* Posts by CaptainCorrection

28 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jun 2012

Boffin rediscovers 1960s attempt to write fiction with computers

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What happened to the Lion?

Maybe Peter Jackson could turn that story into a movie trilogy.

Cloud may be the future, but it ain't all sunshine and rainbows

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That is the proce you pay for convinience...

Thank you, Officer Crabtree.

Hacker exposed bank loophole to buy luxury cars and a face tattoo

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Wait..

There's a 1am in the morning now?

Microsoft totters from time machine clutching Windows 10 Workstation

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depreciated

Greetings. You mean 'deprecated'. Thank you!

User loses half of a CD-ROM in his boss's PC

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promised him that I'd be discrete

You mean 'discreet'. Thank you!

PC survived lightning strike thanks to a good kicking

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Re: Since you ask me for a tale of a psychic keyboard...

Finnemore reference!

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Re: A lightening breaks

Lightening and lightning are two different words. Please use the right one - thank you!

'Trash-80' escapes the dustbin of history with new TRS-80 emulator

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Re: 20 IF N=1 GOTO 10

Thank you! Tried many flavours of BASIC but never got my hands on a TRS-80 (just gazed longingly at them in the Tandy Catalogue)

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20 IF N=1 GOTO 10

Missing 'THEN'?

Two Sundays wrecked by boss who couldn't use a calendar

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Re: 80% the work I do is pointless!

Greetings. You probably mean 'committees'. You might actually mean comities, but I doubt it. Cheerio!

25 years of SNK's Neo Geo video gaming platform

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Nice article

I think it's chutzpah rather than hutzpah though.

Hear that sound? It's the Windows XP PC bubble popping

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WTF?

Yeah The PC Musterd Rice will game, on Beige Boxes for the time being

What?

Totes AMAZEBALLS! Side boob, binge-watch and clickbait added to Oxford Dictionary

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Each year we get the 'new words' announcement...

...and each year I despair. Presumably some of these neologisms fall into disuse and are removed? I'd like to see a companion list showing words that are no longer included.

Chromecast hack Rickrolls Google's TV stick

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Video of device being demonstrated

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

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Stop

p0wn

Stop writing 'p0wn', it doesn't make sense. The 'leetspeak' word is pwn, which arose because of a typo (O being next to P). If you put an O (or zero) in it, what's the P for?

That AMAZING Windows comeback: Wow – 0.5% growth in 2015

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purposefully blocked in classrooms

Greetings

I expect you mean "purposely" (intentionally) rather than "purposefully" (done with determination).

Thank you!

20 years on: eWorld, Apple's spectacular online 'portal' failure

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Re: Ridiculous hat worn inside:

yep. Looks alarmingly like Walter White!

Decades ago, computing was saved by CMOS. Today, no hero is in sight

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It's "premise"

Yes, or "premiss".

Bucket? Check. Toilet plunger? Check. El Reg's 50 years of Doctor Who

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TV programs

Inevitable whinge but it's "programmes" please.

Dog bites man: Apple's Macs trounce all Windows PCs in customer love

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Re: You're criticising Microsoft for AVG?

No, he wasn't - he wrote it in lower case as an abbreviation for 'average'. I thought he meant AVG as well, until I re-read it. I still think he's wrong though! I don't know what's up with these people, my XP/Vista/7/8 PCs (Dell/HP) have gone on reliably for years, used every day, no problems at all. Lucky I guess.

Forget Mars: Let's get someone on the Moon – NASA veteran

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Re: Less terrorists... (A solar cell factory on the moon...)

FEWER!

Microsoft buys Nokia's mobile business

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"kind've"

What's that short for then?

Microsoft teases possible Jan. 29 launch for Office 2013

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Re: ...and no one cares.

Perhaps if you used Word you'd be able to write a coherent sentence.

Office 2013 now available for some home users

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FAIL

Ctrl - O

Always has been, always will be

Why did Comet fail? Hint: It wasn't just the credit insurers

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More competition and less buyers

* Fewer * buyers

Thank you!

Post-defenestration Microsoft: It's the APIs, stupid. And Metro

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Happy

At least they could spell it.

UK.gov: Some Open Data are more open than others

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Data

"Some Open Data are more open than others"

"new standards...will mean public data is published"

Consistency please!

Captain Correction thanks you.