Random Thoughts II - Page 1013

Nothing · 6th January 2017, 06:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by crocos

No, they wouldn't have been able to make a difference. Deep coal fires get too hot - water simply evaporates - and if you try to remove the coal (assuming you could get close enough) you get chased out by toxic gas. And if you DID get deep enough there's a better-than-even chance of causing an explosion from ingassing of oxygen

I dunno, a coal fire in a boat seems like a pretty different proposition than a coal seam fire somewhere down a mine or something. I bet the ocean put the fire out when it sank. They just weren't using enough water.

Lightspeed · 6th January 2017, 15:30

This is a coal fire in the freaking Titanic. It would be more than the volume of water needed, but pressure as well to overwhelm the exploding stream pushing the water away. And then somewhere for all that water and steam to go.

Ab · 7th January 2017, 00:05

Plus marketing under pressure from management

DrTiTus · 7th January 2017, 20:33

Iceberg sure sounds like a Jewish name to me.

MadMax · 10th January 2017, 10:18

For curiosity's sake I was was watching the robotic recycling truck collecting the recycling down our street from behind a curtain at home. The driver gets out of his truck at my neighbours and proceeds to rummage through their bin. Presumably looking for non-recyclables but then he starts reading some of the material.

I don't think he appreciated me calling him out as he sheepishly looked around not knowing where the 'Oi' came from and when he came to do mine his swearing and cursing made it clear he wasn't happy when his machine dropped my full bin spilling crap everywhere.

blynk · 10th January 2017, 12:52

Was the material letters etc that were for the homeowner, or magazines/newspapers.

Lightspeed · 10th January 2017, 14:20

Some of that shits is designed to catch the attention. Probably a daily struggle for the guy, avoiding getting hooked on trash covered marketing.

MadMax · 10th January 2017, 14:27

Looked like a magazine but he was having a real good dig through what could have been mail especially and obviously reading them.

DrTiTus · 10th January 2017, 14:45

Wow, the guy's reading a magazine that someone threw out. Give him a break. I think it's stranger that you're standing behind a curtain watching him.

Who even knows what happens to that stuff when it gets back to the depot.

CCS · 10th January 2017, 15:10

Fast food chain Carl's Jr to close Otahuhu store

How is that even possible?

MadMax · 11th January 2017, 09:50

Blame the housing crisis

Lightspeed · 12th January 2017, 22:44

I just saw a UFO.

It was about 9:30pm, looking outside from the deck almost directly north and I spotted what I thought was a satellite. It was like a bright star, but moving slowing across the sky. It's going slow so I figure maybe it's the ISS.

I point it out to the flatmates and as we watch it slows down and appears to change direction... and then it stops moving and slowly fades away.

I'm not saying it's aliens but...

MadMax · 12th January 2017, 23:54

The flashing light was just a test.

Lightspeed · 13th January 2017, 00:20

There was no flashing. It was probably one of them floating candle things, maybe far off.

fixed_truth · 18th January 2017, 12:14

Yay global warming

http://i.stuff.co.nz/world/australia...-pounds-sydney

Ab · 18th January 2017, 13:57

Sydney: soft

crocos · 18th January 2017, 14:41

Yep, like butter been left in the sun too long.

Ab · 18th January 2017, 16:14

Weirdness: 40deg day, direct sunshine, if I lie down on the beach on hot sand and close my eyes I'm asleep in 30 seconds. 30deg night, dark, lying on a bed aaahhhfuck I can't sleep it's too hotttttttt.

Nothing · 18th January 2017, 17:33

How bad was the sunburn after sleeping in direct sunlight? The mere suggestion of it terrifies me.

Ab · 18th January 2017, 17:51

Poly tanning genes so not super vulnerable, but I sunscreen like a mofo before going to the beach for just that reason. Head to toe.

MadMax · 19th January 2017, 20:06

Does anyone know if there's a setting somewhere for my ATI card that makes details in some games start low then rapidly increase? Most noticeable in Borderlands2.

edit, think i found the option in BL2

MadMax · 21st January 2017, 16:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lightspeed

There was no flashing. It was probably one of them floating candle things, maybe far off.

... You'll have plenty of warning next time.

fixed_truth · 22nd January 2017, 15:50

Man found guilty of animal cruelty after showing video of himself swallowing live goldfish

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news...ectid=11786748

Oh shit, we better stop fishing now.

CCS · 23rd January 2017, 00:27

Illicit drugs advertised on Craigslist NZ

Heh... wait, Craiglist is in New Zealand now?!

Quote:

Craigslist is an American classifieds website that has now spread to New Zealand.

Oh wow, yeah, it's spread!!

So... jobs > tv/film/video/radio

Quote:

Watch movies, review and get paid (Female only) (Acukalnd)

Hi I am looking for young girls to watch R18 movies in person with me and get paid $50 each.
You must be open to watch it with a guy and give your personal comments on it. reply with your contact number for more details. you will get paid in cash same time.

Quote:

young and good looking couples only - must be open minded (Auckland)

Hi if you are open minded a young couple in early 20s and interested to earn $50-$100 per hour. write back to me.
you should be in great shape and clean. its discrete safe and no filming involved. Great opportunity to earn cash.

Macca@Work · 30th January 2017, 18:07

Geez running out of piss while watching the one dayer vs Straya

ZoSo · 30th January 2017, 20:58

Damn. That was too fucking close. The look on Stoinis' face at the end, tells you why you aussies normally win. He was gutted. Great game.

Fx. · 2nd February 2017, 19:11

Installed winamp 2.95 for a laugh; still works great (doesn't support flac

)

lotta memories came flooding back heh (doesn't help my mp3 collection is primarily from the same vintage)
goddamn its tiny and fast though compared to the behemoth that is itunes (for windows)

2.95 has a diff demo.mp3; doesnt say it whips the llamas ass which is dissapointing

Fx. · 2nd February 2017, 19:11

Lightspeed · 2nd February 2017, 22:28

Winamp is definitely the first media app I downloaded, and might be the second app full stop, mIRC being the first.

MadMax · 3rd February 2017, 18:19

Trademe buyer tells me he will send his daughter around to pick up the purchase. Struggling to resist the urge to ask if she's hot.

Cyberbob · 6th February 2017, 20:58

What is a healthy "free space" percentage for optimum performance?

Is there such a thing, just for a usual SATA drive, nothing RAID or SSD here.

DrTiTus · 6th February 2017, 21:59

Free disk space can impact performance:
- if you need it for swap memory/temporary files but it doesn't exist, or
- you've got very little free space, your current data is fragmented, and you're trying to write a lot but your hard drive heads have to keep jumping to a new sector, and
- a combination of the above (eg. massive masty session, too many tabs and popups, saving too many vids for next time)

I think Windows keeps a permanent swap file on disk, so your free space already includes space used by swap, and Linux has a dedicated partition for swap, but I would suggest having at least 1GB free at all times, or ideally as much space as you do RAM.

If you're at all concerned about performance, but still don't have even a small SSD, the solution is staring you in the face.

Redneck · 8th February 2017, 19:45

Commander Apollo aka Tom Zarek is dead... http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...ead-at-71.html

MadMax · 9th February 2017, 19:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyberbob

What is a healthy "free space" percentage for optimum performance?

Is there such a thing, just for a usual SATA drive, nothing RAID or SSD here.

seemed to me that windows machines using more than 60-70% of their main drive seemed to always suffer but this was back in windows 7 and earlier days. haven't seen it being an issue so much in windows 10 but then hardware performance has increased so much more since then and storage and ram is cheap

Macca@Work · 9th February 2017, 19:04

First look at Alicia Vikander as Lara Craft on set in Cape Town

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/first-look...050430397.html

crocos · 10th February 2017, 11:01

Yahoo news, you were expecting them to not stuff it up? Hell, it's not even a news article - it's a half-arsed reaction to a tweet.

Lightspeed · 10th February 2017, 18:41

My flatmate is a property manager. Apparently almost all of her clients have scheduled court appearances to collect unpaid rent.

I'm just imagining owners mortgaged up to their eyeballs depending on rental income to service the mortgages (and to pay the property agency.)

StN · 14th February 2017, 09:55

CAPTCHA asking for street sign details from an image to prove you are not a robot?

If anything, the current state of the art AI is in cars that read street signs. Unless all we are doing is training the robots to be better at finding signs.

Juju · 14th February 2017, 10:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by StN

Unless all we are doing is training the robots to be better at finding signs.

That's exactly what we're doing. Giving Google a huge validated dataset for AI.

blynk · 14th February 2017, 14:58

Isn't that what captcha got into ages ago.
It got people to help insert text from books that the computer couldn't distinguish.

That was when there were 2 images. One was the correct image to guess, and the other was the image google didn't know.

So the same could be used here, although you would still need an image to validate.

7th January 2017, 20:33	#40484
DrTiTus HENCE WHY FOREVER ALONE	Iceberg sure sounds like a Jewish name to me. __________________ Finger rolling rhythm, ride the horse one hand...

10th January 2017, 10:18	#40485
MadMax Stuff	For curiosity's sake I was was watching the robotic recycling truck collecting the recycling down our street from behind a curtain at home. The driver gets out of his truck at my neighbours and proceeds to rummage through their bin. Presumably looking for non-recyclables but then he starts reading some of the material. I don't think he appreciated me calling him out as he sheepishly looked around not knowing where the 'Oi' came from and when he came to do mine his swearing and cursing made it clear he wasn't happy when his machine dropped my full bin spilling crap everywhere. __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity. Last edited by MadMax : 10th January 2017 at 10:19.

10th January 2017, 14:27	#40488
MadMax Stuff	Looked like a magazine but he was having a real good dig through what could have been mail especially and obviously reading them. __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity.

10th January 2017, 14:45	#40489
DrTiTus HENCE WHY FOREVER ALONE	Wow, the guy's reading a magazine that someone threw out. Give him a break. I think it's stranger that you're standing behind a curtain watching him. Who even knows what happens to that stuff when it gets back to the depot. __________________ Finger rolling rhythm, ride the horse one hand...

10th January 2017, 15:10	#40490
CCS Stunt Pants	Fast food chain Carl's Jr to close Otahuhu store How is that even possible? __________________ I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner?

6th January 2017, 15:30	#40482
Lightspeed	This is a coal fire in the freaking Titanic. It would be more than the volume of water needed, but pressure as well to overwhelm the exploding stream pushing the water away. And then somewhere for all that water and steam to go. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

7th January 2017, 00:05	#40483
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	Plus marketing under pressure from management

10th January 2017, 12:52	#40486
blynk	Was the material letters etc that were for the homeowner, or magazines/newspapers.

10th January 2017, 14:20	#40487
Lightspeed	Some of that shits is designed to catch the attention. Probably a daily struggle for the guy, avoiding getting hooked on trash covered marketing. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

11th January 2017, 09:50	#40491
MadMax Stuff	Blame the housing crisis __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity.

12th January 2017, 22:44	#40492
Lightspeed	I just saw a UFO. It was about 9:30pm, looking outside from the deck almost directly north and I spotted what I thought was a satellite. It was like a bright star, but moving slowing across the sky. It's going slow so I figure maybe it's the ISS. I point it out to the flatmates and as we watch it slows down and appears to change direction... and then it stops moving and slowly fades away. I'm not saying it's aliens but... __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

12th January 2017, 23:54	#40493
MadMax Stuff	The flashing light was just a test. __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity.

13th January 2017, 00:20	#40494
Lightspeed	There was no flashing. It was probably one of them floating candle things, maybe far off. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

18th January 2017, 12:14	#40495
fixed_truth	Yay global warming http://i.stuff.co.nz/world/australia...-pounds-sydney __________________ Protecting your peace is way more important than proving your point. Some people aren't open to cultivating their views. Just let them be wrong.

18th January 2017, 13:57	#40496
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	Sydney: soft

18th January 2017, 14:41	#40497
crocos	Yep, like butter been left in the sun too long. __________________ Ξ √ Ω L U T ↑ ☼ N وكل يوم كنت تعيش في العبودية

18th January 2017, 16:14	#40498
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	Weirdness: 40deg day, direct sunshine, if I lie down on the beach on hot sand and close my eyes I'm asleep in 30 seconds. 30deg night, dark, lying on a bed aaahhhfuck I can't sleep it's too hotttttttt.

18th January 2017, 17:33	#40499
Nothing	How bad was the sunburn after sleeping in direct sunlight? The mere suggestion of it terrifies me.

18th January 2017, 17:51	#40500
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	Poly tanning genes so not super vulnerable, but I sunscreen like a mofo before going to the beach for just that reason. Head to toe.

19th January 2017, 20:06	#40501
MadMax Stuff	Does anyone know if there's a setting somewhere for my ATI card that makes details in some games start low then rapidly increase? Most noticeable in Borderlands2. edit, think i found the option in BL2 __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity. Last edited by MadMax : 19th January 2017 at 20:07.

22nd January 2017, 15:50	#40503
fixed_truth	Man found guilty of animal cruelty after showing video of himself swallowing live goldfish http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news...ectid=11786748 Oh shit, we better stop fishing now. __________________ Protecting your peace is way more important than proving your point. Some people aren't open to cultivating their views. Just let them be wrong.

30th January 2017, 18:07	#40505
Macca@Work	Geez running out of piss while watching the one dayer vs Straya

30th January 2017, 20:58	#40506
ZoSo	Damn. That was too fucking close. The look on Stoinis' face at the end, tells you why you aussies normally win. He was gutted. Great game.

2nd February 2017, 19:11	#40507
Fx.	Installed winamp 2.95 for a laugh; still works great (doesn't support flac ) lotta memories came flooding back heh (doesn't help my mp3 collection is primarily from the same vintage) goddamn its tiny and fast though compared to the behemoth that is itunes (for windows) 2.95 has a diff demo.mp3; doesnt say it whips the llamas ass which is dissapointing

2nd February 2017, 19:11	#40508
Fx.	. Last edited by Fx. : 2nd February 2017 at 19:11. Reason: DOUBLEH

2nd February 2017, 22:28	#40509
Lightspeed	Winamp is definitely the first media app I downloaded, and might be the second app full stop, mIRC being the first. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

3rd February 2017, 18:19	#40510
MadMax Stuff	Trademe buyer tells me he will send his daughter around to pick up the purchase. Struggling to resist the urge to ask if she's hot. __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity.

6th February 2017, 20:58	#40511
Cyberbob	What is a healthy "free space" percentage for optimum performance? Is there such a thing, just for a usual SATA drive, nothing RAID or SSD here. __________________ ɹǝʌo sᴉ ǝɯɐƃ ʎɥʇ

6th February 2017, 21:59	#40512
DrTiTus HENCE WHY FOREVER ALONE	Free disk space can impact performance: - if you need it for swap memory/temporary files but it doesn't exist, or - you've got very little free space, your current data is fragmented, and you're trying to write a lot but your hard drive heads have to keep jumping to a new sector, and - a combination of the above (eg. massive masty session, too many tabs and popups, saving too many vids for next time) I think Windows keeps a permanent swap file on disk, so your free space already includes space used by swap, and Linux has a dedicated partition for swap, but I would suggest having at least 1GB free at all times, or ideally as much space as you do RAM. If you're at all concerned about performance, but still don't have even a small SSD, the solution is staring you in the face. __________________ Finger rolling rhythm, ride the horse one hand...

8th February 2017, 19:45	#40513
Redneck	Commander Apollo aka Tom Zarek is dead... http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...ead-at-71.html

9th February 2017, 19:04	#40515
Macca@Work	Who the fuck is Lara Craft? First look at Alicia Vikander as Lara Craft on set in Cape Town https://uk.news.yahoo.com/first-look...050430397.html

10th February 2017, 11:01	#40516
crocos	Yahoo news, you were expecting them to not stuff it up? Hell, it's not even a news article - it's a half-arsed reaction to a tweet. __________________ Ξ √ Ω L U T ↑ ☼ N وكل يوم كنت تعيش في العبودية

10th February 2017, 18:41	#40517
Lightspeed	My flatmate is a property manager. Apparently almost all of her clients have scheduled court appearances to collect unpaid rent. I'm just imagining owners mortgaged up to their eyeballs depending on rental income to service the mortgages (and to pay the property agency.) __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

14th February 2017, 09:55	#40518
StN I have detailed files	CAPTCHA asking for street sign details from an image to prove you are not a robot? If anything, the current state of the art AI is in cars that read street signs. Unless all we are doing is training the robots to be better at finding signs.

14th February 2017, 14:58	#40520
blynk	Isn't that what captcha got into ages ago. It got people to help insert text from books that the computer couldn't distinguish. That was when there were 2 images. One was the correct image to guess, and the other was the image google didn't know. So the same could be used here, although you would still need an image to validate.