a pretty good job of strangling diversity in the MP3 market, in no small part due to iTunes as well. If I asked you to name 3 prominent MP3/media players that weren't developed by Apple, you'd have to pause and think for a little bit.
Crap productss deserve to be consigned to the bargin bin of history but you shouldn't give up the race just because someone's in the lead.
"....and that'd be the Alec Guinness Obi-Wan, of course, and not the pale Ewan McGregor attempt from George Lucas' *Heinous Embarassment Trilogy*....."
I don't know why but I feel a deep spiritual kinship with you Rik. With regards to the Emperor coin, is that the original style of the Emperor? I hope its not the freakish make up disaster from the 3rd film that was supplanted in the Empire Strikes Back DVD release.....
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"Movie makers have always been vocal supporters of Blu-ray," he says “but when you have a guy like George Lucas saying you haven’t seen Star Wars until you’ve seen it on Blu-ray, you can’t ignore the message.”
Funny, George Lucas seems to be pretty good about ignoring messages, leastways those saying "Stop screwing around with the originals and give us a damn theatrical release."
It reminds me of the problem the Spacing Guild had with trying to navigate their huge ships through folded space. There were so many variables and the reaction times needed were astronomically fast - far beyond those of a human. As we lack melange on this planet, perhaps an entirely computer controlled system would be able to make the minute and fast navigation adjustments needed.
As we make our bold political statement by shovelling as many DVD players and flatscreens into the back of my mate's VW Golf. We shall send a message to the Halls of Parliament by mugging beaten up kids, setting fire to cars and burning down family owned businesses. Let our voices cry out in rage, although they'er slightly muffled as we're all wearing hoodies and scarves because we don't want to be recognised on CCTV.
Political disenchantment my arse.
I think these rights are being caused by people that have read Terry Pratchett's Jingo:
"'Dis is da Riot Act and if youse people don't dip-, disp-, dipsp-, go away, da Watch is allowed to use deadly force!"
"What was that you used just then?!"
"Dat was you helpin' da Watch." said Sgt Detritus.
"Sergent, were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood?" said Vimes.
"Nossir, just a warnin' shot inna head."
I'd give to people of impeccable moral standing, like 100,000 Daily Mail readers.
Why do I have the feeling that this "100,000 signatures" thing is going to be the punchline to a lot of jokes in the near future....
"How many Daily Mail readers does it take to waste countless hours in Parliament?"
I always gave a shit about Bullfrog. They were based just down the road from me in Guildford and I used to daydream as a teenager about playtesting for them one day, given the awesome games they put out: Syndicate, Theme Park, Magic Carpet, etc.
I couldn't give a flying f*** about the ungodly amorphous blob known as EA.
But hydrogen is fun. Hydrogen goes *boom*.
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Being serious for a moment, if you can't have a platform on the top of the balloon, you could launch from the side. From the top, it would look like a + sign, with strips bending downwards along the sides of the balloon. Three of the strips would have a weight on it equal to the plane, with the fourth holding LOHAN.
Can't say it really does on a smartphone. It may look cool having your icons stretching into the distance in your phone but unless you can actually reach through your touchscreen, there's naff all point to it. 3D TV on a phone will be distinctly underwhelming, given that it hasnt even taken off on larger screens and given the dearth of decent Android games in 2D, I fail to see many game developers taking advantage of 3D processing power.
The managing director of Foxconn was tragically killed today outside the Foxconn plant in China. Early reports suggest that he has been crushed to death by a robotic arm that was attempting the world's first recorded incident of "robot suicide". The arm has been offered theraputic programming and a firmware upgrade and should be back at work soon, once they've finished scrapping the managing director off him.
Currently on Virgin Broadband. My connection is as reliable as a party manifesto pledge during a recession. But I'm not worried because I have the ever helpful Virgin Support Centre on hand:
"Hmmm, is the router plugged into the mains sir?"
"Yes."
"Is it switched on, sir?"
<cue grinding teeth> "Yes."
"Have you plugged the router into the phone socket on the wall?"
"YES!"
"I'm sorry sir, I'll have to escalate your call to one of the senior team."
<cue 15 minute wait>
"Hello sir, is the little internet icon visible in the toolbar?"
<headdesk>
For the longest time as a child, I used to view computers as little more than glorified games machines. Oh, I'd sometimes type cheat programs in BASIC on my Amstrad but that's about as far as it got.
When my dad got his first PC, the pattern continued, with myself just playing a couple of games on it. Then one day I happened upon a tutorial for this weird thing called MS-DOS. It was confusing and terrifying but by the same token, oddly intruiging as well. I began poking around in different directories, learning how to move, copy and delete files using the command prompt. I even progressed to the arcane mysteries of creating custom config.sys and autoexec.bat files.
I was never blown away by Windows 3.x and only really started using it with the release of Windows 95. But I'll always be grateful to MS-DOS and that tutorial for showing me that there's more to computers than gaming.
If you really cannot hit something with a million rounds, try the newest invention from Metl Storm:
THE GRAVESTONE -
We decided that as a million rounds were not enough to guarantee killing your target, we melted down the bullets to form a lead slab with a very large surface area and weight. Simply helicopter the slab over your target and drop. The Gravestone is also the world's first fully resuable modern weapon system, assuming you don't mind the red smears.
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