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Haha. It was valid only for 24 hours and valid only on my email account (which is the one which I got on "one" on), I logged into the forum expecting a flurry of "I got an invite" posts, but nothing. How random. Plus, I used it :tongueout: Edit: I also checked my position in the...

f**k knows why, but I got an invite!

Well, they were running the page without a captcha for a long time. ;) probably more chance of getting an invite from other sources or getting the phone in a flash sale than getting from from that list.

Curiosity got the better of me, watcom c is open source now...tempted to create a freedos virtual machine and have a play!

I found my abrash book the other day, it was hiding in plain sight on the bookshelf. I swear it wasn't there last time I looked for it.

Yeah, all the old techniques. Very few programmers outside of our generation will be familiar with them, hardware scrolling, mode x, etc. If you never programmed a speccy, bbc, Amiga or whatever...then you missed out. Its part of the reason that I enjoy doing embedded software so much (I think...

Cool :) Sprite masking for collision detection, that's where it's at. I still get more enjoyment from playing games from that 80's/early 90's than I ever have done from modern "3D" games. Quake II is the exception, that was brilliant multiplayer. I still think head over heels is one of the...

f**k about. LEGENDS. I knew the bloke (Nigel Brown) who wrote Silkworm on the speccy!

If its true to the original, that's kind of the point. Elite was the "road sweeper simulator" (but in space) of its day.

Its twice as complex than using a contactless card though. ;)

I just don't get it, they seem to be using technology just for the sake of using it and making stuff more complex & convoluted than it needs to be. (Google Wallet, Apple Pay, Shell scratch and sniff pay) It's like the apps to control your TV from your phone, pick up phone, unlock phone, swipe...

"Do you accept Apple pay?" "Yeah" "Great!" .... "f**k, batteries dead"

Because web traffic is generally asymmetric (hence ADSL), 150/150 would be pretty pointless to 99.9% of people. You mainly consume.

Hai, joining in the VM speed test game. ;) ....Waiting for Player 3 to join.

I don't quite understand your point. The oneplus was shipping in April of last year, that puts its cycle at give or take 18 months....if you didn't manage to get one until december then it'd be no different to buying an iPhone in April and then moaning that it got updated in September! Lol The...

Answer to what? Lol Oyster does store a balance on the card, it reconciles overnight which picks up any fraudulent or duplicate cards in the system. (Yes, this was a possibility)

Yosemite is hideous, its full of bugs and performance issues. Had to do the mail rebuild this morning after it decided that the email on my phone from last night to this morning wasn't worth syncing.

Games are an easy sell, they have a huge potential market, but "hit" games like flappy birds are rare, especially for indie developers. Sure if you come up with a hugely addictive unique game you're probably going to make some moolah, but that's the hard part and why it happens very rarely...

But @SharkyUK this time next year we'll be mill-yon-airs. When an app only generates 400 dollars worth and gets into the top 10 on iTunes you soon realise that the app boat has well and truly sailed!

Pay somebody. Then cry. You won't get rich.

To be fair, I don't think anybody who goes to a star trek convention would even be seen dead wearing one!

Fixed for you. :p

@rctempire Stock OTA, although I couldn't be bothered to wait for the OTA to arrive, so I downloaded the OTA image, rebooted into the recovery and selected update and pointed at the file I downloaded on the phone. 10 minutes later the phone had updated, was running CM12 and no data was lost.

Took me a few minutes and searching to figure out why quiet hours was no more, found loads of people installing random crap that didn't quite work properly, but they still went with it. Then I found the priority mode. Volume Up, stick it in priority and then edit the settings and select the...

Brother in laws workmate came and installed it this morning and removed all the electrics from the old airing cupboard. Me likey.

Yeah, I could wire it with my eyes shut, but I can't be arsed to figure out which wire is what from the boiler (plus there's some electrics that need removing from the now defunct airing cupboard)...but seeing as it's not actually costing me anything (brother in law is a heating engineer, his...

Btw, this is a brilliant video of a "nest protect" installation!

I bought a nest thermostat, we've just had our boiler replaced (donkeys year old one with hot water tank replaced with a condensing combi). Boilers currently wired into the plug socket until tomorrow when the nest gets connected up. The current thermostat was in the hall (let me explain, it's...

I'd like to think there's a feature buried in it that basically goes "You drove like a c**t yesterday, today, I'm going to stitch you right up" and then sends you into every traffic jam en-route with your fellow c***s! lol

The TomTom is worth it just for their traffic, it's pretty amazeballs (I guess that's the advantage of having millions of units out there on the UK road system). If there's a jam on your route it will almost certainly tell you and get you round it, ALWAYS trust it even if you think you know...