Posts by Gordon861 339 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Jul 2009
Another vote for Guards Guards as the best newbie Discworld book to start with. It is a great introduction to the world and humour without really needing to know anything about the disc. I have lent copies to friends in order to get them hooked and it never fails.
As to the man himself, I met him once after queuing for hours in Kingston to get the new book signed, he will be greatly missed.
... the turtle moves ...
Does this mean all the porn blogs will now have questionnaires at the bottom of the page where you can answer questions about how the content made you feel.
Of course all this data is going to be recorded for the paper being written on the short term effects of internet porn. Is that scientific research?
The way around the CPU issue seems to be to turn down the depth of field slider, which seems to lower the detail at a distance rather than cause zombies to pop into existence when you get close.
TotalBiscuit on YouTube did a early review/test that showed it in action.
I'm running an i5-2500K, 16gb RAM, and a 980gtx across 5760x1080 res and I'm not having any problems so far.
I was thinking of one of these for general media use until I looked at the websites FAQ.
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http://www.linx-tablets.com/linx-faq.html
Can you add the tablets to a network?
No, they do not support domain joining so you wouldn't be able to add to a network
Can users drag and drop files onto the tablet from a PC/laptop?
No, it is not possible as the windows tablet cannot act as mass storage device like that. The windows tablets are essentially the same as a PC/laptop, just like if you connect two laptops via USB, they cannot read either or transfer files.
If the user wants to get files to their tablet, they should transfer to a USB key then use the OTG cable to connect to the tablet and copied them to the tablet or add them to a micro SD card and insert directly to the micro SD slot and copy to the tablet from there.
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This might make it a little difficult to get the files you want to play onto them, other than copying them one at a time. Although BitTorrentSync might solve this problem.
The FAQ also says that the Office365 sub is locked to the tablet only, so not installable elsewhere.
Perhaps after a while someone will produce a hack that will open these up more, or a Linux install that will allow more features people want?
What Steam/Valve should do is set up a system to allow you sell on any game in your library for a fixed $5 admin fee.
With the DRM allowing the game to be removed from your library and added to someone elses there should be few problems and they would make a fair bit of money on secondhand sales.
I was shown one a while back. Some drunk on a night bus was showing videos on his phone (pre-smartphones) and pretty much just shoved it in my face. It's not something you can unwatch.
It was lowres pixely, but not something I would ever want to see again, or think about if possible.
I think it used to be similar with the Emergency Planning in local authorities, but then they decided to get rid of the radios and aerials from the town halls and the radios.
I think they now plan to rely on mobile phones, which won't have a chance, and amateur radio which will also mostly be fried if a nuke hits.
Oh God now we are getting invaded by Anonymous PutinBots too.
Anything said by the RT channel needs to be looked at as if it has been supplied by FOX News, if not even worse as it is totally controlled by Moscow. Good write up of RTs MH17 coverage here http://www.interpretermag.com/rt-covers-the-shooting-down-of-mh17/
The Ukrainians have already said that they do not have any BUKs in the combat zone, why would they the rebels aren't flying planes. However multiple video footage has been uploaded of a BUK launcher in the rebel areas, located using things like Streetview to match up the locations.
Finally on the subject of the Spanish air controller, Spain has confirmed that he doesn't exist, and all the controllers at the Ukraine ATC are Ukrainian. 'Carlos' (I think that's the name) is a fiction that turned up a couple of times to post fake stories via Twitter.
Are you aware that you can remotely add/remove games etc from your devices via play.google.com without even having to plug them in?
Also if you use BitTorrentSync you could set up a master directory on your main PC/MAC and just copy/remove their movies/music there and again never have to touch their machines. Of course you could also do this on iPads too.
This may be a much better idea rather than having to hand over their machines to Mum/Dad every time something needs changing.
I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that I'll have to just replace my old NB100 Toshiba Netbook if I need something more up to date now.
But I have found that they still work great as a mobile backup device for digital photos when you are away from home. Every evening create a new directory and backup all you photos from the day to the machine whilst deleting the crap. That way if you lose your camera whilst out you still have a full copy of all your pics.
I don't understand why something similar to this isn't done with modern cars.
If a company like Ford (or similar) could get every car driver to upload data regarding the running of their engines. It could allow them to tweak engine management systems depending on real world data instead of just doing a 'one size fits Europe' setup.
There is also no reason why the key couldn't remap the system instead of having to go back to a dealer for the work too.
"Prime Minister David Cameron has told Brits to "boycott" websites that allow trolls and bullies to publish reams of nasty abuse and threats with wild abandon."
So from tomorrow the Daily Mail website will be banned then ?
It might actually increase teh average IQ of the country if they did ban it.
Instead what we need are Smart boxes that connect to the HDMI socket with a pass through so you don't waste the slot.
If you can get the Smart boxes down to a reasonable price there is no reason people won't replace them each year as a newer (hopefully better) version is released.
TV companies should concentrate on producing very good screens that will accept various external inputs and leave the Smart stuff to the people that understand it.
So Nokia have developed a phone mic that is perfect for making bootleg recordings of concerts etc, and they are now suing HTC so that only their phone is able to make these recordings.
I assume the music industry and film industry will now be suing Nokia for producing tools to copy their content.
Perhaps now would be a good time for someone from El Reg to contact Stephen Frys people to see about an interview. It might clear the air and maybe get him to realise that if he puts him self over as a font of all knowledge and gets it wrong he probably does more harm than good.
I thought HTC said when they launched the One X and One S that they would be simplifying their range of phones so you could see which one was the higher end without needing to know the details of each phone.
I didn't realise that simplify meant calling every damn phone they release 'One'.
We don't need Smart TVs that will be obsolete in 6 months, a small set-top (or behind/under/wherever the set) box is a better solution.
If you want to add a camera for Skype into the TV, fine but make it able to feed into the USB of the external box as a webcam.
This way when there is a OS upgrade, or a new 'next big thing' you can just upgrade the box or replace it.
All I want from a TV is a good quality display and a ton of usable inputs/outputs.
I expect the next evolution of this tech will be to monitor who is getting with who around the school.
So student A is found out breaking the rules and they then look back and student B has been spending a lot of time with them outside normal lessons and use that to start questioning them too.
Or they bring in a rule regarding how close members of the opposite sex can be whilst at school.
They could even add in the shock collars/bracelets they want to pass out to air passengers and use remote discipline too.
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