A grammatical issue left uncorrected in a /. post? How unexpected! :p

The weapons are explained in the first Mass Effect book, Revelation. They don't fire particles of air, they rely on ammo. To quote from the book about assault rifles: 'The ammo clip on each weapon held over four thousand rounds; miniature pellets smaller than grains of sand. When fired at sufficient velocity, the nearly microscopic projectiles were capable of inflicting massive damage.' In ME2 (don't worry, not really a spoiler), a soldier near where you arrive on the Citadel talks about a dreadnaught firing (numbers/facts may be wrong, this is from memory) a 20kg iron bolt at 1.3% of the speed of light, with the resultant impact being on a similar order of magnitude to a nuclear bomb.

Really? Well, there you go. Thanks.

Why is it necessary for a British person to call an electrician for minor electrical work, when it isn't for others?

You do occasionally get a decent deal on Steam, but most of the time any temporary price reductions of games just bring prices down to around what is expected from online retailers of games, some of which, including Play.com and Amazon.co.uk, offer free delivery (on orders above £5 for Amazon, and all orders from Play.com). I've seen the price of Dawn of War 2 bounce around all over the place on Play.com. Right now its at £24.99 but I've seen it go right down to £11.99. Price on Steam? £34.99, same as when it was released back in February.

Not true. Generally speaking, games are more expensive on Steam than online retailers. As an example, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is £29.99 on Steam. On Play.com, it is £17.99. Risen is £34.99 on Steam, £24.99 on Play.com. In fact, from the games listed on the front page's scrolling display that have identical retail products as of the time of writing this post, the only game with identical prices on both places is Left 4 Dead 2 (and only because Steam has reduced the price by a few quid temporarily).

You just need to look at recently released MMORPGs such as Age of Conan and Warhammer: Age of Reckoning to see that a strong start is very important to anything competing in the same space as WoW. Most players only want to play one such game, after all.

Yeah, our internet's a bit behind the curve for similarly developed countries. FTTC is a big step up from ADSL2 though, even if it's not as good as FTTH (which would have cost far more I imagine. Out of interest, what do you call better than FTTH? PTP? Wossat?

They're in Malaysia (as stated in the Microsoft's comment bit), which is quite a bit ahead of Europe and the US in terms of time zone. If you look at the date on the article, its '01 April 2008'. So this isn't a pre-April Fool's April Fool's, it just seems like it.