Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading!

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:Google (Score 1) 253

actually the intel nucs are produced by intel and with intel branding. http://www.intel.com/content/w...

and this is the email support for intel nucs http://www.intel.com/support/m...

if they do not provide the support they claim to be providing then it's false advertising and downright fraud. of course, if you're selling tech you get away with that just like that.

Comment Re:I'm Okay With It (Score 2) 253

well.

then there's the cases where the customer service will outright lie and mislead you and the community can give you a fix for your problem.

like getting to use "unsupported" dispensables for example... or just getting the device fixed with a new design for some part because the company just shipped a shit design(makerbot - they later started shipping with a similar part but that was almost a year too late and up until that the customer service would try you to get to use something that was just a bad design and worked for a while if you were lucky).

Comment Re:Does not matter (Score 2) 209

because it's supposed to be worst airplanes. lighting II isn't that bad as an airplane.

however, the article is just skimmy. it's missing some pretty bad designs and including some that are still flown and used for military operations today.....

notably missing, from the top of my head, goblin is missing, some worst nazi designs are missing, ww1 designs that were just deathtraps are missing, it even includes the comet which was in fact used in operations and did what it was designed to do...

a very very light article. but f35 lighting doesn't belong on the list. the raptor doesn't belong on the list either. however, the valkyrie xb70 maybe belongs on the list.

Comment Re:Bothered (Score 2) 80

well if you could somehow transport yourself to outside of this universe you might be able to observe the other big bangs.

hoooowever there's some significant problems with doing that. some people believe that if you jump from a bridge into concrete you get outside though(they base this on a lucid revelation given to someone else than them).

really though you don't need to be an astrophysicist to understand the basis for why your question sounds very misinformed. volcanic action in iceland is observable from california to some extent. quite well too if you include technical means like getting measurement readings from sensors in Iceland. to observe other big bangs you would need to in another universe than Iceland is in, which would make all sensor readings and communication impossible(you can only theorize if there's a multiverse or not, since everything you can possibly see is in this one universe that we are in).

in short: universes are not like galaxies that are _inside_ an universe. universe is what all the galaxies, background radiation and everything else we can see are in. the universe isn't like a room in a house but the universe is like the universe the house is in.

Comment Re:Could it be.... (Score 1) 41

there's plenty of companies making 3d prints for money successfully.

however, it's a pretty competitive field right now. but if you're buying the service, that's good...

the headline sucks big time though - they're not replicas - they're miniatures. "interview with some guy who did a homebrew resin printer of the projector variety" would have been a better headline. hell, it probably would have gotten more views as well due to not sounding like bullshit(I thought for a minute that someone had built a home brewed supersized a3 mcor full color printer or something, but no. and yes there's several varieties of home resin printers, some use projectors and some user lasers, some just guide the laser beam and just moving it around on a xy gantry is pretty effective and proven method as well).

Comment Re:American Date Format (Score 3, Interesting) 134

third of the fifth? or fifth day of the third?

month-day-year is just madness. for various reasons. if you don't get the reasons then you're just knee(1 foot) deep in madness already.

even year-month-day makes more sense and overall readability is best with day-month-year. one tanker, 100 barrels and 10 cups. makes no sense to go 100 barrels, 10 cups and one tanker.

Comment Re:Blizzard Shizzard (Score 2) 252

they certainly have the money to run it on server(and still be on profit about the game).

it's just something that would need in the development phase a totally different attitude to creating the product instead of going about it like it was 1995. it would also save bandwidth for them to do it properly - and may I remind you this is the company that still pretends being tied to playing Diablo 3 only when connected to the servers is essential for making the "complex" gameplay _possible_ and was not done for the sole reason of fighting piracy(which it was, the game was intentionally made to depend on the servers just for sake of generating drops for the pay-real-money-to-feel-like-a-winner auction house).

I mean seriously, the game logic part of the game is not that complex. it's essentially the same game as warcraft 2 when it comes to troop amounts and how complex the troop rules are - it certainly would not have been too complex for their budget to include a mode where data irrelevant to the client would not have been transferred from the server to the client thus making it impossible to build a map cheat or traffic analyzers to show where the troops are for sake of cheating on online playing.

*(and who the fuck would pay for offline single player cheat?)

blizzard have always been fucks about this and you can go to slashdot archives going back way more than a decade to find shit about them suing people for making software other devs would praise for having been created...(bnet sue days. but those were also sued because they were already positioning battle.net as an antipiracy device to take away value from paid customers)

Comment Re:Blizzard Shizzard (Score 5, Insightful) 252

they're just suing since despite tying their game to their servers they still haven't figured out the shit enough to not transmit troop positions or map pieces to the client the client shouldn't know about - and they pretend to be serious about competitive online play.

(how come the suit is not for people who actually cracked the copy protection??)

(in other news this would make "unauthorized mods" illegal)

Comment Re:Interesting observation by Stan (Score 4, Interesting) 36

I fail to see how "original content"/hangout_videos about buffing up some biz I've never heard about is returning to the roots. they're always very generic videos which work mainly to prop up the interviewed person and I don't think there has been a single video about how to do x or here's the basics about tech subject xyz. I don't want the setup for the video to be "this person is so fucking great and has been at x y z and is now at g/f/p". the setup should be at most be summary of what's in the video and that summary better be interesting. in other words, the subject and content should be the vehicle for propping up the content not empty praise words about a person I've never heard about before(and therefore for me are about as meaningful as the zombie professor introductions on zombie mockumentaries).

Comment Re:fuck zenimax (Score 5, Informative) 97

and that is already another lawsuit I think? I think they already sued for Carmack going to work for them(and carmack taking trade secrets with him, namely his brain, the way they worded things would have made for Carmack impossible to move to another employer if Zenimax had their way. so double fuck 'em.).

Slashdot Top Deals

"Luke, I'm yer father, eh. Come over to the dark side, you hoser." -- Dave Thomas, "Strange Brew"

Working...