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  1. Re:good indy RPGs? on 2007 IGF Finalists Announced · · Score: 1

    Check out Mount and Blade: http://www.taleworlds.com/ it's a work-in-progress and last time I checked there wasn't any story but the combat system was fun.

  2. Re:Microsoft continues to hide online subscribers on Xbox Live Sees Surge in Usage · · Score: 1

    AFAIK the drives themselves are just 2,5" SATA hard drives, electrically the connection is also SATA + power but the HDD case - console connector itself is some non-standard shape.

    There are some converters on eBay that let you connect the 360 HDD to a normal PC SATA port so you can look at their photos to tell which pin is what (they're just bare PCBs).

  3. Re:Strange new world. on Intel to Make Cheap Flash Laptop · · Score: 2, Informative

    Isn't MS losing money on the whole Xbox operation though?

  4. Re:Energy output = input? on Blood Protein Used to Split Water · · Score: 1

    I think there is also some work done to make algae produce hydrogen:

    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/02/2 2/0810225

  5. Re:Why is the drive priced so low? on Hacking XBox 360 HD-DVD To Play On XP · · Score: 1

    Yeah, H.264 is supposedly very processor-intensive, with the high HD resolutions requiring ~2GHz (P4 or equivalent) CPU to play smoothly.

  6. Re:I liked the more webpages feature on Google's Test Search Engine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But only up to 100 results. I liked the MSN search beta more, where the results would be loaded automatically while you scrolled down; I don't think that one had a limit...

  7. Re:Not available in the US for the foreseeable fut on Motorola Develops Bare-Bones Phone · · Score: 1
    What is a locked phone?
    A locked phone is a phone that accepts sim-card only from one operator. Unlocked ones accept sim-cards from any operator.

    I guess you might need to check if the phone can work with the frequencies in your country; I think in the US the standard is 850MHz/1900MHz vs 900MHz/1800MHz in Europe.

    Oh, this doesn't apply to CDMA phones, which seem to have the phone number assigned to the phone itself
  8. Re:Big Simple Phones for Old People on Motorola Develops Bare-Bones Phone · · Score: 1
    They probably still need polyphonic ring-tones, not because their customers really care, but because the carriers want to sell ring tones, and you can always custom record something like "[ring-ring] MOM! PICK UP YOUR CELL PHONE! [ring-ring]".
    I think that would be mp3 ringtones - politphonic are more like midis. Some phones let you assign a ringtone to a person in your address book, so you could have the phone tell you who's calling with mp3s. Also: some phones support... I can't recall what it's called - dialing with your voice? You assign a short recording of your voice to a entry in the address book and you can then dial it just by saying the same thing. It was already on my Nokia 3310 so it can't be that hard to implement it presently
  9. Re:Finally... on Motorola Develops Bare-Bones Phone · · Score: 1
    No cover for the keypad. The #1 complaint non-techies have about phones is accidentally dialing someone.
    AFAIK most if not all "candybar" phones have automatic keypad locking after a preset time, and even before you could lock it manually by pressing some button long enough (how unlocking works depends on the brand, but Nokia, for example, required you to press two specific buttons one after the other in the 3310 I used, which worked well enough)
  10. Re:Where is the "license"? on Microsoft Banning 360 Firmware Modders? · · Score: 1

    If it only bans you from Xbox live then I assume you can still use the console? It could be seen as breaking the live EULA then, if there is one...

  11. Re:The 9 Reasons on Nine Reasons To Skip Firefox 2.0 · · Score: 1

    ...of course there is: tools->options -> "when firefox starts" - chose "show my windows and tabs from last time". Tab Mix Plus did it in the previous versions, though it didn't restore form text, it did let you choose the session before the last one if firefox crashed though. Another extension called Session Manager saved the forms too, but TMP has a lot of other useful features also.

  12. Re:Do volunteers care about tracking down memory l on Nine Reasons To Skip Firefox 2.0 · · Score: 1

    There's a test-version of 2.0 compatible Tab Mix Plus in the description at addons.mozilla.org