surprising...

must be quite a shock to all these scientists to discover that having been around for 4.5 billion years, the Earth's ecosystem is actually fully developed to cope with such changes and maintain it's balance which has kept all of us alive for the last few million years

where's Tina Turner when you need her?

[the Blaster has reduced Missouri's power supply]

Auntie Entity: For God's sake, what now?

The Master: Who run Missouri?

Auntie Entity: Dammit, I told you, no more embargos.

The Master: More, Blaster.

[the Blaster puts all power out]

The Master: Who run Missouri ? Who... run... Missouri ?

Auntie Entity: ...You know who.

The Master: Say.

Auntie Entity: Master Blaster.

The Master: Say loud!

[the Master turns on the town loudspeakers]

Auntie Entity: Master Blaster.

The Master: Master Blaster... what?

Auntie Entity: Master Blaster runs Missouri.

The Master: Louder!

Auntie Entity: Master Blaster runs Missouri!

The Master: Lift embargo.

They ought go Boondock Saints on Cupertino

Oh wait.... What day is it today?

Perhaps I'll wait until tomorrow before believing this article, it's just too funny to be true

physically impossible?

how do you stone a killer whale? the velocity of the rock is going to drop drastically as it enters the water, you might get a lucky strike if it's close to the surface, but then it'll dive down and there's no way someone could throw a stone with enough speed to hit with any force

for that matter, how the hell you do stone an Ox without pissing it off and getting gorged/trampled yourself?

Curley said the ideal mobile device for use in hospitals would....

...would be the MOOOOOOON onna stick!! that's what Curley wants, the MOOOOOOOON onna STICK!!!!

Culture

this is why StarTrek will never become the future. we all know it's pure hokum

now the Culture, that's the type of futuristic sci-fi that we should be aspiring to follow.

without apparently noticing that HTML could (and does) provide provide a standard platform

provide provide? that's taking doublespeak rather literally isn't it?

screen advantage over the iPad

but it's horrifically green!!!!

how's it work?

when they look inside the p2p files, does it have to be a complete file? if someone is pulling down RAR archives from rapidshare or usenet or bittorrent, will it still be able to match the acoustic fingerprint? or doesn't it only work if they're getting an entire mp3 file in one transfer?

is the solution not just to apply some encryption to the source file?

really?

mine shipped on Saturday - so did they shut down production yesterday?

questionable

you say "That implies to us that a low-cost 3G package like the one Apple announced it's providing through AT&T in the US isn't a given over here."

if just last week they anticipated that they wouldn't be able to release the 3G one till June/July that but now they expect to release it alongside the US one, doesn't that in fact suggest that their talks with the UK operators are going very well and have speeded up the procress?

risks?

so, what you're saying is that the iPad will pose the same number of security risks that anyone who surfs the web faces (regardless of platform) but has the added benefit of being safe from flash attacks?

i don't get the point about pdf files. you can open them by default in OS X. i thought the vulnerability there lay in Adobe Reader's execution of code within the pdf? but it's not Reader that you'll be using to view them on the iPad

stock price

stock price being down is not interesting - it's ALWAYS down after an Apple event. either because everyone is cashing in on the recent spike leading up to the event or because all the websites and media had been speculating so wildly about the new product that the real thing could never hope to live up to

underestimate

i think you underestimate the consumers

granted, you're old and these new-fangled gizmos are confusing to you and if you can't find the keyboard straight away you get worried and confused and have to get a cup of Horlicks and a bit of a lie down

but your demographic doesn't count for toffee any more

the real consumers are the kids and the teens and those fresh out of college/uni earning their first wages and wanting to spend it on bright shiny things to watch bright shiny bites of entertainment that won't tax their short attention spans

and they're smart enough to work out how to input on a soft keyboard and won't complain that the lack of tactile feed back is disturbing because they have no nostalgia for the rubbery zx spectrum keyboard to sound of a reed switch clicking

they are ones who's opinion counts in the new age of computer use, not dinosaurs like yourself

balloning forum threads?

of course, you fail to mention that the majority of the content in those threads is just 4 or 5 posters arguing with each other. the signal to noise ratio is at least 1:2 if not greater

glasses?

a colleague here at work keeps on saying about how great it'll be when all tv is 3D

but i really doubt the average consumer is going to want to have to wear stupid cheap 3D glasses just to watch the news or Eastenders.

at least, not until the likes of Oakley start making 3D specs :)

why did they stop charging in 2007?

is it because no one was bothering to pay to read their articles?

do they really think that we're all so desperate to read the news that we'll suddenly start putting our hands in our pockets to get to it? when, instead, we can just watch one of the 24-hour news channels, or read a site like El Reg that will collate and comment on all of the news from everywhere instead and save us the time

or even, shock horror, pick up a hardcopy version at the newsagents

have a break....

so if i spend 5 minutes every hour having a KitKat then i'll avoid being obese? awesome!!

typo?

if they renamed it the Sony Ericsson Yuri gaming phone i bet they'd sell a lot more

re: dancing with the stars...

"He's enjoying himself. He's the little kid performing in the grade-school talent show."

dude, if i was dancing opposite a pair of legs like that, i'd damn well be enjoying myself and grinning for all i'm worth as well

i know our comments get moderated, but sometimes i think that the El Reg articles ought to get moderated before they get published too. this one is clearly due to Rik Myslewski being too lazy to do any real journalism and instead decided like to laugh at the fat geek - thereby probably alienating 90% of El Reg's readership

top article

and very easily and interestingly explains the science bit so those of us without brains the size of small moons can understand.

bad advise

"I strongly advise real estate developers and urban administrative inspectors see the movie and learn from it."

that seems like such a bad idea

they'll watch the film and think "hmmm, burning down the housing and carpet bombing to clear out the resistant tennants - what a good idea!" and after all, it's not like the resident of a 'nail house' is likely to have access to weird and wonderful alien creatures to use to fight off the invading bulldozers

offer the new phone to large corporate clients as a "litmus test"

this doesn't make much sense, because they already know they'll sell the things faster than they can get them to the shops

that said - didn't they only release the original SDK to corporations, and then to a limited number of individuals, and then finally to everyone?

expected to burn up in our atmosphere

of course, they _would_ tell us that, wouldn't they, regardless of if it's actually true

i would run for the hills, but that didn't save the dinosaurs did it?

to really kill the franchise...

they should get Joel Schumacher to direct it !

why not replace the real ads

when i read the article, i thought you meant that Google were going to be overlaying ads on top of the billboards and posters shown in the streetview images

that would be cool

an new challenger has entered the game

suddenly a new bread of El Reg reader has come out of the electronic woodwork in force

we've long had the war between wintards and Jobs-zealots (with the occasional smug volley from a freetard linux user)

but now it seems there's a new catelgory of googletards/oompaloompafidlers that the Nexus One seems to have brought into the limelight

one of these days El Reg is going to have to arrange a flashmob fight in a park somewhere where we can finally put the argument to rest

wii = global warming?

so Nintendo are the lowest ranked company - yet the Wii is the biggest selling console and arguably most likely to be found in any home. given the current weather conditions in the uk, it seems likely that we're all going to die in Day After Tomorrow style cataclysm and it's all Nintendo's fault!

but...

surely the whole point of wanting an external keyboard is to enable text entry without the virtual keyboard taking up so much screen space. but without being able to override the iPhone's keyboard popping up, all this does is remove the portability of the iPhone - if you need a fullsize keyboard that much, get a laptop!!