Only game I have ever played for 18 hours straight. (The original DOS version.) Definitely a fantastic game.

What astounds me is how this even happens. "You made something that could be used to break the law." Yeah, and so do Smith and Wesson etc...

Of course the odds of winning a case in court against one of the gun makers is nil, though I'm amazed nobody has apparently made that defense.

I've had several laptops and to be brutally honest, the best Windows based laptop I've found is... My Macbook. Seriously, I've not had Windows run as well on any dedicated PC laptop. And of course you can nuke OSX and put anything you want on there really as it is, essentially, a PC. Yes it's a bit pricey but build quality, stability... The thing kicks the ass of the other laptops. (And in one case the Macbook cost LESS than the PC laptop I replaced it with.)

This is the basic white Macbook. Bottom of the range, which was better than my mid to high range previous HP.

I'm always impressed by Havok. Whenever I pick up a game that uses it I always smile as I know I'm going to enjoy the physics if nothing else.

This is a bonehead move from nVidia as they've essentially just killed PhysX.

Tupperware? Microsoft is more like Amway.

Quality of education is important, not quantity.

And the education secretary might want to get their facts right.

From that article:

There is a homespun myth, treated as fact, that the annual school calendar, with three months off for both teachers and students, is based on the rhythm of 19th-century farm life, which dictated when school was in session. Thus, planting and harvesting chores accounted for long summer breaks, an artifact of agrarian America. Not so.

Actually, summer vacations grew out of early 20th-century urban middle-class parents (and later lobbyists for camps and the tourist industry) pressing school boards to release children to be with their families for four to eight weeks or more.

Such a lame, unfunny comedic gimmick.

It's a great video. I found it oddly relaxing. Also, watch the clock on the oven. The time leaps all over the place on it.

They didn't even have the sense to shoot without a clock there to show that one will ask a question, then the answer will be from seven minute prior, then we leap back two hours etc...

Just absolutely absurd.

This is yet another worthless study given credence by being run on Slashdot. Like the one about how sugar is going to kill us. And obesity causes alzheimers, a study done on less people than attend your average wedding. And how gamers aren't adolescents. You know, the study that only looked at results in people over 19.

It's another example of preconceptual science. They decide the conclusion they want, then discard all the evidence that contradicts it.

A voluntary decision to stick with a reliable ISP. Seriously, most ISP's in England are terrible. I know people using various ones, and the only I NEVER hear complaints about is Demon.

So, do you want privacy or reliability? You only get to pick one apparently.

I was a hardcore Sony fan and never even held an Xbox controller, but having recent picked up an Xbox 360 I have to say I LOVE the controller. The PS controllers now feel clunky and just ergonomically wrong.

The problem with menu style systems is that it is not intuitive.

I'm sorry, but that's absolute balls.

I'm amused by the fact the site is dead already. The mirrors hardly matter when the main site is hosed. ("Service Unavailable").

SWG was my first MMORPG. Still remember my first day well. And largely my only day as I lost interest very quick, but it was so cool to walk out into this living Star Wars world.

Yeah, I know. It's just really exciting. I am genuinely colour blind and the possibility of seeing PROPER colours, like everyone else, is really exciting.

Of course ultimately pointless. I can genuinely say my colour blindness has never caused me any problems. It's limited my job choices a couple of times, but that was minor really.

Still, sure would be cool to see stuff properly. I mean grass is green, I know that. But what I see as green is vastly different to what other people see.

Be nice to see what grass really looks like.