Comment Dammit (Score -1) 295
First they make you leave your pick-axe outside, then they stop selling magic items
Nethack has gone to shit.
Comment Slackers (Score -1) 454
They clearly aren't trying hard enough, or are trying too hard.
Either/or.
Comment Re:Sage (Score -1) 120
How appropriate that you're anonymous.
Oh look at me, dropping hints like that.
Curiosity Transmits First 360-Degree Panorama From Mars 108
redletterdave writes with this snippet from the IB Times: "Five days after NASA's Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars, the one-ton robot sent another postcard back to Earth, this one a 360-degree doozy. Curiosity's first panorama, albeit black-and-white, gives Earthlings a great high-quality glimpse at the surface on Mars, specifically within the 96-mile Gale Crater."
Meet DARPA's New Militarized Earthworm 83
derekmead writes "Meshworm is a toughened, robotic earthworm that can crawl virtually silently at a speed of about 5 millimeters per second. DARPA wants to send it into battle. Believe it or not, the Pentagon's been working on building a robotic earthworm for a while. They tried putting one together with gears. They tried with air-powered and pneumatic pumps, but the results were bulky and untenable. Then, researchers at Harvard, MIT and Seoul National University in Korea put their heads together and designed an 'artificial muscle.' It's essentially a polymer mesh that's wrapped with nickel and titanium wire designed to stretch and contract with heat. When an electric current is applied, the mesh mimics the circular muscle system of an earthworm to scoot forward."
Comment Lt. Dan (Score -1) 258
I'm only 18 today, but I watched the movie (with Forest and Lt. Dan), and I know it probably isn't the most accurate thing in the world, but it sure did make those folks at NASA look like some badasses, at least to me.
It's too bad the space program got left in the 70's, then scrapped when we ran out of money.
Anyways, chalk another up for our good friend RMS
Comment What about us? (Score -1) 635
What about the people, like me, who bought a bunch of games while still using windows?
What, did you think I don't want to finish Half Life 2? Or pwn some noobs in CS:S?
I like those games, but I hate windows more. When I get steam working on linux I'm definately going to be buying more games.
Carmack, you're a cool guy and all, but c'mon.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go play Quake 1 on a linux native engine.
Comment Nope (Score -1) 127
I forsee a few more wal-mart ads and some shitty wal-mart apps.
All in all it's gonna fail.
Comment Welp (Score -1) 240
I'm gonna go ahead and play fortune tell here:
The Government passes a bunch of privacy violating cyber laws
Everyone thinks its great for a day or two, then forgets all about it.
A Republican gets elected down the road a year or four
Everything is business as usual
Some kind of scandal or some other such nonsense happens
Everyone blames the Republican and calls him a fascist
Rinse and repeat.
Comment Microsoft files patent on broken phones/tablets. (Score -1) 83
As a gamer who has spent about as much on controllers as I did on my console, I do not think this is a good idea.
Comment Don't forget us (Score -1) 236
How about, oh I dunno, giving steam to those who have been waiting since forever instead of the kiddos who are just starting to use linux? (i.e ubuntu)
Comment Content, not beauty (Score -1) 370
I always thought people went to wikipedia to, you know, look shit up, not look at some ad or a bunch of stupid effects no one wants.
Comment Yeah, whatever (Score -1) 204
Other than writing different exploits for each platform, this really isn't that amazing.
Of course it's just a few if statements and there you go.
Come get me when someone takes down an entire country with a stuxnet clone
Comment Re:The worthwhile point that is missed... (Score -1) 1134
A desktop os is only a vehicle in which to launch a browser.
Do you work for apple, or one of those companies always trying to sell me a visible mass of liquid droplets or frozen crystals made of water or various chemicals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of a planetary body?
Comment You can't be serious (Score -1) 1134
'If it is there, it should just be there for the IT people or tech support to use when you encounter a problem.'"
Ahahahahaha.. Oh wait, you're serious? Let me laugh harder.
I, for one, fix my problems myself with a little googling and occasionally some help from my home-dawgs on irc, I don't need Apoo to fix anything for me.
This is the kind of thing that's ruining everything for those of us who know what we're doing and want to learn more about how things work inside.
If Linux distros got rid of the command line, I would.. well.. I would switch to *BSD.
