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CBJ wrote:Attractive though the idea of Windows 10 being a free upgrade is in principle, huge alarm bells start ringing for me when they start talking about it being a "unified platform"...
Oh... Hmm, I haven't really looked into it very well. So, Windows 10 is "Unified Platform Mk II" I take it? Thanks, but no thanks... I don't "unify."
It's great that it's getting easier, and cheaper, for people to use technology to communicate with one another and conduct their social lives...
Actually, I'd disagree with that. It's great for marketers to get personal information at the touch of a button and great for hardware companies hawking new devices so idgits can watch 3hr movies on a screen the size of a playing card... And, sure, it's great for users, who are starting to become much more distanced from human contact and social empathy, despite their Tweets and Friend Lists... Actually, it's only of limited "greatness." :)
... to be able to make maximum use of the screen real-estate available to them and not have it taken over by acres of white-space and pretty but non-functional graphical fluff.
Absolutely. I can't stand, for instance, when websites move to a tablet-friendly format. It's disgusting. Half the page is crappy art and borders with 30pt fonts! It makes me feel like I'm looking at a website optimized for 800x600, like the "Good Old Days" of teh interwebz... What's next? Are we going back to CGI so holograph projectors don't have to fiddle with so many colors?
Yeah, so, rant over. For now. :oops:
A nicely informative rant, in my opinion. Thanks. I'll be much more wary of WDS10. :)
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Not sure how relevant it is, but TotalBiscuit mentions the Windows 10 Press Conference in Content Patch
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Nvidia engineer talks about gimping the geforce 970 to sell more geforce 980 video cards - it's a very funny interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spZJrss ... e=youtu.be
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Wasn’t sure to post this here or in the tube amp thread,
but it seems that there is something new in the world of vacuum tubes
linky

Apparently DirectX12 / Mantle will allow games to use the vram on both graphics cards in SLI/ Crossfire Linky
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First robotic exoskeleton to get FDA approval - helps paralyzed people to walk
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podca ... -approval/
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Good deal!
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Goat believed to be a man detained over armed robbery
http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/01/ ... XT20090124

Vigilantes took the black and white beast to the police saying it was an armed robber who had used black magic to transform himself into a goat to escape arrest after trying to steal a Mazda 323.
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burger1 wrote:Goat believed to be a man detained over armed robbery
http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/01/ ... XT20090124

Vigilantes took the black and white beast to the police saying it was an armed robber who had used black magic to transform himself into a goat to escape arrest after trying to steal a Mazda 323.
Ewe never know how baaad goats can be...

I heard an interview with some notable from Nigeria not too long ago. Apparently, the belief that people can turn into goats is surprisingly wide-spread.

In fact, I am a Nigerian prince who was turned into a goat by a witch! Since I can't write checks, having no hands, I am looking for someone to receive 100 bajillion dollars in their account so that they can foward the money to me, so I can buy Goat Chow. They will receive a handsome gratuity for this service... Please reply to baaaadbilly@nigeriangoatprince
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- Rev Green, in the Conservatory, with the lead pipe.. :lol:
http://www.theguardian.com/business/201 ... are_btn_fb
- the whole universe is running in BETA mode - we're working on it.. beep..!! :D :thumb_up:
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Heather >"Been Band from Tesco" (had to laugh)
Or , "Better watch what you ask a retired person" .
{Sry it goes to Face Plant ..er.. Book}

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Police Blotter news :
Cop ask this man way he doesn't have a last name .
http://images1.tickld.com/live/articles ... 130708.jpg
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Red Dwarf series 11 set to air in late 2015
http://www.digitalspy.ca/british-tv/new ... 2sE1CDKjuF
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Leonard Nimoy doesn't seem to be doing well.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/peopl ... 66465.html
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from the Huff :D

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/02 ... 41760.html

drat - just spluttered tea all over my monitor.. :lol:
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Is your mind naughty when least expected ? Lets have a test .
From Wheel of Fortune

The correct answer to the puzzle is at the bottom of the pic .

Edit : it got Photo Shopped . " Shouldn't there be an "I" in air then?"

Yep I need to wash my brain with soap :twisted:
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- 'tis a sign, I tells ya'.. :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrvaSqN76h4

:lol:
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hello. hello, hello - woss goin' on 'ere, then.. :D

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015 ... are_btn_fb

our boys in blue to the rescue..
Bodie and Doyle never had to deal with this sort of thing.. :lol:
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BugMeister wrote:hello. hello, hello - woss goin' on 'ere, then.. :D

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015 ... are_btn_fb

our boys in blue to the rescue..
Bodie and Doyle never had to deal with this sort of thing.. :lol:
I should stop playing so many video games. When I read stinger I thought they meant this Stinger
The Split Rattlesnake in X4 is a corvette disguised as a destroyer.
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In the US, they call these "Stop Sticks" and they've been used for a very long time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WQDVLTWI1I

(AKA "Spike Strips" as well.)

When the article said "Stinger", I first thought about another device, which is a sort of remote-controlled vehicle that is designed to travel out from a patrol car at a very fast rate of speed and go underneath the suspect vehicle where it then shorts out the suspect-vehicle's electrical system.

A "Stinger Missile" is an anti-air weapon, so I didn't consider it.

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