How could you do a story on FB sex

and not get the word "poking" in there?

Sweet, does this apply to standard Virtual PC too?

As title, really. Got a Win7 machine that runs on some beefy, but slightly older processors - no hardware virtualisation. I can easily use Virtualbox for XP and do so, but I really want a Win98 image on there for some stuff. Does this mean I can now use VPC?

Head, meet desk

"Don't use IE, use Firefo-, no, wait! Use...er..."

Love all the anti-FF crowd coming out to crow - as they normally do - about Firefox and IE both being software (ie, they have bugs).

Let me explain this for you nice and slowly, IE fans. We use FF not because it has less security holes (though it does seem to) - we use it because when there is a problem, the patch comes out a whoooole lot faster. Well, that and a whole host of other reasons.

No browser is immune to security holes/bugs/flaws. None. The difference is in the patching. IE generally takes about an ice age or two. Firefox....doesn't.

*Doot de dooo doooo dooooo*

You acquired a clue! Achievement Unlocked!

Come on guys, you know you want to

"though Canonical says that it will eventually be available also as a plug-in for Banshee, Amarok, and "a few other" Linux music applications."

Songbird Songbird Songbird Songbird Songbiiiiiiiiiiiird!

Come on, please? It's *made* for this kinda thing.

Redeem the console?

I have an original release PS3 - you know, the one that can actually do shit, before they started ripping everything out - and it kicks ass. Unlike the 360, it doesn't explode at every given opportunity, so my 60GB edition is still working fine. It needs no redeeming. Sure, the online service isn't as good as XBL, but you get what you pay for, and I rarely play online anyway. Other than that it's a totally bitchin' device that was overly slated at launch, mainly for being too expensive.

As for games, most of the big stuff gets released on PS3 *and* 360, so WTF are you on about? The main reason I don't own an Xbox has nothing to do with it being a poorly designed piece of shit - between my PS3 and my PC, I can get all the games I want, so what's the point?

Anyway, I'm off downstairs to fire the sucker up and play God of War 3. Only had chance to play the first area so far, but god DAMN, it's stunning.

As an Irish ex-Catholic...

...feck 'em. Thin-skinned whiners.

Oh the irony

When the iPhone came out, the phrase I heard often was "Christ, even Windows Mobile can do cut and paste!"

Oooh dear...

That sounds....good?

Am I hearing this? The IE team are concentrating on standards? Open, accepted standards and not ones they made up in the pub? They're building in SVG support???

That platform preview looks....really quite good. Did I just say that?

Did someone fire up the LHC, make one of them interdimensional portal thingummies and not tell anyone?

How much are you betting...

...they'll advertise this like it's a new thing.

What astonishes me is that no smartphone manufacturer advertised their products as being better. They allowed Apple to claim innovation that simply wasn't theirs or never existed.

Maybe they'll make proper games

As opposed to the 1000000s of mini games and boring uninspired crap that makes up the Wii library.

(Apologies to Code Monkey)

Been using this for a month or so

And it's pretty good, actually. Saves me loading up the PS3, at any rate, though it's a while since i had to type phone-style.

And there it is...

"The peers behind the amendment have argued that since all major ISPs already block a list of URLs carrying images of child abuse, they have the technical means to comply with injunctions demanding copyright blocking."

The very *definition* of function creep.

Arseholes. Wonder what they'll want to censo^H^H^H^H^H block next.

3 + 4 = 2

I'm with some of the other posters above. Take all the good bits of BBC3 and BBC4, squeeeeze them together, and call it BBC2. Sorted!

Just because something doesn't pull in the viewing figures of Eastenders doesn't mean it's crap. In fact, often it means the exact opposite.

Gah, no!

"Perhaps an Eastenders story line could boost interest."

No! Don't give them ideas!

Buy a legit copy, then crack it

That's what I do every time some arsehole comes up with ludicrous DRM like this. I bought the game - so bugger off!

Though I do remember proudly patting my - at the time spanking new - AMD64 box when it turned out that Stardock only worked in 32 bit environments. Bwhahaha.

If nothing else, screen res

Lets see the Google coding staff do all their stuff on a 3.5" screen. I've got twin 22" widescreens at work, and three 19" TFTs at home. Still not enough, as far as I'm concerned.

And then there's the question of input. I always buy phones with a keyboard, but I've yet to find one that makes it relatively easy to get at things like {braces}.

I *love* my smartphones, but God almighty, doing everything on them? No.

Why aren't they calling it

The Eeeboard?

Cheers Lancs

Much obliged. Hopefully SSH will work on a standard connection without me having to pay the extra tenner for "mobile broadband plus." Feckers.

Now if I can just avoid the shitty way they treat their upgrading customers...

Thank God for that!

I was getting an error on my PS3 last night and all the Google results coming back suggested my PS3 was buggered. Glad to know it's not.

That said, having the PSN network die and take Burnout Paradise with it mere hours after I set up my new LED telly... Grrrrr!

Good thing I kept the old installer

I noticed this at the weekend. Dunno what they're talking about with the interface. Amongst the sludge of WM5, Skype and Opera Mobile are welcome slices of excellence. The Skype client is great! OK, I understand not developing any future versions, but why remove the existing one?

They're obviously guilty

"After the trials, BT and Phorm sought advice from the Home Office over whether their planned national deployment would be legal under RIPA. Officials gave the opinion - since disputed - that it would be if customers gave consent."

By deduction then, the trials were illegal, as customers did not give consent. And BT didn't ask for advice before the trials, either.

2 + 2 = guilty, surely? No number of brown paper envelopes stuffed with cash could help them wriggle out of that one.

Not sure about this

I mean, yeah, getting rid of Flash would be nice (though I'm one of those that wants to see OGG be improved and used as the video standard in HTML 5). So in that case I agree with Mr Jobs. HTML 5 looks like a very good thing, even if it will take aaaaages before most sites convert to it.

On the other hand, walking into somewhere and asking them to change their product - at no small expense - so that it works properly on your new product, is a bit cheeky. Well, no. A bit cheeky is making a pass at the receptionist on the way into the meeting. What Mr Steve is asking for is downright brazen. If he tried that where I work, he'd be told "piss off, we'll upgrade to HTML 5 when we're ready, not when it suits you and your marketing company."

Still miffed about Iris

That was shaping up to be a great little browser for WM until RIM bought it.

Mumble grumble...

Uh-oh

The reason I use T-Mobile's network is the existence of Web and Walk Plus, which guarantees that I can use SSH, etc from my phone. Now that they've only got one level of net access, who's betting that it's the usual shite you get from mobile networks, with everything blocked except what good boys and girls use?

Serious question: which mobile networks allow you to use SSH/FTP from a phone? I've already asked the networks, and got various degrees of "uuhhhhh...dunno."

You act like they weren't already on it

"BBC clambers onto iPhone bandwagon"

Hah! The BBC has been an advertising arm of Apple for quite some time now. Can't think of another company that gets all its product announcements - never mind releases - featured on headline TV news. I remember watching their gushing fanboi report on the iPhone launch. And try spotting a laptop/phone/other piece of kit used on the Beeb that doesn't have an Apple logo on the back.

Just clambered on? Get real - the BBC *built* the bandwagon.