Posts by chris 50

Meet Windows 10's new UI for OneDrive – also known as File Explorer

Re: Is getting rid of apps all that clever?

Couldn't agree more with Ossi. I love my Surface 2 (RT version) and the Metro interface is about as perfect touch OS as I could ask for - until it forces me into desktop mode. All fine while I have the keyboard and mouse connected, but most of the time I use my tablet as a tablet and feel quite annoyed I can't use it as a tablet for all functions. Conversely my Win8 desktop is great until it wants to use a Metro app (Store, for instance).

Win8.1 on my phone - brilliant! No hint of desktops interfering with a touch OS, any why should there be? Which is where Windows 10 scares me and leaves me fearing Microsoft will ruin a perfectly good OS by trying to make it more compatible with the desktop version :(

Oh, Win10 preview? Loving it but let's not kid ourselves, it's just a skinned version of Win8.1 and all these little features they're trialling on the preview (OneDrive's change, for instance) could have been rolled directly onto the current win8.1...

Wind farms make you sick claims blown away again

Re: Not just windmill nutters

The infrasound explanation was fascinating. I won't even pretend to be anything more than a casual layman when it comes to in ins and outs, so forgive my ignorance on the subject. But tell me, isn't this example of a GSM mast being nothing more that a bit of metal on a roof no different to having, say, a tree nearby? Something for the wind to bounce of and resonate at a slightly different frequency than if it had free access to flow through?

Plenty of people live in or near natural infrasound hotspots, most of Florida with the vast underground aquifers for instance, yet don't complain of infrasound related illness (until a non-operational dead sick of metal pops up nearby, it seems)...

Movie review: Star Trek Into Darkness

Re: Nothing beats...

Being born also in 1973, I missed the first-run of the original series, but watched it religiously none-the-less. However, my biggest playground talking point in school was the 5-Part mini-series 'V' - and look how well that went on... We should all be thankful - very thankful - of Star Wars bringing studio interest to abandoning Phase II and pushing the pilot's plotline into The Motion Picture - and then we should thank Harve Bennet for completely disregarding mostly everything and re-inventing what Star Trek should really be like! Thank you Hrave and Nicolas Myers - you defined today's Star Trek.

Good review

Having just watched the film last night, I fully agree with the overly fanboy-isms forced into Into Darkness just for the sake of it. The 'big reveal' was once particular moment I was hoping would never come and that al the frantic is he/isn't he internet musings were just that. As as for the role-reversal scene with all the forced lines re-hashed, well that was a cringe worthy moment to say the least.

2009 Star Trek was a breath of fresh air being breathed into an already stale format, its pace, character and plot were all sitting on the edge of perfection for a Star Trek film and at one point even came close for me to replacing The Wrath Of Khan as Trek's best. The 2013 Star Trek, however, does not come close to replacing Khan, and is in no way nearly as enjoyable as its predecessor. That is, however, not to say Into Darkness is not a good film - I thoroughly enjoyed it! The visuals are simply stunning, the music was perfect (loved the nods given in the soundtrack to the relevant previous Trek moments), Pine was just as brilliant at being Shatner+1 this round as he was the first, Quinto was as good as he was before, and as said in the review, both Pegg and Urban upped their game considerably. Zalander was mis-used as the 'reaction shot' throughout and it became tireseom after a while, Cho was completely unused and really only had that one good line, and Yelchin''s performance got lost in the action. I hope the next Trek lets all the characters shine again, because they are all brilliantly cast (especially now Pegg has slipped into Doohan's skin a little better).

Not usually one to get into the pointless debates over *personal opinion" of which Trek was best or worst, I must say it is refreshing to see someone else express their opinion of The Voyage Home in a less than positive manner - the film was fun and had some extremely good one-liners, but give me the less appreciated Search for Spock and Undiscovered Country over Voyage Home any day - I thought I was the only one (as I seemingly am with Skyfall - why is that film so lauded with praise when it is embarrassing and pale in comparison with Casino and Quantum?!).

Into Darkness: Liked it a lot. Didn't love it like 2009's Trek. Will see it again.

ZX Spectrum cassette player lost? There's an app for that

Speccy?

Now all I need is an app that will pretend to be the floppy for my +3...

Scrrr-eech! Scrrrrrr-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeech! Oh wait, mean bzz, bzzz, zzzb, bzzzz. You know, I could load RoboCop in just 1 minute and 12 seconds on that baby, none of this waiting 40 minutes rubbish for me!

New guide: Bake your own Raspberry Pi Lego-crust cluster

Building better worlds

I would have said they are taking liberties using the term "supercomputer" until I noticed the Lego.

Chinese bloke gets eel lodged up todger

Pub?!

Typo - meant "tub"!!

You can see where my mind is.... %)

Jeebus!

Although, I don think I would need a horror story like this one to make me wonder whether getting into a pub of eels was a good idea or not...

Gamers demand CoD: Black Ops money back

Who says it doesn't work on PC?

I must be the 'other' person who doesn't have any problems with the game on PC, other than it being a turd of a game. None of the much publicised lag problems or graphic glitching, or anything in fact, hit my PC and I don't think there is anything special about 4GB RAM, 2.9GHz i3 clocked to 4GHz and a GTX460 all running under Windows 7? I've seen people with far superior hardware complaining the game is unplayable, yet it never once so much as slowed on mine. Still a dog of an awful pile of rubbish. Maybe having it not work is a blessing.

Paris... because she wouldn't complain of lags.

PS3ers are complaining about the wrong bit

Seriously, I can't understand this whole "the graphics aren't that good" complaints when quite clearly they're perfectly okay. There may well be other games out there with more realistic graphics, but who cares, that is never the important part, if it was, no one would have played games 5 years ago, let alone 20. The important part of a game is the game itself, which Black Ops has no right trying to claim. It is a semi-interactive movie, and a poor movie at best. I 'played' this game from start to finish and at no point did I ever feel like I was in control, mainly because I wasn't. The 'game' far too often puts you somewhere only for you to take a few steps before it takes control again, or pushes one of the many pre-scripted events in your face, quite often moving your charatcer from the point you are actually occupying to the point where the game needs you to be in order to continue the movie. I'd go to the cinema if I want to watch a film, I bought Black Ops because I wanted to play a game. Wish I could get my money back on my disagreement of what constitutes a game... Oh, and being a PC gamer, I felt the mandatory requirement to have a Steam account AND an active internet connection to even install the game was disgusting - especially as I purchased the game on DVDRom and had all the content I needed without an internet connection. I won't go into the hassle I had making the installer stop trying to download the game I had inside my DVD drive and how it took FOUR HOURS to get it up and running because the Steam servers were busy.......

Hollywood prepares to battle Asteroids

Game tie-it?

Do you think they'll make an Asteroids game to tie-in with the movie?

LOL!!!!

Cominf to a cinema near you - Tetris: The Movie!

Please save us all....