Comment Re:Wow, do any of you people have jobs? (Score 1) 309
Wow, do any of you people have jobs?
Hi, welcome to Slashdot! You must be new here!
Epic Games Predicts Console, Mobile Convergence 104
An anonymous reader writes "After taking the stage at the Apple iPhone event in September, game developer Epic Games has finally revealed more about its plan to release Unreal Engine for the iOS devices. UE3 is incredibly popular on consoles, and its free UDK has been really great for us modders. In this new interview, engine boss Mark Rein says the developer envisions a future where all game devices are handhelds, with high-end processors inside: 'It feels like there's a great opportunity for game consoles to cease to be something you plug into the wall and rather become something you take with you. Of course it will be more than just your game console; you can have your productivity apps, your documents, and your media collections on it as well.'"
Comment Re:Write your own damn summaries... (Score 3, Funny) 70
Have you ever read the Slashdot summaries? I'm pretty sure most of them are just excerpts from the articles put through a few online translators.
Govt To Bomb Guam With Frozen Mice To Kill Snakes 229
rhettb writes "In a spectacularly creative effort to rid Guam of the brown tree snake, an invasive species which has ravaged local wildlife and angered local residents, the US Department of Agriculture is planning to 'bomb' the island's rainforests with dead frozen mice laced with acetaminophen. While it might not seem difficult to purge an island of snakes, the snake's habit of dwelling high in the rainforest canopy has so far thwarted efforts to rid the island of the pest. Eradicating the snake is a priority because it triggers more than 100 power outages a year at a cost of $1-4 million and has driven at least 6 local bird species to extinction."
Comment Re:Accelerometers in phones? (Score 1) 709
What happens if for some reason they don't have cell phone service anyway? What would have happened a decade or two ago? Same thing!
Comment Re:Accelerometers in phones? (Score 1) 709
Buses, trains, no problem. Cinemas? Absolutely. If I ran a cinema, I'd encase the theaters in some sort of faraday cage that blocks all cell phone signals.
Comment Re:I always feel odd when I hear things like this (Score 1) 775
It's generally not worth pissing off their regular customers (although they did triple charge one of my friends for a $900 purchase and it took her a month to get the extra $1800 back), but when they stand to steal 600 thousand Euros, of course they'll take this opportunity!
Comment Re:People want to pirate Bollywood films? (Score 1) 457
This is interesting but I am surprised that there is even a demand online for people to download bollywood films.
That's because you obviously have not seen this!
Comment Re:An interesting point (Score 1) 425
It's time to teach kids what they're eating affects their health.
So basically, tell them not to eat the "food" elementary schools supply at all?
Comment Re:nah (Score 1) 280
Wow, you own Yahoo!?
Comment Re:11 million? (Score 2, Informative) 323
Why do you think the judge should be allowed to just ignore the law that says, if a party refuses to defend itself in a lawsuit, they get a judgment against them? Do you think judges should just do what they want even if the law says differently?
If that is a part of the law, it should be changed so the judge has to at least check to see if there's some minimal evidence against the defendant. I mean, if 100 people filed 100 made-up lawsuits against someone, shouldn't the judge(s) at least check to make sure if there's at least some basic evidence before forcing an innocent party to respond or be considered guilty by default if they don't respond to all of them?
Comment Re:Does that make sense ? (Score 1) 426
I always thought it was weird that they made us use APVector and APString instead of regular Vectors and Strings. Was it just so College Board could feel better about themselves?
Comment Re:What's the problem (Score 1) 187
This. Also, most computers have text-to-speech. Many scanners can identify letters. BAN TEXT-TO-SPEECH IN COMPUTERS!
Comment Re:Hogs? (Score 2, Insightful) 276
What? Where have I bitched about such a thing? You explicitly stated that there would be a problem with someone making unlimited use of an unlimited service here:
They are not paying for the electricity they used
and I was pointing out that such a company should not have advertised unlimited usage if it did not intend to deliver such.
Although I don't recall making any Slashdot posts on the subject, the complaint about Comcast was that they previously did NOT disclose their caps. While bandwidth caps may be annoying, there's nothing unethical about them unless the company misrepresented what was being sold.
Comment Re:Hogs? (Score 2, Insightful) 276
Except if they paid $400/month for unlimited use at a specific rate, and then used it all, then they used $400 worth of [bandwidth/electricity]. If they did not want people to use their [bandwidth/electricity], they should not have advertised and sold their service as unlimited.
Incidentally, as stated in the article:
Incidentally, as stated in the article:
Telenet has not posted this information as a complaint of what they have to deal with, but to give us "a better picture of what exactly is possible with this new way of surfing."
the ISP is not complaining at all.
