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Well there are a couple of reasons to buy the 4S over the 3S, it has a faster processor, better screen and better reception. But the biggest thing here is that Apple aren't required to target only iPhone owners and probably haven't reached market saturation of iPhones so while the 4S might only...

I think Verizon is still CDMA (In most places, maybe whatever they're planning to label 4G will be different), which is nice for coverage but doesn't let you use data and voice connections at the same time. (So no looking something up while you're on a call or using call control applications...

I don't think so. My mother reads his work and she's not a geek and has plenty of friends who are women.

I just finished Bastion. Really great game, unfortunately best played with a console controller (because it's that kind of game rather than because the keyboard and mouse controls suck). The game play itself is pretty solid, but the narrator who talks, pretty much constantly, about what the main...

Thats a decision that needs to be made at the time, on a case by case basis. But I think generally it's going to be the end you want to be holding the least.

The pre-game unskippable advert point is a good one, well made. Being told nVidia is "The way it's meant to be played" every time I start the game doesn't really make me want to ditch my ATI card and go out and buy a top of the line nVidia card as much as it makes me want to find the marketing...

According to Wikipedia an m3u is just a list of absolute or relative path names so it's almost not even a script as much as a command... i.e. find . -name "*.mp3" -execdir readlink -f {} >> playlist.m3u \; On windows it'd be something like dir /s > playlist.m3u wrapped in whatever one uses to...

You could probably re-purpose a picatinny rail system. There are existing mounts designed to go around metal tubes with pretty solid integrated clamps and at the other end there are plenty of options for mounting various bits of kit (especially torches). For mounting a some things you'll...

I also have the heaviest duty Gorilla Pos and, like Lunar, don't find it very useful. I'd pretty much agree with DDs suggestion. A nice fast prime sounds like a good option for the sort of photography your wife is doing. 35mm would be a good option, a 50mm F1.8 is also worth considering. It's...

The D7000s are made in the flooded factory, but I think Adcadet is suggesting that he might buy his wife a new SLR for Christmas and wants to know if it would be a worthwhile upgrade. Presumably she already has a couple of Canon lenses so a new Nikon would probably be out. To answer that...

What part of TouchWiz don't you like? Or perhaps more to the point which do you use? I'm running a custom ROM based on Samsungs so I'm not really sure which bits are TouchWiz and which aren't, but I don't think Samsung have done anything worth mentioning to any applications I would actually...

Hopefully Google will sort out Motorola's update schedule, but the fact that the bootloader will be locked suggests that's not going to happen in the short term. I like the look of the Galaxy Nexus but I don't get why it doesn't have a microSD card slot. The screen looks like it'll be...

Ah yes, finding the sniper rifle and getting to watch the decapitated corpse of your enemies float by while they mutter obscenities at you from across the room... Good times...

My first rule of phones is do not buy a blackberry. My second rule of phones is DO NOT BUY A BLACKBERRY! These days BBs are strictly for teenagers and American business men. And with all the cheap, reasonably spec'ed, Android device being released recently I don't think they'll hang on to the...

I have to agree that UT2004 was almost, but no where near, as good as the original... Seriously though I would maybe rank 2004 slightly higher, 2003 was a graphics update that managed to keep the feel of the original pretty much in tact, 2004 still kept that feel but added a couple of fun game...

The benchmarks I've seen suggest that Bulldozer can beat Sandybridge chips in a couple of really specific scenarios, so maybe they'll be good for something. I've been getting a lot of P4 vibes from what I've been reading about bulldozer, but I'm also remembering AMDs 2900HD chips. They too were...

The only game I can think of in the UT vein since 2004 was UT3. It doesn't really add anything to the experience (Other than slightly improved graphics) but you can probably get your hands on a copy in a Steam sale for a couple of bucks so it's not a great commitment. Maybe Bulletstorm or Rage...

I'm guessing the answer to that is an emphatic no. I seem to recall Coug referring to himself as Québécois. The hard line French only stance does seem a little extreme though. Especially since English is still an official language in Canada (And you get a better reception that that speaking...

You could point a PoE webcam at a thermometer and have it take periodic snapshots. Kind of stupid and harder to check but it could well be cheaper...

Rage may be a bad port, but since it seems to be a bad port of a totally uninspired game it's not exactly like PC gamers are missing anything. I think it's a bit premature to announce the PC gaming apocalypse, especially so soon after Deus Ex.

City of Heroes has a great character builder, you can create some really cool super heroes with it. Unfortunately the only thing you can do with them afterwards is play City of Heroes. Not that I've played it in 6 years or so so maybe it's improved.

I think the 3GS was a slightly bigger step than this in that it crossed more thresholds. While the 3G wasn't insanely slow it also wasn't, by Apples estimate, fast enough for multitasking. Both iPhone S' have got upgraded cameras but for the 3GS that meant it could now do video, the 4S should...

For filling stuff in the Galaxy Tab has Swype which is easily the best touchscreen keyboard I've used. You could also have a look at Lenovos Thinkpad tablet. It's basically the same as the K1 but aimed at businesses rather than consumers. It has full size SD and USB and pen input which, if it...

Why would you need to wake the thread blocking on accept? I'd just have one thread accepting new connections and spawning threads to handle them. (Or actually since I'd probably be writing it in Java I'd have a thread pool with worker threads and pass the task to one of them) If you're really...

I can't see how that would be the case. As long as the police have obtained the information legally and a chain of custody can be established to ensure it hasn't been tampered with there is no reason they can't use that information in court. I suspect that even if the company broke the law by...

It just sounds like standard lawyer bullshit posturing. My understanding is that in order for the court to sustain the ban on sales for the duration of the trial Apple have to demonstrate that the damage the sales during that period would cause irreparable harm to Apple. I.e. that the court...

It just sounds like standard lawyer bullshit posturing. My understanding is that in order for the court to sustain the ban on sales for the duration of the trial Apple have to demonstrate that the damage the sales during that period would cause irreparable harm to Apple. I.e. that the court...

Sure, sometimes it can be more efficient... But it's 2-4 more steps so it still seems like a bad idea...

The electric motors are in the car, not the trailer, so the cars regenerative breaking would just work normally and charge the cars batteries. There is no reason to run the electricity back to the trailer, and the trailer doesn't need to do any breaking. In the case of the linked trailer it was...

Because the USB connection to the drive is much faster than the Internet connection to the cloud service. So you could turn your computer off and the drive would finish uploading the cached backup to the cloud in its own time.

You could add lots of diagrams (you probably have a few anyway) and stick as much of the explanatory text in to the image as possible. That way when marking the content those words will count, but when marking the word count, they almost certainly wont. (assuming you're submitting the assignment...

Maybe a really low sort of wedge shaped vehicle would work. So the SUV would start to drive over you, and then probably roll, but importantly it would keep most of it's deadly, deadly kinetic energy to itself. It only seems fair that the massive increase in probable fatalities that an SUV brings...

Isn't there a button on the front of the computer to shut it down?

I guess it really depends on your pants, but I've found the Galaxy S to be a surprisingly comfortable fit at 4". I think people over estimate the profile of a phone in their pocket (I certainly did and others I work with have had less trouble than expected with even larger phones like the Desire...

Apps tend to come out for the iPhone first because people develop or the iPhone first and then port, but any app that runs on both is going to get updated on Android first (Unless they develop 2 seperate versions of the app or deliberately delay the Android app) an Android app is updated as soon...

I'm pretty sure every mainstream and server CPU AMD produced in the last 7 years or so has an on-die memory controller . I've never heard of one failing though...

I really hope that Amazon don't make it huge with a locked down tablet and then continue being dicks to developers, safe in the knowledge that the devs now need them.

The launcher can be replaced, but HTC sense extends beyond the launcher in some way and it seems to continue to have a performance impact even when you're not using the HTC launcher. Samsungs TouchWiz, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have any great affect beyond the launcher. Which isn't to...

In our office we have a lot of high end smart phones (great when you're looking 'cause someone always has what you're considering) and we're probably nearly 50/50 LCD/AMOLED. Battery life is much the same for everyone, no one can safely get more than a day from their phone and at that point it...

Will you be streaming through the browser on the Wii or using homebrew or just Netflix? As far as I know the Wii itself doesn't actually support streaming as such.

It's not really like that. Apple make well integrated products, the software and hardware work well together, they just don't work with anything that isn't made by Apple. Samsung make solid hardware which is generally compliant with industry standards. They use DNLA while Apple invent Airplay...

Like Time I've found Samsung's cheap crap to be cheap crap and their high end products to be pretty good. Except for the software side of things which seems to be just globally atrocious and I generally don't buy Samsung products for their software components. (E.g I have a Samsung phone with a...

Actually I'm pretty sure 1.3 and 1.4 have exactly the same bandwidth. 1.4 just adds ethernet and the audio back channel (And the 3d frame packing format but that doesn't affect the cable). Hence the PS3 being able to handle 1080p/60fps 3d blurays with just a firmware update and no hdmi 1.4 hardware.

SIP is fun that way, the actual session protocol is just used to swap SDP media descriptions so both sides end up acting as a server and both need externally accessible ports. Sometimes the final acknowledgement message in the set up is also sent from a different source in which case you need 2...

Apple are definitely evil, but I'll give them the large track pad (Much nicer to use than a little one), there isn't really anything much wrong with MacOS and Macs all have very nice displays. The SSD is in a slot, kind of like a laptop PCI-E slot (but not quite) so it is replaceable and the...

Apparently the trick is to use line 2 on the Vonage ATA... And pay Vonage more money (http://www.vonage.com/features_available_options.php?feature=fax&lid=sub_nav_fax).

The Vonage adapter you have will also affect your success with faxing. If the adapter supports T.38 (A fax codec) then apparently Vonage have SIP gateways which support it (possibly only in one direction, worth giving them a call maybe). If you don't have a T.38 capable device then you'll...

Another vote for the trackman, although mine is a Trackman Wheel, which is what it sounds like you guys are using too. The Trackman Marble does seem to have the button under the thumb and the ball under the index finger, which I can't imagine feeling as natural.

Another possible OS option would be to chuck Ubuntu or Xubuntu or something on the box... LOTRO has a gold rating in Wine without resorting to crossover (And crossover is probably still cheaper than Windows if it came down to it) so if it's just that and browsing then it should do the job. If...

Whilst I agree generally that it shouldn't ever be needed I can sort of see that TV manufacturers would get a lot of complaints if they didn't have it on broadcast TV, and blaming the stations wouldn't really help much (despite it clearly being their fault). I really don't get overscan on a HDMI...