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'Completely useless' Windows 3.1 hits Google's Android

Someone please

Tell me about long filenames

Garage worker prangs £200k Ferrari

Now I'm confused

You're wondering why an MOT test is required for a car that's been in production since 2004, and well... yeah that's about it really.

Tiger Woods succumbs to 'bulging d*ck'

I had a bulging duck once

It was pretty unwieldy.

Asus R101 netbook quietly flies in

Oh

My guess before reading the article was that R101 stood for room 101, which would have been equally unfortunate. My room 101 has an iPad in it though.

Ubuntu Unity interface flashed for speed freaks

Comic Sans!

YES

iPad, iPhone driving 'renaissance' in nuclear reactors

My personal nightmare

"I just shat all my internal organs and my battery has gone flat as well."

Green power?!

"Green power" is sustainable. Nuclear is not.

Aussie MP slapped with $10k phone bill

Ahh, must be a Telstra customer

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Sharp Aquos LC-46LE821E 46in quad-pixel TV

Did you test the screen with a colourimeter?

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Voting chaos in not-fit-for-purpose electoral system

How is that divided?

Is that broken down into electorates per county, electoral region, country, or simply not at all?

Better suggestions?

Well, about the only system worse than yours is the American one.

Here I was, sitting on my crack...

...thinking that the UK had tossed out its antiquated and ridiculously unrepresentative first-past-the-post electoral system years ago.

Shows how much I know. Why the hell haven't you guys switched to either an instant runoff system, or better still proportional representation yet?

3TB Seagate disk drive ahoy

To start your re-education, read here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units

You can't pretend the system doesn't exist just because your operating system gets it wrong.

Perhaps they mean 7200 RPM as well?

There aren't any 1 TB 2.5" drives at that speed.

Vote Lib Dem, doom humanity to extinction

Instead compare...

The destruction wrought by $1bn spent on nuclear weapons to that by $1bn spent on conventional weapons.

He has a point, although I think (more hope) this article's veiled satire of some kind.

Seagate intros 'universal' external hard drives

I'm with Tony Smith

I don't see the point.

Spider-Man and Jedi Knights bust X-Men comic thief

What's the UK got to do with it?

Adelaide's the capital city of South Australia.

You'll also notice that the word "charged" doesn't appear in either this article or the Times source article. Police are "investigating", which will presumably end with him being "let off with a warning" for lack of any chargeable offence.

Oz gov in confusion over net filter plans

"Film and computers games"

There isn't a combined guideline for film and video games, otherwise we wouldn't currently be involved in a shitfight over R18 classification for video games.

Oh dear

This has nothing to do with socialism mate.

Ubuntu 10.04 triumphs over GRUB bug

Re: One rule for one...

What?

We hear of it so often it's hardly news any more.

Palin email witness decries 'dog and pony' prosecution

Righto

We'll switch to "seppos" instead.

Mac fanbois finally get Carakan of love with Opera 10.52

"100% completion, faster than any other browser"

What confused you was the tautology in "completes ACID3 100%". Remove "100%" and the sentence is less ambiguous.

Security maven turns tables on fibbing police

The police, corrupt

Who knew?

Jobsian drones shackle gamer with 'lifetime' iPad ban

Shouldn't he be thankful?

He has been touched by the almighty one.

Canon EOS 550D DSLR

Card failure

Just how often do you suffer a card failure?

Sort of but not really

Digital zoom takes a crop from a sensor and then resamples it to match the sensor's original pixel count. In this case a full frame sensor with equivalent pixel density would be about 46MP, which doesn't exist and won't for a good few years. This camera places more pixels on a target object with a given lens than any other camera on the market.

They'd have to up the build quality too

The cost of high-end EF-S lenses relative to their build quality is a bit of a sore point for some users. They're not significantly cheaper than equivalent full frame L lenses, but the build quality just isn't comparable.

Noise comparison

ISO 12,800 looks pretty usable (presumably these are out of camera JPEGs, with all the jiggery-pokery of the camera's post-processing engine that that entails) providing your metering is good and you don't intend to print too large.

Sun sat sends stunning solar snap

It IS Convention

AC is a fool. 'Nuff said.

Neutrino Detection

I thought we can still only just manage to detect the things, much less "focus" on their point of origin. Or do you not mean "image" in the human sense? Either way, that would be tremendously exciting if true.

I "thumbed you down"

Hope you don't mind.

Ten free apps to install on every new PC

Indeed x2

Some other suggestions:

Unlocker

Treesize

Numerous Windows Powertoys

Bond 23 suspended 'indefinitely'

They got good, then they got bad again

But I'm ever hopeful they'll get good once more.

Hasselblad CFV-39 digital back

"Snap happy" 35mm?

Fanboyism in professional photography systems, who knew that was even possible?

Staying in the Game

The only thing that's kept Hasselblad in the game for the past decade or two are the repetitive buyouts by investment firms who think they've solved the riddle of making the yet-again-bankrupt company profitable in a shrinking market (medium format).

Clarification

Magnification is of course independent of format, as it relates to the relative size of the object compared to the image projected onto the imaging plane (sensor, film etc.) In this context I should have referred to angle of view.

Superior DoF control to 35mm? Not any more.

The lens on this MF digital back that would get you equivalent DoF control to, say, Canon's 85mm f/1.2L would be 120mm f/1.7. Such a lens does not exist for MF.

The fact is that none of the fastest 35mm system lenses have an equivalent in medium format. There's no 34mm f/2.0 (equivalent to 24mm f/1.4 on 35mm), 71mm f/1.7 (50mm f/1.2), 191mm f/2.8 (135mm f/2.0) or 280mm f/2.8 (200mm f/2.0). The longest lens available for the V-System, the 350mm f/5.6, can be replicated by a 250mm f/4.0 lens on 35mm.

The multiplier used above is the ratio of the sensor diagonals, which by coincidence is almost exactly SQRT(2). DoF is a function of aperture diameter and image magnification, so multiplying both focal length and f-stop prevents those two variables from changing, and DoF in the output image remains the same.

AMD claws back to profitability

Well yes...

The article also states that occurred in Q4 '09, so they managed to survive most of the 12 quarters without it. This also isn't the first period of extended losses they've had.

Where does all this money they're losing come from?

If they've been losing money hand over fist for the last three years, what's keeping them in business? Further borrowings? Milking their shareholders? Offering more shares, possibly diluting their existing shareholders' equity? Cash reserves that I was sure they didn't have?

If it's something I haven't even thought of, not being an accountant, that won't surprise me either.

Internet abuzz with BitTorrent bypass code

SeedF**cked

SeedFlecked?

SeedFlicked?

SeedFlocked?

SeedFrocked?

Ten Essential... iPhone Accessories

A 67in 640x480 TV?

There can't be many good iPhone accessories if those are the cream of the crop...

Fear 2012? Bunker hustler has you covered

So I can live in my very own vault?

Sign me up! Vault 69 if possible.

Milkman skewers Google Street View over garage break-in

Re: £350 bike goes for £50

"The idea that crooks are trawling through Street View looking for marks in ridiculous. Scum that steal stuff just walk around and see a likely house/car/bike and steal it and walk away."

Dunno about that, I've had my house stolen a good three or four times, and I blame Google for each and every instance, even the ones in the 80s.

iPhone 4.0: iAds, multitasking, and 98 tweaks

iHmm

iFap?

iAds?

That's an unfortunate name...

Matrix actor site stages defacement spat

Irony?

That's not irony.

Chinese hunters capture 'yeti'

Funny

I always expected a yeti to be a vaguely humanoid and very furry white creature with a stupid smile. Now it turns out it's a bear with mange. The disappointment...

Normal Human Being™ reviews the iPad

Bootnote

Cue a thousand slavering Reg readers asking for "more information".