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Steven Spielberg is a well known hardcore gamer.

QA are not developers. Quality Assurance are testers and bug finders.

No matter what industry -- banking, healthcare, travel, government, etc. -- it is always the QA guys that get fired first in technology team downsizing.

Every time.

Can't Natal look for glowing balls, like Sony's PS3 solution to motion controls?

Not to be nitpicky, but "—" is an em dash, a "–" is an en dash, and "-" is a figure dash (or hyphen).

An em dash is the width of an "M" and and en dash is the width of an "N" -- see the names are the clue.

If you are going to correct someone, try to ensure that you are right. ;)

Why should it be noted? Personally I could care less about people's sexual preferences.

Although if you are going to note it, for someone who is "bisexual" Placebo's singer/guitarist spent many years with a woman and fathered her child. I've always thought Brian Molko's "bisexual" is like David Bowie's in the 1970s, i.e. a line to shag hot chicks.

Is that what you say to your mom when she asks why you don't have a girlfriend?

Placebo are from London, and I saw them play a couple of weeks ago at the warm up for their summer European tour of festivals.

Their website is .co.uk and not .fr so some mistake -- although they are huge in France, more so than they are in UK.

That's exactly what the people I know with Jail-Broken iPhone do ... download cracked versions of App Store products so they don't have to pay a cent for them. I showed a friend 'Zen Bound' and he said "hold on" and proceeded to download a pirate copy direct from his iPhone; he's never paid for a single App but has all the latest games.

These people do the same with their games consoles, warez (Mac and Windows flavors), music and video too. For example, I know several people with Xbox 360 who have never bought a game for it, not one, but they have every major release.

Bobulous: so you go by "oily git", personal attacks, rather than policies?

Gordon Brown sold off Britain's gold reserve at the bottom of the market (and pre announced it which drove the price down even further) to cash it in, raided the private pension industry to such an extent that he has destroyed private industries' pensions, encourage the housing price boom in order to get capital gains tax, presided over a credit boom to get sales tax (VAT) -- another consequence of low interest rates was the run-away credit that has created the credit crunch -- and the Labour government borrowed to its limits over the last twelve years even thought it had record tax income ... and for what?

For the first time in history the average salary of people employed by the state is greater than private industry, in many areas of the country the number of people employed by the state outnumbers the number of people employed in private industry; and public sector pensions are protected and topped up by the state. So bearing in mind that the taxes of people in the private sector pay for the public sector ... we can see where all the money has gone!

Have you also noticed that Gordon Brown no longer says things like "We spend seven times as much on NHS as the previous government"? It's because people realise it's not seven time better; it's worse value for money for tax payers.

That's before we even start to consider his war mongering predecessor, or the current debacle.

@the_pop "I'm from the UK and I don't know anyone who ... says 'shedule'."

Sigh, state of Britain today -- the English is SCHedule; guess all your friends have been Americanised with SKedule.

Do you also say LEWtenant instead of LEFtenant for Lieutenant, missle instead of missile, aluminum instead of aluminium, airplane instead of aeroplane?

Tomadda, tomato, potadda, potato, etc. :p