Comment Re:What the f**king f**k? (Score 1) 383
It's sad because it's true.
Comment Thanks for all the hard work. (Score 1) 1521
Thanks for all your hard work CmdrTaco! I hope
Thanks for all the great stories, knowledge and laughs along the way
Comment Re:Surface (Score 1) 233
At least you spell checked your post this time!
Comment Re:Surface (Score 1) 233
`News for nerds, Stuff that matters'
Comment Re:I like it (Score 1) 194
You do not have to add people one by one to the post visibility/privacy on your facebook posts. You can create groups of people and add the group, just like the circles on Google+.
In Isk We Trust: the EVE Online IskBank Exposed 145
riverni writes "Eve News 24 is running a couple of articles uncovering the lucrative 'black-market' existing in EVE Online, a sci-fi themed single-server MMORPG. The overall scale of the operation is breathtaking. While there exist legal ways to exchange real world currency for in-game currency, the black market, primarily driven by botters (users who utilize automated macros to perform rewardable tasks in game), remains strong. One article reports on how Iskbank.com made approximately $290,000 in sales during a 10.5-month period. These figures do not include any sales made through their sister site, Eveisk.ru and yes, those are US dollars."
Comment Re:Burning WAAAY too much CPU (Score 1) 2254
I have the same CPU usage issue in Chrome. Also it consumes memory at the rate of 8KB a second until the slashdot page is closed, never releasing any.
Comment Chrome Memory (Score 1) 2254
Hi,
The new design consumes 8KB of memory every second until the window is closed. Looks like objects are not being destroyed properly. It also uses a lot of CPU!
please fix this ASAP
Cheers
Submission + - Jimi Heselden, Dead (dailymail.co.uk)
Fazed writes: The multi-millionaire owner of the Segway company died in a freak accident yesterday when he rode one of the high-tech two-wheel machines off a cliff and into a river.
Former miner Jimi Heselden, 62, plunged into the River Wharfe while riding around his West Yorkshire estate in Boston Spa on a rugged country version of the Segway.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315518/Segway-owner-Jimi-Heselden-dies-riding-machines-cliff.html#ixzz10jvluBiS
Former miner Jimi Heselden, 62, plunged into the River Wharfe while riding around his West Yorkshire estate in Boston Spa on a rugged country version of the Segway.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315518/Segway-owner-Jimi-Heselden-dies-riding-machines-cliff.html#ixzz10jvluBiS
PETA Using Games To Spread Its Message 477
Cooking Mama is a series of games for the Wii and the DS in which players go through a number of steps to prepare meals using a variety of recipes. Last week, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) created their own Flash-based parody of the game, highlighting the use of meat products by having a more bloody-minded Mama do things like pull the internal organs from a Thanksgiving turkey. Cooking Mama's maker, Majesco, issued a light-hearted response, pointing out the vegetarian meals in the game. PETA then said they plan to continue making parody games as a way of "engaging the public."
Stardock Tried To Make Star Control, Master of Orion Sequels 125
Gamasutra reports on comments from Stardock CEO Brad Wardell in which he described his efforts to revive two old but popular franchises: Star Control and Master of Orion. Quoting:
"'I actually pitched Atari on a whole idea for a true successor to Star Control,' [he said], noting that the game would follow original series developer Toys for Bob's Star Control II rather than the Legend Entertainment-developed Star Control 3 ('We just pretend that never happened,' the CEO says of that release). ... Novato, California-based Toys for Bob has actually floated the idea of making its own Star Control II sequel, with co-creator Paul Reiche III indicating he has tossed potential design ideas around, but with the company now owned by publisher Activision the proposal seems to be stuck in limbo."
The Science of the Lightsaber 197
Smartcowboy writes "Chances are that you have seen a lightsaber at one time or another, whether on the evening news or down at the local cantina. Therefore you know that a lightsaber is an amazing and versatile device that is able to cut through nearly anything in a matter of milliseconds.
Have you ever wondered how these remarkable weapons work? Where does the energy come from, and how are they able to contain that energy in a rod-like column of glowing power?
In this article, you will have a chance to look inside a lightsaber and discover the source of its incredible characteristics." I was sure the blade was made from the focused hate and disappointment of the last three movies.
Gamer Plays Over 30 Warcraft Characters 189
If your significant other complains that you play too much World of Warcraft, just show them this article about a user named "Prepared." He plays an amazing 36 World of Warcraft accounts on 11 different computers at the same time. He is his own raid group. "It costs me exactly $5711 in subscription costs per year with 36 accounts on the 6 month pay schedule," he writes. "Not bad considering I'm looking at it like it's a hobby and there are more expensive hobbies out there than World of Warcraft."
Submission + - EE Undergrad Wins Prize for 2,3 Turing Proof (wolframscience.com)
superdan2k writes: "A undergraduate electrical engineering student at the University of Birmingham (UK), Alex Smith in the United Kingdom, in a 40-page proof (PDF), has proven that a primitive type of computer known as a 2,3 Turing machine can solve every computational problem. There are write-ups on the proof in Nature and in Wolfram's blog.
This prize was previously mentioned on Slashdot back in May."
This prize was previously mentioned on Slashdot back in May."
Submission + - Open Source? No Code?
WED Fan writes: "A few months ago, the popular Digg-like .NET resource DotNetKicks announced that it was going open-source. Yet, to this date, has released no code. Instead, there's been the lame excuse that it will be released in the future.
How many other projects announced they were going OSS and then failed to do so?"
How many other projects announced they were going OSS and then failed to do so?"
