Comment wtf? (Score 1) 650
Undercover investigation done online? Do you actually know what "undercover" means? The "hot shot investigator" chatted online until there was enough damning text transcripts. This is a story?
Comment cat motherfuckers (Score 1) 641
Proof: http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/funny-pictures-your-kitten-uses-linux.jpg
Oh concatenate...oh never mind...
Making Babies In Space May Not Be Easy 262
Hugh Pickens writes "Studies of reproduction in space have previously been carried out with sea urchins, fish, amphibians and birds, but Brandon Keim writes in Wired that Japanese biologists have discovered that although mammalian fertilization may take place normally in space, as mouse embryos develop in microgravity their cells have trouble dividing and maturing. The researchers artificially fertilized mouse eggs with sperm that had been stored inside a three-dimensional clinostat, a machine that mimics weightlessness by rotating objects in such a way that the effects of gravity are spread in every direction. Some embryos were ultimately implanted in female mice and survived to a healthy birth, but at lower numbers than a regular-gravity control group. Part of the difference could be the result of performing tricky procedures on sensitive cells, but the researchers suspect they also reflect the effect of a low-gravity environment on cellular processes that evolved for Earth-specific physics. '"These results suggest for the first time that fertilization can occur normally under G environment in a mammal, but normal preimplantation embryo development might require 1G," concludes the report. "Sustaining life beyond Earth either on space stations or on other planets will require a clear understanding of how the space environment affects key phases of mammalian reproduction."'"
Comment Full Story? (Score 1) 427
Here's a rumor posted on the PSN boards: http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?message.uid=42798489 I said rumor but the post raises some questions that no one has addressed so far:
- "OtherOS" support has been removed.
- A Cheaper Blu-ray drive is being used. It wont be any slower, but expect to see similar issues that another competitor had a while ago.
- Touch-sensitive buttons on the front for power/eject are gone in favour of cheaper push buttons.
This makes the first batch of PS3s that came out, the "best" ones to own (backwards compatibility with PS2 games from having the full emotion engine on hardware, ability to swap in drives as big as 500GB and being able to install other OSes)
- "OtherOS" support has been removed.
- A Cheaper Blu-ray drive is being used. It wont be any slower, but expect to see similar issues that another competitor had a while ago.
- Touch-sensitive buttons on the front for power/eject are gone in favour of cheaper push buttons.
This makes the first batch of PS3s that came out, the "best" ones to own (backwards compatibility with PS2 games from having the full emotion engine on hardware, ability to swap in drives as big as 500GB and being able to install other OSes)
Comment Re:As a Former Tech Support Person of 12 years... (Score 3, Funny) 493
What made you stay in tech support for 12 years? Not enough "respect" for yourself?
Comment Re:Pure Evil? Check out latest contract killing. (Score 3, Funny) 527
Looks like it is taking longer than twenty years in your case...
Comment Re:Don't forget games... (Score 1) 450
I have about 3 CDR-s full of Deus Ex Saves from a while ago...I know exactly what you mean.
Comment Re:Don't forget games... (Score 1) 450
I'll provide another extreme. Back in early 2001, the demo for Delta Force (PC) was a little less than 18 MiB. The full game was about 150MiB. I bought The Witcher off Steam last week and the download size was around 14 Gigs.
150MiB vs 14 GiB...I have around 300Gigs of space on my gaming partition taken up by games. Hell, the save data of several games takes dozens of Gigs.
Comment Re:zoltan's 10,000+ point armory listing (Score 1) 167
What exactly is your point? You are impressed that someone is more of a gamer than you are?
Comment Annoying as hell? (Score 0) 841
From the article: "It works, but is annoying as hell. Will Palm respond? Who knows. In the meantime, welcome to your new reality, Pre users." Uhh Eric Zeman, not being able to use your precious palm to sync with Itunes is inconvenient and mildly annoying. Not sure it's as annoying as hell.
I was trying to come up with examples..."Cell phone yelling on a bus", "Madonna" - annoying as they are, nowhere near as annoying as hell. I know, I know, figure of speech but fucking drag your files or buy an Apple device or even better..here it comes..STOP USING ITUNES.
I was trying to come up with examples..."Cell phone yelling on a bus", "Madonna" - annoying as they are, nowhere near as annoying as hell. I know, I know, figure of speech but fucking drag your files or buy an Apple device or even better..here it comes..STOP USING ITUNES.
MAME Ported To the Dingoo A320 44
Busshy writes "Slaanesh has released a port of MAME for the Dingoo A320 (the console that comes with GBA, SNES, CPS1 and Megadrive emulators built-in), with support for thousands of old arcade games. You will have to install Dingoo Linux to be able to use MAME on the Dingoo. Some tutorial videos are available."
Comment Gaming with Hardware rendering perhaps... (Score 1) 161
I used a much older version of Vmware (4.x) to install WxP and run Unreal Tournament using Software Rendering. The game was playable, didn't look pretty and the FPS were a bit on the low end, but the game was playable. Won't Windows 7 support D3D over RDP?
Comment Re:oh noes! a _picture_ threatens society! (Score 1) 639
No, but the video does. A tenant (of the accused) found the said photos. One of the photos (well the face) belonged to the tenant's kid. Calm the fuck down.
Submission + - Id Software bought out by Bethesda (ZeniMax Media) 1
atari2600 writes: Bethesda Softworks parent ZeniMax Media said Wednesday that it has acquired Id Software, the creator of legendary computer games such as Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein. Bethesda's hit titles include The Elder Scrolls series and Fallout. The acquisition by ZeniMax Media joins together two of the finest, most respected videogame developers in the world, combining the first person shooter (FPS) expertise of id Software with acclaimed role playing game (RPG) developer Bethesda Game Studios — creators of the 2008 Game of the Year, Fallout 3, and the 2006 Game of the Year, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Bethesda Softworks will publish the titles of id Software other than upcoming releases previously committed to other publishers.
