Very few of the unlockable/craftable/buyable items are universally considered a direct upgrade on what they replace, and of those that are almost all of them are unlockable by achievements (wangler, equaliser, axtinguisher, etc). The achievement milestones are easy to get, and the achievements required are designed to make sure you know how to play the game (While there are some uberskill and grind ones in there, you don't need those to unlock items).

The only item I have seen consistently equipped that's not achievement based is the Sniper's Tribalman's Shiv. It's not a huge upgrade but you will need a couple of random drops to craft it.

I like the self-checkouts and find them quicker, but there are a few rules

1) Nothing age limited or in a security case that requires staff interaction anyway, just queue for the human when buying booze.

2) Unpackaged fruit or anything you have to weigh is a bit hit and miss.

3) Please please please understand the simple concept of showing the scanner the barcode, reverently placing the item in the dead centre of the scanner/scales platform thing and saying a prayer will not make it scan. I have seen far too may people fail to understand this, despite presumably having spent their entire lives watching the human operators do it. Ditto when its moaning at you to put the item in the bagging area, leaving it in your buggy/handbag/in another bag on the floor won't work.

I think the evercookie page gives you a new id every time you hit it. I did a simple open chrome -> hit page -> close -> repeat and only the pngData was the same across the two pages. A better test may be needed.

Because as it turned out winning the console war was a software/online services/developers war, not a hardware/games one. Something that Sony and Nintendo didn't seem to get until it was too late.

While yes you can set up your profile or page with a URL so it can be accessed at e.g. facebook.com/joe.bloggs Logins are done using email addresses, which have never been displayed publicly by default.

Which is why eglibc is LGPL, which is designed for this case and allows your C program to do that without itself being GPLed. Were eglibc GPL like wordpress is, your C program would also have to by GPL if it used the library.

Actually that achievement is probably there as a breadcrumb for people who know about the achievement system but not that there are barber shops, as IIRC they were added to WOW after the achievement system and players who don't go through the patch notes or visit WOW websites might not have known.Blizzard have said a few times that one of the aims of achievements was to encourage people to try other aspects of the game they might not have otherwise.

If they do have a darkside in WOW its being required to have the achievement for completing a raid in order to ever be invited into a group doing it. (But this led to an interface addon that lets players lie about the achievements they have....)

Says in the video description, the mac is upside down and the screen rotated by the video driver.

Nope, they can record the MAC of my access point and pin that to a location, but they can't access that MAC from the browser, so can't connect my web session and access point together. (unless they say, ooh write a web browser that contains a javascript function to get the access point's MAC from the OS).

Watch the youtube video, they have the software running on Vista work on widgets drawn in a OSX remote desktop, this can totally handle you moving windows around/changing screen resolution. I would be more worried if it can work on loads of different Gnome GTK themes, as the widgets will be less consistent.

Yes it is, but spiders in my bathroom is a more specific declaration and so will override the spiders in my house clause.

Actually, if the patent is about the way one segment lights up to show which controller it is (and which bit of a splitscreen setup you are), thats something that is really useful and I have not seen in a controller before the 360 one. I wouldn't mind if they had a patent on that (though the Wii does something similar with the 4 blue leds at the bottom of each remote, so maybe not)

Ok, when I view the whole story its in arial, but if I click on the link to my comment, the page is in my default sans-serif font..

On the other point, I know there are myriad ways of adding your own CSS to a page, I just simply want to kill every occurrence of arial on the interwebs, some regex on every bit of incoming CSS should do it