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  1. Re:Suck Egg Mule! on No Online Co-Op For Halo 3 At Launch · · Score: 1

    Half life words as a series of small sections of map which are not in an way 'glued' together, and when you enter a trigger zone, the next/previous section of map is loaded into memory and the previous map discarded. This leaves a relatively small footprint of map for 2 machines to sync up at any one time. THAT is why it was 'doable'.

    It's certainly do-able in Halo 3, but there ARE boundaries to overcome first.

  2. Re:Life in NYC just got harder.. on New York Plans Surveillance Veil For Downtown · · Score: 1

    Right. So sounds just like London, where I live. Or any city for that matter.

  3. Re:Protection from Sabotage forgotten? on Floating Wind Turbines · · Score: 1

    Yes, damn those Turban wearing touri..terorrrororororrists. They wear turbans right? Or is it flat caps? I can't remember. Anyway, they're all out to destroy windturbines!

    That'll show the west!

    People like you make me feel unwell.

  4. Re:I've seen it... on Perpetual Energy Machine Getting Lots of Attention · · Score: 1

    "uneducated person."

    Clearly, you are!

    Think about it: if all the energy returns to the original form that started the motion... there has been none of the 'created' energy converted to something usable. And there you have it, a perpetual spinning disc which... can't generate any useful energy.

  5. Re:well... on Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Image Hosting · · Score: 0

    Right. Yeah, you go find your child porn upload site and we'll just leave you to it.

  6. Re:Emphasis on the light, please. on Vertical Farming · · Score: 1

    Yes, I lived in the countryside all my childhood surrounded by farms. It smells a damn sight better than London petrol fumes I have to put up with now.

  7. Re:Emphasis on the light, please. on Vertical Farming · · Score: 1

    "That said, large windmills cannot be attached to the side of buildings."

    What, like this?
    http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/1001/uk/pits2.jp g :-)

  8. Re:Easy solution on Preventing Sick Spaceships · · Score: 1

    You seem keen on apples and oranges.

  9. Re:Fascinating technology, but useless for Freevie on BBC White Paper Claims HD Over Low Bandwidth Signal · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't put it down too much. Freeview is extremely successful in the UK due to some shops managing to cut the prices of boxes to 20-30 pounds these days - plus, all new tvs have had the boxes built in for a long time. It's a very promising transition.

  10. Re:wireless is good for homes too on Residential Wi-Fi Mapping Database Revealed · · Score: 1

    Just because it's a Centrino, it doesn't mean it's going to get good recpetion. It's all dependant on where the aerial is in the device. I've seen two laptops with the same Centrino chip achieve entirely different ranges.

    Also, if your aerial is not perpendicular to the wall/ceiling, you are guaranteed to be getting your signal blocked significantly more.

  11. Re:My Letter to Viacom on Viacom Sues Google Over YouTube for $1 Billion · · Score: 1

    Yeah, good luck with that.

  12. Re:How often will MySpace API Change? on Social Networking Sites Opening Their APIs · · Score: 1

    The eBay API is relatively robust and /does/ use compatibility levels to deal with backwards compatibility, however you're right in that if you try and program something too specific and that feature is cut from eBay, you're on your own.

  13. Re:Slashdot tags on Labels Not Tags, Says Google · · Score: 1

    I would argue that the /. tagging system has proved the point of user generated content more than anything I've seen for a long while. I find it fantastic that it's become a quick way of looking at an article summary and getting a general consensus if it's total BS/FUD or not before I even click it. Arguably though, it probably fails as a search tool.

  14. Re:bs on Apple Charges For 802.11n, Blames Accounting Law · · Score: 1

    Yes, because the itunes network has specifically designed to deal with hardware updates.

  15. Re:IE 7 can't run on Win2k on IE7 Compatibility a Developer Nightmare · · Score: 1

    you have two choices:
    1. do a course, so you can get a cheap educational license
    2. earn some money and buy the software
    3. swallow pride, pirate, then feel better once a company hirs you and buys a license.

    Everyone does one of the three. you don't get something for nothing. it's not a 'free' skill. People are lucky that they can self teach computer skills and have their only overhead being the equipment/software - not a single course/degree in sight unless you
    choose to take one.

    I worked at home teaching myself web development as a young teenager, buying my own software from doing small bits of freelance, then took a job at 16 once I was skilled enough to work in an agency. I'm sure you'll find a lot of similar stories here on slashdot. I don't see why you seem to have such a problem with this fact. Even if you are late 30s with another job trying to migrate to web development (especially open source), ALL you really need is a PC with windows XP. Everything else can be obtained for free.

    End. Of. Pointless. Discussion.

  16. Re:IE 7 can't run on Win2k on IE7 Compatibility a Developer Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Jesus do you ever rest?
    Maybe this hypothetical business (which seems, according to you, to be run by a group of uptight idiots) might buy a license to XP SP2, for whatever it is now? Less than £200 over here last time I checked. Any business that can't afford that, might want to look at reaffirming their status to 'hobby', not a 'business'.

    Last time I worked at a /very/ small development company, software was virtually our /only/ overhead. But we damn well paid for it.

  17. Re:Cost prohibitive on IE7 Compatibility a Developer Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Well I would hope that any development shop had a PC already that they were /developing on/. Also, chances are, if you're a small shop, you are unlikely to cater for Macs unless you /know/ the target audience are more than 5% mac users.

  18. Re:Cost prohibitive on IE7 Compatibility a Developer Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Uhm. It just needs to be able to run Windows XP SP2.

  19. Re:Not a useful article, really on IE7 Compatibility a Developer Nightmare · · Score: 1

    I would say that it's generally pretty bad practice in /any/ language to use 'status' or 'error' as a variable name as they are frequently reserved by frameworks (which, really, shouldn't use them either), core components/libraries, and often the actual operating environment. Sure, IE7 shouldn't make up it's own rules, but similarly, you should be careful with your naming conventions .

  20. Re:Microsoft does suck on IE7 Compatibility a Developer Nightmare · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes:
    http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
    (link on that page for standalone IE7, too)

    All our developers at work have this installed, plus all the other windows browsers, plus a Mac with a few relevant browsers. In fact if they weren't devout Windows/Linux developers I'm sure they could do the whole thing on a mac using parallels.

  21. Re:How is it misleading? on Russian Rocket Hits Wyoming · · Score: 1

    AHA!

    I saw that too and was wondering what lie it was this time. I love their sensationalist billboard headlines. I think there should be a 'guess the real story' competition each day.

  22. Re:How do you configure SVN for automatic checkout on A Proper Environment for Web Development? · · Score: 1

    Google using shell scripting with SVN 'hooks'

  23. Re:Welcome to inevitability on Why Vista Took So Long · · Score: 1

    I would say that if you have your CPU in all the 3 top games consoles in the world, you're quite a player... just not in OS/Productivity software so much.

  24. Re:google should have turned a blind eye. on Gaia Project Agrees To Google Cease and Desist · · Score: 1

    Google aren't a f**king charity for people's pet projects.

  25. Re:Read or Die? on Cell Phone Owners Allowed To Break Software Locks · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the UK unlocking has not damaged the industry at all. Here you sign a contract; you can't break the contract, so therefore even if you unlock your phone, you still have to pay the remainder of your contract.

    That sorts it all out in one.