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Comment ECJ won't save anyone (Score 1) 87

Doctorow will be disappointed the ECJ primarily a political court, when the court thinks it is in the best interest of the EU they'll ignore certain parts of EU law to preserve the political purity of the EU.

So if the EC bigwigs get behind this stupidity, then the courts are much more likely to side with them even if the law is stupid.

Comment what? (Score 1) 190

What youtube has very publically fucked with its site repeatedly over the last year or so adding unwanted redesigns and functionality. Their latest idiot functionality is to make the subscription list page less useful by applying some dipshit algorithm to show interesting content. Never mind they have at least two other pages that do that.

Their other recent brainwave is to kill off Vevo and other artist pages by combining several distinct accounts into one "youtube official" feed per artist and removing the distinct ones from the users subscriptions. This may be appropriate where the user doesn't subscribe to all the various "official" accounts, but is entirely pointless otherwise, and breaks the fundamental concept - don't fuck with a users subscriptions.

You'll notice their idiot updates have been against users who don't use the site the way they want them to use the site.

If it ain't broke, don't fuck with it!

Something a lot of sites & software companies coulda/shoulda learnt by now...

Comment Re:Best flying game ever (Score 1) 138

Yes - but at the time - which is the only important part they couldn't hence the 2.5D. Build Engine could kinda 3d stack, but Duke3D had very careful level design in the movie theatre for example to hide this. The Doom engine couldn't. Doesn't matter if later Doom compatible engines fixed this and added true 3d look around. The way the maps are made only allowed for one floor.

I remember on 3d shooter by epic that faked a descent style game in a doom style engine including one tunnel section which had a crossover which one could fall down if not paying attention or use as a vertical short cut. Ah - Radix beyond the Void from '95 played better than Terminal velocity, worse than Descent. But a decent shooter.

Comment PC BS (Score 3, Interesting) 251

What the BBC forgot - Clarkson/May/Hammond Top Gear was basically Last of the Summer Wine with Cars & decent locations & slick production.

The got the cars/locations/production about right but got the chemistry wrong & went with Chris Evans purile humour. Matt LeBlanc seemed to get it, but was badly let down.

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