NateE - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Get a new job (Score 1) 495

by NateE on Sunday June 13, 2010 @01:02PM (#32557524) Attached to: Getting Paid Fairly When Job Responsibilities Spiral?

Exactly! Any big salary increase requires switching to a new employer.

Comment Re:I actually like this idea (Score 1) 352

by NateE on Wednesday September 16, 2009 @07:08PM (#29447891) Attached to: Windows 7 Touch, Dead On Arrival

I use a trackball with my desktop PC. My hand only moves when switching to type. Just my fingers are used to move the cursor.

Comment Re:Maybe true for the teeny-boppers (Score 1) 236

by NateE on Monday September 14, 2009 @12:39AM (#29410331) Attached to: Variety, Social Aspects More Important To Game Success Than Graphics, Plot

VOIP being built-in to a fast paced game adds enormously to the experience. Many FPS have hardly any plot. There are too many types of games to say that plot comes before graphics. Lots of casual games also have no plot.

Comment Nice article (Score 1) 92

by NateE on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @07:50PM (#27753323) Attached to: The Frontier of the MMO Genre

Eurogamer almost always has quality writing. I'd also say that the analysis of the 4 MMOs is spot on. The Global Agenda gameplay videos speak for themselves.

Submission + - First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02, 2007 @06:16PM

An anonymous reader writes: Robots have been roaming Iraq, since shortly after the war began. Now, for the first time — the first time in any warzone — the 'bots are carrying guns. The SWORDS robots, armed with M249 machine guns, "haven't fired their weapons yet," an Army official says. "But that'll be happening soon." The machines have actually been ready to a while, but safety concerns kept 'em off the battlefield. Now, the robots have kill switches, so "now we can kill the unit if it goes crazy," according to the Army. I feel safer already.

Google Shows Off Ad-Supported Cell Phone 290

Posted by Zonk on Thursday August 02, 2007 @05:52PM from the gotta-love-freebies dept.

taoman1 writes "Today Google showed off a ad-supported cellphone that the company plans to offer for free to interested parties. The product could reach the marketplace within a year, and will offer Google search, email, and a web browser. 'The move would echo another recent product launched by a phone industry outsider, Apple Inc.'s iPhone. But Google's product would draw its revenue from a sharply different source, relying on commercial advertising dollars instead of the sticker price of at least US$499 for an iPhone and $60 per month for the AT&T Inc. service plan. Negotiating the fairest way to split those advertising revenues with service providers could be a big hurdle for Google, one analyst said. Another problem is the potential that consumers could be scared off by the prospect of listening to advertisements before being able to make phone calls, said Jeff Kagan, a wireless and telecommunications industry analyst in Atlanta.'"

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