No problem.



Don't think he does deals cos he's already cheaper than everywhere else. If you want to get one that'll never leak I'd recommend the iTaste VV3 battery and an iclear 16 cart. Ask him for a go on one. They're a bit more expensive but worth it. Think he does the battery and two carts for £40-45 quid. I've gone through loads of different models but I've had this for about 7 months now with no complaints.

Go to St Nicks on Friday/Saturday and see Rob at Vapour Generation. He's pretty much the cheapest in the uk and he's really helpful.

It's one of those games I bought and have never played. Damned Steam sales.

 

I'm looking for BL2 players to loot with, I've got a Level 50 Siren and a level 45 Commando, but I quite fancy playing as a Gunzerker for anyone starting fresh.

I'm Jack Bastard (without the Welsh flag) on Steam.

 

The War on Terror is great, like Risk for bastards.

Half this shit on the net that comes under "truthers" and "conspiracies" is actually just right wing propaganda, aimed at keeping the status quo.

 

A recent psych study showed that people who buy into conspiracy theories are less likely to be politically active as a result.

Also most false flag operations are generally not targeted at civilians, they are usually a pretence for military action.

 

I'd like someone to edit all the 'dramatic' pauses (Look at me everyone, I'm acting!) and pointless long shots out of this show just to see how many minutes of actual tv are left.

Doesn't work for me either. What's the name of your group/event?

I am actually a bit upset by this tbh. Great writer and a great bloke by all accounts.

The author's shirt says a lot. Unlike most of the chestware gracing the annual British science fiction convention, it looks quite at home in the plush surroundings of the Radisson Edwardian hotel's poshest bar - which is surprisingly posh. It is by any standards a nice shirt: rich cotton, well tailored, expensive. And it is monogrammed. The initials are not a plain "IB" for Iain Banks, the mainstream novelist whose short, sharp, shock of a debut, The Wasp Factory, has led to more than a decade of success and critical acclaim. Nor are they a more flowery "IMB" for Iain M. Banks, the name under which he publishes his opulent, galaxy-spanning science fiction.

Instead, the letters on Banks's pocket are "FTT". I ask him who he stole the shirt from, and he laughs with perhaps a touch of embarrassment. "It stands for 'Fuck the Tories'.

 

Bought it in the Steam sale and have put off playing it because I'm shit if I can't invert the mouse 

He's bound to say that in official interviews, he's on salary with the show. It's his unhappiness with the things I mentioned that are the reason for the new 'Clear' guy running things because the network want to keep him onside for credibility with the fans. Or so I read earlier on anyway, who knows? It does explain the high turnover though, and proper excellent shows tend to keep the same people running it pretty much all the way through (Mad Men, Deadwood, The Wire, Breaking Bad).

The Nexus 4 is a good deal if you're SIM only.

I didn't say main protagonist, I said main protagonists. I don't see any of them as the main protagonist for the same reason I don't rate the show; the characters are poorly written and realised ciphers that I couldn't give a fuck about. From what I've read Robert Kirkman thinks the same, and next seasons showrunner is the bloke who wrote the best episode so far ('Clear') so hopefully we'll actually have some grown up writing and characterisation from the show.

I like it. Unconventional. Not quite sure who you are supposed to be routing for, and that is the point. The situation makes humanity a very fragile and interchangeable concept.

Who else would you root for if not the main protagonists? The show is weak sauce compared to the comics and 3 show runners in 3 series is testament to how badly it's going critically if not commercially.

I've never read them. How much more to go is there?

Loads more to go but they've changed the story and characters a fair bit.

It's a fucking terrible show. Interminable dialogue only works if your characters are not ciphers and the audience are invested in what happens to them. It's like Heroes, as a genre fan myself I have no idea what makes things like this take off in the mainstream. The comics are great though.

1992?

I'm more likely to underclock/volt something than the alternative these days. Even with Chrome streaming flash video, Traktor playing 4 decks with keylock and fx on each channel and Borderlands 2 running my i7 (not normal operation, I just wanted to see how hard I could push it) it doesn't even get above 15% utilisation.

No window for me, I'm not a teenager.

 

Oh and SLI-ing gfx cards is really not worth the extra noise/power consumption/bother. Just buy a newer GPU when you need to.

Funny how people always say 'stay away from AMD' with nothing to quantify it. There's nothing wrong with AMD at the low to medium end, especially if you're dealing with single threaded applications.

Your original build plans look absolutely fine imo. I just built a machine recently with the following spec -

i7 2700k
Asrock Extreme6
8gb Corsair Vengeance
MIS AMD 7850
Be Quiet 700w PSU
Fractal Design R4
Enermax T-40
120gb SSD + 5.5tb of spinning disks

It cost me about £740 not including the spinning disks. Having owned an Novatech barebones that I sold to my mate to buy this I'd definitely go for the R4 over the case supplied in the bundle. The R4 is the nicest case I've ever worked on. Combined with the silent PSU and the low-rpm, massive heatsink CPU cooler it's <30db most of the time.

The 3% stat is correct, only that many go on to lead 'normal' lives afterwards.

I feel Duvet Vous definitely deserve a mention, internationally known house djs in Easton for free, I went for the first time in ages last week and it was rocking all night and an official afterparty.

http://www.facebook.com/groups/duvetvousbristol/

Kettlebells are where it's at for home exercising.

Yeah it's quite long, it's the one in the conservatory. Give me a shout

Would you be interested in taking the dining table from our house? We don't want it and I've told Gallimore that if he doesn't find somewhere to store it I'm going to chop it up for the fire.

I'm not a Mac person but this might help -

http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/video-roundups/8-versatile-video-encoding-apps-for-os-x/

You'd have to transcode them down to DVD quality.

Actual disco or music that you would have heard in the 80s in a disco?

All I Want For Christmas is You, followed by the Phil Spector Christmas album.

Mariah, The Roots and Jimmy Fallon on kids instruments

 

or anything sour as fook!

Those new Maynards sours are not to be fucked with, 1980s pre-regulation of additives sourness.

 

I'm a big fan of the Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Moroccan chicken soup myself.

Q-Burn's Abstract Message mix of Santa Claus is coming to town.

 

Safe, might still be interested for a mate, I'll check with her tonight and let you know.

Hey mate, does the A6 come with the timecode/cables and whatnot?

Hes the closest we are gonna get to a Boris.

 

You say that like it's a good thing.

Only the Pete Levy and Sue Mountwotsit have made statements saying that they are opposed to police privatisation and that they have no links to companies that could potentially profit from said outsourcing.

I'd rather vote for someone that stands for what they believe in and are not afraid to say it. Regardless of how outrageous and reprehensible I personally find their views and policies.

 

That is amazing. Do another one.

Some are actually funny hand shake crew, right now. I'd rather spoil my ballot than vote for gorgeous George or any of the other main parties. I'm surprising myself by voting Green as it's not like they'll have any control over science policy anywhere.

 

I'm properly shocked that people are seriously considering a vote for the funny handshake brigade.

I'm about 4 minutes in and he's talking about the States and Truman allying himself with the British Empire in the years immediately post-WW2, what's all that about then? The empire was fucked, the UK was fucked immediately after the 2nd World War. We were actively dissolving the empire (or having it dissolved for us by the countries involved) ffs and he's claiming we were more dangerous to the US than the USSR? Come on now, behave  

OH, and have you seen this?

http://www.primagames.com/games/star-citizen/news/details-and-trailer-emerge-wing-commander-devs-new

NO I haven't but I have now.

WANT

The gf does stuff for PC Gamer and got her golden ticket last week so I'm a bit excited. This is the game that I thought Eve was going to be.

The gf and I spent about 8 hours yesterday playing Xcom, it's fucking brilliant.

 

It is pretty easy, once you've set the Virgin box to modem mode you just plug the cable from one of the ethernet ports on the back into the WAN port of your new router. The new one will pick up the IP address and whatnot via DHCP automatically. Job done.

Not sure there is a wifi version of that, that's just a switch, not a router.

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/netgear-fs605uk-5-port-10-100-white-switch

setting modem mode is not straightforward

(a) Setting modem mode is very easy and straightforward
(b) That's an ethernet switch, not a wifi router.

Bazooka - The Asus Black Diamond router is meant to be the best for a reasonable price.

Haven't seen it pushed recently. I was getting about 600kps last time I saw it really used in anger. Hardly symmetric but it'll do.

BS5 and just been upgraded to 120mb. Getting 10 meg per second on a torrent atm.

 

Noooooooo.

How can you start watching something that you know is just going to get cut off !

Got caught up in the 4400. Cut just when it was getting really good
Terra Nova. Didn't get the second series.

I watched the first few deadwoods, really good but knowing the story wont close properly, nay couldn't do it.

I refuse to believe that the 4400 or Terra Nova ever got good, Deadwood's a league above them anyway.

There's more than enough story in Deadwood anyway without a 'proper' ending. The Hurst thing pretty much gets resolved and that was the major plot of the 2nd/3rd seasons. There's a reason people (me included) have it in their top 3 or 5 despite the abrupt ending.

As an NI product owner I would encourage everyone not to use their products or at least to not write off either solution until you've tried them both.

I'd imagine that there have been several iterations of Spark since those articles were written, Maschine v1 wasn't much cop either.