* Posts by Dr_N

1648 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Nov 2012

Billionaire's Pagani Pa-gone-i after teen son takes hypercar out for a drive, trashes it

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The problem in France is that most of the yoof learn their "roadskillz" on a scooter and then try and drive cars in the similar manner,

But at least they seem less inclined to drive raging drunk as the previous generation did.

(Ironically both groups end up in a Vehicule Sans Permis.)

Northern Ireland announces £165m full-fibre rollout funded by 2017 DUP agreement with Theresa May's UK government

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Re: Hmm

Your apparent conversion to collectivism and socialism. Your guru Tim will not be best please at your apostasy.

Or are you just cheering because: "Brexit!!!" ? Another example of anything goes if it's for brexit!

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Re: Hmm

codejunky> Good on them.

Cheering on the government paying for services and infrastructure with the Magic Money Tree®™ instead of the private sector investing , hmm ꓘomrade ꓘodejunky...?

Reports of one's death have been greatly exaggerated: French radio station splurges obituary bank over interwebs

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Re: Better later than sooner for the aforementioned people

>Cow-workers wondering why I'm darkly chuckling to myself...

Are you on a farm?

The revolution will not be televised because my television has been radicalised

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Re: Not the One I Was Thinking Of

>>On YouTube, presumably because I've looked at the odd video concerning the American election result

Trump campaign ads have been top of my (mobile) YouTube homepage for the last months. Annoying and unremovable. Hopefully they will now go back to the level of hell whence they came.

[Checks meeting agenda...] Where does it say 'Talk cr*p and waste everyone's time'?

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Re: no extra screen?

"I often use software that is processor-intensive"

An Office 365 user eh, Mr Dabbs?

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Nad Watch Live!

Better viewing than Ring Watch Live?

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Tom 38> He always has the cam on, and will often just wander off to do other things around the house

Because he forgot to "log off" earlier?

Uber is now a food delivery company with a substantial sideline in taxis

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Re: Uber Eats delivery experience is integrated next to on-demand trips

Grouper ®™

UK tax dept's IT savings created 'significant risk', technical debt as it faces difficult conversation with Chancellor

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Re: @Howard Sway

codejunky> Who is you guys?

Ultra right-wing free marketeer nationalists who think they are swash-buckling libertarians but are really just modern-day pirates/highwaymen?

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Re: @Howard Sway

Ahh.

A decade on and it's still NuLabour's fault.

It's always someone else's fault with you guys, isn't it.

In another 10 years it will still be Jeremy Corbyn's fault. Or the Leave campaign. Or the hordes of Turks. Or the Communist students. Or poor people. Or ...

(Also, I'm surprised there is no link posted to an appropriate Tim Worstall article. Maybe the one about there being no such thing as Tory austerity and you've never had it so good?)

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Gimp

Re: @Howard Sway

codejunky> To be fair we had a previous government who's stupid mistake of thinking increasing any costs would always improve the outcome. In the business world they would have been bankrupt in no time.

Are you referring to Theresa May's Government or David Cameron's two governments?

UK's 'minimum viable product' for Brexit transit software will not be ready until December, leaving no time for testing

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Re: Wow

codejunk> Covid bailout for the Eurozone

The UK was granted an exemption from any Eurozone bailouts, It's one of the minor concessions won by Hameron. Any bailout money the UK pays in future will be from the IMF which, and I'm willing to be corrected, the UK is still a member of. Which is deliciously ironic.

Will we still have to put up with Brexitists posting their lies after 31/12/20?

Vivo pushes out X51 5G: Chipper whippersnapper, quite a battery-sapper, but at least the wrapper's dapper

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Nothing is under 15cm any more. Apart from the Pixel 4a.

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Megaphone

six_tymes> and embrace Bluetooth

But when your BT headphones battery runs out?

Ah, perhaps that explains the prevalence if people just using their phone with the loudspeaker max'd to 11?

Did I or did I not ask you to double-check that the socket was on? Now I've driven 15 miles, what have we found?

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Re: I once...

See also: car boot release switches.

Return of the flying car, just when we all need to escape

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Trollface

Re: We piggyback the 4G from our mobile phones

macjules>blasted connection did not keep changing from Orange FR to Free to SFR and to Bouygues every few minutes.

Don't exaggerate. No one ever gets a Bouygues signal.

I have to say I don't recognise this portrayal of French connection. I have rock solid 4G and DSL at home and work. Fibre available but feel no need to pay for it. And my phone is almost never on WiFi. (And if it is I use FON which is free with the DSL/4G bundle.)

The only time I had an issue was when I got my first Xiaomi (Redmi 3 Pro) and it was a proper grey import one without all the EU 4G bands supported.

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Re: 5G

Oh, and mediocre fibre sounds like a Carrefour own-brand breakfast cereal.

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Re: 5G

The French Greens. Or as they are known by some here: Les Pastèques. (Watermelons) Green on the outside, communist red on the inside.

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5G

5G is the answer. French politicos (the mayor of Grenoble) have stated it'll enable everyone to watch YouPr0n in lifts. Marvelous!

Chin Up Mr Dabbs. At least there is plenty of papier cul this time around.

Trump administration proposes H-1B visas go to highest-paid workers first

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Re: @TheMeerkat

codejunky> https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/06/22/americas-trade-deficit-is-largely-paid-for-by-european-investment-in-american-manufacturing/

You really need to broaden your sources and stop continually linking to Tim Worstall articles. Or are you just his Mini-Tim ?

President Trump's H-1B visa crackdown wiped $100bn off market value of America's largest corps, top study finds

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Re: Trump

Maybe ask El Reg just to link to all of Tim Worstall's propaganda... sorry opinion articles and save you some typing.

Huawei's financials take a beating as President Trump's sanctions come home to roost

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Trollface

six_tymes> and not able to spread their back door

To quote another Commentard, ”most people in the know, are aware of who the propagandists are, most post made up regurgitated garbage and post using the coward mask icon.”

But I disagree about the AC bit.

Ho hum: If you're so artificially intelligent, name this song while my videos go viral

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Devil

Dabbs Unplugged

Mr Dabbs, your rendition of Nyan Cat was masterful.

Mr Dabbs> ...simply by YouTubing myself taking pissy little shitgadgets out of their fucking little boxes and reading aloud the spec printed on the back like an inarticulate pin-headed twit.

It will never take off.

Oh Mi: Xiaomi shows off 80W wireless charging, claims battery fully fat again in under 20 minutes

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Trollface

Well if you'd said "Unit Prefixes" in the 1st place ...

Just out of interest, should it be 0.25um or 250nm ?

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OP suggesting people needing schooling in the use of SI units when they aren't SI units?

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Headmaster

Ampere Hours are not an SI Unit. Just sayin'.

Quick thinking and an explanation for everything – key CTO qualities

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Re: I've been fired ...

jake>>I know for an absolute fact that EVERY male college student's computer that I've worked on over the last 35 years or so has contained traces of porn.

My Epson PX-8 had zero porn on it. (Circa 1985->1992)

The vid-confs drinking game: Down a shot of brandy every time someone titters 'Sorry, I was on mute'

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"signs to warn visitors"

Maybe villagers could instead have signs to warn of the imminent arrival of <<Les Cons>>. Some kind of track 'n' trace system could be used.

Ready to slip into your suitca... or not: Logitech wheels out new 'travel-sized' version of MX Master 3

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Pffft

Call that a travel mouse?! Elecom Capclip FTW.

Need a slightly larger mouse with USB RF dongle and runs on an alkaline battery? HP Z3700: They can be had for a tenner

TCL's latest e-ink tech looks good on paper, but Chinese giant will have to back up extraordinary claims

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Thumb Up

Re: Would love It

Kindle Keyboard also plays Audiobook

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Re: Great

Onyx are apparently bringing out a Boox fully eInk phone.

Two arrested in Congo after Google Loon mobe balloon meets terra firma more than 1,000km from operating area

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Sky Pirates

It's the only logical explanation.

TikTok CEO quits after less than three months in the job

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Pint

Re: 'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman

Nice one.

Autonomous robots that can be injected? Not as far off as it sounds, say boffins, thanks to new ion-powered silicon legs

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Black Helicopters

Re: Just wondering

Only if you are bitten by a bat, whilst standing next to a 5G tower.

Chinese State media uses new release of local Linux to troll Trump

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Re: Google Translate at its best...

Oum, I don't know...

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Re: Google Translate at its best...

And to confuse things even further, Milky Bar is know as Galak in France.

Norfolk's second-greatest cultural export set for return with 3-metre monument in honour of the Turkey Twizzler

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Re: I'll probably get roasted for this but...

CliveS> includes a Croissant with 38g of fat ( a Macdonalds hamburger contains 8.5g)

I'm guessing you don't cook or bake much if you're pulling up someone for using butter in a croissant.

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Re: I'll probably get roasted for this but...

All Johnny-come-Lately-s compared to the original, Mr K. Floyd.

First alligators, then dogs, now Basil Fawlty is trying to standardise social distancing measures

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Re: Oh I am having that one.

https://youtu.be/jZq6UOiBu_Y

Clue's in the name: Samsung's next Galaxy Note line captures scrawls with responsive stylus then punts them over to a PC

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Pint

Not if they are asking, "What would you like to drink?"

Google to pull plug on Play Music, its streaming service that couldn't beat Spotify, in favour of YouTube Music

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WTF?

Damn

Will have to find another free service to use as a back up.

Elite name on Brit scene sponsors retro video games preservation project at the Centre for Computing History

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Tribbles/Trubbles

I picked up a nasty infection on my C64 version with the Sprites handily blocking your view.

Bill Gates debunks 'coronavirus vaccine is my 5G mind control microchip implant' conspiracy theory

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Headmaster

Re: Gates' problem

Charles 9> and any source you cite will be guaranteed to be denied by someone else,

Given the 1st half-dozen Google.co.uk search returns all came back agreeing, I didn't think it needed citations. I did double-check in my trusty copy of The Economist Style Guide just in case there was some creative writing reason. But nah. that agreed too: Apostrophe before, not after decades. And not for plurals either.

But then I'm not an arts & humanities graduate and only went to a state school. So virtually self taught on the language side. So what do I know. I'll leave it to the experts.

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Re: Gates' problem

Ones' free to put apostrophe's where one like's.

That doe'sn't make you right.

Decades do not have apostrophes.

Plural numbers do not have apostrophes: Fleet of Boeing 747s and Airbus A350s.

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Headmaster

Re: Gates' problem

And also don't know how to use an aposthrophe.

Same people who write 60's & 70's instead of '60s & '70s.

What the duck? Bloke keeps getting sent bathtime toys in the post – and Amazon won't say who's responsible

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Re: Were they lost from a catainer in the Pacific?

A very small pencil

Eye see you're having surgery: Origami inspires tiny, super-accurate robot surgeon

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I've seen Logan's Run

No thanks.

Cabinet Office takes over control of UK government data: Mundane machinery or Machiavellian manoeuvrings?

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Re: Cummins is a slippy f**ker

Is that any way to talk about a head of state like President Cummings?