IvanTheNotSoBad - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Real sugar soda (Score 1) 646

by IvanTheNotSoBad on Thursday September 16 2010, @12:59AM (#33596578) Attached to: High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover

In the NYC area, you can easily get Mexican Coke with all the delicious goodiness of real sugar. It certainly does make a big difference....and I can no longer buy regular Coke anywhere. For some reason, even the Pepsi which they sell made with sugar doesn't taste quite as good.

Comment: The people running the site ARE NOT IT Admins (Score 5, Informative) 780

by IvanTheNotSoBad on Friday May 15 2009, @04:12AM (#27962987) Attached to: Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups

So they had no real backup strategy....but what happened to them REALLY REALLY sucks. It really irks me seeing so many comments saying these "retards" had it coming to them.

Listen folks....we're talking about a couple of guys who spent their free time creating a website. They're not making any real money out of this (in fact, they all have regular day jobs).

They've been advertising for a Tech Manager (non-paid) for quite a quite so time now. They did get one recently...but it turns out the guy harvested the emails from the systems and sent out a bunch of spam. He has since been fired.Even though the avsim folks aren't saying it was him who hacked and destroyed their site, it's quite hard not to think it was him.

It's been quite a blow to the flightsim community and I have noticed a lot of IT folks are offering help.....I just haven't seen a single one on this thread.

Comment: Re:Saying I heard (Score 1) 509

by IvanTheNotSoBad on Monday January 19 2009, @02:11AM (#26513197) Attached to: Valve Takes Optimistic View of Piracy

Would you buy EA games now that they're being offered on Steam?

Comment: Re:Not exactly surprised... (Score 1) 617

by IvanTheNotSoBad on Tuesday August 19 2008, @12:47AM (#24654837) Attached to: One Third of New PCs Downgraded To XP?

I don't think he was referring to the remote desktop client. You can't enable the remote desktop service.

Chess Grandmaster Kasparov Arrested in Moscow

Submitted by carre4 on Saturday April 14 2007, @03:42PM

carre4 writes "Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov was arrested in Moscow during an anti-Kremlin demonstration along with at least 100 other activists. Kasparov now leads the strongest opposition movement in Russia as previously discussed on Slashdot. This march was part of the Dissenters' Marches that have been held in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod in spite of refused permits."

Michigan kids lose out on free iPods

Submitted by IvanTheNotSoBad on Saturday April 14 2007, @03:35PM

IvanTheNotSoBad writes "It appears that after all the negative press, Michigan lawmakers are no longer planning on giving free iPods to all Michigan kids. "Instead of sacking up and taking responsibility, though, they're claiming that the press is at fault for picking up on the story and pointing out how bad of an idea it was. And now, the entire $38 million that would have gone to classroom technology may be in jeopardy, all because of those nasty reporters and their words." They're also paying Apple back for their trips to meet with them in California. Don't want to give the wrong idea."

Get QuickTime Alternative to play All QuickTime fo

Submitted by

jsbi

on Saturday April 14 2007, @03:32PM

jsbi writes "QuickTime Alternative[Freeware] allows you to play QuickTime files without having to install the official QuickTime Player. All QuickTime formats (.mov .qt .3gp etc.) are supported, including streaming content and QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages. Some advantages compared to QuickTime player are the quick and easy install, make an unattended installation, no background processes, use a player of your own choice, low on resources, and smaller size. Some advantages compared to QuickTime player: * Quick and easy install. * It's easy to make an unattended installation. * No background processes. * Use a player of your own choice. * Low on resources. * Smaller size."

What is Bio Degredable plastic all about?

Submitted by

jsbi

on Saturday April 14 2007, @03:15PM

jsbi writes "Due to their molecular stability, plastics do not easily break down into simpler components. Plastics are therefore not considered biodegradable .However, researchers are working to develop biodegradable plastics that will disintegrate due to bacterial action or exposure to sunlight. For example, scientists are incorporating starch molecules into some plastic resins during the manufacturing process. When these plastics are discarded, bacteria eat the starch molecules. This causes the polymer molecules to break apart, allowing the plastic to decompose. Researchers are also investigating ways to make plastics more biodegradable from exposure to sunlight. Prolonged exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun causes many plastics molecules to become brittle and slowly break apart. Researchers are working to create plastics that will degrade faster in sunlight, but not so fast that the plastic begins to degrade while still in use."

Gears of War Movie confirmed

Submitted by

on Thursday March 22 2007, @01:47AM

An anonymous reader writes "New Line Cinema has acquired the rights to produce a Gears film. Produced by Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey and written by Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy), and aiming at a release in summer 2009.

Story: http://videogames.yahoo.com/newsarticle?eid=509460 &page=0"

Multi threaded programming without the pain

Submitted by

holden karau

on Thursday March 22 2007, @01:02AM

holden karau writes "Gigahertz are out and cores are in. Now more than ever, programmers must begin to develop applications that takes advantage of increasing number of cores present in computers today. However, up until now, multi-threaded development has not been easy. Researcher Stefanus Du Toit discusses and demonstrates a software system (RapidMind) he co-authored that takes the pain away from multi-threaded programming in C++. For his demo, he created a program on the PlayStation 3, consisting of thousands of chickens, each independently processed by a single processing core. The talk itself is interesting, but the demo is golden."