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Comment Cool (Score 1) 259

So there's a real, scientific reason why I sleep through things like...

Hurricanes; tornadoes; multiple 747's, 777's, and other misc. big aircraft coming in to land right over me; gunfire; noon sun shining on my face...
Now if only they could find why I'm almost hyper at 3am, and that I like it.

Games

Submission + - Gamers dress as zombies to raise R18+ awareness (computerworld.com.au) 1

swandives writes: Australian gamers will dress as zombies to raise awareness about the lack of an R18+ rating for video games in the country. The protest will begin at Hyde Park Fountain on March 27 and lumber through Sydney, raising awareness of the need for a higher classification rating and hopefully causing a bit of havoc at the same time! Computerworld Australia has pictures of previous zombie protests in the lead-up to the event. Australia has a long history of lobbying for an R18+ games classification but, even after a decade, video games are banned from sale if they exceed the maximum M15+ classification.

So far, the list of banned titles includes 7 Sins, Risen, Left 4 Dead 2 and Dark Sector. Others, like Alien Vs Predator, were initially banned but appealed the rating and are now MA15+.

Idle

Submission + - 2009 Darwin Award Winners announced (darwinawards.com)

Greg Lindahl writes: From the woman who jumped in a swollen creek to rescue her drowning ... moped, to the man who hopped over the divider at the edge of the highway to take a leak, and plunged 65 feet to his death, 2009 was a year both exceptional and unexceptional for Darwin Award-worthy behavior!
Intel

Submission + - Intel Launches Next-Gen Atom N450 Processor (hothardware.com) 1

MojoKid writes: "Intel has unveiled its next-generation Atom N450 processor and a review of the new Asus Eee PC 1005PE netbook that houses it, shows decent gains in performance and lower power consumption. The Atom N450 has been re-architected similar to Intel's other notebook processors in that it now has an integrated memory controller and graphics core on the CPU itself. In addition, Intel's serial DMI (Direct Media Interface) now replaces the system bus to the Southbridge IO controller. From a performance standpoint, the Atom N450 single core chip offers a nice performance gain versus previous generation Atom CPUs and it appears Intel has dual core variants of the chip on the horizon as well."

Comment crapflood (Score 1) 44

OK... So you can make a map out of something else.
Doesn't mean you should.

Not because of the "oh my god, they're shooting in a school/church/hospital/mall/brothel" (fuck people who go off like that),
It's because there's too much out there that's just crap. Probably about 90% of it.

If you're going to do it, go over it and make sure there aren't places where you can get stuck, be sure zombies don't spawn in the safe room, and at least make an effort with the textures.

Comment Re:Wouldn't want that now would we? (Score 1) 174

When 4.0 came out, my first thought was "This is a P&P version of a computer RPG"... Specifically, it reminded me of the Baldurs Gate games for PS2.
Then when they pulled all their PDFs, I just said "fuck 'em"... Actually, I'd said "fuck 'em" a while earlier, this time was "fuck 'em and forget 'em".
(Although the writing was on the wall with that one, given how they wanted to do so much with their online system).
I'd like to try out Pathfinder (supposedly an indie 3.5), but can't FIND it in deadtree.

As for the GW shops...
I always get this weird, smiling cultist feeling whenever I've gone into one.
Also wondered how they stay running, and whether the employees apparent enthusiasm might be exploited a bit.
"Hey bob, wanna take a box of orcs home and paint 'em for the shop"?
Maybe every mini purchased helps subsidize the stores.

I've thought about getting back in to 40K, stuff like this story cools me back down again.
I'll keep my Warhammers with 2 PPCs and a SRM6.

Comment water safe, but... (Score 1) 8

Sure it's safe with water, but what about beer?

The picture reminds me of how I once had a whole can of beer spilled on my mac keyboard...
Bottom side of it looked like a water globe with bubbles instead of fish.

Comment Not a big deal (Score 1) 406

It was a 2 hour ambulance bypass.
That's nothing. Seriously.
They weren't turning away people at the door, just sending ambulances elsewhere.

Look at when it happened, 1am.
They would have what, one, maybe two if they're lucky, people working at the admit desk at that time.
Yeah, it might back up a bit., but it shouldn't.

This was a failure of hospital policy more than an IT system failure.

disclaimer: I work at a HIMSS level 6 rated hospital.
(I've even had the experience of being an inpatient recently. Knowing the system, I still said "Wow! This is how things need to be run".)
Almost everything is computerized.
Everything is backed-up and redundant, and if the whole thing went down, you wouldn't be coming to us because there'd be a huge hole in the ground.

Comment Re:That's pretty standard (Score 2, Informative) 303

You didn't know what you were looking for, we did.
we found it for you, you WILL find that what we gave you is what you were looking for.
If you have a problem with this, we will kill you.
(or failing that, come close enough for a copyright suit... how about a copyright vest? trousers?... what about a copyright shirt and tie?)

Comment FINALLY! (Score 3, Interesting) 106

This is what should have happened in the first place.
I have an Intel m-ITX board with the 330, it's nice... I wish it had a PCI-E/16 instead of regular PCI,,,
Could only find an ATI 2400/PCI for it, now that they're out, I might rebuild with a Nvidia 95(6?)00 because ubuntu won't install (complains about memory corruption errors. The. memory. is. OK.).

Intel's graphics are so bad they're criminal.
And please... stop making 230's and just make 330's.

I just hope it's not too expensive,
With a separate power brick made-to-go with this board,,,
A few stand-offs and you can have a nice low-power-draw render cluster.
It'd be even nicer if blender, yafaray, or lux had a branch that took advantage of CUDA as well.

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