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1796 posts • joined Friday 10th July 2009 11:30 GMT

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Re: Needs to be housewife proof

Then it would need to be connected to a massive bank of other computers- possibly all of them- to do Female Logic

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Re: Only believe a rumour

Blimey- what a knob AC!

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Re: Loads of artists just fat brushes!

Just try calling one that...

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The ability-

To tell the difference between Pringles and toilet paper is paramount in a Robo-butler; unless you have a penchant for that sort of thing...

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Meh

*IT as in

I have a copy of the IT curriculum.

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Re: it's life or death to some poor wretch!

The chief exec of a UK charity?

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Re: Re-arrange the following words

Like putting a pig under lipstick. Fool the masses...

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"improvements to your Windows experience across your whole life"

Only if I didn't have to use it.

Mr LeBlanc talks some utter donkeyballs.

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Re: GPS

Sometimes 'Lies to children' are necessary.

hat-tip to Mr Pratchett.

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argh!

The RI server is down- hopefully the Slashdot effect of lots of people with money!

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Megaphone

and

Keep your nose out of other peoples private conversations you nosey git!

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Re: Probably a memory issue

So 640k is NOT enough for Word? Seems like an MS problem right enough...

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Re: Clever people make. Clever people break!

I'd buy that for a dollar!

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Word.

People pay for this crap. (The sw, not the article).

Hilarious (Life, and the article).

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Well

VM cable is already FTTC- just wait; as soon as the new BT cab fills up, it will slow to a crawl too.

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Re: This is why they make prisons

I agree- Jail for all AC posters.

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Re: The US had a regime change.

Some wrinkly Sith Senator got thrown down a shaft?

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Re: Thorium is not next to worthless. It has a negative value.

let's get fracking, and I can make a killing on gas mantles!

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Re: Clever stuff!

...polish [your|you're] [armor|armour] for free.

Int'l version...

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Re: Texting whilst driving leads to arrest

It's an Animal Farm reference.

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Re:@Lockwood: How big was it?

One.

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... Guinness World Record for fastest selling consumer electronics device:

I knew I should have got one when they came out- £25 in Asda... aha

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Re: Ivor Catt should get a mention

Ouida Dogg, I seem to recall...

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Re: I for one welcome our new driverless cars

d) is the answer- driverless bicycles.

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Re: But How

It won't knock. Or indeed arrive- you will get an email saying "You were out..."

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Re: So MS lobbying to protect their cash cow and keep Google out

That explains the Bear- he's Temporary Pope.

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Re: Rewardomg Bad Behaviour

You stuff a mouse up it's trunk.

Then run.

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Re: Hmmm..

Whatever next - no droids?

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Really?

You can't make up stuff like this- unless the EU pay you to.

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How about

An orbiting THz telescope? Might be interesting stuff to see (not just alien videos...).

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Re: Can we have some bears too?

o mi?

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Re: Making Windows 8 look like Windows 7 isn't a climbdown?

"...at least seriously read a book..."

Isn't that splitting an infinitive?

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Re: Making Windows 8 look like Windows 7 isn't a climbdown?

Apple generate a Reality Distortion field.

Microsoft just use a really big hammer.

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Re: Open Letter

I second Botty Lord for the wazzocks behind botnets!

Or Botti Boi...

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Re: "Elderly"?

When 400 years old she is, look so good, she will not...

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Re: I wonder how they tested the "will not work with a severed hand" part.

I can do better than that, I can give you Fifteen!

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Re: MS is squeezing the enterprise and channel

Don't confuse Popular with Endemic.

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Re: It's rocket _engineering_ that's difficult.

But Rocket Surgery- that's a right swine...

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But-

does crap even stick to aerogel?

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Re: @Eadon If crap stops radiation in its tracks

Mr Young asked for the "It wasn't me" kid... the customer is king.

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Re: I would buy one for the sole reason that it will annoy you.

Then it will annoy you, and you will be £1k down...

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Re: Gosh

"so you would be buying something inferior.,"

A Surface Pro?

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Re: I'm not suprised

How can you have *fun* without a soul?

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Microsoft Marketing people

have souls?

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These things-

should be the best place to find exotic matter and other space-time detritus such as we haven't a hope of replicating here. If there is an anti-gravity particle or a sub-ether wave to be found and harnessed, this is the place- if they aren't, well the future is going to be boring as Earth slowly goes back to the stone-age.

Beer- for optimism...

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Re: Alternative solution

Nutritional paste to the eye stalk or a fetching rubbery cloak over the top have proved to be effective in the past- or was it the future?

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"Facepalm because obviously..."

...Ex-Lax was taken.

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Re: The Preferred Business Model

Nobody wants it on those terms. Difficult for MS to stick it?

Too bad.

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Re: Pro Plus?!

A bit of an eye-opener...

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Re: TL:DR

It's Microsoft.

It's expensive.

It's value is debatable.

it smells fishy.