Wrong!

See omega_dk's post above for a better explanation than I can be bothered to come up with...

Thank you!

What's also undoubtedly highly ironic is that Alanis Morrisette wrote an entire song about irony - called 'Ironic', no less - when she blatantly didn't understand what irony actually means.

It's interesting if that is indeed the case, because there are a lot of apps out there that have been written using Unity3D...

YES PLEASE

That is all

After having to slog through a million and one boring PS3/Xbox360 fanboy wars on pretty much every forum out there, is there anyone else who finds the prospect of a spectrum/C64 slugfest actually quite appealing?

And have I been spending too much time on the Internet?

I think it's quite fitting that the self-serving proprietary bullshit and lack of standards in IE6 might actually translate into a few lost OS sales for MS some years later.

All those scientists that disagree? Sure, there's some disagreement, but we're talking about a very small percentage of scientists here.

The fact that a lot of people are happy to selectively discount a clear majority of scientific opinion worldwide because it doesn't fit in with their world view or political standpoint never ceases to amaze me.

Whereas we all care deeply about your pedantic whineing. So so sorry that I had the audacity to tell the parent I liked their post. Really. I'm so sorry.

My favourite post on Slashdot for months. Wish I had mod points.

I also wish that dignitaries did swap mix tapes. Wonder if they'd spend ages doing the artwork in biro and plastering stickers all over the TDK90. Queen's special mix 2009.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh tapes. Tapes.

There are a lot of people here decrying the state of modern music - saying that the quality has dipped and that this is providing less of an incentive to buy anything.

Well, this may be the case, but you can't overlook the impact that spiralling record company revenues has had on A&R. There is actually a lot of great music being made right now, but companies just don't have the same amount of cash to find and promote new artists as they used to. So music fans now have to try much harder to find new music that they like.

I think a lot of people here want it both ways - the ease of digital distribution plus the same amount of decent new music being played on radio etc. - but for most independent artists the internet has crippled what little source of income they had. So many independent record companies have folded in the last 5 years that the impact on the 'quality' of modern music can't be ignored; in fact many people here have commented upon it. To imply that these smaller companies are somehow greedy, irrelevant or behind the times is missing the point. We were better off with them around, as well as the artists they fostered.

Bit of a tangent here, but can anyone else remember getting the Ultima 6 box with printed map/dish cloth of Britannia and AUTHENTIC 'Orb of the moons' meaningless novelty souvenir nestled among the eight 5.25" disks? Amazing stuff. You can't get that over digital distribution.

On a related subject, will you all please get off my lawn.

Actually, compared to Microsoft's flailing in search, Yahoo are a pretty solid number two.

Hang on, let me rephrase that.

Microsoft has been greedily eyeing up Yahoo's number two slot.

Oh, forget it.