Surprised and delighted to see XCOM getting a mention on PB forum
On-topic - curious that there's no FT in the table.
I resisted the temptation of mentioning Elite: Dangerous in the conversation on HDTV and Oculus Rift on the previous thread. The game is apparently brilliant at both.
I have to give Douglas Adams all the props for jokes about blackness
Here's the quote about the stuntship whose sole purpose was to fly into the sun to provide spectacular effects for a rock concert.
"That," he said, "that... is really bad for the eyes."
It was a ship of classic, simple design, like a flattened salmon, twenty yards long, very clean, very sleek. There was just one remarkable thing about it.
"It's so... black!" said Ford Prefect. "You can hardly make out its shape... light just seems to fall into it!"
The blackness of it was so extreme that it was almost impossible to tell how close you were standing to it.
"Your eyes just slide off it..." said Ford in wonder. From Restaurant at the End of the Universe
I saw an advert for a Samsung Black TV the other day - it looked about as black as my TV too.
Frankly, I think good black is essential for clarity - but too many shows and films are filmed in Black-O-Vision and I can't see WTF is going on.
The worst example was some Clint Eastwood film I saw at the flicks - Escape From Alcatraz. I gave up squinting at the screen as I may as well have had my eyes shut.
Newspapers: I read the DM and Graun online, the latter more than the former plus I comment sometimes on CiF. I buy (occasionally) The Times in print, I look at the DT whenever it's lying around. I count myself a Times Reader.
Plus am an, um, true blue Cons.
On TVs - may I be the first to ask: what is a 4k TV?
Basically a Ultra High Definition TV. About 4 times better picture quality than a normal HD TV
The one thing I find quite amusing is the way TV manufacturers advertise their new super duper HD mega pixel ultra stupendous picture with cars driving around and pint pots exploding in glorious multi colour..........
........In an advert on your existing Tv screen.
....and some out there must say hell yes !!! .....That looks really good better than my existing picture?
I quite like the fact that there is a perpetual quest for new 'blacker' surfaces, leading to claims that a new material is "ten times blacker than any previous surface!" Apparently the materials are needed for optical instruments, e.g. telescopes.
I quite like the fact that there is a perpetual quest for new 'blacker' surfaces, leading to claims that a new material is "ten times blacker than any previous surface!" Apparently the materials are needed for optical instruments, e.g. telescopes.
I wonder what Xbox will do, though. They've gone from Xbox, to Xbox 360, to Xbox One. It's an unconventional naming approach to say the least.
[On that note, XCOM 2 is actually the 11th game. Even if you only count reboots, it's the 3rd].
I'm quite a fan of Resident Evil - not the games, but the naming conventions. I think they're up to the late teens but the last one with a number on the end was RE: 6 I believe.
Very excited for XCOM 2 - given how popular the last 'proper' one was, I'm sure console ports will follow. They even got in on iPad in the end I believe.
I quite like the fact that there is a perpetual quest for new 'blacker' surfaces, leading to claims that a new material is "ten times blacker than any previous surface!" Apparently the materials are needed for optical instruments, e.g. telescopes.
(I'm wondering where that clip was filmed. It looks like the beautiful village of Staithes in North Yorkshire, but it doesn't quite fit my memories of the place).
Eric Olthwaite (Palin) is interested in precipitation patterns in West Yorkshire, shovels and black pudding (his mother makes pudding so black, that even the white bits are black).
This is a masterstroke. Osborne is already committed to running a surplus during the good times (as should any sane Chancellor with our debt as high as it is currently). So its no skin off his nose.
Now any putative successors need to either make the next election's commitments with this restriction in mind - or formally propose to remove this restriction and be seen as being irresponsible.
The cherry atop the icing will be if it comes to be known as the anti-Gordo rule
Ironic too, since Gordon Brown inherited a deficit and ran a surplus for a bit, while paying off debt. Still, this is politics so it may well happen.
Gordon Brown inherited a path to a surplus and followed it for a little bit, before he changed things and we had a major deficit for seven years before recession. Utter madness.
That path to a surplus being a deficit and the complete collapse of Conservatives' economic policy.
There was a recession in the early 90s leading to a deficit peaking in 1993 and then on a path to surplus that was followed until 2000. That's a budget cycle, but then turned this upside down from 2002-2007 running a major deficit during the good times rather than during/after a recession. When the recession hit then we were already on a major deficit (rather than the surplus we had in 1989 before the last recession).
Shouldn't the last section be blue/yellow striped.
I love how the headline is "has the deficit changed since 1946", and then the graph runs from 1979 to 2012.
No one tops HotBlack Desiato - I can't believe the estate agents who took this name are still in business!
Hotblack Desiato is a humanoid and front man for the band Disaster Area. He was incredibly rich, occasionally buying star systems, and once spent a year dead for tax reasons
hotblackdesiato.co.uk/Immortalised in the cult sci-fi novel, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by the late Douglas Adams, the real Hotblack Desiato commenced trading under this inimitable style in 1979 quickly forming a successful Islington estate agents office.
I wonder what Xbox will do, though. They've gone from Xbox, to Xbox 360, to Xbox One. It's an unconventional naming approach to say the least.
[On that note, XCOM 2 is actually the 11th game. Even if you only count reboots, it's the 3rd].
Are you including Xenonauts in the 11?
I must say I found Xenonauts a little frustrating - having missed the first generation of XCOM, I think I was not ready for an apparently much more faithful remake.
I saw an advert for a Samsung Black TV the other day - it looked about as black as my TV too.
Frankly, I think good black is essential for clarity - but too many shows and films are filmed in Black-O-Vision and I can't see WTF is going on.
The worst example was some Clint Eastwood film I saw at the flicks - Escape From Alcatraz. I gave up squinting at the screen as I may as well have had my eyes shut.
Newspapers: I read the DM and Graun online, the latter more than the former plus I comment sometimes on CiF. I buy (occasionally) The Times in print, I look at the DT whenever it's lying around. I count myself a Times Reader.
Plus am an, um, true blue Cons.
On TVs - may I be the first to ask: what is a 4k TV?
Basically a Ultra High Definition TV. About 4 times better picture quality than a normal HD TV
The one thing I find quite amusing is the way TV manufacturers advertise their new super duper HD mega pixel ultra stupendous picture with cars driving around and pint pots exploding in glorious multi colour..........
........In an advert on your existing Tv screen.
....and some out there must say hell yes !!! .....That looks really good better than my existing picture?
Alien Versus Predator Requiem
I thought that was to hide how bad the film was ;-)
Why was Soubry taking part in Scottish Questions when she's not a Scottish Minister?
Why not ?
As Scot Questions is normally for Scot MP's to question the Tory colonial governor it might be nice to hear him answer questions on his role with Carmichael to slur the French & Scot Govts instead of answering Dorothy Dixers from Eng Mp's about SNP bad with their pesky 60% support and 4 in 5 of those under 34 voting for them next year if polling is right.
Newspapers: I read the DM and Graun online, the latter more than the former plus I comment sometimes on CiF. I buy (occasionally) The Times in print, I look at the DT whenever it's lying around. I count myself a Times Reader.
Plus am an, um, true blue Cons.
On TVs - may I be the first to ask: what is a 4k TV?
Basically a Ultra High Definition TV. About 4 times better picture quality than a normal HD TV
It is literally four times the pixels. The change from traditional SDTV to HDTV was four times, which is the same as from HDTV to UHD.
Yes and to your eyes looks just the same
I can most definitely tell the difference (just can't currently afford it). It depends on the size of the screen but the bigger the screen the more noticeable the difference.
My Laptop I'm typing on now is 1920x1080 (the same resolution as full HDTV), there's no reason a 50" TV can't have a higher resolution than a Laptop.
I din't mean than 4k couldn't be a small improvement, but there's no way your viewing experience will be anything like 4 times better.
I agree that four times better is an overstatement (as it was for HDTV), but it will be better. Its an understatement to say you can't see the difference.
I'm looking forward to 4k gaming though I suspect we'll need to wait for PS5 or PS6 to make the most of it. By which point at this rate we could be talking about 16k TVs and so it goes on!
I believe 4k is at the limit of human visual acuity; any more pixels and we would need new eyes, as someone suggested.
In Holyrood there's currently a wave of SNP Alte Kampfers preparing to retire.
Cuckoo halfwitted moron
Love you too, Malc xx
If you don't like these allusions perhaps you had better have a word with Alex Salmond, George Kerevan (who seems to have it on the brain) and all the rest...
Matt, you are a sicko , get some help
When the senior leadership of the SNP, who set the culture of their party, stop being routinely abusive of other people - verging on racist - I'll stop mocking them.
I don't see that happening any time soon, since their politics is founded on a victim myth.
Let me know how you get on.
It would be preferable for there to be a degree of honesty in SNP rhetoric, but I don't see that happening soon either.
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If the @UKLabour Party would like to auction the "EdStone" may I start the bidding at £100000.
The fact that they are only reading about celebrities makes it irrelevant to politics.
Very excited for XCOM 2 - given how popular the last 'proper' one was, I'm sure console ports will follow. They even got in on iPad in the end I believe.
(I'm wondering where that clip was filmed. It looks like the beautiful village of Staithes in North Yorkshire, but it doesn't quite fit my memories of the place).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46kXH6GGtT0
Eg - Treasury Ministers respond to Treasury Questions, Foreign Ministers to Foreign Office Questions, Scottish Ministers to Scottish Questions, etc