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Man that sucks. Microsoft has scrapped the Minimal Windows component of Windows 7. There goes the only reason it was worth buying.

Hmm I'll take a look at the iPod flash players as well. Wals: Ya, I don't want any of this deliberately soldered in iPod battery crap (it's to prevent the purchase of cheaper batteries from third parties). That said, all my previous experience with players they've had batteries of at least 8 hours length... that not the norm anymore? Gorgon: number of songs is a fairly legit calculation. Average song size used to be 3mb but it's probably more like 5mb now (function of length mostly). 4gb is about 4000 mb (extra taken up by OS, firmware, and such) so you can store something to the order of 800 songs on a 4gb player. In my experience, such calculations are often fairly good guides. You're spot on about battery life calculations being unreliable, though.

Somehow, Yuusha, I think you overestimate the power of the position of 'president'.

Oh? Defined by what? It's obviously a stack kind of deal - things get bumped off from time to time, so why wouldn't it just do that? Further, why have newer images updated when walkerguy's didn't?

It's got nothing to do with my browser settings; they are the same as they've always been for the last few years.

So it means no trailer at all? Nah, there's a trailer. I just confused the two games in my head you know?

Hmm that's odd. In the past I saw avatar changes just fine though?

Thanks guys. Gorgon: Hmm... while I'm tempted to get a Zen or a Zen Stone, the Sony you mention sounds interesting... what model is it? I don't think they're on the market yet; just prototypes in labs. It gets fairly expensive for flash as storage increases, though. Although with this 'memristor' that may change. In fact the memristor will probably be a disruptive technology in all areas of digital storage - hard drives, flash, RAM, etc.Nnot to mention processing; it's the wall-scaling breakthrough they need to maintain Moore's law.

What is it meant to be? Try re-uploading.

Um... what? 'He' as in Hell Kitty, you silly billy.

I've never had my earphones break. My only pair of good headphones broke fairly fast. Phooey.

The slow kind of course!

Oh dammit, I see what you mean. Yeah, I meant Alpha Protocol. For some reason I was thinking he was asking me if I meant the trailer for the other game (which I in fact did). Why do they both have to start with 'a'?

Erk, I probably should have posted this in tech stuff.

Mushroom, mushroom! I bet they were on a few mushrooms when they made that, too.

Yup, I was thinking of Hot Fuzz while I was watching it. Quite a few similarities! It now occurs to me that Shaun and his friend are the protagonists of Hot Fuzz also.

What the f... Interesting movie. Haha.

I am sadding that Natalie died, though. Although it was a very human death, I suppose? Looks like she was hallucinating at the end, and in a similar way to the 'ship' hallucination of Roslin's cancer friend. Also, wtf @ rebel ship being destroyed. Obviously there is more to it. Hmmm, what?

Nah. Aliens.

She says it will be up soon at ftp://segapr.segaamerica.com/SEGA_GAMES/Alien/

What's your avatar from? At first I thought it was Farscape, but his name's John, not Dave. Buffering trailer now. I look forward to this, though. DS1, DS1 xpack, then DS2 all showed that GPG is capable of listening to the fans, big improvements, good storytelling, and potential for making good RPGs. Edit: Oh, fun trailer!