An OS feature?

How, then, would I sync from my phone to my desktop, which run two completely different operating systems?

Are they going to all work together to provide me with space out of the goodness of their hearts?

So, if people repeatedly say "no" to enforcement without trial then that's bad and wrong?

The article says that we need strong enforcement. I'd like to see suggestions of exactly how we manage that without locking down the internet in such a way that it's basically broken. I don't believe it's possible, to be honest.

The pure SSD options are all still massively more expensive than hybrids. The price game is a perfectly good one to play until memristors come along and make SSDs dirt cheap.

The Business model

I wonder why it failed, when Spotify has made a success of a very similar model.

I can't see the advantage over an Android laptop

Which can do everything the Chrome laptop can, and also run Android apps.

Also, why are the Chromebooks only up to 12". My current laptop is 15", and that's perfect for me. I'm not moving to something smaller.

The Edinburgh one is fantastic

I don't bother to check timetables any more - just pick a stop off of the ones bookmarked on my Android app and see what my options are. So handy.

A tenner? Rip off!

Amazon Basics does a 3m HDMI cable for a fiver. Works perfectly.

Depends on the definition of "Lifetime"

Tivo sold "lifetime" subscriptions. While there are boxes still working, are they still liable to provide the subscription? I suspect that the only people who know are the lawyers already rubbing their hands together....

My problem is a lack of home technology

Even if my ISP started running IPv6 I wouldn't be able to pass the packets across my router. So unless all of those router manufacturers start offering firmware, or we all buy new routers we're all stuffed anyway.

Not on Orange

T-Mobile may well have pushed it out to their customers, I've got Desire on Orange, and am still waiting...

XBMC

An extra thumbs up for installing XBMC on the old Apple TV. It makes an excellent media centre, for a very reasonable price and form factor.

Same here

I've been having general problems with Orange for a while, but the last two days have been awful. For some reason 2G and EDGE (or whatever it is I'm using when the 3G+ symbol appears) are working fine, but plain 3G is not.

Is there an Orange Forum somewhere for discussing this kind of thing?

That's not an Apple TV replacement

I have an Apple TV, and for £200 as a hackable device to get XMBC onto my TV it was great. But this is three tmes the price of that, so it's not competing in the same space.

If I wanted an Apple TV replacement nowadays I'd probably go for an NVidia ION box (like the Acer revo).

I'm confused

How can it require a network upgrade when other houses in the village already have broadand?

Anyone care to enlighten me?

Well, absolutely

I'm just not willing to pay £2000 for a TV even if it's bigger than God and makes me breakfast in bed. Asking what factors would make me spend that much is going to get you not much more than a blank stare.

No Scottish exchanges?

Not a single one in Scotland - you'd think that bits of Glasgow or Edinburgh would be sufficiently profitable to make it worthwhile...

Not sure I agree

"But lighter weight tools offer a more rapid edit/test cycle with less waiting time."

If I'm using Visual Studio then a rebuild is a keypress away. I currently have the Resharper addon installed, which means that running all the unit tests just means pressing ctrl-shift-N. I can't see how a lighter weight tool would make that any faster...

Colour me sceptical

The first one requires you to add water to X, then wait for the water to turn to hydrogen, then plug the hydrogen into something that turns it into electricity. This seems ridiculously convoluted.

The second one is based on picking up electricity passively from the air. It's going to be _incredibly_ slow to charge, and you'd probably be better off just having a backup power supply.

The third allows you to swing your battery around your finger. Have we not seen hand-cranked power supplies before? I really can't see this being popular. Again, if you need emergency power then carry a backup battery...

I'll be buying it in the UK

So that when it goes wrong (and everything goes wrong) I can get it fixed quickly, not wait for it to be shipped to the US and back...

Definitely agree about the Apple TV

I hacked mine and stuck XBMC on it. Plays absolutely any file I throw at it, and connects to both SMB (windows file shares) and UPNP on my network. It was definitely worthwhile.

Dammit!

I've been intending to dump Virgin, but I loved my Tivo to bits, and if it's coming back then I _need_ one...

Oh for goodness sake

Next up: James Bond acting outside of international law. Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't follow proscribed "First Contact" protocols.

It's a _game_. Just because I enjoy shooting my friends repeatedly in the face in a game that does not mean I'm about to wander the streets of Kosovo with an assault rifle picking off innocent locals.

What's the HD stand for?

I've heard the HD in Wii used to refer to both the resolution and to it having a Hard Drive. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

In any case, having an HDMI output would be nice - it's the last thing in my living room that has an analogue connection.

I agree

For £170 you can pay the Mac Premium and get your machine from them.

I'd do this

£120 a year for access to whatever music I fancy is a good-enough deal for me. I already use Spotify for most of my music listening at home - being able to transfer the songs to my mobile would be well worth paying for.

I use a S60 phone though, so I'll have to wait for that version of the app to arrive...

Canvas?

Surely a large part of the HTML5 spec is the canvas attribute, which will allow for arbitrary 2D interfaces - i.e. what Flash/Silverlight do.

Sur, the video bit is important - but being able to produce shiny applications on a web page in a standard way is a big part of what Flash is used for...

Theory

It's quite commonly known that people are at the highest risk of suicide when they have their first-upswing. They pull out of the slump where they can't do anything, and have the energy to do something. Sadly, this leads a chunk of them to make "never feel depressed again" that something...

How cool!

A couple of my friends travel a lot, and we've now got it set up so that we can automatically tell which cities we're all in.

I've also given access to my girlfriend - but I'm sure a bunch of you wouldn't be comfortable with that :->

Still not a Flash competitor

Using Firefox here - and apps don't launch inside the web page. That PacMan example required me to click on a link, wait for a java web start file to download, wait for that to launch and download more code, and then I ended up with a separate window to play PacMan in.

Hardly seamless...

And foreign phones?

What's going to happen with SIM cards bought in other countries? Are they going to stop tourists from using their phones in the UK? And international businessmen?

I have to pay for Windows?

Surely they could have knocked £50 off and released it with Linux on it?

Keep them cheap!

I want an Eee with the larger screen, but I don't need more memory or more hard drive space than the original 701 came with. Asus need to remember that they're popular because they're cheap - and keep them that way!

A misunderstanding on the part of Asus

We don't need the extra storage space for the things that the Eee is used for - and I don't want to pay for it. I'd like a slightly larger screen area, and I'm prepared to pay for _that_, but not an extra 50% on the price of the current one.

There's no reason for it to be that expensive

Why should it be more expensive just because you're on another network?

Answer - because business customers are the main users.

It's all marketing nonsense, there's no technological reason for it at all.