* Posts by Preacher

26 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Feb 2010

Why would a keyboard pack a GPU and run Unreal Engine? To show animations beneath the clear keys, natch

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Mushroom

Cool

but can it run Doom?

Dublin shopkeeper catches forecourt fouler with his pants down

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Coat

Dublin accent

"Buckley was alerted to a third late night visit from the Finglas fouler"

Given this was in Dublin, shouldn't that be " a turd late night visit " ?

Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight e-reader review

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Trollface

Rounded Corners

Is that a certain fruit company's lawyers I hear knocking ?

That horrendous iPhone empurplement - you're holding it wrong

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Coat

Re: Wise advice from my gran

My Gran said the same thing, she wasn't taking about babies though.....

Google swims with the fishes

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Quite useful

I just found Nemo

SanDisk flogs strap-on to speed up your lazy Windows 7 PC

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Unhappy

UK punters

£45 on Amazon, but delivery estimate sucks - "Usually dispatched within 1 to 2 months"

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B008U3038I

Windows 8: Download it, then speak YOUR brains

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Re: trying it now

TIFKAM - The Interface Formerly Known As Metro, better name than the original.

Apple's new Safari snubs older Macs, drops Windows version

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Trollface

Re: the poor orphaned mac pros

That's the price you have to pay for being loyal to the fruit company

WD sees red, flogs NAS niche drives to SOHO punters

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Happy

Cheap as chips

"..retail prices are £90 for the 1TB drive, £19 for the 2TB one and £159 for the 3TB model."

I'll have a dozen of the 2TB ones please

Leaked snaps said to confirm iPhone 5 speculation

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Re: Well finally....

Actually Apple already complies with EU regulations (and they are regulations) - http://www.tuaw.com/2011/10/04/apple-unveils-dock-to-micro-usb-adapter-to-comply-with-eu-standa/

You can get it one here - http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MD099?mco=MjU5MjAwODM

Sony NEX-7 24.3Mp APS-C compact system camera

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Sony NEVER learn

"the frame rates depend on territory with 60fps in the US", WTF Sony, crippling features depending on where I live. This is a camera Sony, not one of your useless Blu-ray players.

Vote now for the WORST movie EVER

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One title missing

Ishtar needs to be on EVERY top 10 list of worst films lest we forget just how bad it is, so bad it never even got a DVD release in the US.

Roku rocks media streamers into UK

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Unhappy

Ripoff

I see this is $99.99 in US, so UK is getting the usual 1:1 exchange rate

Iomega TV with Boxee

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Wireless adaptor

"Iomega also throws in a USB adaptor for 802.11n wireless networking", if you're going to include the adaptor why not build wireless into the box in the first place?

Government launches hydrogen motoring task force

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FAIL

it is you who fail Big_Ted

Most intestinal gas is a mixture of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide, very little Methane (if any)

Microsoft raises 'state of the art' son of NTFS

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It's all Greek to me

I vaguely remember reading that internal docs at M$ used Greek letter shorthand for Cairo, thus Cai (chi) became X and ro (rho) became p. No idea if it was true or not, but sounds more plausible than "Windows eXPerience".

TV Guide UK

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Sky+ / Tivo

This doesn't appear to have the Sky+ Remote Record or Virgin Tivo function that TVGuide.co.uk app has, poor effort.

Ebooks must stay fat with VAT, blame the EU, MPs told

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French - a law unto themselves

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/e-book-price-fixing-law-passed-france.html

How Jobs bent reality with LSD, Apple hype

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Devil

667

664 and 668 are the neighbours of the beast, 667 lives on the other side of the street.

ICO issues half-baked cookies guidance

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Coat

A title is required

If only there was a way to track if a user had already visited a site and given their consent...

Volvo demos automobile auto-pilot tech

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Stop

Just don't try it in Devon.........

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12179160

Burger van busted offering free takeaway porn

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Pint

Carlsberg don't do Burger vans

but if we did........

Firefox 4 sneak peek flaunts Google open video codec

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Jobs Horns

and...

.....stop encoding in H.264. Where would that leave Job's army of fanbois?

Mozilla man blasts Apple and Google for HTML5 abuse

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Jobs Horns

hook, line, etc

The point you've completely failed to grasp is these demos DON'T showcase what HTML5 can do, they show (for the most part) what CSS3 can do. Apple is blurring the lines by suggesting CSS3 is part of HTML5, it's not.

Tories will force BT to open up ducts to rivals

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WTF?

Broadband doesn't have to come via a cable

Ever heard of WiMax? It's been used very successfully in Ireland, where Eircom are even worse than BT.