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Also: despite the fact that the laser canons can clearly only point straight ahead they should be capable of taking out bad guys at all angles.

Although that's not so much a law as an observation.

-pj

No Judge name should be longer than about 6 letters, unless they're Psi-Div, in which case they can be any length.

- pj

I like it, the badge and the eagle are both far too large, though (if you extend the drawing of the rest dredds torso that badge would cover most of his stomach)

- pj

From the article:

'The Reformation, which resulted in Europe's Protestant churches, is usually reckoned to have begun when Luther nailed 95 faeces to the door of Wittenberg's Castle Church on 31 October 1517.'

(*snigger* - did you see what I did?)

I'm hacked off that some of the stories I read contained spoilers about their current story within the story that I'm reading. What Tharg should do is provide us all with ANTI-SPOILER glasses (or simply a sheet of black paper) that we can hold over the comic strip so we can read it slowly before we get to that bit in the story that we might've accidentally looked at earlier while scanning the story.

Yours, outraged in Belfast.

PS Gordon scores another triumph - when will people learn the only way to deal with him is to starve him the 'oxygen of publicity' as the late great Thatcher once said. If Rennie isn't as bad as a prescribed terrorist organisation then I don't know what was.

HTH

IIRC most drums/toners are quoted with a life expectancy based on 5% coverage (which is rather like a normal letter). Printing comics with lots of black will obviously skew that figure, a page of Timson's will obviously head towards 98.437% black so that'd clearly reduce your rate. :P

-pj
(Other hint for toner, if you're getting a very poor print quality take it out and gently sway it - so that you level the toner out on the inside of the cartridge, toner is like very fine dust and can actually end up all on one side).

Well, drums have a life expectancy (of x thousand of pages) but this is typically based on y% coverage. Since no-one ever does that exactly right it's not uncommon for your laser to think it's about to give up the ghost but for it to still work for awhile (think of it like the warning guage on a cars petrol tank). I'd buy a drum so that if it stops working in the middle of a print run you can replace it and get up and running quickly.

- pj

A selection of letters to the Guardian in response to a campaign wherein the Gruniad encourage readers to write to residents of Ohio to convince to vote in a certain direction. Many, many funny responses.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1329858,00.html

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1329858,00.html" target="_blank">hehehe

I've worked with PCs for close to 15 years and I've had my mac (powerbook running OS X) and I'm a complete convert - it's both more reliable (I've had a couple of crashes but they've been pretty easy to both figure out the cause and reset without upsetting the computer), easier to use (again, 15 years of PC experience, DOS to Windows - I'm no idiot on a PC) and just plain nicer. When you've owned a powerbook you'll never want to pick up a horrible plastic PC again. Incidentally new iBooks out from ? 740 - really good value.

- pj

And once you've done all of that buy yourself a Playstation 2 and never worry about viruses or device drivers ever again.

(And also buy yourself a mac)

- pj

"timed out on accessing drive" would usually refer to the cd rather than a video driver.

Still could be faulty CD - most computer games allow a certain amount of their data to be transferred to the hard disc but still require access to the CD to make sure you're using a legitimate copy of the game. Not sure if this is what DvD does but it's not uncommon. It could be this hidden data is scratched. Still suggest you try CD in someone elses computer.

Course you could always email someone at Rebellion :)

-pj

Sounds like a faulty CD try it in someone else's PC. (Or, if you've got a CD drive and a DVD drive try it in the other drive).

I dunno, I was only born (or was that not clear...)

Anyhue, I think the point is moot as the thread zero seems to have disappeard or something. It's like a weird twilight zone thing.

- pj

Hey, this thread was started just after my birthday (28 Dec 1969).

- pj

In the end I didn't go today -- too much work on (day job/college/comic work), so sorry if anyone turned up there hoping to see me, and I'm happy for those people who turned up hoping not to see me.

Might still get down there tomorrow - but probably not.


-pj