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MechaGodzilla

Nuff said...

Good case, well presented. Off to watch the film myself now :)

Advertising your product by helping out cash-strapped schools (and positioning yourself in the market with those schools, parents and future customers) is obviously of great benefit to company doing it, along with the risk, as someone pointed out above that they could simply get interested in the product and then buy the cheaper alternative (android devices still eclipse ipad sales even though they are pushed out to schools, altruistically of course). But the bottom line is that this still benefits the kids and the schools and that can only be a good thing. As long as McDonalds don't start pushing out school meals, altruistically of course.

Forget the article, that is a truly horrendous picture and makes me ashamed of my own species.

"because the law department is where innovation goes to die."

Amen to that.

You know you have WAY too much time on your hands...

...when you are studying hyena's anal secretions for status updates.

"Unless we kill all of the anti-nuclear believers, world peace will be never achieved."

Anyone else see a slight flaw in that ideology?

I love my twat dongle

I use my bluetooth headset all the time. Don't give a shit how stupid it looks (it doesn't). The whole point (or so I am led to believe) of technology is to make things easier to do, using my headset and not having to have 6 inches of phone clamped to the side of my face leaves both my hands free (not to mention reduces the risk of some git snatching it and running off), which is just a sensible thing to do. If people make life harder for themselves just because they don't want to risk not looking "cool" then they've kind of missed the point of the technology in the first place. I imagine the same will be true Glass.

'Be a creator' not a soulless, money-grabbing bastard who's only interest in creativity and innovation is what money they can make off the back of it, or the MPAA and RIAA as they're better known.

"Microsoft may soon be a much nicer place to work, thanks to the company's announcement that it's doing away with its infamous "stack ranking" employee performance reviews Steve Ballmer leaving"

There, fixed it for you.

Not a real issue

It's not really a problem because no one who wants a decent browsing experience uses IE anyway. It's like wondering why your bicycle won't win Le Mans. IE hasn't ever been fit for purpose, on any version of HTML implementation.

In other news...

Drugs are banned and everyone in the world immediately stops using drugs because obviously it is only the fact that they are available to buy that makes people use them. Essentially Singaporians are saying "We're too weak to be faithful without government intervention to make us behave". Sad state of affairs (skuse the pun).

Breaking news

Companies around the world show massive upswing in employee productivity. Under 25s seen to be actually TALKING face-to-face with other humans.

It's a brave new world!

"Thank you very much, but if I want to phone my boss to say I'm home sick with the flu when I'm actually kicking back with a cheap hard-boiled detective novel and a pint or two of Arrogant Bastard, I don't want my phone ratting on me."

Probably best not to include the idea in an article your boss edits before publishing either....

I think I understand its mission

"Its mission to make sure Wakata isn’t lonely in space doesn't quite stack up"

"....name is derived from a combination of the Japanese words for “hope” and “robot”"

So it's a "ho-bot". Now it all makes sense.

Quick question.....

Didn't they have to pay massive fines and sign all sorts of anti-competitive agreements NOT to bundle/force IE on their OS? I think the whole browser anti-competitive thing was a load of bollocks anyway, but given that it happened, how are they now getting away with it on Win 8/8.1?

"What the NSA has done is disgusting, degrading, and has compromised the civil liberties of hundreds of millions of our collective countrymen. How soon can we be doing it too?"

Wow

I'm actually amazed. What Sony really seem to be forgetting is there's a massive installed base of PS3s already in the market, which will be good for games for a few years to come yet and work brilliantly as as an entertainment hub. As far as I can see, those with a PS3 are likely to simply stick with it and not toss away their investment which means Sony is going to have to go after first time buyers who are just as likely to buy a PS3. There will always be those who have to have the latest console to play the latest games, but I'm pretty sure those people don't represent the vast majority of their market, I'd wager most are like me who wanted to play some games but also use it as an all round entertainment center, so for people like me there's actually no point whatsoever in getting the new console in its current form.

Ah but wait a minute - you have to buy all-new, expensive accessories for it, It's not compatible with the rest of the universe, you can only play what they let you play and they have a locked-in ecosystem where they reap money from the applications developed for it.... They're going after the iPhone market!!

Ashton Kutcher advising anyone on anything

Bwahahahahahahahaha!

I have a leak about what it is. It's going to called the "Pachyderm", and it's only available in white.

Time to make some phone calls

I just bought a quad Xeon with 8Gb of RAM off the boss at work for £75 (upgrading my old 32 bit server to 64 bit). Given that these guys are far deeper into the industry than me and therefore are much more likely to know people they can purchase ex-refresh equipment from on the very cheap, I can see some surprisingly good configurations popping up!

Get unlimited

I'm with 3 and my data plan is unlimited. The only barrier to other's going on the unlimited plan is cost or lack of usage. My girlfriend didn't opt for unlimited because she doesn't really do much online with her phone (whereas I use mine as a portable hot spot) and so pays half as much. However, if she were to start paying £7 a time to watch movies on top of her data plan she would soon overtake my cost for unlimited so while I get the point they are striving to make, it's surely unworkable because it would have to be such an infrequent usage I can't see the business model there to support it, not to mention most phones/slabs have enough storage for you to always have a few things available to watch on them anyway.

people "familiar" with Redmond's insides

So Bill Gate's proctologist then?

**visions of millions of users stuck in a mind loop as they want to post about facebook being out, but Facebooks out and they can't post about it, making them want to post about it on facebook....**

"deliberately or intentionally"

Redundancy. Tsk!

If you are using IE

The you have already identified the problem.

Word

It works. It's easy to use. It's easy to share documents because most people use it (especially in the work environment). This is just whining tosh for attention.

Apple have finally caught up with 1992 Windows systems. Good for them! :)

"Mi( " ?? Really?

Have the Reg proof readers had a holiday recently because that's a bit of a shocker!

Well I think they should...

Just renationalise BT and then roll out FTTP at cost and and for free to the consumer and make enough to cover the costs from business and overseas users.

"Won't somebody think of the shareholders!!"

No.