Comment Re:Mac (Score 3, Informative) 458
The prices approach the price of Apple hardware. I'd rather get a Mac and run Linux on an open source VM.
I'd rather get an ASRock Ion 330 for over 100 quid less.
Oh wait... I did!
Submission + - Oldest Known Tetrapod Found (guardian.co.uk)
qazsedcft writes: The oldest footprints ever made by four-legged creatures have been discovered by scientists, forcing them to reconsider a critical period in evolution: the point at which fish crawled out of the water onto land to evolve into reptiles, mammals and eventually humans. The "hand" and "foot" prints are 18m years older than the earliest, previously confirmed fossil remains of "tetrapods" or four-legged vertebrates and were left by lizard-like creatures up to 2.5 metres long. The discovery, reported in tomorrow's issue of the journal Nature, was made in a former quarry in the Holy Cross Mountains in south-eastern Poland. The fossil footprints can be reliably dated to the early Middle Devonian period, around 395 million years ago.
Comment Re:Is it fun? (Score 1) 113
It's more than just the graphics. Engineers who can repair items, plant sentry turrets, or the ability to launch flying sentries. Medics who can heal/revive teammates or drain energy from the enemy. The ability to plant spawn points can really make a difference in the game balance too. Saboteurs and cloaked snipers, while not that unique, rounds out the player balance...
Yeah, Enemy Territory is great.
Huh? What the fuck is "Kill Zone"?
Comment Re:What the ROM does (Score 2, Funny) 124
Well, how do you think you would feel if you were dumped after 10 years?
My kingdom for a mod point!
Bravo, sir.
Submission + - Microsoft's Secret Newton Killer (gizmodo.com) 1
rbanffy writes: "Through Gizmodo, Microsoft leaked today (http://gizmodo.com/5365299/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet) some information on its concept tablet computer. The timing seems rather precise in comparison to previous vaporware launches. I say it's fun to watch (http://www.dieblinkenlights.com/blog_en/a-bit-of-vaporware) them showing off non-products like that."
Comment Re:Eircom alternatives (Score 1) 169
You have some mobile providers listed there - they're not broadband
Taking just Vodafone out of the list they do a full set of both mobile and home broadband in Ireland.
Mobile providers are almost all offering bundled broadband deals these days and of course you can get the mobile version is you want to move around more and don't mind coping with only a few GB of bandwidth.
Let's take Meteor... 5GB cap, high latency all the time, frequent connection drop outs, unavailability of 3G (or even edge) in many areas...
Not very broad, in other words.
Comment Re:Eircom alternatives (Score 1) 169
there are plenty of alternatives to Eircom in Ireland, BT, Smart Telecom, Perlico, UPC, Meteor, O2, Vodafone to name but a few
You have some mobile providers listed there - they're not broadband...
Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 450
I started off in the PC world with a 486DX/33, with 256K or RAM and a 20Mb hard drive. Did it work? Sure. Did it work well? Sure. I upgraded to 1Mb RAM and a 40Mb hard drive (which was ungodly expensive) to run my 3 line BBS. Why? Because I could.
That's a bit of a nutty spec. My first 486 was a DX/33 - lowest spec around was a couple MB ram and a few hundred MBs (well, over 80 at least) hard disk. Base RAM below 640KB was not even available IIRC.
Only PC I had with a RAM/HDD spec approaching what you describe was a ~5MHz 8086 XT... Still have it. 640K base RAM, 512K EMS board, full height 20MB hard disk and 5.25" floppy drives, Hercules mono graphics adaptor... Must have cost a shedload in its day.
Comment Re:MS broke backward compatibility... (Score 1) 909
Just out of curiosity, what do you really need out of a Creative sound card that you can't get out of the resident sound on a PC? I would think a quadcore PC these days could mix a mountain of channels in software...
I installed an old SB Live! in a new machine last year as the on board card had at least a half second latency during gaming.
The board chipset is ATI SB600 for anyone interested. Not great.
Comment Re:Linux: Debian (Score 1) 79
You can always tar/configure/make in Debian just like you can in Slackware.
I don't generally build from source...
Comment Re:Linux: Debian (Score 1) 79
I'd rather they stick with feature-based releases which focus on the quality of features rather than trying to force feature development into a specific duration.
You should try Slackware - Pat only releases when ready.
Apt broke on me again this morning (this time during an upgrade). Find myself thinking "Guh, I wish this was Slack" every time that happens.
Comment Re:don't believe it (Score 4, Insightful) 539
don't forget the unexplained brain features that haven't been documented because science can't explain them - like twins feeling what the other feels and people with transplanted organs perceiving memories of the donor.
Explain?! It hasn't even been observed yet.
You might as well say "But your precious science has yet to explain psychic powers and zombies!"
Comment Re:Wow (Score 3, Insightful) 628
I have of course heard of the comedy program 2.4 children.
That was comedy?! Jesus...
Comment Re:What a great thing for Open Source! (Score 1) 88
They'll be able to get more precious lines of code in.
I wonder how many lines of code slashbot editors feel is enough to make it a triple-A title.
Oh, for a spare mod point!
Comment Re:Nice Shapshot! (Score 2, Funny) 238
So has the Commodore 64:
Posting that on Slashdot is just cruel...
It would be like someone posting the ZX81 web server...
