boyter - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Chrono Trigger DS (Score 1) 381

by boyter on Monday December 29, 2008 @07:46PM (#26263295) Attached to: Resurrecting Old Games, What Works?

I have often said that if there was a remake of FF7 I would buy whatever system is required to play it. I love that game to bits. I still have my orginal PS disks and may just fire it up again tonight.

Comment Re:15 year old keyboard (Score 1) 523

by boyter on Monday December 29, 2008 @05:51PM (#26262053) Attached to: The Best Keyboards For Every Occasion

It won't. I have tired it myself on a few occasions and it never worked :(

Comment Re:DIY or it will be broken (Score 1) 183

by boyter on Sunday December 28, 2008 @07:20PM (#26252921) Attached to: Smart Spam Filtering For Forums and Blogs?

Thats what I did. I added an extra field which you need to enter the word "fatty" into. I went from 200 spam comments a day to 0.

Comment Re:They don't need the data at all (Score 1) 76

by boyter on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @05:56PM (#26151547) Attached to: Yahoo Promises To Anonymize and Limit User Data

I disagree. You need to know what people are searching for and then clicking on in order to improve your algorithm. Thats just common sense. If people are searching for "google" and then clicking on link number 17 in your result set then it should probably be moved up a bit.

Submission + - BBC iPlayer to stream for Linux & Mac users (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Albanach on Monday October 15, 2007 @09:07PM

Albanach writes: The BBC has confirmed that television shows available to download for Windows users within the UK will be available to Linux and Mac users by the year end. The BBC has signed a deal with adobe to make streaming versions of these programmes available using Flash. While the BBC have not ruled out a download and watch later version for Linux and mac users, they state "It comes down to cost per person and reach at the end of the day".

Submission + - Why ISS Computers Failed (ieee.org) 1

Submitted by

Geoffrey.landis

on Monday October 15, 2007 @08:50PM

Geoffrey.landis writes: "It was only a small news item four months ago: all three of the Russian computers that control the International Space Station failed shortly after the Space Shuttle brought up a new solar array. But, why did they fail? James Oberg, writing in IEEE Spectrum, details the cause."

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