Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon

Re: Saw it last night at the BFI London IMAX

+1 for "gawk holes"

This is a very thorny subject, prone to misinterpretation (both deliberate and accidental).

What about the threat of Sharia Law which would seek to remove a lot of our freedoms?

Do we allow it to be promoted unhindered (total free speech) to the point where it becomes normal and so no longer have total free speech.

Or do you try and curtail it (limited free speech) in order to prevent total free speech from being lost (which it already has - but you still have some i.e. paradox).

We *have* been too tolerant of those wishing to undermine our way of life by importing alien cultural influences into our island nation en-masse in my opinion.

I have no problem with immigration, but if someone comes to this country then they should adopt this country's ways - not seek to destroy them in favour of their own cultural habits.

The problem is that government (and more usually - councils) tend to take a foot should you give them an inch. These kind of proposals of restriction are dangerous and need to be closely monitored by an external, independent, oversight body (that is also not exempt from FOI).

Re: Who killed them?

I blame the baryonic photino birds - ftw!

"I am not a dumbass"

Well, perhaps he would convince me if he made his clients take a polygraph about being undercover cops *before* training them.

Arrogance is a gateway crime apparently.

Re: 1980's tech

tcp/ip - don't you mean http?

Re: Not seeing an issue

so where is the 'Windows 10 Secure' version? That's the only one I would be even remotely interested in.

I might be a bit out of touch but I wish games developers/publishers would focus more on Linux. Perhaps someone could start up a project to develop a 'standard gaming' variant to make life simpler for the developers. Kickstarter?

Bargain...sign me up.

Re: Exploding Kittens

100% agree. It will probably resemble the event horizon of a black hole.

Agreed. I read "It doesn't help that the younger characters – who are supposed to be intelligence agents – come across more like Johnny English than James Bond." and I thought it was a true representation of the slide into mediocrity that our education systems seems to be on (or passed and well on the way to digging to new levels depending on who you vote for).

Re: Styling

I've always thought that to help reduce congestion on the roads that trucks should be allowed a 'booster' button that can be used once every 30 mins (or whatever is deemed most efficient) in order to be able to quiclly pass another truck and get back into the inside lane - especially useful on dual carriageways I would think.

The number of times you see a tail-back forming behind two lorries trying to out-drag one another isn't funny.

Re: Serious question

"Perhaps some of the more techie guys here can show me where to look?"

Are you just looking at inbound stuff? You really need to be looking for outbound stuff.

Pick some times when you know you won't need your net connection and lock the firewall/router down during that period and log all the traffic attempts (whilst your machine is connected of course and not running anything that you initiated).

Then sift through the stuff you find with a packet analyser for anything dodgy looking and investigate what it is.

Alternate exercises include the use of a conical bath made of ebony and some white sand - but that's really only for experienced network analysts :)

Problem description

I always liked "Chair to Keyboard Interface Error"

Re: Not necessarily thick...

Considering how widespread internet access is these days there is not much excuse for not self-educating.

Re: @ MGJ

For some reason The Truman Show sprang to mind when I read all that - How will it end?

Re: Background

"Genuine question, what do I realistically need to have seen to watch this film?"

This isn't a sequel to My Left Foot you know :)

Re: So in summary

Also of note in this presentation was that the original site (reportedly a government site although we have no proof of that) was running a default password on the back end server, which was also handily stored in a backup folder in plain text.

Re: We all live in a yellow subroutine

The principles behind it could prove of benefit to 3d-engines though.

Imagine specific code for 'rocky terrain' based on machine learning using a large batch of 2d pictures as the source material - you'd never see the same rock twice.

Repeat for all other types of terrain, mix them up with some basic rules about what goes next to what and what that should look like and you can build a unique planetary landscape. Add in some villages/towns/cities/transport etc. and you could, in theory, add massive replayability to sand-box games by having a different world to play in every time you start a new game.

Or is that a bit ambitious?

Re: Randomly add frames

How about using some reversed audio for a particular sound effect?

eg. ID number spoken, reversed and blended into a sound effect for a wheel-cart going over a bump?

or what about a blacksmith hammering out an id number in morse code?

There are a number of opportunities available.

la la la I'm not listening

Re: Can't say I'm very sympathetic.

"Thank you for admitting you just like to buy lots of gimmicks"

You are welcome :) I could probably build a half-decent gaming rig from spare parts that are kicking around, let alone the near 10 year old Core-i7 sat gathering dust in the other room, or the two NUC's that are stuffed in a drawer waiting for me to do something useful with them :)

However, they won't quite deliver what I would want, because half the fun of a good gaming rig is overclocking the shit out of it without deafening yourself or flooding the place with de-ionised blue water :P

Once I get settled in my new house it will defintely be OR time, and new gfx card for the old gaming rig and an ssd and I will be cooking with binary bits :D

Re: Just because the US still have an outstanding number of wires on poles...

Not to mention Council workers digging up roads!