* Posts by Toastan Buttar

806 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Jul 2008

WD lets loose ferocious 1TB VelociRaptor

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Headmaster

Re: Momentus

"Pray". 'Prey' is what animals do to the other creatures that they eat to survive,

Ikea to integrate TV, Blu-ray, sound system into sideboard

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Childcatcher

Radiogram

You wouldn't believe how much I want a radiogram. That rounded, wooden sound? Oh yeah.

Kids theses days with their MP3s on top-endy mobies. I want BASS goddamit!

Life on Mars found – in 1976

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Alien

Re: Is it too soon to launch a preemptive strike?

Perhaps, instead of chicken soup, we could send them a Pot Noodle.

Developer leaks Microsoft product plans for next two years

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Windows

Inuit

Why would an Inuit ice cream salesman be unwelcome in Redmond?

Parents shocked by priestly PowerPoint pr0n

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WTF?

Re: It's not the porn he should be embarrassed by, ...

"What does God need with a starship?"

RIM retracts denial on consumer devices: Pulls out, spins in circle

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FAIL

Re: BBM Kids

Nah, when teens in the UK first started getting mobiles, they all wanted a Nokia. That brand loyalty didn't stay with them when they started getting jobs.

Use the holy word of God to stay secure online, says bishop

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"OK. How many 'h's in shhhhh?"

OK. How many 'H's in Steps?

Microsoft tarts up custom Mustang Muscle Microserfmobile

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Happy

'Sup Dawg?

I heard you liked the Simpsons episode "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?".

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Stop

Re: copied from somewhere, but appropriate

I've ALWAYS used the "ignition" key to shut off the engine. That particular Car vs Windows joke has always bugged me.

Samsung Series 3 NP300E5A 15in notebook

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Re: no gaming needed!

I bought a sub-£350 laptop just after Xmas 2011. It has a very similar spec to this machine (Core i3, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium, DVD rewriter, big feck-off hard disk, USB 3 port, HDMI). It is an utter JOY to use and has replaced my previous XP-based desktop completely.

Windows 7 was a pleasant surprise, particularly when I plugged in my HP all-in-one printer / scanner and it just grabbed the drivers via Microsoft.

The most demanding tasks I use it for include video transcoding for an iPod Touch and running Propellerhead Reason. Both tasks piss all over the old machine. Transcoding takes a fraction of the time and Reason rarely climbs above 20% CPU usage, even with loads of tracks and modules running simultaneously.

I also use it as an HD video player over HDMI and it never breaks up or skips frames.

It's STUNNING what you can get for your money these days. Cheap Vista machines just weren't up to the job in hardware terms, but yer average entry-level Windows 7 box in 2012 gives you a pretty slick user experience.

NASA's Dawn probe spies 'Snowman' on asteroid queen Vesta

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Angel

My god, it's full of

...boil-in-the-bag curry.

6,000 sign e-petition to put Turing on £10 note

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Boffin

Re: Can we have

James Clerk Maxwell (though there's already a very nice statue of him in Edinburgh).

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Pint

Re: Incalculable?

"Did you catch the reference to the halting problem as well?"

I didn't at the time, I'm ashamed to say. A double-whammy! Good work fella, and an honour to meet you (Virtually, at least). Let me buy you a virtual pint.

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Boffin

Re: Incalculable?

Oh, well played indeed, sir!

The Facebook job test: Now interviewers want your logins

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Alien

You know, I hate to ask...

...but are "friends" electric? Are they?

Praying with the aliens.

Verizon unveils offspring surveillance service

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FAIL

Re: Won't someone... ahhhh you know the rest.

"OTOH, it's also a bit reassuring to check on their location if they're late and just find out they're en route, just held up. People missing their scheduled rendezvous tends to make people worry."

Or you could just, you know, phone them and ask where they are.

Free apps suck your power: researchers

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WTF?

Exsqueeze me???

Why does Angry Birds (ad-supported free edition) need to know your GPS location? How does that work on the iPod Touch?

BBC Micro team to celebrate historic machine's 30th year

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Re: 6809

Best. 8BitProcessor. Evar.

Flash DRAM wallop! Now Hynix fab cranks out NAND

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WTF?

"It looks like China is going to become the world's leading flash-production location."

Does it? Does it really?

Why speculate?

Windows 8: Thrown into a multi-tasking mosh pit

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Joke

Re: Jazz music

Jazz music sucks and I don't think I'll ever come to like it. I'm trying to educate myself by "reading the articles" in jazz magazines, though.

Compaq UK founder Joe McNally has died

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Holmes

Sounds like a decent fellow.

Someone in management who understood the day-to-day lives of "his workers". Who'd a thunk it?

Mobile gaming: battle of the gadgets

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Happy

"The Nintendo DS played vanguard in democratising gaming"

ITYF, that was the original Gameboy back in the '80s. And Tetris. A lethal combination.

Apple: We never said Siri would actually work in the UK

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Happy

Can it direct me to floor 11?

"Eleven".

"Eleven".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FFRoYhTJQQ

Linux PC-in-a-stick to cost coders £139

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: Real pi's tomorrow - not pre-orders

"My next laptop will be a (Pixel Qi LCD) + (Pi or FXI) + (keyboard) in a suitcase."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMS_Synthi_AKS

Apple files patent for 'polished meteorite' keyboard

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Coffee/keyboard

Polished Meteorite? Pah!

Everyone (including Apple) is thinking too small. The key caps on my cheap generic USB keyboard are made from material that came from the core of an exploding star.

Will Windows 8 sticker shock leave Microsoft unstuck?

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Go

Re: Give me more stickers!

http://www.paninionline.com/collectibles/institutional/bt/uk/

Apple lands slide-to-unlock patent blow on Motorola

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Shoe size range?

What does your post even mean?

UK shoe sizes start at Child's 4. Goes up to adult 13. SNR = 4:13

US shoe sizes start at Child's 5. Goes up to adult 13. SNR = 5:13

Euro shoe sizes start at 22. Goes up to around 49. SNR = 22:49

Sounds like pretty good content on an internet forum.

Microsoft spoons news to punters with Facebook, Twitter-slurp

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Happy

Re: Re: AN ALARMING ITEM TO FIND ON YOUR TWITTERSLURP

> from the people who brought us Microsoft Works

“The goal is to catch trends as they are accelerating and capture them before they hit the mainstream, in a way that is captivating,” said Microsoft Bob

Swiss space-cleaning bot grabs flying junk, hurls itself into furnace

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Terminator

WALL-E

The first thought to cross my mind was WALL-E.

Reptile boffins spot world's smallest chameleon

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"Mini-meleons"

Love it!

Ten... Valentine's Day gifts for her

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Dougal

"This is a small planet. That one's far away."

IT guy answers daughter's Facebook rant by shooting her laptop

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Angel

Squirrel Hunting?

Really? They pose such a threat. Glad there are people like you protecting us out there.

Sinofsky shows off Windows 8 on ARM and Office15

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Visual Studio

Visual Studio is the best piece of software ever to have come out of Redmond. And the best IDE in the world, bar none.

FBI investigated Steve Jobs' reality distortion field, LSD use

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Meh

What about the other three designers?

"All Jobs did was to make the Designers the most important people in his tech company - not the Techies, or the Suits, the Designers. Bingo."

What about Fleegle, Drooper and Snork?

Apple's new TV allegedly spotted... in Canadian office

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Revolutionising TV?

"The television will not be revolutionised" - Gil Scott Heron

Russians drill into buried 20 million-year-old Antarctic lake

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Headmaster

Redundant much?

"completely unique". Grrrrrrrrrr.

Laser boffins blast bits onto hard drive at 200Gb/sec

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Boffin

The correct SI unit of capacity:

Station wagons full of tapes per double-decker elephant.

Scientists weave battery into clothing

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Terminator

Super Hero or Super Villain

The Human Dynamo! Electro-Man! Able to stun his foes with a touch of his cuff-links.

Apple vs Amazon in ereader format smackdown

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Stop

Reaching an audience

"That's huge. That's a game-changer; it creates a system whereby the marketplace of ideas suddenly is vastly larger than it was, and a person with a good idea but not a lot of money now has the ability to reach an audience."

Personal Blogs allowed the "person with a good idea" to reach an audience. The marketplace of ideas is /already/ vastly larger than it was.

Oh, wait...

Sometimes, barriers to entry are a blessing for the consumer.

US tweet deportation: Chilling behind-the-scenes photos

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Coffee/keyboard

You can't fool me.

She was never a British citizen. Emily Bunting is actually a Swedish scientist called Anni-Frid!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/19/ufo_crash_site/page3.html

ARM rains on x86 as smartphones outship PCs

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Power

I need my laptop to deliver a fair whack of power. I know that's not everyone's use case, but it'll be a while before ARM can fit the bill for me.

Airbrushed Rachel Weisz gets watchdog hot under the collar

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Paris Hilton

Phugly Rase

"I can't think of another phrase that's more demeaning to a woman."

I'm sure if you asked a woman, she could tell you a few.

Berkeley boffins crack brain wave code

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Mushroom

Rush - Manhattan Project

"The big-shots tried to hold it back,

Fools tried to wish it away."

Technology is neutral. Man's use of it is not.

Angry Birds boss: Piracy helps us 'get more business'

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WTF?

@ A J Stiles

Do you have the source code for your digital camera's OS?

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Linux

Don't do it

Ditto for Plants vs Zombies. Also available from the Apple Crack Store.

Non-angry bird as icon.

Man recreates ZX81... in Lego

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Lego and Sinclair Micros

Responsible for eating all my spare time from the ages of five-to-<ahem>.

Surprise: Neil Young still hates digital music

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FLAC

Some online music retailers offer FLAC. Just sayin'.

Update Facebook by thrusting your hips to, er ... 'Like' things

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Black Helicopters

Fireball

I used to be a member of the Fireball Club. I wonder if it's now safe to reveal the secret information that Fireball's uncle was actually..

<NO CARRIER>

American search team fails to find women's G-spot

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What's the best way to bring a woman to orgasm?

Who cares?

It's official: Google is the happiest place in the USA

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Out At 5

Scott Adams got it spot-on in The Dilbert Principle nearly 20 years ago. People do a job so that they can support the stuff they like to do outside of work. My Cow Orkers, decent people as they are, are not and never will be my family.

<shudder>