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  1. "All in all, a 100% successful trip!"
    "But Sir, we lost Mr Rimmer"
    "All in all, a 100% successful trip!"

  2. Re:Get a Balloon, or a plane ticket on Flat Earther Plans New Rocket Launch, Predicts Super Bowl-Sized Ratings (phillyvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    He would be able to get a similar view from the viewing gallery of 1 WTC, but with a longer observation period, and a lower chance of hitting the ground at high speed

  3. I broke the screen on my 6s a while back. After having it replaced, I would get this exact issue happen every once in a while. I assumed that it was the phone slowly dying or something.

    What's strange is that I had my screen replaced at an actual Apple Store. So, either their ability to target devices is flawed, or their stores had been using non-genuine parts for official repairs

  4. Re:In Production? on 28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Sorry, I'm such a smeghead. Here's the correct link.

  5. Re:In Production? on 28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The first episode of Season 11 is already available (legally) on UKPlay

  6. Sky on Ask Slashdot: IPTV Service In the UK? · · Score: 1

    If the landlord will allow a dish install, they're reasonably priced (£25pcm for all channels, excluding movies and sports), and can also provide your landline + broadband/fibre. We pay ~£70pcm for Sky, Movies, landline, and 40mb fibre (which has no download caps or traffic shaping).

    Alternatively, you can pull out all the indoor Virgin Media cables (assuming they've haphazardly tacked them to the skirting boards) to the outside of the property (where they should be joined with a threaded 'F' barrel coupler), and they'll have to run them to where you want them during the install. However, their TV packages are somewhat confusing, generally more expensive than the Sky equivalent, and they'll charge more for the subscription if you don't take a phoneline as part of the deal.

    Failing that, buy a 20m aerial extension kit and a Freeview HD box from Amazon, and pray that you get a good signal.

  7. My Blu-ray collection on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 1

    consists of Star Trek, Serenity (which I also have on DVD and HD DVD), and Doctor Who Series 6. The reason it's so small is because I'll only buy a Blu Ray if: a. it's on offer, 2. it's a film that has enough awesome special effects to justify being in HD, and d. I don't already own it.

  8. Re:We could start with a few people... on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not really the kind of people we want to use to seed life on another planet. Perhaps they could set up the first colony on the Sun instead...

  9. May 7th? on Spoiler-Free Iron Man 2 Review · · Score: 1

    It's coming out on Thursday on this side of the pond :p

  10. Re:We scare our customers who run IE 6 & 7 on Corporate IT Just Won't Let IE6 Die · · Score: 1

    Your ideas intrigue me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter

  11. Re:Lovecraft on Suitable Naming Conventions For Workstations? · · Score: 1

    We use the same naming convention here, and, as a result, all the servers now have nicknames

  12. Re:What's so exciting... on Windows 7 Pre-Orders Top Vista's In Just 8 Hours · · Score: 1

    It depends on the OS in question, and the differences to the previous version, and if they're significant enough to warrant parting with your cash.

    The same as buying a new anything, really.

  13. c'mon on Strong Passwords Not As Good As You Think · · Score: 4, Funny

    surely we should all be changing our passwords back to "Joshua"?

  14. Re:Handful, eh? on Zotac's Ion-Based Mini-ITX Board For Atom Debuts · · Score: 5, Funny

    How big are YOUR hands then?
    Mine are only large enough to hold one, perhaps two boards at a time

  15. Re:If we are voting, I vote for Castrix on Cuba Launches Own Linux Variation · · Score: 1

    Somehow I get the feeling there won't be a public vote on this...

  16. Re:I hate it on New Xbox Experience Goes Live · · Score: 1

    I concur. I much preferred the blades, the new 'experience' is far too fisher-price for my liking.

    I installed the update with an open mind, and proceeded to explore. After roughly 30 seconds, my initial curiosity was replaced with anger.
    The whole 3d panels interface isn't particularly intuitive, and my existing heroes theme looks like utter arse now, with over 70% of the artwork covered up by the pointless grey 'floor'
    Hopefully, they'll give us an option of having the blades back in a future update.

    It seems like the only point of the update was to get some use out of the money they'd spent on designing Aero/MCE

  17. Re:Humming sound on The Scream Aliens Hear From the Earth · · Score: 1

    a Transmat signal hidden in the Tandoka Scale

  18. personally on Getting Rid of Staff With High Access? · · Score: 1

    I'd argue for restored privileges, if that fails, ask for severance, and if that fails, fall back on option C.
    Should it result in option C, make sure you turn up for work late, drunk, and unshaven (assuming this is de rigueur in your workplace anyway)

  19. Re:Python? on F/OSS Flat-File Database? · · Score: 1

    nonono, abuse is room 12, this is room 12A

  20. for a few hundred quid on Can You Access Your Own Cash Register Data? · · Score: 3, Informative

    he could get a cheap mac off ebay, or a mac mini, and use Checkout

  21. Re:One can only hope... on Apple Sued Over Fundamental iTunes Model · · Score: 3, Funny

    +1, Shepherd

  22. Re:Danger Will Robinson! on Electricity Over Glass · · Score: 1

    will you please stop spamming that crap!

  23. all together now... on Man Sized Sea Scorpion Fossil Found · · Score: 1
  24. Re:oh god, not this again... on BBC "Not In Bed With Bill Gates" · · Score: 1

    no, i don't think we're talking about the streaming system. iPlayer is basically an application window that loads an IE control. The elements of the application that you see are actually written in XHTML/CSS/JavaScript.
    As for Kontiki, it's actually available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X

  25. Re:oh god, not this again... on BBC "Not In Bed With Bill Gates" · · Score: 1

    its a very valid point, but the flaw in your logic is that you imply that people, more specifically, the content producers and management, aren't inherently stupid.

    we all know that iPlayer content SHOULD be DRM-free, but unfortunately the powers that be don't think like that, as they're too worried about people outside of the UK being able to view the content, instead of worrying that everyone inside it has access to it