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| View Topic : What's Your Name? | James Wallis, which isn't a spectacularly interesting name. Although my parents did give me an extra middle name, else my initials would have been JAW, which they were worried would lead to teasing. Personally I think that would've been quite fun. 
I once almost met Joe (and his brother) when he appeared by surprise at my school to give a talk about PMC. I didn't make myself known, however, which I wished afterwards I had done. |
| View Topic : Professor Oak, Honest!! | | I find it hard to believe that a journalist with a cameraman could pretend to be a professor without the students noticing. I'm inclined to believe the BBC in-so-far as the students being fully aware of the situation, although yes, whether or not you think it was worth the cost is another issue entirely. |
| View Topic : Computing With Greenie |  |moan| Wait, SpikeDislike bounces on a sine wave? B-b-b-but things that bounce go in a parabolic shape! |moan|
|edit| And now I remember why the 'moan' tag has mushrooms on the ends...  |edit| |
| View Topic : Memories & Nostalgia | That sounds like quite a nice idea, actually.  Perhaps it might even cause a few people to pop back over here and say hi!
Best of luck! It'll be nice to hear how things go. |
| View Topic : Thin Plotlines | | I'm usually fine with time travel in Dr Who, when it's used just as a device to set up the rest of the plot (i.e. at the start of each episode) - what I object to is a handful of episodes of the last few series where it's clumsily used to deus ex machina everyone out of some impossible situation in a clearly self-contradictory way. |
| View Topic : Thin Plotlines | | My problem with time travel in fiction is that it is always so poorly executed. No-one ever seems to be able to make use of it without contradicting themselves for the sake of the plot. |
| View Topic : World Of Play | I guess the limiting factor would be how large and how detailed you want your world to be. Would you be able to hold the whole thing in memory at once, or would you have to split it up and load only nearby sections of the world?
Still, if you could make it work, it would certainly be an interesting concept. |
| View Topic : Bitcoins | | I remember a friend explaining this to me a while back. The phrase 'Ponzi Scheme' was tossed around a lot. |
| View Topic : Shroom's Compo | We had to write a program to solve puzzles from the iPhing game Flow Free. There were 3 student entries, including mine (staff ones don't count), although I'm not expecting to win! I only really entered to see how well I might do.
Judging progress ...currently, I seem to be in 2nd place out of the student entries, and 3rd or 4th out of all of them. |
| View Topic : Valve - Piston | By the sounds of things, it's gonna boil down to being some kind of Linux box running Steam, optimised for running games, so I imagine in terms of running games, it'll function just like Steam.
Given that, I suppose it would make sense if you could access the hard-drive? Even if it's not possible with the default configuration, if one of the selling points is that you can personally upgrade the hardware, I guess the hard-drive should be fairly physically accessible, so you could get stuff off it with another machine. |
| View Topic : Valve - Piston | What's wrong with the cloud stuff? If it's just using Steam, then surely you're less likely to use stuff you've worked hard on, because it backs up all your settings, saves, etc, and you can redownload your games as many times as you want?
I do agree that the custom upgrading could be a bit iffy though, because presumably the upgrade parts will need to be custom built to fit in that small box, making cost an issue as you said. It'll be interesting to see where this goes, though. |
| View Topic : NeonPlat Adventures Review | That's pretty cool. 
I ran Google Translate over it for amusement, and one of the picture captions yielded this gem: "He has a brain in his hand, with which he can turn opponents convey to the afterlife." |
| View Topic : So.. Now What? |  What I find absolutely fucking ridiculous is that rape is considered a more offensive concept than torture.
Perhaps, but I'd wager that rape is far more frequent than torture. |
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