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Comment Re:forget popcorn (Score 1) 865

by kungfugleek (#38537470) Attached to: Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping
The town I went to college in had a budget theater (second-run movies at $2/ticket) with a huge (old-school) screen and a ton of seating. The first several rows of seats had big tables where they'd bring out pizza, beer, subs, etc, quietly and discreetly during the movie (or you could order ahead of time and get it beforehand). On Sunday afternoons they showed live NFL football games with free admission. They also got permission to show episodes of South Park (free admission again) for the first couple of seasons. In short, it was perfect. I think it's still there.

Comment Re:Pirate attitude (Score 1) 309

by kungfugleek (#38377070) Attached to: Louis CK's Internet Experiment Pays Off
Just curious -- I wonder if you could do a psychological study and see if the "good feeling" a pirate gets from paying for something legitimately is like the good feeling non-pirates get by donating to charity. Which might reveal something about the pirate's view of the media they pirate -- that it's charity or something.

Comment Re:Hurray.. ? (Score 1) 1167

by kungfugleek (#38238882) Attached to: US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers

(Posting Anon as IBM employee. Opinions are my own, I don't speak for them etc etc)

I've worked for IBM in two countries. I have been paid overtime in neither one. The flip side of this is that I haven't been expected to work ovetime.

Sure, I've put in a few extra hours at crunch time, but nobody forced me to. And crunch time means just that - a couple of weeks before an important deadline, if there's something critical needing fixing. Doesn't even happen every release, or every year.

As far as I can tell, Big Blue respect the whole concept of work/life balance, and having people well rested and working sensible hours. I doubt very much they would have lobbied for this.

I've worked at IBM, and I know several people that still do. They are constantly being forced to work overtime -- "Crunch Time" stretches into months-straight of 60 hour weeks. No overtime. No bonuses (unless you're in India or China). Just a slight less chance of being laid off in the next 6 months. *Everyone* I know at IBM is so desperate to leave they're taking pay cuts to do so.

Submission + - Keylogger infects DOD Predator Drone Cockpit Contr (wired.com)

Submitted by kungfugleek
kungfugleek writes: Toy Story's Woody said it best: "This is a perfect time to panic." A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones. Not that there's anything to worry about. As any highly trained IT organization would do, they checked Kaspersky's website and followed the virus removal instructions. Unfortunately, "It kept coming back." So they had to wipe hard drives. Including removable hard drives they swap out with map info, which the virus also spread to.

Comment Worse than Starcraft II (Score 1) 591

by kungfugleek (#37054832) Attached to: Reaction To <em>Diablo 3's</em> Always-Online Requirement
Starcraft II forces online activation, but you can play the single player campaign off-line (ie, if their server goes down, you can still play the game). For me, that wasn't great, but it was still a "buy" for me. Diablo III? Not so much. FTA:

This system functions essentially like an MMO, where if your connection is interrupted during a game you'll be dropped back out to the login screen. It differs from what Blizzard did with StarCraft II because though the Wings of Liberty required an initial online activation, the campaign could still be played in an offline mode.

Nope. Not for me. Too many other options (Torchlight 2, Guild Wars 2 (where forcing connection makes sense)) to make D3 attractive.

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