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Comment Re:Performance? I'd rather worry about comfort (Score 1) 283

It also has the advantage of being pretty cheap, which is handy since the wheel tends to gum up after 18 months or so in a way that I've never been able to fix, requiring periodic replacements.

I don't own a Razer-mouse, but I do recognise your problem here. Have you ever tried opening the mouse, and cleaning the interior?
I've been doing this myself for about five years now, and I'm still on the same mouse after all those years.
Since I'm on a Logitech mouse, I don't know if it's the same as a Razer mouse, but you can open the mouse by unscrewing the screws on the bottom of the mouse. The tricky bit here is (at least for my mouse) that those screws are hidden under the little tevlon-stickers.
So what I did was remove those stickers, unscrew it, and then give it a thorough clean. I could re-attach the stickers the first few times I did this, but after some time they just don't hold anymore. To counter that I bought a roll of tevlon tape a few years ago, and just use a tiny strip of this on the bottom of the mouse.
As said, this might be a Logitech-only thing, but I would assume that at least every mouse can be opened, and cleaned, like the steps written before.
Hope it helps.

Comment Re:Use a real alarm clock (Score 1) 405

I'm not too sure about other phones, but my N900 will power itself off once the battery is empty; yet still leaves enough power for it to trigger the alarm in the morning.
The only time this 'feature' annoyed me when I once was unable to turn the alarm off once my battery was empty (and I didn't have my charger with me); Then again, it also saved me a few times, because I forgot to charge it.

Comment Officially dead for Windows too (Score 5, Informative) 190

Well, that's a coincidence: It's officially dead for Windows too. And has been since almost three months after launch.

I really liked the Unreal Tournament games (even though I'm an id Software fanboy), and definitely the first part was a lot better than its counterpart at the time; Quake 3. Whereas Quake 3 had obvious masterlike AI-bots, the AI in Unreal Tournament always seemed to resemble a bit more humanlike play-style.
UT2004 was great too, and had some awesome new gametypes, which really worked well. They were planning on releasing a new update for it every year (hence the 2004 addition to the title), but failed at doing that (probably because they discovered their new cash cow; Gears of War).
Unreal Tournament 3's figures were very bad: Already after a month of release, the servers got less and less. As of today there's only a handfull of servers left (for the UK at least), with even less players.
I must admit myself that I also didn't play UT3 as much as I played the previous titles.

So to be honest, I can't really see too much of a loss in this (except that it would have been easier for other Unreal engined games to be ported over to Linux).

Comment Re:I think they overvalue themselves... (Score 5, Insightful) 191

They should have been smart enough to realize that anyone who needs their services already knows who they are.

So, you're saying that pretty much any big brand might as well stop advertising?
Everyone knows Coca Cola by now... They might as well stop advertising, because anyone feels like cola, they just buy Coca Cola!

And most commercials don't work directly: It's just for those moments when the consumer actually wants to buy a domain, the name will ring a bell. At such time, GoDaddy is more likely to be chosen by someone with not enough knowledge of what is important in a webhost; but they'll be remembered by those 'funny' commercials at the Superbowl.

Comment Re:They are willing to do the needful (Score 1) 534

I don't get it why you would think that asking where "please do the needful" comes from; I can't see anything racist about asking that.
Being afraid of asking such an, imho, genuine curious question is something which shamefully the overly political correctnss has brought us.
Since I moved to England, I heard certain areas use terms which I had never heard of before in English class (I'm Dutch). I never considered asking where those terms originated from as being racist.
I realise it's a bit of a different situation than yours (for one, those questions were asked to people of the same race), but I think it's in the same line.

Actually, I think it's quite an interesting question, and you're silly not allowing yourself to ask it.

Comment Re:Wow, thanks for sharing. (Score 1) 148

To their credit: It's one of the first reviews I see who doesn't give it an automatic 9/10. I feel this is warranted (disclaimer: I haven't played it yet), as it seems to be yet another rehash, albeit in another setting, of the Grand Theft Auto series.

Whereas I really enjoyed the GTA-games, most of my fun was to be had in the sandbox itself. I played GTA IV for about 50%, then got very bored with it: The missions in the end got really boring, as they were all small variations on the 'go to A, kill/smash X, go back to B for your reward'-gamemechanic.

This game seems to have much less going for it with regards to the sandbox (if not only because the scenery is much more empty)... But nevertheless, I will prolly buy it (secondhand), as it's still a lot better than most of the games out there.

The multiplayer (roaming mode) looks kinda cool though.

Coming back to my initial point: I think it's refreshing to see them give a 7/10, as even though the game is quite good as all the other crap that is out there, it doesn't warrant an automatic 9/10 just because it's Rockstar.

Comment Erm, is this really usefull? (Score 1) 132

Wow, those 'features' all sound very useless. What use does it have to check all those stuff when you're not in your car? It's not as if you plan to do maintenance on your vehicle when you're 1000 miles away, or that there is a use to track your car's battery charge when you're not in it. Anyhows, good to see some other uses of the Android OS, though I could have thought of better ones.

Comment Re:Corporations are sociopaths (Score 1, Insightful) 258

They kill about half a million people in the United States every year, and all for profit. Money.

Erm, they kill? As far as I know it's still people's own responsibility to smoke. It's not as if we're living at the start of the 1900's, where the effects of smoking weren't known.
Do you also hold carmanufacturers responsible for the deaths of cars each year?

Note: I'm a smoker myself. Fully aware of the risk, but still enjoying my daily cigarette. If I'd be getting cancer, I wouldn't blame the tobacco manufacturers, but my own stupid habit...

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