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  1. Re:mandatory and inescapable. on Vista Casts A Pall On PC Gaming? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Shift+click on the no. It's very poor UI, but it works.

  2. Re:A swamp cooler is a completely different animal on Water Cooling Computers With A Swimming Pool · · Score: 1

    Or, a pool stays at the mean ambient temperature, meaning it's cooler than that in the day and warmer at night, and all heat lost through evaporation is regained through insolation and heat conducted from the ground.

    However, as water has a greater thermal mass than air, there needs to be a smaller temperature difference between it and the body for it to be comfortable. This means the pool needs to be at greater than the ambient air temperature, assuming that the air temperature is not uncomfortably high.

    And no, I don't have a pool. They're not common in the UK.

  3. Re:A swamp cooler is a completely different animal on Water Cooling Computers With A Swimming Pool · · Score: 1

    It's not cooler than the surrounding air.

  4. Re:Light your home just like Walmart on Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, that old 10-20kHz flicker. I find it unbearable too.

  5. Re:lights on Appliances Hog More Energy Than High-Tech Gadgets · · Score: 1

    That's a shame. Mine cost £0.99 for two, and come on within 1 second.

  6. Re:screen is stunning? on Opera Running on the OLPC · · Score: 3, Informative

    You almost certainly don't have a 200ppi screen. My mobile phone has one, and it is indeed stunning. My laptop has a premium 127ppi screen, and that is nice, but 200ppi does look very good on a computer.

  7. Re:Simple on Boston Globe to Blogger — "Stop Using Opera" · · Score: 1

    I take it your bank write code that doesn't work in Opera.

    Mine does.

  8. Re:This applies to everything these days on Why Do Gadgets Break? · · Score: 1

    Guess which one was hugely over-engineered because it was just down the line from a bridge which had failed in use killing 86 people and inspiring the worst poem ever?

    The decay of the road bridge is also before the end of the design life, too. Fortunately it's a gradual failure rather than a sudden one, and of course routine maintenance of bridges is a whole lot better nowadays, too.

  9. Re:What? on Online Video Begins To Threatens Television · · Score: 1

    No.

    A TV license is required to watch TV on a 3G mobile phone, if it's a broadcast TV channel.

    It's mainly in Ireland that people put up big aerials to watch British channels, though.

  10. Re:Pedantic on MP3 Transmitters Now Legal In the UK · · Score: 1

    Whatever!

    I'm still using a transmitter I got off my dad to transmit my iPod to my stereo. That said, he got it off his father who bought it in 1937, so there may well be grandfather rights allowing it to be used in the intervening years.

  11. Re:Fine print... on Skype Unleashed Onto Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Not in this one.

    I guess they're biting the bullet on this one and hoping to make some money on inbound and legacy style calls.

  12. Re:Renewable waves? on Wave-Powered Desalination · · Score: 1

    Oh, I thought waves were caused by wind.

  13. Re:Inaccurate, misleading, worthless article on 10 Reasons To Buy a DSLR · · Score: 1

    Except, perhaps those people don't even need the $500 prosumer one. Maybe they just take flash photos of people grinning at the camera like everyone else does.

  14. Re:Renewable waves? on Wave-Powered Desalination · · Score: 1

    What do waves have to do with the movement of the moon?

  15. Re:government must define terms on Adult .IE Domain Names Banned As Immoral · · Score: 1

    My mistake. I misread your meandering argument.

  16. Re:government must define terms on Adult .IE Domain Names Banned As Immoral · · Score: 1

    Interesting. You're claiming that pornography's not about sex because nudity's not about sex. Are you sure you're posting in the right article?

  17. Re:idiotic on Adult .IE Domain Names Banned As Immoral · · Score: 1

    I'm presuming that you say it's Catholic because it used to be run as a department on UCD.ie?

  18. Re:It's Ireland. Get over it on Adult .IE Domain Names Banned As Immoral · · Score: 1

    Your comment history suggests that you don't live in Ireland. Perhaps you're a plastic paddy.

    And a rude patronising moron.

    But maybe I'm wrong.

  19. Re:Not so bad on US Population to Top 300 Million · · Score: 1

    For example, in the cotton market, the US produces a very healthy 25% of the world's crop.

    The subsidy the cotton industry gets for that? Well, 4 times the value of the cotton produced. i.e. Equivalent to the value of the entire world's crop. That is something to complain about.

    Ditto for sugar beet in the EU, and indeed EU cotton production.

  20. Re:Not so bad on US Population to Top 300 Million · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not so, because there's no industrial base in those countries, so there's no chance of employment other than agriculture, and with no market for their produce, no chance to buy materials to improve the efficiency of their agriculture, not to mention things that aren't foods.

  21. Re:Microsoft will not be unseated on UK's Biggest Supermarket Challenges Microsoft · · Score: 1

    You'd be lucky to find white eggs in Tescos in the UK. They're simply not available. Blue ones are, but not white.

  22. Re:Microsoft will not be unseated on UK's Biggest Supermarket Challenges Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Or even internet access. Value for £13.97 a month, Finest for £24.97 a month, and ordinary services for prices in between.

  23. Re:Is that OsCommerce? on UK's Biggest Supermarket Challenges Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Well, it's exactly the same skin that they use for their webmail, so I think it's probably just their design.

  24. Re:The UK equivalent of Walmart... on UK's Biggest Supermarket Challenges Microsoft · · Score: 1
    Not especially. Walmart is having difficulty Walmartising ASDA, but it's partly because the UK supermarket trade tends to cycle in how luxury it is, and at the moment, goods are selling on quality rather than price, where ASDA competes almost completely on price. Tesco Finest is well regarded by customers as a luxury range and ASDA's equivalent, which I can't remember the name of, is not particularly prestigious. This explains the rebirth of Sainsbury's (2% of whose customers go there based on price), which was #1 in the UK until 1994 and was overtaken by ASDA to number 3 in about 2000, and also the dramatic rise of Waitrose, which has no value range, and a strong emphasis on everything being high quality.

    As for Tesco's behaviour being like Walmart's, it does squeeze its suppliers extremely tightly, but so does ASDA. Those supermarkets are the main drivers of large format 24 hour stores in the UK, with the other supermarkets generally shutting at 8 or 10pm and only having a few 24 hour stores.

    ASDA has had major disputes about unionisation, which Tesco has not done, but otherwise I think they're much of a muchness in terms of unpleasant business practices.

  25. Re:Buying Energy: Gasoline vs. Electricity on 500 Miles on a 5-Minute Recharge? · · Score: 1

    Electric motors are well over twice as efficient as internal combustion engines, so it's not so unbelievable. Especially with regenerative braking, etc.