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Comment Hell , yah. (Score 1) 357

I can see it now

  Doctor Who in 3D!!

  With Tom Baker brought back in full youth and form
via the miracle of CGI.
  After all, as everyone knows he was the only Doctor
that was, The Doctor. The rest are just pretenders.

  Yah, that's the ticket.

  As an American, proud as I am, I wish to apologia in
advance for what Hollywood is surely to do to the Doctor
Who image.
      That said, recent incarnations of the series
just are plain bad and I can no longer watch these past few years, but I suppose the lack of weed and youth
are the reasons it seems to bad to me now.

  Yah, still a fan of Baker Who.

 

Comment Re:Not play it (Score 1) 211

Not a problem.
  I will not be in the queue.

  I've enjoyed many Massive Online RPGames since 2001. Oh, six or so or more come to mind.

    I might have tried this one. However.

Soon as I saw some game play vid of wankers wacking
away at each other with light sabres and little damage being done I realized there was no way I could enjoy the game.

    I could not remove from my mind 'the fact' that a light sabre
in the Star War universe I know (movies) is one mean SOB weapon. About the only thing a light sabre bounces off of is another farking light sabre. LIght sabres were used to cut thru
farking bulkheads for crying out loud. /sigh

    As silly as the movies were they firmly established in my mind
what 'Star Wars' physics are. For the game to reduce
such a massive weapon to a mere limp dick sword just does not
pass the credible BS test.
    But, I suppose they had to have light sabres in the game or the wankers would not flock to the game.

  Me , I would have been satisfied with something less then a farking GOD MODE light sabre, just drop them except for use by certain NPC's or special events.
    Of course the game makers knew it would be silly to have the God Mode light sabre in the game they had to nerf them. I guess they were stuck in a 'situation' as they knew a huge wanker population wants to be pretend Jedi Knights.
    So they have to serve them. I do not like wankers.
    Oh well, I lose.

Based on the flock of peeps going bonkers over this I'm in a tiny minority of potential players.
    So, enjoy your wanking away with light sabres.

  No, you will not find me in your lines at the Star Wars conventions either.

   

Comment Netflix's Steve Swasey VP says (Score 1) 267

Bugger off .

  Yeah, basically he says go blow a pipe. Screw you, we
like change for change sake.

  http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/06/10/netflix-changes-interface/

ONce I read that I realized my only sane course of action was to call up CS and let em know WHY I am canceling.
  Posting on that blog was fun but pointless. If anyone
bothers to read what that Netflix VP of Communications says you will realize you only have one sane course of action.
  Cancel, and let em know why.
I spent a good 5 minutes chewing on the ear of that CS rep. If everyone that was in a stir over this issue did the same I would bet they would change Mr. Steve Swasey's ' job title to Janitor where he could do less harm.
  After you see his comments you'll understand what has to be done.
  Amazing.

  You can live without Netflix. I did, prior to Fall of 2009. I can live without them again.

 

Image

Florida Man Sues WikiLeaks For Scaring Him 340

Stoobalou writes "WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been accused of 'treason' by a Florida man seeking damages for distress caused by the site's revelations about the US government. From the article: 'David Pitchford, a Florida trailer park resident, names Assange and WikiLeaks as defendants in a personal injury suit filed with the Florida Southern District Court in Miami. In the complaint filed on 6th January, Pitchford alleges that Assange's negligence has caused "hypertension," "depression" and "living in fear of being stricken by another heart attack and/or stroke" as a result of living "in fear of being on the brink of another nuclear [sic] WAR."' Just for good measure, it also alleges that Assange and WikiLeaks are guilty of 'terorism [sic], espionage and treason.'"
Science

Thousands of Blackbirds Fall From Sky Dead 577

Dan East writes "In a fashion worthy of a King or Hitchcock novel, blackbirds began to fall from the sky dead in Arkansas yesterday. Somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 birds rained down on the small town of Beeb, Arkansas, with no visible trauma. Officials are making wild guesses as to what happened — lightning strike, high-altitude hail, or perhaps trauma from the sound of New Year's fireworks killed them."

Comment Same asshats playing you for fools (Score 0, Troll) 514

  These are the same asshats (feds run by leftist expletives) that
pumped nearly half a billion dollars into Tesla, the electric car company.

  According to Ed Wallace of http://www.insideautomotive.com/ (he has a radio program where he
went on at length about Tesla car company today)
This outfit is in over its head 300,000 dollars in per car for cars they expect to sell for some 120k or there abouts.
  They claim to expect to sell 20,000 units per year. To date they have only sold some few 1000.

  Bottom line according to MY reading of what Mr Wallace said is that this company is a shill and sham
that will accomplish taking money from foolish investors that came late to the game and US Taxpayers who
as we can all bear witness appear to be fools as well.

    Further reading on the sham Tesla TSLA electric cars:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/07/01/behind-the-hype-on-tesla/

    Expect no less from this expenditure of YOUR money.. (assuming you are a American taxpayer).

      I recommend anyone take a listen to his show when it is on Saturday AM.
      Great site for talk show junkies is http://streamingradioguide.com/radio-shows-on-air.php
     

Role Playing (Games)

Dungeon Siege III Being Developed by Obsidian 84

Square Enix has announced that it will be publishing Dungeon Siege III, which is in development at Obsidian Entertainment, makers of Alpha Protocol, Neverwinter Nights 2, and the as yet unfinished Fallout: New Vegas. Obsidian will be receiving input from Gas Powered Games, the developer behind the first two installments in the Dungeon Siege series. No release date has been set, but the game is planned for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360, and it will include a co-op mode.

Comment Re:PowerPoint makes us stupid (Score 3, Funny) 233

qoombah99 blurted: "One more thing: Always label the axes on a plot dammit. and then always tell people in words what the axes are BEFORE you tell them what the plot says."

  Is this the US military your advising? Do they still use a lot of axes?
    Sounds like good advice though. I'd hate for some grunt to confuse
    F Wood Axe for chopping wood.

    F Tosser Axe for wood shaving

    F Fire Axe (For hitting fire with)

    F Hurlbat (just to confuse em).

    F Danish Axe (Often found in upper end pastry shops)

    F Axis Axe (Used to prune excess axes down to a single axis)

Businesses

Comcast Awarded the Golden Poo Award 286

ISoldat53 writes "The Consumerist has awarded Comcast the Golden Poo award for the worst company in America. From the article: 'After four rounds of bloody battle against some of the most publicly reviled businesses in America, Comcast can now run up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and hold its hands high in victory — it has bested everyone else to earn the title of Worst Company In America for 2010.'"

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