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Comment: Re:Book of Unwritten Tales (Score 1) 285

by data2 (#43394157) Attached to: Why Are We Still Talking About LucasArts' Old Adventure Games?

Wanted to test the game, and while they seem to realize the importance both of demos and ports, they don't do both. Too bad for them, but after playing The Cave and being somewhat disappointed by the shallow puzzles, of which only a handful was hard due to absolutely random combinations, I am not going to shell out another 20 bucks for this.

Comment: Re:Count Me Confused (Score 1) 203

by data2 (#43393201) Attached to: Increased Carbon Emissions Creating Giant Crabs

I don't know the slightest thing about Chesapeake bay, but numbers may be tricky.

There was a study done on the Baltic sea, which concluded that private fishers caught more than half of the total fish extracted that year, something not previously being taken into account in the projections for quotas.

Comment: Re:Mining (Score 1) 398

by data2 (#43314753) Attached to: Re: Bitcoin, I most strongly agree with the following:

While the Petaflop number is interesting, a suitably skilled and powerful opponent could just create ASICs as can currently be seen. A single company can overtake the whole network with a fairly small investment of a few hundred K, but as Bitcoin has now entered the ASIC-age, it will most likely be more resilient against these attacks as well.

Comment: Single player for On-The-Road (Score 2) 259

by data2 (#43127005) Attached to: EA Offering Free Game to Users After SimCity Launch Problems

I often travel a few hours by train or other measures, where I have lots of free time on my hands. I would have loved buying simcity 5, and very nearly did, but then heard about the always on requirement. Which frankly, just doesn't make sense for this kind of game.
Also losing my save-state when the internet connection at home goes down: Who designs crap like that?

Comment: Re:Too little, too late (Score 1) 259

by data2 (#43126973) Attached to: EA Offering Free Game to Users After SimCity Launch Problems

Has been this way with battlefield 2 as well. Each "update", which seemed incremental, i.e. names such as update_103_to_104.tar.bz2, was a complete replacement and even overwrote your configs if you didn't save them someplace else. Servers were a pita to run as well, but I guess they solved that with their stupid rental model now.

Comment: Re:Firearms (Score 1) 340

by data2 (#41332743) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Tech For a Sailing Ship?

Depending on how many you are, you will be outgunned in most cases. Besides the US there aren't many places where you are allowed to have guns, especially as a foreign national. Also, you will be searched in certain nations, depending on which nations flag you have and where you are coming from.
So I don't think that guns are a particularly good idea. Many have done it without and most places where piracy is rampant are well known and should be avoided.

Comment: Re:I, Caveman (Score 3, Informative) 705

by data2 (#40889271) Attached to: Meat the Food of the Future

Most serious vegetarians (I consider myself to be one), know full well that only modern methods of science are able to extract needed amounts of protein from plant sources, be it through tofu, seitan, tempeh or else. Humans are not made to be fueled solely by salad and grass.

Bio-availability of plant protein is lower when it is only from one source, and while most people eat a diverse enough mix, one can get problems with it quite easily. But by mixing, this can be greatly improved (as can be witnessed by the protein shakes for body builders that are purely plant based).

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