Comment Universal? (Score 2, Insightful) 220
Surely they mean terrestrial, not universal. Or are we really hoping that the Xymoleians from Sirius B will adapt to this standard?
Comment Re:Kid won't know what to do when an adult (Score 1) 607
Do you live in outback Australia, where the nearest neighbor is 30 miles away? If so, the GPS probably isn't available anyway.
Because GPS satellites are somehow programmed to skip outback Australia? When they dubbed it Global Positioning System they weren't exactly joking, you know.
Comment Re:Slashkos (Score 1) 1053
Ah. So the 'stupid' should just be left to their own devices and die young. You, as an obvious intellectual, don't feel any compassion, empathy or solidarity with another member of the human race that might just not be so lucky as to have enough IQ points to survive? But no, of course you don't. Clean up the gene pool, you'd probably say.
Some of us may not actually feel that way and find your post rather, well, if not offensive, then at least unthoughtful.
But then again, I do live in a nanny state!
Comment Re:And my recent trip to the zoo... (Score 1) 656
Ook!
Spore Games For Wii and DS, PC Expansions Due In 2009 50
Supa writes "EA UK has confirmed new Spore games for the Wii, DS and PC, as well as four more Spore expansion packs. From the article: 'Spore fans are finally getting that Wii version of Spore in Spore: Hero. Another new game tie-in will be Spore: Hero Arena for DS, a standalone Spore: Creature Keeper (PC), and four more Spore expansion packs with the first of them titled Spore: Galactic Adventures.' All of them will be arriving in 2009."
Kotaku has a more in-depth look at the details of the first expansion, saying, "As with most of what comes from developer Maxis, there's a lot of stuff to soak up whenever they make something new. Adventures is way more than just slapped-on content or a single new feature; you really have to play it to even get a feel of just how much is going on."
The State of UK Broadband — Not So Fast 279
Barence writes "The deplorable speed of British broadband connections has been revealed in the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics, which show that 42.3% of broadband connections are slower than 2Mb/sec. More worryingly, the ONS statistics are based on the connection's headline speed, not actual throughput, which means that many more British broadband connections are effectively below the 2Mb/sec barrier. Better still, a separate report issued yesterday by Ofcom revealed that the majority of broadband users had no idea about the speed of their connection anyway."
Comment Slow light is easy (Score 1) 107
Just install a powerful magical force field... That'l slow light down easily.
