* Posts by archengel46

64 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Nov 2009

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Singapore's PM personally programmed C++ Suduko-solver

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Loong?

I believe his name is either Hsien Loong if you want to be chummy or Mr. Lee.

Unless he likes to be called Loong when being referred to by the IT community as that translates to "dragon".

Korean stealth-scraper plans will turn 450 metre tower INVISIBLE

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FAIL

I might have to....

call you an Merkin if you think that South Korea, or Incheon is in South East Asia....

Japan Airlines to serve KFC on Christmas flights

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Facepalm

It's time like this....

Thai I lose faith in humanity's ability to survive...

Japanese firm offers 4-tonne GIANT MECHs for just $1.3m

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Pah

I'm sure it doesn't stand a chance against the RX-78.

Keeping my fingers crossed!

Apple axed Brit retail boss for doing his job well - TOO well, perhaps

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Are you saying...

Are you saying that Apple caused Sandy so that they could make NYSE close and then announce the shakeup? Wow! Is there an app for that?

Space shuttle to slip surly bonds of Earth one last time over California

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Bootnotes...

Bootnotes make my day!

Chinese boffins build brain-powered camera 'copter

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messy

Now everyone in the world knows how messy ZheJiang university is...

Interesting game nevertherless! When can I buy one?

Endangered aphid-stroking ants don wee radio backpacks

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Mushroom

think of the children!!!

"gently stroke them to harvest honeydew"

Amount of CO2 being sucked away by Earth 'has doubled in 50 years'

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Flame

Re: It's lobsters

I reckon it is all those Humboldt Squid that are eating up the carbon.

Give me more fried Calamari now!

BIG BOOBS banished from Linux kernel

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ah, Fridays...

TGIF

Dumpling squid do it WHENEVER THEY CAN, FOR HOURS ON END!

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7 cm?

That's a perfectly respectable size for a squid to go on a dish!

Micron mass-produces Phase Change Memory

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I was thinking....

of buying an SSD, but now I'm thinking again! Come on PCM!

Samsung offers cool green RAM for the same cold hard greenbacks

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Headmaster

Is that actually... yes... nah...

I cannot get my head around the subtitle and it is nagging me!

"Confidentially admits" means that the Reg shouldn't be allowed to publish that they have admitted... while if the "Confidently admits" then it would be.. ?

Someone let me know! The loop is driving me nuts!

iPhone denies existence of Gibraltar, other bits of British empire

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FAIL

Not only the iPhone

Recently had to fill in the form for a Canadian Visa where they only had "England" as an option and "Great Britain", "United Kingdom" were not listed. Nor were "Wales" or "Scotland". So basically anyone in Scotland and Wales have to fill in as English?

Thai floods derail Hadron-colliding antimatter boffinry

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Boffin

I have a few gigs spare

Can't they do a crowd source thing like they did with distributed computing?

I guess some clever data duplication methods might help to make sure all the data is available all the time...

US teens confess to 60-a-day texting FRENZY

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Headmaster

Re: More like 60 per hour.

It's called mass texting... If she sends it to 10 people everytime she texts, then that brings it up to 1 text every 20 minutes?

Ford: kick your car to open the boot

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Ks

Kougars' Kickers kicking Kuga

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Meh

Re: I'm reminded of an earlier Ford.

Which part of Ford is German?

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Mushroom

Re: Clever!

Does that mean the car is also equipped with a rocket launcher for the receiver of the hand gesture?

Lego space shuttle hits 114,000ft

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Temperatures

Can someone tell me what temperture do things get to when they are at the top of the atmosphere and have the sun shining full force on them?

What temperature does Lego melt at?

Robot NIGHTMARE sets new leggy-bot speed record

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Re: Italian Guard Dog...

But it doesn't have implanted hair yet!

Lithuania rules beer brewing 'vitally essential' to life

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Lifesaving

"She added: "Of course many people think beer is great but it does not save lives."

so I am quite disappointed to see that no one has come up with lifesaving anecdotes for me to drink in!

41-megapixel MONSTER mobe shutters Nokia knockers

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Re: Yes, that is a real xenon flash tube

And an LED one too!!!

HTC stimulates Sense with snap-happy One series

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FAIL

Xenon flash

No Xenon flash = fail

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Re: Battery Anxiety

Please read about how the cores will be used before posting...

Samsung Series 9 skinny laptop priced for Blighty

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Non-gloss!!!!

Hooray!

Apple slaps mega-solar panel field on new ENORMO data centre

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Hot air

I think the hot air from Apple's Marketing Department would be enough?

When the marketing department comes up with a new campaign, send them to the data centre to produce some power!

HP Pavilion dm1-4125ea 11.6in netbook

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Headmaster

Nitpicking, or missing the joke?

"but I live in Manchester so that is 'ever' going to be a problem."

On the other hand, dim screens on HPs do not seem to be only affecting theier netbooks. On screen brightness, my £400 pound Dell beats on my manager's £1500 HP Elitebook!

EU asks why credit cards are so expensive

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Meh

Always?

I have not had a problem using my UK debit card buying Dutch train tickets before... seems to not like my credit card though...

OCZ refunds punter for dud drive shortly after El Reg steps in

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Holmes

I thought...

... it was Mr. Perry?

Polaroid develops Android camera combo

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Terminator

Death

I predict the death of DSLRs in 2012!

Churlish HSBC drops atomic-scale accuracy

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Holmes

Or...

... The Reg's office has moved by 0.89043775350033502 mile closer to the branch.

Mars rover seeks perfect suntan spot to survive winter

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Stop

Traffic lights

Obviously he is waiting at the next set of traffic lights...

Symbian Anna makes her debut

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Viva la Symbian!

"the platform is far from dead and continues improving even if the focus of attention is on iOS and Android these days." Just waiting for Nokia to announce a reversal to Symbian!!!!! Viva Symbian!

Pixel Qi releases sunlight-readable netbook screen

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I want!!!

When is it going to come out on mobile phones!!?!?!?!

"Qi" the non-allowed, allowed scrabble word.

Apple seeks antenna engineers after 'Death Grip' debacle

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Dead Vulture

Will someone

Go and try and dig around in Cupertino's backyard? Or they just keep the skeletons in a closet?

More iPhone 4 angst: fanbois howl over head sensor

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You

beat me to it.

I say: "Without phones they shouldn't have any problems at all!"

Sunny Spain suspends solar subsidy scam

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Isn't it about using what resources you've got?

Spain is a country with high amounts of solar power and little in the way of fossil fuels. Before this, there wasn't technology to get power out of the sun, and hence the fossil fuel infrastructure was built (will someone tell me that it was without subsidies?)... Now that there is a way to avoid paying fuel bills, and hence the government is trying to build up another energy infrastructure with subsidies...

I might have missed the point somewhere, if so, pray let me know.

O2 to step back from unlimited mobile data deals

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FAIL

You're on the wrong...

Add On.

Unlimited Data

Fair Use Limit: 1 GB each month

X-Series - 1 GB should be more than enough to allow you to surf websites, use ISP email and download podcasts

X-Series Silver & Gold - 1 GB should be more than enough to allow you to surf websites, use Mobile Mail and download podcasts

We will let you know by text message once you have reached the fair use limit and ask you to cease using the included data services for the remainder of the month. If you continue to use the services we may suspend your data usage until the next month. This will not impact your access to other X-Series services.

Conroy pledges to stop spams infecting Aussies' portals

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Headmaster

Was that?

Voting for? or Voting against?

SA vultures under threat from brain-smoking gamblers

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Dead Vulture

Would that mean

That the Reg will have to change their logo?

Drinking coffee offers no real benefit, say eggheads

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Pint

Did you mean...

Bean me Up, Coffee! (Rhymes with Scotty you see?)

I think alcohol picks me up further than coffee does.

Snails on crystal meth: The facts

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and then

"Well, now write up a report on it then"

and we have our Friday laugh of the week.

Approaching space object 'artificial, not asteroid' says NASA

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Black Helicopters

what about the mice

you know the ones who built that super computer. 10m would be nice for a mice mothersip! I welcome our furry and whiskered overlords!

3-million-km-long comet plunges into Sun

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meant to be an exercise

but it took over our lives! Hmm... that sounds familiar.

US boffins synthesize self-replicating bacteria

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Suck CO2 from atmosphere?

I thought there were already bacteria/cells which did that? I think they are called plants...

UK to get Diet Facebook

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I love 3

'Nuff said

Dotcom socialite says: Vote Tory

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I read the Reg

Hey, I want to be influenced, which party does the Reg support?

Sony sued for dropping Linux from PS3

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don't deserve it then

title says it all.

MIT profs produce 'Ring of Fire' nanotube superbatteries

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iBurn

Hey, maybe Apple actually use these batteries in their iProducts?

And again, going by the dismal battery life, maybe not...

What a strano idea...

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