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Gatling · 10-08-2009 01:54AM

when it comes down to it ,Apple killed the bog standard flashy fone ,
it can be thin ,it can be shiny ,
you can even buy a 30gb memory card for it ,
but if it aint an Iphone
its just a phone

Stercus Accidit · 10-08-2009 02:13AM

kevteljeur wrote: »

My Canon 350D is good as a digital camera, but it's a pain in the hole for most anything else.

Gatling · 10-08-2009 02:24AM

Talking of touch screens phones ,
my first really fancy phones was a ericsson r380 flip
Touch screen ,more touch sensitive
symbian os
wap

bought it in 2000 nearly a full deacde before touchscreens became a big thing

NakedDex · 10-08-2009 07:44AM

Gatling wrote: »

when it comes down to it ,Apple killed the bog standard flashy fone ,
it can be thin ,it can be shiny ,
you can even buy a 30gb memory card for it ,
but if it aint an Iphone
its just a phone

Apple didn't kill it. They just showed it up for what it was. A bog standard flashy phone. Where Apple's offering showed everyone a phone could, quite simply, do more.
I had three smartphones before this one and it's only now I realise how limited they were. Flashy and fancy looking? Yes. More useful than a normal phone? Not at all.

kevteljeur · 10-08-2009 07:54AM

NakedDex wrote: »

On what grounds does a Macbook Pro become more logical than any other Mac? They're the same OS in varying powers and shapes. Granted the Pro is quicker than the standard Macbook but not more so than the standard Macs.
Illogical dislike is one thing. Resentment requires a sentiment to exist and a sentiment requires a reason, cause or purpose (aka logic). You can't hate for no reason.

I believe he may have meant 'Logic' the software package. He would need to run it on a MacBook Pro because it is cooler than the other Mac models.

Disclaimer: I own two MacBook Pros, an older iBook, and a very much older PowerMac 8600/200, and having worked with, owned and fixed Macs since '97. I still know things about the OS that few of you Mac blow-ins ever will There's not much I don't know about them and so this discussion amuses me. Mac OS 8.6 microkernel FTW!!!

Gatling wrote: »

Talking of touch screens phones ,
my first really fancy phones was a ericsson r380 flip
Touch screen ,more touch sensitive
symbian os
wap

bought it in 2000 nearly a full deacde before touchscreens became a big thing

(Thanks for Sternum Acrylic for that one)

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Toasty113 · 10-08-2009 08:19AM

Well, as a previous hater of apple products I can say that yes, they are superior. People only hate them cause they're popular (at least thats why I did). The only reason I dont have an iPhone yet is that both my phone and iPod are still working and I like having 13,000 songs at my disposal. But as soon as they release the 8,000,000 terabyte new and improved ultra sleek model with the "make ladies instantly swoon" app as standard Ill be all over it like a fat kid on cake!

NakedDex · 10-08-2009 08:20AM

Ah, i was unaware of that program. I sit corrected (because I'm too lazy to stand).

As for the Mac OS discussion. My knowledge is limited to basic use of 8.2 and those since, and even then I'll readily admit it's limited further to basic consumer use. I love the system but it's incompatible with 90% of games I own. I had a Mac Mini for a while, simply as a Internet computer, but it fell by the wayside and I dropped back to Windows for simple compatibilty reasons.
Lately though, I've cared less for games and more for utilities so I reckon a new Mac is back on the cards. Unless Windows 7 is as remarkable as they say.

zero19 · 10-08-2009 08:31AM

As a retired sound engineer i can say logic is easily my favourite music tool, but other than that macs are fcukin shi'te!

Anyway was yootoob surfing and found this whoever recorded it i owe you a pint, easily one of the most entertaining irish airsoft videos i've seen in a while!

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

Craigsy · 10-08-2009 12:06PM

Anyone know where i'd get sheets of velcro in dublin? Preferably in green or OD, trying to spruce up some standard brit dpm into the spec ops style dpm. I know of a few places on the web but i'd prefer to buy it in person

ED E · 10-08-2009 01:09PM

NakedDex wrote: »

On what grounds does a Macbook Pro become more logical than any other Mac? They're the same OS in varying powers and shapes. Granted the Pro is quicker than the standard Macbook but not more so than the standard Macs.
Illogical dislike is one thing. Resentment requires a sentiment to exist and a sentiment requires a reason, cause or purpose (aka logic). You can't hate for no reason.

Disliking Apple seems to be the new "in" thing. Particularly among those who've never actually owned one. Funny that such a terrible, useless, horrible product has become the most aped and copied system and style in computer technology since it's inception. Rivals are actually waiting to see what Apples new tablet will be like before designing theirs so they can imitate it. Sounds to me like the people who matter think Apple's doing something right.

I've had soo many lectures about the superiority of Mac from a friend who's a complete "fanboi", only found out a week ago that the Mac Pros have a modular interior actually. But I've grown up on PC and when I do use them(every now and then) I just go "Argghhh". It just seems wrong.

Toasty113 · 10-08-2009 01:16PM

Lethal_Bullet wrote: »

I've had soo many lectures about the superiority of Mac from a friend who's a complete "fanboi", only found out a week ago that the Mac Pros have a modular interior actually. But I've grown up on PC and when I do use them(every now and then) I just go "Argghhh". It just seems wrong.

It takes some getting used to but they are very good, especially if your into design or media. Best solution is to have a PC in the house for general use, and have a Macbook only if you actually need it for college, work, hobbies, etc.

Ghostwarrior · 10-08-2009 01:17PM

Craigsy wrote: »

Anyone know where i'd get sheets of velcro in dublin? Preferably in green or OD, trying to spruce up some standard brit dpm into the spec ops style dpm. I know of a few places on the web but i'd prefer to buy it in person

You can buy black,white or gray in a place called the woolen mills (north end of the ha'penny bridge) Dont know about the green though

ED E · 10-08-2009 01:27PM

Toasty113 wrote: »

It takes some getting used to but they are very good, especially if your into design or media. Best solution is to have a PC in the house for general use, and have a Macbook only if you actually need it for college, work, hobbies, etc.

PS, Flash, Avid, Fruity Loops and so forth all work fine on PC

Craigsy · 10-08-2009 02:48PM

Masada wrote: »

Umm, i actually do have that stock, lol and the Miad grip to go with it,

I would have been shocked if ya didn't, stumbled across it while looking at some nice m4 bodies and thought yep he's got one of those

Stercus Accidit · 10-08-2009 07:03PM

ARG!

deepimpact · 10-08-2009 07:07PM

Jesus, MGS come to life (except it seems to be on rails...???).

Is/was that real?

Stercus Accidit · 10-08-2009 07:15PM

scanlant wrote: »

Jesus, MGS come to life (except it seems to be on rails...???).

Is/was that real?

Pfft noob.

Before Dboys M4's this is what everyone had.

deepimpact · 10-08-2009 07:18PM

Oi, you're talking to a Berget 7 veteran...take that back, or I will initiate my nerd attack

Leftyflip · 10-08-2009 07:20PM

Its a dildo on rails?

Stercus Accidit · 10-08-2009 07:37PM

scanlant wrote: »

Oi, you're talking to a Berget 7 veteran...take that back, or I will initiate my nerd attack

Oh yeah?

deepimpact · 10-08-2009 07:41PM

*me runs to get bandana, Stinger missile launcher and Mk23*

Yep

Captain Chaos · 10-08-2009 07:47PM

Thats Ed 209 with a cannon.

NakedDex · 10-08-2009 07:52PM

It's a rail gun. No, really, it is. More accurately it's a railway gun. To be even more accurate, that particular one is affectionately called Dora. A 305mm German artillery piece from WW2, the largest artillery piece of the war (and I think ever). It had a sister but I'm not sure that one was ever used.
Railway guns were awesome pieces. Proper over-the-top machines. The last gasp of siege warfare from the dark old days. There's still no artillery syste
that big that is so mobile today for simple logistical reasons; it's easier to shift ten 105's around than one of those.

Stercus Accidit · 10-08-2009 07:57PM

The military forum I saw that on weren't even sure it was real or a photoshop.

I can't imagine that a multi ton rail gun would be up on two legs tbh.

But this is real...

Tally ho!

Captain Chaos · 10-08-2009 07:58PM

NakedDex wrote: »

that big that is so mobile today for simple logistical reasons; it's easier to shift ten 105's around than one of those.

Yeah cause you'd need an army of guys laying two lines of railway track within about 20 miles of anywhere you'd want to conduct a war.

CIE. ''we are sorry to announce that the 10:25 artillery shelling has been delayed due to leaves on the track''

NakedDex · 10-08-2009 08:17PM

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

The military forum I saw that on weren't even sure it was real or a photoshop.

I can't imagine that a multi ton rail gun would be up on two legs tbh.

But this is real...

Tally ho!

The legs are either shopped or that's a picture of it being assembled but the basic premise, the piece itself and the twin track system, is very much real. If she was sitting on those "legs" when it was fired, the recoil from the 305 shell would have destoyed the mounting. The whole idea of having it on tracks was to absorb such a huge rounds recoil.

It's typical you'd show us a that big wheel tank. It being Russian and all. Well, old Imperial Russian anyway.
The idea was sound for the period, the problem was that insanely small rear wheel. Who's bird brained idea was that part of the design.

NakedDex · 10-08-2009 08:21PM

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Yeah cause you'd need an army of guys laying two lines of railway track within about 20 miles of anywhere you'd want to conduct a war.

CIE. ''we are sorry to announce that the 10:25 artillery shelling has been delayed due to leaves on the track''

The tracks weren't that long. It was literally pulled out, fired a few timed, then pulled back into it's hiding place (a hidden armoured bunker). The tracks would have only been a few miles long.

Captain Chaos · 10-08-2009 08:43PM

Didn't the Germans have smaller versions of them, on normal bogey flat bed trains that they planned to fire from northern France to southern England.

Where the tracks in a large circle so that it could fire in any direction or could the barrels be moved. To me it looks like if you offset the barrels anywhere near 90 degrees off the direction of travel the whole thing would fall over.

NakedDex · 10-08-2009 08:55PM

There were dozens of versions. The Germans weren't the only ones making them, they just made the biggest. Britain had their own, as did the Yanks (and I mean that in the literal historical sense) during the Civil War where Union artillery crews used existing railroads to move small guns and pot mortars.
Some of the European ones were seriously effective. WW2 moved fronts too fast for them to be useful anymore though, which is when artillery became more about being mobile and fast than being huge. Plus they became an easy target for effective raids by aircraft like Hurricanes and more conventional bombing runs.

Gatling · 10-08-2009 11:57PM

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

ARG!

surely photoshopped i know the rail guns well dont ever remember one that raised and lowered on legs,

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