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The face of public transport in Northern Ireland. Shameful, really.

Apparently it fullscreens and works fine but this is obviously the way Flash content is meant to be enjoyed – in a frameless window overlapping the main content, displaced half a screen from where it should be. Performance increases when it goes full-screen (which is obviously poor when not full-screen).

No examination on the effect of battery life. Click-through the image to read the review and watch the video.

It disappoints me that the consumer-facing differentiator between Android and iOS is turning out to be “Runs Flash!”. That’s just wrong in so many ways. Please, manufacturers, don’t mortgage your future by getting into bed with Adobe.

The topic of teamwork in games is something that fascinates me. And the incentives for teamwork as well.

I wrote:

No amount of coercion will make people work in a team – look at L4D as a PvP team-based game which can either deliver an incredibly fulfilling experience as a team meshes together (on one or other sides; being ambushed well is just as good as winning sometimes) or an incredibly frustrating experience as the guy with 45% health heals himself really slowly while every other team member is being punded/pinned/constricted.

So, by all means reward team play but don’t think for a second that there won’t be bad players. And when all is said and done, maybe someone wants to play as the superhero lone killer? It’s not really BadWrongFun. Sometimes these loners save the day, sometimes they doom the team.

Now, TK trolls, that’s another matter entirely.

But the issue is that there remain too many rewards for solo play.

Someone else wrote:

CoD is the biggest culprit of this, the entire “Killstreak” chain kill system entices people to be individual, to try to rack up as many KILLS as possible even if those kills are not directly related to the goal. CoD, being a successful franchise from a monetary standpoint, has then been copied by other games to mimic that succes, and bring that “individual” mentality with it.

Left4Dead still represents the best team game I’ve seen so far.

A meeting of RSAIreland to network while watching the live stream of “People and Planet”, a talk by Sir David Attenborough, chaired by HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. The recording will be available soon.

Sir David presented an extremely compelling tale of overpopulation and Prince Philip followed up with lurid tales of his involvement with the WWF and how emancipation and education of women is probably the best hope for the planet.

Goes with anything.

This is not Richard Dreyfus.

Two photos for the 7th March.

Sir Ken Robinson and Phil Redmond.

This vessel, moored beside the City Hotel on the Foyle is currently out of order. As you can see from the photograph, it has considerable amounts of space inside, probably more than 60 seats. What could you do with that and how would you clean it up?

In other words: how important is the engine?

iPad + Despicable Me + Pizza = Happy Kids #recipeForASaturdayNight