Posts by TheProf

Ultimate Doctor Tom Baker REGENERATES, RETURNS to WHO

Re: RT

Looks more like a 'Dimensions In Time' image. I'm sure Tom's a bit more 'upholstered' these days.

The Colin Baker cover looks out of time too.

Maybe it's a Baker thing.

Lumia 1520: Our man screams into ENORMO new Nokia phondleslab

What is it?

Not quite pinned a name down yet have you?

'You can say phablet, we prefer “phondleslab”.'

Also called in the article:

pocket-busters

slab

specialised device

smartphone

6-inch tablet.

Maybe we could just call these things by their size. i.e. 5-inch phone, 8-inch tablet etc.

3D printing: 'Third industrial revolution' or a load of old cobblers?

Re: They have some serious uses

How on earth did they fit a 3D printer in her mouth?

XBOX One SHOT DEAD by Redmond following delivery blunder

Re: Why on earth did he even try to use it?

Maybe he is one of those 'idiots' who'd pay silly amounts of money to get one early.

Doctor Who nicked my plot and all I got was a mention in this lousy feature

Stolen Ideas

Yeah! And this whole article is stolen from the pages of Doctor Who Magazine.

Forbidden Planet: Stolen from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'. And Morbuis wasn't a mad scientist he was a mad linguist. (I often wonder why a 'master of languages and their meanings' [thanks wikipedia] is on the crew to colonise a planet.)

Australia hobbles self in tech tax chase

Any relation to

Joe Six-pack?

(Sorry, it just sprang to mind and annoyed me so I decided to share it.)

Ten top stories from Classic Doctor Who

Re: "his loathing of violence and force"

He didn't. He was stopped from killing the cave-man by Ian Chesterton.

Big Beardie's watching: Alan Sugar robots spy on Tesco petrol queue

I like it!

Going on what TV adverts are like, what are they going to show to that long queue of men? Alcohol? Nope. Cigarettes? Nope. Nuts magazine? No. Razor blades? Yes, Tesco can still sell them to motorists. Well until the 'Radical Mothers' get them banned because children can hurt themselves on the sharp edges.

Do+ you+ use+ Google+? Seemingly+ you+ DO+

That was no lady, that was my wife!

Boom-boom.

Payday loan firms are the WORST. Ugh, my mobe's FILLED with filthy SPAM

They did what?

"The Premiership is back! Get up to £50 FREE BET on the weekends Football with [REDACTED]. Click [REDACTED] Today! text STOP to 66644 to opt-out [sic]"

These people sent a txt with "[sic]" as the last word? Oh, they didn't. So why have you put "[sic]" inside the quotation marks?

Call me maybe: Orange loses a segment as competition bites

The difficult second paragraph

I can't make any sense out of the second paragraph. Help!

MS Word deserves DEATH says Brit SciFi author Charles Stross

Real authors

Don't real authors use portable Remington typewriters?

Leaping SpaceX GRASSHOPPER ROCKET jumps 2,500ft, lands safely

Re: FAB!

Or TB3. I (think I) remember seeing TB3 return to base. Alan has to get the craft back through the opening in the torus-shaped building. At least Scott had a swimming pool he could dump on the flaming wreckage should he get the landing wrong.

Universal's High Fidelity Pure Audio trickles onto Blighty’s Blu-Ray hi-fis

VFM

Hmm.

Amazon are charging (at the time of this post) £10 for The Rolling Stones: GRRR! [Blu-Ray Audio] and £12.49 for the MP3.

I'd go for the Blu-Ray.

Oh, shoppin’ HELL: I’m in the supermarket of the DAMNED

Re: There's a very simple cure

"Can I get cashback from the self-service machine? No? I wait in this queue thanks."

Doctor Who to land on the BIG SCREEN and in 3D in November

Re: Nice, except...

Sir,

I admire your dedication to this rather silly television show. Not only watching TV at at 4AM but taking a day off work to boot.

I hope the 3D-Blu-ray is released promptly to fulfil your tri-dimensions desire.

I'm planning to disconnect the phone and have a cup of tea while I watch it.

ITV Granada? Good grief!

Phil Collins' daughter 'will give you A VIRUS' – security bods

Re: Personally if i was spreading a virus

" the Idiot Noisebox they call Beiber."

So you are acquainted with his ourve.

Hands on, er, heads on: We take a gander at Sony's gaming goggles

It's a calling

Bob Dormon, please keep the obsequiousness out of your future reviews. It's not your job to just blithely regurgitate the Sony press release. I, for one, would like to know what you really felt about this device. Is it a ground-breaking, metaphor-mixing leap forward or just another technological blind-alley?

Also, do you leave the light on when you sleep at night?

Barnes & Noble knock Nook slate down to £79

Re: Sainsbury's

You're right. The Nook looks a better deal.

Sainsbury's

I saw an ASUS 7" in Sainsbury's going for £79.99. 8GB and it had a microSD card slot. It was blue, if that's of any use to anyone.

Jeez I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition!

Huawei Ascend Mate: The phondleslab for the skint

Re: Screen size

It says in the copy that it's 0.2 inches smaller than the Samsung 6.3 so this thing should be around 6.1 inches across the diagonal.

Huawei are probably keeping shtum on the size because, well, you know, it's all about who's got the biggest.

Ubuntu Edge Linux mobe: 'Made you look,' crows Shuttleworth

Brave face

"Garnered media attention.............."

Just like the Hindenburg did.

Superstar cluster-Zuck as Facebook tries out celeb-only edition

A Warning, Please!

Please El Reg, give a warning when a link in an article leads to the Daily Mail. This sort of thing leaves a trail you know.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday: The '90s called. It wants its 'Ping of Death' back

What does it all mean?

"Up until then the soon-to-be-pensioned-off OS needs security updating like Gwyneth Paltrow needs ice cream. "

I know what a Gwyneth Paltrow is and I know what ice-cream is. What I don't understand is the relationship implied by the author.

Bloke straps shed to Ford Zephyr and chases it on bike

I agree

Also the film contained more science and less wobbly camerawork than many a recent Horizon.

Guinness: Have a quick bonk over the bar and receive FREE BEER

YES!

One of the pubs is near me. Off to The Albert for lunch I think. I certainly won't be going near a McD. Encouraging children to treat the place as a playground? Another reason not to go into their pit of hell.

WAR ON PORN: UK flicks switch on 'I am a pervert' web filters

Re: Better get busy

Clitheroe.

El Reg encounters mObi: R2-D2 for retailers

Indoor rocketry

I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

BBC lied to Parliament about doomed £100m IT monster, thunder MPs

I never lie.

Nope. Never told a lie in my whole life. Ever. And never, especially, when my self preservation depended on it. Why, what kind of crazy lunatic would even consider lying in an attempt to preserve their selves?

Liar!

BBC boffins ponder abstruse Ikea-style way of transmitting telly

Re: The first thing I'd want ..

Will I be able to stabilise the wobbly camera and crash zooms?

Doctor Who? 12th incarnation sought after Matt Smith quits

The new Doctor

My prediction for the new Doctor: someone you can't put a name to but you'll go 'oh! I know him, he was in the background of that programme we watched last year.'

Sony's board debates breaking up with Spider-Man

Spurious connection watch.

"and the weepy ballads of Brit crooner Adele."

Really? She's on XL Records, part of the Beggars Group, a British independent label.

Yahoo! Japan says 22 MEELLION User IDs may have been nabbed

It could be one person with 200 million accounts.

ESA retires Herschel space telescope as too hot to handle

Re: Liters?

'Meter' too, although a spell checker wouldn't spot the error.

Space elevators, vacuum chutes: What next for big rocket tech?

Fireball XL5

used a system similar to the maglev launch platform except using rockets to power the sled. Gerry Anderson and AC Clarke between them seem to have invented the future.

Another MYSTERY evacuation: Google UK empties swanky offices

Simple!

Someone having a crafty cigarette in the toilet. Again.

MasterCard tries to zap PayPal with own-brand mobe wallet

Flat broke

Once again I ask the question 'how do you pay (or show proof of a valid purchase or season ticket) when your phone battery inconveniently dies?'

That piece of plastic may be 'old fashioned' but it never runs out of juice.

Google's Glasses: The tech with specs appeal?

Below par

Oh come on Dabbs. You can do better than 'I don't like wearing things.'

Harry Potter's Filch conjures Doctor Who's dead first time-lord

Re: Twelve Doctors?

You can't blame McGann for that.

Just too damn lazy to reach your phone? Pick up the remote

I want one!

I have Airdroid and PRemoteDroid why wouldn't I want one of these?

UK malls use Google in desperate stab at luring shoppers off the web

Re: Bye bye...

I sympathise. I can never find anything I like in the local stores but.....

After a quick web search I found 11 collar styles*. If a shop were to stock 1 of each in the most popular sizes (14.5" to 20", a dozen in all) they'd need to find room for 132 shirts. God help you if you don't want a white one. Or short sleeves.

Just what do you suggest the general department stores do? It's easy to say "come up with a new models, new services and new ideas" but apart from 'stock more grandad shirts' what?

* point, narrow, saint tropez, spread, button-down, round, pin, tab, wing-tip, mandarin, nehru. There may be more.

YES! It's the TARDIS PC!

Want one!

But I think near enough £1000 is a bit much.

Take it or break it: the return of the drop test

The S3 smells like Jelly Beans.

Well it made me smile.

Legal wigs to sort out rules on internet defamation, contempt

Re: I don't get this.....

"senior Tory from the Thatcher years"

Well that does narrow the field down a lot but how does one jump to a certain name from that list?

I don't get this.....

"His name was incorrectly linked to a child abuse case after a botched BBC2 Newsnight programme - which didn't name the peer - reported that a "senior Tory from the Thatcher years" had been accused of child abuse by north Wales care home victim Steve Messham."

So the BBC didn't name him and Mr. Messham was given the incorrect name by the POLICE. Are the police being investigated over this matter? Why have the BBC been pilloried for 'outing' this man. (No names, no prosecution. Oh wait...)

Acer CloudMobile S500 Android phone review

Display

" the freaky super-saturated colours of the Galaxy SIII’s AMOLED display."

SETTINGS:DISPLAY:SCREEN MODE. Set to 'NATURAL'. Fixed.

Bong Broadcasting Corporation. Let ME replace Entwistle

Too late

Isn't this SKY?

What happened to comics for kids? Hell, what happened to COMICS?

Re: Something I wonder ..

"Why it's more difficult sourcing a toy gun than a real one."

I must use that line in a conversation. I'll even add my own question mark.

'iPhone 5S' said to begin trial production next month

Rant

Media people, please, TRIFECTA does not mean 3.

From wikipedia:

In horse racing terminology, a trifecta is a parimutuel bet in which the bettor must predict which horses will finish first, second, and third in exact order.

If you want to sound clever What about:

a triplet of predictions?

a trinity of market forecasts?

a trilogy of analysts estimates?

a triptych of media speculations?

Hell, you could just write about 'three wild guesses'.

What was that about a new mobile telephone?

Crafty app lets phones send data by ultrasound with speakers, mics

I tried it

and it works. All I seem to be able to do though is send a name and phone number. I think I'll stick to Bluetooth for interminably long transfer times.