Apologies. I thought your quote contained the amendment - I agree with you.

Are you so sure its wrong? It may be slightly ambiguous, but the meaning of the sentence could be that you require both.

"For a bike to be a bike, the minimum configuration is two wheels". What's wrong with this sentence? Perhaps the mainframe requires both?

Okay sorry for the double post, but can someone tell me how to format my posts properly? I can't find any ttips, and they all look like that beast ^^^ :O(

I couldn't agree more. I'm into the current BloodBowl computer game they released in June for the PC, and over the past couple of months have seen them issue takedown notices to various bloodbowl fan websites. While obviously this isn't a great thing, I grudgingly have to support what they're doing - stopping people using their trademark, BloodBowl. As the takedown notice says, if they have a history of ignoring their trademark's infringement, than when it really _does_ matter, they don't have a legal leg to stand on. Here's the takedown for talkbloodbowl.com (and fumbbl just had a similar one): "Thank you for your email concerning the website www.talkbloodbowl.com. We understand that you are unhappy about the decision by the people running www.talkbloodbowl.com to shut their site down. The Blood Bowl community is important to Games Workshop and we are also disappointed that they have felt it necessary to take such a step. Unfortunately, that decision is entirely one for them and we can have no influence over what action they choose to take. Unlike many companies, Games Workshop usually only stops people from using our intellectual property if we must do so in order to protect it (provided that use is by and for hobbyists). For example, the law requires us to protect our trademarks in certain ways – and if we do not – we might lose them. As you can imagine, we do not want to lose our trademarks as we would no longer be able to create the great miniatures and table top hobby wargames that we pride ourselves on. ‘Blood Bowl’ is a trademark that belongs to Games Workshop. Therefore the use of it by third parties, without licence, is unlawful and an infringement of Games Workshop’s rights. Guidance has been available for our fans for many years in our Intellectual Property Policy that can be found on the legal pages of our website http://legal.games-workshop.com/ This sets out how our hobbyists can use our intellectual property in such a way that Games Workshop is not likely to object. Within the policy there are some simple rules, such as: 1) Do not mention any Games Workshop Trademarks, such as “Blood Bowl” or “Warhammer” in your URL or league name; and 2) Do not screenscrape any content from official websites. There are also a number of more general guidelines, setting out the spirit of the policy. If a fan follows the policy in spirit and letter, then it is highly unlikely that Games Workshop will take any action to prevent their use of Games Workshop’s IP. Games Workshop has not specifically targeted any particular website but instead has taken a consistent approach to all sites that we are aware of that are using our ‘Blood Bowl’ trademark without our permission. We have written to the owners or administrators of these sites detailing our concerns. In our letters, we gave the parties infringing our rights various options as to how they could address our concerns. At no time did Games Workshop demand that any website close down. We trust that this clarifies the situation."

I like this, and see pressure sensitive keyboards being predominant in the not too distant future, based primarily upon the supplemental embedded video at the bottom of the linked page. All of the proposed uses, from deleting word at a time, to recognising typos, to movement in games, I can't see any argument against. Its just a genuinely innovative device. A lot of the competition entries are rather useless as they stand, but go a long way to show the potential of the platform. One problem I've always had with PC gaming is not being able to play driving games properly without a controller, as on/off left/right is useless. I suppose this would solve that problem, as I'd now have an analogue keyboard. As to the typing/password recognition, of course it would have teething problems en route to full user acceptance, but all of the criticism levelled so far is easily surmountable. Someone loses a hand, or their typing changes - easy! As per online banking and whatnot, the user can answer a few predefined questions (independent of typing style) and reset the memory. A brute force attack could be prevented by limiting the number of attempts. Okay, so a couple of problems would always be present, such as typing with a coffee in hand or logging in to your girlfriends facebook, but overall I am thrilled by the idea, enough to make my second /. post ever, and am very much looking forward to owning one, providing they don't come with optimus maximus pricetags.

You can take The Open University in britain as an example of why I don't believe this is ever going to work. "The Open University is the distance learning university founded and funded by the UK Government." So, you would imagine a degree from here carries at least some weight in academics and business, but unfortunately that's not the case. Perhaps not so bad as the example of University of Phoenix above, as some professional bodies do accept their legitimacy, it is a sad fact that OU degrees are sneered upon in britain today. This is likely due to the high percentage of students who sit courses "for personal interest", i.e. for fun, instead of as part of their professional career. As such, I imagine the drop-out rate is rather high. So, a government sponsored university that has been established 40 years this year has not truly broken through to be considered 'legitimate' or perhaps 'competitive'; what hope can there be for an online university?