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  1. Re:You mean on Doom 3 Demo Available · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or do what Epic Games (Unreal) do. For every main build of an in-house game their script creates a 1) Full game 2) Dedicated server and 3) Demo build. The latter two are cut down from the full game as specified. Typically, though, the second two are not released.

  2. Re:One more recent trend... on The File Sharing Report · · Score: 1

    Are you sure you don't mean 10 ads along with another 5 or so theatrical length trailers? That's what we get with these guys. You can, though, buy a £10 ($18) monthly pass which pays for itself with two £6 ($11) evening visits.

  3. Re:Piss of Apple, wait for the revenge on Rob Glaser Responds, Talks Up Real Networks · · Score: 1

    And people are free to remember that DRM-free wav and mp3 already play on the iPod. It's not as if they are trying to do anything inherantly evil.

  4. Re:my wish list... on Rio Carbon MP3 Has A 5G CF To Be Cannibalized · · Score: 2, Informative

    Get a Canon PowerShot A80 (not to be confused with the A85). It's the best camera you can buy for the money. Just be sure to use quality (2000 or 2300mAh) rechargables with it, otherwise you'll get about 10 minutes of usage rather than hours.

  5. Re:Sounds familiar... on Port-A-Nuke · · Score: 1

    My apologies, it doesn't say if they accepted it or not. At free power for 20 years, I would expect they did. Even if it was, it wouldn't be ready before 2010. My recollection of stories from a year ago isn't as clever as I thought it was (hence why I didn't skim it back over)

  6. Re:Sounds familiar... on Port-A-Nuke · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's already one in existance, built by Toshiba for Galena (Alaska) to demonstrate the technology. It's self contained and should last ~30 years before the fuel runs out. Reference.

  7. Re:Nice on China Goes Nuclear · · Score: 1

    Before, of course. I doubt anybody has ever actually attempted to extract uranium from the chimney stack of a coal plant. I expect that the conclusion was drawn purely on the mass of uranium in the coal.

  8. Re:Nice on China Goes Nuclear · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I read a statistic once. Had we been able to harness all the uranium released from burning coal for fuel since 1970 and created reactor grade material, we could have created approx. the same amount of electricity as the coal burning itself.

  9. Re:The Wiki way? on Mozilla.org Relaunched · · Score: 1

    You need a Mozilla CVS un/pw combo. Just an easy interface for those who need to, and it's been there for a while.

  10. Re:The Previous Design on Mozilla.org Relaunched · · Score: 1

    The new design isn't a poor excuse to show off CSS positioning effects, it uses them to it's advantage. Everything joe blogs needs is clear to show, anything else is much more clearly displayed due to the lack of clutter.

  11. Re:a better solution already exists on Implications Of The Recent Hash Function Attacks · · Score: 1

    ROT13 is not a hash function.
    Even better! The chance of a hash collision in ROT-13 is even better than nil!

  12. Re:It's about time! on Microsoft to Launch Online Music Store · · Score: 2, Informative

    If the battery dies in warrenty then you can just send it back, it's a redundant point that a voided warrenty can be uh... voided more.

    Once it's open it's not hard to install one of these. They have fitted plugs, like your PC fan. It's a standard battery too. Used in some PDAs, and the like.

  13. Re:The inside layout is far better for an all-in-o on Apple Introduces New G5 iMac · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Absolutely. There's big money to be made from print quality images.

  14. Re:Hmmm on Bikes Against Bush Creator Busted · · Score: 1

    Or... not. Would you support the same actions but with spraycan paint?

  15. Re:Simply put.. on Gmail Cracks Down on Third-Party Notifiers · · Score: 1

    The $50/click will be on high paying keywords such as those associated with mortgages where quality referrals really pay for themselves hundreds of times over.

  16. i'm logging in and out just fine on Gmail Cracks Down on Third-Party Notifiers · · Score: 2, Informative

    I thought it might be because I had https:// bookmarked, but it's not on either site.

  17. Re:Stupid on Florida Ruling May Lead To E-voting Paper Trail · · Score: 1

    The paper trail is not best implemented as a "Receipt" for voting, as that denies anonymity and allows coercion.

    How is a laser printed reciept placed in a secure box any different than a punched card or marked paper slip placed in a secure box?

  18. Re:Electric Light Hamster Show on Hamster-Powered Night Light · · Score: 1

    1999 called, they want their hamster dance back! (Which, for the record, I bought the CD of!)

  19. Re:Mozilla on Winamp Skin Exploit in the Wild · · Score: 1

    The defunct minibrowser used the IE API to display html. Much easier for them to do that than to install gecko with the client.

  20. Re:a few reasons on Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? · · Score: 1

    Azureus uses SWT and is fast, responsive and cross platform.

  21. Re:Google Ads on How Google Could Overthrow AIM · · Score: 1

    They don't need to log. Just throw in some real-time analysis.

  22. Re:Big brother-in-law, the insurance salesman on Pay-As-You-Drive Car Insurance · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, with the USA decreasing GPS accuracy to miles rather than metres on a whim I don't see drive-through tracking being introduced any time soon.

  23. Re:Sceptical on Pay-As-You-Drive Car Insurance · · Score: 1

    We have a choice here of metered or flat rate water. Metered is cheaper for low users, flat rate for higher. I also saw the article and I'm fairly sure it was leaning towards the same thing.

  24. Re:ID3 tagging on Digital Radio With Removable Flash Storage · · Score: 1

    RDS is oooold, or at least here (UK). And again, it's up to the station to determine what goes in the RDS field. Most don't put track information there.

  25. Re:Lucky British... on Digital Radio With Removable Flash Storage · · Score: 1

    It's broadcast from regular masts so that local radio can also get a bite of the pie. It also means that rather like mobile phones, signal is poor in upland or heavily enclosed indoor areas.