From the second link

"extremely precise dacs can be very unforgiving and too-controlled sounding, while other dacs can be extremely musical."

<sarcasm>Yeah, and my arse can be extremely musical too.</sarcasm>

People

still read "Dilbert?

WTF?

Does she have hairy feet or something?

Magnetised needle

FTW

Why wouldn't they

Anything to save a few bucks.

On a less cynical note I was glad to see that my Pixi came with a micro USB cable, a tiny mains charger, and nothing else. If I want Useless junk I can buy it later on eBay.

I don't think it's sata

the pins are all the same length. It looks suspiciously lke the ssd in my netbook - sata in a mini pcie physical connector - but if Intel has any sense it will be real pcie.

You could do worse than look at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kstH-8jwa80 (Dalai Lama vs the Pope by John Safran for those who've already seen it) before deciding that the Dalai Lama is left wing.

@ Chris Miller - Pseudo-hereditary aristocratic seems about right. I've long thought of the Dalai Lama as a sort of Tibetan Price Charles - well intentioned but in way over his head and sinking deeper because no one dares tell him his ideas are a mish-mash of half-thought out wishful thinking.

Well I believe there's a good one

called "How to Recognise Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way Away" but I doubt you'd be interested in that either.

The subject may be 'bollocks' but that says nothing about the quality of the film.

Agreed

Someone should make a film about Elron's naval career - It would make McHales Navy look like Das Boot.

Yes it is

Just with extra obfuscation (and possibly self-deception).

They just increase the camera separation

Of course that makes everything look like toys - and a ten inch tyrannosaurus, for example ,isn't exactly scary - but, hey, you can't have everything.

Indecent time exposure?

- considering it was after dark.

Either that

or someone who knows what Poe's law* is. I hate the joke icon but some times it's needed

*strictly Poe's corollary: if the parody is indistinguishable from the real thing then the real thing is indistinguishable from the parody.

Don't

Even as we speak an invitation is on its way to the Waspians to join the cartel. If you've got diamonds De Beers will assimilate you.

A perfectly good pizza?

I thought w'ed established it was a Domino's.

Exactly

And well and truly hoisted by it as well.

I'd prefer

the USB connected Steve Balmer with patented chair flinging action. It'd beat the pants off those wimpy missile lauchers.

Scary

Not only is there no replication but if one drive goes MIA it takes all your data with it. Maybe bearable for systems used purely for backup but the point of WHS is supposed to be that it's much more flexible than that.

I'll take

Linux 0.6 over Microsoft 1.0 any day. We all know MS doesn't even get into the game until version 3.

Yea, because prohibition always work

Banning ads, on the other hand, I have no problem with.

Seconded

And yes Minecraft isn't the answer. From the videos I've seen Rome is beautifully rendered in the game and I'd love to experience it first hand but I have zero interest in stabbing people in the neck. Now, I'm not asking for a renaissance version of bus simulator but this is a game with Leonardo in it - I don't recall Captain Janeway stabbing anyone when she met him on the holodeck.

Logic Fail

Development costs are sunk costs - having paid for the development it's in Microsoft's interest to ship as many units as possible given that they get a good part of £95 every time they sell one.

Real mean have real pockets

And women have handbags

It's worse than that

Squeezing too many pixels into a tiny sensor is just asking to ramp up the noise.

Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes

You have seen the Internet, haven't you?

Plastic -

the way nature intended oil to be used.

Exactly

I need to travel. I need to check my email. Might as well do both at once. The in-station thing, however, makes no sense.

Better still

Make it compulsory that all built-in webcams have a sliding cover (or an activity light). Though please not one of those annoying mechanical shutter sounds you find on phones.

Great Idea

Added bonus: certain US religious figures would be saved the embarrassment of accidentally hiring a rent boy when all they need is something to "lift their luggage".

Built in liquid cooling

Putting that amount of power through a solid state system would indeed result in the parts getting a bit too hot for comfort, which is precisely why a chemical system was chosen. As long as the fuel is pumped through at a sufficient rate the apparatus can be kept to an acceptable temperature. That of course, as it turns out, is the easy part.

Sir, sir

Lucy said a bad word.

Grow up. You're reading a review of a game about killing zombies and you're upset because you read the word 'shit'.

If that's irony

Your name's Alanis.

Subsidy? What subsidy?

An extended payment plan (with attendant lock-in) ain't no subsidy.

Don't you mean

Last think I heard Sun Microsystems had become Oracle Corporation or some such nonsense, clearly flagging the usual commercial problem of "managers more interested in money making schemes and business rivalries than actually meeting user needs".

Wheel?

You'[re right. That's not even remotely the right shape.

Yes

But instead of an image of the virgin Mary on your toast you'll get an image of a woman who certainly isn't.

Hell

Given what this thing's likely to cost I'd expect Ms Fox to come bundled.

Public ignorance?

I see the loony greenies have noticed an article on this fairly minor website and begun shepherding their flocks of mindless followers here to make ignorant comments about reactors exploding and people glowing in the dark.

See what I did there.

Strangely, some of us who care about the environment are prepared to discuss the facts instead of simply dismissing anything that contradicts our preconceived ideas as the product of a propaganda conspiracy*.

*note to self: must really stop pretending that it's possible to debate conspiracy theorists.

Or

about twenty minutes of Midsomer Murders.

Only if it's identity theft

Von Erk (great supervillian name there) merely pretended he had a different name and gender. And, well, a lot of other things no doubt, but in principle it's no different from a man pretending to be a brain surgeon to get a woman into bed. Jerky but, no, not illegal.