Comment Re:Oh dear... (Score 1) 314
Peak-gate will definitely involve tits.
Submission + - Goodbye, VGA (intel.com)
jones_supa writes: "Leading PC companies have expressed their will to finally start kicking out legacy display interfaces. Intel plans to end support of LVDS in 2013 and VGA in 2015 in its PC client processors and chipsets. While the large installed base of existing VGA monitors and projectors will likely keep VGA on PC back panels beyond 2015, PC and display panel makers are in strong support of this transition. The DisplayPort connector interface provides backwards and forwards compatibility by supporting VGA and DVI output via certified adapters, while also providing new capabilities such as single connector multi-monitor support."
Comment Re:80s gameplay is wasted on AAA titles (Score 3, Insightful) 84
Experimenting is right.
Question: "How much can we slack before the customers realize that they're playing a movie?"
Hypothesis: "A whole f*#&ing lot."
Results: FFXIII
Conclusion: In conclusive.
Comment Quite frankly my dear, (Score 1) 289
To be frank, if someone is broadcasting unencrypted data then Google has done no wrong by mining that information. Had they of been actively circumventing encryption to do so I could see a case in that but this was naked data. You don't sue someone for invasion of privacy when you paint your home with your secrets.
Comment Wololo (Score 1) 337
Perhaps they'll make Windows 8 more compatible with XP programs. Though I do find it upsetting that companies don't update their software on a regular basis to work with more secure platforms. It's one thing to not fix something that works, it's another to still be using IE6.
Comment Re:Way to prove their point! (Score 1) 738
I need modpoints so badly. Mod parent up, way the fuck up.
Comment Re:the real overlords (Score 1) 227
U mad bro?
Comment Re:wrong OS? (Score 1) 1348
It's Troll, Trolol, Trololol, Trololololol, etc
Comment Need (Score 1) 480
It'll be hard for MS Office to come up with something that would make someone want to change over or at least pay full price for MS Office. While I don't know if I could see college campuses and larger business places switching to Open Office I could see many small businesses switch. Even Google Docs is a contender against Microsoft for me personally. I just don't need everything these office suites suggest I need.
Comment LOL (Score 2, Funny) 779
Is anyone else laughing about this coming from the bloody pope of all people?
Comment Example (Score 1) 419
Go in a sandbox game, turn on god mode. I don't think you'll be helping old ladies across the street. Personally, when I have a massive amount of power in a game I'm pretty much a dick unless there's the incentive of more power. Black and White 2 for instance, I'm always Good aligned until the end of a map, then I just don't care and start chucking people around I rule the map bitches. You can see this in everyday life too, people with quite a lot of power being pretty close to what one would define as supervillainish.
Comment Coming soon! (Score 1) 95
The combination stove, space heater, blowtorch computer! I imagine we would still desire some amount of cooling or at least shielding from the heat but this is an interesting development.
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.'"
TheSpaceGame — Design Your Route To Jupiter 76
An anonymous reader writes "The Advanced Concepts Team of the European Space Agency is celebrating World Space Week (4-10 October 2010) with the release of 'The Space Game,' an online game for interplanetary trajectory design. The Space Game is an online crowdsourcing experiment where you are given the role of a mission designer to seek the best path to travel through space. The interactive game, coded in HTML5, challenges the players to devise fuel-efficient trajectories to various bodies of the Solar System via a user-friendly interface. The aim of the experiment is get people from all ages and backgrounds to come up with better strategies that can help improve the effectiveness of the current computer algorithms. As part of the events organized worldwide for Space Week, the first problem of the game is to reach Jupiter with the lowest amount of propellant. The best scores by 10 October will be displayed on the Advanced Concepts Team website and the three best designs will also receive some ESA prizes."
Submission + - Take This GUI and Shove It (infoworld.com) 1
snydeq writes: "Deep End's Paul Venezia speaks out against the overemphasis on GUIs in today's admin tools, saying that GUIs are fine and necessary in many cases, but only after a complete CLI is in place, and that they cannot interfere with the use of the CLI, only complement it. Otherwise, the GUI simply makes easy things easy and hard things much harder. 'If you have to make significant, identical changes to a bunch of Linux servers, is it easier to log into them one-by-one and run through a GUI or text-menu tool, or write a quick shell script that hits each box and either makes the changes or simply pulls down a few new config files and restarts some services?' Venezia writes. 'And it's not just about conservation of effort — it's also about accuracy. If you write a script, you're certain that the changes made will be identical on each box. If you're doing them all by hand, you aren't.'"
