Amranu - Slashdot User

Comment Re:screenshots? (Score 1) 871

by Amranu on Friday April 24, 2009 @03:13PM (#27705433) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X

You're using products based on some of the most proprietary software/hardware around, and you're asking if an open-source operating system can do it? Maybe if you weren't suckered into using such closed crap it would work. There are plenty of alternatives that would work. All that being said, depending on what ipod you have, it can. And depending on how everything is setup for the last part, it also can. Next?

Comment Re:will it work? (Score 3, Informative) 105

by Amranu on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @02:25PM (#27677171) Attached to: <em>BioShock 2</em> Interviews and Early Looks

I dunno what you're talking about, Bioshock works fine on Vista 64 for me

Space Is Just a Little Bit Closer Than Expected 130

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @10:53AM from the winter-shrinkage dept.

SpuriousLogic points out a BBC story which begins "The upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere are much lower than expected, a US Air Force satellite has found. Currently, the ionosphere — a layer of charged particles that envelopes the planet — is at an altitude of about 420km, some 200km lower than expected. The behaviour of the ionosphere is important because disturbances in its structure can upset satellite communications and radar."

Game Makers Accusing Innocent People of Piracy In the UK 190

Posted by timothy on Friday October 31, 2008 @03:49AM from the type-I-errors-v.-type-II-errors dept.

eldavojohn writes "It's a topic that a lot of game makers like Atari don't want the public hearing: game makers wrongfully accusing clearly innocent people of piracy. From the article, 'According to Michael Coyle, an intellectual property solicitor with law firm Lawdit, more and more people are being wrongly identified as file-sharers. He is pursuing 70 cases of people who claim to be wrongly accused of piracy and has spoken to hundreds of others, he told the BBC.' If only a few are coming forward after receiving extortion letters ('Pay £500 OR ELSE!'), what's the actual number of those out there being wrongfully accused?"

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