* Posts by hplasm

5613 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2009

Microsoft admits it's '18 months behind' with Windows 8 slabs

hplasm
Meh

Hmmm

...they will soon start to put the clamps on the iPad v1

There- that's more like it.

Paypal makes man 1000x as rich as the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE

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Happy

Re: @Zmodem

Barclays Etc are evil. Don't go near them.

Worst part of the Barclays group.

PRISM scandal: Brit spooks operated within the law, say politicos

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Childcatcher

Re: LMAO!

Still bleating I see.

BT slammed for FAILING to explain why its broadband investment has shrunk

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Meh

Re: Live in sticks

Give BT pots of cash, get worse services- it's not a new idea.

Microsoft's next device could be a Surface Watch

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Happy

Sinclair's Black Watch.

Will probably sell more than the MS one in total

Hubble spots ALIEN NAVY world – and it's pelted with GLASS RAIN

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Happy

Re: "Microsoft Azure"

Hey- it's not That bad!

Forecast cloudy as Office 365 pushes into 38 new markets

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Gimp

Re: the Microsoft steaming (pile of) installer

How did you get past AdBlocker?

Screw it, says NSA leaker Snowden: I'm applying for asylum in Russia

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Meh

Re: Not a problemo

Well, perhaps he can talk to our Mr Bryant at length in there, during Happy Hour.

Forget Snowden: What have we learned about the NSA?

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Trollface

Re: alain williams Secret laws

BLEAT LESS!

Good advice. Why don't you just do that?

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Gimp

Re: Anonymous Cowpatbrain Did William Hague know about PRISM spying?

Your rock. Back under it. Nothing for you to fawn over here, Doormatt.

JOBS from beyond grave: I AM NOT A CROOK, it was an 'aikido move'

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Happy

Re: "the whole service will have to rely on clerical data entry, "

That would be an ecumenical matter...

STEVE BALLMER KILLS WINDOWS

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Happy

Re: Not actual substance or anything resembling an argument.

But this isn't an argument -it's more of a joyful anticipation!

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Windows

Re: ya

"all them profits are the result of terrible performance...."

Not just that- don't forget customer lock-in and stupid inertia.

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Windows

Re: Adapt or deserve to die.

Are you listening, Microsoft?

Oh please, PLEASE bring back Xbox One's hated DRM - say Xbox loyalists

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Meh

"...consumers were uninformed..."

Weasel Words.

fuck right off you shill.

Big Beardie is watching you: Lord Sugar gets into facial recognition

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Devil

Re: Beardie (did Branson lose that title when he posed as a stewardess?)

Keep Beardie for Branson.

May I propose Prune-Faced Spiv for Sugar?

BT earmarks super-speedy 300Mbit/s broadband for 50 exchanges

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Meh

Re: Great, but will BT prioritise those areas that need this?

Follow the money...

Are driverless cars the death knell of the motor biz?

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Terminator

Re: At night ......

HONK! HONK!

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Pint

Re: Own the box rent the motor (again)

This *could* work- but only when we live in cities like the Jetsons. Existing infrastructure wouldn't support it, it would be like bin-collection day every half-hour, every day.

Sadly.

Google loses Latitude in Maps app shake-up

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Happy

Re: B0rked

"I tried to set my old man up on Open Maps..."

Are you the Cerne Abbas Giant?

Devon was the clue...

US Congress proposal: National Park will be FOUND ON MOON

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Happy

Re: Russia ...claiming the North Pole

If they want it, they can bloody well haul it away. Otherwise...

Universal Credit: ONLY 6 job centres to get new dole system in October

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Happy

Glenda 1

I & D Smiths both -100

Ciseco Pi-Lite: Make a Raspberry Pi trip light fantastic with 126 LEDs

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Thumb Up

Re: Any one remember ...

POV displays. Clocks come to mind, but very popular on Instructables etc.

Brits: Give us £1m and we'll build a crack ALIEN-HUNTING TEAM

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WTF?

Re: Who will be first to discover Alien life here on earth ??

Wow.

What colouri s your breath when you exhale?

Microsoft: Still using Office installed on a PC? Gosh, you squares

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Devil

Re: A text editor would be more attractive than Microsoft Office

Emacs or Vi?

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Happy

If you're on a plane, you might be in the cloud!

Microsoft preps UK Surface Pro 'pilot', tiptoes around Win 8 OEM rivals

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Meh

"It is a pilot, the reason we are calling it a pilot..."

So we can blame 'pilot error' when it crashes and burns.

Radar gremlins GROUND FLIGHTS across southern Blighty

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Big Brother

Re: I'm going on holidays in two weeks

Two weeks in Gitmo.

You're doomed!

Snowden: US and Israel did create Stuxnet attack code

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Meh

Re: "the Queen's selfies to the pool boy"

And yet you keep posting...

Samsung Galaxy S3 explodes, turns young woman into 'burnt pig'

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Linux

Re: @ Daniel B.

"unbuckle my belt, drop my pants and run."

Icon - because... :)

Microsoft to ship Windows 8.1 in 'late August'

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Happy

Re: Windows 8.1 Blended Background...

Mini Metro- that explains the previous TIFKAM name!

And the shitness!

PEAK SAMSUNG? Shares slide ahead of BEELLLIONS in profit

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Thumb Up

Re: Stock Market

Screw them right in their faces with a big greasy moose dick.

Sideways?

Elon Musk's Grasshopper tops 300m, lands safely

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Thumb Down

Re: Pretty... but pointless

"They could have produced exactly the same results with a parachute..."

-or by not taking off in the first place.

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Boffin

Re: why doesn't it just topple over?

Rocket Science.

Europe: OK, we'll 'backload' carbon emissions - but we'd better not lose big biz

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Meh

Carbon Trading my Arse!

It's a money-making scam.

The only way to reduce 'Carbon Footprints'' (FFS) is to ban Firewalking.

Microsoft offloads heap of critical fixes in 'ugly' Patch Tuesday

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Meh

Re: Bah!

"Hundreds and hundreds of issues."

Not this week- what was he running- potato?

I smell porkies.

hplasm
Gimp

Re: "I was hoping the first Post-Eadon Patch Tuesday......

"..."brain-deads" actually used to upvote him...."

Windows buyers voting EADON UP?

How rare.

hplasm
Windows

Re: Tiresome

Don't like shitty smells?

Don't try to cover them up- stop making shit in the first place!

Upturned boat sails to Shed of the Year title

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Coat

Re: Old news

Don't they have houses there yet?

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Happy

Re: Jealous

Nah-not so popular, he's Jamie Oliver!

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Thumb Up

Great shed!

Lovely stove!

INVASION of the UNDEAD ANDROIDS: Hackers can pwn 'nearly all' devices

hplasm
Devil

" I bet we'd all be hearing a different tune if that was windows 8 in the title..."

But only 2 people would be affected, so why bother?

Win 8 man Sinofsky's 'retirement' deal: $14m shares, oath of silence

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Happy

Re: Why are you suprised?

Except people might like to buy a Honda Civic with tractor tyres- that would be awesome!

Unlike DoggedOS, which is not.

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Windows

Re: I'll believe in a conspiracy...

" You rarely if ever hear the phrase "ew, the new orange on this hammer is so yucky, what a horror. I'm going back to bashing nails in with my head", do you?"

You do when it turns out that the 'hammer' you thought you were buying turns out to be an orange on a stick.

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Devil

Re: Eadon hols?

Eadon is Sinofsky - he had to go as the terms of his golden parachute kicked in.

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Gimp

Re: the difference between them and a mere mortal

Did they let you kiss their awesome behind?

Rest your head against a train window, hear VOICES in your SKULL

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Happy

Re: What is Sky Go?

SkyGo, SkyDrive, SkyTrain.

Next? SkyDive.... (we can hope...)

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Facepalm

Re: WTF is a train conductor

It's like a Bus Conductor, but on a train, see?

AMD joins LibreOffice, adds GPU grunt to free software suite

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Linux

Another nail in the MS Office Coffin...

Excellent! Full speed ahead, guys!

Vulcan? Not on our tiny balls. Pluto moons named Kerberos, Styx

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Happy

Re: So the "Vulcan" name was a bad candidate to begin with?

They must be out of their Vulcan minds!