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  1. Re:Last Rev on Ubuntu Studio Announced · · Score: 3, Informative

    They didn't start at A anyway, Warty Warthog > Hoary Hedgehog > Breezy Badger > Dapper Drake > Edgy Eft > Feisty Fawn. There's nothng stopping them from having another release with the same letter. Besides, it's only a codename, there's still the year.month system they have to distinguish releases.

  2. Re:If it ain't broke, why fix it? on Where Does Google's Hardware Go to Die? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You've got a good point there, especially if you think about hard drive space with Gmail. I'm sure Google will keep hold of their hard drives wherever possible to give them more space/more redundancy.

  3. Re:System Shock 3? on Sequels We'd All Like To See · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They renewed the trademark, they never announced System Shock 3 to my knowledge.

  4. Re:System Shock 3? on Sequels We'd All Like To See · · Score: 1

    Oh, I have been. It's just a shame it most likely won't run on my laptop.

  5. System Shock 3? on Sequels We'd All Like To See · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Enough said? Really, I could think of a few games which would be lovely to have sequels to (DX, KOTOR to name a couple) but sometimes it's better to have an original story than churning out the same thing over and over which is what seems to happen nowadays. Perhaps I'm just too cynical.

  6. Re:Can Linux Virtualization Get Any More Fragmente on Virtualbox Goes OSS · · Score: 1

    Windows has lots too. Qemu, VMWare and VirtualBox work on Windows then Windows has MS Virtual Server, Parallels and others. Virtualisation as a whole is fragmented and it probably will be for a couple of years until a select few come out on top like VMWare already has.

  7. Re:United Kingdom on How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System? · · Score: 1

    Eh, i've never seen Fahrenheit being used in that sense before.. :| Listen carefully, they'll use Celsius in winter and Fahrenheit in summer to emphasise the hot and cold weather. You'll get around 0 in winter and 100 in summer that way. They do this quite evidently on BBC, at least.
  8. Re:United Kingdom on How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System? · · Score: 1

    You're right, for the most part. While we're officially metric, people still use imperial measurements purely because we're used to them. So many things are embedded into British culture, the big one would be the pint. That will never change any time soon, and I don't think the road system will either. Imperial measurements also crop up in the weather (we tend to use Fahrenheit when hot and Celsius when cold). It'll prbably be another 30-40 years before metric becomes more widespread here.
    I don't really see much of a point, provided conversions can be easily done there isn't a problem with communication and scientists always use metric measurements anyway.

  9. Re:That old saying about SMPT on Firefox 3 Plans and IE8 Speculation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Never mind that you misinterpreted the parent, but Opera allows for the ability to check email. Granted I don't use it, but it doesn't bloat up the browser and is easily hidden if you don't want it. Of course, we have Thunderbird if we want email clients, so Firefox will never get that feature.

  10. Kinda Done... on Apple and Google to Blog the World · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At least in mobile phones. Some phones (in the UK at least) will automatically display the dialling code for the area you're in. It's a more simplified version but it's a handy feature to have. Of course, this is a more complex version and should hopefully have more beneficial uses.

  11. Punctuation Overuse! on An Inside Look At eBay's Technology · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    William Shatner would be proud.

  12. Re:less ambiguous units please! on Giant Ice Shelf Snaps · · Score: 1

    Besides, this is a nerds site. Don't make athletic references. Surely the distance it takes for an electron to pass through a superconductive material at room temperature with a 100V potential difference in one second would be a much better way! Those damn article writers just have no idea about anything, do they?
  13. Re:A donut shaped universe? on Stephen Hawking Receives Copley Medal · · Score: 1

    "Who is The Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?"

    Forgive me for the obligatory Futurama quote there, you know it had to be done.

  14. Re:Next up on the polticial agenda... on MS Anti-ODF Lobbyist Named As MA Tech Advisor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't worry, I think the chairs are bolted down there.

  15. Re:Meaning on EA To Publish Hellgate London · · Score: 1

    You'd think that, but look at Westwood and Bullfrog. Where are they now, one might ask?

  16. Wrong Way? on Aggressive Botnet Activities Behind Spam Increase · · Score: 1

    A spam-sending Trojan dubbed 'SpamThru' is responsible for a vast amount of the recent botnet activity which has significantly increased spam levels to almost three out of every four emails

    Sounds like a decrease in spam for me, where do I sign up?

  17. Re:Best answer on Hitch-Hackers Guide To the Galaxy · · Score: 1

    Oh, I know. Nobody writes jokes in base 13, though.

  18. Re:Best answer on Hitch-Hackers Guide To the Galaxy · · Score: 1

    Surely the answer would be in binary for this one?

  19. Quoted For Truth on Bruce Schneier On Perceived and Real Risks · · Score: 1

    People exaggerate spectacular but rare risks and downplay common risks.

    How many smokers truly care about getting lung cancer and dying, but are concerned about being blown up by a terrorist?

  20. Facing Worlds... on Some of the Best Game Levels of All Time · · Score: 1

    Simple, yet effective. There isn't a more beautiful joy than picking up a sniper rifle, finding a level you like and taking an enemy's head clean off their shoulders from the other side of the map.

  21. Re:Wow on England Starts Fingerprinting Drinkers · · Score: 1

    The problem is, these laws are kept relatively quiet until they're actually voted upon. I've yet to see any mention of this in any newspaper over the last week. Most British people don't want their privacy destroyed either, it's just that laws like this seem to be eclipsed by other, larger scandals with our government.

  22. Bah! on Scientists Make Item Invisible to Microwaves · · Score: 5, Funny

    They could've posted a pict...

    Oh, wait. Never mind!

  23. Re:Ideal for pirates on A Vest to Hug You · · Score: 2, Funny

    But "A vest ye, me hearties!" just doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

  24. Re:Sea Monster A Go Go on Jurassic Marine Graveyard Yields 'Monster' Fossil · · Score: 3, Funny

    Remember kids, say no to drugs!

  25. Re:It's the other way around nowadays... on The Myth of the 40 Hour Game · · Score: 1

    Exactly, even now there are some Covert Ops missions that I have yet to complete. Three, to be precise. There are some missions from RA and TD that I still find a big challenge to complete, and it takes a good while to get through the missions, and this is coming from a person who runs his own C&C network...