Posts by Robin Baxter

Schoolboy scammer caught again

Re:Hmmmm

Its not hard to sell £250K of no exists tent goods online. Since you have the only overhead of running the website. its very very easy. Since you can price your goods lower than it would cost to buy them at whole sale totally under cutting competition. Any one can sell 250K of goods if your nearest competitor has to pay for a physical item and have staff to package and distribute said items where as you just set a fictional price for a fictional good and some numpty clicks Buy and you get the total cash paid to you as your profit.

Any one of us could do this just we have morals and a few brain cells.

Student expelled for high school Counter-Strike map

Oh Dear

Creating a map of a location you visit or use regularly is fun seeing a place you know well in a film or in a computer game is weird and fun. You can let your mind run free and enjoy it. I love watching the Americans napalm Canary wharf and London in the film “28 weeks later” this doesn’t mean I have any plans to do the same.

As mentioned above there are university courses where this is a requirement. The best map I ever played in a game base on a real world location was for Doom and it was Cambridge University. It was epic in scale and design turning a real world environment into a 3d representation in a game is no small task and the student should have been commended for his talent and creativity.

I have and did attempt to make a map of my secondary school as I thought it would be interesting and challenging but I eventually gave up due to lack of artistic talent.

Sadly this was a knee jerk reaction to the tragic events in at Vtech.

Man snaps up Sea Harrier on eBay

JSF is not the Typhoon

RE: Yeah, right .....

You have got the JSF mixed up with the Typhoon. The Eurofighter project is well behind and dated now where as the JSF project which is the Americans current replacement. The JSF has several iterations including a VTOL capable aircraft basic stealth capabilities along with Supersonic flight. The Typhoon is a multi role fighter bomber but predominantly a ground attack aircraft. My information might be a little old but the Typhoon is definitely not the Joint Strike Fighter which the UK is purchasing several aircraft and an obscene amount of money. Check out http://www.jsf.mil/ for details on the Joint Strike Fighter program.