* Posts by Eyebeebe

4 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Oct 2010

UK's £5bn National Cyber Force HQ to be sited in Lancashire beside Defence Secretary's constituency

Eyebeebe

Nearly as much as nearby Salesbury, which confusingly is next door to Wilpshire.

BOFH: You say goodbye and I say halon

Eyebeebe

Re: I'm curious

It‘s also an issue when you close the vents on a hot kamado barbecue and a short while later open the lid. I looked it up on YouTube AFTER I‘d produced a fireball in my new barbecue and nearly had my eyebrows and arm hairs singed off.

This guy not quite so lucky.

https://youtu.be/2JBHxmezsAQ

UK mapping agency the Ordnance Survey is heading into gaming territory with £6m tender for dev team

Eyebeebe

Re: Virtual exercise?

This is already a thing. Smart trainers onto which you attach your bike and the software controls the difficulty to simulate the terrain changing, while watching on a screen. Even smart bikes which do away with the need to attach your own bike (like a fancy exercise bike).

Main players are Tacx (now owned by Garmin) and Wahoo.

Software ranges from virtual worlds like Zwift to reproduction of real routes with 4K video recordings e.g. Tacx or Fulgaz. They also typically come with structured training plans to make you faster. Zwift will also take inputs from a treadmill to move you around a virtual world, but for alleged safety reasons no one seems prepared to let it control the incline on the treadmill.

Unsurprisingly these companies have shown a large amount of growth in 2020.

Microsoft's Office ribbon hits Mac fans

Eyebeebe

Is everyone using a different version to me?

I have a copy of Office 2011 running on my Mac and it has both a ribbon and menus at the top (consistent with all other non-Fullscreen OSX apps).

Seems the best of both worlds for me. I have a bunch of icons to press for stuff I use frequently on the main ribbon tab and for all else it is in the menu system just like it used to be.