Comment Re:Rules (Score 2) 197
Read the document. Zynga even copied the exact same RGB values for the 8 skin tones. EXACT same.
Comment Back to Konfabulator (Score 1) 138
That's still working, right?
Comment This is news? (Score 4, Funny) 62
My Palm Pre already locks up and sometimes reboots when I get a regular SMS from anybody.
I hate my phone.
Comment The iPod is going out, though. (Score 1) 485
As the iPhone and iPad continue to succeed, Apple neglects the original iPod more and more. Especially anything with a hard drive. I miss the days of dedicated music players.
EVE Player Loses $1,200 Worth of Game Time In-Game 620
An anonymous reader writes "Massively.com has reported that an EVE Online player recently lost over $1,200 worth of in-game items during a pirate attack. The player in question was carrying 74 PLEX in their ship's cargo hold — in-game 'Pilot's License Extensions' that award 30 days of EVE Online time when used on your account. When the ship was blown up by another player, all 74 PLEX were destroyed in the resulting blast, costing $1,200 worth of damage, or over 6 years of EVE subscription time, however you prefer to count it. Ow."
Comment I'm glad (Score 1) 124
It seemed like 2/3 of the posts on bargain hunting sites were focused around using this to buy stuff, and it made shopping online a real chore to make sure it went through and to wait to get the money back later. There was always an immense guilt if you didn't use it and I spent too much time crunching numbers.
Comment Re:China Sounds Perfectly Reasonable - Security (Score 1) 533
They're pulling out because on top of all the bullshit censoring, they were CONSTANTLY attempted to be hacked by the GOVERNMENT. That's why they're leaving. It's not worth it.
Why Time Flies By As You Get Older 252
Ant notes a piece up on WBUR Boston addressing theories to explain the universal human experience that time seems to pass faster as you get older. Here's the 9-minute audio (MP3). Several explanations are tried out: that brains lay down more information for novel experiences; that the "clock" for nerve impulses in aging brains runs slower; and that each interval of time represents a diminishing fraction of life as we age.
Lotus Teases With a Fuel-Agnostic Two-Stroke Engine 269
JohnnyBGod writes "Lotus claim to have invented a new, more efficient engine design. The two-stroke, flex-fuel engine can achieve, according to the surprisingly technical press release, 'approximately 10% better [fuel consumption] than current spray-guided direct injection, spark ignition engines.' The engine has a sliding puck arrangement to control its compression ratio, and has direct injection and a wet sump, to eliminate fuel leakage to the exhaust and the need to mix oil with the fuel, two common problems with two-stroke engines. Lotus engineering have released a video explaining the engine's operation."
Comment Very common, but take precautions (Score 1) 683
Towards the end of my projects we had lots of similar hacks. But we have it on a separate BRANCH, IDENTIFY it as a hack so it doesn't get reverse-integrated AND we #define it with the game name around it so it WON'T happen in the other games.
Comment Re:They solved the night flying problem nicely (Score 2, Funny) 76
Ah, the heat from the lamps causes the air to rise, providing upward suction on the wings. Brilliant!
Comment Re:7 years is nothing (Score 1) 100
I did work on another project, Plutonia 2, that was released a few months ago. My first contribution was in mid-2001, IIRC, which makes 7.5 years.
In fact, I did join the Mordeth team a couple of years ago, but quit...
Comment 7 years is nothing (Score 1) 100
The Doom mod Mordeth has been in development for over 12 years.
Comment Re:What a Ride (Score 1) 575
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming . . "WOW ---What a Ride"
I understand that some people like World of Warcraft to the point that they compromise their health, but that's taking it too far.
Comment Wrote my own (Score 1) 776
http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/
>>> mp.dps = 50
>>> s = 2+3j
>>> print quad(lambda t: t**(s-1)/(exp(t)-1), [0,inf])
(-0.055314436237905205859598642789062048785482568724509 + 0.08260989232065376851
7423740701670605841893960663082j)
>>> print gamma(s)*zeta(s)
(-0.055314436237905205859598642789062048785482568724509 + 0.08260989232065376851
7423740701670605841893960663082j)
Sorry for the plug
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