Comment Acronym overload (Score 1) 58
BINGO!
Comment Re:not what I understand... (Score 1) 381
It's an inversion of the math, somewhat like the absolute value of a number decreasing the closer you get to zero, no matter if you approach it from positive or negative infinity.
Comment Re:Where's the Beef? (Score 1) 168
The main interesting draw of this for me was its inherent upgradeability. Yes, $500 will buy me a PC that will run most games... today. What about two years out? What about four years out? Five? If OnLive had been handling that on their side, that could have been a very, very interesting proposal if I could keep that $500 pc for five or ten years without missing out on the latest games.
Comment Huh... (Score 1) 223
I read 'over reliance on compensatory measures' as needing their paychecks too badly...
Now if you'll excuse me, I have bills to pay.
Comment Re:Win 7 (Score 1) 144
If it doesn't handle your use case (which isn't really all that non-standard - the most common use-case for multiple monitors is laptops with external monitors) without third-party software, it's not really flawless.
Comment Re:Win 7 (Score 1, Insightful) 144
Congratulations, Windows 7 with specialized third-party software handles multiple monitors flawlessly!
Comment You can't even trust Facebook the company... (Score 2) 454
Given the utterly dismal record of Facebook the company when it comes to the privacy of its users, I wouldn't bother allowing access. Not only do you have your users to worry about, you have external Facebook users and Facebook itself - that sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. Aren't we due for a reset of our privacy settings to 'Everything shared with everyone' any day now?
Comment Re:Debian (Score 1) 252
July 16, 1993: Patrick Volkerding releases Slackware 1.00.
16 August, 1993: Ian Murdock announces that he wants to create a distro called Debian. No code is forthcoming.
15 September, 1993: Debian 0.01 ALPHA is 'released'.
17 October, 1993: Debian 0.02 ALPHA is 'released'.
02 November, 1993: Debian 0.03 ALPHA is 'released'.
05 November, 1993: Slackware 1.1.0 is released.
07 November, 1993: Debian 0.04 ALPHA is 'released'.
23 November, 1993: Debian 0.80 BETA is 'released' (limited beta).
28 November, 1993: Debian 0.81 BETA is 'released' (limited beta).
26 January, 1994: Debian 0.90 BETA is 'released' (public beta).
29 January, 1994: Debian 0.91 BETA is 'released' (public beta).
I keep hearing this 'only by a matter of weeks' line. It looks to me like the first public 'release' of Debian occurred in January of 1994, six months after the first release of Slackware. Or does anyone want to argue that Duke Nukem Forever came out in 1997?
Note that I'm giving Debian the benefit of the doubt here, by calling a 'public beta' a 'public release'.
Comment Re:$300 PS3?? (Score 1) 276
And Blu-ray players were $700-$1000.
Comment Re:Wealthy advice (Score 1) 202
Or maybe they did some things differently, and that's how they got to BE the uber wealthy?
But no, cause and effect can't possibly have any bearing on reality. That would be silly.
Comment Re:Alleged picture (Score 1) 275
If it's a setup, then why on God's Green Earth can't Rep. Weiner "Say with certitude" that the picture is not of him?
Comment Re:Long term... (Score 1) 585
Amazon says hello.
Classic gaming, at least from a hardware perspective, is a pretty big business. If you can't find an adapter for your controller, you can almost always find somebody who built one in an afternoon from ten dollars worth of parts.
As far as special keys on emulated systems, it's very rare that they aren't provided for. This specifically talks about the Commodore 64 emulators available and how they provide for special Commodore keys.
The lesson here? For every one of us that has two pieces of old hardware sitting in a crate in the corner, there's some crazy guy still writing software for it, another crazy guy building hardware for it, and a third writing an emulator or driver for a modern system/OS.
When AIM Was Our Facebook 395
Hugh Pickens writes "Gizmodo reports that there was a stretch of time in the 90s and early 00s when AOL was a social requisite. 'Everyone had an AIM handle,' write Adrian Covert and Sam Biddle. 'You didn't have to worry about who used what. Saying "what's your screenname" was tantamount to asking for someone's number — everyone owned it, everyone used it, it was simple, and it worked.' When we all finally got broadband, it was always on and your friends were always right there on your buddy list, around the clock. AIM was the first time that it felt like we had presences online, making it normal, for the first time ever, to make public what you were doing. 'Growing up with AIM, it became more than just a program we used. It turned into a culture all its own—long before we realized we'd been living it.'"
Tasmanian Dept. of Education Wants Anti-Virus for Linux, OS X 396
An anonymous reader writes "One of Australia's largest government technology buyers, the Tasmanian Department of Education, has gone to market for a security vendor to supply anti-virus software for its 40,000-odd desktop PCs and laptops, as well as servers. But the department's not just running Windows — it runs Mac OS X and Linux as well, and has requested that whatever solution it buys must be able to run on those platforms as well. But have we reached the stage were Mac OS X and Linux even need third-party security software? It seems like most Mac and Linux users don't run it."
Submission + - Linode Turns 7, Announces Big RAM Increase (linode.com)
palegray.net writes: "For anyone interested in hosting, Linode turns seven today and has announced an impressive RAM increase across all plans (512 MB at the low end, 20 GB on the high end). There's an ongoing discussion of the announcement over at Hacker News for those interested. As a disclaimer, I have worked for Linode for a little over a year now, but I was a very happy customer for five years. For Slashdotters who already have a Linode, you'll need to issue a reboot to use the new memory; sorry about ruining your uptime ;)."
