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Virtual reality is actually made of smartphones

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Re: This is commentard bait...

Yet it reads like his tongue is lodged elsewhere.

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Tax-swerving IT director disqualified for 8 years

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Devil

Where's the BOFH when you need him?

Cattle prod, shovel, roll of carpet and lye.

Happy days.

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There are some really crap budget phones out there. Vodafone's Smart Ultra 7 isn't

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Re: New word

Cornishmen do it dreckly has a new meaning now.

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What sort of luddite uses a phone to speak to people?

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Pay up or your data gets it, Fandroid

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Re: iPhone

Apparently it rolls back to the old 2012 version of Apple Maps

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OK Google, Alexa, why can't I choose my own safe, er, wake word?

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Re: 2001

Apparently Siri already responds to that command.

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Trollface

Wake up sheeple!

This would be the ultimate safe wake phrase.

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'Faceless' Liberty Global has 'sucked the very soul' out of Virgin Media

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Gurning

IIRC, it was a reverse takeover - NTL merged with TeleWest and then acquired Virgin Mobile, keeping the Virgin brand. The bearded one had a 10% share of the new business.

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She cannae take it, Captain Kirk! USS Zumwalt breaks down

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Re: OK it looks small to radar

So the ability to bullseye a Womp Rat in a T-16 would be handy here?

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Re: Displaced, by gad.

The wait for moderator approval on the post made me look stupider than normal.

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Re: Displaced, by gad.

I was using the units which were easiest to copy and paste and which are generally used to compare ship sizes of similar types.

Dimensions from Wikipedia:

Zumalt:

Displacement: 14,564 long tons (14,798 t)

Length: 600 ft (180 m)

Beam: 80.7 ft (24.6 m)

Draft: 27.6 ft (8.4 m)

Type 45:

Displacement: 8,000 to 8,500 t (8,400 long tons; 9,400 short tons)

Length: 152.4 m (500 ft 0 in)

Beam: 21.2 m (69 ft 7 in)

Draught: 7.4 m (24 ft 3 in)

So It's 100' longer, ~10' wider and has a ~3' deeper draught.

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Re: iPhone Case?

Knowing the internet, probably not that weird or specialist.

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Displaced, by gad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer - 14,564 long tons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_45_destroyer - 8,400 long tons

Not quite 3 times the size.

What would the displacement be in El Reg units anyway?

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Hollywood offers Daniel Craig $150m to (slash wrists) play James Bond

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Christian Bale

He can play the suave, debonair playboy, and can also carry an air of menace.

Would be particularly entertaining if he channelled Patrick Bateman.

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Post-pub nosh neckfillers: Reader suggestions invited

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Cornish pasty

Skirt steak, potato, swede and onion, seasoned with salt and pepper, wrapped in flaky pastry. Everything that a growing boy needs. Cook and take out of the oven as you leave, perfect when you get back.

As a side note, when I visited Newquay in 2012, there was a late night pasty shop.

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