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Who actually still teaches kids imperial measurements? The USA and…. anyone else?

We all moved on decades ago Vergers, time to go metric with the rest of us.

about 15 hours ago on Construction on world's tallest building to begin next month and end this year 2 replies 4 recommends

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The hardware isn’t quite as similar as it may first appear. The PS4 has a much quicker GPU, and vastly quicker RAM. It’s a significantly more powerful machine.

3 days ago on Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4: the next console war pits living room against cloud 4 replies 3 recommends

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They showed the console, they showed a LOT of TV stuff, and a lot of sports stuff, and some kinect.

What they didn’t show much of, were GAMES.

Unless E3 radically changes things, Sony will be the place to go for gamers.

3 days ago on Xbox One: our first look at the new console, controller, and Kinect 15 replies 66 recommends

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iPlayer looks the same regardless of platform. The BBC want a consistent look everywhere.

10 days ago on BBC iPlayer finally arrives on Windows Phone 8 1 recommend

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It looks a little.. characterless perhaps? The 920 looked far more interesting to my eyes.

Also why did Tom, a Brit, say it was made of ‘aluminum’? The word is ‘aluminium’ Tom, as used by every country in the world, except one.

11 days ago on Nokia's aluminum Lumia 925 is the best Windows Phone yet, but that's not enough (hands-on) 1 reply 2 recommends

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It’s lacking something based on those screen shots… I’m thinking green felt and wood. Maybe a few dice would spice it up too, and a top hat.

12 days ago on Google Play Games allegedly leaks with achievements, cloud saves, and in-game chat

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Accepting the hard science of climate change and realising that continued expansion of carbon based fuels is unsustainable and idiotic isn’t a liberal position – it’s a position anyone with a functioning brain arrives at.

12 days ago on Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk leaves Mark Zuckerberg's immigration reform group 1 recommend

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The population in the UK is rising at a tremendous rate, although admittedly much of that is due to immigration from
Eastern Europe.

Whatever the cause though, it’s time to reduce the world’s population over the next few generations, to push it back to sustainable numbers.

14 days ago on Award-winning director accused of breaking China's 'one child' policy, faces $26 million fine

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China is the only country which is sensible enough to recognise that over population is the single biggest threat to our survival as a species. Population growth impacts everything, from food supply to putting pressure on ever dwindling fuel supplies, and of course increasing climate change.

The one child policy may sound harsh, but it’s evidence based and logical, and should be far more common.

14 days ago on Award-winning director accused of breaking China's 'one child' policy, faces $26 million fine

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I loved his work as a child. Truly one of the all time greats.

17 days ago on Stop-motion and visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen dies at the age of 92

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Orson Scott Card is a truly unpleasant person by all accounts, so I won’t be giving him any money for this or anything else. For what it’s worth though, the trailer looked generic and unoriginal.

17 days ago on Watch the first 'Ender's Game' trailer and a Hangout with director Gavin Hood 1 reply

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This was a small move from Google but an important one. For a terrorist state like Israel to get angry about it isn’t surprising and is irrelevant. Sadly it will take a lot more than a word on a search engine to ever stop Israel running their apartheid state, so clearly and ironically inspired by nazi Germany.

18 days ago on Google's decision to recognize Palestine could undermine peace efforts, Israel says 1 reply 6 recommends

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You should never have to hack around with a phone just to use all of it’s storage. My iPhone has 64gb of storage, and I’ve been able to do whatever I like with all of it since day one, without doing a thing to it.

21 days ago on Samsung says microSD slot makes up for Galaxy S4's storage shortcomings 9 recommends

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If you can’t install any apps on the SD card, then it’s of little use. And why does the 16gb model have so little usable space anyway? Is there really that much Samsung crapware on there?

21 days ago on Samsung says microSD slot makes up for Galaxy S4's storage shortcomings 1 recommend

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If any phone could tempt me away from iOS, it would be the One (full size version), if only it had been stock Android. As HTC seem wedded to their cheesy skins and old versions of Android, I’ll be staying in iOS world.

24 days ago on HTC M4 leaks as a 4.3-inch miniature One 1 reply

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If they remove that many titles from Netflix UK there would be nothing left.

24 days ago on Netflix losing almost 1,800 titles from its streaming library 2 replies 2 recommends

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Can I just have a console with a normal controller which has nicer graphics please? I don’t need any gimmicks, really, I don’t.

26 days ago on Microsoft IllumiRoom is a coffee table projector designed for the next-generation Xbox 2 recommends

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I too have no coffee table, nor have the space for one. Living in the UK, we have the smallest houses in the EU, so coffee tables are luxuries from a bygone era for us.

26 days ago on Microsoft IllumiRoom is a coffee table projector designed for the next-generation Xbox 1 reply 2 recommends

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The Kindle HD does more than just display Kindle books. There’s no reason to think Amazon would lock a device like this down.

about 1 month ago on Amazon reportedly developing set-top box for release this fall 1 recommend

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Those things are out of Amazon’s hands. Poor quality is streaming is down to crappy ISPs (ie. pretty much all of them), and Netflix’s poor content selection is simply down to rights being either too expensive, or already bought up by competitors.

about 1 month ago on Amazon reportedly developing set-top box for release this fall 1 reply

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There’s certainly room for this in the UK. Here the Roku was still born and never went anywhere (it lacks apps/channels for most UK streaming services), and the ATV is even more useless here than it is in America. The best streamer we have is the Xbox, but that’s big, heavy, very slow, and needs a gold subscription.

So welcome Amazon, our £s await.

about 1 month ago on Amazon reportedly developing set-top box for release this fall