L.Rawlins,

Good thing he's being micromanaged by an AMERICAN then. It also means Apple is doomed after Jobs ends his stint there.

The MG, the Comet airliner, Beagle 2, Yep - long string of engineering successes there. Britian is very inventive in finding new ways for engineering to fail. Culturally, you seem to be falling into a demographic and ideological pit that will make you indistinguishable from France in a generation. In two generations, if not before, you'll both be speaking Arabic.

I actually love England a great deal, and this is why it's so damn offensive to me to see what you've done to yourselves. "Britons will never be slaves" apparently had an expiration date along with the rest of Rule Britannia. Orwell-cams and share-cropping your paychecks to the state today, Sharia tomorrow.
England will be be remembered as a beautiful tragic suicide - more's the pity.

Great, a robot you can be alergic to...

Good thing it's being designed in England - you know it will never work.

The first to use the bread crumb feature will be Bobby from the Family Circus cartoon.

Yo!

Hmmm... Microsoft has an interesting definition of "innovation". The actual creativity rarely if ever originates with Microsoft.

For the first 20 years of the microcomputer era, it's pretty much a "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" game to list Microsoft products and know enough history to know who it was licensed then stolen from, stolen outright from, "embraced and extended" from, or bought from. At least in this case the original creator actually got something for their trouble.

Even that doesn't include the products that were destroyed because Microsoft "pissed on" them or conversely claimed that they were going to come out with something just like it (killing investment in the original), just long enough for the original to fail, at which time Microsoft would "change its mind" about developing such a system.

I remember presentations where Microsoft bragged about how much money was in their R&D budget. I'm not sure what came of that other than Microsoft Bob around that time.

Anyway, color me not surprised. At least this cool idea will see the light of day in a very broad setting. Hopefully the creators won’t get cut out of the action too soon.

"The game is adorable, of course! Side-scrolling platforming combined with turn-based RPG mechanics. All inside a giant dinomonster's digestive system."

Lemiwinks?

Frankly, ANYTHING to get Best Buy to actually start living up to its name again. I used to love BB because they were way cheaper on DVDs than CC or any other place, with the possible exception of Frys, which is an hour away. Now, over a decade of customer loyalty has taken a huge hit.

Installation of a car stereo over $100 used to be free. Now that Circuit City is closed, it's $55 plus parts, no matter the cost of the stereo.

Best Buy has cut hours since CC has closed, because they don't have to compete. Funny, because you still can't take 20 steps without a teenager asking you if you need help with anything. How about fewer sales reps and maybe ones without an 8 PM curfew? Thanks. Funny thing is that the reps are young enough to just TELL you that it's because CC closed that they started getting lazy and greedy. Hard to dismiss it as personal grumpiness when they flat-out tell you the reason.

BB, these are strikes one and two respectively. I'm thinking the dead pool on strike 3 will be fairly short at this rate.

It reminds me of the Interocitor from This Island Earth (made famous again by Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie).

For that price, it ought to do the same things, too. (two way video communication, lasers that can melt objects in the room, including itself, etc.).

Remember, a lot of Windows XP programming was offshored to China...

So this is making that Air Force One NYC photo-op look smart by comparison.

And let's not forget shutting down the Raptor production to shift to the F-35, just in time to find out that three terabytes of data may have been stolen. Which is redundant, since it's an export fighter and it will all be stolen anyway in short order after it's produced.

I love the Air Force, but when you put political interests above your job, you see a lot of smart people ordered to do stupid things by people more interested in kissing political tail than anything else.

I hope it works as advertised, otherwise we'll have a thousand posts that the cupcake is a lie.