Recommendation:

Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics
by Bruce A. Schumm. Johns Hopkins Press.

Excellent. I've rarely seen these concepts explained so clearly.

Anyone got a link to the full press conference video? Probably being daft here but I just can't seem to find it...

Awesome flying, but also great film making.

I'm always interested to hear about new MMOs and if it's done (very) well then a Starwars MMO should be the ultimate for a sci-fi and fantasy fan like me, but...

The movement looks pretty clunky, were they using a mouse or a console controller? It looks horribly like fixed direction movement.. i.e. up, or left, or up+left.

The combat looks just plain weak... i'm sorry but running up to enemy and depending on the fact they can't shoot straigt? I've played enough games like that thanks.

Storyline is good if properly integrated with the sandbox style gameplay which other MMOs pull off quite well, but cut scenes alone don't do it for me, and the dialogue is just plain painful.

If it's early days then I'll be happy to remain open minded. It's a good post because I'm interested (upvote), but I haven't seen anything in this demo which excites me (other than it being starwars).

Voice comms work well in a closed social group where people are known, will interact with the same group of people on a regular basis and will be held responsible for their behaviour. I play EVE, and our corp uses voice comms all the time.

The way voice comms is used on public servers such as this is just plain horrible, I couldn't imagine sitting in home with all that hate and ego flowing out of my headphones. I certainly wouldn't want to expose a child to that.

Best thing you can do to improve your gaming experience is seek out a group of like minded folks and build a safe, fun gaming environment. Do that and your online gaming will be 10x as rewarding as public servers.

When I used to play counter strike (which was the worse of the worst for this type of behaviour) a group of friends and I did just this, renting our own server and kicking any hateful or agressive folks who showed up.

Before you know it you've got a crowd of regulars who are glad to have found a pleasant environment in which to play. It's worked out the same on pretty much everything else I've played.

These public server rats don't know what they're missing

How could you not up vote that?

I'd also like to see the full lecture.

A dislocated neck?

No, that's wrong. Quantum super-position isn't just an acknowledgement of possible outcomes, statistics or probability. At the quantum level super-position is a very real physical effect, as observed in the interference patterns of the famous double-slit experiment.

Roundabouts are safer. But I love how wikipedia lists "elderly drivers may become confused" as one of the disadvantages of roundabouts as compared to intersections.

Yes, this seems to be terrible reporting by the BBC.

The process by which quantum super-position collapses to classical state - for example through interaction with a macroscopic object - is called decoherence.

An introduction to decoherence can be found here:

http://www.ipod.org.uk/reality/reality_decoherence.asp

Whoa, big mechanical things are scary.

There's no way I would have been stood there filming that.

Distasteful, to say the least.