re:we all know that fossil fuels will run out

Good luck charging your car when that happens.

The USA is responsible for Mexico now?

Grim story.

@Dave 126

A signal indicator is pretty meaningless anyway. They said it on QI so it must be true.

@Goat Jam

The iPhone1 was immature and sophisticated at the same time. That's why it took off.

The enraged ... Silva then struck his wife

Should that read 'engorged'?

re:Hollywood giving up on blu-ray??

You realise the article was about CDs, not every kind of round shiny disc?

I'm not a fanboi but normally I don't have any problem with companies expecting you to upgrade to the new model. But claiming Siri is PART OF the 4S when it's actually part of the OS, and deliberately turning it off on older hardware, is massively cynical.

The general public don't realise this of course, but if it does become public knowledge - and it's non-technical enough it could well do - some sort of uproar seems possible. The public like paying for shiny new handsets, but not being duped when the old one is perfectly fine to begin with.

owns neither an email address nor a computer

I find that quite an impressive feat actually.

Quick, call the writer a fanboi

After all, he said nice things about MS.

Dirty tactics?

Simply trying to kill off the competition to Android? Does anyone know if that raises legal flags or is it a fair business tactic?

@Danny 5

You're not a fanboy if one hardware failure puts you off entirely.

re:And what percentage....

90-99% I would suggest.

In civilised nations...

... you don't simply kill people for breaking the law. It's not RoboCop.

re:Funny how this 'isn't that big of a deal' when it's Apple

Um. Apple make basically 2 tablets. v1 & v2. Some things only run on v2. There are dozens of Android tablets with different hardware, and half a dozen different versions of Android, plus vendor-specific overlays.

PLEASE tell me you don't genuinely think Apple tablets are as fragmented as Android?

???

This seems very weird. Multiplayer home fun is the basis of Wii and GameCube success. Nintendo have a good record for proving us wrong when we think there console will flop, but I'm rather worried by what we're hearing. I LIKE that the Wii is cheap and fun, even if it's long in the tooth.

Dear Reg...

Please could you add price and ideally review score columns to the table on page 1?

Wow

Not one mention of Opera so far? I thought it was obligatory.

Don't see the twitter thing as a big deal. I don't use it but that doesn't mean I won't use a product with integration... daft.

By 2015

Ultrabooks might not even exist.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwww

please please no.

re:But fucking tricky to play in the car

If only they made car stereos that could play from USB/SD storage... oh... they do.

Needed?

A single-core 1.5GHz chip is equivalent to a Pentium 4, which could run your whole desktop PC rather well!

What do phones DO with all this power, given that most apps are pretty simple compared to stuff like Call of Duty or Photoshop?!

Phwoar

as title

Interesting, but

I never realised things were so confusing and complicated, so this was very interesting. However I have to point out the writer has a real bee in their bonnet about Java, and that rant is rather bizarre.

@steven W. Scott

With predictions like that you should join MS' strategy department.

4th?

They bundle all Windows OSes as one result? And then list Linuxes separately?

Read and Record

Isn't that what the obnoxious kid on Young Apprentice was banging on about?

@Will Godfrey

As a Physicist and a Bible-believing christian, I don't think so. Scientific atheists (or more commonly atheists who claim to understand science and Christianity but are in reality rather ignorant of both) like to claim believers use God to fill in the gaps science hasn't yet explained. That WOULD be a very weak position, but it's not accurate. The two are not incompatible.

$500m

What costs half a billion dollars?

You don't think the app will let you show a receipt?

"Would Half-Life today be reviewed as highly as it was?"

No. It's 10 years out of date graphically for a start.

"it works best with its tongue firmly in-cheek"

So go watch Johnny English...

Chunky as it looks?

This is basically just a netbook without a keyboard, right?

Anyone know what version of Windows?

Has this got anything to do with radioactivity?

Or is it simply for soaking up specific elements, regardless of isotope?

"If anything that's a reason to respect the move"

No, really not. They're a bunch of arrogant nerds who are used to getting away with being idiots because they're behind a computer. A cartel could buy some serious hacking clout of their own.

Bleh

Did they let the work experience kid write something or is El Reg publishing reader letters now?

And when was this true: "Once upon a time in a galaxy far away, PCs started up instantly: lean operating systems leapt from chips in machines that were not saddled with obese software and weighed down with bloatware."

Isn't it bizarre how the movement from fixed phone to mobile has come full circle to a device you interact with without touching... voice and gesture recognition.

Kind of pricey

Trying to beat iPad on features/quality rather than price is a bold move. I wonder if it will work - or if most of the people happy to splash £500 (!!) on a gadget will already have an iPad.

Deep stuff.

Unless it was "oh no" rather than "oh wow"

yep

Better with two screens connected using a cable.

Nice idea though.

Can't be trusted

Anon will release the data whatever happens.

re: theoretical

Yes - but what if some famous/influential person has one. Specific targets could be more worried about someone only having to loiter outside the entrance to their workplace.

@eulampios

Your argument doesn't actually address the question asked. Nobody asked IF Windows had security vulnerabilities. The fact similar things haven't happened on *nix/OSX doesn't mean they lack such holes, UNTIL people try to find them as fervently as they do on Windows, and fail. Until a non-Windows system has similar majority share to attract the miscreants, we won't have an asnwer.

"I actually think the entire industry is going to go fully electric,"

I really hope someone running a company knows that is marketing drivel, and doesn't really believe it.

a tiny cut for everyone

$0.01 off $0.15 is not tiny, it's nearly 7%.

iPhone?

Surely it won't get any reception?

<mong>just like on Earth</mong>

Android the new Windows?

If Android gains a significant majority then won't it be Windows all over again, as miscreants focus their energy on it?

This will actually be a good chance to finally test the claim that Windows is inherently less secure.

300,000 pages a day

If nothing else, this will help people running sites realise when their business model has flaws... if you can't even cover these costs something isn't right.

Tea

If he always brings his own tea, why does he spend a paragraph blithering on about which kinds he likes?

Cheaper on Kindle

How delicious.

Thieving Scum

Wanting to charge for their software. Quick, call Stallman.

In other news - will this open up a way to attack a website by forcing it to make loads of API calls and incur a bill?