* Posts by hplasm

5613 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2009

Climate scientists link global warming to extreme weather

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FAIL

Re: ...some cause, X...

That would be what enlightened souls have called *the Sun* for many millenia.

Open source port-a-thon brings Ubuntu to more phones, tablets

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Linux

There's a storm coming-

Better board up your Windows.

Microsoft's own code should prevent an Azure SSL fail: So what went wrong?

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Devil

So if you want a good, stable Cloud coputing system do you choose:-

a. Microsoft, A 'Software Company' or

b. Amazon, a bookshop?

Answers on a Valid Certificate...

Best Buy takes axe to touchy Windows 8 PCs - lops $100 off price

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Windows

Re: Customers are happier with Win8 touch-

Er- the customers are supposed to be happier with them- so how come they 'aren't aware' of the products?

Tut tut.

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FAIL

Customers are happier with Win8 touch-

So much that they aren't buying them, so we are dropping the price to make them happier, not to shift the things...

Riiiight...

Itsy-bitsy Wi-Fi brings pay-by-bonk to all

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Happy

PayPal

Bumpay?

Linus Torvalds in NSFW Red Hat rant

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Trollface

Re: Once again...

Point and laugh, everyone, point and laugh.

Microsoft coughs up compensation for Azure cloud cock-up

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FAIL

Re: Is this new?

Azure- Blue Sky (What Was I ) Thinking...

Quantum computer one step closer after ‘true’ quantum calculation

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Boffin

Re: Meanwhile...

...a lab worker in one of Fort Meade's basements is reading this article and getting nostalgic for when they will at some time in the near future, manage to do this a few years ago...

The cheap 3D craft pen that scribbles over 3D printing hype

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Thumb Up

Re: There are basically two types of people on the world....

The coathanger in turn is the pupal stage of the shopping trolley.

Microsoft latest to 'fess up to Java-based Mac attack

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Meh

Re: Uh.. how do you think they write Office for Mac?

Half-heartedly.

Is world's first space tourist Dennis Tito planning a trip to Mars?

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Happy

Re: Buried on Mars

@Swarthy= Are you Mr Burns ? :)

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Thumb Up

Re: He isn't walking on Mars...

Mars 8

Get your mission patch.

Mars 11, July 2019.......

Council IT bod in the dock for flogging scrap work PC parts

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Big Brother

Re: Wee legal note

And if you don't fill your bin, but recycle it yourself- prepare for a fine- as it 'belongs' to the council to flog off, suddenly.

(There is a case of a 'green' farmer who fell foul of this but it's Friday so can't be arsed to find a link...)

Ubuntu Preview alpha arrives for fondleslabs and phones

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Unhappy

Re: What about the fragmentation issue?

Who are you calling a fud?

Google reveals Glass details in patent application

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Happy

Re: I would guess...

You can pretty much guarantee someone will complain of eye strain right after putting them on.

Now Right Ear Strain from that big rectangular bit...

Chromebook app launcher touted to Chrome browser users

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WTF?

Re:This one

You think you are Jackie Chan?

Drone quadracopters throw and catch inverted pendulum

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Facepalm

Re: BAE's "Gorgon Stare"?

Ahem- "Wikipedia says:"

Bill Gates: 'Microsoft didn't MISS cell phone' bandwagon

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Unhappy

Re: El Presidente

Unfortunately it would probably be a waste of about £100M...

Hipsters have spoken: Microsoft is 'hip to be square'

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Devil

"One hundred percent of all Xboxes go to the consumers..."

...54.2% come back again.

Google takes Chromebook upmarket with touchy-feely Pixel

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Windows

Re: 3:2

No.

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Windows

Re: Seriously

Seriously?Are you 12?

But I agree- the Surface is pile of shite.

New blow for Microsoft Surface: Touch Chromebooks 'on sale in 2013'

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WTF?

Re: Can someone please call

Scroll up? Or are you using a Surface?

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Happy

Re: Not sure what to make of the Surface

A skateboard?

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Meh

Re: I was GIVEN a Chromebook last year...

maybe it IS You...?

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Happy

Re: What's a Microsoft Surface?

Shiny and bald, rounded- a bit sweaty.

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Windows

Re: Different kinds of products

Did I say Win 7 was any good?

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Devil

Re: Different kinds of products

"machines that run full OS's like MacOS but not Win8"

Google stokes hype machine over Project Glass robospecs

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Happy

@Derek

"They all laughed at Christopher Columbus...."

And he told you this though your Spirit Guide, Tontohontas?

Sony promises PC-based PlayStation 4 for Christmas

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Terminator

Re: Lightbar

Cool!

Nature pulls ‘North Korean radioactivity’ story

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Mushroom

The correct term-

for the NK bombs so far seems to be PHUT!!!

Survey: Bosses are DESPERATE and GAGGING for Linux skills

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Trollface

Re: Please try to avoid posting too much

Said the AC troll...

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Headmaster

Re: For a start it's "Microsoft MCSE"

Is that like "PIN Number"?

AMD: Star Trek holodecks within reach

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Devil

Re: Well

It did get 'rebooted' once in TNG.

That was a very shark-jumpy moment...

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Meh

Re: Holodecks aren't just about processing power

The most difficult one- and the most annoying 'holodeck' feature- how to run, fly or ride an imaginary holohorse for bloody miles without smashing into the wall 10 feet in front of you.

the all singing holodeck was just a plot device for B&B's 2nd rate writers.

Microsoft: You want Office for Mac, fanboi? You'll pay Windows prices

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Linux

Libre Office

Can be easily downloaded for the Mac- no messing.

Ubuntu? Fedora? Mint? Debian? We'll find you the right Linux to swallow

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Windows

Re: Mint is great but ...

"...instead of having security ground up like in Windows."

There, fixed that for you.

Inside Microsoft's 'Cloud OS'

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Devil

MS-

Clown OS?

Crucial question after asteroid near-miss: How big was rock in Olympic pools?

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Happy

Re: But how much does it weigh...

In orbit? Approximately 0.

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Alien

Re: Hmm...

Pah- just another day on Metaluna...

Dev preview of Ubuntu for phones touching down February 21

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Gimp

shoddy OSX knock-off...

But iOS 6 is already available on phones.

The universe speaks: 'It's time to get off your rock!'

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FAIL

Re: none of this is new

Evolutionary dead-end.

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Thumb Up

Re: To sum up...

Too true- the only sustained Goverment policy is Burning Rome Fiddling- or just Fiddling in general.

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Happy

Re: @Dennis Wilson (was: Lucky)

It is Russia- think of all the broken glass, and bottle.

Inside Microsoft's Surface Pro: A fiendishly difficult journey

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Happy

Re: A tablet with fans

Hoverboard surely- I've only seen one with skateboard wheels on it...

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Meh

Re: Any justification for it being this way?

Surface sinking?

The official iPhone actually runs Android - in Brazil

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Coat

Re: It takes 8 years ...!

Why not molasses? Mussolini's govt ran the trains on thyme...

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Gimp

Re: So much hate...

The iphone strait isn't in Brazil, it;s in the far East somewhere...

Irony alert: Pirate Bay accuses anti-piracy group of illegal copying

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Pirate

har har!

+10 Internets to TPB!

Yarr!

Apple: iOS 6.1 network overload caused by our Exchange SYNC OF DOOM

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Windows

Re: Is MS software really so good these days?

As good as ever.

No cooking required, it seems.