* Posts by Robert E A Harvey

3010 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Oct 2006

Montana TV warns of ZOMBIE ATTACK in epic prank hack

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Cameron and co will tax them so hard they will

.... wish they were dead?

BT copper-cable choppers cop 16 months in the cooler

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Pirate

Re: Silver Linings

I rather think it was El Reg who told us that you could buy BT for less than the value of the copper they owned.

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Morons

>The same motor was used in a similar blag in Fernheath

They really deserve to be nicked, don't they?

Apple said to develop curved glass iWatch with Foxconn

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Coat

Re: Wow, like playing darts.

iCowl: a monk's hood style garment with head-up displays around the edge and which makes a swishing noise when you turn corners

iHowl: A companion robot wolf that follows you round and has a built-in moon phase indication, by sound.

iJowl: nodding robotic dog that negotiates all your insurance needs.

iPowell: (prounounced Pole): automated novelist, can only write books with the same characters.

iDowel: computerised device for jointing the edges of wooden boards, or building substructures for abacuses

iFoul: portable device to assist football referees

iFowl: portable egg production device.

<- I'll get me iCowl

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Re: A watch to make calls through your phone? How i-nnovative

I think the Mash has it about right:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/apple-takes-on-casio-2013021259359

Apple fan Julian Cook said: “Will it have a picture of an apple on it? OK, I’m in.”

Review: HP Spectre XT TouchSmart

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Happy

Re: Linux

OK, you got me there!

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Linux again

OK, lads. what happened when you tried to boot Linux on it?

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Linux

Just spoke to HP about buying this without windows. It's not available with anything except W8. But they did say a Linux laptop would be announced in the next few weeks. We will wait and see....

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Re: how much?!

Yes, indeedy. and only 1920 x 1080 too. Now while that is some sort of improvement on 1368x768, it's not good enough for a machine costing 1200 royal portraits. Not when the Nexus 10 tablet has 2560-by-1600 and comes in at a quarter of that price.

Microsoft can't even shift Windows 8 slabs in the middle of a tablet frenzy

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Re: Apple wannabe.....

>Who'd have thunk?

Aye. After all it was such a thundering success for HP & RIM, wasn't it?

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Instant reaction

Bwahahhahhhaha

Snork!

Burn, baby, burn. A year of commentators and journalists and tech writers telling them it would not fly, but they knew best.

Bwa hahahha snerk ha ha

WTF? Been seeing a lot of recommendations for Mint Linux to newcomers, why?

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Re: WTF? Been seeing a lot of recommendations for Mint Linux to newcomers, why?

I think it contains Ubuntu goodness, avoids the fashionable but controversial UI innovations, and comes with all the codecs and libraries for media play without a second installation step.

Nemo cancels Microsoft's Surface Pro launch

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Oh? TV stations are naming storm systems now?

How soon before sponsorship, or even negative sponsorship?

Tennessee bloke quits job over satanic wage slip

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Angel

No big deal

A really good manager could handle it.

"Mr Slonopas, we need you. This is going to keep happening to people, and you are obviously a good and prayerful god-fearing person. I would far rather it happened to you, because the armour of your faith means that it cannot harm you at all. Please stay, and be part of our fight against Satan and all his deciepts. Just imagine, once you quit this must happen to someone with far less faith than you, and how awful that might be."

El Reg contemplates the ultimate cuppa

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Unhappy

Disqualified

I drink Earl Grey without milk or sugar.

My contribution is thus barred.

Huge rock-hard marble erection shocks Japanese kiddies

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Aye

No way that Playmobil is going to be up to it.

Blighty evades Fujitsu's staff-slashing samurai sword

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worrying

We have fundamental, foundation, needs in our society: wafer baking is one of them, as is the manufacture of machines with which to do that.

Seems a bit like farming, where the people who actually make things have had thier margins squeezed by all the other people sitting on thier shoulders, till it is barely worthwhile any more.

I think the concentration of silicon manufacture in fewer and fewer hands is not something I view with equinimity. A catastrophe could occur, for example, or an outbreak of megalomania. I would be far more sanguine if the fundamental trades were widely distributed.

EU: We'll force power plants, Apple and pals to admit hack attacks

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Re: Point Missed: More work for Mr Jobsworth

My feeling is that the best people to report things to are people who will roll up their sleeves , put on big boots, and say "Ok, let's go get them!".

OK , having to report you have a broken fence may be embarrasing, but only if the broken fence register is posted on the outside of the town hall, and people who own fences go and look at it. If it just gets filed in the 'broken fence' drawer and never sees the light of day, all you have done is make extra work.

Perhaps companies should have to report such failures in thier annual reports, and on a case-by-case basis to shareholders?

But if officialdom wants reports, then officialdom should send a 'policeman' out to respond.

Could this be Google's slick new touchscreen Chromebook?

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2560 by 1700

That's a bit more 21st century, if it's true. I can feel my credit card shivering in fear.

Antivirus update broke our interwebs, howl Win XP users

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Testing

That's what customers do, isn't it?

Windows Phone 8 hasn't slowed Microsoft's mobile freefall

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Unhappy

History

I've not forgotten what carp WM6 & 6.5 were, and the total lack of updates and bug fixes. And how WP7 users were so rapidly backwatered. There is no way they are getting any more of my money. Ever.

Review: Dell XPS 10 Windows RT tablet and dock

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Joke

Junk

I telephoned Dell, and they tried to offer me this as a replacement for a netbook, at £600 without the keyboard.

I laughed at them. This really is a joke of a product.

Netbooks were a GOOD thing and we threw them under a bus

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Re: An idea: daft or not daft?

VNC might be a simple way of using a tablet as a screen...

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I want a new netbook

I want to update my current 10 inch netbook to a better, less power hungry, processor and decent screen resolution. Nothing exists. In a recent conversation with Dell they tried to sell me a W8tablet with no keyboard for more than twice what I paid for my netbook. I laughed at them, but really the manufacturers have the laugh, not the consumer.

Google begs for secrecy as it files Glass design with FCC

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Headmaster

Erk?

non-sequiter of the week.

The story is about Google. And the FCC. Which is about radio compatibility. not patents

I watched Excel meet 1-2-3, and beat it fair and square

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Unhappy

Visicalc, 123, quattro, excel, stagnation

Excel is a bloody good spreadsheet, yes, and has good graphing capabilities.

But once it had 123 and quattro beat it has more or less stood still (Pivot tables? maybe, though they aren't what my maths tutor said pivot tables were)

Calc and Gnumeric are just clones, no-one is breaking new ground.

maths went matlab or Octrave or mathcad, and the proles were left in the 1980s.

Boffins baffled over pulsar with 'split personality'

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Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

Someone is sending cat pictures to another galaxy

Nokia turns a PROFIT. Sort of

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Headmaster

Re: Just curious

How not to do it?

NASA joins ESA dark stuff hunt

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Coat

headline

IRTA 'dark staff hunt' and thought they were weeding out the sith infiltrators, or lizard people...

Tech firms face massive tax bill if Dutch vote to end loopholes

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Re: We are not doing anything illegal or immoral

>Where does it say in the bible/quo'ran etc that paying taxes is a moral duty?

"Render unto Ceaser that which is Ceaser's"

‘That’s not art’ says Apple as it pulls nudes from AppStore

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Alert

Priorities

USAnian priorities baffle me.

A gun in every hand is good, but catching sight of a pair of tits will cause the downfall of civilisation?

Sounds like the taliban to me.

New stats: Blighty's PC market ended 2012 on its KNEES

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FAIL

same same

in 2011 I didn't spend a thousand quid on an ultrabook with no bundled optical drive & 768 vertical pixels. In 2012 that was what they wanted me to buy, & I didn't buy it then either.

Yet tablets doubled in processing power, pixel resolution, & dropped in price.

Opera sings WebKit's tune for new mobile browser

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income

I used to pay for Opera versions on the PC. Then they stopped wanting my money. So that was lost income.

First Google wants to know all about you, now it wants a RING on your finger

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and counting

Will there be one really special one that controls all the others?

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Happy

Re: So, in every Cracker Jack box

CRACKERJACK!

oh, sorry, wrong one

Top Gear isn't TV, not when it's on YouTube

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handy

I shall file this to show the TV licencing hitmen

Ten affordable mid-sized Full HD monitors

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Unhappy

1920 by 1080

1920 by 1080 is a telly, not a monitor.

Boffins create quantum gas with temperature BELOW absolute zero

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Stop

nonsense

Playing fast-and-loose with the definition of temperature with a few hundred potassium atoms balanced on individual laser beams is one thing. Making new and novel stable materials is a whole different bunch of subatomic phenomena.

Up your wormhole: Star Trek Deep Space 9 turns 20

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If we are going to play that game

I vote for 'A for Andomeda'

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/453217/index.html

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Happy

B5

I really admired the Babylon 5 thing. They managed to have a beginning, a middle, and an end, rather like a novel, and still spawn stand-alone stories. OK, the silly-alien-hairstyle method of speciation must be something they came to regret very quickly, but the characters under those nightmare prostehtics were complex and layerd, and that was unusual in the land of goodies and badies.

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Too much woo-woo

I really thought all that pseudo-religious crap about the guardians and the destiny of Sisko was uneccessary.

ST was supposed to be Science Fiction, not magic.

Soz, switch-fondlers: Doesn't look like 2013 is 10Gb Ethernet's year

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Well Quite

>the bulk of businesses just don't need 10x the bandwidth

>and aren't willing to pay 3x the cost

It has been a long time since hardware purchases have been anything other than a distress purchase!

Ubuntu for smartphones aims to replace today's mobes, laptops

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I want one

I want one now!

Microsoft says Google trying to undermine Windows Phone

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for glod's sake!

I could stand still with my arms folded across my chest and undermine windows phone. It's automatic.

UK games market clutches chest, bleeds out sales in 2012

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It's a recession

Look lads, that's what a recession is. When food and petrol start to cost a bigger chunk of a shrinking budget, people cut down on fripperies. Like computer games.

Ever had to register to buy online - and been PELTED with SPAM?

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Happy

Re: Amazon recommendations

The recommendations do make an amusing parlour game - "what made them think I wanted that?"

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Cleft stick

The worst offender I know is spex4less. I have bought spectacles from them in the past, and may well do so again. Their prices, quality, and customer service are first-class. I've had them telephone me to confirm a prescription because it was so far different from the one I gave them the year before. Brilliant. But they do have the habit of trying to sell me another pair every day after I have bought one. They bombard with emails.

I want to continue to shop with a reliable, trustworthy, and cheap supplier. I don't want the drifts of emails that clog up my inbox. Telling them this does not change things.

This is what spam filters are for. I take them out of the blacklist when I place an order, and put them back after I have recieved it. They are clever enough not to send direct marketing while an order is open, so it works nicely.

Yes, hundreds upon hundreds of websites CAN all be wrong

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Facepalm

Misheard lyrics

Wogan built a career on it: 'Mulligan's Tyre', indeed.

His high water was Kenny Rogers:

"You picked a fine time to leave me Lou Seal,

with four hundred kids and a cop in the field"

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Re: re. Bootnotes

Bar: where you find all the people who can explain beats and time signatures