jitterman - Slashdot User

Submission + - Steam on a retail DVD PC Game?

Submitted by jitterman on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @09:48AM

jitterman writes: I purchased "Metro 2033" for Windows yesterday. After thinking about downloading it from a disreputable source, I decided, "No, I want PC gaming to thrive." So, I went to my local retailer, put down $49.95 plus tax, came home, and installed... Steam. Right off the disc. Which then began the download process to install the game on my machine. Now, there were .sid files on the disc, but I couldn't determine if there was a way for Steam to use them to "restore" the game to my system.

I have no issue with Steam itself, but if I had wanted to buy the game this way, I would have done that in the first place. If I had know that THIS was how a supposed DVD of this title was going to work, my choice between "purchase/pirate" might have been different. As it is, I did find a nice Razor1911 copy of the game to actually use should I ever have to reinstall from scratch. Yes, I still had to download the iso, but at least now I *have* it. I suppose the upside is that I did support PC gaming with my money.

Comments? Criticisms (both of me and/or of the Steam situation)? Similar anecdotes?

Submission + - Rocket Man flies over Channel

Submitted by jitterman on Friday September 26, 2008 @12:03PM

jitterman writes: Okay, it's a jet, not a rocket.

Jet Man flies across Channel on a wing Swiss daredevil Yves Rossy becomes first person to cross English Channel using jet-propelled wing strapped to his back.

Submission + - Dark matter detected in galactic collision

Submitted by jitterman on Thursday August 28, 2008 @05:04PM

jitterman writes: Space telescopes have captured images of a mammoth collision between two galaxy clusters that have shed some light into the universe's mysterious dark matter, NASA said. The astronomers were able to differentiate between the two substances with a technique known as gravitational lensing in which dark matter appears in blue in the image while ordinary matter, which is mostly in the form of hot gas, looks pink.

Submission + - Ubuntu kernel patched (ubuntu.com)

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jitterman

on Tuesday August 26, 2008 @02:12PM

jitterman writes: "From Ubuntu.com today: It was discovered that there were multiple NULL-pointer function dereferences in the Linux kernel terminal handling code. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code as root, or crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2008-2812)"

Submission + - Free-As-In-Beer Software Copyrights

Submitted by jitterman on Friday August 15, 2008 @11:45AM

jitterman writes: A federal appeals court has ruled that copyrights apply even for free software. In a dispute that concerns copyright infringement and breach of contract, the court stated that the plaintiff, who manages an open-source effort, has the right to sue on both fronts. It appears that the ruling applies to both "free-as-in-beer" and "free-as-in-speech" varieties of software (or perhaps implies that the court doesn't realize there is a difference?).

Submission + - Does Prohibition Work?

Submitted by jitterman on Thursday August 07, 2008 @01:00PM

jitterman writes: Reuters columnist Bernd Debusmann makes his case for the legalization of marijuana in the US. He provides anecdotal insight, such as "Hollywood, conscious of a mass audience that does inhale, has produced a slew of new 'stoner' movies this year. The pot-smoking protagonists include an investment banker and a medical student (Harold & Kumar), a psychiatrist (The Wackness), and a process server (Pineapple Express)." He also provides a statistic I find promising: "Since 1937, the year marijuana was outlawed, its use in the United States has gone up by 4,000 percent..." Why is this promising? Well, perhaps if we outlaw Linux on the desktop...

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