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You mean you aren't using the MyChooChoos app to control yours by bluetooth? Kinda sounds like you're back in the steam age!

So you weren't being serious then?! I've never even considered a 10" tab - simply too big, and when you are getting to that sort of size a modern slim netbook will deliver a lot more power for much less money. Was very tempted by the new Chromebook at £199, but I don't think that cloud computing would do things for me. Have had a convertible touch screen netbook, but it was actually heavier than the current powerhouse laptop - haven't had a desktop for almost a decade now - and it's true, W7 just isn't up to 100% touch screen use! It turned out just a rather slow and heavy notebook with occasional touch screen convenience, and was seldom if ever used with the screen flipped. I've noticed that friends owning 7" devices often have them, but after an initial outing or two people with the iPad mostly leave them at home. Have found myself perfectly happy with a phone enabled 7 incher instead of a phone, and that's been true over the course of several months. But lots of 3G 7 inchers are data only (like the 3G Nexus), which seems dumb when you have all the electronics to make/take a call. This has confirmed my prejudice against large tabs, and the feelings that Steve Jobs was quite wrong on the size thing. In previous years I've been through the entire series of Nokia internet tablets - yes, folks Apple did not invent the tablet! - and they really were too small to be hugely convenient, though quite nice in the pre-touch-smartphone era. So... after lots of devices under the bridge, 7" seems to be about right, though I'm still not sure that devices bordering on 8" would be. You mention the price difference, and I'm sure you are right. Smaller tabs contain the same electronics and software, so larger ones shouldn't be that much more expensive. Thirty, forty, or even fifty pounds maybe, but not three figures more. Like notebooks I'd pay a good price premium for a smaller one if need be, but it turns out that for this category of devices, (and with production volumes being equal,) smaller ones are cheaper to manufacture. That's just another reason why 9 or 10 inchers will become very much a minority buy once Apple have stopped dictating to the market. Yup, the Note is nice. But it's a large smartphone and not a smaller tab. i.e. it's a 100% replacement for a "regular" smartphone but won't replace a computer screen.

Did this run on the Atari? Think I sort of remember it at the NEC Birmingham when it was first released. I'm not a gamer but remember being most impressed by the 3D wire-frame stuff!

Goodness - you've been reading those UKIP pamphlets again! It used to be called EFTA (European Free Trade Area) and it worked! Or it worked until we sold the other EFTA members down the river, just like we did the Commonwealth. Why our politicians did this wasn't clear to most folks at the time - now it's crystal clear! There was a hidden agenda to the "Common Market" to become a federal state. Ted Heath admitted this some years later, and even went as far as saying that he would have said anything or done anything to bring this about. In fact he didn't need much help with those lies as the conspiracy went right across party lines. Don't fall for this "we must be at the heart of Europe" crap! It's meaningless; we are an island with whole-world connections and always will be. We've thrown away so much that is valuable in pursuit of the heart-of-Europe nonsense. We need Europe and Europe needs us so much that staying in a European free trade area (once again) will pose no problems. In fact being outside the Euro mechanism we're already there economically, it's just a matter of getting Brussels out of our legal system, and ending this European Parliament nonsense. We won't lose a scrap of trade, and neither will they. But, we will be in a much better position to trade with the rest of the world, and maybe develop other free trade agreements to compliment those with Europe.

I don't see much of a spec - it's only dual core and has all the Apple features of no microSD, no HDMI, no swappable battery,... Also has lower screen res than most 7" tabs, non-standard connectors, locked down O/S, and a high cost of ownership. On the plus-side it has the Apple logo on the back! Pity Google spoiled the Nexus by no microSD and no HDMI too! Otherwise excellent buy with quad core (plus supervisor) and a really good screen, and just £159 now for the 16GB. The Acer A110 has the same quad core CPU as the Nexus, plus microSD and HDMI, and is going at £50 cash back bringing the price below £130. Don't think stocks will last very long though. http://www.ebuyer.co...-ht-hapek-001�� I bought one at the weekend so may well review it here. Looked at the Kindle Fire HD, but it's heavily locked down, and unless you want your life run by Amazon it's not a serious offering. Quite recently sold my Sammy 7" 3G tab. Nice product, but as only a dual core it was becoming a bit dated. Got nearly £300 for it so that's why I've been checking out the field again. Stop gap was a £70 feature packed Chinese jobby with no brand name. Surprisingly good in many respects but the internal flash memory has just failed, and though it still works I can no longer install apps!

We are being warned about "sleepwalking out of the EU". Well Mr Milliband, wasn't that exactly the way you lot got us into the Common Market - sorry EU - in the first place? Blowing £8,100,000,000 of our tax money every single year (Treasury figures) on the 17 EU nations that are constantly on the take seems to me like a rather good thing to be sleepwalking out of! And...they want to increase their budget by yet another 5% this year! Are you going to tell us how much of that is to come out of the UK taxpayer's back pocket too? BTW that's £22,191,780 every single day - going on for a million pounds every hour. Remember this when you are told of drastic cuts to services to save a paltry few hundred thousand here or there. What's even worse is that money leaves the UK economy altogether, it's not recycled into further taxable income for Brits as most of our own government spending is!

"16GB costs Apple about $6.40" http://bits.blogs.ny...-tablets-flash/ UK cost of current iPad 64GB = £570 UK cost of current iPad 16GB = £399 Premium for 48GB of flash: = £171 Cost to Apple (approx) 48 x .4 = $19.20 = £12.07 Mark up: £158.93 -- a staggering 1317% !!! Other manufacturers are guilty of the same of course, but mostly not to anything like this extent, and generally their base model is quite reasonably priced to start with - which is hardly the case with the Apple. There must also be an element of "transfer pricing" in this, which means that Apple are likely paying tax on very little of their real UK earnings. So a significant proportion of their giant cash mountain is money which should have gone back into the UK economy. To add insult to injury the UK buyer already pays a substantial premium to the prices Apple sells at in the USA, and certain other markets where customers simply won't pay their silly prices.

But this does nothing to illustrate the depth and colour of the Ryanair experience! ----------- http://www.telegraph...anair-boss.html ""We don't have heavy landings anymore.. "" I'm real glad that Ryanair pilot of a few years back has now learned on the job! ----------- ..or how they carefully craft their offering to respect customer's sensibilities... http://www.puglialif...ri-mafia-c-r447

Only Germany can't live without it due to their stupidity backing out of modern nuclear. If there really was any nuclear risk then it's still there, it's just that the nuclear is now on the other side of their borders, run by people they can't properly monitor. Pure politics! And - in burning dirty opencast lignite - how are they going to meet their pollution targets? There still is a place for coal, but it's too valuable to blow straight up a chimney.

Well, when you find out how much they did cost then be sure to tell us! It doesn't appear to be in anyone's interests to give us such basic digested information, and it no longer matters anyway. The first police authority I looked at had seventeen members not counting the hangers on. So multiplied by the 41 police forces that would be 697 country wide. Replace those by the 41 elected commissioners and you'd have eliminated 656 unelected political appointees overseeing the police. If only we could do the same for the 800 plus unelected paid political appointees in the House of Lords - most of whom contribute nothing at all to national life!

Do you know how much police committees and thier secretariats were paid? Plus, of course, all their expenses and jaunts? I suspect a lot more than that. Notice that big-mouthed Yvette never actually mentioned whether she supports the substance of what the government is doing, only attacked the cost of ONE election. The Tories wanted to do the deed at general election time to save money, but the LD's insisted it be done now.

It's actually an elimination of jobs for the boys. It replaces undemocratic police committees that really had no authority anyway. Do you know how those were chosen, and who chose them, or what they were paid? Plenty of paper involved there for sure! I think it's the chief constable that's probably unnecessary. Surely the present senior officers know enough about policing to just get on with the job, and not be told what to do other than matters of general local policy? They'd be a lot easier for a commissioner to demote/sack than the friction that would/will be associated with removing a chief constable. Selective amnesia is all part an parcel of the political process. Perfectly illustrated by the pictures of Miliband surrounded by (largely young) supporters claiming to have the solution our economic problems. Balls wasn't there, but Mrs Balls was acting as his mouthpiece on TV last night - and what a mouth!

Nonsense! Those that got off their backsides and voted got their choice - it's called democracy! As I predicted Prezza got another bloody nose, and the media is surprised?! Same answer the North East gave him in his referendum: on y'er bike Mr deputy PM. He'd be out of the HoL too if that was even remotely democratic. Nice to see lots of independents got elected though - those that had the sense to stand. Sensible people don't want party hacks overseeing the police. They want someone who is accountable to them, and they can re-hire or fire without considering political allegiances. A slow but satisfactory start to proper local democracy. Nice showing by UKIP. They could very easily decide the next general election.

http://www.apple.com/uk/ - but you have to scroll down! This still does not place the apology on the homepage, only a reference to it. Apparently even this was hidden by Javascript - which, for one reason or another, has just been removed. And... it's only on the UK page, whilst the judgement applies to the whole of the EU. None of the other EU pages I've checked carry even this reference. Once again the implication of this is that it's solely a UK being out-of-line thing. And what is your average user to make out of "There is no injunction in respect of the Community registered design in force anywhere in Europe."? It should say there is no Apple Injunction in respect of other manufacturer's products...

Only in his late 40's I think when he started played Corporal Jones. Good make-up, and good acting! The actor who really was old was Arnold Ridley of course. But few people knew that he'd gone through it for real in both world wars as he never talked about this, even to his own family. As well as an actor he was also an accomplished play-write. http://www.telegraph...ar-heroics.html

Get BBC Newsnight on the case - they will make all the right calls! BTW as a keen observer of Paxo I have a strange feeling that he's going to dissociate himself from all the shenanigans before too long! And - on a three strikes and you are out basis - the program itself could be heading for the last round-up.

An ultra-expensive distraction - unless you happen to have been one of the very few in the South East who derived some temp benefit. If it had been assigned to one of the UK's regions of high unemployment it might just have had some point. Did wonders for the Greek economy! The French may have been gutted to lose it, but they should be smiling now. So many things so much taxpayer's money could have been spent on, even if just mitigating some of the present massive public service cutbacks. Though, I suspect that many of those who were celebrating the "win" are now amongst the most vocal opposition to the "cuts".

Might have something to do with the Bebside sewerage works! If you are talking about what I think you are, it was just to support utility pipes and not an actual bridge. Probs built by Tynemouth Water - the original water authority.

Their Lordships answer my question in what must be record time! http://www.bbc.co.uk...nology-20165664 I reckon we should apply to have Tim Cook extradited. Probably not a good swap for Gary McKinnon though! Same contempt for the Italian consumer watchdog a few months back over restricting customer's rights on faulty goods, and refusing to pay fines. That one seems to be ongoing.

I do believe you are half-serious there; sad times! Hope this board isn't going to add to the witch hunt, particularly when JS isn't around to defend himself. An Esther Rancid speciality that one! By pure chance just happened on an old download of JS telling his life story in his own words an hour or two back. Do you think BCOUK dare stream it? Actually fairly relevant to the current hysteria, and something you certainly won't hear from the Beeb for many a decade to come. If the answer is no then maybe we should form a Savillophile ring to distribute it?

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/man-claiming-facebook-ownership-arrested-on-fraud-charges/?src=recg Though, pity you have to be a filthy rich US megacorp to get real justice.

This is true - snow choice! Need some crusading independents, else simply more jobs for the boys! Time to change the SSID on your WiFi to alert the neighbours to the stitch-up. http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/passive-aggressive-wi-fi/?utm_source=nrel1

Oh, almost forgot. It's implemented through our Drawing Realtime Overlay Processorâ„¢ component. So anyone using the words drip and/or drop (including plurals) without acknowledging our significant intellectual property and simply huge investment in R&D will be hearing from our lawyers! It's intended that our licensing policy on this will be very liberal, so every company who is not a US megacorp will be granted a free licence. Google can have one too as they are such nice guys. Microsoft will be able to use the technology, as they've hit hard times and Steve Balmer is now wondering where the next luxury yacht marina is coming from. BUT we have to draw the line somewhere, so - without mentioning any names - fruit and nut marketing companies who make ludicrous IP claims, produce grossly overpriced products, and consistently claim other people's ideas as their own whilst actually spending a miserly proportion of their revenues on R&D, need not App-lie.

Eat your core out Apple, we claim prior art on this one! Dynamic Retina Induced Precipitation System â„¢ Local weather overlaying your screen as it happens. Note that the flakes/drops don't bounce when they hit the screen edge, so you can take your claim for a billion dollars and [removed by moderator]!