* Posts by Isendel Steel

231 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Dec 2009

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TomTom brandishes new strap-on in Amsterdam: The wristnav

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Re: But it's so B I G

Or the Liberator teleporter bracelets from Blake's 7

Facebook struggling to find 'immersive' Home on Apple's iPhone

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free content ?

"constant stream of personal information from the free content ad network"

shouldn't it be ..

constant stream of personal information from the content free ad network

?

NASA-backed fusion engine could cut Mars trip down to 30 days

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Re: "200KW of solar panels .. about the same as .. the panels around the ISS"

+1 although it's Lazlar (the older and more talented designer brother of Lazlo)

Raspberry Pi-powered Tardis blasts off from 'Blighty's Baikonur'

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Re: T A R D I S

see below

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Re: Dimension (singular)

Thanks, explanation on the following link:

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Doctor%27s_TARDIS

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Re: T A R D I S

No problem - just emphasizing it should be in CAPS (I guess we should put a trademark symbol on there as well)

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Headmaster

T A R D I S

Acronym: Time And Relative Dimensions In Space

Strategic SIEGE ROBOTS defeated by 'heavily intoxicated' man, 62

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Re: pretty stupid robots eh

That's what I was thinking & philbo for completing the quote

(I know where my towel is icon)

Squillionaire space tourist offers oldsters a holiday to Mars

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Re: happening during the 11-year solar minimum

"If Inspiration Mars misses the 2018 window, it won't get another chance at a free-return Martian expedition until 2031."

So ... not this year

Trekkies detect Spock's Vulcan homeworld ORBITING PLUTO

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why ?

because the name is "nicely inconspicuous" ?

It might fit for the moon as it has only recently been discovered (must have been hiding).

BOFH: Climb the corp ladder - and use your boss as a bullet shield

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Re: Serious competition

the prone body would depend on whose thumb would be on the button.....BOFH might have the edge...

There's only one way to find out....

Sony promises PC-based PlayStation 4 for Christmas

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Meh

Backwards

I too would be interested in hearing how directly compatible it will be with earlier versions, having been burnt by the "upgrade" to PS3 and being unable to use the PS1/PS2 game disks (although will be unlikely to purchase as the PS3 in house has been demoted to a blue-ray player).

Microsoft holds off on shooting Windows Live Messenger

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Re: Rumour has it...

And a lot of companies in which using Skype is frowned upon if not blocked.

Space station 'naut supplies Reg with overhead snap of Vulture Central

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Re: Giant speaker stacks...

and if had been written by Paul McCartney would have set him up for several lifetimes...

First video inside thinking fish's brain captured by boffins

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"I'm going to eat you little fishy...'cos I like eating fish"

IBM brains ponder universe, say kids will go nuts for STEAMPUNK

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Terminator

Re: we're completely over it now

I think "it" might just be waking up....

All your audio, video kit is about to become OBSOLETE

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Re: Quick

yup - pared to just the accommodation and food....

UK games market clutches chest, bleeds out sales in 2012

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Re: Just a thought

Yep - or get it in the Steam sales - big discounts going on at the moment - although I do prefer to have a physical copy.

Making MACH 1: Can we build a cranial computer today?

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M.A.C.H.1

was not the 1st - M.A.C.H.0 was an earlier failed experiment by the same team (that our hero had to deal with)

Facebook: 'No merit' to claim we broke German privacy law

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Re: How would they know?

Good luck trying to take your account down as you try to leave...

Next IPCC climate assessment due 2014 now everywhere online

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Re: @Isendel Steel

Nope - was commenting that Lewis usually handles the topic...I am just an interested reader, and enjoy the balance provided by El Reg to the overwhelming "we're all gonna die" from everywhere else.

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Is Lewis on leave ?

Second Higgs possibility pops up in CERN data

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Re: Nearly there

The only problem being that if we find the answer, it will be replaced by something even more inexplicable....or given that potentially 2 particles have been "found", maybe that is already the case.

NASA to smash its spacecraft INTO THE MOON

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Mushroom

First

NASA indicate The Moon has cracks on it:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/06/moon_has_deep_cracks

Then they crash the two probes into it.....Hope they don't turn the cracks into fissures.

John McAfee on a plane to America

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Thumb Up

You Can

just click "like" (which is odd given the usual articles covering facebook and the general antipathy towards that site around here)

This is out of hand now: Apple attempts to trademark the LEAF

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Prior Art...

I think this looks like an alien eye - as on thousands of inflatable toys (of whatever colour).

Microsoft’s so.cl network now open to all

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Re: Queue the jokes ...

Upvote - because it does

Who's using 'password' as a password? TOO MANY OF YOU

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Pint

Re: The Hash-Clash Scenario (NOT a new episode of The Big Bang Theory)

might make the corned beef a bit more salty ?

(beer to wash it down with)

Data cop slap for Brit text pests

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Go

7726

Don't forget to add the originating number when you forward the spam text - else they won't know who to go after / ignore / report...

Badges for Commentards

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Re: Suggestions

I haven't got a replacement for "Trumps" but that one might leave a lingering odour....

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Copper

Can we have a copper one for lurking on the site for a long time ?

Certain people rejoice! AC/DC finally available on iTunes

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Re: Disappointed...?

wonder if they'll have a Big Ball(s) to launch it ?

Author of '80s classic The Hobbit didn't know game was a hit

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: Getting drunk

Thanks - I have just had a LOL moment with that - never tried that on my C64 version..

you owe me a new keyboard....

Bond fans: Test your 007 trivia, now!

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Happy

23/50

Considering I haven't watched the cannon for a while....

Dry martini, shaken not stirred: Cracking the physics of Bond's martini

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Pint

Re: Oh, you, silly

And a decent "proof"/vol from the freezer

("red" gives you ice chips "blue / black" a nice syrupy consistency)

Google data center spies on ITSELF: 'Like a boring version of Doom'

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Facepalm

Re: Is that C3P0 really small.....

Shame on you - it's an R2D2

Slideshow: A History of James Bond in 20 Games

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Mushroom

007 Racing

I had to look twice - I thought that was a sofa the car was avoiding (shades of Ford and Arthur) - then realised it was a tank....hence the need for missiles.

'Hypersensitive' Wi-Fi hater loses case against fiendish DEVICES

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Joke

Re: Inquiring minds...

I guess the Joo-Janta 2000 Peril Sensitive Sunglasses would prove the point. Would stop you seeing the wireless effect.

Boffins baffled: HUGE EYEBALL washes up on Florida beach

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Headmaster

Re: Or it could be ...

upvote - but I believe it was "Eyeballs"

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Happy

Re: Obvious really...

upvote for The Watchmen reference..

Serenading mice can sing along if you hum a few bars

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Little

Stuart Little would have been more appropriate (rather than Remy)

WoW cities wiped out by 'exploit'

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Black Helicopters

Was it...

anything to do with http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/05/world_of_warcraft_colleen_lachowicz_attacked_by_republicans/ ?

Perth porkfest crowned ULTIMATE BACON SARNIE

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Oh Noes Another Church ??

Will it co-exist peacefully with the Pastafarians

Drinking too much coffee can MAKE YOU BLIND

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Who said that ?

Zaphod Beeblebrox (the 3rd) from the afterlife.

Apple: Blue-shirts can fix iOS Maps in their spare time

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Re: Spock & McCoy

Because they would be logical and give a damn ?

The red shirts are just disposable - probably being used to hold back the tide of disappointed customers..

Vote now for the ultimate bacon sandwich

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Re: Voting

No Problem - it's Fryday (sic)

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Voting

and the buttons are where ?

UK air traffic controller lands 6,000-seater VDI on flashy Violin arrays

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Joke

Clouds and Air Traffic

Shouldn't be a problem ..... as long as the radar / auto guidance for poor visibility holds up.

iPhone queue ‘superficial and pretentious’ says queuing fangirl

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There' s no I in team...

...but there is a ME

Worker dumps council staff's private data in supermarket skip

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GS - obviously (a sack of cash and documents)

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