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  1. Re:Dag Nabbit! on Cursing as Peephole Into Brain Architecture · · Score: 1

    >The "bodily function" category is apparently much more acceptable in mixed company

    You've obviously not seen The Aristocrats, have you? ;-)

  2. Hey! on Dvorak on Microsoft Confusing the Market · · Score: 1

    >a blinking hard-drive light

    No need to swear!

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  3. Well... on Supernova 1987A Decoded · · Score: 1

    Electric Universe News is reporting that scientists claim to have proof that 'supernovae are catastrophic electrical discharges focused on a star' and not the result of giant stars undergoing gravitational collapse and subsequent explosion after having spent all of their nuclear fuel as previously thought.

    Well, they would, wouldn't they?

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  4. Re:Did they release any CDs? on TB-303 Give-Aways from Propellerheads and d-lusion · · Score: 1

    Nice one. Shame none of the mods are clued up enough to spot the reference.

  5. Re:Water City on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1

    It's a shame they didn't think to call the hurricane "Kyoto", rather than "Katrina", seeing as they were on the "K"s.

    THAT would have woken up some people to the dangers we're facing right now, never mind 20 years down the line...

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  6. Well... on Businesses To Be Censored on Use of Olympics · · Score: 1

    > technically illegal for pubs to use chalkboards to flag up coverage of the Games

    Stupid over-reaction by the poster or the BBC.
    My local pub has T Shirts for sale that say "2012 Hackney Olympics". The organisers aren't going after them, and in the same way they won't go after pubs for advertising TV coverage!

  7. Re:High speed moving objects?! on Robot Catches High Speed Objects · · Score: 1

    Thanks, but I made less runs than Lee and took less wickets...

    www.londonfields.net in case you're interested!

  8. Re:The one VS.Net 2003 plug-in I cannot live witho on Visual Studio Hacks · · Score: 1

    Nice one, I look forward to the new features!

    At the moment, I particularly like the automation of repetitive tasks, e.g. "Need a public read/write attibute for you protected one? Just use this quick key combination!"

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  9. Re:High speed moving objects?! on Robot Catches High Speed Objects · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well to catch, say, a cricket ball, you need a certain amount of "give" when you make contact, otherwise it just bounces off your hand and out, and you've dropped it. Presumably, you just need to up the amount of "give" to catch something fragile?

    I don't know how hard a softball (sic) is, but a cricket ball is solid cork wrapped in leather. And I have the bruises this morning to prove it, after playing at the weekend...

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  10. Re:The one VS.Net 2003 plug-in I cannot live witho on Visual Studio Hacks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Agreed, it's great.

    But if you're working on more than one project at a time, the "load time" is very annoying. (It seems to build a big cache of methods, etc., when it loads)

    > Version 2.0 (due out late this year) will also support 2005, Visual Basic, and ASP.Net coding

    What do you mean by "will support ASP.NET"? That's what I use it for already.

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  11. Re:Predicted the Matrix in 1984, we can trust him on William Gibson on The Age of The Remix · · Score: 1

    But dude! The Matrix isn't real!

    Time to emerge from your parents' basement... ;-)

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  12. View From the City Of London on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1, Informative

    I work near The Monunent, and the strange thing is that there are currently loads more people on the street than you would normally see. Obviously, it's because the tube is shut, but it's still quite a sight.

    Also, they're walking the streets in a vague echo of the tube lines; e.g. Lower Thames Street has a lot more foot traffic because it's roughly along the line of the District/Circle line for people coming into Fenchurch Street and wanting to get to other mainline stations on that line.

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  13. Roland Piquepaille? Bring Back Jon Katz! on Our Brains Don't Work Like Computers · · Score: 0

    nuff said

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  14. I'm not in Australia on Google Adds Satellite Imagery for the World · · Score: 0

    But my satellite image is upside-down:

    http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=51.501224,-0.1411 49&spn=0.005139,0.007918&t=k&hl=en

    Looked extremely weird - the trees looked like negatives until my perspective shifted and I realised it was upside down. Try it!

  15. You forgot on The Onion in 2056 · · Score: 0

    "Duke Nukem Forever Release Imminent"

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  16. Re:The best part... on Tinfoil Hat House · · Score: 0

    No no... Aluminium

  17. Obligatory Gary Lineker Quote on German Robot Dogs Dominate 2005 RoboCup U.S. Open · · Score: 0

    "Football is a simple game - you play for 120 minutes and then the Germans win on penalties"

    Gary Lineker

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  18. Re:And the winner is... on Cars that Can't Crash? · · Score: 0

    Well, duh!

  19. Translation of the Adobe Statement on Why Did Adobe Buy Macromedia? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Neatly summed up by Daring Fireball

  20. Professionaly? on What Makes a Good Design Document? · · Score: 0

    >I've been writing software professionaly (sic)

    That's professionally.

    Luckily you haven't been writing the manuals.

    CAN EDITORS PLEASE CHECK THE POSTS FOR SPELLING??

  21. Re:Speed must be wrong........ on WiMax Hits 100 mph on Rails to Brighton · · Score: 0

    >London to Brighton does nowhere near 225km/h

    That's probably why I said "This train operates on the East Coast Mainline"...?

  22. Re:You're nomenclature is confused. on Randomly Generated Paper Accepted to Conference · · Score: 0

    >a plexiglass barrier

    Which is one millionth the size of Wales

  23. Re:Three Bridges on WiMax Hits 100 mph on Rails to Brighton · · Score: 0

    This is such a wrong comment! Argh! RTFA!

    The mobile phone base stations are situated in ... railway stations. So you can have as much WiFi Access as you want if you stand on the platform at Three Bridges. Though it will cost you a fiver an hour or £13 a day for the privilege.

  24. Re:Speed must be wrong........ on WiMax Hits 100 mph on Rails to Brighton · · Score: 1, Informative

    >The maximum speeds is somewhere around 60MPH!!!

    Trolling rubbish

    "The Inter-City 225 is the fastest train running in the UK. 225 refers to its maximum speed of 225 km/h 140 mph. This train operates on the East Coast Mainline." (www.o-keating.com)

  25. Bhavaya on Hibernate - A J2EE Developers Guide · · Score: 0

    I believe Bhavaya does along the same lines?

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