Posts by Thomas 4

"who tried to inject MacBooks into Whitehall"

Oh thank Christ. We were worried we weren't going to get our iPad 2s for a second there.

Phew

Thank god they installed that chief information security officer after that last attack, otherwise they'd have no-one to fire over this one.

Hmmm

What's the keyboard quality like? If the buttons are solid and responsive, I might look at ditching my Nexus One and getting one of these instead.

A least Toshiba are making amends

Let's give them a big hand, ladies and gents.

And 2 years from now.....

Mephistophiles shuts down Hell due to a lack of souls. Apparently the department that offers deals for mortal souls has been driven out of the market by telcos.

One infamous snack

....that springs to mind are deep-fried Mars Bars. An almost mythical delicacy in my neck of the woods but I've never forgotten the taste after all these years. I've no idea what would make a good deathmatch rival though...

Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson used to make big strides in phone development - they introduced one of the first phones with a colour screen (the T68 & T68i), even going as far as to make one of the first MP3 attachments and camera attachment as well.

In the smartphone sector, there was always strong rivalry between UIQ phones such as the P800, P900, etc and the Communicator range but as @Red Bren pointed out, the P990i was starting to lose ground against its better functioning competitors.

I also recall the series of Palm based PDAs that Sony produced many, many years ago. Again, there were some really solid designs (my T37 lasted a very long) and they seemed very determined to bring out new ideas (including the first PDA with an OLED screen - released in Japan only).

If Sony can recapture these glory days and use this acquisition to bring greater diversity to the phone market (rather than just flat touchscreen slab, no buttons, kkthanxbai) then it could really rejunvinate their presence in the phone market. If, on the other hand, they are merely doing this for IP and patents, with a view to ditching Ericssons engineers, then what happened with HP & WebOS will seem like a rousing success story by comparison.

You degenerate monsters!

How can you be so thoughtless? By refusing to ban such filth as Kirby's Dream Land or Nintendogs, you are merely encouraging the next generation of brutal psychopaths! I cannot supervise my child due to regular PTA meetings, my high profile business career and my Daily Mail column, so I often have to leave him with his Xbox and a copy of Tiger Woods Pro Putting Simulator. The thought that he could be playing something as foul and evil as Little Big Planet makes me sick to my stomach.

Won't someone PLEASE think of the children?!

As I said in another thread

At these prices, it will screw over quite a lot of the competition so although in the short term they may make a small loss, they'll claim a large section of the tablet market from their rivals. After all, the savings they make can be used to buy ebooks and programs from Amazons TotallyNotAnAppStore.

I can see it now.....

<The scene: Two figures are fleeing from the towering HQ of an evil conglomerate. Several machine-gun carrying are chasing them>

"James, they're chasing us! How are we going to get away?"

"Don't worry, my dear. I'll use my iPad to plot an escape route in Maps that will take us to the nearest bus stop."

"WE'LL NEVER MAKE IT!"

"Hang on! I can use my trusty iPad as a bulletproof shie-"

*crack*

*splat*

And even now

Reg hacks are patiently waiting for the first malfunctioning Kindle 2 battery, just for the headlines.

I for one....

....welcome our cane toad devouring overlords and whatever we introduce to then get rid of them.

Oo

Did that description actually make sense to anyone?

How does the defence plead...

"to the petty theft of Britains entire telephone network?"

"Not guilty, yer honnor, the vulture made me do it."

Meh.

So it looks like whatever ship is built for the task needs some way to generate even a minimal amount of gravity-like force.

Riiiight.

Someone needs to tell HP that "cutting edge" tech doesn't actually involve an axe.

Mind you.....

"We do, however, expect a rash of stories with headlines like “Teen dies after 48-hour non-stop gaming session” some time soon."

I'd probably die after a 48-hour *cough*gaming session*cough* as well, not to mention the wrist cramps.....

"Pics or it didn't happen"

I bet Lester does have piccies but he's just trying to wriggle out of it.

I've just had a brilliant idea!

Why don't all the electronics giant patent absolutely everything, then we we can halt the progress of human development completely. In a few decades, civilisation will be reduced to a crumbling wasteland, populated by a strange, rodent-like scavenger that kills things by spraying them with sheets of paper secreted from a bodily orifice.

Mental note

*create an email address ID09141@yahoo.co.uk and watch Ring for tips*

So just to clarify

Did they probe Scartlett Johansson as well?