* Posts by h 6

254 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009

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We live in a world where a 'Hamdog' burger hybrid is patented

h 6

Er, Barbecue?

Barbecue is pulled pork smoked for 8 or more hours and served with mustard sauce. Not burgers and dogs.

DARPA unTerminators gather for Robotics Challenge finals in Hell*

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Re: "Standing on two feet is easy when..."

Have you ever seen a centaur drive a vehicle?

That's why.

Annular solar eclipse LIVE!

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Pint

They changes the song:

"The sun is a mass of incandescent gas"

Which is incorrect, so They Might be Giants changed it tp

"The sun is a miasma of plasma."

cheers -h

Boffins birth man-sized military ROBOT JELLYFISH

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Re: pop quiz

W-w-w-wood?!

'End of passwords' predictions are premature - Cambridge boffin

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WTF?

Salt? Hash?

I never put salt on my hash.

USB 3.0 speed to DOUBLE in 2013

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Go

Ludicrous speed.

Curious robot rover Curiosity chews a second mouthful of Mars dirt

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Go

Duh!

It's a studio shot.

Peak Apple: Forstall was 'closest thing to Jobs they had left'

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Re: Seems about right. Apple ruled by committee = the death of Apple

Anything ruled by committee = death to anything.

Sharp punches out über-retina phone screen

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Stop

Re: Apple Patent

FFS give it a rest now.

Snack-slinging robot restores faith in Yankee ingenuity

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Re: No mention of the Tuxedo Chocolate popcorn?

Your newly coined word "crackerjaculator" has scored you a whopping big hit of 2 links found by all of Google. Both of them refer to this article.

Well done.

Yahoo! boss! boots! out! CFO! and! Google! kisses! up! for! future! search! deal!

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Stop

Damn!

I! Can't! Read! Your! Effin! Headline! With! All! Those! Damn! Exclamation! Points!

So I didn't read the article.

Apple flat-screen TV to ship by holiday season?

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Finally

'Apple-branded, Foxconn-assembled, Sharp-equipped big-screen"

Ah, I see Anna is not the author. Of course.

HP elbows Apple off global PC throne

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Re: Tablets.. PCs.. Tablets.. PCs..

Upvote about the Reg as republishers. Where's the kettle icon?

General Dynamics, HP fluff up $249.8m Army cloud

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Facepalm

Re: Huh?

You forgot to say, "Sir!"

-h

Wills and Kate to wed live on YouTube

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Shelter

I'll be down at the Winchester.

(pint icon not availabe via mobile site)

Robo-warship sub hunter: Free DARPA crowdsauce game

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WTF?

Huh?

Why is there a brown mouse clinging on for dear life on the top of this thing?

Middle England chokes on Nice Baps

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Happy

a local hardware store

Mann Tool.

For real: http://www.manntools.com/

Apple iPad 2 demo'd on camera

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Go

Video?

Video plays fine for me too.

- sent from my elitist first version tablet.

Stardust comet hunter drifts off into space

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Go

Wild 2 and Tempel 1

I thought I saw them at the disco, once. -h

NASA's Stardust set to 'burn to depletion'

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Pint

Tear

I feel so sad for all the chimps and doggies on board.

<----- tear in beer

Nokia launches new corporate font

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Boffin

Font?

It's a *typeface*, not a font. (A font is software.)

BMW e-car spied in testing

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WTF?

Bimmer?

We call them Beemers, over here.

Nintendo 3DS bothers Brits about blinkers

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Simples.

Just get some glasses. It's no big deal.

Mario

Sent from my DS.

Steve Jobs unveils iPad 2

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Mooovies!

iMovie for iPad. Awesome.

ta -h

Dinky Florida machine 'could whup world No 1 computer's ass'

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Happy

Crysis?

Who cares about Crysis. Cant it play ANGREY BIRDS?!!

Iomega SuperHero iPhone back-up gadget

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Stop

Lower than 50%?

At 10% it eats your iPhone's data and makes premium calls to Russia.

WikiLeaks payment service threatens to sue Visa, MasterCard

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FAIL

Seriously

"“Not being able to receive money from the public for a week can cost WikiLeaks seven-digit figures in losses/"

Then write and snail mail a fecking CHECK! (CHEQUE for the Brits)

Story gone

h 6

Very good!

But can you show the up and down votes on the mobil version as well?

Oh, and icon section too, please.

PARIS looking 50/50 for Saturday launch

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Go

Pilot

George Takei, perchance?!

Jobsian fondle-slab in SEXY FILTHGRAM CRACKDOWN

h 6
Happy

Back in the day

Back in the day with my old phone, T9 I guess you'd call it with wacky predictive text, I sent a text msg to my girlfriend, and it rendered as "I want to kick your aunt."

Windows to Linux defections to outpace Unix shifts in 2011

h 6
Pint

the penguin paddles

and The Dude abides.

Hitachi shows 1600 x 1200 panel for 7in tablets

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Jobs Halo

It's--

It's for a nw 7" iPad.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/10/07/next_gen_7_inch_ipad_to_have_retina_display_128gb_storage_rumor.html

Apple's iPad is the hotcake of the 21st century

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Alert

Excuse me?

"And, of course, the last thing Apple would want is for every every Tom, Dick or Harry to be walking around clutching its fondle slabs."

You mean Apple doesn't want to sell 6 Billion iPads?!

Apple buys out $1bn data center squatters

h 6
Coat

Is that?

Are you talking about the machine that goes "Ping!"?

Google bags Blind Type

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Thumb Down

Or

Or just learn to type on your phone.

Additionally, I wonder how much "bad typing" when into the non-Blind Type enables phones? Really.

Multi-touch iMacs prepped in Cupertino?

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Jobs Halo

Another rumor

Another rumor is that the multi-touch iMac will be dual mode MacOS and iOS for regular and touch mode. I think multi-touch will be in the next MacOS as well as dual mode touchy iMacs.

Canada prostitution laws pulverised: politicians apoplectic

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IT Angle

What's that?

"Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms"

is that like the Bill of Rights?

RIM: 'We don't need 200 fart apps'

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Dead Vulture

Sorry

I'm sorry, Shawn. No, really, I'm sorry.

----

I'd stop doing it, if you'd stop laughing at it!

-Tombstone for the dead

Apple iAds soar as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! sink

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Really

Who needs a prawn app when you have the Internet in your hands. Hello! You know what the iwebs was made for, right!

Secondly, a friend of mine got one of those new HTC things and said his phone could run Flash.

I asked him to pull up a Flash site I worked on, and it failed.

At least he could play Homestar Runner flash vid. Whip-d-fukin-do.

h 6
Grenade

Lameos

Of course no troll is going to explain that. They'll just down vote you.

Google Voice embraced by Apple?

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Coincidence?

I think it was Mr. Papermaster, the head iPhone guy, and Jobs let him roll

with it until Paperman left the company abruptly after iPhone 4 came out.

I'd say his departure opened up a differnt vision for the App store, one that may have been brooding before his exit.

Where's the 2 cents icon?

Apple's Cook not jumping to HP

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Jobs Halo

Well duh.

Why would Cook, who has been groomed to be the next CEO, jump apple cart for an uncertain boring HP when Apple is doing so well?

And todo el mundo (world + dog in Regspeak) knows Jobs will be leaving the company at some point in the future.

Facebook staff get stuck into NFC

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Go

Interesting

A phone using biometrics to ID the holder could prevent someone not authorized to use the phone from charging things to it.

Or instead of entering a PIN the user swipes a gesture at the time of purchase.

So let's see how it goes!

PARIS launch go for 23 Oct

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Black Helicopters

"So, the chances of coming down somewhere awkward are minimal."

Well, we can't let the Spaniards get their hands on English technology, now can we?

Microsoft to hug fanbois on 26 October with Office 2011 for Mac

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WTF?

So many?

One version of iWork, thank you.

No cassette required: ZX Spectrum games on the iPhone

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Maybe

Maybe because Papermaster, the former head iPhone guy, left Apple months ago, and the new iPhone guy's vision for the iPhone App store is finally making its way thru Apple.

Just sayin'.

Sony Ericsson screens wireless display for phones

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FAIL

Yuk.

Looks fugging uckly, and only geeks wear digital watches.

Sharp outs little'n'large e-mag tablets

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FAIL

Size

that think looks huge!

Nutter repairmen scale 1,768ft TV mast

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Tower work

A friend of mine does tower work, although as promoted to crew chief he's on the ground a lot more now.

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