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Romans didn't have a number zero.

Games like L4D are designed to run on Xbox which uses DirectX

Whenever I look at screenshots I always try and click the close button in the picture. Every time.

Free healthcare and dentistry

If either side is compromised it is difficult to reissue (e.g. if they are undercover in another country). The beauty of public keys is that they can be revoked and the other side …

Some of The Muppets videos went viral on YouTube in the past few years. Other short form work also tends to go viral, YouTube is often credited with rejuvenating SNL, despite NBCs …

That would take 25% of the per unit price for a start. Then there's the lack of control.

Awesome Window Manager is great for dual monitors. Once you master it you can switch focus between them without leaving the keyboard.

Much more expensive per episode though

Yes this is why Sony just announced big loses. All Japanese exports are getting more expensive in dollars http://www.google.co.uk//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds...

True, but Larry said in the call that Moto will have to bid to become the halo device each year on an equal footing

Hard to believe that was the same year as Pulp Fiction. 1994 doesn't seem that long ago. Fascinating snapshot in time. I think we can forgive him some buzzwords as he is addressing…

Here is a 60min DOOM post-mortem by John Romero from the Game Developers' Conference. http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014627/Classic_Game_Postmortem... If you look around the free se…

Bananas ARE berries, so are watermelons and tomatoes. But strawberries and raspberries are not berries. Berries have seeds on the inside; a strawberry's seeds are on the outside, a…

It's not that unlikely, we have Darwin on the back of the £10 http://www.csuchico.edu/~curbanowicz/Images/DarwinTenPoundNo... They'd probably do a special coin for 1 year though, t…

Vic Gundotra said that the APIs are coming but they are still deciding on features while in closed beta

That's the whole point of OAuth; so that you can sign in without giving them your password. You can revoke the permissions of any 3rd party in your twitter settings page.

I think most of the world's debt is privately held. For instance the UK is the third largest owner of US debt after China and Japan, but we ourselves have a massive public debt.

How long does it take the data to reach us?

Instant On really benefits from the fast sequential times and random cache hits from the low latency/high IOPS. I would imagine there is a lot of paging on a low memory machine. Th…

Git is a polite way of saying bastard before 9pm on TV in the UK, e.g. You lucky git . They also use it in Ireland and down under.

For a companies that sells big iron servers the Dell, IBM and HP websites don't inspire confidence.

Yes encrypted.google.com is really fast, it even has google instant, but I had to turn it off as my default choice in chrome because it won't let you search images. Video and news …

The release announcement says that Gtk3 has switched to Cairo to draw the toolkit behind the scenes: Cairo drawing throughout. GDK no longer wraps the antiquated X11 drawing API; w…