Those were the days, Carmack was and shall always remain a god to me...or should I say Makron? :)
Posts by b166er
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Unreal: Epic’s would-be Doom... er... Quake killer
Emergency mobile networks take off on model planes
Apple surrenders in 'app store' trademark suit against Amazon
Sony sucker-punches Xbox on price, specs, DRM-free gaming
El Reg drills into Office 365: Unified communications
Smut-for-Glass app suffers premature ejection
Microsoft touts business features of Windows 8.1
If you've bought DRM'd film files from Acetrax, here's the bad news
Biz bods: Tile-tastic Windows 8? NOOO. We lust after 'mature' Win 7
Larry Page acknowledges creeping vocal paralysis
Vodafone gets surprise £2.1bn dividend from Verizon Wireless
El Reg drills into Office 365: What's under the hood?
What kind of pirate are you: Justified, transgressor or just honest?
Monday 13th May 2013 12:07 GMT
'These are well-paid gigs. Contrast this with the lot of the creator, who makes the stuff that Justified Bloke downloads for free. 80 per cent of musicians in the UK earn less than £10,000 a year, while 95 per cent of songwriters and composers earn less than £15,000 in royalty income.'
Except that ABC1 bloke isn't taking bread off the tables of the aforementioned artists, he's taking bread off the table of the multi-millon dollar music executives and spoilt, air-theiving, prima donnas.
Japan begins planning exascale super
VTOL hybrid flying car promises the skies
Lehman Brothers sues Intel over a billion dollar deal
Barnes & Noble bungs Raspberry Pi-priced Nook on shelves
Pirates scoff at games dev sim's in-game piracy lesson
Tuesday 30th April 2013 09:20 GMT
Re: Was there a Demo version?
Indeed, worked extremely well for iD software.
The demo for Q2, allowed you to play online too.
How ironic then, that that software house (iD), is one of the most successful and one of the first to embrace user generated content and open-sourcing.
Most true gamers, will always buy their games, because they understand the work that went in to making the game and feel genuine pleasure playing the game.
Pirates do it just because they can and more than likely stop playing their pirated game 3 days after installing it, so it's really not a lost sale (unless your business model is based on people only playing your game for 3 days).
Review: Western Digital Sentinel DX4000
Ready for the car 2.0? Nvidia preps UPGRADABLE car system
Foxconn must pay Microsoft for EVERY Android thing it makes
Wednesday 17th April 2013 14:54 GMT
So much butthurt :)
They're all as bad as each other, it's not Microsoft's fault, it's the game that's being played.
If these companies don't want to pay royalties, they're perfectly free to innovate their own solution, but they instead choose to take the easy route and pay Microsoft. No problem here, move along!
O2 tries something completely new: Honesty
Bitcoins: A GIANT BUBBLE? Maybe, but currency could still be worthwhile
Tuesday 16th April 2013 14:09 GMT
Re: Gold is mined out of the ground.
Both of which pale into insignificance when compared to ASICs.
It's an arms race based on GH/KWH and therefore, those that have the money to buy custom-built ASIC farms, have the very real advantage. Perhaps the only chance as an independent prospector is to group buy ASIC or join a pool.
As sad as it is, the money goes to the money and therefore Bitcoin investment is no different to any other, however, unregulated currency distribution is novel and exciting, if only to see how the established institutions deal with it.
Ban drones taking snaps of homes, rages Google boss... That's HIS job, right?
Sonic the Hedgehog
P2P badboys The Pirate Bay kicked out of Greenland: Took under 48 hours
Mozilla devs plotting to put a stake in <blink> tag – at last
Torygraph and Currant Bun stand by to repel freeloaders
Are you in charge of a lot of biz computers? Got Java on them?
Pirate Bay to world: We're not really off to NORKS
Wi-Fi hotspots, phone masts: Prepare to be assimilated by O2's Borg
Wednesday 27th February 2013 14:04 GMT
I prefer the concept of SmartPhone Ad-Hoc Networking, which largely negates the need for cellphone masts AND billing, but this is a step in the right direction. I'm currently sitting in a house where I have no signal from the mast, yet a full wireless signal from a router and it makes no sense at all that I can't receive cellular traffic!
SPAN is gaining traction and there are already kernels for some devices that put the wireless adapter in ad-hoc mode. The more devs get into the idea, the quicker we can put the cellco's in their place.
WTF is... Miracast?
Google whips out pocket cannon, fires VoIP patent sueball at BT
New Zealand court hands out second peppercorn downloading penalty
Monday 11th February 2013 10:49 GMT
If you're in NZ and really want to rub their noses in it, install BitTorrent, grab this, :D
The Pirate Bay - Away From Keyboard and seed like mad!
Review: Living with Microsoft's new Surface Pro
Hard drive sales to see double-digit dive this year
Tuesday 5th February 2013 18:08 GMT
Re: "I'll be dancing on the grave of optical drives"
You misunderstand, I grew up with consoles that used far more reliable ROM than shitty plastic discs that like to delaminate and suffer from many other issues if not treated with kid gloves. I am not pro cloud.
We have large capacity flash memory cards and I personally have had a decent RAID6 card for the last 5 years at home.
So for me, the optical disc thing, particularly with game consoles was a huge step backwards.
One example, my son's Force Unleashed delaminated within 2 months and Microsoft wanted £20 to replace it.
So...give me back solid state ROM, please! I still have ROM cartridges from 'consoles' as far back as my ZX Spectrum that are in perfect working order! Where's my choice to have that?
BlackBerry 10: Good news, there's still time to fix this disaster
Plunging BT sales hit every branch of the biz on way down
Microsoft tries to sell home Office users on subscription pricing
Thursday 31st January 2013 17:41 GMT
Re: I'm still using Office 2000
So many fail arguments and analogies, how old is your car? and therefore the software in your car?
How old is your phone? Your set top box? Your operating system? Your TV?
You can argue it around all you like, but buying Microsoft Office once or twice a decade is really no big deal when you examine it honestly!
Money goes around, deal with it lol, we're all money movers. Microsoft employ people and when we buy stuff from them, they pay people and then those people buy things from Tesco, who pay their people, it's a blindingly simple concept.
I've just realised I'm starting to understand the word freetard lol
Tuesday 29th January 2013 19:13 GMT
Re: I'm still using Office 2000
Well, considering you two tightwads are still using a version from 13 years ago, what choice do Microsoft have?
What would you like them do do? Keep patching Office 2000 ad infinitum and have no money for research and development?
I expect downvotes for this, but seriously, they gave you a decent Office product 13 years ago, it wouldn't hurt to buy a new copy would it?
Thank fuck I'm not in the software business.
Google donates 15,000 Raspberry Pis to UK schools
Is your Surface Pro a bit full? Slot in an SD card, it's not from Apple
Chinese boffins crack cloaking tech for camouflage
Wednesday 23rd January 2013 09:10 GMT
Re: More R+D in China
Not sure I know anyone who thinks like that. I just hope the Chinese become the next superpower using economy, rather than war. Presumably this research is for their own protection in case the USA won't go down without a fight.
For the record, I'm a global citizen with interstellar potential, so have no allegiance to any particular form of governance.
Use your loaf, Europe! Eat more fibre - high-speed web lobbyists
Friday 18th January 2013 16:56 GMT
Re: A few questions
On demand TV, cloud hosted media libraries, remote working. clustered computing projects like SETI and Folding, bandwidth for the ever increasing number of devices in the home or office that use it, lower latency, less reliability issues......
It's obvious to me, that replacing ancient cabling, in some places aluminium, with glass is the way forward.
Hell, Japan, most of Scandinavia and a large part of Europe already have this. Some of them have had for ages.