* Posts by OrsonX

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Space: 1999 returning to TV?

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Alien

V

proper Aliens!!!!

IT guy answers daughter's Facebook rant by shooting her laptop

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Coffee/keyboard

I wish I had a gun.

So I could shoot my computer.

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Like G Larson said

first come the squirrels

then the squirrel guns

OrsonX

yeh but...,

hmmm, interesting point!

I guess once upon a time she might have written that rant in her diary..... and then done the chores in a huff...

Samsung 'Galaxy 4S' pic posted

OrsonX
FAIL

SII Plus

Don't do it Samsung!

Give us an SIII.

I still wince when I think of the iPhone "5" unvailing.

4S, ha haa!

Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 DNA splice is on - report

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wp7.5 devices will probably not get upgraded to wp8

I was already tilting towards Android for my next phone, that probably just sealed it.

Quad-core Samsung Galaxy S III set for April launch

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Thumb Up

SOLD!

can't wait!

Quad core... now my emails will fly!!

Spam-squirting hole found in McAfee antivirus kit

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FAIL

No.

Liscence expired and McAfee refused to scan.

Surely I have the right to scan my own computer with an out-of-date virus library if I so wish to do so? The only threats I would miss would be those trojans etc made in the interim. But no.

Uninstalled.

Apple launches three-pronged education assault

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FAIL

The paperless office/classroom

not gonna happen

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Happy

fanbuoys

People who like anchored floating devices.

George Lucas: 'No more Star Wars'

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

thank goodness!

Android devs get schooled on style

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Coffee/keyboard

el Reg's GUI

REPLY / REPORT

- need to be even BIGGER, how else can I quickly report all the people who downvote me?

Intel ignores Steve Jobs, adds touchscreen to Ultrabook

OrsonX
Headmaster

More baloney...

...snake oil pedlar?

Microsoft's master stroke: Pay store staff per WinPhone sold

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Coffee/keyboard

Did MS pay El Reg?

To make the MS advert at the top of the page so annoying*

*it's moving the bloody text on the page when it re-sizes!!!!!!!!

Ten... mini hi-fi systems

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what were those things Steve invented?

allowed you to categorise your music? played it back on a shinny little thing you could plug into the speaker of your choice?

darn, just can't remember.... oh, well, back to the gramophone...

Lumia sales fail to set world alight

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Flame

Nokia used to be good...

Aaah the N95, beloved of so many....

If you listed every feature & then wrote FAIL next to each feature then that would be 100% accurate.

Nokia were already failing then, they continued to fail with a glacially slow response to the original iPhone (3 years was it?). And now with the Lumia their superb build quality is again apparent, with the SIM card door bending for everyone who cares to open the door...., i.e., everyone.

And, in their final act of FAILness, in the week MS buy Skype they release a phone w/o a front facing camera.

I am pleased they are failing for the POS they sold me that was the N95 (and yes I did get it replaced..., and replaced....).

OrsonX
Headmaster

more slick

that'll be slicker

IBM: 'Your PC will read your mind by 2016'

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@AC & FK

Interesting points!

I guess really it's not the biometrics I want, but like FK, just one password (to rule them all).

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nonline

I know, the only web-site I look at is El Reg, and that's getting dull....

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Biometric Passwords

Of all the predictions this is the one I'd like to see come to fruition first.

I like forward to scanning my retina instead of having to make yet another password up for Verified by Visa!

Channel 5 snubs Freeview HD again

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Gadget Show...

....has had it's day I think.

How many more tech challenges can they concoct?

What used to be a very witty rapport between the team is now very forced, and as for Polly.... she's like cardboard.

ISP ordered to drop 'three strikes' rule against pirates

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Unhappy

Hurt Locker

Well, that was enough to deter me (even trans-atlantically). I just don't fancy a knock on the door by the cyber-police (or lawyer-minions).

Software bug fingered as cause of Aussie A330 plunge

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Happy

"It then began feeding false information into the flight control systems"

Assimov!

Ten... inkjet photo printers

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FAIL

yup, that's the way to go

HP Photosmart 2575

HP Photosmart Plus WiFi

My last two printers, both stopped picking up photopaper, the second even had a dedicated tray, usless!

So much faffing, such expensive ink!

Will just print online in the future, screw you HP!

2011's Best... Games

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Happy

gagglefuck of noobs (BF3)

I'm looking forward to joining the gaggle. I love BF, I usually manage to stay alive 10, sometimes 15 seconds, wooopie!

I wish I could afford a new gaming PC for some proper action...., unfortunately will have to be on ye olde Xbox this time round though.

Still, goona be fun!

Samsung Galaxy Note

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IT Angle

Music Playback Quality through Headphones?

Any good please?

How good compared to an iPhone?

US military pays SETI to check Kepler-22b for aliens

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Alien

Earth-lings

Kepler-ings not so good.

Kepler-ians better!

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Go

Good to

Still a great movie. Good Sci-Fi movies are few and far between.

Aliens

Blade Runner

2001

Terminator

....any more?

Quantum computing comes closer as diamonds get spooky

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Entanglement

like women

unfathomable.

iPhone 4S is for failures who work in coffee shops - Samsung

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Angel

who wanders around with their expensive smartphone in their hand

Sweeds... in particular those in Stockholm. They hold it out in front of them as they walk'n'talk.

"what is this thing you call crime?"

Go back to the future with Red Dwarf

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Series VI: Out Of Time

Crew killed by their future selves.

- The End -

I wish.

Tour de France winner sentenced for hack of doping lab

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Coat

GUILTY

GUILTY

mines the one with the bike pump in the pocket, & syringe in the other

The Great Smartphone OS Shoot-out

OrsonX
Alert

Google contacts sync.

Oh c'mon Mr Reviewer and people who've "lost information".

The ability to sync contacts, mail etc. with Google is even there for all to see in iTunes (after plugging your phone in).

Alien city lights could be detected across interstellar space

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Unhappy

@Lee Dowling

your post makes for very depressing reading, I hope in some way that you are wrong in what you say, otherwise there is almost no point in even looking!

US Navy in new electromagnetic railgun milestone

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IT Angle

Hyperkinetics

A sci-fi wet dream!

It would be interesting to know exactly what the technical hurdles to the development of both large (ship) and hand-held railguns are?

Anybody know?

A rapid first hands-on: Nokia’s Windows phones

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Unhappy

Looks like Elop The Clown....

... also forgot the front facing camera on the 800, doh!

I was looking forward to this phone, I wanted this phone, in fact two of them, one for me and one for the Mrs. I thought the N9 looked really cool, finally something to get excited about. All Nokia had to do was switch MeGoo for WP7, that's it, that's all that was required. Instead they went to the trouble of re-designing the phone to remove features!

The lack of FFC is truly bizzare given MS's aquisition of Skype and the obvious video-chating this implies. Does MS not now also "own" Nokia??? Do they not talk?

The design of the N9 is truly a breath of fresh air (the first since the iPhone4), however they deserve to continue to fail for their UTTER incompetence. Why did they release their "killer" phone shortly after the N9, making it look instantly inferior?

I had vowed never to buy another Nokia after the POS that was the N95, I was willing to give them another shot with the 800..., but they have seriously blown it, a real shame.

Rockstar officially announces Grand Theft Auto V

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Unhappy

But I've not finished IV yet!

I've now been playing for more than a year (on & off) and still havent accessed the 3rd island. 'tis a great game, I must try and make some more progress! I find completing the missions pretty tricky, what I need is a 13yr old (sorry, 18yr old) to help me out.

Apple's iPod: ten years old

OrsonX

SonicStage

was painfully bad, but the USB stick music players were actually quite nice from an aesthetic point of view - I still use them today as regular memory sticks!

OrsonX

"iPod" => "music"

I know, a bizzare move.... as if they are trying to kill their own brand!

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S Android smartphone

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No Front Facing Camera

Admittedly I've had two (almost prehistoric now) phones with FFCs and never used them. However, in buying a new toy I want the OPTION not to use it! Reading the review I was quite interested until I got to the FFC bit....., darn, I can here Steve's etherial voice beginning to call to me.....

Leo DiCaprio slated to play Turing in biopic

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Leo dies again

Sadly the ending to this movie is even worse than Titanic.

Thank goodness we now live in more enlightened times (some of us at least).

Apple: 4m iPhone 4S handsets sold, thank you very much

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sarcastic sounding man

Really? Is there no voice choice? I have to say I would be quite irked to be expecting dulcet female tones (like in the demo vids) and then get some sarcastic bloke! That really is quite off putting!

iPad baby baffled by paper magazine

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I must be getting old.

But I find the tone and language of this editorial interjection somewhat below par.

Future wars will be over water not fuel, warns Intel sage

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Meh

UK: it rains every day

As we can no longer produce anything other than unemployment perhaps we should go into the canned rain-water business?

iPhone 5: Apple 4S, pundits 0

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The reason commentards are dissapointed

Because Apple is supposed to lead!

Not tech wise - they are often up to a year behind - but design wise.

Instead this was a spec bump to an existing product, but w/o ANY design innovation.

Yes the iPhone4 is a nice design, BUT it would be even nicer(er) with a bezel-less corner to corner screen => THAT is what was expected & THAT is why the 4S is a disappointment.

iPhone 5 a no-show at Apple's 'Let's talk iPhone' event

OrsonX
FAIL

4S

so much FAIL, such little time!

NASA: 'Asteroid armageddon less likely than we feared'

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Mushroom

Asteroids, pah!

USA should be more concerned with Yellowstone, 40k years overdue.

I'm concerned and I don't live there.

Microsoft, IBM tussle for tech value runner-up

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Why so gloomy?

MS seem to be on the up to me.

Mango looks great.

Win8 Metro tablets looks good.

Xbox mew Metro update looks good.

Soon all 3 will be one shared environment for you media and games.

As for MS having to buy Nokia... probably best for everybody. Stops Nokia dissapearing* completely and give MS and instant MS-Nokia super phone. Where's the fail?

[*just what the hell are they doing? They announced the WP7 phone eaons ago! Same old problems it would seem. Are they waiting for iPhone5 to launch first just so they can have even less market share????]

Computer sim explains why hippies became extinct

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Big Brother

The pinnacle of human society

But that's just it, this ISN'T the pinnacle of human society, very VERY far from it. The problems are myriad and things are only going to get worse (possibly a lot) before they get better (if we ever get there).

Firstly the answer: The Culture, or any other SciFi utopian society = no money, no disease, you can have anything you want, etc.

Is this possible? Yes.

What do we need to do to get there? Well....

PlayBook stock mountain: RIM slashes prices

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Thumb Down

unintuative - agreed

I couldn't get past the WiFi log-on screen. The 2nd screen after the Welcome screen! Please tell me how...., somebody!

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