Yes, a perfectly circular hole. After an alleged impact of that magnitude I'm astonished that there's actually any water left in the lake at all!

iCloud on ONLY Apple devices?

"Apple went on to build its own storage offering, iCloud, but it only works from Apple devices"

I must be imagining being able to use in on this Windows laptop then.

Ion

My wife uses one of the single dock Ion units for all her dance teaching and Zumba classes, with a wireless headset receiver in the aux input. I've even played my Roland drums through it - works really well.

It is VERY loud!

Recommended for places were volume's needed over fidelity - which is not usually a problem when mp3 and aac files are being played.

Tim

Price

It's not £500 quid anywhere.

"That said, the price tag on this camera will by itself exclude most happy snappers"

Why is this even mentioned when the link to amazon.co.uk shows their price as £359 and others as low as £333?

Tim

Data volume inversely proportional to story length ...

3TB? Is that all? I have more than that at home.

Any excuse for El Reg to publish a picture of a girl in her knickers, you guys!

Merry Christmas.

Those two, vegans?

There's no way those two are vegans - clear skin, bright eyes. Vegans are sallow, skinny, unhealthy looking mush-eaters.

Match seems to be US-only

No Music option here in the UK, just Apps and Books.

That's nice.

Tim

Encryped data is random.

I'd love to know how they they are deduplicating encrypted files?

I can understand transmitting them as random rubbish but it's not possible to dedup data in this form.

Tim

It's 1994 all over again

and I'm back playing Marathon on a Power Macintosh 6100. Except now it's while sitting on a train on an iPad.

The original cheat mode featuring the infamous "pirated Copland beta" is also avalable for those of us still not l33t enough to get through "Bigger Guns Nearby" without dying over and over again, even on "Normal" mode.

I hope the other two episodes are coming too.

Tim

PC for more than $3700?

Trivially easy. Just visit the Apple store and configure a 17in MBP with 8GB RAM and a 500SSD.

I was 13 and I wanted a Jaunting Belt, desperately.

From Wikipedia:

All incarnations of the show concerned the emergence of the next stage of human evolution (homo superior) known colloquially as Tomorrow People. Born to human parents, an apparently normal child might at some point between childhood and late adolescence experience a process called "breaking out", when they develop their special abilities. These abilities include psionic powers such as telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation. However, their psychological makeup prevents them from intentionally killing others.

Damn.

PC World branches already sell all Apple's range

I was in my local PC World (Nottingham) the other week and there was a mini Apple Store in a very prominent position. I asked the attending black-clad hipster for the grif, daddy-o and he said he worked for Apple UK, not DSGi. There was a full range of Apple stuff, from 30in displays to mice - so it's not surprising that you can get an iPad from a PC World store, and a lot of them contain an official Apple store!

Tim

Um

So as soon as he was kidnapped they stopped paying him?

Tim

This person is a journalist?

"Of course, Epstein understands some people have reservations about the ID card. "As I’ve said before I understand why people have their reservations, but I personally can’t see what there is to lose if you’re a law abiding citizen with nothing to hide."

Having nothing to hide is NOT the same as it being NONE of the government's business!

I give up, truly.

Tim

Bluetooth pairing

Thanks for the review. So, to get this to work with my car's Bluetooth system would involve first pairing the iPhone with the car kit, then pairing the car kit with the car? Is that even possible?

Why on earth didn't TomTom use the dock connector to link the iPhone to the car kit?

The potential for failure is high here.

Tim

MILF

Stifler's Mom lives! ;-)

Extra costs not mentioned

This is great news BUT what about import duty? VAT?

That's got to be there, surely?

Tim

price has doubled since the review (hours!)

Now £2.99. Just sayin' ...

Only a small change needed

C'mon people - change "zio" to "zion"

Now it makes slightly more sense. A bit.

Tim

This story needs ...

LEGO!!

;-)

Tim

HHGTTG

They already tried this on the "Heart of Gold". It meant sitting infuriatingly still....

Tim

Hollywood has the answer ...

DARPA should ask Josh Wheadon for advice. I saw this very gunk being used on a wound in "Serenity"

Tim

@Richard Cartledge

No, neither generation of the iPod Touch has a mike, hence the reference in the article to having to buy one.

The 2nd Gen does have a (crappy beyond belief) speaker, so a dangly bit of expensive doorbell wire (doubtless in "mug me, I have an expensive and desireable gadget white") is required.

Tim

Roll up, roll up get your blindfolds here ...

Triffids anyone?

<shiver>

Tim

Ordered a 16GB version from CPW this morning

Yup, unlike 02, CPW had them available online for delivery/collection from my local store so I ordered in hope and got the confirming text message soon afterwards.

Let the porting commence!

Tim.

Marriage registers

"As of last week, the government has forbidden couples getting married in registry offices from having their photograph taken as they sign the wedding register."

Surely this not new? There has always been a law against photographing a marriage register in such a way that the writing can be deciphered,

I've been a photographer for 30 years and have done a few weddings in my time, and in ALL cases, whether church or civil, the minister/priest/vicar/registrar has produced a "dummy" register so that the couple can be photographed pretending to sign it, pen-in-hand, heads-together, with no issues whatsoever.

Tim

Non-story chaps, come on ...

Just downloaded it, no issues whatsoever. The usual El Reg hyperbole ;-)

Tim

@Giles

Giles,

FWIW I completely agree with you.

However, beware the fate of those who have the audacity to state obvious facts related to how much we pay here in the UK versus everywhere else will only result in corrective statements from people with nothing better to do that point out that 1) we pay VAT 2) they pay sales tax and 3) by the time you add the shipping costs actually the differential isn't actually worth the airfare.

Just so you know ...

Tim

Those crafty Spaniards ...

Spain already wants this for UK residents travelling there. I just had to fill the details in on the airline website for a planned family holiday there next month. All they wanted were names, ages and passport numbers. Hardly onerous.

Of course, the green US VW form also requires details of the intended place of residence during your stay, so how will the new pre-registration handle that if it's valid for 2 years?

Tim

@ Lee T

"only the PEOPLE were replicants, the animals are merely artificial. /pedant"

There, fixed that for you ...

Tim

Velociraptor

Um, perhaps it's just me, but that Velociraptor has more than a hint of "The Graham Nortons" about it ...

<goes to get coat>

Tim

RIPA

I imagine that the Government (who would doubtless benefit from a tap into this data stream) would simply change the law to suit themselves, as happens every time HRMC lose a court case.

Tim

@ andy - careful when mentioning Apple's US pricing

You'll get reamed by lots of "smart" people who'll lecture you about VAT and import duty ad nauseum infinitum who clearly have nothing better to do with their online time ...

Tim