With all the historical errors in Braveheart, I wouldn't have been surprised if the Americans had won, just like they did in Pearl Harbour!

And as I submitted, there is an advert for iPhone on the TV in the background :-) such timing!

Also, don't forget slashdot is a US based board so until a US marketing company got British people to design and Taiwanese people to build a mobile phone a couple of years back it was all the time "why on earth would people want to use a mobile phone? They will never take off! They are only used by yuppies and fancy pants foreigners. My 8KHz copper wire phone from Ma Bell has all the connectivity I would ever need". At least that trend seems to have stopped recently!

The PRNG is simply reading the bottom two bits of the ROM space in a certain access pattern. So it is repeatable if you are frame-perfect. But it theoretically varies between different builds of the game (i.e. Japanese versus US).

That is correct. The varying speeds of pacman and the ghosts are also done using bit strings rather than fixed point arithmetic.

"Edge" already has enough trademark problems thanks to Tim Langdell.

Those elements form a series, each further away from the earth: Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, America.

Chefs, like sports players and weather forecasters are quite often only known locally. For example the only US "football" players widely known would be the Fridge and the Rock, for their film work. So I have heard of Julia Child but not the others.

The most famous English chefs would be Heston Blumenthal, Gordon Ramsey and Jamie Oliver (and various TV chefs like the late Fanny Craddick, Ainsley Harriot, Delia Smith, Nigella Lawson, Hugh Fearnly Wittinstall and others. I don't watch daytime TV but there are many others).

Heston is famous for using liquid nitrogen and other fancy things to produce weird tastes and textures (such as snail porridge), and for "the fat duck" restaurant being rated in the top three in the world.

But it is unfair to rag on US cuisine. It may be extremely difficult for them to find any food that is not growth-hormone/genetically modified/chemically preserved/Pasteurised, but in towns like San Francisco and New York there are a lot of high-quality independent restaurants, and several regional traditions, like the US TV chefs mentioned.

Your problem was going outside the M25 :-) Well, except for the cameras of course.

Yeah, but American pr0n (especially Californian) is rubbish. The push towards making it all about snuff movies (i.e. bareback) is also creepy.

No, the law in the UK acknowledges the existence of age ratings (i.e. BBFC) and has a process for rating them, instead of it just being up to the whim of every judge in the state and how they are feeling on the day. So it is possible for retailers to know if they are breaking the law or not.

A law where you don't know if you are breaking it or not is probably a bad law.

Also they vary from country to country. So a pint is a different number of ounces depending on where you are, and there are several different types of ton. Personally I think it is 1000kg (New Zealand), not 2240 pounds (UK before 1985) or 2000 pounds (Canada) :-)

A short ton, a long ton, a metric ton? Heck, the US has about three different sizes of gallons (one for grain, one for water, one for oil) and two different lengths of land miles (survey mile and statute mile) and hence feet/inches/rods/chains/furlongs etc. You may well remember that there are 80 chains to a mile, but is that a survey mile or a statute mile? Sheesh, even your border with Canada is not even accurate.

I'm guessing its a prequel to "Legacy of the Ancients", a role playing game on the Commodore 64, but I am most probably wrong. Maybe it runs on one of those International Business Machine Personal Computers that a small group of people think can run games (when they are not busy running virus scanners and installing software updates).

Many people thought the same way after watching Titanic though! :-)