* Posts by Mediocrates

121 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Nov 2010

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HP exec: WebOS tablet will trounce iPad

Mediocrates
Headmaster

Ya misspelt vapor

"Is there a school where they teach people how to come up with this crap?"

Nah, the big-haired marketing weirdos just huff butthash.

Extragalactic black hole particle fountain awesomeness

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Boffin

In the US they were called

Whee - Lo

by Wham-O

Explosion in iPad factory kills two, injures more

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Alert

First Exploding watermelons

Now this.

Bing to offer Facebook-slurping 'friend search'

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Oh...

I forgot.

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FAIL

If I want to know...

what my friends think about something, I can ask them. Don't need no steenkin' Bing to do it for me.

Intel rewrites 'inadequate' roadmap, 'reinvents' PC

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Stop

Revisionist History

"the Pentium in 1995, which introduced multimedia capabilities to the PC"

In '93 and '94 I was working for a small, hole-in-the-wall PC manufacturer that I will only refer to as "Chinaman Joe's PC Emporium" and we was sellin' multimedia PCs with 386 and 486 processors. It was sound cards, CD drives and video cards with more than 1MB of video RAM that introduced multimedia capabilities to the PC.

In those days the sound card default IRQ setting was shared with the printer port and the speakers were not powered, so you had to change the IRQ or every time you printed something your PC would make a farting noise.

Oracle: Quit messin' and marry Hadoop!

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Stop

Diet modification needed

Stop drinking bleach, Matt. It's not good for you.

Parents get iOS analytical toolkit to track kids' progress

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Boffin

iPad/Facebook loving males

"shouldn't you be wondering if they are really yours?"

The life forms you describe lack the capacity to do that.

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Coat

Do not despair

Snake Pliskin will turn off all the electrical devices real soon.

Sergey Brin: Only 20% of Googlers still on Windows

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Joke

Are developers not human?

No, they are CodeMonkeys (tm).

Google opens peephole on mystery data center practices

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Thumb Down

Did you read the article?

"I cannot know your router's MAC address, unless I first go to your location. The MAC address is not sent by you over the internet."

But every Android smartphone that goes by your house does grab the MAC address and sends it to Google. So Google does have your router's MAC address and aren't keeping that information secure.

STONERS are DESTROYING the PLANET

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FAIL

Don't forget corn syrup

And how many deaths are caused by growing corn just to make a cheap sweetener that our digestive systems cannot metabolize properly.

GNOME 3: Shocking changes for Linux lovers

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Four Letters

XFCE

Clinton demands net freedom for all... 'cept Wikileaks

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Unhappy

Apology for unleashing a Dimwit

We're sorry, really...

- the American People

Super-thin materials could POWER our WORLD

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Boffin

capacitators

From the 1980 movie Flash Gordon. War Rocket Ajax had them as part of it's armament.

Ubuntu Qt equality promised post Narwhal

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FAIL

KDE 4

I, too, was a KDE user but it has become apparent with the release of the 4.X series that the KDE devs have been drinking bleach.

Honda US cops to vast data snaffle from marketing firm

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FAIL

what could possibly go wrong?

"Why did Honda allow a third party access to that kind of data?"

Because removing that information would cost Money.

Lindsay Lohan looks to CCTV saviour in hand to hand battery case

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Coat

A Sober Response

"Some hair styles (e.g. the I'm-not-really-bald ponytail) must surely involve either the stylist, their customer, or both being very drunk indeed."

Nah, the I'm-not-really-bald ponytail is just a combover with a twist.

Mine's the one with the leaky bottle of Rogaine...

'London black cabs to go electric in 2 weeks' – Boris Guardian

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FAIL

Hydrogen won't work

Hydrogen is difficult to work with due to the small size of the molecule -- hard to compress and passes right through materials that can contain other gasses. This leaking hydrogen would not recombine with the oxygen it was originally bound to, resulting in less water on the planet. Plus the whole water --> hydrogen+oxygen --> water fuel cell idea is at best about 60% efficient.

Microsoft and Attachmate were not Novell's destiny

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WTF?

History time

"Networking technology should never be bundled with a given OS"

Um, all operating systems have built in networking technology. Blame Unix (or was it Multics) for starting us down that slippery slope...

Windows 7 'I'm a PC' man quits Microsoft

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Coat

@ Anonymous Coward

"Now if Microsoft would also retire the corresponding ad with Charline, the French-speaking chick"

Clearly, you don't understand how profound this commercial is. Here we have Microsoft blaming Windows 7 on a woman in France!

The gaul, the unmitigated gaul....

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