Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[I Dont Care]

Resurrected Doom II and Duke Nukem 1 last night. Ah memories.

Do you have the Steam version of Duke Nukem?

 

[*PAF]

Is that like the drink only different John?

Put It down to "traditional" breakfast withdrawal symptoms.

 

[Forzaport]

Do you have the Steam version of Duke Nukem?

Nope, freeware and resurrected using DosBox.

Part of the nostalgia is typing
"cd/duke"
"dir/w"
"dn1"

Duke was planning to defeat the evil Captain Proton and still get home in time to watch Oprah. Early 90s ftw.

 

[I Dont Care]

Nope, freeware and resurrected using DosBox.

Part of the nostalgia is typing
"cd/duke"
"dir/w"
"dn1"

Duke was planning to defeat the evil Captain Proton and still get home in time to watch Oprah. Early 90s ftw.

Have fun. I just like moving the mouse and clicking the fire button. I do have Dos Emulator or something for old games, but if I have to click more than one button to start a program in it...my attention span shuts down and I go play Skyrim or something.

 

[Jumbo]

The drumming is meh but nothing like a good twirl

 

[Powerstufff]

... goes to show how dependant we have become on technology. Not sure if that's a good thing or not.

It's fine if the technology is good. Heard Andrew McColm, Radio 891's tech guru the other day. He drives a Tesla Roadster an electric car.
Normally he plugs it in at home to charge it up but in situations like yours he states the car can actually power his house for 2 days. I know that doesn't specify what amount of power is used but there is a tiny bit more detail from others on the Tesla forum.
He talked of how once the problem with power supply focused on its generation and yet within about 15 years we have moved to a stage in SA alone where > 50% of power is generated from solar and wind generators. The problem now is that in Australia we lack electricity storage capacity of any kind. McColm talked of advance battery technology research and its potential use for community energy storage e.g. at the suburban block level. See 'Substation-Scale and Community Energy Storage' for a case study where pretty old technology is used in this fashion for a town of 4,000 in the US. It's conceivable that in my lifetime Australian communities could begin dropping off the current power grid.

 

[manureid]

Yesssss!
We now have the technology to make a decent cofee.
You little schnifter.

And a cigarett?

 

[*PAF]

It's true if the technology is good. Heard Andrew McColm, Radio 891's tech guru the other day. He drives a Tesla Roadster an electric car.
Normally he plugs it in at home to charge it up but in situations like yours he states the car can actually power his house for 2 days. I know that doesn't specify what amount of power is used but there is a tiny bit more detail from others on the Tesla forum.
He talked of how once the problem with power supply focused on its generation and yet within about 15 years we have moved to a stage in SA alone where > 50% of power is generated from solar and wind generators. The problem now is that in Australia we lack electricity storage capacity of any kind. McColm talked of advance battery technology research and its potential use for community energy storage e.g. at the suburban block level. See 'Substation-Scale and Community Energy Storage' for a case study where pretty old technology is used in this fashion for a town of 4,000 in the US. It's conceivable that in my lifetime Australian communities could begin dropping off the current power grid.

Driving back from Adelaide we went
past heaps and gobs of wind turbines in SA.

 

[Peck]

Read? A game manual? Who does that?

Although, I do remember when game manual's were small novels and know they are only 2 pages...

I remember getting new games and reading the shit out of the game manual that night if it was too late to play. Always got me excited.

 

[Powerstufff]

Driving back from Adelaide we went past heaps and gobs of wind turbines in SA.

Should have filled up the boot with electricity.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Carna pear.

 

[edgie]

Love flicking through out game manuals, especially the GTA's

Sent from my Lumia 800 using Tapatalk

 

[Doctor Feel]

Power is still out and the NT has pretty much shut down.
Just goes to show how dependant we have become on technology.
Not sure if that's a good thing or not.

Brian Cox made a very good point about this. He said something along the lines of "For a civilisation so dependant, and increasingly so, on technology. It is worrying and surprising that so many know nothing about it."

He is right, people make use of technology every day, yet they don't understand what makes it tick, how to fix it or how to keep it running. Of course he was lobbying for more funding in schools/unis for programming, IT, and sciences (physics, thermodynamics etc) courses.

 

[I Dont Care]

Love flicking through out game manuals, especially the GTA's

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You mean you like the pictures in the GTA manuals

 

[I Dont Care]

Brian Cox made a very good point about this. He said something along the lines of "For a civilisation so dependant, and increasingly so, on technology. It is worrying and surprising that so many know nothing about it."

He is right, people make use of technology every day, yet they don't understand what makes it tick, how to fix it or how to keep it running. Of course he was lobbying for more funding in schools/unis for programming, IT, and sciences (physics, thermodynamics etc) courses.

To be fair, it's not Joe Sixpack's job to know how it ticks. The majority of us just want to have the faith in our light switches. Hmmm...faith = religion, I see potential for a tax free religion there, sort of like the cargo religion in some Pacific areas

All hail the Power

 

[Doctor Feel]

To be fair, it's not Joe Sixpack's job to know how it ticks. The majority of us just want to have the faith in our light switches. Hmmm...faith = religion, I see potential for a tax free religion there, sort of like the cargo religion in some Pacific areas

All hail the Power

It may not be their job, but they are the first to cry when it doesn't work properly. So it makes sense to educate yourself on some basics. In regards to the northern territory issue, seems a little unthinkable for such a large problem to occur in power networks that should have several forms of redundancy.

 

[Powerstufff]

.... In regards to the northern territory issue, seems a little unthinkable for such a large problem to occur in power networks that should have several forms of redundancy.

Redundancy is itself redundant when you are faced with .....Robocroc!

 

[Janus]

I remember getting new games and reading the shit out of the game manual that night if it was too late to play. Always got me excited.

Especially if they were done right. Try reading the Falcon 4.0 game manual:

That thing made you feel like you WERE studying to be a jet pilot by the time you were done...

 

[Doctor Feel]

Especially if they were done right. Try reading the Falcon 4.0 game manual:

That thing made you feel like you WERE studying to be a jet pilot by the time you were done...

Foot Falcon 4.0

 

[I Dont Care]

It may not be their job, but they are the first to cry when it doesn't work properly. So it makes sense to educate yourself on some basics. In regards to the northern territory issue, seems a little unthinkable for such a large problem to occur in power networks that should have several forms of redundancy.

I don't understand the need for educating the masses on something that is illegal to meddle with unless you are licenced to do so. When there is a blackout, people don't want to nor need to know the technical details of what went wrong...they only want and need to know when their expensive electricity is going to be restored

 

[Doctor Feel]

I don't understand the need for educating the masses on something that is illegal to meddle with unless you are licenced to do so. When there is a blackout, people don't want to nor need to know the technical details of what went wrong...they only want and need to know when their expensive electricity is going to be restored

Which is in itself a problem.

 

[I Dont Care]

Which is in itself a problem.

Anyway Doc...the other day I posted that I wasn't feeling good and needed a 'Feel Doctor', and you were nowhere to be found?

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Stop being such a needy bitch.

****ing.

 

[*PAF]

It may not be their job, but they are the first to cry when it doesn't work properly. So it makes sense to educate yourself on some basics. In regards to the northern territory issue, seems a little unthinkable for such a large problem to occur in power networks that should have several forms of redundancy.

IIRC it happened in Melbourne not too many years back and no doubt it will happen somewhere else in the future.

 

[PatientMental]

I get really a get these days brother...