Comment Moderator points are for moderating... (Score 1) 4
So moderate.
Comment Re:Translation. (Score 1) 309
Yeah... This is what I said when 4th ed came out.
Just as true now as it was then.
Submission + - [slashdot poll] Quote of the day should change:
OrigamiMarie writes: Quote of the day should change:
* Every minute
* Hourly
* Daily
* Weekly
* Whenever somebody remembers to un-jam the cron job
* Every minute
* Hourly
* Daily
* Weekly
* Whenever somebody remembers to un-jam the cron job
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 you get no signal! (Score 1) 458
Signal Blocking, in that I prevent a power signal from reaching any wifi device in the environment that I control.
Comment time to change submission methods... (Score 1) 1
the spammers have made it through the doors.
Comment it's android... (Score 1) 429
the tablet will be rooted in less than 24 hours.
I predict that this will be the first android device to exceed 75% of all devices rooted and a non crippled version of the OS installed.
Comment Re:hmm (Score 1) 2
Cannot confirm, but here's the video that that still was taken from: http://vimeo.com/19255226
Maybe someone that know's him can take a look at it?
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.
Comment Problem with this.... (Score 1) 289
at that resolution the pixel sensors are closer together than the wavelengths of visible light, and each photon will be triggering multiple pixels, thus reducing the apparent resolution.
Comment Re:The only true answer... (Score 1) 159
five options == 20% chance of an accurate answer. randomizers would be under-represented by 500%. (but I could be telling you a lie)
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?"
Does such a beast even exist?"
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 Re:I'm confused. (Score 1) 338
well, since I am neither gainfully employed or engaged in a productive task, I default to the No answer.
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.
If you already have the hardware laying around doing nothing, go ahead and give them a look.
