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Comment Indifference towards real life? (Score 4, Insightful) 779

Tell us, Papa Ratzi, how else would you describe someone who adtively protects, supports, defends and hides known repeat paedophiles, hmm?
That sounds exactly like someone who is indifferent toward real life.
So get off your high horse and join the real world.
And startby turning over those of your priests who are paedos to the lawful authorities and stop protecting, supporting, defending and hiding the paedos.

Comment Re:Already here (Score 4, Funny) 482

In a previous company, our Marketing Director was showing some potential marks, I mean "customers" round the labs.
He came to some prototypes we were working on, and proudly showed off his Tech Skillz to the assembled masses by announcing that "Here's where we assemble our prototypes using printed PCB circuit boards".

I kid you not :-(

Comment Re:News? (Score 1) 121

<quote><blockquote><div><p>Are we to expect a slew of articles about 80 year old discoveries now?!</p></div></blockquote><p>Look at the bright side: none of the articles will be dupes!</p></quote>

Not for another 80 years, anyway.

Comment News? (Score 4, Informative) 121

Are we to expect a slew of articles about 80 year old discoveries now?!

SMAs have been well known about for decades, well written about for decades, just what is the point if this article?!

Comment Re:First (Score 1) 327

<quote>I'm not saying reading music for fun is a <i>bad</i> thing, but it's different from hearing it played and neither is a replacement for the other. Like someone else said, it's like looking at the code for a game vs playing it.</quote>

Completely wrong.

It is, however, akin to reading a book rather than watching a film or TV adaptation thereof.
If you know how to read (words or music score) then your enjoyment is limited only by your pure imagination, and what you imagine will be far better than anything someone could record.

(FWIW, reading the soursecode of a game would be akin to reading the TeX source for the music score).

Comment Re:Solution in need of a (perceived) problem (Score 1) 350

Absolutely!
Wave offered absolutely nothing that we can't already do in many different (and more efficient) ways.

I got in right near the start, played around, found it pretty pointless and noted it offered nothing new.
Nobody was able to come up with anything it could offer that doesn't already exist.

No wonder it failed.

Comment Re:Blurry text (Score 1) 167

Er, I can't talk, given that the first computer I used was a ZX81 (i.e. UK version of the TS-1000)

Sorry to be pedantic, but the TS-1000 was the US version of the ZX81 - the ZX81 (invented by Sinclair) was the original, the Timex was the version branded for sale in the US subsequently.

Speaking as the former owner of a ZX80, ZX81 amd ZX Spectrum... :-)

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