Posts by Barticus

'Facehat?'

More like Asshat.

Re: What lax security?

2nd paragraph...

The patient had apparently overheard the login information from a member of staff.

Re: Linux users.....

If you've ever frequented the Humble Bundles you'd know that out of Windows, Mac and Linux, the Linux users are the biggest payers by far.

There be a bridge over there. Get under it!

Re: Hmm

With you all the way on Minecraft and indie games.

For me, The Humble Bundle has always delivered quality games (with the emphasis heavy on the gameplay), on lots of platforms, without DRM, for a set-your-own-price fee...and you get more if you pay over the average (£6.50 / $10 always covers it for me). What's not to like?

<-- For Ubisoft, obviously.

Re: So they cut some corners? There is patent for that!

Shirley that should be 'rounded' some corners?

1:1 Airfix model...

Didn't James May have a (sorta successful) go at that?

Did anyone else read that as...

...my wife's ol'n'ugly Norkias. Bit unfair I thought.

Sorry...no, its not the one with all the iPhones on it.

William the Conquerer?

I think Sun Tzu was recommending that approach way earlier.

Something unproven is a theory until proved...

A hypothesis is a proposition that attempts to explain a set of facts in a unified way. It generally forms the basis of experiments designed to establish its plausibility.

A scientific law is a hypothesis that is assumed to be universally true. A law has good predictive power, allowing a scientist (or engineer) to model a physical system and predict what will happen under various conditions.

A theory is a set of statements, including laws and hypotheses, that explains a group of observations or phenomena in terms of those laws and hypotheses. A theory thus accounts for a wider variety of events than a law does. Broad acceptance of a theory comes when it has been tested repeatedly on new data and been used to make accurate predictions.

Theories aren't facts. Theories don't get proved right...a good one just doesn't get proved wrong for a long time.

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I was thinking more along the lines of...

'There's a Mr Grim here....he's come about the reaping'.

Why?

From the video it looked like he was using a standard mouse to control Fallout...so why should he have to pay through the nose to get a 'special controller' when he can obviously use a standard one.

EA are terrible at writing control customisation code. Case in point...when I bought BF2142 and found that it didn't save my mouse button customisations I complained...only to be told that 'its been that way since the first Battlefield game'...WTF?! EA really need to get themselves some programmers that actually know how to program.