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1793 posts • joined Friday 10th July 2009 11:30 GMT

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Unhappy

I wish they would come

for the trolls.

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FAIL

I do not respect

your lack of authoritaaative drug knowledge.

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Happy

Just like most Govt proclamations, then.

Which also leave a foul taste in the mouth, and induce the desire to vomit.

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Windows

Woof!

barking at the mirror again?

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Windows

Fair and balanced reporting!

Don't want anyone to think that MS have a monopoly in producing products that are just a pain in the neck...

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Pod Racing!

But better on TCR or something like where you can change lanes at will for Dick Dastardly manoevers...

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Happy

Er...

and you won't be killed by yer geraniums either....

Did you hear that woosh?

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It's not real money.

So why not forget about that unimportant shit?

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Happy

No other people.

See title.

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Meh

Far

too soon.

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Happy

Or too hard!

You have to squint,and try to catch a glimpse of them from the very corner of your eye...

Oh, and whatever you do- Don't Blink!!

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Happy

Things you don't often see in a sentence; #18.

Microsoft...

Innovate...

...in Phones.

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Pirate

With all of the 'protect American earnings' flannel

that is supposed to drive these absurd acts,would a protest by say, Sweden, for example that involved not buying any **AA 'product' for a day or so be seen as such a act of Swashbuckling as to to cause Sweden to be cut off from the interwebs? They do all belong to the US after all...

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FAIL

The SOBs being-

THe MPIAA? Other organised crimelords^H^H^H^H content providers/lawyers? Or 'freetards' who don't own a computer but get sued for millions?

International task force- don't make me laugh. It's already an international farce.

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Meh

Yeah-

and another Tunguska -bam!- no more Russian Gas.

Your point?

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Ok!

So you are pretty much anti-SOPA then?

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If it was true-

PCs would be running VMS.

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Oh noes!

Just as GarageBand destroyed the music biz, now anyone who has trouble reading a textbook can write their own, WikiFiddler style...

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Happy

I predict a-

Burger Tax.

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Windows

It's not hard to spell W.i.n.d.o.w.s

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Devil

desperation?

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Boffin

If you keep your Windows desktop running 24/7 then...

it will stop working.

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Happy

Surely storage IS simple?

It's just retrieving the damn stuff in one piece that is the hard bit.

Backups are Write Only, as any fule kno...

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Devil

At least the satnav

won't blow away when you open the window.

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Happy

Agreed

In general, I know vaguely where I am, and where roughly I am heading. The last mile though can be the killer. Getting back home on autopilot is great.

And it's fun to wind the satnav up when you know there's a better route than the one it wants you to take...

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Meh

It does sound like it will work, at least up to a point.

But why do MS take something simple, like networking, and make it so oddly complicated? They've done it again with this.

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Meh

Perhaps-

But until someone decides to invest here (wherever 'here' happens to be) all we can do is still keep banging the rocks together and hope for improvement.

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Train Wreck?

Where's the slo-mo? Where's the 3D?

Looks like the WP trainwreck experience is lacking...

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Happy

Impressive- that they know exact locations for their branches;

But scary- that they know the exact location of their customers...

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Happy

Can you get

Verity Stob dolls too?

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Meh

Automatically, in this case-

In that it seems like a feature.

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FAIL

Didn't wait long for an answer eh, Coward?

Doing a 'find' on Windows must kill you.

Anyone could write a better OS than MS, probably even you, if you put your mind to it, or could be bothered to learn how- just like MS these days, it would seem.

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Meh

I'm not sure that a 'human right' can be cut off-

If you stop paying for it.

Water is an example, as electricity is not; so also internet access. However, 'rights' as a concept are really an artificial construct, with artificial boundaries.

To paraphrase Heinlein;

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, as 'Human Rights' are useless to a man drifting in the middle of an ocean...

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FAIL

But don't CAT/MRI scans

cause un-curable cancer of the BRANE???!!!! eleventyone?

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WTF?

I'm interested in this planet for sale-

Is it where you live?

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Windows

Or perhaps MS

Could try writing an OS that doesn't screw itself up automatically?

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You would 'plop' for 1 every time-

If '1' was the mythical 'brown note' alright...

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Devil

Ahh- Brut...

Had it's heyday more than 20 years ago, much like Microsoft.

How apt.

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WTF?

So-

The one and only USPTO guy that can read, and he comes up with this ?

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Devil

Some stores?

Second hand shops or Poundland?

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Meh

Maybe some people do actually like them.

Just not very many people.

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WTF?

So both the Zune

and the Lumia are good as hammers?

ps- there may be an exotic gas leak in your room. I'd have it checked out...

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FAIL

So...

do the grown-ups know you are using their computer?

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Shut it-

Or RT Davies will come back!

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Happy

The Xmas spirit-

is long quaffed. By celebratory Boffins.

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Pint

Not quite- no.

Google 'print-through'.

it's similar to how tapes used to be high speed copied.

The signal bleeds from one layer of the tape to the next, over time.

On audio, the effect starts as pre-echo, and is minimised by spooling though occasionally, to shake things up a bit, and by storing tail out... IIRC, with the mag layer facing out...or in- whichever was better.

(it IS Sat night...so beer!)

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Play WWF onboard-

Only when flying pandas to zoos, shurely...

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That would make them...

Higgs Bozos?

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Pull this one off, Bill-

And the world will forgive you for Windows.

Nice one.

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Happy

It is also optional-

You don't need to use it. Opera is still fast!