Stop at CS6

I expect most pro users/companies will just stop upgrading at version 6 and continue to use that for the future.

If there are new features that are needed in the new versions they will just do a single login/subscription that the whole office can use.

Battlefield 3/4 - Star Wars ???

If they just get DICE to do a reskin of Battlefield 3/4 to Star Wars graphics they will be half way to a massive seller.

Copyright?

So Nokia have developed a phone mic that is perfect for making bootleg recordings of concerts etc, and they are now suing HTC so that only their phone is able to make these recordings.

I assume the music industry and film industry will now be suing Nokia for producing tools to copy their content.

Time For an Interview?

Perhaps now would be a good time for someone from El Reg to contact Stephen Frys people to see about an interview. It might clear the air and maybe get him to realise that if he puts him self over as a font of all knowledge and gets it wrong he probably does more harm than good.

One X, S, V, X+ or just One

I thought HTC said when they launched the One X and One S that they would be simplifying their range of phones so you could see which one was the higher end without needing to know the details of each phone.

I didn't realise that simplify meant calling every damn phone they release 'One'.

We don't need Smart TVs that will be obsolete in 6 months, a small set-top (or behind/under/wherever the set) box is a better solution.

If you want to add a camera for Skype into the TV, fine but make it able to feed into the USB of the external box as a webcam.

This way when there is a OS upgrade, or a new 'next big thing' you can just upgrade the box or replace it.

All I want from a TV is a good quality display and a ton of usable inputs/outputs.

Robbie Coltrane for Pope ...

Write to it?

These units all seem to be read only.

What I really want is a unit like this that can be left in my bag/car that I can write to with a wi-fi SDcard from my camera when it's in range.

I want a car with a built in dock for my Nexus 7.

There is no reason the in car audio couldn't be set up to use the Nexus as it's control/display unit. I can then either tether the Nexus to my phone and use Google Maps or use the 'no data required' TomTom software.

Updated

As of about an hour ago they have fixed the screen res issues and are in the process of uploading the new versions to the servers.

So expect to see a lot more Nexus 7 satnavs in the coming weeks if people can work out how to mount them.

The Offence?

I thought the (criminal?) offence related to copyright infringement was the act of making a copy available?

If so the fact that she failed to download the song means there was no case to answer in the first place.

I expect the next evolution of this tech will be to monitor who is getting with who around the school.

So student A is found out breaking the rules and they then look back and student B has been spending a lot of time with them outside normal lessons and use that to start questioning them too.

Or they bring in a rule regarding how close members of the opposite sex can be whilst at school.

They could even add in the shock collars/bracelets they want to pass out to air passengers and use remote discipline too.

Pay Tax Here

Either companies need to pay tax in the UK on monies earned in the UK.

Or you tax UK takings at the rate these companies report profits in their home country.

If Coke or Pepsi are unhappy with this arrangement they can piss off out of the UK and leave all the available profits to their competitors.

Whilst we are at it, large companies that have a large amount of their workforce having their wages topped up by benefits will have this cost added to the tax bill on their profits. If Sainsburys, Tesco, Asda etc don't like it then they can leave.

Still fail.

Why not develop an interface for a Nexus that could be dropped right into the a bracket in the car?

So you can use your personal Nexus as an interface to the car audio if you want. The controls for the Renault system could just be an app that you can install on any Nexus tablet.

Although I think the worry is that someone will develop a head unit replacement that will do just that and the car companies will start to lose all the nice ICE upgrade fees because all the units will be hidden and modular like they used to be with DIN and 2DIN radios.

What is the point of Chrome?

Just put the latest version of Android on it and problem solved.

If these become available at $100/£100 I would order one tomorrow as a portable tablet when I don't want/need to carry my Asus Transformer around with me. Would also be easier to carry on the bike.

At the current price I still want one, but £100 would be a no brainer.

Blackmail

I think they will be OK publishing these names only if they actually go ahead with the cases against every person that they name on their webpages. But if they are using this threat as a way to destroy someones reputation then it was blackmail and becomes libel after the fact if the claims are unproven.

No mention yet of the famous update to Eve Online that managed to brick a lot of users machines by deleting BOOT.INI from their PCs. And they wonder why people don't trust updates.

If I didn't already have a Transformer and a One X I would be looking at one of these, looks like a great bit of kit.

For storage there are a number of wifi/bluetooth battery powered hrd drives coming onto the market soon (or already here) which you can keep in your bag and read from whilst using the tablet.

Daily Mail

Just wait until the Daily Mail see this, terrorists can now get plans for a programmable guided missile for free off the internet !!!!! AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

SWG

What no Star Wars Galaxies, that was actually a great game before Sony/Lucas screwed us all over?

Good timing though as the SWG Emulator Project is just launching it's Alpha phase of the code, most of the basic game is back, a few professions are still missing and balance is being tweaked. But the game is still very playable and getting 1000 people online most nights now.

Visit swgemu.com to come back to the game again.

Just the form factor of this makes it so much more useful than the Pi. All the ports on one side means that you can mount it almost any bix you like and still reach them all, with the Pi you must have a box designed for it to be able to reach the connectors.

Size?

quote "1708 x 85mm"

Is this thing really nearly 2m long?

Didn't they recently talk about making structures on the moon only using the resources found on the moon?

If so the more logical way would be to build the station from that as it's a lot closer then any asteroid and less problems lifting the parts off the surface than from the earth.

Get rid of the advert/profile bit on the right of the page, currently 25% of available space is wasted.

And/Or allow forum to fill whole browser instead of the fixed width bit.

I played in the beta, enjoyed it, started playing the real game and spent 7 hrs in queues just trying to get in. Since then I've just not been able to bring myself to play for long.

It's a single player game with a few milti-player bits bolted onto it. I don't see how it'll keep you going once you reach the current level cap, it's not a persistant world with a long term goal.

Also, if you look back at the NGE 'fix' for Star Wars Galaxies back in 2005 you pretty much have the new game all planned out.

Instead I've gone back an took a look at the SWG EMU and it's actually getting there, and worth a look if you want a free MMO.

Updates

"That needn’t be a deal breaker, however, since HTC has said that it should get an update to the new version in 2012."

Tell that to the HTC Desire owners that have been promised updates to their phone for ages. We were also promised that the Desire would be useable on HTCSense.com to allow us to track and backup our phones but that never happened.

Also, why can they not put a decent amount of RAM in these phones so that if/when they do make updates available the phone still has space to run apps? It can't increase the price that much for just a little more RAM.

Saw an DB9 on the M25 with AU55OME which I thought was good.

The Asus Transformer should be getting an updated version released in the next couple of months with the newer faster nvidia processors.

I have one of these with the keyboard and I carry it around most of the time now, web access is done via teethering to my mobile when out, no need for built in 3G as you'd end up paying for two contracts with little gain.

Cheap Laser

I'm still running a cheap Samsung ML-1200 from years ago, and know a number of people also running these old lasers. The latest model is available for less than £50 online now.

Time Running Out

TomTom really need to up their game or they will be in big trouble soon.

I don't think it'll be long before cars start appearing with a 5 inch Android based interface for the radio and other in car computer functions hardwired into the dash.

GoogleMaps already allows you to download a map area so you don't need a phone connection so it would be pretty easy to allow you to use maps downloaded on you PC ans stored on an SD card.

The same unit could also give you full access to the OBD fault codes and diagnostics on your car without needing to buy a specialised reader.

Protest

If you wish to hold a protest outside a physical property you fill out a form and the police let you get on with it for a reasonable time before telling you to clear off or unblock the streets. Happens in London all the time.

So why can you not use the same proceedure for running an online protest as well?