no sweeping lights?

so in every single image of the unit, the lights on the sides are in exactly the same position - do they not voorp voorp from side to side (or top to bottom in this case) like KITT's does? that's a bit lame and cheap. how much would it cost to put a small circuit in to pulse the leds in sequence?

re: WHO IS USING FIREFOX, WITH --OPERA-- AROUND

Just a shame Opera can't stop you typing in caps-lock or fix your spelling mistakes, eh?

@Robert Grant

The problem with the server failure is that they postponed the 24-hour period. All other Guiness Record attempts are strictly monitored. You don't see someone going for the domino records, knocking over a couple of hundred, and then saying, it's alright, we'll just reset them and try it again, eh? Land speed records have to be two consecutive runs, there and back - you can't go one way and then say, well the cars a bit pooped, we'll let it cool down over night and try again tomorrow.

So Mozilla moving the 24-hour period like that makes a mockery of the whole event.

7,000,000 and one, so help me god

i couldn't resist the temptation to find out if it's worth it or not

and my AdBlocker plugin doesn't work so now - but interestingly, i mainly installed that to stop the poxy adverts on theregister because they would take ages to display before old firefox would render the actual news text. however, FF3 isn't doing too badly and loading all the items quickly

but what on earth is the point of the HUGE, highlighted green back button?

is Mozilla suggesting that it's users are too stupid to work out which way is back and which is forward?

it's very ugly and i'm hoping that a theme comes out soon that can make it look more like the old interface

re: Do you wanna be a record breaker?

where's Roy Castle when you need him? (oh yeah, right, i forgot)

still, it won't be the same without him playing the trumpet as the credits roll

i still think it'd be far more fun if 2 million people all downloaded Opera or Safari on the same day

because as you say, there is no official record yet - so even if just one person downloads it, they'll have got the "record"

re: MGS4 is out now...

the same issue with GTA4 will apply though

i think the majority of people likely to buy a console on the strength of one title are also likely to be big enough gaming fans to have bought the PS3 already over the past year. I don't think we'll see a surge in sales just for the MGS4

re: Reg analysis...

they also did an analysis on how badly the iPhone would fail as a product:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/23/iphone_will_fail/

cover up

why didn't they tell the rest of their users about this? how come they know exactly which users were affected and so there was no need to at least mention it to the rest of their customers so that we could keep an eye on our accounts just in case

IE at fault

i dunno - to me it sounds like IE is at fault really

wasn't there the big problem with Outlook automatically executing files and that's why there's so many infected spam-bots in the world?

and if the IE issue was really reported back in 2006, then you can't really say that a fix this week is a speedy responce

@radian

yes you are

@Wonderkid

i'm sorry, but have you actually used an iPhone?

it took me all of 5 minutes to get used to typing on mine

(and yes, i spend all day at work typing on a "proper keyboard" a naff standard dell one)

i find now i'm far faster on the iphone than i used to be on my other phones - even than i was on my old psion organisers whose keyboards were larger and easier to use than today's slide out keyboards

re: Err... no?

and exactly how useful was Opera on the SE's? scaled nicely did it? easy to flick around the page to find the text you want? simple to fill in text on a form and submit it?

i had Opera running on my M600i and it was not "practical for plamtop use" it was small, cramped, pages were a pain to read. it was so bad it was preferable to view WAP versions of sites than to try and navigate their real site when rendered on the tiny screen

that said - surely this article is very badly timed

it should be updated now that we've seen that 3G is only a minor part of what the iPhone2 will bring to the consumer next month

monitor leads

actually, looking at our monitors here, none of the video leads are screwed in to the connectors at the back

i don't see why a quick enough grab of the monitor wouldn't cause both the video lead and the power cable to fall out the back so it'd be easy to lob it across the office

could easily be the same in that office

still, fake or not, it's impressive he manages to throw that many CRTs and all those cubicle dividers

Re: Re: Ex-Guardian writer?

how can i change my username to "hoi hoi polloi"

re: Polished Thinkers ....... An Enduring Enigma

brilliant

so now, every skype call i make will have a slight static hiss behind it, which, when decrypted, will translate into the most recent posting by amanfromMars

:-)

re: Erm? We already have video...

yes i think they're refering to the video chat being available in the middle of a game

i'm not sure video chat is important while playing a game - but being able to send a text to someone to say you're online and do they want to give you a helping hand in a team deathmatch or something, that will be cool

flashmobs

so in theory, you could really muck up their statistics by getting 500 people to turn up at a shopping centre (what we call malls on this side of the pond) and just aimlessly wander around for 3 hours without setting foot inside a single foot

OR worse, if a company is about to launch a new product, they could hire 500 people to turn up repeatedly throughout the day and just make a bee-line to the shop that's selling the product

no problems here either

i think an earlier poster was right - i think there problem isn't nearly as bad as the media makes out (obviously it's very very annoying for those few experiencing it) but since the GTA patch, i think the number of people still suffering from the freezes must be very small.

certainly, i know several people with launch day 60gb ps3's and since applying the 1.1 patch, none of us have had any trouble at all

this would suggest to me that if anyone is still having the problem, either they haven't applied the patch, or their problem is different, and as very few others have it, possibly not the fault of the game but instead down to other environmental features.

which is worse?

where's the greater danger to society?

a load druggies smoking themselves into a lethargic half-awake state, too paranoid to leave the house?

or binge-drinking teenagers, getting beer'd up in the evenings, and beating the hell out of each other in the middle of the streets, wrecking property, throwing up their kebab and chips in your front garden as they stager home and walking over parked cars?

now, which is the easiest for the government to appear to be dealing with?

re: Lies, damn lies...

> The real reason she quit is that see couldn't get anything to rhyme with the title...

thought i'd give that a try

"But it's just a Quantum of Solace;

The world is not your molasc;

but your real popular on myspace;

with those pearls on your necklace..."

okay, it's getting a bit weird now.....

can't see what the fuss is about

as you say, the adverts don't actually show any of the in-game behaviour - it's just a poxy local news trying to get themselves into the national press

and besides, there's only a _couple_ of missions where you have to track someone to the train stations and waste them on the platform

darwinism

i'm not sure this is a good idea

if someone is too stupid to look up and check traffic when about to cross a road, is it not a good thing to remove them from the gene-pool?

it's for the common good of the species that the defective dna is removed by a ton of fast moving metal

and what about txt'ers - surely the same problem exists for those sending messages via mobiles?

re: I want one...

I totally agree Paul - before i even read the article to find out what they were, "mag-lev flywheel" just sounded so cool that i wanted one

desperately trying to think of how to justify one so i can carry on playing on my ps3 in during a powercut

how would it work

the iPhone already makes a click sound when you type a key anyway

and to be honest, i find i type faster without the sound on, because when it is there, i tend to wait a fraction of a second for the click before pressing the next key. when it's silent, i just type without any pauses.

is this suggesting that the phone will rumble each time i type a key? will there be a different rumble for each key? otherwise, what is the difference between a vibration and a key click sound?

or is it... that when you're holding your finger down on the screen and dragging it across the keyboard to get to another key - will it rumble so you can count yourself moving from key to key?

i can see how that would work - and on the odd occasion when i'm txting and driving and trying not to get arrested by the cops, it would even be slightly useful - but really, how often is anyone going to need it?

what's the difference?

isn't this exactly what Sony did when they stopped the places like lik-sang from exporting games and consoles from hong kong to the uk

we, the customers, may not like it, but in a capitalist society, the corporations will get their way

time...

...to start working on upgrading my internal 60gb to a reasonable sized HD then

jurassic park

techincally, it's Michael Cricton you should be leveling the accusations of poor paeliantology at, not Speilburg

it was, afterall, his book that the film was based on, and so his decision to use the velociraptor name for the medium sized killers

like most Chricton books I've read - quite a good idea, but it seems his research is never thorough enough or he just take great liberties figuring the average reader is never going to know the difference

it was the same with that one about the swarm of nanomachines that turned everyone into grey soup

you can please some of the people some of the time...

....but you can't please Mozilla management ever

so that's what it was

i spent the whole journey to work this morning checking my shoes

Games Sold per Console

check out this link

http://vgchartz.com/weekly.php

and scroll down to the pie charts - these are the stats for the most recent week

Software Totals:

Console Weekly

Wii 2,674,304

DS 1,531,044

X360 1,116,718

PS3 876,520

PSP 627,021

PS2 528,796

GBA 636

Total 7,355,039

the press releases from the big 3

if anyone wants to read the way in which each company has spun this data in their press releases, vgchartz.com has all three so you can make up your own mind:

wii:

http://www.vgchartz.com/news/news.php?id=1045

ps3:

http://www.vgchartz.com/news/news.php?id=1046

360:

http://www.vgchartz.com/news/news.php?id=1047

@Mark

and don't forget yourself that the 360 has been on sale for 18 months longer than the PS3

7 millions units is not that great a lead to have, given the headstart the 360 had.

i don't think the ps3 will have any trouble at all selling 7 million units over the next 18 months.

re: Shop floor space

it's probably the cost. Wii games are at least a tenner cheaper than PS3/360 games aren't they? I assume that the shops are taking a percentage of the cost, rather than a flat fee per game, so they're keen to push the more expensive ones perhaps

webster

i think Jango must be Mr Freaky reincarnated

re: Whats a title?????

the unlimited data access period probably is per month, yes. but seeing as you pay them 35quid each month, then you get unlimited data each month too

at least, in the 5 months i've had my iphone with o2, i've used it for tons of data access and i keep checking and every bill there's never any charge for data useage