Posts by Euripides Pants
473 posts • joined Saturday 11th February 2012 03:16 GMT
Re: echo?
two girlfriends
Re: Lame! Yahoo! Headlines!
Just! pretend! William! Shatner! is! reading! the! headline!
"laptop-cum-tablet,"
Just shorten it to cum-top and be done with it.....
Re: the difference between a liberal and a conservative
5 letters and one syllable
Re: So I can smoke it?
Sure. But why would you want to? Industrial hemp ain't got any THC.
Re: the last "Wave" will be the Matrix
"Will be"?
Someone hasn't taken the red pill....
Re: Re:proverbial brown stuff off a shovel
taxman knows his sh!t
Posted in Review: HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook
Re: 1366 x 768 screen ?????
"The <redacted> ribbon in Office takes up far too much real estate on the screen"
Perhaps it is the ribbon that is the problem and not the screen resolution...
Posted in Bing uncloaks Klingon translator
Re: And how many people will use that?
Then Microsoft really should not do this. Next thing ya know Microsft will put out a Klingon language version of Windows which will undoubtedly cause an interplanetary war.
Re: So the solution...
"Um, Docx (and the other modern Office files) are ISO standards."
You mean the ISO standards that even Microsoft doesn't implement properly?
Posted in On the hunt for a new ampere
Re: African or European badger?
Either way, its a shitload of badgers
Re: Please stop
How about plain, old Pirate?
Re: Microsoft spent years trying to shoehorn a desktop OS onto a tablet form-factor
"Microsoft thunk different."
Microsoft and thunk go together like chocolate and peanut butter...
Re: @tjbee
"If the patented features are so trivial why does Samsung feel it necessary to infringe on them?"
If the patented features are so trivial why does Apple feel it necessary to go all sue-happy?
There, FTFY...
Re: They need to start a porno service
Any "Android Personal Services" I get had damn well better come from a real, live android!
Where's the sex robot icon?
Re: Bob moment.
Well thank you very much.
It took *years* of therapy to wipe that from my mind and you undid all that progress in seconds.
Re: Anyone else underwhelmed by the video?
"Conquering robot armies aren't built in a day you know!"
Apparently they cannot even get down the alley in a day too!
Re: More power to him, but expect an Oracle price increase.
Yes, on Lanai.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/21/ellison_buys_island/
Re: Bleeding Edge
"For those that want shiny AND technically brilliant - Linux Mint is the way to go, which is built on Debian in any case."
Really Eadon, you have GOT to stop eating day old sushi.
Debian is just as easy to install and set up as Mint, plus its a rolling distribution (unlike Mint) and supports encrypting the hard disk at install (unlike Mint).
Re: moments
So far, we've had the Bob moment, ME moment, Zune moment, Vista moment and Win8 moment.
When will MS learn?
Re: Finger print readers
Butt what happens when the colon backs up?
Re: "dogs shouldn't be hanging round the counter of a food shop anyway."
Have an upvote, my brain farts too.
Re: Or
"I've no idea how big a US one cent coin is."
Its a little bigger than a dime.....
Re: Eh...
Newhart might be more appropriate seeing as this happened in the USA.
"Hi, I'm Larry and this is my brother Darryl and this is my other brother Darryl".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083455/?ref_=sr_3
Easily defeated...
...by flypaper!
Re: "dogs shouldn't be hanging round the counter of a food shop anyway."
Shirley the Korean peninsula is in Northeast Asia.....
Re: To be fair, Lester ...
"instead of poo-pooing the commentary, finding a positive vector for the energy would be a better idea"
Agreed. But it is up to saintcroix, not Lester to find that positive vector.
Re: Gurrr
Don't forget such perversions as "using the new experience".
Re: @Smoking Gun
Smoking Gun, what have you been smoking?
Re: Competition on Desktop
"I don't believe I have a soul"
Given that the word "soul" can be used as a synonym for mind, psyche or self, perhaps you should rethink your position...
But have an upvote anyway :)
Re: Like antone cares
That ain't hair, its an alien symbiote.
Nothing new here
http://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Cults-Insidious-All-Consuming-Organization/dp/0814404936
Alternatively...
http://www.internetisshit.org/print.html
Re: Gov't tests
e. apple
Posted in Move space junk with laser shots
Re: What happens when a pigeon flies through the beam of a 10kW laser?
The pigeon is toast.
Re: !
"you sound like the old guy who makes the same joke every time you see him"
Hey! kid! Pull! my! finger!
Re: meh....
"are people really going to walk around with a computer in their pocket, a computer on their wrist and a computer on their face?"
Yes, thats Progress...
In the olden days REAL multitasking was 3 PCs and a chair with wheels, in the future we won't need the wheely chair.
Re: We still need more kidneys!
Well, you can't have mine! I'm not done with it yet.
Re: 15KWh?
"Thinking of the mess these things would make if there was an accident (if, say, used in a vehicle)."
Cars have had flywheels inside them for about a century now...
Re: am I the only one
The Queen
And when I say "the Queen", what I mean is Elton John...
Re: "It's just a proposal to generate $1B in funding."
If the funding falls through and they have to renegotiate, the renegotiated funding would be known as FDR's New Deal...
Re: Technology and Faith
"If God really existed there would be no need for religion."
If people didn't exist there would be no need for religion. There, FTFY...
Re: Yeah but
"That's why Android has to pay royalties to MS."
No, Android does not pay royalties to MS. Various phone makers pay royalties to MS 'cause they figure it's cheaper than litigating.
It would simplify divorce too...
"So who will run the servers in the various 'clouds'?"
Illegal aliens
Re: Only Obama can trample civil rights
Nah, the Cheney Administration had a flair for that as well...
Silly goose, the Real secret organization is MI-4REAL!
