Comment Re:hmm... (Score 1) 192
"Go pound air!" doesn't have the same ummph to it.
"Go pound sand with air!" has promise.
"Go pound sand with water!" is kinda kinky.
Comment Location, location, location! (Score 4, Funny) 600
It's in the air, somewhere;
In some tubes, with rubes.
It's not in the back of a truck,
It's not in the flack of some shmuck,
It's in the air, somewhere.
Thanks Dr. Seuss!
Submission + - Valve is actually releasing a Linux supported game (phoronix.com)
ndogg writes: "There was some speculation last year about Valve possibly releasing Linux ports of Steam when some Linux libraries were found with Left 4 Dead. Some speculated that it had nothing to do with any client libraries at all, but instead perhaps with their servers. Now there's even more reason to believe that Steam is being ported to Linux since Valve is releasing a game called Dyson with Linux listed as among the requirements."
Submission + - Amazon.com holding non-Prime orders hostage. (wordpress.com)
An anonymous reader writes: It seems Amazon.com hasn't been moving enough membership subscriptions for it's new Amazon Prime service which offers unlimited free two day shipping, one day shipping upgrades for $3.99, and a host of other supposed benefits. Users of Amazon who haven't subscribed to prime have begun noticing a delay in their shipments. One such user contacted Amazon.com only to find they were purposefully delaying shipping as part of a ploy and sales pitch to push subscriptions. FTA:
"Evidently in the Amazon terms of service they have the right to hold your items for later shipping, and the 3-5 days is just the time it takes from leaving the warehouse. We'd never had this kind of delay before so we were a bit surprised, was there a problem? No. Amazon is just trying to get folks to sign up for Amazon Prime (which we were offered an upgrade to, one month free trial). In fact if we upgraded today our book would ship immediately."
Seems that not only ISPs are thinking of trying to throttle service unless you pay more.
Submission + - Herschel telescope sees first light (esa.int)
siddesu writes: Herschel, the infra-red space telescope, opened its eyes on 14 June 2009, precisely one month after the launch. It carried out test observations labeled a 'sneak preview' making use of time initially allocated to 'thermal stabilization', following a request to attempt producing an early observational result.
Here's the first pictures and more.
Submission + - Ray Bradbury Hates the Internet (nytimes.com) 1
untorqued writes: The New York Times recently ran an article about Ray Bradbury. A longtime fan of libraries, he's recently been raising money to help bridge the budget gap for a library in Ventura, California.. He's no fan of the Internet, though:
"The Internet is a big distraction," Mr. Bradbury barked from his perch in his house in Los Angeles, which is stuffed silly with enormous stuffed animals, videos, DVD's, wooden toys, photographs and books, with things like the National Medal of Arts sort of tossed on a table. "Yahoo called me eight weeks ago," he said, voice rising. "They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? 'To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.' " "It's distracting," he continued. "It's meaningless, it's not real. It's in the air somewhere." A Yahoo spokeswoman said it was impossible to verify Mr. Bradbury's account without more details.
At least he used the singular forms of Yahoo and Internet.
Comment Re:Why Windows 7 in the summary? (Score 1) 196
Compress the data into a tarball (or
Real speed junkies use RAMdisks!
Comment Re:trim (Score 1) 196
Yet another happy Microsoft customer vents his wrath on those wise enough to use something else.
Comment Wall Street Banker Blast! (Score -1, Troll) 124
Big points for killing the big bankers! GPS makes it possible to find them once the phones are surgically implanted up their fat, thieving butts. RPGs are a legitimate weapon and bonus points are awarded for kills based on the vehicle type containing a banker: Kill a banker in a huge yacht and SCORE baby! Lesser scores for killing banker stooges -- congressmen, senators and the like -- and you lose points for collateral damage.
I have a patent on my copyright for this, so hands off Apple!
Comment Re:General trend (Score 1) 806
You must be the new guy I heard about.
The OP's comment is not a gratuitous Microsoft bashing but a reasonable point made about Microsoft's more-than-common errors resulting from having their technology decisions made by the marketing department. The only error the OP made was citing a specific instance of the behavior instead of the overall attitude of Microsoft towards their customers.
If anyone is reasonably out of line here, it is you with the over-the-top description of the OP's remark which you then attack: Strawman much?
Submission + - SPAM: Online vigilantes or "Crowdsourced justice"
destinyland writes: "Chinese credit the "human flesh search engine" for successfully locating "the kitten killer of Hangzhou" from clues in her online video. But in February the same force identified a teenaged cat abuser in Oklahoma — within 24 hours of the video's appearance on YouTube. "Netizens are the new Jack Bauer," argues one science writer, and with three billion potential detectives, "attempts to hide will only add thrill to the chase." But China's vigilantes ultimately turned their attention to China's Internet Propaganda Office, bypassing censorship of a director's personal information using
social networks, including Twitter. The author suggests there's a new principle emerging in the online world: "The Internet does not forget, does not forgive and cannot be stopped. Ever.""
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Comment Re:Meh, I expected a different kind of hoarding (Score 1) 183
Yeah, I once killed Melkor with a shovel (Angband) simply because I was worried he might have the ability to disenchant weapons. I since discovered this isn't a concern.
Comment Re:license issues? (Score 1, Funny) 464
Get DVDs working on the shuttle? They are rocket scientists, not Linux gurus, so give them a break already.
Comment What is wrong here? (Score 0) 134
I have a bad feeling about this: Smells like Same-pig-different-lipstick effect -- and it smells bad.
Comment Re:Once more around the wheel of Karma, dear frien (Score 1) 320
This article is interesting but is heavily weighted towards the consumer gamer, but interesting developments are happening elsewhere as well.
Perhaps the author will do another article with a different focus? Here's a place to start. It's valuable to remember that approximately ninty percent (90%) of all PCs sold are sold with Intel onboard graphics chips.
