reezle - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:One small rock (Score 1) 765

by reezle on Tuesday February 21, @01:28AM (#39107399) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Would Real Space Combat Look Like?

I guess I was thinking of near relativistic velocities. (Hence the accelerated for a long enough time clause)
Not going to do the math right now, but if it's going fast enough it doesn't have to be that big.
There's a lot of room for a running start out there in space...

Comment: One small rock (Score 3, Insightful) 765

by reezle on Monday February 20, @03:45PM (#39102959) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Would Real Space Combat Look Like?

One small rock accelerated for a long enough time then steered at a large ship (or moon or planet) would pretty much be the end of it.
Can't really imagine much combat going on when it's a mutually assured destruction scenario any way you look at it.
Most mass entertainment scenarios make sure that the attacking force needs to capture (not destroy) what they are attacking to make sure this doesn't come up.

I suppose lots of tiny enclaves (small hollowed out asteroids) on both sides could duke it out with small ships. Still can't imagine a large enough industrial base to keep things going very long, though. Anything big enough to build ships would just be destoryed.

Comment: Re:I'm impressed, (Score 1) 135

by reezle on Monday February 13, @04:15PM (#39024613) Attached to: New Horizons: One Billion Miles From Pluto

I don't know... geosynchronous satellites go about 7000mph, and we have dozens (hundred?) of them up there.
Seems like interplanetary missions should be going at least an order of magnitude faster.
(Yeah, the economics of it all)

Comment: OK, but (Score 1) 95

by reezle on Monday November 07, @12:15PM (#37974892) Attached to: Gecko-Inspired Tape Can Be Reused Thousands of Times

They mention it works under water. How does it hold up on dusty surfaces, though? I would assume it would get clogged with dust grains like normal tape does, and lose its stickiness after a use or two... (But then again Geckos can walk over a dusty floor, then up a wall, so I'm not sure) Anyone got an answer?

Comment: Re:Faraday Cage? (Score 2) 228

by reezle on Friday January 21 2011, @03:26AM (#34949696) Attached to: New <em>Red Dwarf</em> Series Threatened By the Twitter Era

No, since they would record and post later, the only sensible solution is metal detectors at the gate.
Perhaps the TSA could join the production?

Capcom 'Saddened' By Game Plagiarism Controversy 163

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 14 2011, @03:18AM
from the all-the-way-to-the-bank dept.

Capcom's recent release of action platformer Maxsplosion for the iPhone caused indie developer Twisted Pixel to call Capcom out for copying the concept from their successful Xbox Live game 'Splosion Man. Twisted Pixel said they had no plans for legal action, since they were "too small to take on a company like Capcom." The indie studio had even pitched the game to Capcom for publishing at one point, but were declined. Now, Capcom has released a statement denying that Maxsplosion's development team had any knowledge of the meetings and saying, "MaXplosion was developed independently by Capcom Mobile. Nonetheless, we are saddened by this situation and hope to rebuild the trust of our fans and friends in the gaming community."

Combat Vets On CoD: Black Ops, Medal of Honor Taliban 93

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday November 23 2010, @06:51AM
from the not-as-messy-as-the-real-deal dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Thom 'SSGTRAN' Tran, seen in the Call of Duty: Black Ops live action trailer and in the game as the NVA multiplayer character, gets interviewed and talks about Medal of Honor's Taliban drama. '... to me, it's a non-issue. This is Hollywood. This is entertainment. There has to be a bad guy if there's going to be a good guy. It's that simple. Regardless of whether you call them — "Taliban" or "Op For" — you're looking at the same thing. They're the bad guys.'" Gamasutra published a related story about military simulation games from the perspective of black ops veteran and awesome-name-contest winner Wolfgang Hammersmith. "In his view, all gunfights are a series of ordered and logical decisions; when he explains it to me, I can sense him performing mental math, brain exercise, the kind that appeals to gamers and game designers. Precise skill, calculated reaction. Combat operations and pistolcraft are the man's life's work."

The Bomb Squad Olympiad Starts Today 43

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday October 05 2010, @10:07AM
from the explosions-for-all-ages dept.

The bomb suit relay and the robot obstacle course are just two of the events you can enjoy at the Bomb Squad Olympiad. Over the next three days squads from across South Carolina will compete and showcase their bomb defusing capabilities for the public. I hear the deep fried dynamite is especially good.

Terry Pratchett's Self-Made Meteorite Sword 188

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday September 21 2010, @09:15AM
from the x4-crit-modifier dept.

jamie writes "Fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett says he was so excited after being knighted by the Queen that he decided to make his own sword to equip himself for his new status... the author dug up 81kg of ore and smelted it in the grounds of his house, using a makeshift kiln built from clay and hay and fueled with damp sheep manure."

Comment: I've got an LG Blue-Ray player that does this (Score 1) 516

by reezle on Thursday September 02 2010, @08:54PM (#33460418) Attached to: Video Appliance For a Large Library On a Network?

Actually, I have two of them. It plays discs (of course), Netflix, Pandora, Youtube, etc... But also will connect to networked machine via SMB.
It's a pretty simple file browser, but it plays most anything I throw at it...

It's the BD-590 I believe. Although I'm sure other models of theirs will probably do the job, too...
http://www.lg.com/us/tv-audio-video/video/LG-blu-ray-dvd-player-BD590.jsp