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Comment Makes so much sense now... (Score 1) 495

by FreakinSyco (#30768720) Attached to: Tynt Insight Is Watching You Cut and Paste

This must have been placed on a bunch of websites recently. I'm a habitual "highlight as I read" person. I noticed a couple months back that quite a few websites started the FireFox activity indicator spinning when I highlighted (New York Times included).

I wonder how much useful information this "service" is actually providing to content hosters. I must send dozens of small chuncks of text every time I read an article.

Can I disable this through AdBlock?

Comment Why not create our own ET life? (Score 1, Interesting) 107

by FreakinSyco (#28468149) Attached to: Cassini Spots Geysers On Saturn's Moon Enceladus

We know what these planets consist of. We know of some pretty crazy bacteria here on earth. Why not shoot a rocket full of random bacteria that can survive our most extreme conditions to places like these?

If I recall correctly NASA has always been super careful about bacteria on space vehicles. Why don't we just infect everything and kick start this whole ET thing ourselves.
Games

Valve Provides Details On Left 4 Dead Survival Pack DLC 62

Posted by Soulskill from the a-new-take-on-not-dying dept.
A post on the Left 4 Dead blog shares details of the Survival Pack downloadable content due out next week. It will be free, and available for both the PC and Xbox 360 versions of the game. "Our goals for Survival Mode are to deliver a mode of play distinct from Campaign or Versus, have games that regularly last under ten minutes, and emphasize competition with team play through leaderboards. Survival Mode draws on the planning and communication aspects of a successful Finale or Crescendo event, while taking it to another level. It rapidly hits a fever pitch that only a well coordinated team will be able to successfully survive. ... Given the extreme pace of Survival Mode, the number of zombies killed in a single round often outnumbers an entire campaign."
Role Playing (Games)

Managing Player-Created Content In City of Heroes 43

Posted by Soulskill from the what's-your-favorite-naughty-word dept.
Superhero MMO City of Heroes recently went live with its 14th expansion (release notes), one of the main features of which is the Mission Architect, a system to allow players to create their own quest content and then submit it to be implemented into the game. Now, Joe Morrissey of the City of Heroes team has written an article about how they plan to manage the content that players create. "You have to decide how draconian you want to be. The more hardcore you are, the fewer people who will see inappropriate content, but you expose yourself to potential grief voting. Grief voting is when a player flags perfectly acceptable content as inappropriate just because it's fun. If it only takes a single vote to eliminate content from the game, clicking that button is going to be the game for a lot of players. You don't want perfectly good content getting pulled because someone's a jerk."

Comment No improvement of the 4870?? (Score 5, Informative) 84

by FreakinSyco (#27435183) Attached to: ATI, Nvidia Reveal New $250 Graphics Cards

Yet HotHarware tests their 4890 and shows that it outperforms the 4870 in every category...

http://hothardware.com/Articles/ATI-Radeon-HD-4890-RV790-Unveiled/

and I quote:

"In every test, the Radeon HD 4890 (Asus EAH4890) was faster than the 1GB Radeon HD 4870, and the overclocked 4890 (Asus EAH4890 TOP) simply increased the card's overall lead. In comparison to competing offerings from NVIDIA, the Radeon HD 4890 is faster than the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 overall, but it didn't quite keep pace with the just announced GeForce GTX 275."

Comment Future of News, Today! (Score 1) 425

by FreakinSyco (#26961871) Attached to: AP Considers Making Content Require Payment

The future of news is here today. In a day and age when everyone and their dog has a blog we end up with blog aggregates. The Consumerist, Engadget, Jalopnik and many others, whose sole purpose is to take in stories from all over the net, and produce a focused coherent stream of stories. Then, on top of this layer, we get sites like Slashdot and Digg who primarily take stories from these mid-level focused aggregates and produce an interesting stream of news covering all sorts of topics.

I have a newspaper, but my front page is Slashdot, my sports section is DeadSpin, my auto section is AutoBlog, my tech section is Gizmodo and none of my content (in general) comes from any wire service.

Comment Re:The confusion is part of the Stimulus (Score 1) 434

by FreakinSyco (#26901437) Attached to: Confusion Reigns As Analog TV Begins Shutdown

I purchased a bunch of Linksys wireless N equipment. The goal was to have my PopcornHour box stream 1080p movies wirelessly. It didn't work at all. Playback would start then skip out. After reading a bit more, the Linksys stuff only supports wireless N in the 2.4GHz range. I went ahead and made the plunge and purchased an Apple Airport Extreme and one Apple Airport Express. I set up a wireless N network in the 5GHz range only. Now I can stream 1080p movies without issues.

I don't think many people realize how big of a difference getting out of the overcrowded 2.4GHz range can make.
Businesses

Submission + - Broadcasters launch ads opposing wireless internet

Submitted by kaufmanmoore
kaufmanmoore writes: According to an AP report, The National Association of Broadcasters is launching ads to target lawmakers over a push by a consortium of technology giants including Google, Intel, HP and MSFT who want to use unused and unlicensed TV spectrum for wireless broadband. Broadcasters are airing concerns about the devices creating interference with broadcast television and in a statement NAB chairman Alan Frank takes a swipe at technology companies saying, "While our friends at Intel, Google and Microsoft may find system errors, computer glitches and dropped calls tolerable, broadcasters do not."
Red Hat Software

Submission + - Red Hat to Enter the Desktop Market

Submitted by
head_dunce
head_dunce writes: "It looks like Red Hat is going to release their Global Desktop Linux in September and give Ubuntu a challenge for the Linux desktop market. I'm a little confused by the article though, it claims Red Hat Global Desktop "would be sold with a one-year subscription to security updates." Shouldn't the security updates be open, and the customer support be subscription based?"

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