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DoJ could start Apple ebook price-fixing lawsuit this week

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Can't come too soon.

Price fixing by the publishers is inexcusable, and I hope the judge throws the (e)book at them.

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Brush up your Microsoft skills, win date with Ferrari

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News? Or advertising?

I am guessing that MS paid for this article :)

Still, I signed up, it is about the only training I will get at our place this year, despite being expected to upgrade all our desktops to Windows 7!

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Chip forecast upped by Gartner

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Gartner...

The ones who predicted that we would have stopped using mice by now, and that Vista would be the last major version of Windows?

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Lego space shuttle hits 114,000ft

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Re: What about the rocket??

3368 even, that is the big one!

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What about the rocket??

If they can get the shuttle to orbit, can they get the Lego City Rocket (3366) to to the moon? I for one want to see them try.

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Windows Phone armed with 'military-grade' email upgrade

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Please no.

Surely the device has encryption anyway doesn't it? Good is truly awful..

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10GigE jetpacks strapped on EqualLogic underlings

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Really?

I haven't had any problems with snapshots? Sync replication would be nice, but because our DR site is quite far away, we can't really use it at the moment anyway, so we async fits the the bill.

I loved it when one vendor came in and tried to blame the iSCSI storage for their applications poor performance. Benchmark tests were more than 15 times faster than their requirements (we have several units)!

Overall, I find them excellent pieces of kit, and just so easy to install and use.

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Climate models need revising: Droughts, heat waves not such a big deal

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"So, the world's climate is changing.."

Wow, that sounds like a bit of an admission from you Lewis. Did you get hit by a big plank over the weekend or something?

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Lego builds Lord of the Rings collection

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Of course.

That is why they wouldn't watch it.

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4 & 7?

The same age as mine (son and daughter). I suspect my four year old son would be better at coping with it than my seven year old daughter, but think they would be be hiding behind their chocolate milk!

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WTF?

The characters are all the same size??

Still, it looks good :) Considering the LOTR films are rated 12 though, is there not a slight mismatch between the product and the age of the target audience? Or do a lot of parents let younger kids watch the LOTR films?

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New sat data shows Himalayan glaciers hardly melting at all

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So they are still melting then?

So the ice is still melting. And that is some kind of victory for those who say that it isn't? How exactly?

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Halliburton latest biz to dump BlackBerry for iPhone

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or "Bad"

Google "Good", or "Bad" as our users call it if you want to see what an imploded RIM would look like. Good used to make hardware (like RIM years ago), obviously didn't find they could compete so went for a software only model.

A model which is horrendously bad. Want to know if you have any emails on a BB? Look at the notification icon. Want to do the same on a Good app? Unlock your phone, open the "Good" app, wait for it to connect and update (20 seconds later), and if there are any new emails, you will see them. No signal? Tough.

I won't go into all the other issues our users have with duplicate appointments, the app just stopping working, etc. Lets just say our users HATE it. And I don't blame them.

Oh, don't mention the UI either. Christ, whoever designed it managed to screw it up so badly that I can only assume they were either blind, or did it on purpose.

Only the insane, or masochistic would use it rather than a BB or the native iOS email client.

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Brit space agency sends up 1st satellite

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Skylon, why not?

Given the huge stacks of money wasted on other projects, why not spend it on Skylon? It has a much better chance of a return on investment, and lets face it, Skylon is a damn cool name.

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Amazon sold 6m Kindle Fire tablets, says analyst

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Features

For a lot of people, it is features not spec's that they want. Hence, the ability to be entertained by their tablet, not wank over the number of cores.

That is why the Fire is such a success, it is providing what people want. Their media, is a convenient form factor.

Fanboi because Gil, you obviously are..

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RIM slashes BlackBerry PlayBook tablet prices

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Great device, wrong fruit

I still like my playbook (free for me, it is the companies). Wrong kind of fruit for the "too cool for school" crowd, but the size and UI make this a fantastic device for me.

Portable enough to stick in my coat pocket, reads my kindle books, plays my movies, plays my music, lets me read my gmail (either via the app, or the browser), and has a proper browser.

Good enough for me.

People really should try one before knocking it.

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Work from home, find a new hobby, buy a fountain - UK.gov

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All well and good except...

My employers are stuck in the dark ages. They pretend working from home is not possible unless it suits them.

Of course the other problem is train companies. With a yearly ticket, I pay whether I go in to work or not.

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Reg Hardware Awards 2011 Winners

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Not needed

Not a rant, just an observation, and a pretty fair one in my experience. A lot of people will not even consider another tablet besides an iFad. They won't even evaluate it.

I am just confident enough in myself, not to need to have the coolest gadget :)

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Half of the population...

..are more stupid than the average person.

I had an iPad2 and gave it up for my playbook (well not mine, they are both company devices). I have no regrets at all. Sure, it doesn't have the cool apple logo on the back, but it has a proper browser, portable form factor (I don't need a man-bag to carry it around), decent mail client (sideloaded android application), and of course, my kindle software. Sure, it doesn't have 200 different fart applications, but it is a great functional tablet for less than half the price of an iPad. I wonder how many people who voted for it have actually used one? Obviously not many given the sales figures.

Still, if we are judging on logo rather than function...

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RIM demos PlayBook OS2

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Facepalm Good Technology? Are you joking? That is the the biggest piece of garbage around. The exec's love it because it means they can use devices with an apple logo on, but the notification system is crap, trying to read new emails when you are on the train is crap, and it regularly fails to sync appointments. Apart from all that though, well, it is still crap. As for BB email, it will still be there on the device, it is no optional. So you can have your secure BB mail and your personal mail.
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Blighty's official Space Agency starts up on 1 April

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Imagine if...

We got rid of some jets, planes, tanks, nukes, and spent just a proportion of the defence budget on space.. The possibilities are tremendous. Isn't it about time a political party picked this up and ran with it?

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Greenland ice loss rates 'one-third' of what was thought

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Page = Plank

The Register is becoming the IT version of The Sun, and Lewis Page is the worst culprit. You may as well replace the headline on all his stories with "Good. News. Ruined".

Anyway, why did Page completely skip over and ignore the first paragraph of the report from Nasa?

"Global temperatures are increasing. Sea levels are rising. Ice sheets in many areas of the world are retreating. Yet there’s something peculiar going on in the oceans around Antarctica: even as global air and ocean temperatures march upward, the extent of the sea ice around the southern continent isn’t decreasing. In fact, it's increasing."

Maybe because (apart from the last four words) it doesn't fit in with his crazy belief system? Maybe like a writer for the Sun, he just craves attention? I suppose ultimately, it is easier to ignore the article (apart from those four words) and use it as another prop to his ignorance?

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