Comment: A fad? (Score 1) 643
WTF Mundie, yeoman have these things on the bridge of the Enterprise. On both TOS and TNG. That's hundreds of years of freaking "staying power." What a moron.
Comment: Why you should like clouds... (Score 3, Interesting) 396
Say you are a programmer. You have some spare time. You have loads of talent. You want to write a great little addictive game that supports multiplayer. Maybe make a little money.
You are smart enough to want to build in automatic updates, user account verification, user skins, multiplayer server lists and so on. Your little home PC doesn't have the bandwidth, the up-time, nor the horse power to pull it off.
You can go to the cloud. They have bandwidth, storage space, up-time. Pay some money, get your VM on the cloud. You write your cloud "user admin" server. Write that fun little game. Sell over a million. Just don't use the name "notch", it's taken.
Valve looking for Linux software engineers 2
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An anonymous reader writes "Seems like a Valve is looking for a software engineers to port their Windows-based games to Linux."
Comment: It's all about the power of 2 (Score 2, Informative) 81
The OLPC needs to cost half as much, run twice as fast, with twice the memory. Then it will meet the expectations they made for it two years ago.
I know.
I own one.
How do you like your Sci-Fi movies?
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0x4a6f6e43 writes "1) Rated G. I prefer it cute and cuddly.
2) Rated PG. Cute is nice but throw in some gun action, a little toilet humor, and a hot chick in a tight shirt.
3) Rated PG-13. Get a few salty words, some serious explosions, some serious hot chicks, but no gore and sex, my mom/wife/kids might watch it too!
4) Rated R. I gotta have major explosions, guts, brains, and body parts everywhere, loads of cussing, and a nice naked chick or two.
5) Rated NC17. Sci-Fi is best served raw, bloody, and naked!"
2) Rated PG. Cute is nice but throw in some gun action, a little toilet humor, and a hot chick in a tight shirt.
3) Rated PG-13. Get a few salty words, some serious explosions, some serious hot chicks, but no gore and sex, my mom/wife/kids might watch it too!
4) Rated R. I gotta have major explosions, guts, brains, and body parts everywhere, loads of cussing, and a nice naked chick or two.
5) Rated NC17. Sci-Fi is best served raw, bloody, and naked!"
Comment: Re:Don't blame Red Hat, Sugar was a dog (Score 0, Offtopic) 268
As an OLPC owner I can say RH sucks too. Changed to Ubuntu and the the boot time was about 20% less. Overall feel of the OS is much more responsive.
Comment: Re:The hardware sucked too (Score 2, Informative) 268
Missing keys? WTF. People with pocket knives cut them out or something? It's a frigging rubber mat keyboard. How does it loose a key? What kind of trade show was this? A razor blade trade show?
Comment: Re:I have an early OLPC and Sugar sucks (Score 1) 268
Sugar sucks big time. My kids hate it, my wife hates it, I hate it. I spent the first year trying to get used to it. No dice. It sucks. Slow, totally non-intuitive, buggy. Nuked it and put Ubuntu on it. No problems now. It gets a few hours of use every day.
The OLPC has a lot of problems: too slow by a factor of 2, too power hungry by a factor of 2, too costly by a factor of 2. Early units have bad keyboards and bad touch pads. Put sugar on it and it makes me puke.
Comment: Re:Tape (Score 1) 310
Yah, wtf Batman. Were is the tape option?
Oh, I see what's going on. My DNS is being handled by a server in an alternate dimension where tape hasn't been invented... Wrong slashdot poll.
Comment: I saw this on TV! (Score 1) 461
Come on Slashdot, get your conspiracy theories going!
You cut the fiber at point A so you can install a tap down the line and nobody will know.
This isn't some terrorist plot. This is a Government plot to install data taps in California at the cross-roads of the internet. Check the building next to the manhole - I bet it has 10 floors but the elevator only shows nine floors...