Crazy_CorranH - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:How to type...... (Score 1) 462

by Crazy_CorranH on Sunday August 29 2010, @04:30PM (#33410482) Attached to: What 'IT' Stuff Should We Teach Ninth-Graders?

While I agree that Keyboarding skills are important to have (in my experience at least) Keyboarding classes are a boring PITA that didn't really help me improve my typing skill or accuracy at all. What did help was taking a Programming class in High School where being able to type quickly and accurately was useful, that is when I developed those skills, not Keyboarding class. So give them something that would hopefully encourage them to learn the proper way to type with maybe a intro to Keyboarding week so they learn how they are supposed to hold their hands to prevent bad posture and other such things, and let the fun things actually improve their skills.

(I hope that was coherent, posting while half asleep isn't a good idea ;) )

Comment: Re:Way to go Red Hat! (Score 1) 89

by Crazy_CorranH on Sunday May 02 2010, @01:31AM (#32061666) Attached to: Red Hat Prevails Against Patent Troll Acacia

They need some way to fund their defence case (or at least I'm guessing that is the reasoning behind it)

EVE Online Battle Breaks Records (And Servers) 308

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 05 2010, @02:09AM
from the blame-it-on-the-torrents dept.

captainktainer writes "In one of the largest tests of EVE Online's new player sovereignty system in the Dominion expansion pack, a fleet of ships attempting to retake a lost star system was effectively annihilated amidst controversy. Defenders IT Alliance, a coalition succeeding the infamous Band of Brothers alliance (whose disbanding was covered in a previous story), effectively annihilated the enemy fleet, destroying thousands of dollars' worth of in-game assets. A representative of the alliance claimed to have destroyed a minimum of four, possibly five or more of the game's most expensive and powerful ship class, known as Titans. Both official and unofficial forums are filled with debate about whether the one-sided battle was due to difference in player skill or the well-known network failures after the release of the expansion. One of the attackers, a member of the GoonSwarm alliance, claims that because of bad coding, 'Only 5% of [the attackers] loaded,' meaning that lag prevented the attackers from using their ships, even as the defenders were able to destroy those ships unopposed. Even members of the victorious IT Alliance expressed disappointment at the outcome of the battle. CCP, EVE Online's publisher, has recently acknowledged poor network performance, especially in the advertised 'large fleet battles' that Dominion was supposed to encourage, and has asked players to help them stress test their code on Tuesday. Despite the admitted network failure, leaders of the attacking force do not expect CCP to replace lost ships, claiming that it was their own fault for not accounting for server failures. The incident raises questions about CCP's ability to cope with the increased network use associated with their rapid growth in subscriptions."

Comment: Re:So... (Score 1) 434

by Crazy_CorranH on Saturday July 19 2008, @02:44PM (#24255367) Attached to: Ubisoft Steals 'No-CD Crack' To Fix Rainbow 6: Vegas 2

>What they were selling you was a license to use the software. Regardless of what you convince yourself.

Really? I just looked at one of my game boxes and it said 'Supreme Commander' on the front, not 'A License to use Supreme Commander'. Why should I assume that I'm just buying a license for the game when it makes no mention of it anywhere on the front of the product?