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1794 posts • joined Friday 10th July 2009 11:30 GMT

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Happy

Re: I'll take 10 of them.

So now there are 28 happy Win8 users? Who knew!

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Angel

Re: how is it obsolete?

I like this definition, it seems apt:-

Obsolete: imperfectly developed or rudimentary in comparison with the corresponding character in other individuals.

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Devil

Re: "...ultrabooks and Windows 8 laptops that are all stuck on the login screen..."

That's to make them look good- imagine if they *were* powered up...

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Meh

Re: No, this phone is WP8

So still £150 for an obsolete system

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Meh

Yeah, I put diesel in my petrol tank ... guess what?

You can't read?

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Windows

Re: Oh How I Laughed...

Windows users have enough problems already.

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Gimp

Re: Lets try to put this in to some context...

iPad 64gig spellchecker isn't very good, is it?

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Devil

Re: PC Sales in the toilet

Wrong, er, Pad...

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Windows

Re: Where's Eadon?

Obvious MS flaw is obvious.

You don't need Eadon for that.

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Pirate

Yarr!

Why not!

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Devil

Ah- Dudley

Jewel in Telewest's crown...

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Meh

Re: My top tip for Microsoft.

"I've developed on Solaris and Windows but never Linux."

Hardly a catalogue of success, are you?

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Headmaster

"wish you weren't hear..."

We wish you were deaf?

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Happy

Re: American law does not acknowledge the existence of the phablet.

Tablerone.

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FAIL

Re: What bollocks

"Oh look I just farted, make it two."

Only another 13 minutes of fame left, then.

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Devil

100% extra charge ...

...and poor service for WinPho 8 users.

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Pirate

Re: hmm

I agree with Thorne, although it might make sense to start smaller by mining the dead satellites and other space junk first, for practice, and to clear up the junk; they are easier to get to and their positions are well known.

Space Salvage- nearly Yarr! so

<++

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Terminator

Re: The Bic lighter of surveillance. Nice!

Counter? More like a target.

Wake me up when these are the size of a grape and can accelerate at 10G- I'll be zipped up in the acceleration tank...

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Happy

Re: In aircraft combat how useful is this?

Sir, we have 3 birds on radar... they're flying at mach 2...

Meep!Meep!

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FAIL

Re: $48M a Pop

Though if it saves lives money should not matter."

Hahahah. Save lives. Good one.

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Re: I wouldn't dare visit America!

"Overreact much?"

OOh! Are you one of the Popular Girls?

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Boffin

Re: I am not a chemist

Which is, in fact, the by-product. Where do you think the O2 goes?

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Happy

Re: @Psyx

Or Steam Powered Giraffe...

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Devil

Re: @It's not radio, it's laser

Bah. 'Tis all Wireless.

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Re: Krusty the Clown springs to mind

"With his flapping dickie..."

Enough of this Savile inuendo!

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Windows

Re: You can't polish a turd.

How apt on a Surface/WinRt thread!

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Happy

Psycho-types, however-

See people as puzzles to be dissected without mercy, and love nothing better that the feel of squeezing brain matter as it oozes between their cruel fingers.

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Meh

Re: Doctors caring & empathetic?

"My better half is an anesthetist..."

And your other half posts on here...

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Happy

Re: Fallen star

Security people don't have friends, just risk lists....

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The NRA .....

Going on the offensive because they are offensive

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Devil

A TV advert

For cyanogenmod would be interesting indeed...

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Happy

Re: True innovation

That's what the big Tiles are hiding...

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Windows

Re: Demonstrates that Windows NT code still lurks under the surface of Windows Phone 8

That's the whole POINT of W8 that it is built on a crippled PC kernel for the first time, not a crippled CE/mobile OS like WP 7.5.

FTFY.

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Devil

Re: Lol.Here is how it works...

You certaiinly don't work for Microsoft, then.

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Paris Hilton

Re: Nothing New

Indeed- see Icon....

Another Balloon that has absorbed a lot of Hotel Tycoon's money- but of far less use...

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Happy

Re: This

Them's not bears- them's Wookies, an' the little onesa Ewoks...

/JarJar

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Meh

Re: alternatives

Oh No! Companies use computers not supplied by RM- our kids are doomed.

"What is the matter Miss Smith?" "Sorry sir, I can't send you that spreadsheet, the computers at school had grey keyboards, but the Company ones are black - I can't use them..."

Really...

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Happy

Re: Win 8 RT rooted

This 'love place' - are the cushioned walls chairproof?

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Windows

This is a whole different bucket of cod.

Still smells fishy though...

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Happy

Re: Universal suburban neighborhood watch

Odd- that's just what they said...

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Re: May I be the first

Dasorians?

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Happy

Re: This isn't particularly innovative

I dunno- 80hp tractor wielding a +2500 microwave mace should be good in a melee against the Weed People...

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Headmaster

"I reached out to HTC for clarification..."

'Reached out' - From Salford, not San Francisco?

GRRR!

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Happy

Re: The Windows rice cooker...

Raw potatoes though- where's the bloody start button?

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Re: I think the question we all want answered

No, but it does cook.

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Meh

Re: Caffeinated vs defcaf?

Only the mad would drink decaf.

I mean- like no-alchohol beer. Why?????

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Devil

Rats leaving?

they're all getting proper jobs now...

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Devil

Re: Nothing, they just thought it was cool to be seen with one !

They noticed they had gone, but thought they might come back after a reboot.

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Gimp

Re: Failure / Supposition / Baseless waa waa here.

And then you awoke, and the MS bag of gold was just a dream.

Sad.