Re: Yay, stocking fillers on the 19th December.

Don't worry, there'll be plenty of these in the shops. No one else will want them.

Re: Yikes!

Indeed. These are a bit pricier than the usual chocolate oranges.

Re: And you think privacy is invaded NOW?

One day they'll tell us they "like us", and then we'll really be in trouble.

Re: But will it help Arthur Dent ...

No, but then he's just an ignorant monkey that doesn't know any better.

Re: Excuse me.

"This leash demeans us both"

Re: Out of Control?

I wouldn't have thought its course would deviate unless it was spraying something to give it thrust.

Re: "is thought to house a camera"

Well the US used to dump it in the sea and go pick it up. Of course NK aren't allowed out, and they can hardly knock on anyone else's door to ask for their ball back.

Re: Meanwhile Britain

Ah, so you're Lewis.

So that's where all these down votes came from.

Shoebox?!? Get a load of His Majesty living in a shoebox!

I'd sell my left knee to live in a shoebox!

Re: OMG!

Assuming you're not joking: RTFA.

The wounds were already open. The bandages were holding them closed in lieu of any sutures.

This is seriously horrible.

Re: The best tablet for Christmas

Fizzygood makefeelnice

Re: What about the no-names?

A few unheard of brands sneak into some of these articles, but they're always crap in some way or another. If there are any good ones, I wouldn't mind knowing about them.

Oh but Kobo, or any other obscure e-reader-tablet-hybrid, don't count. They're all shite.

Re: keyboard-cum-covers?

You need massive hands, apparently.

Re: more than apps

"non-iApproved iFormats"

That would be anything that's not m4a.

Re: Troll symbol

I'm starting to think this whole badge thing was a bad idea.

Re: "thin crust, no cheese"

Although analysis failed to identify a terrestrial analogue, which may cast doubt on the theory that the moon was formed from cheese ejected from the Earth.

Re: Driving licences?

I don't know. Can you think of any disabilities that might make reading a website difficult, but not make you an unsafe driver?

If yes, then yes.

Re: Even better bargain

No. There's no excuse for reading the Mail.

Well, those tiny tweezers don't last for ever you know.

But Mother wasn't evil. It worked exactly as intended.

Re: dubious

Want a proper review? Try RPS: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/11/21/wot-i-think-far-cry-3-single-player/

Re: Do they really play this to review it?

Most of Ubisoft's recent games (and older ones that have been patched) just require a net connection to activate it and then you can make it available for off-line use. It's more like Steam now.

Mind you, I bought From Dust in a Steam sale and wasn't actually able to activate it, since their bloody servers went down that weekend. I guess they must have been surprised that more than two people wanted to login on the same Saturday.

Re: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

"So if I take your car but give after few days no theft happened right"

But then we just come back to the old question: if I made an identical copy of your car without actually taking it away from you, is that theft?

Re: I don't know what else is wrong with this??

We know she failed to download it. I agree that we don't know all the details, but when do we ever?

Re: No sale here, either.

The way things are going, you're never going to get a tablet.

Re: Media consumption?

My wife does and she's hardly a nerd and is only occasionally "on the train".

Except that this is a very light, very small and therefore very portable laptop that could be used almost anywhere. Using it exclusively on a desk would be a waste. I see no point in touch screens for desktops though.

A good machine for conferences, I'd say. You see MacBook Air users all over the place and this is very similar.

You must be able to find a similarly priced, higher spec. alternative if you don't bother with the touch screen. Surely?

Unless touch capability doesn't add as much to the price as I would guess.

Re: Christ (oops!) bloody religion again???

"Most non-Muslims who think they've "read the Koran" are wrong."

You mean, most non-Muslims who think they've "read the Koran" are considered to be wrong by those who believe it to be more than just a book.

Re: PC Games?

Well, only three or four of them are the typical mutli-platform, built for consoles but ported to PC, type of games. Some of the list aren't on anything but PC, and X-COM may be on all the big platforms but it's a PC game at heart.

Re: League of Legends

Yes, more or less.

Re: I've been using Linux since mid-late 1993 (Slackware).

@simon_brooke: Who's looking down on who?

Re: Not a catchy enough tune?

Isn't it about wanting to be a jack of all trades?

Re: @Richard 81 (was: I've been using Linux since mid-late 1993 (Slackware).)

"Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience."

With a piece of software? That sounds uncomfortable.

Re: @Richard 81 (was: I've been using Linux since mid-late 1993 (Slackware).)

I've been reading the register for about 6 years and this is the first time I've encountered the word. I suppose I could have passed it off as a typo before.

Re: "RAR extraction, an archiving option popular in the Windows world"

RARs are everywhere, particularly in the sticky-floored areas of the internet.

Re: I've been using Linux since mid-late 1993 (Slackware).

"grok"?

Once was a typo. Twice suggests intent.

I realise I don't know the dictionary cover to cover, but is this some sort of Linux term used by weird command-line people?

Re: Lets do some maths

Yeah I don't see how this is a good deal at all.

Re: Kobo Arc

Ick. I won't touch anything made by Kobo since I had the misfortune of using a Kobo Vox.