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stonekeeper09on Blizzard Entertainment Planning A Linux Game For 2013

I see what you did there...

stonekeeper09on An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4

I wrote a long diatribe about the differences and then realised it was essentially the same as the article so...

stonekeeper09on An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4

Having owned an iPhone 3, 3GS, 4 and a Galaxy S2, the Nexus 4 is by far the best smartphone I've owned.

Will Canonical be in the firing line of Microsoft's lawyers in the same way as some manufacturers selling android phones are? Microsoft make $10 for every android phone. How will this be different?

stonekeeper09on World's tallest skyscraper to be built in just 90 days

What could possibly go wrong?

stonekeeper09on Honour for overlooked Poles who were first to crack Enigma code

That would have been my misunderstanding from what the tour guy said.

stonekeeper09on Honour for overlooked Poles who were first to crack Enigma code

I visited Bletchley for the first time less than a week ago and believe me, they waxed lyrical about the 3 polish mathmaticians. I've seen the memorial they have there. I came away feeling that it was a joint effort, but you have to remember that there were thousands of people working at Bletchley and Turing was key in the SPEED at which they were able to break the code by inventing the Bombe. If there's any mis-appropriation, it's not Bletchley's fault.