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1800 posts • joined Friday 10th July 2009 11:30 GMT

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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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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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Re: Failure / Supposition / Baseless waa waa here.

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

Sad.

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Coat

Shurly-

Cat-Nav

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Re: cruel

It's bloody criminal...

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Re: How can this be viable@Mr Fuzzy

Make the outer envelope from kevlar and munitions will bounce off, often with a comedic 'boing!' sound.

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Re: Off the hook...

Go Bing.

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Re: wow

Tried using non solid lines on a graph. The liquid ones ran down to the bottom and the gaseous ones blew away...

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Re: Shark. Jumped.

"I've been reading The Register since around 2000-ish. "

And I'm still whining...

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Re: Netbooks were popular when they had Linux on them

I for one will never forgive MS for that.

And the rest.

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New!

HP Skips Printer- from BongFoods

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Windows

Dur-

The posts about Surface are that-a-way...

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Re:AC

Only if you dress it up with iOS 6.

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Re: "I wonder how they resolved it"

Bought the world's dog food companies.

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Re: The alternative view..

Have a look tomorrow night when live radar pictures of approaching doom are broadcast from Jodrell Bank...

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Re: ummm

Wait. Wait until they produce metallic silk.... indestructable giant spider puppets.

Then panic.

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Meh

Professor Sinofsky:

How to screw up a monopoly 101. (and get away with it)

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Re: Nothing to stablilise it

Apart from the great big star right overhead,that is...

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Re: Frightened by del *.*?

Doesn't work.

++Out of Cheese Error++

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Re: If fimlming in cinemas is such a problem ...

The Odeon chain does now!

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Re: Babies in Cinema

Unfortunately they are heard, rather than seen.

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Oh Noes-

The ancient knowledge has been lost!

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Re: Isn't lying during void dire an offense by itself?

Blownded up, y'all.

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Re: "void dire"

Missing curly brackets more like...

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Yes-

But not Precious Tritium, just the normal stuff- so all is well.

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Re: Meanwhile Britain

No, I'm Lewis- and so is my wife...

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Re: 4 years from now

The mighty Sword of Talent is a myth- but let's send them anyway.

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Re: Twin peaks?

For the slack?

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So if the fonts are being patched ...

Does that mean that the Windows kernel is *all* patches now?

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Re: Well just gone thorugh all the fonts on my web designer GF's machine.

Punchline:- she uses a Mac...

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Re: Steve-O was wrong, people do want a small tablet.

A little black one marked with a skull & crossbones to take when they realise they are trapped forever in the Walled Garden of Shiny ...

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Re: Nancy Boys

Not a series of the adventures of a group of young hermaphrodite detectives then?

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Re: @ Jim in Hayward

Whilst I agree, I have seen it explained as:- "I could care less <but I can't be bothered>."

Which is quite annoying.

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Re: @Trevor Marron

AC -sounds like you are scared of little Chinese people, just like the big macho cops?

Diddums.

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Re: Sigh...... "unloved and little-used services"

Isn't AOL still going?

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Like any serial fiction

Each book is written years before release, to a pre-determined story arc.

Who'd have thunk it?

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Re: 5 days?

This 'crash' is of course a subtle fix for the woo-woo claims that "The moon keeps turning upside down!!"

www.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7ABqxAd3V38&ei=fUTLUKmvGtKz0QXj1oG4Dg&usg=AFQjCNGFHTLRrIJaMW6n5BLzv98ohU-juA&bvm=bv.1355325884,d.d2k

oh dear...

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Re: Why stop at Turing?

These are the sort of laws that arise when morals are based on tutting, handwringing and looking down the nose at society's 'undesirables'.

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Demand has been phenominal.

No demand is one phenomenon.

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As usual-

The angle makes the rover look far more svelte that it actually is...

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Re: "There is WRONG in the cloud. "

"As if millions of raindrops suddenly cried out in terror.."

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Re: And in the West...

Virgin Galactic- yes indeed, and a private one at that; the Govt decided there was no future in space launching a long time ago, preferring to embark on a downward slope instead.

Good luck, Mr Branson- the Govt don't deserve the future.

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Re: Pedantry...

Not if you assemble it up a hill...

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So, Nom^3...

Either you admit MS are murdering extortionists, or you have lied to us.

When did you stop beating your wife?

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Ultimate iDevice

"If you think about an iPhone," he said, "it's a wonderful tool, but what if you wanted to take this kind of device functionality and wrap it around your brain?"

Fanborg.

I'd call it a downgrade.

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Re: "does not need monthly critical vuln patching"

And how many reboots required?

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Re: Time computers?

That would explain why the Doctor has to keep hitting it, and the showers of sparks.