* Posts by Gazareth

164 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Dec 2011

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Public told to go to hell, name Pluto's two new moons

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Classical Underworld?

Got to be Slippy & Cowgirl.

Space station 'naut supplies Reg with overhead snap of Vulture Central

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Re: You can see our house from up there!

Do you two live next door to me or something?

Review: Dell XPS 10 Windows RT tablet and dock

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It was, until they bought Alienware. XPS is more the 'Premium' brand rather than performance nowadays.

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"Is there a reason you've totally hidden the "comments" box?"

Top left. So that those who want to make reactionary uninformed comments without reading the article don't have to scroll to the bottom :)

Jammy b*stards: Admen flog chocolate bars with 'Wi-Fi-free' zones

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Re: I just don't get it...

"fuck the people sitting next to me"

Be rude not to, really.

Drop that can of sweet pop and grab a coffee - for your sanity's sake

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Re: Thanks, Ace.

It'll taste almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

Apple must apologise for its surly apology on its website on Saturday

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Correct, they're referring to the online lesbian magazine.

Bond fans: Test your 007 trivia, now!

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26 for me

Which seems to put me much higher up the list than I'd expected!

Halo 4 game review

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Re: Good review...

Easy explanation for lack of fauna - any species that run towards explosions/gun fire/big metal exoskeletons have become extinct. The fauna's there, it's just heading rapidly away from you :)

Slideshow: A History of Horror in 20 Scary Games

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Loved the 7th Guest

D was good as well, although I suspect it hasn't aged well.

Half Life gave me a few jumpy moments, and the Ravenholm level in HL2...

The opening of Bioshock, where you're trapped in the Bathysphere had the heart racing too!

Quarter of Eastern cell towers BLOWN down BY SANDY - FCC

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Re: Still no Zombies?

There were loads out last night. Killed about 15 of them myself. Dunno why they were all carrying sweets.

Lindsay Lohan storm over Hitler, Hurricane tweets: 'It was hackers'

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In these cases, I tend read 'Hacked'

as mate got hold of my phone & stitched me up...

Nobody knows what to call Microsoft's ex-Metro UI

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Notro

Always worked for me. TIFKAM is too much of a mouthful too.

Dr No, Thunderball, Casino Royale? Vote now for the best Bond film

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Union Flag parachute, Lotus, Underwater Lair, Sharks, Jaws, Barbara Bach and Caroline Munro (mmm Naomi). Not to mention a cracking theme song :)

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Re: OHMSS

Ooo forgot how good that track is... Hope it's on Spoitfy!

Publicity Stunt of the Week: Ten bizarre phone insurance claims

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Re: I followed that link to the past excuses.

Lost a 2-week old pair of Raybans once this way.

Funnily enough, I've not done it again since!

Everything Everywhere prices up UK 4G

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That website's horrific

And why are the 24-month mobile broadband prices higher than the 18-month?

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Re: Bullshit pricing

Alright Betty?

Dishonored game review

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Re: Glitches

It's not a Bethesda title - they're just publishing it.

Arkane Studios are the development team.

Enjoying it so far, do keep thinking at points that Batman: AC was more fun though.

GCHQ boss: Crypto-genius Turing brought tech to British spooks

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Re: Not eccentric - intelligent, practical and sensible.

Don't work in my office do you?

Perth porkfest crowned ULTIMATE BACON SARNIE

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Re: How did pork

Breadcrumbs, Red, White, No.

And now that's done, we can talk Super Noodle sandwiches.

I'll start with... Bacon flavour :)

From Dr No to Skyfall: The Reg's one month of Bond

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Re: But what about the books?

Yeah, that got a laugh in the cinema.

He orders the drink as described above near the start of the card game.

There's a moment of quiet reflection, then most of the rest of the players order one too. Le Chiffre is a little wound up by this.

NASA working on faster-than-light drive capable of WARP TEN

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Re: It doesn't take take thousands of years

The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks had some similar issues in the semi-background.

People on the slow ships being overtaken by the quicker method.

And then the quicker method gets broken.

Catapults, subsidies, and benefits: Bongonomics explained

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Happy

To all not getting these columns...

... I prescribe catching some episodes of Nathan Barley.

Not making sense is much of the point of these columns :)

Everything Everywhere to be Nothing Nowhere in rebrand

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Omnishambles

Because I like the word.

Apple's patent insanity infects Silicon Valley

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Re: Tried to rate article 11 out of 10

That's because Christopher Guest holds the patent on that.

Hacker-smasher: White hats join forces to build bot-beating weapon

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The Poster Who Was Thursday?

Why British TV drama is crap – and why this matters to tech firms

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Re: Piffle

Nope, it's the very definition of a procedural show, which they all are & the production of which the US have got down to a fine art.

Watch out for the GIGANTIC ALIEN JELLYFISH, warns space boffin

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Re: I think she's read "The Culture: Look to Winward"

The Dwellers were wheel shaped or something?

Sounds more like his companion the littler Hathering or whatever her name was.

Speedball 2 Brutal Deluxe

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Headmaster

Loved playing this years ago, you're right that not many other sports games can matched its fast & fun gameplay!

On a pedantic note, in his current role as England manager, Roy Hodgson doesn't actually have the option to buy & sell players...

Menaced cartoonist raises $60,000 for copywrong

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Re: Arse Technica

I'd attribute it to AutoCorrect myself.

Mr Sulu causes DDoS panic after posting link on Facebook

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Re: From the article and comments, we can deduce 2 things;

Early 30's.

Facebook unfriends 19-inch data center racks

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Re: Frank Frankovsky

Finally, somebody commented on it :)

Cracking name!

Computer nostalgia is 10 PRINT 'BOLLOCKS'

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Re: 30 RUN

It appears he's not the only one!

Spotify dances onto iPad

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Re: Why is it only for premium users?

I seriously doubt the pricing model is the dev's decision ;)

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Re: Beta is good

I hope they hurry release then, the current version is ruddy awful!

Inside Turing: Computer boffinry to cuffing cups to radiators

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Re: Surely an invention?

I'm wondering myself!

Biologists create synthetic DNA capable of EVOLUTION

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Re: I tried reading about it, via the link

Thanks. Not entirely happy with the analogy, but it'll suffice.

It's a while since I've been in the lab!

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Re: I tried reading about it, via the link

ELISA is kinda like panning for gold, but with a much higher accuracy.

The rest of the TLA's are basically just telling you the colour & shape of the pan :)

Telegraph website falls over in outage riddle

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I reckon El Reg killed it...

By linking them in the Aviva story.

Larry Page has painful day on stand in Oracle Java case

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Re: Oops

No, no, it's the biography of Robert Downey Jr. he did.

Still don't see the relevance though.

Sci Fi recomendations?

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Also, thumbs up for Iain M. Banks.

The Algebraist is one of my favourite books, and I'm just finishing Excession for about the 6th time.

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I'd highly recommend Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon. Blew my mind.

Last & First Men by the same author isn't a bad read either.

Prehistoric monster snake crushed prey under 1.5 Brooklyn Bridges

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I think the implication is weight of the BB spread over surface area of you. Or a suitably chosen standard human.

Coders' 'lives sucked out' by black-and-white Visual Studio 11

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Re: real coders use notepad

Nope, butterflies.

Quitting your job? Here's how not to do it

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You seem to have toned it down a bit on this one Dominic!

Still a good read though, thanks.

Chinese to burn iPads in upcoming celebrations

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Facepalm

"Determined to thank him, the King burned down the forest in the hope of smoking him out so he could find him. Sadly Jie and his elderly mother died in the fire."

Is it wrong that I find that utterly hilarious?

Sounds like something from a Douglas Adams novel!

Amazon boss finds Apollo 11 engines on seabed

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Re: If you really have too much money ...

So she's sitting on your spike?

Half of Apple fanbois would bank with the iPad titan

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Re: Either finance or defense - drugs and pr0n markets just too small

I believe Porsche have long made more money from financial dealings than from selling cars.

You're crap and paid too much for the little work you actually do

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Cheers Dominic

Another highly entertaining article. Love the way everyone interprets them differently & the discussion they provoke as a result :)

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