* Posts by Crisp

2852 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jan 2012

Celebrity conspiracy as Apple attacked over customer service

Crisp

Post around 8:20

Is this the equivalent of a news anchor reading the directions off the auto-cue?

Ah, the perils of Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V.

Bottomless, unsatisfied Xbox widow cuffed after boyf flees nookie

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Coat

Why didn't she just grab another controller and join him?

You know what they say, if you can't beat them... play co-op.

Drones with freakin' CLAWS grab objects like eagles

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Terminator

What kind of dexterity go these things have?

Could one of these robots be programmed to harvest certain objects? Maybe anything about the size of a wallet or a credit card? Could one one yank a slip of paper say, out of someone's hand?

These robots could be the next weapon in the fight against street litter.

Ten pi-fect projects for your new Raspberry Pi

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Do you get the freaky border around the edges when you load games?

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Go

Geiger Counter, Green Screen, FM Radio

Looks like I've got all the makings of a Pip-Boy here!

SimCity 4

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Re:RTS games also suffered through the "lets do it in 3D" era.

Did you see what they did to Simon the Sorcerer 3? They took a great 2D adventure and turned it into a blocky 3D nightmare. For no other reason than the studio wouldn't support the game unless it was in 3D.

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Simcity 4

I've just gone back to playing this after the Simcity 5 debacle.

Trip the fight fantastic

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I'm so glad I didn't buy Colonial Marines.

AvP II has been out for over a decade now, and it's perfect for a remake. It is the best way to immerse yourself in a world of deadly xenomorphs for now.

Infinite loop: the Sinclair ZX Microdrive story

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Re: @Crisp: These were great

Jamie Jones, you are a gentleman and a scholar. Have an upvote on me.

Paralysed an ant! :D

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Re: These were great

Downvoting me after losing my copy of Ant Attack is just adding insult to injury!

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FAIL

Re: These were great

Except that if you forgot and left a cartridge in the drive when you powered the damn thing on, it would wipe the tape.

New nuke could POWER WORLD UNTIL 2083

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Go

I love the fusible plug idea!

A low tech solution to a high tech problem :D Genius.

We shall CRUSH you, puny ROBOT... with CHESS

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Terminator

First it was deciphering messed up words, then it was jigsaw puzzles.

I'm waiting for the day where a website needs a drop of blood and a soft tissue sample to verify me as human.

AdBlock Plus BLOCKED from Google Play

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FAIL

Adverts are not a service or a product.

They are an annoyance and an intrusion.

Microsoft unveils even more tempting Kinect offering: Open source

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It's an interesting input device

Can you use it to detect a users expression of horror when they realise they've made a cataclysmic mistake?

I can see an application here for an automated undo feature :)

Boffins build robo-CHIMP for DARPA challenge

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I want one!

Preferably equipped with an on board set of tools like Johnny 5 had.

Self-healing chips survive repeated LASER BLASTS

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Re: PETMC

Well if the chips respond to damaging stimuli by repairing themselves, then I guess that zapping the chip with a laser would make it feel pain that it had to respond to by rerouting its circuits.

Holy Crap! They are torturing those chips!

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Terminator

I predict

That the first application for these chips will be in robots to fight frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their frickin' heads.

En Garde! Villagers FIGHT OFF FRENCH INVASION MENACE

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Coat

Re: no man is an island

No upvotes?

Too soon?

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Isn't it about time that roaming charges were seen for the rip off that they are?

There is practically no real extra cost phoning home from Dover or Calais for the network operators, so why do we allow them to keep fleecing customers like this?

Uni profs: Kids today could do with a bit of 'mind-crippling' COBOL

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Learn COBOL, even if it cripples you mentally

I still have flashbacks about writing sequential files to tape.

Sometimes, late at night, I can still hear the tape flapping, and the anguished screams of someone that's just dropped a box of punch cards.

The horror.

Six things a text editor must do - or it's a one-way trip to the trash

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Re: There is only one thing a text editor needs

I once offered a fiver to anyone that could write a COBOL program in vi without setting off the terminal bell.

No one ever claimed it.

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I have lost the ultra-violet wiping-out gadget (ask your dad)

Am I so old now that this is ancient technology?

Chaos Theory causes password entry pandemonium

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: If it slips from your grasp and twangs back in mid-pee

Please tell me this has actually happened! :)

Crisp

Re: Lastpass for me

My brain currently fills all those functions.

Barring accident, injury or alcohol, it seems to work quite well.

Oh! And it's free!

The DIY spy-in-the-sky: From kites to octocopters

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Re: If (when?) they're banned

Dammit!

Someone get me a mini-cam, a tube of tennis balls balls, some hair spray and a lighter.

There goes my weekend....

Photoshop fakery exposed by fake Photoshop tool

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Childcatcher

Re: They will use any lie in the book to get you to buy.

Advertisers lie?!! Say it isn't so!

World's 'smallest' mobe unveiled in Japan

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Looks like a perfect phone for kids

And wont cost too much to replace if it's lost, stolen or broken.

Amazon yanks SimCity download from store

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Maybe a friendly prirate has come up with a "Fix" for it.

I own plenty of legitimate games.

But sometimes a 3rd party software update is the only way to get the software working properly.

DWP denies major IT problems with One Dole To Rule Them All system

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Telephone and face-to-face support would be offered only as a "fall-back mechanism"

I've read that bit five times now, and it just seems like a big screw you to people that don't or can't use computers.

What guarantee have I got that I'll actually be able to speak to someone that can help in a timely manner?

BRITAIN MUST DECLARE WAR on Cervinaean menace

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Re: Can we have some bears too?

Lions, Tigers and Bears!

USA is the best country in the WORLD... for sending spam

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Re: Can't ISPs detect zombified PCs?

Ok, do you want to volunteer to have your traffic profiled first?

'Quantum fridge' gets close to absolute zero

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It's not white for a start.

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Overclockers are rubbing their hands with glee

I'd worry about frost build up on the processor though.

Oz Senator says Google Glass could 'end privacy as we know it'

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Mushroom

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

Run for the hills Cory Bernardi! We're all doomed!

Boffins implant almost-cellphone in the BRAIN

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Re: My last excuse...

Your phone is there for your convenience, not other peoples.

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How do you model one system onto another completely incompatible one?

I don't know. I'll have a go at figuring it out after I've taken this pen and paper business process and automated it on my PC.

Proto Steam box may feel your arousal, hints Valve daddy

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Electric shocks when hit by a plasma bolt

Finally! A way to electrocute people over TCP/IP!

First C compiler pops up on Github

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First C Compiler

Or, the great grandmother of all compiler errors.

I can use = instead of == in an expression and that's valid?

Bank whips out palm-recognition kit - and a severed hand won't work

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Coat

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

Gimme Five!

Incoming comet will probably miss Mars, says NASA

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Re: IT BEGINS!

Let's hope that it doesn't have a solid core of naqahdah...

Military-industrial patent troll demands BEEELLIONS from Cisco

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How could anyone have granted those patents?

Which can be paraphrased as "What the internet already does."

Welsh bureaucrats busted for getting political on Twitter, Facebook

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The UK Civil Service has a code governing honesty?

I wonder what it says?

Anonymous becomes peacemaker as hacktivists battle

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And what exactly have you done to try and make the world a better place today?

LHC spots mesons flipping between matter and antimatter

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Go

Mesons play for both sides in polarity switch shocker!

So where's the sexy footage of mesons oscillating?

US lawmaker blames bicycle breath for global warming gas

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Go

Technically he's right.

But you can produce as much CO2 if not more, by sitting around talking bullshit all day long.

And lets face it, there's a lot more of that going on than cycling.

US gov cash slash threatens manned trips to asteroids and Mars

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Re: how much use would you or I get from that?

Probably about the same amount of use as the Apollo program. In other words... A lot.

Apple 'insider' explains why vid adapter hides ARM computer

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Re: Just get a Raspberry Pi

And just how am I ^H^H^H^H is a hacker supposed to convince someone to hook up their iDevice to a raspberry pi to steal their credit card info?

Storage glitch sends Curiosity into safe mode

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Re: Three digital watches...

But do any of them display the right time?