"minimum memory speed"

I think he means 'maximum'...

Is flash what you need for cacheing? I thought it was cycle-limited...

I think that rotating metal discs with fitted rubber doughnuts would overcome most of the shortcomings, and require a lot less power. Is the world ready for them, though?

Splutter

"the thrusting engine of success that is HP"

Nearly had a coffee/keyboard incident there... :-)

Looking forward to the fire sale, at least.. :-)

"addressing system-level problems using presentational-level thinking and tools"

Which is perhaps an argument for not teaching Powerpoint! I'd also rather children learned a bit about coding than how to use the latest (and obsolete by the time they leave school) version of MS Office. My son's school has just updated theirs, at hideous expense, when they already have, and use, Open Office! I'd far rather they'd blown the money on Raspberry Pi's...

Moyra J Bligh

I’ve just read about the Empress, and stand corrected - the lost passenger headcount was greater than the Titanic’s.

Interesting about the ship’s cat, too.. :-)

"more of the Ireland's passengers died"

So if my inflatable gets a puncture while rounding the Needles and 100% of the occupants (me) drown, will that be the worst maritime disaster ever?

Newsbiscuit

Satire just keeps on getting harder to do..

http://i.imgur.com/vynW8.png

"Cruise ships are designed to sail along the coasts"

So how do they get there? Are oceans not involved?

Wahoooo

>another "middle class" mention

I think you'll find it was a quotation. That means someone else said it...

OK - I'll consider the idea that CO2 caused the end of the ice-age, if someone will tell me where the CO2 came from. I doubt it was anthropogenic.

"The new climate reductionism is driven by the hegemony exercised by the predictive natural sciences over contingent, imaginative and humanistic accounts of social life and visions of the future"

I am submitting that to Pseuds Corner.

I'm sure it will go down well with pointy-haired managers, for whom single-tasking is a stretch, and will be irrelevant to Dilbert, who has been using Linux for years.

And the IT angle? Oh, sorry - it's being held somewhere mildly exotic...

A Bentley SUV, though? Dear God.

"Anthony Watts, it appears, received $US90,000 to relaunch his Website."

Actually, to launch another website, providing a public service. Not that Desmog would mention that, of course, but I'm surprised you didn't check.

"If your model doesn't reflect reality, then your model is wrong."

Not if you're a climate scientist.. :-)

Range

I'd much rather have more range, then at least I'd get 54Mb! We have a lot of old houses round here, with brick and sometimes stone walls. Most Wi-fi is useless more than one room away, and even then is half the speed.

There's an open opportunity for Cook/Apple to show sympathy - make sure the casualties are cared for...

"Costs of $196 on a $649 device make for profits of nearly 70 per cent."

Only a salesman would come up with that sort of maths. I make it 231%

"Most people are in serious denial about the FUBAR world we live in and financial greed."

Blissfully unaware, more like, given the sort of newspapers they read, and which rely heavily on advertising for the products of said FUBAR world.

As has already been noted, how many, faced with Fairtrade bananas at £1.20/kg or unfair-trade ones at £1 choose the former?

"the next iPad will come with a pinhole camera box and a pack of B&W negative glass plates"

Too high quality a camera for Apple.. :-)

I seem to recall that Apple only hung on to their name by persuading the Beatles that they weren't going to get involved with anything to do with music. Time to reopen the case?

"Baron Sacks"

Sure you're not confusing him with Ali G..?

"Walmart - the biggest retailer in the world"

But we're not in Kansas any more. Size isn't quite so important over here, thankfully.

Missing female role models...

I'd settle for our moderatrix :-)

@ Hmmm

"I can buy a 2TB drive for £78 without much trouble."

In which case, I should do so. Care to say where..? :-)

Flicker

"Mention Philbin's name today, and the eyes of Tomorrow's World fans flicker with instant recognition"

No, just lust, I'm afraid. Sorry.

Ballmer getting it wrong again isn't really news. I just feel sorry for the furniture.

I still think that clanky mirrors are a bit of an anachronism. And why no SD card - are they too small for professional photographers (who clearly need big hands to lug the camera and lenses about)?

Still, if Santa's reading, I wouldn't complain...

What's sulfur - a sort of animal hair?

Company announces that it's abandoning a particular market and then wonders why the market abandons them? You'd think all their MBA's would have anticipated that...

"Nice Strawbs reference"

I might even dig out the LP now. Great cover, too - I miss those.

The future probably isn't what we expect.

Our exchange has just been upgraded to 21CN, which sounds convincing until you learn that it means '21st century', which probably tells you all you need to know. We have aluminium cables locally, too, so no amount of cabinet upgrades is going to help - bugger fibre, I'd be pleased to have copper...

Haunting

He should be careful using words like 'reimagining'. Imagination seems to be the least of his talents.

No word on battery life, then? Trust MS to design something bigger, fatter, heavier and more power-hungry than everyone else...

I'd have more sympathy for Apple if their most famous idea hadn't been pinched from Xerox in the first place. Their litigious attitude is one reason I will never buy their gear.

Optional (it says here)

Not reader-generated threads as well, please! I spend far too much time on here as it is...

Free'm

Land of the free, eh?

Swings and roundabouts

"So what the Yanks get for around £60, we pay over 50% more for..."

'Twas ever thus, but at least you enjoy a lower probability of being shot by mistake - or on purpose, come to that.. :-)

Lookalike

I was trying to decide what it reminded me of, and then realised - it's an oversized Nintendo DS. I bet it's overpriced, too. Will it show two pages of a book when turned through 90 degrees..?

@clean_state

"retarded secretaries"

So how fast can you type?

Benchmark

If the ribbon is so good, howcome Apple haven't adopted/borrowed/stolen it? I'm not a fanboi, or even a regular user, but they do know about usability.

Digging

"'he can check out' could too easily be misconstrued as a dig at his health."

But this is El Reg! Double entrendres are a way of life here, Shirley?

Lyrical

"He can resign. But he'll never leave"

Come on sub-editors. The phrase is 'check-out' (any time you like) - it was a reference to Hotel California, right?