Hmm

This would be very good if it wasn't for the Nexus 4. Better phone for less dosh.

USB

USB into some unsuspecting victim's PC front-ports seems to be the answer.

Bleurgh

Can we stop talking about the amount of corporation tax paid on sales turnover? The two have no relation...

Hmm

The most important thing for teaching is good teachers rather than good subject knowledge. A CompSci graduate is complete overkill for teaching computing to lower years.

It's bound to be better than the rubbish ICT courses that existed before though...

"will take any necessary disciplinary action"

Uh oh. Off to Dachau!

Errm...

How are ~60Mbps and sub-10ms pings not real broadband?

Bah

Mildly annoying that it's a Lib Dem furthering this illiberal stretch of the current censorship laws...

Blah

What a crock of bullshit from Ubisoft. 7% of people will spend £30 on a game and 7% will also spend 20p on an outfit so we might as well focus on the 20ps. I find the 7% figure quite unlikely in the first-place, Ubisoft flog themselves very heavily on Steam and I imagine would do well as a consequence.

Good...

The current EPG is a mess... would be nice if they could organise General Entertainment a bit better too though.

Errm...

Don't iPhones already have four of these?

Hmm

The UK economy needs to be more creative and less like Google...

Whatever your view on Google they're one of the more creative corporations of the last decade.

Wow

I know it's all legal bullshit but Apple claiming that a smartphone released 11 months ago could irreparably damage them is a funny thing to say...

Errm...

What's this got to do with Windows 8? It's a study into all existing Windows PCs. And yes, most BSODs are caused by driver problems so naturally you'll get less problems with mass marketed, expensive, branded products than cheap own-brand stuff.

Hmm

Why can't the emergency services move to GSM and use the commercial networks? Would give them cheaper kit and probably better coverage.

Really though?

Does Google really make money from porn? I don't think porn companies can advertise with Google or receive adverts on their sites...

Meh

Let's be fair, we've all run a DELETE command in our time and forgotten to put a WHERE clause on... and it's one of those things you only ever do on a Live environment.

Why, oh why...

Why are all of Andrew's stories about copyright? The right's holder wouldn't have made a penny if the BBC had done their checks, as the image was inappropriate. As a result of their cock-up he probably has made some money.

Errm

You can't compare a PC-only release to a cross-platform release; that's hardly fair.

How has Diablo III done compared to the biggest XBox 360 only releases or PS3 only releases?

Nonsense...

Most people I know who have installed smart meters are now sitting in the dark...

Joking aside, it does really help to cut consumption. A lot of people don't understand the relative values of a TV v PC v washing machine v kettle v lights, etc. and this will definitely help.

Meh...

Dead Island was a bit average to say the least. Saint's Row: The Third on the other hand was bloody brilliant.

Well...

It doesn't need to disentangle itself from Google+. Everyone will have it and no one will use it. Much like pretty much everyone has a Windows Live Profile with their Hotmail account but no one uses it.

Hmm...

Hybrid drives overall seem to cost more than pure SSDs at the moment?

Hmm

How exactly are they meant to block these sites? A brand new system or the IWF?

It's either going to be a feature creep of an anti child pornography system or a brand-new censorship system.

Personally

Personally I find my Kindle to be a bit big and happy... I like reading off of my Nexus S the most. You get about 10 lines to a page.

Hmm

I'm afraid I can't agree with Andrew here... there are lots of people I know who don't program because quite honestly they have no idea what it is and who's knowledge of it sits somewhere between thinking it's 0s and 1s and knowing it has a lot of curly brackets but who would potentially have been great at it and could have had a career in it if they'd only been given the opportunity.

I'm lucky enough to be a programmer because I had a dad who always knew that computers were a good career to go into despite being technically inept. A lot of people have never had this start and that is the job of the education system, to introduce people to concepts and ideas that otherwise they might never have come across.

Let's not pretend that we're talking about showing kids some HTML... we did a bit of HTML at school along with a large dose of Microsoft Frontpage. This is about teaching kids some programming, showing them that it's something they can do if they have a logical disciplined brain. There are plenty of kids who are good at Maths but know they don't want a pure mathematical career and we should nurture their desire by showing them how they can use mathematical concepts to do cool things.

Well...

The current GCSE curriculum is worse than being taught no ICT. At least if it's kept out of the school for now someone might be able to escape having any interest in ICT destroyed by the course.

Bah

The Lib Dems have been hoodwinked on this one but it's a major issue for their membership. A lot of Tories don't seem to like it either, so I expect to see a U-Turn and it quickly filed away somewhere for the next Labour lot.

Errm...

Overclockers UK have the GTX 680 up for £420 inc. VAT.

The GTX 580 launched at over £500 if I remember correctly.

Hmm

Sky and Virgin seem to be doing alright with the bundled approach?

Hmm

First of all, Mass Effect 3 does not feature "multi-player". It features co-op.

Secondly, this game looks way better than Skyrim... whilst Skyrim was very good at providing nice vistas the actual textures when up close were incredibly poor. The Unreal Engine currently looks amazing and is really fine-tuned... unlike Skyrim there's no dodgy edge logic or things floating about/unrealistic physics.

Errm...

Last Crusade is the best of the original trilogy... it's Temple of Doom that should be lost.

Errm...

I'm not sure the content of this article is 100% true as I'm a Be user and haven't had any problems with iPlayer and neither have most others I know. I was under the impression this problem was IP specific? I imagine different IP blocks are taking different routings and some were never hitting Akamai in the first place. This is also backed up by the fact that the issue doesn't seem to have affected O2 users despite them using the same network infrastructure.

Errm...

I know it was only a joke but Apple's not worth more than Poland... Apple's total value is $500bn whilst Poland's annual income is just under $500bn.

Yay

Good to see that Labour are sticking to the lefty authoritarian path... it certainly will make it easier for me to work out who to vote for in 2015!

Hmm

If you think this is bad you should see the blunders that are regularly made on South East Today.

Errm...

I'm not arguing with the bulk of the review but the whole point of FFXIII-2 is that it doesn't have any pre-rendered CGI, it's all done in-engine?

Personally...

Personally, I think IP should only be enforceable if the company are actively making use of it and making it available at a reasonable cost... a lot of people who torrent do so because it's the most convenient way of acquiring content.

What I'm really saying is the following:

Games Developers - 1. don't use restrictive DRM that blocks valid users, 2. don't charge twice as much for an online purchase as it costs on physical media.

Musicians - ensure your music is on services such as Spotify; if you don't want it being listened to for free, then make it premium only.

TV/Films - You all need to get together and make sure people can actually license all of your content. I'd love to use LoveFilm or Netflix but I'm not going to pay for a 60% experience where I still need to torrent or not watch the other 40%.

I know some will argue that companies own IP and therefore if they don't want it available online then that's their right but I personally don't think they can complain that people are using it online for free when they don't even offer it online.

Hmm

They might have been down between those hours but there was a much larger period of time with ~20% packet loss from LINX... it was still happening up until an hour ago

Hmm

How can the average wage only be $250 but the nominal GDP per capita of the country around $6k?

Well...

Well, when Google first negotiated the deal Firefox has around 25%. Now they still have ~25% but Chrome has ~25%. It's all good news for Google really... they're now the default search engine on over 50% of desktop systems and pretty much all mobile devices.

Errm...

Does nobody quite get the concept of STARTING wage? Plus, the job isn't in London. A programmer in the South-East, fresh from Uni shouldn't expect to start on much more than minimum wage.

Well...

Well, it's a bit steep, but not too bad considering some of their other projects...

Bah

I do feel sorry for eBuyer... what a cock-up!

The notion of it being like "gluing the doors shut" though is a bit dumb... more like the shop being full?

Hmm

Now all we need is for a couple more lorries to crash on the site... preferably one from Lurpack and one from Hovis... and then maybe for them to catch light and toast the area?

Or...

I bought my girlfriend an Orange Monte Carlo... Orange had it for £130 including £10 credit. They were also giving away a £25 pre-paid debit card with it and I got £20 off through Quidco.

Total cost for a 4.3" Android phone: £75

Iran?

Is it possible it could be Iranian?