A list of some of the things the UK apparently hasn't produced in years, which is relevant to both the OP and your post: http://www.giantbomb.com/united-kingdom/95-492/list-of-video-games-made-in-uk/35-9288/

Isn't the real question, "what does the US Military want to do with 5GW of power at Holloman afb?" :o)

Conspiracy theories to the ready...

Just make it into a Fawlty Towers joke, ignore any comments and then have a cuppa: it's a more British than anything else I can imagine at the moment.

Most Germans I know these days have a good sense of humour. If Ein Britisher has a sense of humour failure, that's their problem.

Cheers

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In many places in the UK It's possible to get a totally uncapped, unbandwidth-shaped broadband connection for under £15 which is actually usable (20Mbits down, 1.5 up).

As such, I don't agree that the bandwidth is necesarily an extra charge. The majority of homes in the UK already have bandwidth because they have broadband anyway - and the clever ones have Be* or o2 Broadband without caps. For those people, the voda femtocell may actually be pretty useful.

I've got friends who have great broadband but no mobile signal where they live: they are farmers. They spend a lot of time outdoors. This is *perfect* for them.

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The point of that WSJ piece is that the Xbox360 CPU and the PS3 CPU are the same because they both come from IBM?

It's bull. The xbox360 CPU is a totally different architecture of PowerPC. I'm amazed you posted that.

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Except that the data from this study (from the 1950s) is talking about extrapolations from data, without actual real testing including factors such as aerodynamics. In the 1950's this was restricted mostly to planes.

Modern road cars are not aerodynamically neutral devices - the vast majority of them generate lift at speed*. I suppose that if we drove everywhere faster, the load on the roads would lower somewhat because the effective "weight" (viewed as the force of the car on the road) would be reduced.

*I know of a few which generate "downforce" but in general these are pretty exotic (usually race cars, or certainly sporty anyway).