I've seen evidence of this first hand. I come from a town in England where they found earliest known caveman settlement in the country and its suprising how much closer the population of this town come to reverting back to that state with every successive generation. Gene pool? More like gene puddle.
Does that mean that at sometime in the next few years the drives in PS3's are going to stop working one by one? That sounds familiar. How did they manage to get the PS1 & PS2 to do the same thing without an internet connection?
There was a show on in the UK called "Braniac Science Abuse" where they took 4 types of storage media. A floppy, a harddrive, a CD and a memory stick then subjected them to various things trying to corrupt them. They immersed them in water, baked them in a pie, ran over them with a car then fired them out of a cannon against a brick wall. They might have done more things but I cant remember. The one thing I do remember is that although the outer casing of the memory stick was destroyed it still worked fine.
The problem with British speed cameras is they dont work properly. They can be triggered even if you arn't going over the speed limit by the laser they use refracting of of certain surfaces. Certain Rover cars with sunroofs set them off and some vans/trucks with the roller type rear doors triggered them as well. On a different note getting out of speeding fines in England is easy due to a loophole in the law that means when they send you the letter asking "is this your car & were you driving it at the time?" you answer yes to all the questions then just dont sign the form before you send it back. There is no legal requirement for you to sign the form and if you dont then it it inadmissable in court as evidence and the police have to let you off. I know this sounds stupid but its true.
I totally agree, When I was at Uni out of a lecture hall of 200 people doing a computing degree only 2 brought laptops. Everyone else found it easier to use pen and paper then if needed transfer notes to PC afterwards. I didn't get a laptop until after I left and then the only reason I got it was that I was sick of the mess & clutter my desktop made and I was offered the oppurtunity to get hold of one cheap. In the 2 years I've had it you could probably count the number of times its actually been taken anywhere on 2 hands. Although it would have been useful at Uni but only for the fact that it would have made taking my PC home at the end of terms a hell of a lot easier.
The problem with this is that in some of the town & cities in England this kind of action gets your house burned down by the bullies parents, because unfortunatly the parents are as bad as the children and the bullies are just a product of (in)breeding
If your going to buy one for a child, pick an old one up off ebay for just over £100 (they dont need a £1500 Alienware rig that'll run Half Life 2 with all the bells and whistles) if need be slap a new battery in it. much cheaper to replace if something happens and it'll run any programs that a school PC is running.
When I was 23....Only because she was going on holiday to America so I gave her the money to pick me one up (£600 for one that was selling in the Uk for £1300 bargain)
I suppose someone should point out that its cheap enough to replace a keyboard on a desktop machine when the kid pours his sugar carbonated drink of choice into it, not so cheap to do that to a laptop, and it will happen, no matter how many times you warn them against it. Also it might be a good idea to buy something along the lines of a ToughBook because kids arn't exactly gentle with their stuff and laptop harddrives dont take to kindly to knocks and bruises.
My brother did this for his 10 year old son and found that not only was it a good way to make sure he was doing his homework as he was in the same room as my brother and so could be supervised, instead of being away out of sight in his own room twiddling his thumbs and pretending to work, but it was also good for limiting his access to the internet if need be. Simply by removing his wireless card to prevent access to the houses router.
One thing that always annoyed me about digital cameras was the delay from pressing the button to the picture actually being taken. Its only about 2-3 seconds but for any kind of action shots this is useless. Case in point, at my girlfriends graduation ceremony her and a group of freinds were doing the cheesy throwing the hats in the air thing and everyone with digital cameras missed it(there were around seven different models of digital camera) simply because by the time their cameras decided to take the picture, the hats were already on the floor.
The only cure for this is to make every British person spend an afternoon in a Turkish market. If you don't learn to walk away then it takes forever to even get down the street.I went there in March and if you think the sales people in England are pushy then Turkey is an eye opener. If you even so much as look at their shop they chase you down the bloody street screaming at you to buy things. I had the same guy try to sell me a fake Rolex 4 times in the space of 30 minutes. After an afternoon there you can quite easily walk up to a Dixons/PCworld salesperson and tell them in no uncertain terms how tightly to roll their extended warrenty and which hole to insert it in.
Its been a long time since I bought any electrical goods from a high street store( at least a good few years) but the last thing I bought was a pair of eye-trek glasses. I'd seen them in a few places but always at £299.99. However, I saw that Dixons were making a big song and dance about "We promise to beat any price in town!" So I went along and asked the salesperson what price they would do the glasses for. £299.98! A saving of a whole 1p! I laughed and went and bought them from another because that was just taking the piss. In the end I got them from Argos and it's a good job I did because someone screwed up and gave me the RF kit for it for nothing saving me £180.
Ho Hum, I just know this is all going to go terribly wrong and the bugs will end up eating everything made of metal and we'll be cast back into the dark ages. Spielburgh or Lucas have probably already bought the rights to the motion picture.
I dont know what the law is in America but in England if you buy an 18 rated video for an underage child you can be prosecuted however the same doesn't apply to videogames. Maybe they should apply this philosophy to games as well then it might make idiots like this stop and think what their buying for little Johnny instead of just buying it then getting all offended when little Johnny takes great pleasure in beating the brains out of a hooker. Seriously thought its not Rockstars fault that this woman was to thick to read the age rating that is plainly displayed on the packaging. Rockstar should take her aside and slap her with a copy of the game repeating "Check the age ratingbefore you buy, check the age rating before you buy." until she gets the idea. If this doesn't just get thrown out then it could set a very dangerous precedent leading to companies dumbing down and over censoring games because they are to afraid of the finacial repurcusions of offending Grandma Perkins, I dont know about you but I'm not to keen to play "Cotton Wool Wrapped Fluffy Cloud Simulator 3." . We are indeed living in very sad times.
Fox are already bidding for the rights to this. The idea is they keep evicting astronauts until theres 3 left then Fox send up 3 "TV Pretty" Astronaughts and the previous 3 have to compete against them in a bid to get the places on the escape pod. Then as the twist it turns out that the escape pod has been lying to them all the way through and its actually a Volvo.
Hmmm, I'll belive that when Discovery is back on the ground in one piece not one hundred pieces. (Scene on board Disovery: "Houston, we need more toilet paper.")
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It didn't even take that long. Someone has already posted an english subtitles file that works with the BIEN rip.
I've seen evidence of this first hand. I come from a town in England where they found earliest known caveman settlement in the country and its suprising how much closer the population of this town come to reverting back to that state with every successive generation. Gene pool? More like gene puddle.
Does that mean that at sometime in the next few years the drives in PS3's are going to stop working one by one? That sounds familiar. How did they manage to get the PS1 & PS2 to do the same thing without an internet connection?
There was a show on in the UK called "Braniac Science Abuse" where they took 4 types of storage media. A floppy, a harddrive, a CD and a memory stick then subjected them to various things trying to corrupt them. They immersed them in water, baked them in a pie, ran over them with a car then fired them out of a cannon against a brick wall. They might have done more things but I cant remember. The one thing I do remember is that although the outer casing of the memory stick was destroyed it still worked fine.
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Maybe this guy will know how to turn an Xbox controller into a joypad.
The problem with British speed cameras is they dont work properly. They can be triggered even if you arn't going over the speed limit by the laser they use refracting of of certain surfaces. Certain Rover cars with sunroofs set them off and some vans/trucks with the roller type rear doors triggered them as well. On a different note getting out of speeding fines in England is easy due to a loophole in the law that means when they send you the letter asking "is this your car & were you driving it at the time?" you answer yes to all the questions then just dont sign the form before you send it back. There is no legal requirement for you to sign the form and if you dont then it it inadmissable in court as evidence and the police have to let you off. I know this sounds stupid but its true.
I totally agree, When I was at Uni out of a lecture hall of 200 people doing a computing degree only 2 brought laptops. Everyone else found it easier to use pen and paper then if needed transfer notes to PC afterwards. I didn't get a laptop until after I left and then the only reason I got it was that I was sick of the mess & clutter my desktop made and I was offered the oppurtunity to get hold of one cheap. In the 2 years I've had it you could probably count the number of times its actually been taken anywhere on 2 hands. Although it would have been useful at Uni but only for the fact that it would have made taking my PC home at the end of terms a hell of a lot easier.
The problem with this is that in some of the town & cities in England this kind of action gets your house burned down by the bullies parents, because unfortunatly the parents are as bad as the children and the bullies are just a product of (in)breeding
If your going to buy one for a child, pick an old one up off ebay for just over £100 (they dont need a £1500 Alienware rig that'll run Half Life 2 with all the bells and whistles) if need be slap a new battery in it. much cheaper to replace if something happens and it'll run any programs that a school PC is running.
When I was 23....Only because she was going on holiday to America so I gave her the money to pick me one up (£600 for one that was selling in the Uk for £1300 bargain)
I suppose someone should point out that its cheap enough to replace a keyboard on a desktop machine when the kid pours his sugar carbonated drink of choice into it, not so cheap to do that to a laptop, and it will happen, no matter how many times you warn them against it. Also it might be a good idea to buy something along the lines of a ToughBook because kids arn't exactly gentle with their stuff and laptop harddrives dont take to kindly to knocks and bruises.
My brother did this for his 10 year old son and found that not only was it a good way to make sure he was doing his homework as he was in the same room as my brother and so could be supervised, instead of being away out of sight in his own room twiddling his thumbs and pretending to work, but it was also good for limiting his access to the internet if need be. Simply by removing his wireless card to prevent access to the houses router.
One thing that always annoyed me about digital cameras was the delay from pressing the button to the picture actually being taken. Its only about 2-3 seconds but for any kind of action shots this is useless. Case in point, at my girlfriends graduation ceremony her and a group of freinds were doing the cheesy throwing the hats in the air thing and everyone with digital cameras missed it(there were around seven different models of digital camera) simply because by the time their cameras decided to take the picture, the hats were already on the floor.
The only cure for this is to make every British person spend an afternoon in a Turkish market. If you don't learn to walk away then it takes forever to even get down the street.I went there in March and if you think the sales people in England are pushy then Turkey is an eye opener. If you even so much as look at their shop they chase you down the bloody street screaming at you to buy things. I had the same guy try to sell me a fake Rolex 4 times in the space of 30 minutes. After an afternoon there you can quite easily walk up to a Dixons/PCworld salesperson and tell them in no uncertain terms how tightly to roll their extended warrenty and which hole to insert it in.
Its been a long time since I bought any electrical goods from a high street store( at least a good few years) but the last thing I bought was a pair of eye-trek glasses. I'd seen them in a few places but always at £299.99. However, I saw that Dixons were making a big song and dance about "We promise to beat any price in town!" So I went along and asked the salesperson what price they would do the glasses for. £299.98! A saving of a whole 1p! I laughed and went and bought them from another because that was just taking the piss. In the end I got them from Argos and it's a good job I did because someone screwed up and gave me the RF kit for it for nothing saving me £180.
Ho Hum, I just know this is all going to go terribly wrong and the bugs will end up eating everything made of metal and we'll be cast back into the dark ages. Spielburgh or Lucas have probably already bought the rights to the motion picture.
"No drones must be allowed to leave The Collective."
Why is everyone bothered about 1 year old screenshots. Heres the video trailer for it instead. http://www.gamespot.com/promos/quake4/play.html
I dont know what the law is in America but in England if you buy an 18 rated video for an underage child you can be prosecuted however the same doesn't apply to videogames. Maybe they should apply this philosophy to games as well then it might make idiots like this stop and think what their buying for little Johnny instead of just buying it then getting all offended when little Johnny takes great pleasure in beating the brains out of a hooker. Seriously thought its not Rockstars fault that this woman was to thick to read the age rating that is plainly displayed on the packaging. Rockstar should take her aside and slap her with a copy of the game repeating "Check the age ratingbefore you buy, check the age rating before you buy." until she gets the idea. If this doesn't just get thrown out then it could set a very dangerous precedent leading to companies dumbing down and over censoring games because they are to afraid of the finacial repurcusions of offending Grandma Perkins, I dont know about you but I'm not to keen to play "Cotton Wool Wrapped Fluffy Cloud Simulator 3." . We are indeed living in very sad times.
That's assuming they approved the funding for the plastic bubbles and parachutes. :)
Fox are already bidding for the rights to this. The idea is they keep evicting astronauts until theres 3 left then Fox send up 3 "TV Pretty" Astronaughts and the previous 3 have to compete against them in a bid to get the places on the escape pod. Then as the twist it turns out that the escape pod has been lying to them all the way through and its actually a Volvo.
And the bean counters strike again.
Hmmm, I'll belive that when Discovery is back on the ground in one piece not one hundred pieces. (Scene on board Disovery: "Houston, we need more toilet paper.")
And the first astronaught is due to be evicted on Friday after a viewer phone poll.