Rebelgecko - Slashdot User

Comment Re:It CAN be done (but not always is a good idea). (Score 2) 438

by Rebelgecko on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @03:45AM (#45129805) Attached to: <em>Gravity</em>: Can Film Ever Get the Science Right?

I had the same issue with the movie. However one of the people I saw the movie with claims that the parachute ropes (and the people hanging onto them) were slowly rotating around the station. If there were some centrifugal stuff going on, then the scene would make sense.

Comment Re:Macbook Retina a major success, not failure (Score 1) 424

by Rebelgecko on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @11:28PM (#40772909) Attached to: OS X Mountain Lion Review

Unfortunately the retina MBPs aren't straight upgrades from the non-retina ones. If you get one with a retina display you lose a few things.
Ports/peripherals:
Ethernet port
CD/DVD drive
Firewire port
Audio in

I believe the retina macs also don't let you add more RAM or upgrade/replace your HDD/SSD

Comment Re:Common practice. (Score 2) 266

by Rebelgecko on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @10:52PM (#40772695) Attached to: Budget 27" IPS Displays From Korea Are For Real

"I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that?"

Submission + - Valve Software Confirms Work on Steam Client for LInux (valvesoftware.com)

Submitted by

oakgrove

on Monday July 16, 2012 @09:42PM

oakgrove writes: "Valve Software today in a new blog devoted specifically to Steam on Linux called Steam'd Penguins has confirmed that for more than a year a Steam client has been in the works for Ubuntu Linux. Also, in the blog post it has been confirmed that a working port of Left for Dead 2 is currently fully playable."

Comment Re:So many bitter slashdot readers (Score 1) 82

by Rebelgecko on Saturday July 14, 2012 @02:40AM (#40646685) Attached to: Putting the Raspberry Pi Into Orbit

I don't think they even took preorders. I ordered mine a day or two after it went up on sale and I've had it for a few weeks

Comment Re:Wait, Vmware code stolen from China Military (Score 1) 109

by Rebelgecko on Thursday April 26, 2012 @02:26AM (#39803791) Attached to: VMware Confirms Source Code Leak

If you have the source, it's not very hard to create your own binaries

Comment Re:Bloody really?!?! Another one? (Score 1) 233

by Rebelgecko on Thursday April 05, 2012 @03:49AM (#39582295) Attached to: Plantronics Helps Make Remote Workers' Lives Easier (Video)

This is just a delayed April Fools' Day thing, right?

Journal Journal: Robin "Roblimo" Miller - Sellout!

Journal by X0563511 on Thursday April 05, 2012 @12:05AM

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/04/04/1946231/plantronics-helps-make-remote-workers-lives-easier-video

Yep. It's come to this. Slashdot is now serving undisguised advertisements in place of stories.

Submission + - Google Unveils "Project Glass" (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by

redletterdave

on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @02:33PM

redletterdave writes: "Google unveiled one of its secret projects from the Google X laboratory on Wednesday, called "Project Glass." Using pieces of smart glass and a heads-up display (HUD), Google's wearable solution mixes communication technology like social networking, calling and texting, with real world elements like people, places, and things. When it all comes together, "Project Glass" creates a type of meta-reality, or "smart" reality. A video explains all of the eyeglasses' features, including calling, getting directions, setting reminders, social networking, and picture and video recording."

Comment Re:How to beat the system? (Score 2) 161

by Rebelgecko on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @12:49AM (#39556789) Attached to: Bill Introduced To Ban Sale of MA15+ Games To Anyone Under 18 in SA

Importing classified material? What games are you playing?!?

Submission + - Google Introduces Gmail Tap — A New Way Of Writing Emails (gizmocrazed.com) 2

Submitted by Diggester on Sunday April 01, 2012 @04:23AM

Diggester writes: Say Bye-Bye To the Qwerty key pad folks! Google has introduced a new way of writing your emails, called the Gmail Tap. Now, you don't have to tap all the keys on your keyboard or phone to write an email— combination of just a dash and a dot will solve your problem.

Comment Re:Diablo 3 == D&D 5 ? (Score 1) 246

by Rebelgecko on Thursday March 15, 2012 @05:12PM (#39370235) Attached to: <em>Diablo 3</em> To Be Released On May 15th

D3's skill system is a lot simpler than D2's.

Comment Re:Meanwhile in Aus ... (Score 1) 435

by Rebelgecko on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @02:04AM (#39349291) Attached to: Can $60 Games Survive?

The full version of Mass Effect 3 costs $80 here in the United States, although other games are less of a rip-off

Comment Re:There are so many things wrong with this ... (Score 1) 122

by Rebelgecko on Saturday February 18, 2012 @10:34PM (#39090021) Attached to: Arizona Ponders FCC Decency Standards For the Classroom

IIRC the FCC doesn't care about didactic nudity. I think a TV station did a "How to do a breast cancer self-examination" segment (which involved broadcasting breasts) and the FCC was fine with it.

Comment Re:Impressive hardware (Score 1) 177

by Rebelgecko on Wednesday January 25, 2012 @01:19PM (#38819673) Attached to: XBMC Running On Raspberry Pi

Don't forget the "phone" part of the iPhone :p

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