No Gigabit ethernet?
So it'll play HD streams but only if the quality is shit enough to go via Wifi/100mbit? No thanks.
Posts by nick 30
11 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
Eminent EM7195 HD server
Apple's 'App Store trademark': A farce of Jobsian proportions
HTC Incredible S Android smartphone
Fanboi king hails Apple 'love affair with open web'
Mafia II
Wednesday 8th September 2010 08:55 GMT
Mafia 2 gets 3 out of 10.
The game is very pretty but other than that its just boring. The story is average at best and theres nothing much else to do. There are only a few side-quests and they're dull. The only times there is a reason to do side quests is to earn a bit of cash but both times most of the money you need is given to you in the main quest anyway.
For a similar but much better game play Saints Row 2. Its not quite as pretty but there is a hell of a lot more side-quests to do with reasons to do them. More importantly most of them are great fun.
Mafia 2 fails on the most important way. They ignored gameplay to put more effort into how pretty it looks and that makes for a mediocre game. Even as an interactive movie/story it fails.
Murdoch newswire sues over 'hot news'
Cameron promises yet more Avatar
Wednesday 21st April 2010 23:34 GMT
I cant wait.
Anyone have any idea what the next film will be based on?
I was lucky enough to see Avatar about 12 years ago when Disney called it Pocahontas. It looks much better without the oversized smurfs and unconvincing 3D too. I'd like to see the next film a few years ago too so I can brag to my friends.
Damages slashed for US freetard
Monday 25th January 2010 16:34 GMT
Its a fair system
Just once I'd like to see a company fined $2,250 per item for something they did.
The Sony rootkit incident (which WAS also copyright infringement) should have cost them around $4.7 billion.
The Exxon Valdez spill should have cost them over $24 billion.
The only people who get these kinds of fines are those who dont have the ability to fight them.
Windows plagued by 17-year-old privilege escalation bug
Windows 8 and beyond: Microsoft's next decade
Wednesday 20th January 2010 21:05 GMT 
My prediction
The biggest thing that MS wants to do is move everyone to a rental type scheme for paying for software. Instead of a one-off fee they want people to pay $5 per month for windows, then a bit more for office and so on. It'll start with all their corporate customers but eventually it'll apply to everyone. That way people will figure they might as well get the latest version if its no difference in price. Hardware vendors will love it because it'll sell more hardware than the "its safer/safer/better" marketing strategy.
The Max Tax will become the MS Rent
Biting the hand that feeds IT
