DeeKayWon - Slashdot User

Comment Re:eminent domain (Score 1) 215

by DeeKayWon on Sunday October 10, 2010 @02:55AM (#33850388) Attached to: Apple Pays Couple $1.7m For 1 Acre Plot

It's not 2005 anymore. Most state governments hated the Kelo v. City of New London decision and passed laws to prevent similar things from happening. North Carolina was one of those states.

Comment Re:If not Program Files, then where? (Score 1) 931

by DeeKayWon on Sunday October 03, 2010 @12:24PM (#33777040) Attached to: 66% of All Windows Users Still Use Windows XP

Maybe I spoke too soon, but C:\Users\All Users (a symlink to C:\ProgramData) should also work, and is probably preferred over C:\Users\Public. The point is that there most certainly are locations suitable for what you want.

Comment Re:If not Program Files, then where? (Score 1) 931

by DeeKayWon on Sunday October 03, 2010 @12:20PM (#33777010) Attached to: 66% of All Windows Users Still Use Windows XP

So in what folder should programs store machine-wide settings and created or downloaded content that affect all users?

C:\Users\Public

Comment G'huh? (Score 5, Informative) 1066

by DeeKayWon on Thursday September 16, 2010 @11:03PM (#33606968) Attached to: HDCP Master Key Is Legitimate; Blu-ray Is Cracked

What does this specifically have to do with Blu-ray? The discs themselves use AACS for encryption. The link from the player to the display is what uses HDCP.

Comment Wrong thing to talk about on the d-pad (Score 4, Interesting) 150

by DeeKayWon on Wednesday September 01, 2010 @01:30AM (#33432770) Attached to: Microsoft Unveils New Xbox 360 Wireless Controller

The change they made to the d-pad doesn't sound like it addresses the crappiness of the existing d-pad at all. I don't care about disc versus plus, I care about things like its tendency to register a diagonal press when trying to press a horizontal direction.

Seriously, take a 360 controller, hold left on the d-pad, and at the same time try to rock your thumb toward the up and down directions. It moves a lot! Using one on Windows, you can see in the controller properties how easily it registers diagonal presses. Now do the same thing with a Logitech Cordless Rumblepad 2, which has a very similar d-pad. It's far less finicky than the 360 pad.

So really, how is this new d-pad supposed to fix that?

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