KnightNZ

So it’s just for the sign up? Well in that case, I’m Mr Fakey McFakerson!
Cheers!

This is good news that I was not previously aware of! Looks like another reason for me to consider getting one of the S3’s.

Unfortunately the only option to sign up is with a Facebook account.

What if I don’t want to use Facebook? Presumably they don’t want my money then?

Interesting, and scary article, thanks!

Isn’t Coltan what the early model Terminators were made of?

So apparently no one told Blizzard how many copies of the game had been bought/pre-ordered…

Hopefully someone comes up with a crack to allow offline play, as forced online connection is ridiculous.

Um, no.

RebelFM? I thought I recognised his name. I used to listen to that all the time.

Was that the one with the guy who said “literally” before every statement, or the one with the guy who was against pretty much everything and appeared to hate fun?

Amazon would only do that if they hate money, which I’m sure they don’t.

While I detest DRM as a principle, I’m pretty happy with my Kindle. I can read my books on my Android tablet or my cellphone if I really wanted to with the same license. And if portability is an issue then a quick sync via Calibre will sort that out.

For now, I’ve no need to port it to different devices, if the need arises then it’s such a minor thing to format-shift the books that it’s barely more work than it would be from a completely drm-free format.

DRM does need to die though. Dead-tree media isn’t DRM’d last I checked and it’s been around for a while now, of course, it’s a bit tricky to download a paperback.

The best Tony Hawk game of them all, even if it is riddled with minor issues.

I don’t even want to know how many hours I’ve spent playing it on various platforms.

More changed relative to what?

The prior tablets looked nigh identical (flat rectangles) other than Apple adding their propietary dock interface.

And what revolutionary difference was there betwen an iPad and an iPhone other than the size?

A tablet, by definition, is a flattish, generally rectangular “thing” (Prior art: The Bible). Electronic tablets existed before the iPad (Such as this Knight Ridder) as well as smaller similar devices. From a functionality standpoint, the (original) iPad has very little difference to the iPhone/iPod Touch of the same time.

It’s minor cosmetic differences, semantics and different UI’s.

Is an iPod touch not just a really small tablet? Is there a defined size where a flattish, rectangularish device changes from being a “phone” or “mp3 player” into a “tablet”?

I can understand Apple wanting to protect their IP, but there’s just so many holes in the arguments that they’re getting away with because of the “law” winning over common sense.

Sorry, it supports DRM free via Calibre, or it supports the .MOBI format which can but does not need to have embedded DRM.

The Nook however, has native DRM-free ePub support.

The Kindle supports the DRM free ePub format.

Of course, the person(s) who got the bit with the “4” on it would’ve been able to work the rest out themselves.

So – what’s the twist gonna be in this one? Given the end of Halo 3, how about some zero-gee physics!?

Launch title for the next Xbox perhaps?

So is this the new executive desk-toy like those floating spinning pens?

So Microsoft is actively and publicly encouraging DOSing people?

Not sure if trolling or ignorant. He didn’t reinvent it, he just changed the UI.

When you’re a multi-millionaire, does a couple of hundred thousand in tax really make that much difference to your lifestyle?

But is the game fun? Or is it just a grind like the original games were? Have they made the physics any less ridiculous?

Is the videocard handling the rendering and piping it through the T-Bolt, or is it just there for show?

See: Retina display argument.

In reality, it depends on the size of the image. If you have a 5-inch square picture, then 5 megapixels is heaps, if you have a 5-foot square image, then you’ll be wanting at least twice that if you don’t like being able to see pixels.

Really? No “In Soviet Russia” gags yet? I am disappoint!

Astral globes are supposed to be “upside-down”. I forget why :)

W900 ftw! Was a spinning flip-phone that made a “Schwing!” noise.

The black last model was released in 2008. I own one.

Bluetooth. As long as you don’t want/need bandwidth.

A good example of a virtually DOA “standard”. (Unless you are an Apple user).

Sort it out Intel.

It’s a 4-contact connector, not 3-contact that pretty much every car stereo with an Aux input uses.

And Apple products aren’t usually a good example of a function given how non-standard their interfaces usually are. (e.g. Back-to-front TRRS video pinouts)