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  1. Re:Yes, its a great game *spoilers* on BioShock Review · · Score: 1

    My favourite strategy is to tag a Big Daddy with Security bullseye, and then purposely set off an alarm (such as hacking a device and running the flow into an alarm tile). The one minute's worth of attack by the flying security robots generally takes the BD down to very little health, with no ammo loss and next to no eve loss.

  2. Re:"The game itself is really good..." on Bioshock's Launch Aftershocks · · Score: 1

    For what it's worth, you can inventory all your weapons/ammo, along with all your selected plasmids, by activating the "weapons switch" screen (shift key by default). It shows all the weapons you're holding along the top, which icons for each ammo top beneath it (the ammo name and amount displays on mouseover).

  3. Re:How about a day of EXPLANATION?!?! on Day of Silence On the Internet · · Score: 5, Informative
    IANA*, but here's my understanding of the matter. In March, the Copyright Royalty Board set new royalty rates for Internet radio broadcasters. The rate increase has been delayed once, but is currently to go into effect on July 15. There are three parts to this:
    1. A fee is levied to a broadcaster, per song per listener. The fee also increases every year (as far as I understand, there was a fee previously, but it is being increased).
    2. The fee is retroactive to January 2006, due immediately when the rate increases go into effect.
    3. There is a minimum fee of $500 per year.
    Because of these changes (which are not applicable to terrestrial or satellite radio broadcasters), many webcasters will be forced to shut down on July 15 because they will not have the revenue to pay the new fees (ie. they will go bankrupt).

    Instead, the Internet Radio Equality Act proposes a lower royalty fee (0.33 cents per hour per listener) or a revenue sharing agreement.
  4. Re:Pricing on new content? on Valve Has No Plans to Charge For Downloadables · · Score: 1

    Due to Steam, I became introduced to, and subsequently purchased, two excellent games that I would otherwise have not even likely known about: Psychonauts and Shadowgrounds. My Steam games list currently contains about 20 titles.

  5. Re:Hosting services stuck on PHP4 on Going Dynamic with PHP · · Score: 1

    I believe his determination of "stability" (which you will notice I, too, enclosed in quotes originally), is whether or not the new release will break any old code. If it will and it is non-essential, he passes on it, otherwise he'll notify everyone that there'll be an update in xx days that will break xyz.

  6. Re:Hosting services stuck on PHP4 on Going Dynamic with PHP · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Check out Telana. It's a rather good (and cost-effective) PHP5 host, and I've been using them almost since PHP5 was rolled out, for exactly this reason -- noone else had either PHP5 hosting or good PHP5 hosting. Right now he's running 5.0.4, but once he determines a release is "stable", he upgrades.