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Hands on with the Sony PlayStation Vita

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FAIL

That is way too expensive.

And, way too Sony :)

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Results in on why life, the universe and everything exists

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Nomenclature is not ontology

Because we define the stuff around us as matter.

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How are we here ?

We're fine here. Thanks for asking.

Could we make these boards only accept formal logic please ?

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Which question ?

WHY are we here?

Why are WE here?

Why are we HERE?

Why ARE we here?

Natural languages suck.

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Mystery of MAGNETIC ROCKS FOUND ON MOON cracked

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Magnetic Anomoly ?

Back to the alien artifacts article I think.

My God. It's full of crap.

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Mars, Moon, solar system could be littered with alien artifacts

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Mushroom

Inhibitors ?

Body text is optional.

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Unhappy

Damn, I was gonna do the "I, for one, welcome..." thing :(

OK - I'll do a TMA-1 thing instead !

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Lost cities found beneath sands of Sahara by satellites

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Arabic

...the redundant Al makes that name a bit of a mouthful.

In before speculation that the fall of Mubarak leads to the discovery of the tomb of Nephren Ka.

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Well...

Cultural takeovers are not usually associated with genetic takeovers too. Currently Libyans may well be largely descended from these guys even if the culture has been wiped out again and again.

Or maybe not.

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HTC prepares quad-core smartphone for 2012

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More like razor blades

The number of blades race between Gilette and Wilkinson Sword has foreshadowed this.

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Ubuntu republic riven by damaging civil wars

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I don't see the fuss

GNOME3 and UNITY phobes can just use the XFCE or LXDE editions which are both official Ubuntu spins and quite similar to GNOME2. Easy for Windows migrants too.

Maybe power users and developers would have more of a problem. I dunno. But for most people this seems a lot of fuss over nowt much.

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Common brain parasite 'can affect host's actions'

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Meow.

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Informed

I now know not to eat cat shit. Thanks !

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Shale gas: If we've got it, flaunt it

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If it replaces coal-sourced leccy then it reduces CO2 emissions. Windmill-sourced leccy is still a piss in the, well, wind.

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Hurrah

Common sense at last ?

Lowering carbon does not necessarily mean renewa-fucking-bles !

Now scrap the ROCs.

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Moto rolls out Xoom 2 Android fondleslabs

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8.2 inches

is more than enough tbh.

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Shock movie upset - Daniel Craig still James Bond 007

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Holmes

Bond ?

The whole premise of James Bond is a little old-hat nowadays so it works best with its tongue firmly in-cheek. The new films are altogether too serious for me. If I wanted a proper action flick I'd choose something else. Bring back Roger Moore :)

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Adobe Reader

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Unhappy

Thumb's down?

Should I have used an <irony> tag ? :(

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Flame

Should have snuck a Flash player into the binary :)

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Smart meters: Nothing can possibly go wrong, says gov

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Meh

Everything can be hacked in some way or another. It will happen.

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IT pros not lacking for employment, but may need to move

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Can't comment on individual cases but in general the contractors are doing very nicely.

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This isn't how it's working over here. Permies on normal wages are being replaced with contractors on phat rates.

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I was a permie.

Not illegal at all if done in the right way.

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Devil

Many large companies are laying off permies and then immediately taking on contractors to replace them. Great times :)

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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 13.3in Core i5 notebook

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It's a thinkpad

You are paying for the armour-plating and 50 year lifespan :)

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HTC Titan WinPho 7.5 smartphone

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Indeed. Buying unlocked from Apple rather than a stupid contract with a telco, iPhones aren't much different in price to other high end smartphones. Hold their value better too. Have you seen how much you can flog an iPhone 4 16GB unlocked white for on eBay ?

Jumping to Apple this generation sorry. (Yes, it's not a computer, it's a shiny phone that Apple permits you to do a bit of computery stuff on.)

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WTF?

Too expensive imo. Apple prices :/

And does that IBM building have a bra on ?

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Solar power boom 'unsustainable', says Gov

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Of course

The 50% base tax rate to pay for this will be insanely popular \o/

Where did I put my voting slip ?

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Hurrah

It's a start I suppose. Although, I have a bit of money that I was considering putting into a solar panel to take advantage of this crazy scheme.

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Fondleslabs are next on Lenovo chief's hit list

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Happy

Actually I was thinking more of the Ideapads. Thinkpads are obviously bulletproof but the consumer machines are much better built than most consumer machines (I'm looking at you HP in particular.)

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Don't fancy their chances much in the tablet market at the minute but I'm a big fan of their notebooks. Build quality is much better than anything else at similar price points. Not Macbook obviously but way cheaper.

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India uncloaks new thorium nuke plants

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Me too :)

Signed, for all the good it will do.

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Assange brings down British justice system

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O

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K

*toddle off*

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6 fingers ?

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PlayStation 3 sales catch up with Xbox 360 total

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You're lucky

As one of the many original phat PS3 owners who had to 'upgrade' to a slim because of constant failures I don't see the original PS3 as a higher quality product than a 360.

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Bill Gates strangled Microsoft's 'tablet for creatives'

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Stop

70s and 80s being the key words there...

Think what crap Intel came up with in the late nineties and early naughties. RDRAM which performed worse than DDR mandated on customers because Intel had struck a deal with Rambus. The Netburst architecture which put GHz before actual performance, presumably to aid marketing. Itanium, which is just shit.

Utter crap basically but they successfully defended their monopoly so made billions. Fair play to them as a business. Bah humbug as a consumer.

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Like Intel. They keep adding new features to tired old x86 and ramp up the speed when competition from AMD forces them to. When the competition isn't that hot though they try to hoist shite onto the consumer for profit (RDRAM).

Nothing innovative though.

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Battlefield 3 is EA's fastest selling videogame. Ever

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Meh

Single-player ?

Why would anyone expect BF to have a decent single-player campaign ? The series' history is multiplayer. Adding a single-player campaign just to compete with MW which has already lowered the bar for single-player shooters is not a recipe for a nice experience. Buy it for MP and treat the SP as bonus ho-hum content.

(I must add also that I have always hated BF in all forms so I'm not a blind fanboy defending the franchise :))

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Darth Vader mounts defence of doomed empire

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Facepalm

Nooooooooooooooooooooo

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Argentina stakes online claim on Falklands

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Goatse

Where would it go ?

Won't somebody think of the goatse ?

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China to take women to heaven and back

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Just launch the Tsien already !

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Farewell then, Sony Ericsson

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Troll ?

"Sony put the XCP DRM on the CD's because people pirated their CD's

Sony removed OtherOS because hackers were using it to hack open the system."

Of course, the rootkit only targeted pirates didn't it ? Oh, and look, I've never pirated a PS3 game so my PS3 still has the Other OS option. Sony gave us flowery meadows and rainbow skies, and rivers made of chocolate, where the children danced and laughed and played with gumdrop smiles.

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Google signs Deepak Chopra and Madonna in TV blitzkrieg

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Devil

Deepak Chopra ?

This alone should be reason enough to pull the plug on Google's telly ambitions !

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'Ghost hunter' set to become Tory Euro-MP

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Oh, for fu...

Now is the time to retreat to the "margins of Europe", as Nick Clegg's been calling it, so that our European cousins don't get to laugh at our ludicrous representatives :(

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Stallman: Did I say Jobs was evil? I meant really evil

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To be fair

...he's not having a go at Macs is he ? (can't be arsed to re-read.)

iOS is very locked-down and increasingly has patents to stop anyone doing anything similar. It seems fairly likely that Jobs would have liked Macs to be more like iOS.

Stallman may be a bit hatstand, and I may have just bought an iPhone, but that doesn't mean that the recent trends Apple is bringing to computing aren't a bit worrying.

There was a point but I've forgotten it.

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Mushroom

...would HAVE all bought...

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Steve Jobs: the Exclusive Biography

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Toy Story ? Jobs ?

Oh come on. Toy Story was John Lasseter's baby not Steve Jobs'. As the earlier reg article pointed out Jobs wanted to shut the animation studio down:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/06/steve_jobs_bio_1/page6.html

Jobs just got VERY lucky with Toy Story. No vision of his involved.

Also, remember that it was Jobs payment to George Lucas for Pixar that allowed Howard The Duck to be released. No sensible film-goer has any reason to thank Steve Jobs.

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Details of all internet traffic should be logged – MEP

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Remember that you are legally allowed to marry and have sex with a 16 year old. Presumably you must not think about it though when you are doing it. Perfectly legal as long as you are thinking about your tax returns whilst having sex.

Or the mother-in-law.

*shudder*

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Apple plans big solar farm to clean dirty datacenter

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Surely just leaving such a large area as growing forest would suck up a large amount of CO2 anyway. They could harvest it every few years to make boxes for iDevices too.

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Union enraged by secret driverless Tube plan

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Getting rid of jobs that form part of an inefficient process and replacing some or all of them with jobs that form part of a more efficient process is called economic growth.

On the whole it's a pretty good thing.

Oh, and yes, I have been 'downsized' myself. Redundancy payments are quite nice.

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