Yes of course, it's the people who signed up for first-generation ID cards whom we should feel sorry for here. Poor dears.

This is the DoE - how about Mushroom Cloud computing?

It seems to work fine for me.

If /. had run this story yesterday, many more sysadmins would have been appreciated...

Yeah, we couldn't stand the quality of the tea over there; secession was our only resort...

So this is an economic stimulus plan?

As opposed to an imaginative solution, which would be (unimaginatively) criticised as a stealth tax.

ADSL2+ (used by Be) can only offer the full 24Mbps if you're less than about 500m from the exchange, regardless of the quality of the cable BT installed.

I'm inclined to think that the logical conclusion of that argument would be to call them "Madoff schemes"...

Surely these are pyramid schemes rather than Ponzi schemes?

You mean it's a waste of time trying to gain all these achievements? OH NOES ;-)

"2k" is the industry term for an image with 2048 horizontal pixels (and 1080 vertical). It's comparable to the use of the number of vertical pixels to denote the resolution of an HDTV system (eg 1080p)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_3-D_films

or

http://www.reald.com/Content/Pages.aspx?pageID=5

I've been watching 3D films at Odeon cinemas for over a year - this isn't their first rollout of 3D-capable projectors.

The effective resolution of a 35mm film print is about the same as HDTV. Film productions tend not to use the slow, fine-grain films that you need for recording fine detail, and the process of producing successive prints for distribution reduces the detail even further.

Also, don't forget that although the cinema screen might be twelve times bigger than a television, you'll probably be sitting twelve times further away.