Become a fan of Slashdot on Facebook

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment No Sh*t?! (Score 1) 652

My colleagues and I are currently working on our PHDs in "No Shit." Our studies not only include the one mentioned in TFA but also such ground-breaking work such as "Fire Bad," "Women Good," and the crown jewel of them all; "The Logic and Method to Capturing Ants, Specifically Using Young Growth From Deciduous Trees."

Can I have some grant money please?

Comment Old news?! (Score 1) 265

From TFA:
"Ticketed fans can't reproduce or disseminate (or aid in producing or disseminating) any material or information about the Event, including, but not limited to, any account, description, picture, video, audio, reproduction or other information concerning the Event."

This disclaimer has been on just about every televised sporting event for the last 15 years, almost verbatim! I actually think I can quote the NFL one from memory: "This broadcast is copyright of the National Football Leage. All information obtained from this broadcast can not be disseminated or reproduced in any way without written permission from the National Football League." Seems to me that TFA is about 20 years too late! NCAA sports = BIG business (period.)

Comment A little tip: (Score 1) 305

When you're stuck in an automated system just scream obscenities... I swear it works like 70% of the time. I think the voice recognition software has been programmed to pick up on that. My old boss taught me this trick, and it was a little unnerving the first time I heard him going to town on the computer voice at the other end of the line, but it really works! Just don't do it in public...
Space

UI Customization and Capital Ships In Jumpgate Evolution 41

ZAM got a chance to speak with NetDevil's Scott Brown at the recent LOGIN 2009 conference about various aspects of upcoming space MMO Jumpgate Evolution. He mentioned that massive ships will be limited in scope and role to begin with, but may expand and evolve as they figure out what users like. He also made some interesting comments about UI customization: "We built it with the goal of letting people mod the UI. There's still a little bit more work to do that, so I don't know if it'll be ready at launch, but all of our UI is built in Flash. This is with the idea that anybody can build something with Flash and put it in the game. Now, there are problems, for example, if you do certain things in Flash that might cause the game to perform really slowly. We've still got to figure out how to educate people or how we verify this so that you don't make a mod that I download and my game experience is destroyed. We want it to be easier than that. I think that there will be some work to do, but the goal is that, eventually, people will be able to, using Flash, make their own UI."
Wii

Wii Check-Up Channel 38

Cemu writes with news that Nintendo is teaming up with Panasonic, NEC, and Hitachi to work on the Wii Fit Body Check Channel, which will use data from the Wii Fit to provide users with health advice. Quoting: "Since last December, NEC and NEC mobile began a cell phone version of the 'Wii Fit Body Check Channel.' Starting this April, the NEC Group (NEC and NEC Mobile) will launch a hosted Wii Fit Channel aimed at employees and their families. The company hopes to offer this service outside NEC in the future. ... Also this April, Wii Fit and the Wii Fit Body Check Channel will be introduced by Panasonic Medical Solutions to health care workers with its Plissimo Sigusa health care plan. What's more, Panasonic Medical Solutions is offering the program to the country's health insurance union."
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Gang kidnaps top gamer to get game password (gizmodo.com)

An anonymous reader writes: An armed gang of four kidnapped one of the world's top RPG gamers after one criminal's girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google's social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim's head for five hours to get his password, which they wanted to sell for $8,000. He resisted, so the crooks gave up and decided to let him go.

Slashdot Top Deals

"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll

Working...