Posts by mafoo 445 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Nov 2009
to his credit, Global warming has become more of a religion than a properly debated field of scientific enquiry, with people scared that if they question anything the prius brigade spouts they risk loosing their funding.
Take the replacement of incandescent lightbulbs with fluorescent ones that contain hideous amounts of toxic metals like mercury that are going to end up in land fills.
Forkbomb,because they are non-destructive - yet hilarious and retro. Plus reminding people of the halting problem is always good.
Im guessing he did it in a pretty primitive way, like a simple cron script running a delete program - which no doubt he ran under his own shell access. Then someone in HR told the IT department to transfer stuff from his account to another one and it was patently obvious.
Heaven forbid they walk 4 blocks or take public transport.
Or maybe they reduce the Carbon emissions by removing the humans that output so much methane and CO2, as well as reducing the fuel efficiency by carrying less load.
Even better, why not give the robo-cars micro nuclear reactors. for zero carbon emissons. That could offset the machine guns... oh wait - thats terminator.
by charging £13 a year do they expect to get people who want to help, or the kind of middle aged man that like to sit in front of the computer wearing crotchless panties.
Most normal people would see the charge for helping people and go "yer taking the piss mate, just like that person on camera 5".
Its pretty jaw dropping. On a 3GS it actually looks better than a lot of PC games (World of Warcraft for one). It had the occasional frame skip but when your looking across that vista of an entire castle, mountain and village i think i'll forgive them :)
If anyone is confused, Epic Citadel is a tech demo derrived from "Sword Project" that epic games demoed int he media event. Its based on a derivative on the Unreal 3 engine and epic was pretty vocal about licensing it to developers was their main goal.
"has the lowest 'vampire draw' of any similar charger on the market"
I was going to make some twilight related joke there, but my brain just couldn't justify the effort after about 1 second of thinking it through.
Im sure there's some teenage girl who reads theReg who could...humm.
