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Comment on World in Conflict by Benjamin Gilbert

Benjamin Gilbert — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:52:31 +0000

Oh - looks mighty impressive none the less.

Comment on World in Conflict by Jack

Jack — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:38:56 +0000

Nah, it’s an RTS but without resource gathering / base building. Much more about battlefield tactics and lots and lots of explosions You get to call in a wide range of ’support’ ranging from Artillery and Air-to-Air strikes all the way up to nukes. Check out some of the videos.

Comment on stay-at-home server by Benjamin Gilbert

Benjamin Gilbert — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:36:11 +0000

Brilliant!

Comment on World in Conflict by Benjamin Gilbert

Benjamin Gilbert — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:35:40 +0000

Half Life creators attempt at CoD 4 right?

Comment on World in Conflict by Jack

Jack — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:59:14 +0000

I played the demo, great fun. One to buy … when I have a new pc.

Comment on Switches by Tom

Tom — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:44:14 +0000

I enjoyed that a bit too much

Comment on K810i by Tom

Tom — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:43:52 +0000

After a quick whiz through its obvious you can’t link to anything that has dynamic content, like app lists that can change. Possibly for some internal hard linking reason, possibly because the feature would require a lot of work or resources to work effectively.

Dunno about you but I’m stoked up for Android

Comment on Standardisation by Frank Morrow

Frank Morrow — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:35:57 +0000

This has never made sense to me.

I can see the economic advantages to ‘locking people in’ but in the case of something like mobile phones, surely the actual phone manufacturers (nokia, sony erikson, etc) aren’t really going to be able to compete with uber-cheap 3rd party compatible products?

Motorola’s RAZR phone’s are chargeable from standard micro-USB, but I’m not sure about any others. Crazy.

Comment on only thing we have to fear is fear itself by Frank Morrow

Frank Morrow — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:27:00 +0000

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” - FDR

… well, and stairs …

… stairs and dancing, and we’re away

Comment on Energy Usage by Frank Morrow

Frank Morrow — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:16:14 +0000

What is this nonsense? Whoooooooo do you think you are?

I also wasn’t aware that the doors were only semi-automatic as an energy saving measure, although I suppose it has some marginal benefit in this respect.

Personally, I find one of the biggest hurdles that the cause of energy conservation faces at the moment is the need for legislation in order to inforce the often very minor personal inconveniences that can overall have a large positive benefit on the environment (e.g. sensible recycling, energy conservation, responsible corporate waste disposal policies).

In many cases it is necessary for government or local authorities to make it cheaper to be green than to not be, usually through strategic taxation. The problem is that because governments tend to just dump this money in ‘the pot’ and not redirect it towards environmental projects themselves, this is usually seen as a cynical ploy to raise revenue. I suspect that it often is.

It may be at least partly because people are dumb, but the public needs to be guided and given a positive example, as well as given an incentive. As an illustrative example, people could be encouraged to buy more fuel efficient cards by penally taxing SUVs and other gas-gusslers, but this should be offset by offering grants or tax-breaks for installation of catalytic converters.

Similarly, punitive taxation of motorists needs to be balanced with much greater investment in alternative transport provision. If there is no viable alternative to using a car to get to work, people are going to feel aggrieved, resentful and persecuted by motor taxes and this will surely result in reflected negative feelings towards green policies in general.

Just some thoughts.