Posts by TheProf

Boffinry summit names 3 new elements

Because

If they meet they get paid expenses etc. Where's the profit if they do all the work on one day?

We like zombies… because we are zombies

So 'our' fictional creations are a reflection of ourselves?

How does the current popularity of vampires fit into this? They appear to be the exact opposite of zombies.

Pete Townshend condemns Apple as 'digital vampire'

Betting term

"trifecta"? Do you mean "triptych" perchance?

Facebook flashplodders lose appeal against 4-yr jail stint

U got the look

Why do the men in these photographs always look guilty? I never think 'there's and innocent face if I ever saw one.'

Perhaps we could cut down on crime by photographing everyone in the country and then locking away the guilty looking ones?

What do you mean I look guilty? Oh yes, so I do. And so do you.

Lossless music goes High Street

Prices starting at £9.99

Or buy the CD for a lot less and rip it yourself.

(All 'regular' Radiohead albums cost under a tenner at Amazon. )

Apple delivers Orange aid

Money

I won't use iTunes because the last time I tried to install it, to get a FREE newspaper download, Apple wanted my credit card details. I got Linux for nothing though!

Cambridge Audio Azur 751BD 3D Blu-ray player

Golden ears

Just a small point about the 'pure audio' mode. Would an audiophile have a plasma screen in the same room, never mind switched on, while listening (that's LISTENING) to music?

HP TouchPad 32GB WebOS tablet

What?

"I don't like munging my photos.... "

Munging? What the hell does that mean?

ESA unveils billion pixel camera that will map the Milky Way

'Spinlleg'

"106 individual CCDs in a 0.5x1 meter array."

Or "metre" if you live in Europe.

Actor Simon Pegg warns over banking Trojan Twitter hack

Hint

I can't place this Simon Pegg at all. Could you mention a couple of films he's been in? Y'know, just to jog my memory.

NASA's nuclear Mars tank arrives at launch site

Thunderbirds are GO!

Parachute, winch, retro-rockets, explosions? Surely this is the work of Gerry Anderson!

BioWare latest hack victim

Fail

This article failed to mention Sony.

Apple seeks anti-snoop display patent

iWhat-The-Butler-Saw

Use a snoot.

Linux kernel runs inside web browser

This kind of nonsense must be stopped.

"– his JavaScript PC emulator is about two times slower on ....."

Do you mean 'half as fast'?

Train firm offers phone-based ticketing across UK

Oh dear

my battery has gone flat. How do I get out of the station?

Space shuttle Endeavour launch delayed until at least May 8

This much

Well the shuttle Endeavour has been 'doing this' for 19 years. I doubt any of the crew have been training for that long let alone 30 years. I don't think any of the crew would like this to be their last flight.

I've never heard of any crew who complained that they were over-trained.

Nissan Leaf electric car

I was spot on

Ah, I should have added that I live in Liverpool. 108 miles return.

Brum brum hum hum

"..... run up to to the Peak District for the weekend. But you can't, of course - it's too far away."

You're wrong. According to Google maps I could drive there and back.

More accuracy in your reviews please.

Russians honour 65-metre fluorescent phallus

Depressing

I don't know which I find more depressing. The fact that adults think painting a giant willy on a bridge is a work of art, or the fact that other adults gave them money for the act because they thought it was a work of art.

They'll be selling tins of sh1t next. What?

NEC goes out on a limb with arm-tap gadget control

Talking Heads

Then we'll all look like David Byrne in the Once In A Lifetime video. Only stupider.

Storage sale SHOCK: WD to buy Hitachi GST

Like a supertanker

"As the former CEO of Hitachi GST, I always believed in the potential of Hitachi GST to become a *larger* and more *agile* company.

Doctor Who inspires another game, this time MMOG

Shhhh.

Stop whining. It's Doctor Who! I have to put up with all the stuff the BBC produce that I don't like.

Radiohead goes out on a limb with 'newspaper album'

Hands up

Hands up everyone who has heard of 'Harvey Danger'.

1.......2.......2½, call it 3.

Ford Focus 2011

I hope it's the pictures.

I don't think it looks very nice. It could be the colour I suppose but it seems 'fussy' at the rear end and ugly at the front. The tech sound good though. Mr. Clarkson will surely find the whole package orgasmic.

BBC apologises for Top Gear outrage

Frankie Boyle

Wait a minute. Frankie Boyle is a comedian?

Ion readies book scanner for e-book buffs

Someone has one.

I remember seeing* a scanner used by, I think, The British Library. The book rested on glass tent with all the scanning done from inside the tent. All the operator had to do was lift the book off the tent, turn the page and replace. Not quick but they were scanning valuable books so they could be viewed by the great unwashed.

They appear to have automated the process.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8055855.stm

http://www.book2net.net/en/book-scanner/book2net-v-scan-cobra.html

*It was probably on Tomorrows World. They don't do programmes like that anymore.

Jodrell Bank gets swanky visitor centre, infuriating maze

@ richard 69 - about time

Very 'about time' as Doctor Who didn't start until 1963. And isn't most equipment dated before it's even installed? Just look at those Apollo machines.

Trojan heralds OS X's 'new phase of exposure to malware'

Shurly shome mishtake

Apple computers are perfect. This cannot be true. You must have mixed the story up with one about Microsoft.