Actually, they've not abandoned it, it's merely the thrusters are simulating the aircraft-like ability. If you look at the rolls video you see that the craft can do some very un-aircraft-like turns if the player wants them to.

It's actually a sequel and not a re-implementation.

Of course, it's still pre-alpha quality, so you can't judge the final game from the Skunk Works developed initial test system.

Well, for one of them just read the license agreement for any software which contains cryptography.

The main chain the the US have to pull is economic.

Basically, if the US decides that a country should suffer its roth then all it needs to do is put them on the "don't trade without a special license" list or require companies who sell to the federal government not to trade with that country. You'd be surprised at how effective that would be in hitting the economy of the target country, especially if it's a developed, industrialised one.

No, Java is an exceptional language: At the slightest provocation is throws one.

I you have had installed BT's Fibre To The Cabinet broadband service, either directly from BT or via one of the resellers, then it's most likely that the modem will be a Huawei. Also, the comms equipment installed in the street cabinets will be manufactured by them.

As far as I'm aware, the company has no (own brand) retail products in the UK.

Having used Mandriva (and Mandrake before it) ever since Redhat split its distributions I tried the 2011 version... It was a complete pig's ear of a release, especially if you want to integrate it into a shared network or use it for real work. The worst part (other than systemd and its intrinsic brokenness) is the default "Start" menu replacement. (Oh, and the WiFi is completely broken, the wired networking half so.)

Mandriva 2010.x was stable and worked very well and this is the basis for Mageia.

If there were anything they should kill it would be the "desktop" version, start with the old code and move forward.

As to the anonymous coward who wrote the essay on how bad Mandrake/Mandriva is, I'd just show him URPM, the distro installer (for 2010.x) and compare them with the other distros' solutions. They pale beside them.

An example could be an infected word document which requires Visual Basic scripting to cause the agent to run won't work on the Mac version of Microsoft Office. However, the "DNA" of the infection will stay in the file harmlessly until such time as it is transported to a PC and opened within the Windows version of Microsoft Office, which does have the scripting language available.

It is true that most of the drive-by attempted infections will fail, as do most biological attempted infections by viruses when they land on the wrong host.

It's actually the wrong terminology.

The Mac system has been contaminated with the Windows virus, which, to use the "viral" analogue, doesn't have the correct DNA to infect the host.

In the same way that a farmer which has been handling sheep with Foot and Mouth disease can become contaminated and pass the infection onto another sheep the Macs which have been contaminated with the disease can potentially pass the infection on, especially if it's infected Microsoft Office documents.

You mean like "Removing a photo briskly off a table using your finger tips, but on a computer"? ;-)

It's different horses for different courses.

Teletext, by definition, is a broadcast medium, the web interactive. Sometimes you just "want the facts Ma'am" in a simple manner, sometimes you want something you can interact with and have flashy graphics.

How's about?

> LOAD "MYPROG"
Brrrrrrrrr
Click-click-click-click-click-click-click clunk
Brrrrrrrrr, brrrrrrrr. clunk
Brrrrrrrrr, brrrrrrrr. clunk
Brrrrrrrrr, brrrrrrrr. clunk

Well, my only comment on how modern, high-speed equipment is slower:

Time to boot into a usable state to start programming:

BBC Micro: 2 seconds.
Dual, quad-core Xeon processor PC running Windows 7: 2 minutes. ;-)

The new service's "page numbers" are not consistent in any way, however, which is why I said "the only reasonable way to navigate to pages is via a deep menu system of pages".

It is true that many of them are similar to the old Ceefax numbers, however, the system only seems to have numbers for the index pages for sections rather than sub-pages. It's also a darn more tedious system to use.

As for speed, you may see a comment to another comment made above, I've used lots of equipment and it's all seemed just as cumbersome. This is Freeview and Freesat and low and high end equipment.