User Information - Paul J Turner

More money than sense, where's the news in that?

Firewire

Dec 18, 2007, 00:00

News Comments > Out of the Blue

Technically better, but proprietary and royalty based. Betamax to USB3s' VHS, does anybody not know for sure and certain how that will play out?

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Alice movie

Dec 11, 2007, 13:27

News Comments > Evening Legal Briefs

I guess we can trust Tim Burton to do a decent job of it. Still, I expect most visitors to this site would rather see McGees' Alice as the starting point, though that would be a much harder undertaking.

eBay sale hijacked

Dec 3, 2007, 23:38

News Comments > Out of the Blue

eBay not cooperating with the RCMP? Show 'em the taser!

Digital Magnetic Map

Nov 3, 2007, 17:32

Oh goodie, a map of Magnetic Anomalies, have we found the monolith yet? ;-)

AMDs Q4 Graphics

Nov 2, 2007, 21:34

News Comments > Evening Legal Briefs

Not ATI's then? That didn't take long, did it?

Seagate drive capacity

Nov 1, 2007, 22:09

I wonder why it's US only, is it O.K. to lie to your allies populace?

Dell Profits

Oct 31, 2007, 14:00

News Comments > Morning Mobilization

Profits were down $92M because an investigation reveled that employees misled Auditors for more than 4 years. The one year investigation cost $205M. My advice to Dell, let the employees screw the figures by less than $23M per year to meet unreasonable goals and stop doing those bloody investigations!

Skype Phone? Not Really

Oct 22, 2007, 17:36

News Comments > Into the Black

A bit of a bodgy job with a small subset of the Skype client feature set. http://skypejournal.com/blog/2007/10/skypelabeled_iskoot_voipless_m.html

Today is...

Oct 19, 2007, 21:10

Yep, it's Saturday here too, has been for 11 hours ;-) I know what you mean though, one completely non-event day and it all feels wrong. Still, the Weekend usually fixes it for me as those days are significantly different to the regular grind. I'm not sure how much variation you see in your weekend compared to your weekdays though, Blue.

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Tried it !

Oct 19, 2007, 05:22

I fired it up, but had to go online to get some dumb MS service pack for game memory management. I played a lot of locations and found it surprisingly easy, I suppose they did that on purpose to encourage potential purchasers. Brief summary: It's Diablo II in 3D with a lot of above-ground bits. Really!, that's a perfect description.

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Re: Just a thought

Oct 19, 2007, 02:20

I'm going off-line for a while ;-) Don't look a gift demo in the EULA!

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Just a thought

Oct 19, 2007, 01:27

The demo is single-player as they originally stated it would be, right? Do you have to have your network cable plugged in to play it? If not, run unplugged, play it out (how long can a demo take?), then delete it all. The actual game might pose a bit more of a problem, but this is specifically about the demo EULA. I presume the full game EULA will be the same deal though.

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Wait a bit

Oct 19, 2007, 00:17

News Comments > Out of the Blue

Unless valves servers are being a forwarding agent for the research info', that info' probably goes directly to the marketing companies. IF that is so, it won't be long until someone collects THEIR IP addresses so we can all block them with additional 'hosts' file entries. (You do know that's the best use of the hosts file, right?) Or someone will disassemble the code and produce a 'no ad's' patch for it, whatever the EULA sys about that kind of thing.

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Right Brain vs Left Brain

Oct 18, 2007, 16:48

I got this information from the Uni' of NSW when I passed this link around last week - Initial direction is a function of where you look in the figure plus some random variables (which probably do NOT include brain dominance since the L side of fixation goes to the right brain and the R of fixation goes to the Left brain. If you stare at the center of the figure it goes 50/50. Fix at either side and you can bias it but it doesn't affect the frequency of the two directions). If the movement was continuous it would reverse regularly. This usually occurs at pauses and changes in fixation. This figure pauses regularly and this can trigger reversal. With very steady fixation, another phenomenon occurs - you can actually see other patterns of movement such as expansion contraction without depth and even multiple figures with delay lags. I have a paper on it (one of my first:- Vaegan. Two parameters measure perceptual transformations during monotonous stimulation. Quart. J. Exptl. Psychol., 1976;28:583-589). Both effects are caused by adaptation/inhibition. Reversals / changes of state are caused when movement of fixation releases inhibition and evokes the opposite. Multiple state are caused by increasing inhibition / adaptation of all previous states. The two parameters are independent and a function of the individual. Yrs truly Vaegan, - So there you have it!

shooting their own foot

Oct 17, 2007, 18:44

News Comments > Evening Metaverse

Stating that they don't need large bandwidth is inescapably the same as saying they aren't processing massive amounts of data, no wonder they make such little difference to a game! They should team up with these guys - http://www.aiseek.com/Demos.html and put both chips on a PCI-E card, that might stand more of a chance. Definitely more of a chance than a PhysX card today and an AISeek card tomorrow, anyway!

Working out the average payment

Oct 10, 2007, 00:46

Check for purchasers paying nothing using IP spoofing etc'. I wouldn't put it past Big Music to download thousands of times for nix, just to make the sales model look a failure. It wouldn't be the first dirty trick from them.

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HD-DVD

Oct 9, 2007, 06:37

News Comments > Talk Like A Pirate Day Festivities

MS is wasting it's time, the tech doesn't drive acceptance, the Content does. Haven't they even learnt the Betamax lesson yet, buy a major studio you cashed up tightwads!

Right decent of ye, matey

Sep 17, 2007, 22:04

News Comments > Evening Mobilization

...To give an advanced heads up for those of us only 12 hours away (as I type) from the event.

SignalMap

Sep 6, 2007, 19:26