Comment Re:Good Ole Southern Cackalacky (Score 1) 1054
If that's the complaint, then good thing the teacher didn't read Songmaster, with its sodomy.
Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 504
Get "cirtified?"
Is that like a web 2.0 thing?
Comment Re:oh yes! (Score 2) 409
Cool. Does that mean when we talk or write about Shakespeare we should do it like Shakespeare probably would have?
Comment Re:oh yes! (Score 1) 409
Your sig has a grammar problem.
Comment Re:Profit & Lies (Score 1) 730
Don't have mod points, but this is an awesome post.
Comment Re:Nice distro but they messed up the desktop (Score 1) 244
This is exactly what I was wondering. What kind of crappy tests do they have? Multiple X screens per server are not rare.
Note that twin-view does work for me (up to two displays), but I have 3 displays so I need another video card and another X screen in the xorg.conf.
Comment Re:Nice distro but they messed up the desktop (Score 1) 244
Dual screens with unity works with the nvidia twin-view (a feature of their driver), but not if you put 2 different screen sections in your X config (for two different video cards in my case).
Comment Re:Nice distro but they messed up the desktop (Score 1) 244
I liked compiz the way it was. They had to go and ruin it with unity. I want my old compiz back.
My recent upgrade to 11.10 ruined my multiscreen setup (two X screens don't work with unity) and the gnome screensaver keeps seg-faulting so I had to change to xscreensaver.
If I get rid of the unity panel and switch to gnome panel, then compiz doesn't complain about a window manager already present there, but then it seg-faults while doing some unity crap.
Comment Re:All computers are less secure (Score 1) 281
You have much vitriol for someone with so little reading comprehension.
Comment Re:And the price of the monitor is... (Score 1) 453
Don't be a misleading jackass. Dell's u2711 is $900 right now straight from Dell. On sale it has gone as low as $769 (http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/44749). Apple products NEVER have sales that good.
Comment Re:effect vs. affect (Score 1) 336
Really... Only one person caught this usage error and commented? Damn. Read a book, people!
Why BioWare's Star Wars MMO May Already Be Too Late 328
Since the announcement of Star Wars: The Old Republic, many gamers have been hopeful that its high budget, respected development team and rich universe will be enough to provide a real challenge to the WoW juggernaut. An opinion piece at 1Up makes the case that BioWare's opportunity to do so may have already passed. Quoting:
"While EA and BioWare Austin have the horsepower needed to at least draw even with World of Warcraft though, what we've seen so far has been worryingly conventional — even generic — given the millions being poured into development. Take the opening areas around Tython, which Mike Nelson describes in his most recent preview as being 'rudimentary,' owing to their somewhat generic, grind-driven quest design. Running around killing a set number of 'Flesh Raiders' in a relatively quiet village doesn't seem particularly epic, but that's the route BioWare Austin seems to be taking with the opening areas for the Jedi — what will surely be the most popular classes when The Old Republic is released. ... the real concern, though, is not so much in the quest design as in BioWare Austin's apparent willingness to play follow the leader. Whenever something becomes a big hit — be it a movie, game or book — there's always a mad scramble to replicate the formula; in World of Warcraft's case, that mad scramble has been going for six years now. "
German Kindergartens Ordered To Pay Copyright For Songs 291
BBird writes "Deutsche Welle reports: 'Up until this year, preschools could teach and produce any kind of song they wanted. But now they have to pay for a license if they want children to sing certain songs. A tightening of copyright rules means kindergartens now have to pay fees to Germany's music licensing agency, GEMA, to use songs that they reproduce and perform. The organization has begun notifying creches and other daycare facilities that if they reproduce music to be sung or performed, they must pay for a license.'"
GoldenEye Source Conversion Mod Released 105
tekgoblin writes "Were you a fan of the original GoldenEye on the N64? Well, this Half-Life 2 mod called GoldenEye Source, five years in the making, has just come out of beta and been fully released for free. The game is a creation of fans with the objective to bring the original experiences from GoldenEye on the N64 back to life. I remember spending hours upon hours playing GoldenEye on the N64, and was sad seeing it go."
RuneScape Developer Victorious Over Patent Troll 89
An anonymous reader writes "Gamasutra reports that a US District Court judge has dismissed the patent infringement lawsuit brought against RuneScape developer Jagex discussed previously on Slashdot. Judge David Folsom last week dismissed online chat company Paltalk's claims that Jagex infringed on Paltalk patents relating to online network communications. The judge's ruling only resolved Jagex's case. Microsoft settled with Paltalk for an undisclosed sum in 2009 after the online communication technology company sued over the patents in a $90 million claim. That settlement opened the door to Paltalk's claims against other game companies, including Blizzard, Turbine, SOE and NCSoft. Paltalk alleged in the Jagex-related suit that it had suffered 'tens of millions of dollars' in damages. Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard said in a statement, 'It is exceedingly unfortunate that the US legal system can force a company with a sole presence in Cambridge, UK to incur a seven-digit expense and waste over a year of management time on a case with absolutely no merit,' and that Jagex 'will not hesitate to vigorously defend our position against any patent trolls who bring lawsuits against us in the future.'"
