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* Posts by K

39 posts • joined Thursday 8th November 2007 10:47 GMT

K

Buyers remorse?

How often have we had buyers remorse on the likes of feebay? I will have to try the 'my 3 year old bid on this by accident' line the next time.

K
Paris Hilton

Does he still like fish sticks?

Hey, do you like fish sticks?

K
Pirate

Trust no one

So it's not only piracy that's funding criminals, it's legitimate software purchases!

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Paris Hilton

Footage here

http://www.idontlikeyouinthatway.com/2009/03/americas-next-top-mobel.html

more detail on the incident - not sure if it's true about the shouts of 'bomb!' when the car broke down. Shouts of 'chocolate' would have caused more panic I reckon! :)

K
Paris Hilton

Chewing gum

She should learn to chew gum with her mouth closed!

K
Paris Hilton

facetards

great another useless group to sign up to!

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fleabay

Do the auctions include all the scammers?

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Jobs Halo

Down 100mhz cpu speed

but faster FSB

old = 2.1Ghz 866Mhz FSB

new = 2.0Ghz 1066Mhz FSB

plus more standard RAM (2Gb vs 1Gb)

K
Paris Hilton

The new Deathstar?

No doubt people remember the Hitachi/IBM Deskstar aka Deathstar failures which tainted the brand. Now it's Seagates turn - may I suggest Brickaccuda? :D

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Jobs Halo

serial still required for trial

A serial is still required for the download trial version if you want to remove the 30 day trial period.

K

Looks neat

Does it spin down the drive when not in use?

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Jobs Halo

Anandtech OS X vs Vista battery life

http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3435&p=13

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Gates Horns

@jeremy

hehe typical troll comment

microsoft's timebomb is vista....all you vista fanboys will be running to download windows 7 beta!

K

They better recycle!

That's a lot of batteries to recycle!

K
Gates Halo

@fuzzy wotnot

Imagine a world full of brown Zunes!

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Jobs Halo

Who is going to pay?

The zippo lighter and lightsabre are free apps, I have them on my touch. Pointless apps are fun to show your friends, the novelty is short lived but no one would pay for them!

K
Paris Hilton

Karolina Kurkova

I don't know about the belly button but she's cameltoe-tastic! :D

K
Paris Hilton

faster speed, faster throttling

All this speed means you just get your connection throttled quicker!

K
Gates Horns

@crystall

which apple products? my airport extreme supports wpa2 just fine?

K
Paris Hilton

Republican Blazing Saddles

The president's a n*****!

The president's near?

:D

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evilbay, fleabay

and that's why ebay sucks.

I wonder if the tax man is going to examine his books if it's such a successful business?

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Jobs Halo

@anon

Read again, SATA *optical* drives are new to the MacBooks. Have a look at your system profiler!

K

Hot as the sun?

That should help nuclear fusion research then!

K
Pirate

Jammie dodges fine?

Here's to a sensible retrial!

K
Paris Hilton

Window Snyder?

What a fantastic name!

K

Haven't they watched Space 1999?!

They'll be piling up the nuclear waste which will be an accident waiting to happen and before long the moon will be knocked out of orbit!

K

Hope it stops the eastern Europeans...

around here sharing their cars and driving without licenses and insurance on UK roads!

K
Paris Hilton

not too bad?

@joe K

if £350 is too much you could always pay £639 on an 18 month contract (£30 tariff)

K

Double Dipping

The listing/final value fees don't make it viable for 'normal' sellers on ebay these days.

Add the extortionate paypal fees on top of that and ebay enjoy 2 bites out of your miniscule profit!

K
Pirate

Lawyers are the winners as usual.

Lawyers are on a nice earner as usual.

K
Paris Hilton

BBFC and video games?

"Younger teenagers would not have been able to see it, and they are the very people who are going to love it. We would have ended up with far more complaints from people who wanted to see the film and couldn't."

If the BBFC end up rating video games as the government wants then I wonder if they would rate the likes of GTA IV a 12A? :D

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Paris Hilton

Canada eh

3 year contracts? What's that all aboot?

K
Paris Hilton

The end of fake memory cards?

I wonder if Sandisk et al will now sue ebay for all the fake memory cards on there?

K
Paris Hilton

Shop around

You should always check prices for booking direct.

K
Alien

Aliens? In Cardiff?

Torchwood...

K
Paris Hilton

Truecrypt is your friend

http://www.truecrypt.org/

K

@anon

they already do that in the UK if you're arrested and detained at the nick.

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Compulsory paypal coming to UK late April!

I got an email from paypal pimping their paypal offers promo.

I noticed this interesting paragraph in the email...

"Buying and selling on eBay made even safer

Starting in late April, eBay will now ask all sellers to offer PayPal on their listings. This means that even more items on eBay will offer buyer protection.

This is one of many new initiatives that eBay and PayPal are doing to make it much more difficult for bad sellers to operate on eBay. As a result, you'll notice a dramatic improvement in quality when buying on eBay. "

You get stung for listing and completing an auction, and then paypal fees on the whole lot. It takes a big dent out of any profits on a sale. Before long everyone will have to have a premier paypal account!

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Paris Hilton

Hardly a comprehensive review

A lame reviewer if you don't realise you can start a backup manually at any time by right clicking on the time machine icon on the dock and choosing (you guessed it...) 'back up now'!