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  1. Re:Androids on Valve Announces Portal 2 · · Score: 1

    Calculator heaven, of course.

  2. Re:Wow on NVIDIA Driver Update Causing Video Cards To Overheat In Games · · Score: 1

    I fell off my chair reading that.

  3. Re:walled garden on Apple Removes Wi-Fi Finders From App Store · · Score: 1

    No software installed when imported happens in the UK. If a PDA (like iPod Touch) has a calculator function, you have to pay import duty. If you import with no software, it lacks a calculator, no import duty to be paid.

  4. Re:But does it know me? on Narus Develops Social Media Sleuth · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Cowboy Neil?

  5. Re:I will happily give BBC more of my money... on BBC To Make Deep Cuts In Internet Services · · Score: 1

    I thought regions was a thing of the past, since most DVD players are the market are now multi-region.

  6. Re:I will happily give BBC more of my money... on BBC To Make Deep Cuts In Internet Services · · Score: 1

    You're talking about a different company. BBC America is not the BBC.

    Also, doesn't America have some law which states programs have to finish on the hour and half hour?

  7. Re:drop proprietary software? on BBC To Make Deep Cuts In Internet Services · · Score: 5, Informative

    BBC have developed Dirac codec for that. It's open source and royalty free. It's a very good codec, it has reached a stable version and is soon to be standardised as VC-2, unlike theora.

  8. Re:I can't wait for April Fool's Day... on Passage of Time Solves PS3 Glitch · · Score: 1

    Just Sony's famous times kill switch, that's all.

  9. Re:Choices on New Chrome Beta Adds Privacy Controls, Translation Option · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Coming along so well?

    They haven't even implemented simple things such as a bookmark manager or extensions on a Mac yet. It has a looong way to go.

  10. Re:Sony timer on Calendar Bug Disables Older PlayStation 3 Models · · Score: 1

    Nokia used to have kill timers too.

  11. Re:HA! on Calendar Bug Disables Older PlayStation 3 Models · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do not worry, if someone does sue, Sony will come to the UK and put a super injunction in place so nobody will hear about it.

  12. Re:They'd better fix this on Calendar Bug Disables Older PlayStation 3 Models · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the firmware will actually update, the servers have a fit as the date on the machine does not match that of the server, and again, "invalid copyright protection" error appears.

  13. Re:Too much bandwidth?? on Youtube Pulls Original "Rickroll" Video · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, we know that:

    Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea, according to new research.

    http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5489134.ece

    I'd hate to know how much CO2 was used for Rickroll.

  14. Re:Unrealistic? on Virgin Promises 100Mbps Connections To UK Homes · · Score: 1

    Virgin advertise all their users have 'fibre to the home', when in fact, it's only to the green box in the best of areas.

    The house three doors down on my street have cable, however that's where it ends. Virgin wanted £3k when I inquired to dig up 15m of my street to lay coax. So I'm stuck with ADSL up-to 8Mb but I get 3Mb, and ADSL2+ wont work as the 1 mile of twisted pair to the exchange is poor. I live in the West Midlands.

  15. Reading the f****ing post. on Power To the Pop-Ups · · Score: 0, Troll

    I know a rule of thumb for /. is not to RTFA, but I can't be bothered to read this damn /. post.

    Can someone summarise?

  16. Re:Adobe Flash will die not on Apple's Change of Heart On Flash · · Score: 1

    Mouse wheel does not work on Beatport.com, the site makes Firefox or Safari consume 40-60% of my 2.4GHz Core2 Duo, also consumes 100MB more RAM.

  17. Re:No additional software? on Oh, What a Lovely Standards War · · Score: 1

    You mean, on a European server where software patents don't exist?

  18. Re:I could be stupid on Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I thought pure water doesn't go solid, not until an impurity starts crystal formation that turns the water into a solid?

  19. Re:Classics never die on Code Review of Doom For the iPhone · · Score: 1

    Before any of that, Elite for Acorn BBC Micro. First 3D game, and also used triangles for shapes. Now that is ground breaking.

  20. Re:As Long as... on Sony May Charge For PlayStation Network · · Score: 1

    Playstation Store and Playstation Home is for that.

  21. Re:Probably true, even. on UK Gov't Says "No Evidence" IE Is Less Secure · · Score: 4, Informative

    The MoD have sent me a letter three times stating they have lost personal data about me. One was a CD, another a pen drive, and a laptop was stolen from the premises.

    Data that went missing was my name, address, passport number, national insurance number, photograph, medical history and criminal record. Obviously nothing important.

    This data was unencrypted.

  22. Re:Obligatory on Video Review of Hivision's $100 ARM-Based Android Laptop · · Score: 1

    Acorn computers did demo a 32 x 600MHz ARM board using these processors in 1999. It has already been done, 11 years before this article.

  23. Re:Certainly won't displace it in... on Novell Bringing .Net Developers To Apple iPad · · Score: 1

    We have Sky TV here in the UK, Apple has nothing against this app, or even streaming high quality video over 3G.

  24. Re:Coming soon to a server farm near you on Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open · · Score: 1

    Apple have are licensed to manufacture ARM for this product. The SDK builds for ARM on this device. Also, it runs iPhone apps natively.

    Apple have had their finger in ARM processors since the 1980's when they helped Acorn Computers developer the architecture.

  25. Re:No stylus eh? on Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open · · Score: 1

    Capacitive stylus will work with this, just like on the iPhone.