In a hurry? Jump straight to the solution. I love Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2). I played it a lot in my uni days with my nerdy housemates, and we still try to meet up a few times a year to relive the good old times. Here’s one of those meet-ups, when we hooked a… [Read More]
Like it or not, there are people out there who devote their lives to cracking software, games and applications for free distribution over the internet. Piracy is costing the industry millions of pounds a year because the one tangible asset that they are able to sell- their intellectual property- is being ripped off. Those who… [Read More]
Just two years ago, everyone I knew seemed to have a BlackBerry- they loved it too. Now, I feel like the only person in the world who still has one. BlackBerry has really struggled to stay ahead of the competition, and with the recent release of the Samsung Galaxy SIII, BlackBerry will soon be crushed… [Read More]
There are a lot of computer components that reflect certain human traits or organs. I thought it would be fun to list them, along with a real life comparison! Processor The brain. This controls the speed of our arithmetic, puzzle solving and reaction times. There isn’t a processor out there that is as powerful as… [Read More]
ShaoSoft have released an app for the BlackBerry which they consider to be somewhat unique because, put simply, nobody knows what it does. Well, nobody knows what it does until they pay £1 for the privilege of downloading it. Welcome to ‘The Surprise App’. This is not a new marketing ploy; people have been selling… [Read More]
Recently our first year computer science department had a lecture on IP Datagrams. While people were Facebooking and falling asleep around me, I paid attention. It’s definitely worth learning the science behind data transfer over the internet or we risk being locked in to a consumerist bubble, where we’ve all been trained to use obscolete… [Read More]
During one of my lectures, I began to question the assumption that computers can only understand 1s and 0s. Lecturers tell us our applications and protocols must work only in binary. We, the latest generation of computer scientists, are slowly being brainwashed into worshipping the binary form, and we rise up in anger at the… [Read More]
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