Sky launch their 3D channel in the UK in the next couple of months, at least if you are a Sky HD subscriber and have a "3D Ready TV".

Sky's press release says the content is "a broad selection of the best available 3D programming, which is expected to include movies, entertainment and sport."

http://corporate.sky.com/media/press_releases/2009/3d_tv.htm

Although calling this HD is slightly pushing the definition (pun alert) as the broadcasts are in 1080i where each alternate field is for left or right eye, so the end result is 3D in 540p (1920x540 pixels).

Sigh, do Tesco have to get into every market?

Back in the mid-2000s 1 in every 8 pounds spend in UK retail sector was in Tesco, by 2007 this was 1 in every 7, and current estimates are that 1 in every 6 pounds spent at (online & offline) retail UK is in Tesco ... 17% of all British retail spending is with one company.

I don't think this even includes Tesco's non-retail offerings such as financial services, insurance, broadband, and now iPhones.

Tesco are becoming the British [i]Buy n Large megacorporation[/i].

But if the current models of PS3 don't support Linux then what is the point?

Also, wouldn't they be better off with some Nvidia Tesla for cheap supercomputing applications?

Not since the 1970s; I'll bet most British Engadget readers were not even born when Benny Hill was last on the tv in UK, there's not even any cable/satellite channels that rum these ancient shows.

@imdaillest: Urban Dictionary has the highest ranked Google hit, so it must be right. ;)

"nice source btw, NOT http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bwahaha" -- oh the irony! :p

If you are going to use waky-pedia sources, I noticed you did not cite the main-site which lists/redirects Mwahahaha as 'Evil Laugh' but doesn't have articles/links for bwahahaha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mwahahaha although it does mention in the body (although of course, you could have just added that, it being Wiki n'all).

BWAHAHAHA is the improper use of the much maligned correct Muahahaha; doubly incorrect if capitalized. Often used with much gusto in place of actual intelligence.

What he meant to say was Muahahaha.

"Xenon is an Intel product and not a term to describe high performance processors"

No, Xenon is a noble gas which is used in my car's headlights and other bright lamps; and you are breathing it in right now as it occurs in the atmosphere in trace amounts.

BillG: you ain't heard much then!

PlayStation 3's Cell is also a PowerPC core that runs two simultaneous thread; Nintendo's Wii uses PowerPC core too, but that's single threaded AFAIK.

Xbox 360 = 3x physical cores with 2 threads each = 6 logical cores.

PS3 = 1x physical core with 2 threads = 2 logical cores + 6 SPE.

Wii = 1x physical core with 1 thread = 1 logical core.


IBM Power chips since Power5 in 2004 have offered simultaneous multithreading with two threads per physical core.

When I saw her gamertag I read it as filthybatteries.

Branding FAIL: the Games icon is a picture of a PlayStation controller and not an Xbox 360 one.