Posts by stucs201

Composite of multiple images, using the parts which don't have a robot arm holding the camera in the way.

Re: Anyone else having trouble with the latest batch of Office updates?

Cheers, I'll give that a try later.

Re: only useful reason for a sensor to have a higher dynamic range

Until we also get screens with higher dynamic range (which is what the article was about). Yes you'll still have to map it back down if for printing, but that's not what we're discussing here.

Re: Just wondering

Or in many cases the names we know famous people by are the alias. I've got a friend who has done a small amount of TV work - the name she uses for that isn't the same as the real one that's on her passport.

Taking one of the examples from this article I'd be far from surprised if Natalie Portman's passport still says Neta-Lee Hershlag (the name she was born with according to Wikipedia). I can't actually be bothered to look up the leaked data though.

Re: "A game's data was stored on cartridges."

I think you're closer to being right than the article is. However I'm not sure there was any 'game data' as such, just bits of hard-wired circuitry which could be connected or not to enable or disable various behaviours of the moving squares. It seems that the games were at least as much defined by the overlays, the rule book and the players willingness to stick to those rules as by the console and its cards.

Looking forward to when it actually gets to Breakaway from Earth, but first they need to get to the 54321 stage.

Re: pastry horns

Pie Factory in Tipton by any chance? Although I've had worse I was disapointed that even a self-declared pie specialist doesn't make proper fully cased pies.

Their steak and kidney pudding with proper suet pastry is a much better choice, and also a quid cheaper than the 'not really a pie'.

Re: Yes, yes, there's a hilt...

I though it was just me. The shape is one thing, but the blades themselves just don't quite look right, to flame/electric-arc like. Seems to appear rather quickly too. I'm wondering (hoping) if this isn't actually a lightsaber at all, but some other variant of energy sword.

re: people wanting to work

More likely people quite happy to have a break, but wanting it to be known they have a good excuse for slacking off.

Re: "Tea....Earl Grey, hot"

Well this explains the multi-coloured food cube things in the original series. Much easier than a cup of tea.

Re: Surely there were more appropriate films to use?

Pitch Black? First part is the brightest film I've ever seen.

Re: BIDDY BIDDY BIDDY...

Twiki, a proper positronic brained Asimov robot (at least according to the series which also had Crichton (who wouldn't make this list being TV only, and not in the feature length film pilot - I guess this is also the reason for the ommision of the similarly named Kryton).

Re: Sorry

My first thought too when I first heard of the C5 - why would anyone name their car after Clive's electric buggy?

Re: fat vs terrorism

I think you've found the problem: A significant fraction of terrorists disaprove of bacon sandwiches (*)

(*) Note: not the same as saying that disliking bacon sandwiches makes you a terrorist.

Re: Rockstar boffin Brian Cox?

Indeed. You have to go for the other musical Brian (May) to find a rock star astrophysicist .

Re: The box

And then they collect the box and give it to someone else who does not know you.

Re: Ah well

More than that. I was probably going to get a graphics card upgrade and buy a joystick too.

Really wanted this, but not with an online requirement (I went against my better judgement for Diablo3 and regretted it).

Re: Should have included some buttered toast on the feet

If you really want it to stick then forget butter - try marmite.

Re: What's a female BOFH?

Bitch Operatrix From Hell

Re: "land on comet and return science"

I just always thought of the goo as green. Green seems like the best colour for goo.

Either that or its a sign it's too long since I played it.

Re: ooh, it all sounds lovely...

Actually I think the phone is an electronic swiss army knife. However as with the knives some of their features work better than others. The primary purpose (phone calls/folding pocket knife) are unsurprisingly fine to use as a primary device. Some of the extras are fine too - my swiss army knife makes a fine bottle opener, just as a phone works well enough for many people as an mp3 player. Trying to use a phone as a replacement for a full PC though seems more like the equivalent of using the saw or chisel on a swiss army knife - possibly workable for small jobs if you have nothing else availble, but not something I'd want to do all the time if I had larger, better tools available.

Re: Actually...

Footfall. Which had the alien ship be an unusual hybrid of generation ship and sleeper ship, with the crew therefore comprised of a mixture of sleepers and space-born.

Re: in the past they have had a a upgrade unit

Not always. I've just finished watching Tomb of the Cybermen (Dr 2). The end shot is of a partially converted (one arm) person, who 2 minutes earlier was apparently flesh and blood (but had been briefly under cyber control and had his fear disabled). That to me looks more like an infection or nanotech conversion than it does a putting in a conversion unit and physically adding armour upgrade.

Re: So "about to" is actually a few million years, right?

On the timescale of a star's lifetime - yes a few million years is "about to". Just as "next month" would be a long time for a mayfly.

Re: where did I put that Raspberry Pi

Wrong fruit. It's warm apple pie for that...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8L3_I4SW2I

Re: We know Danny survives

Unless Clara is already up the duff...

Re: Strange thing is...

You've just not found it yet - remember Rule 34...

Re: There are much better alternatives to iPod

That would be a viable alternative, if I had a USB socket on my car's stereo. However I don't, neither did my previous car. In both cases the car has a fairly basic unit, which isn't designed to have anything connected to it except a CD changer - the iPod is connected via a 3rd party box (hidden behind the dash) which makes the iPod look like a CD changer to the stereo.

Obviously I could replace the stereo with something actually designed to handle MP3s or an external player, but I'd rather have something standard looking in their than something lit up like a christmas tree (which most aftermarket units seem to be).

Re: Battery life-weight trade-off

Once upon a time some manufacturers did do this, e.g. the ancient Samsung A300 flip phone:

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_a300-260.php