Floating Onion

Good night then Mr. P?

Plan B: Just a few doors down to Kebab & Wine.

Some people just get nationalities confused. :)

Or you could be like me & just get all the names confused.

I kind of agree with Marmora Man & Keef. I love the Bishop for food & a pint during the day or Sunday Roast. I do tend to avoid it on Friday & Saturday nights as the crowd & line at the bar puts me off somewhat. During the day it's one of my favourite places on the lane.

Yeah, Goose Green is full of wheat. Well maybe not, but there's plenty of manure.

I was born in Bermuda. I moved here for the weather.

I don't really think the technology is there yet. Thin client consoles? What's it going to run over? Broadband? That'll work for sending the control signals back, but has nowhere near the bandwidth for the display. Given that the XBox 360 & PS3 can run HD directly into your TV without compressing the image you're looking at pushing more than 3 Gb/s locally. Sure they can compress it, but how will it look? Say they can get that down to 50 - 100 Mb/s, what infrastructure is going to cope with pushing that to every house on the street? They can't even get video on demand working properly & they've been banging on about that for years. I also don't see how they're going to control round trip latency. We can all tell when there's a bit of latency playing a multiplayer game. Now add in the round trip delay of you responding to the display, sending that to their servers, them sending the updated display back to you and you seeing the result. That will easily result in noticeable lag if the network isn't up for it. Lastly, if they really had a product that could do all this they could probably make a killing licensing it to Microsoft or VMWare for their virtual desktop products. They're moving the problems from the consoles to the network. It also means a subscription based purchasing model. You don't like having to pay for online multiplayer? You're going to hate this. You'll get charged every time you start up your favourite game.

If only you knew.

I was more curious about what it was than why. Thanks for letting us know.

I'll have to go & get some pierogis. Shame so many people are critical.

Oh I'm looking forward to playing through all of it! Just need to get through HL2 & Episode 1. It was rather fun trying to explain Portal to the Cat last night.

Well I got the Orange Box a couple of weeks ago. Who gives my better half all the good suggestions? Thank you, who ever you are! Just started getting into it & enjoying it. Played most of HL2 on the PC, but quite happy to start that again. Started portal last night & it's good. Different, but I like the puzzles so far. Also looking forward to trying TF2.

Benign? Not with some of this lot. Have read over here. Speaking of which....

And SSDs have limited write cycles. Spinning platters will probably last longer. That said I wouldn't trust either much. Also there are some games out there (Halo 3) that use the hard drive for caching anyways. If you buy the bigger drive as an upgrade now you get a cable with it that allows you to connect one externally to the USB port. You might be able to back up save games this way.

Do lurkers come out public?

Plug it into your router & go for it. I think you need an XBox live (online gaming service) account to get the updates. The basic one (silver I think) is free. You have to pay if you want to play other people online.

Have you got it on the internet? That'll download the latest software that added the feature. A shipping version may not have all the current updates. Then it's something similar to what Sean said.

I'd definitely recommend getting an X Box. Great fun. As for the model I believe that they have all been updated to the recent hardware revisions. They seem to have sorted the reliability as it's only the older models that had the issue. Of course I'll probably go home & find mine dead now that I said that. The newer hardware has an HDMI port. As for which one I'd probably look at the Elite. Now that you can copy games to the hard drive it's quite easy to chew through space. Advantages of that are they load faster & it's quieter as the drive isn't spinning all of the time. I've got a 20 GB drive & think that I need to upgrade it.

I'll be there. Not sure about the Cat.

It's a bit of a romp so far.

Bring 'em along, the more the merrier.

mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'll be among scotch types in Twickenham, hurrah. Ok. Dammit, I'm jealous!

I'm in & looking forward to it. Anyone else in?

Never tried internet dating sites, but the forum is a good place to pull. Does that count as internet dating?