Comment Re:Applies elsewhere too? (Score 1) 249
Nah. Chribba's the first man they'll go to.
Comment Re:Hmm... (Score 1) 324
Wait. Are you suggesting that the forces that tried to cause a failure failed? Damnit. I hate double negatives.
Comment Re:Crossing the Streams (Score 1) 324
There are usually no colliding balls in a baseball game.
Depends how good your aim is and how vindictive you're feeling.
Comment Re:Shiny things? (Score 1) 627
So long as it doesn't find a way to puncture a Gellar field, we should be home straight.
Comment Re:Uhhh (Score 1) 738
Or use XBox Connect/Any other LAN tunneling network and not have to pay a subscription?
Obviously, this only works on games with a LAN mode, and I don't know how many 360 games actually have that option as opposed to LIVE OR NOTHING! but still.
Am I the only person who's thinking this might actually be the kick up the arse the 'real' 360 homebrew scene needs? I mean, not everyone who's modded their 360 will have been to liberate games on the cheap.
Am I the only person who's thinking this might actually be the kick up the arse the 'real' 360 homebrew scene needs? I mean, not everyone who's modded their 360 will have been to liberate games on the cheap.
Comment Re:V: The Thought Experiment. (Score 1) 708
Honestly, if that were us, it'd be easier to reproduce using DNA from a fungus than trying to work out the needed xenobiology. (And far easier using a chimp.)
Great. Orks. Now look what you've done.
Comment Re:Beware (Score 1) 172
Beware the Clangers!
Comment I see a problem. (Score 1) 81
This is all well and good, but how are they going to keep the sharks focused on the kilometer-high robot?
Comment Re:Let them play WOW (Score 1) 356
What's the current world record for the longest game of Monopoly?
If all goes to plan, they will combine Monopoly and, if it turns out like every other Monopoly game in the history of the human race, Battle Royale.
If all goes to plan, they will combine Monopoly and, if it turns out like every other Monopoly game in the history of the human race, Battle Royale.
Comment Re:magic and time travel (Score 1) 194
Ah! Nice setup. The infamous Godwin's check, which often happens to be strategically played to have the law invoked within two more moves, such as the 1931 tournament. Sneaky, but a perfectly valid move.
Submission + - Blizzard spies on private conversations (www.jedi.eu) 1
vexilla writes: Look at the 2 clickable buttons at the bottom of the battlenet page : https://eu.battle.net/account/creation/tos.xml
There's a 5 steps registration procedure ahead, that is the path taken by those willing to join the mighty Blizzard gaming & forum platform.
At the first step, the user is required to agree with this gig:
Chat Agreement
In order to provide the Battle.net Service, Blizzard must be entitled to access, monitor and/or review text chat, including private, or "whisper" chat, in the event of complaints from other users or violations of the law. By clicking the check box below, you agree that Blizzard (or one of Blizzard’s affiliates) has the right to monitor and review personal messages you send or receive on the Service, or through any game that is playable through the Battle.net Service, to investigate potential violations of the law, the Battle.net Terms of Use, or the Terms of Use agreement specific to any game playable on the Battle.net Service. Blizzard will not use the information for any reason other than pursuing such violations.
So much for "private chat", and an explicit endorsement from Blizzard (the company creator of Diablo, Warcraft and Starcrafte Battle.net) of its monitoring policy.
Great story, particularly as the number of players hooked to this world is huge. 100 millions or what?
There's a 5 steps registration procedure ahead, that is the path taken by those willing to join the mighty Blizzard gaming & forum platform.
At the first step, the user is required to agree with this gig:
Chat Agreement
In order to provide the Battle.net Service, Blizzard must be entitled to access, monitor and/or review text chat, including private, or "whisper" chat, in the event of complaints from other users or violations of the law. By clicking the check box below, you agree that Blizzard (or one of Blizzard’s affiliates) has the right to monitor and review personal messages you send or receive on the Service, or through any game that is playable through the Battle.net Service, to investigate potential violations of the law, the Battle.net Terms of Use, or the Terms of Use agreement specific to any game playable on the Battle.net Service. Blizzard will not use the information for any reason other than pursuing such violations.
So much for "private chat", and an explicit endorsement from Blizzard (the company creator of Diablo, Warcraft and Starcrafte Battle.net) of its monitoring policy.
Great story, particularly as the number of players hooked to this world is huge. 100 millions or what?
Submission + - Windows 7 on Multicore: How Much Faster? (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Andrew Binstock tests whether Windows 7's threading advances fulfill the promise of improved performance and energy reduction, running Windows XP Professional, Vista Ultimate, and Windows 7 Ultimate against Viewperf and Cinebench benchmarks using a Dell Precision T3500 workstation, the price-performance winner of an earlier roundup of Nehalem-based workstations. 'What might be surprising is that Windows 7's multithreading changes did not deliver more of a performance punch,' Binstock writes of the benchmarks, adding that the principal changes to Windows 7 multithreading consist of increased processor affinity, 'a wholly new mechanism that gets rid of the global locking concept and pushes the management of lock access down to the locked resources,' permitting Windows 7 to scale up to 256 processors without performance penalty, but delivering little performance gains for systems with only a few processors. 'Windows 7 performs several tricks to keep threads running on the same execution pipelines so that the underlying Nehalem processor can turn off transistors on lesser-used or inactive pipelines,' Binstock writes. 'The primary benefit of this feature is reduced energy consumption,' with Windows 7 requiring 17 percent less power to run than Windows XP or Vista, according to Binstock's benchmarks."
Comment Re:We rule the ISS and IOC now :-) (Score 1) 190
The right mannnn...in the wrong...plaaaace can make all...the differennnnce in...the world...
Comment Well...Actually.... (Score 1) 245
I was going to say that this man should prepare for unforseen concequences.
Comment Re:I don't care about the screen... (Score 1) 283
So far the best you can do is break it so it doesnt ever work.
I thought that came as standard?
