Re: More than enough...

4.2 gigawatts! 4.2 gigawatts. Great Scott!

Re: Silly Strains

What's the point of having a smart phone if not to extend the internet, and the information available on it, to wherever you happen to be?

OK maybe you need a personal organiser. You should have bought a PDA before they became obsolete. If you only need a phone that you can carry around, just buy a simple button phone. It'll be cheaper, get better signal and its battery will last forever.

If you own a smartphone this is precisely the kind of use it might have on a day-to-day basis.

Yes, it should be free.

Or rather, some of the stupid money gouged out of me for tickets should have gone towards packaging this public information into a free app.

Re: @AC - So you can sell software you have acquired...

I actually don't have a real problem with download only software, if the price is right. OS X Lion at £20 isn't too bad. £70 is the best I can find for an OEM disk of Win 7.

I doubt MS will be selling their download Windows at that sort of price though, since it's their main income. Let alone console game publishers who have to pay a big cut to MS and Sony ...and are bloody greedy anyway.

Re: What's it called?

...my left leg would also get pretty sweaty, pretty quickly.

Re: assuming retired after 3 years

...and not cost as much as a far more powerful laptop too.

Re: If its so widespread AND illegal

I quite agree

Re: If its so widespread AND illegal

"Since I started buying CDs >25 years ago, no one seems to have been forcing me to re-buy anything.

Or even meaningfully trying to claim that I should."

So all the songs you bought back then and have since wanted to listen on your MP3 player, you just went ahead and bought again?

Don't you remember when they started mucking about with copy protection (car stereo killing in some cases, rootkit installing in others) on CDs?

Re: Warning: PDF

"Warning: Movie clip" or "Warning: Has Sound" would also be quite good, where it's not obvious.

Finding the mute has unstuck itself when at work is not an enjoyable experience.

Re: If its so widespread AND illegal

"So if enough people want to do something, it should simply be legalised?"

I believe that is rather the meaning of democracy, yes. For better or worse.

Although, here I think the point was that widespread piracy is at least partly due to the outdated business model of content providers. The refusal of the record companies to accept that we shouldn't have to re-buy all our music every time they bring out a new media format, for instance.

Re: People want.. new content, not '3D' content?

"for a long time everyone was just watching SD broadcasts and pretending it looked better"

It does!

...but then if you're going from a 15 year old CRT TV to a big LCD it's bound to.

Not necessarily

It would depend on her age and appearance. We do have some standards.

...OK maybe not.

Re: media center?

I don't care for the UI much, which is pretty bloody sloppy in my opinion. The functionality is essential though.

Wasn't Media Center only on the Premium, Ultimate, or some other more expensive version than Basic?

Re: Ability to turn Start Screen OFF?

It would have made sense on Windows 8 Pro. That's the one businesses would be getting if it wasn't going to be a clanger.

Re: Dishonored

Rumour has it Prey 2 has been canned.

Re: No PC games then?

@Anonymous Coward

You work for Ubisoft, right?

Re: What precisely

If you want to publish in an open access journal, or make your paper open access in a paid-for journal, you have to pay. Why you have to pay is another question.

"You know that you are old when you can remember when the Simpsons was funny."

That was around the second series right?

I know you're not talking about the first few series when they still tried to have a message.

Re: Nest

El Reg ought to make a bigger deal about this. Looks like it's strictly US only.

Or

Or Rogue Trader.

...or even Crime Watch.

Re: yeah ok

I think you'll find one's success in these matters has little or nothing to do with the phone you own.

Re: Suspension of Refunds, Exchanges?

"trying to figure out why somebody down voted you on this post. Baffled!"

Statutory rights are for bleeding heart pinkos... apparently.

Re: Not writting it off....

But it says it's dangerous on the walls of men's toilets, so it must be true.

Alert

Alert, Jason Togneri. You have been deemed a danger to the integrity of the hive mind. Remain where you are and await an enforcement node that will escort you to the nearest rehabilitation centre for evaluation and treatment. If treatment is unsuccessful you will be permanently disconnected from the hive and terminated.

Thank you.

Alien?

Philistine!

Re: The Matrix 2

At least The Matrix 3 was funny.

Re: Siri, bah

Why else would anyone have bought the iPhone 4S?

Re: "Given that most phones are replaced in 12-18 month cycles"

Share and enjoy!

Re: Coming to the UK

Precisely why I don't buy carrier branded phones any more.

Re: "The ageing Galaxy S"

This is a good argument for buying a phone with vanilla Android on it, rather than a branded version.

Re: Arrrgh... "and a photo editor"

Who says it can't be removed?

Re: I've already secured funding for 80 units

You monster.

That may well be a major driving force behind this. Publishers hate second hand sales.

Re: Holy major rip-off Batman

Is it £100 for 3G, or £100 for 4G and 3G one of which you can't use?

Re: Re: Commentard

Well "boffin" is a fairly old English term for scientist. Think of it as the English equivalent to the USA's "egg-head".

Re: Head on a swivel?

While I agree with you that a pedestrian needs to keep his eyes open, that doesn't help when some arse (normally in a BMW) speeds up when he sees you're about to cross and continues to accelerate while you're walking across the road. Damn near lost my foot once.

Then there's the people who appear to be blind to red traffic lights... and to the half a dozen people crossing the road before they even reach the lights. I almost lost my Mrs the other day thanks to some kid who only realised there was a crossing after he'd got within three inches of her leg.

Then I call prior art.

@Ben 50

I agree with you there. Still, that doesn't mean that this isn't an interesting technology with a wide array of non-lethal applications.

Yes and no

While I agree that death bringing is hardly a noble application of technology, don't forget that lots of today's bread and butter technologies came from military research. These tiny flying kill-bots might well become valuable tools for the police, or for searching collapsed buildings in rescue operations.