* Posts by hplasm

5611 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2009

Windows 8 for Kindle-like gear hinted by Microsoft bigwig

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Angel

Re: ERP

ERP!

Pardon me!

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Happy

Re: Metro on TV?

So you can buy my new invention; The Finglonger. Oh my, yes!

/Farnsworth

Pirate Bay plans sky-high flying proxy servers

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Pirate

International Waters?

Wouldn't that make it an act of REAL piracy?

Austrian daredevil Baumgartner skydives from 71,581ft

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Happy

Standard for jumping out of a plane.

Without expletives - not the first jump...

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Thumb Up

Re: looks

That's *next* year...

Xbox 360 video cable boasts NOISE VIRUS protection

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Happy

That's-

The Small Print.

Don't read it carefully.

Charge of the Metro brigade: Did Microsoft execs plan to take a hit?

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Windows

Re: What?

So what you are saying is: Windows 8- by idiots, for idiots.

That explains the backward compatibility...

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Windows

Re: Disable Metro UI

The beauty of Windows is never needing the command line... yeah, right.

NASA's 5-rocket mission to blast off tonight

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Facepalm

Methinks-

The Chemtrail Troofers will be all over this one...

Report: UK falls behind as smart meters rolled out across Europe

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Devil

Re: Solar?

No they won't- they're smart like that.

Follow the £££££££...

Council spunks '£100k on how to wash your hands' vid

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Happy

Re: There are plenty of blokes who could do with watching this video

Under your desk? Are you Management or something?

Hands on with the Apple iPad 3

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Happy

Re: Ports?

You are considering purchasing a practicing homosexual for a friend?

How kind!

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Meh

Re: non standard Apple 2048 x 1536 V a real Samsung WQXGA panel at 2560 x 1600, no contest

True.

Perhaps Adequate is adequate for Apple?

Nuke clock incapable of losing time chimes with boffins

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Facepalm

Re: A measure

This should have been a reply to "What is a Jedward?"

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Happy

A measure

of extreme density.

LYING iPhone 4S mobes claim 4G connection on 3G network

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Gimp

Reality-

Is merely being distorted.

It's not that big of a deal.

Ofcom probes deeper, wider in BSkyB 'fit and proper' test

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Thumb Up

Probe and probe hard!

Any whilst their eyes are still watering, get someone to hack their phones.

Top Brit authors turn flamethrowers on barmy IPO

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FAIL

Re: Abso-bloody-lutely

Why don't you just do it then?

Oh- lack the talent, perhaps; they say that everyone has a novel in them...but that's where 99% of them should stay.

Warp drives are PLANET KILLERS, Sydney Uni students find

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Just proves Niven's idea

That any good space drive also makes a good weapon.

Citrix drops Rush Limbaugh over 'slutgate' slurs

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Devil

First Citrix drop him.

Hopefully SpaceX , Virgin Galactic or NASA can drop him soon. Literally , and onto someone who deserves it.

Odious Bastard.

Tony Blair closes RSA 2012, denounces WikiLeaks

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Holmes

Re: Wow

Now you have achieved enlightenment, Grasshopper, try to imagine this infinitely larger.

Metro breakdown! Windows 8 UI is little gain for lots of pain

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Windows

Re: And here come the OSX and Linux users...

Missionaries?Don't flatter yourself. Nobody is interested in Windows castoffs, not even fanboys.

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Linux

Re: You can turn metro off

The trouble with Windows is it seems you can't do much without messing about in the command line...

tsk!

Windows 8: Sugar coating on Microsoft's hard-to-swallow tablet

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: Hard to swallow?

New virtual keyboard here please!

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Re: Microsoft Tiles™

Doors? You get to things behind doors... It might make more sense.

Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours

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Happy

Azure Screen

Of Death.

Child abuse suspect won't be forced to decrypt hard drive

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Trollface

Re: Re: what

You have it in for rappers now?

Troll.

Death to Office or to Windows - choose wisely, Microsoft

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FAIL

Re: How rude can the loosing set get?

What has been loosed can be tightened.

But seriously, it's so good to hear from a real live expert; good job you came along when you did.

Do stick around, I'm certain that we can organise a collection from the grateful.

Hey Commentard! - or is that Commenter?

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Happy

Re: We're all special now

Where does that leave Special Ops personnel?

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Thumb Up

Re: Push back the limits

I agree! Down with Handwringing Tuttards!

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Happy

Re: 3rd option?

In with the other cheerleader stuff? Have you tried the pompom locker?

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Trollface

Re: Freetard and Commentard are very appropriate

Aha! Trolltard!

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Boffin

Re: Commenterino

Didn't you post this tomorrow?

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FAIL

Ah, I see- you dont Understand....

Just say you don't get it then. No shame in that.

Or are you just being Victor Mature?

NASA sniffs little black hole's 20-million-MPH wind

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Happy

Re: 'Black' holes... Does high school physics say they shouldn't be black?

Pictures or I can't picture it!

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WTF?

Space is big- really big.

Even bigger than Texas.

Labour targets Tories' Google problem

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Windows

Re: Bing...

Yes, there is Bing- perhaps that's just what she meant.

Spitzer spots first solid buckyballs in stellar disc

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Happy

Hmm- the sign says-

"Caution! Things at work. Heavy Planets Crossing. Ringworld under construction."

OPERA grabs spanner, fixes kit, and slows down neutrinos

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Unhappy

Let me be amongst the first to say-

Oh Bugger.

...and now back to the X-Factor.

CRACK made by quakes FOUND ON MOON

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Happy

Hot Soup!

Dragons!

Squirrelled away: seeds survive 30,000-year winter

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Happy

Aha!

Tesco has been selling this fruit for ages!

Pirate Bay AND its users violate labels' copyright - judge

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FAIL

First they came for the copyright infringers-

And nobody said anything much.

Then they came for the trolls, and everyone cheered.

Anonymous internet tough guys- sound like pirates to me...

Canadians revolt over draconian internet privacy bill

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Big Brother

The ISPs need to-

disconnect the Govt- surely they have the 'right to refuse service' like any shopkeep etc?

Boffins claim breakthrough in hovering robothopter experiments

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Happy

poo!

Flying middens!

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Pirate

Me too

I would like a mighty 'thoptercraft!

How else can I get down from the most powerful weapon in the universe?

Yrs,

Stanley H Tweedle

Space: 1999 returning to TV?

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Stop

CHiPs...

Careful now...

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Coat

...That's no Moon!

sorry.

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Happy

I must agree-

Bain and Landau always seemed to come as a matched pair after that,no matter what the programme was. I think they were married eventually(?), but it did tend to spoil things, knowing the other one would turn up sooner or later. Shame really,as Mr Landau was quite interesting in whatever part he played.

Rumour has it they came in a velvet lined presentation case...

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

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FAIL

You can't be

seriouls?

IT crowd sorts out the Mars Science Lab

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WTF?

Well, it's not rocket science....

And brain surgeons know little about semiconductors and CPU registers, so...