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Submission + - Steam Sells Games with Broken Activations (steampowered.com) 2

logistic writes: Yet another collision of digital delivery, DRM and multiple vendors in every transaction. Steam puts game on sale but serves a bunch of CD keys that don't work. EA and Valve point the finger at each other when you contact support. According to the forums this happens on steam occasionally but the blogosphere is a bit quiet about it. If it were MS we'd be reading about this in the NY times. After you pay for digital content how long should you have to wait to access it without compensation? If you'd stolen the game you'd be playing by now.

Comment Yes. (Score 1) 1

they're trying to get rid of the nerds. :-)

Seriously, tho, it looks a lot like an apple approved design, and that's not a compliment.

What ever happened to `if it aint broke, don't fix it'?

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Seriously? 5 seconds to generate a comment preview??? at the rate that all of the news sites are redesigning, I'll have switched to bing/yahoo news by the end of July.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Colaborative web-based IDE? 1

Obliterous writes: "With developers geographically dispersed all over the globe, and often not having a regular computer to work from, I'm looking for a web-based collaborative IDE. open source is preferable, and with our budget, free is a requirement.

    Does such a beast even exist?"
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Journal Journal: I need a colaborative IDE, that I can host on my own server. 2

With developers geographically dispersed all over the globe, and often not having a regular computer to work from, I'm looking for a web-based collaborative IDE. open source is preferable, and with our budget, free is a requirement.

Does such a beast even exist?

Comment Mikrotik (Score 2, Informative) 376

Mikrotik Routers, despite some bad press, are good. They are inexpensive, can be build with commodity hardware, and easily handle that level of traffic.

hardware specs on mine: 2.4Ghz P-IV, 512MB Rambus RAM, 1 * T100 Ethernet port (motherboard)connected to modem, 5 * 10/100/1000 ports (NICs) connected to home network and one 802.11g wifi NIC (operating as a hotspot), 1 256MB flash card in IDE adapter.

FIOS connection gives me 60*5 with one IP, and regularly sustains that with as many as four separate machines running BT at any given time, 2 public game servers, as well as various other uses. 60+ firewall rules, full NAT with 20+ port forwarding rules, it runs like a champ.

http://www.mikrotik.com/

If you already have the hardware laying around doing nothing, go ahead and give them a look.

Comment Re:Resistance? (Score 1) 237

I'm not so sure that's true. You would probably never see a human that is completely resistant to fire, but after a few generations I think you would certainly see humans with a greater ability to recuperate from burns. Over time you would absolutely see humans with skin and physiology more resistance to heat damage.

It wouldn't happen quickly, but I think you would eventually see selection for some qualities that improve the organism's ability to survive fire.

Comment Re:Common Ground? (Score 1) 822

I share your anachronistic devotion to truth and accuracy and reality. But those things are out of fashion. They've been replaced with hate and greed and envy and the self absorbtion that is called "awareness".

To care about the truth is to fail to fit into modern society. Your "common ground" is very uncommon these days.

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