Comment It Means... (Score 1) 489
Nothing. I'm British you insensitive clod!
Comment Top of my list would be... (Score 1) 332
The 3 strikes "omgah, your a illegal downloader!!1!1!!!" law that was secretly brought in. Nothing else that im aware of needs changing. Maybe the games industry tax relief? *shrugs*
Comment *applause* (Score 1, Insightful) 698
This lad deserves a medal just for outting the Collateral Murder video alone. Let alone all the other "hundreds of thousands" of classified records (which im very skeptical of. I fail to see how one man can just handover this much info on his own)
Comment Re:WTFBT (Score 1) 128
I'm in Nottinghamshire, my mum is out rural and gets 5.5Mb/s with Be - and consistently 5.5Mb/s too. If you can, I'd swap to them in a heartbeat.
If you don't mind paying a *little* extra, Andrews and Arnold do a fantastic service too, and will run your service down a Be line instead of BT.
Alrighty, Ta for that mate
Comment Re:WTFBT (Score 1) 128
I know that feeling, out here in Nottinghamshire the fastest we can get is 5.5mb/s but we all know no one actually ever gets that fast a connection. I mean at its best, its maybe 1.2mb/s. And god help you if you go over the "fair use policy" they'll throttle you to the point where you can't open Facebook or even Google.
And yes, the Router is by the worst thing imaginable, with its nazi style NAT settings and just general dislike to having more then 3 people using it at once.
Microsoft Demos Three Platforms Running the Same Game 196
suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Engadget:
"Microsoft's Eric Rudder, speaking at TechEd Middle East, showed off a game developed in Visual Studio as a singular project (with 90% shared code) that plays on Windows with a keyboard, a Windows Phone 7 Series prototype device with accelerometer and touch controls, and the Xbox 360 with the Xbox gamepad. Interestingly, not only is the development cross-platform friendly, but the game itself (a simple Indiana Jones platformer was demoed) saves its place and lets you resume from that spot on whichever platform you happen to pick up."
New "Hairy" Material Is Almost Perfectly Hydrophobic 133
drewsup writes "Wolfgang Sigmund, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Florida, has created a material modeled after spider hairs that acts as a nearly perfect water-repelling surface. Quoting Science Daily: 'A paper about the surface, which works equally well with hot or cold water, appears in this month's edition of the journal Langmuir. Spiders use their water-repelling hairs to stay dry or avoid drowning, with water spiders capturing air bubbles and toting them underwater to breathe. Potential applications for UF's ultra-water-repellent surfaces are many, Sigmund said. When water scampers off the surface, it picks up and carries dirt with it, in effect making the surface self-cleaning. As such, it is ideal for some food packaging, or windows, or solar cells that must stay clean to gather sunlight, he said. Boat designers might coat hulls with it, making boats faster and more efficient.' Hairy glass, anyone?"
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