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Ten... Bedroom Gadget Treats

I hesitate to ask...

...where's the evidence that any of these devices do what they claim to do?

You've done a fine job of repeating the marketing material, now how about some hard facts?

HTC One X Android smartphone

I guess we'll be calling the Boeing 747 a "penta-jet" soon because its APU is a gas turbine.

OCZ's new Vertex 4 SSD: Faster... and slower

Yeah, misleading graphs

But I think the fact they're just the manufacturer's specifications, rather than actual test results, is much more of an issue than the vertical scale not starting at zero. At least the values are shown on the axis.

Real hardware testing websites have covered Vertex 4 vs Vertex 3. For some workloads v4 is superior, for others it isn't.

Australians love mobile devices, but not mobile downloads

Re: 3g

Yeah, you'd need some kind of network to service the wireless hotspots. It would have to be broadband. And national.

...oh right.

Champagne at CSIRO after WiFi patent settlement

Neil

You got that backwards, AU$1 = US$1.04 right at the moment.

Apple drops 'thermonuclear' patent bombshell

Re: APRIL FOOL

Yes, hence the joke alert icon.

This happens every year on 1/4. Do we really need some bore to announce to the world that they know what the date is every damn time?

Well, Huey Lewis is stuffed.

And so too are 19 American states.

Will they stop at nothing?!

With this ring, I thee frag

Re: pix

Google Image Search is your friend.

Sky boffins: The Moon is not Earth's only natural satellite

Whoops

I shouldn't have started that.

For reference I enjoy watching QI.

Ahh, QI

Yes, they said Earth has two moons. They were wrong.

For reference, the not-second-moon is Cruithne.

N7Player

With that name...

I expected some kind of Mass Effect tie-in. Seemed plausible enough given the recent launch of the third game.

I'm kind of relieved to have been wrong about that, the reality seems like something actually worth reviewing.

Aussie hardcore gamers set to be legit

Re: Australia...

Did you RTFA?

Point missed

There has long been a disparity between the classification system for "video games" and other forms of media in this country. The effect of an R18+ classification is that such things are no longer simply refused classification, and are now legal to buy.

Parental and retailer responsibility when it comes to the sale of R18+ content is a completely separate issue, and is no different for "video games" than it is for similarly classified books or movies.

TDK BA100 earphones

Test results?

Were they subjected to any objective tests?

Xbox 360 video cable boasts NOISE VIRUS protection

The Blue Danube?

That sounds like the perfect music for killing zombies to.

Also Yakkety Sax.

Gamers pledge almost a million dollars for Wasteland sequel

Wasteland!

Maybe I'll be able to finish the sequel.

Oz anti-gang law hits email, maybe torrents too

Re: mad max

And you can't even defend yourself with laser pointers any more either

Death Star SUCKS PLASMA FROM SUN in NASA riddle vid

Everybody run

It's an anomaly!

Mass Effect 3

Ahh, but did it have cute blue "bisexual" "female" aliens designed specifically for fanservice?

Elgato's Thunderbolt SSD goes on sale

How do they justify the price?

At more than twice that of a consumer high end SATA SSD?

Lingerie-clad she-devils romp past watchdog

\m/ -_- \m/

I've always expressed the opinion that there's not enough death metal in advertising.

Microsoft cleared in web filth court battle, wins $100 compo

Ahh

It's always a good show when when religion encounters people communicating freely.

Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet

Faint speaker?

"Even in a quiet room it’s difficult to follow the dialogue in films."

At least inconsiderate jerks won't be able to annoy others quite as much.

Aussie soldiers let rip on Facebook

Re: We ask that you shoot them

Women?

"if you really believe that these soldiers should practice tolerance towards others, then why are you unwilling to practice tolerance towards them and their views?"

Intolerance should be tolerated?

Re: The Bastards

Difficult times?

Like being called to account for disgusting behaviour?

"The Bastards"? Who are they?

Sony PlayStation Vita

Good lord

Another proprietary memory card. Thanks Sony!

41-megapixel MONSTER mobe shutters Nokia knockers

Re: Aren't we past this?

All other things being equal it's the size of the sensor that matters, not the pixels.

And the use of many small pixels allows you to perform smarter noise reduction than the simple averaging that larger pixels effectively perform in comparison. It does require substantial processing power though.

Harvard boffins cause buzz with robot bee

Dammit

I was hanging out for footage of the thing in flight at the end of that video

Spitzer spots first solid buckyballs in stellar disc

In El Reg Standard Units:

That's 405 PetaJubs.

You're welcome.

OPERA grabs spanner, fixes kit, and slows down neutrinos

Right then.

I hope we've all learned a valuable lesson?

Flash DOOMED to drive itself off a cliff - boffins

Re: Rather than increasing density...

Increasing density reduces cost by reducing the amount of silicon required.

Ten... digital adult toys

Re: Ye gods and little fishes!

Add to that the diagram on the product's website is as far from Human Centipede as it's possible to get.

Ten... Valentine's Day gifts for him

@CT

Some of these gave me a giggle, I only groaned at the last one.

Aha!

This sure beats the "ten gadgets that have been painted pink" from last week.

Pentax Q compact system camera

Q for Quixotic?

I wonder how many compact camera users have thought to themselves "I wish I could take photos with the same technical limitations as I do currently, but without being able to fit my camera in my pocket any more"?

Royal astro-boffin to MPs: Stop thinking about headlines

@Scott

While I believe compulsory voting (or compulsory turning-up-at-the-ballot-box as it is here in Australia; what you write on the ballot paper is your business) is more harmful than the voluntary alternative because it forcefully engages people who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the electoral process, I'd settle for "none of the above" as an option on ballot papers. At least it gives a legitimate outlet for people who feel that way, instead of forcing them to vote informally and have their feelings get lost in that statistic.

Australian sports get busy with copyright special pleading

It gets better

Foxtel = News Corp + Telstra

‘Oldest animals’ show up in Namibian dig

Go away.

"First there was nothing and then it exploded" has absolutely nothing to do with evolution.

Upgrade eliminates Atlantis from Google Earth

Of course, "easy" is relative. The Apollo program cost almost $200b, inflation adjusted. Spend that on walking on the ocean floor!

Study links dimwits to conservative ideology

Well there's a surprise...

Who knew?

Dim-but-rich buyers targeted with million pound laptop

Woah!

oh em gee.

SpaceShipOne man, Nobel boffins: Don't panic on global warming

Re: Nomnomnom

Standing barefoot, frozen bloody hands

his musket clutched, an iron grip

and for the cause, he has but one regret

he's only got one upvote to give

Nvidia hit by GPU slump, too

Not bad?

A revenue number in isolation doesn't mean very much. $950m in revenue is fantastic if your expenses are $400m. Not so good if your expenses are $2bn.

New Earth-observing satellite snaps 'blue marble' shot

Re: Idiot

I wouldn't be so quick on the abuse button. It's a composite image, they can simulate any perspective they like.

Quad-core Samsung Galaxy S III set for April launch

Mine too

This'll be a fine replacement for my Nokia 3315.

Tegra?

This is a Samsung flagship handset. Bet on it running an Exynos processor.