HL2 for sale on Steam. Buy and play CS:S full now!
Posted by donkey (8 Comments)	Thu Oct 7th '04 08:29:59 PM
HL2 has gone on sale via steam (Valve's online thingeh) today. You wont be able to activate and unlock your copy until it's released but you will get it as soon as it is released. Also, other incentives to buy via steam are that you get CS: Source (which looks fairly nice) right now! You also can't get DoD: Source any other way as far as I know. I'm being tempted by the Silver package. If I do decide to buy via steam I doubt i'd buy before I see a definate HL2 release date. Apparently CS: Source's version of the map CS_Italy doesn't have any chickens in it.
	Genre: Gaming

Edinburgh Joint 4th Worst Town in UK?
Posted by donkey (7 Comments)	Mon Sep 27th '04 09:55:42 PM
Civic leaders have rallied round to defend Luton after it was branded the country's worst town in an online poll. More than 20,000 people voted for Britain's worst place to live and the results will be published next month in Crap Towns II - The Nation Decides. Crap Towns II is the sequel to last year's Crap Towns survey, which was edited by The Idler magazine's Sam Jordison and Dan Kieron. Windsor was voted the second worst place to live this time around. One voter said: "The big thing about Windsor is that its townsfolk believe that by living near the castle they are more or less royalty themselves." Sunderland - "not so much a town as a mortuary" - came in third followed by Edinburgh and Glasgow in joint fourth. like wtf tbh? Edinburgh > yuo! Probably all those weedgies voting edinburgh down and all the edinburgers voting glasgae down!
News Source: BBC NEWS	Genre: General News

Sony to support MP3
Posted by James (3 Comments)	Thu Sep 23rd '04 11:47:41 AM
Sony confirmed on Wednesday that it is working to add native MP3 support to its portable music players--a major strategy reversal that could help it compete more effectively with rivals such as Apple Computer. The shift from reliance on its proprietary format will begin with flash memory-based players, the electronics giant said, but plans are still being finalized on how and when products will add MP3 support. CNET News.com affiliate ZDNet France first reported of the change in Sony's strategy for the European market. U.S. representatives said the company is making similar plans here. "We're discussing plans to bring flash players to the United States that support MP3 files, but we have nothing to announce at this time," said Gretchen Griswold, a representative of Sony Electronics.
News Source: news.com	Genre: Tech

AOL moves beyond passwords
Posted by James (5 Comments)	Wed Sep 22nd '04 10:01:57 PM
Passwords alone won't be enough to get onto America Online under a new, optional log-on service that makes AOL the first major U.S. online business to offer customers a second layer of security. The so-called two-factor authentication scheme, being unveiled Tuesday, will cost $1.95 a month in addition to a one-time $9.95 fee. It is initially targeted at small businesses, victims of identity theft and individuals who pay a lot of bills and conduct other financial transactions through their AOL accounts. Subscribers get a matchbook-size device from RSA Security Inc. displaying a six-digit code that changes every minute. The code is necessary to log on, so a scammer who guesses or steals a password cannot access the account without the device in hand. By requiring the second, rotating password, "you don't have to remember complicated passwords to still have good security," said Scott Schnell, a senior vice president at RSA Security. The second password will be required for checking e-mail and accessing services tied to the AOL account, including calendars, stock portfolios and AOL's Bill Pay.
News Source: Neowin	Genre: Intrawab

Bilbo gets 4% pay rise
Posted by James (1 Comment)	Wed Sep 22nd '04 09:59:40 PM
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, the world's richest man, got a modest pay raise over the last year, according to a company filing. Gates, who is also the company's chief software architect, received $901,667 in salary and bonus from the company for the fiscal year ended June 30, the company revealed in its proxy filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That's up 4.4 percent from the year earlier total in salary and bonus. But Gates' increase was lower than the nearly 15 percent rise in pay and bonus he received the previous fiscal year. The filing also shows Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer received the identical pay and bonus as Gates, as he has each of the previous two years. Neither executive received stock options. With 1.1 billion shares of Microsoft stock, or about 10 percent of its shares outstanding, Gates' dividends during the year came to about $175.6 million. This November, the company plans to pay a special dividend of $3 per share, subject to shareholder approval. The company announced in July that Gates will donate his $3.3 billion proceeds of the special dividend to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the charitable organization named for him and his wife.
News Source: CNN Money	Genre: Microsoft

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