Posts by Peter McGinn

EA: early Battlefield 3 buyers will gain no advantage

Battlefield 2

BF2 was the daddy - and I see no reason why BF3 won't be also. To be honest I think BF & MF are two different flavours of the same genre..

Logitech Z906 5.1 surround speakers kit

Z-680

It seems to me that surround systems for PC's have not moved an inch in over 10 years. I still have my Logitech Z-680 - which IMHO is still the Shizzle.

Obama & Gates vs the US military-industrial complex

That's OK as long as...

... they keep the Navy Rail Gun on track!!!

http://gizmodo.com/351467/navy-rail-gun-test-destroys-everything-it-touches-at-5640-mph

MOAB and the pain ray - Iraq's war-missing wonder weapons

Never, Ever, Ever...

The MOAB was never intended to be used in Iraq. The desert war ended after a couple of weeks and moved into the cities. Dropping that monster would have demonstrated how to turn a city to dust in 10 seconds flat, along with most of it's inhabitants. However demonstrating to a potential enemy (IRAN) that you have this capability in the region is always usefull...