Comment Brown People (Score 1) 590
as long as the brown people are the bad guys I think they got it pretty right. :-)
Comment FAIL (Score 2, Informative) 215
schizophrenic != multiple personalities
Comment Re:Chris Rock on Community college? (Score 1) 648
to quote Chris Rock, "community college is like a disco with books!"
Comment they aren't using Apache (Score 1) 94
what makes you think they are using apache?
Comment uninstalled it (Score 1) 739
sometime in 1997, first thing I did after I got it was discover none of my devices were supported and uninstalled it.
Comment Re:Huh? Not an Acronym (Score 1) 238
it is only an acronym if it is pronounced like a work (ie RADAR, LASER).
LCLS is just an abbreviation.
Comment Re:Cat6 No such thing (Score 0, Flamebait) 524
actually there is no offical spec for Cat6 cable, it is something made up.
Cat5e is all you need.
Comment what you don't understand is (Score 2, Insightful) 230
coding is the least part of a game. creating all the graphics, animations, sounds, textures, models and what not are what makes a world. And you need consistent quality for a cohesive vision of a world, and that usually takes someone working for money, most artists don't want to work for free and take direction from someone they don't know. Where as getting people to write code for free is much easier. The "creative" side is about 80% of the effort for a AAA title.
Comment SciFi Channel has done well with Friday nights (Score 1) 753
geeks will stay in on friday nights or more likely record the shows, I mean Stargate SG-1 was on for 10 years on Friday night, I never missed an episode, thanks to TiVo.
Comment Say it with me people Foxit Reader! (Score 1) 238
why would anyone want to use Acrobat Reader when there is a free alternative that is way smaller, faster and better. http://www.foxitsoftware.com/
Comment portable shell scripting is called Python (Score 1, Redundant) 186
why deal with limited shell scripting when you have something so batteries included and universal as Python
Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's 515
narramissic writes "Doing a download speed test of his Time Warner cable connection, James Gaskin discovered something odd, something that he is quick to note isn't a rigorous benchmarked lab test. The discovery: His Ubuntu machine 'returned a rating from the Bandwidth.com test of 22-25mbps over several tests' while the same test done from a Windows XP PC returned a rating of 12-14mbps. The two computers used in the test are 'almost identical: both off-lease Compaq small form factor D515s, part of the very popular corporate desktop D500 family. Both have Pentium 4 processors running at 2GHz. The Ubuntu machine has 768MB of RAM, while the XP box has only 512MB of RAM. Both run Firefox 3 as their browser.' Gaskin's question: Can a little extra RAM make that much difference in Internet download speeds or does Ubuntu handles networking that much faster than Windows XP?"
Comment Thermite is better than smashing! (Score 1) 527
Toshiba Making Funeral Plans for HD DVD 452
Blue Light Special writes "With HD DVD on life support, Toshiba is reportedly preparing to bow to the inevitable and allow HD DVD to expire quietly. 'While denying that a decision on the fate of HD DVD has been made, a Toshiba marketing exec left the door wide open. "Given the market developments in the past month, Toshiba will continue to study the market impact and the value proposition for consumers, particularly in light of our recent price reductions on all HD DVD players," Jodi Sally, VP of marketing for Toshiba America Consumer Products, said.'" A few folks have also noted that Wal-mart is joining the Blu-ray train, further lowering the stock of HD DVD.
SCO Goes Private With $100 Million Backing 411
AmIAnAi writes "Just when you thought it was all over, the SCO story takes a new twist. SCO has received $100 million financing from Stephen Norris Capital Partners to get them out of Chapter 11 and go private 'The move gives Stephen Norris, whose namesake founder was a co-founder of private equity giant The Carlyle Group, a controlling interest in SCO, which now has a platform to continue its court battle with Novell Inc. over royalties from the Unix server operating system, SCO's main business ... According to a statement from the company, SNCP already has a business plan for SCO that includes pursuing its legal claims.'"
