Re: One thing I don't understand...

Agreed, that was the negative that stood out for me in the review too.

Sure, the picture quality is going to be a little ropey, and the sound too - what would people expect from a low budget decades old film?

But why the restrictive DRM? You know that it's going to be available online immediately someone get a hold of the disc, so why punish only the people who legitimately purchase the disc fair and square?

Do Sony really think that this is the way to shore up their share price? Surely they should be looking to ways to engage their customers rather than new ways to alienate them.

Re: Not surprised really

@toadwarrior

XBL usually has more retards on it too. I think that's because it is paid for. You get kids thinking they're entitled to do what they want because they're paying for it.

Actually, despite the use of the word "retard" here, I think this is a good point - I have both the 360 and the PS3, and no longer subscribe to Live Gold because of this point. If I want to play online, that's what I want to do, I don't want to spend my time hearing racist, mysoginistic, homophobic kids mouthing off constantly.

Re: Now, that's strange

@ Anonymous Coward 15

They're not replying to him - they're responding to the "Anonymous Coward" who said "In shock news... not everything is for your amusement. As new discoveries are made, evolutionists are surprised. Creationists... not so much. Plenty of natural selection, not much evolution."

While I agree with the sentiment a little (this doesn't feel as well researched as some Reg articles)...:

"PS3-Xbox 360 (Why blu-ray when you can have 1080p digital media?)"

...I think this point was answered in the article, and it's not hard to understand that the PS3 gives you the BluRay facility (which many of us use) along with the 1080 digital media option.

The Xbox360 does give you the 1080 digital media option of course, but there's no way to deny it's limited compared to the PS3 *if* you're interested in an HD movie player and like to buy your content on disc or in the very highest quality (I don't want to download 20-40GB movies each time even if that were a legal option).

Re: Time to write a fanboi/fandroid app

Judging by the comments sections on here every time there's an iOS, Android, or BB story, I think you're underestimating the size of the potential maket for your app.

Re: Show me the money

@Sean Timarco Baggaley

It's been my experience that it's not the "IT Admins team" that decides on the hardware or software to deploy, and if it were, they wouldn't be deploying Dell or Blackberry.

Re: Or, for a camera without built in GPS...

Update: same application available for Android.

Or, for a camera without built in GPS...

...use something like "Geotag photos" http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/geotag-photos-pro/id355503746?mt=8 which tracks you on your phone, keeping a GPS track of you, and has an associated desktop app which merges the data in to your pictures.

I've used it a lot, and it works just fine, and lets me choose the camera I want rather than being restricted to only those with built in GPS.

And before anyone ignites, I'm sure there's something similar out there for Android and Windows Phone. Just I have an iPhone, hence why I know an iPhone app for it.

SMS is the same.

There's no SLA or Service Guarantee for SMS, and in my 15+ years of using SMS as a service (yes, I was one of Orange's first subscribers) I've had plenty of SMSs not arrive, but you just shrug your shoulders and move on. Or have a hissy fit at the provider, get told "tough luck, those are the terms" and then shrug your shoulders and move on. Not saying that that's something I might have done in the past of course....

It's the same with all similar communications; email, BBM, MMS, letter post etc etc etc - anything you send isn't absolutely guaranteed to arrive. If it's a vital communication, you just have to call them and speak to them; that way, you know the message is received and understood.

I'm assuming you're being genuine and not trolling...

...so I'll bite.

No, it's not fragmentation, IMO - so long as the screen res remains the same, it's fine, so if we have one screen res for iPhone 4, 4S, (hypothetical) 5, which are all exactly 2x that of the iPhone 3G and 3GS and then one screen res for the iPad 1, 2, (hypothetical) 2Nano (this 7" one) plus exactly 2x that for the iPad 3 then really it's all the same as it is now.

All the iPhones have one screen type, and all the iPads have another, the only change being the long anticipated, expected, and planned for addition of the iPad 3's retina display. Not fragmented at all, as they have built in the ability to handle the 2x resolutions in to the OS quite neatly.

@ Simon Neill

No, no, no, no, no.

No.

For every one of those bikers you see doing something like that (and bear in mind you saw him at one point in his life - it's possible it was the first and only time he'd done something silly) there are hundreds and thousands of us who ride sensibly all our lives.

One tosser shouldn't mean that you have no sympathy (or regard) for the rest of us, who are sideswiped by cars or for who cars pull out right in front of us, leaving us no time to stop. It happens very regularly. Why do you think there are almost continuous motorbike awareness campaigns on?

Should we as bikers have ZERO sympathy for a car driver who gets crushed by a lorry? Perhaps because we see idiots in BMWs and Audis overtaking at 100mph on the inside lane of the motorway? Because that's where your logic leads.

+1 here...

...on Virgin Media cable, though it started on Sunday for me, so not sure that it's the same problem. As with you, the VM service status site is telling me all is fine in my area. As usual.

@ CD001

You're kidding / trolling right?

Because if not, what did you think the European Elections were for?

No...

...but it's available through iOS in another way (the Find my iPhone system can remotely wipe an iOS device, or just put up messages on its screen etc, along with geo-locating it, so you can decide if you've truly lost it, or if it's at your moms or work or whatever).

Don't know about Android, but I'd assume there was something out there that could make this possible - it's a standard need after all.

Just one thing.

Box cutter? We used a hole punch ;-)

@ Obviously!

No, the solution to the problem that you believe is there is to get better employees.

That way, your decent employees (the vast majority) aren't unfairly punished if they make a genuine mistake or are robbed, and your bad employees (the ones you assert don't take enough care of company kit) are no longer employees. After all, if they don't care enough about company property to bother looking after it, they probably don't care about their job or the company overall so better to get rid of them.

Take a look at the Honda Civic Hybrid 2...

...http://www.thedailygreen.com/cm/thedailygreen/images/GA/Honda-Civic-Hybrid-lg.jpg

It just looks like a nomal saloon. Partly because, I believe, it just uses the same chassis as the saloon non-hybrid Civic from Canada and America.

Wrong way round

Aside from your opening asertion that "9/11 was caused" by anything to do with the American attitude to flying (which is an amazing comment) you make a good arguement, but are argueing it from the wrong "end".

It's *right* that you *shouldn't* need ID to board a plane (you don't in order to board a train or tube train or bus or concert venue, all of which have as many or more people in/at them than a plane that you could kill if you chose to) because it's *not* the ID that protects other passengers against actions you might take.

If there are credible threats against aircraft, then the government should take reasonable and effective steps to stop the threat (some screening, though not the security theatre we have today, will need to be performed for example).

What's not right is the requirement to show ID when buying alcohol or renting DVDs; *that* is the silly thing!