Neva - Slashdot User

Comment MMOs take the main part (Score 3, Interesting) 669

by Neva on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @03:22AM (#46283537) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing?

Tablet, stationary: Clash of Clans
Tablet, mobile: Ingress
With friends in Steam: Killing Floor (Linux), Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Alien Swarm
Solo in Steam: Star Conflict, War Thunder
Would play if had more time: Sid Meier's Civilization IV (Linux)

I have loads of Humble bundles bought, waiting to be discovered. They have been a great catalyst to release more games on Linux.

Game types are mostly co-operative FPS shooters with friends, tower defence with tablet, flying with planes or full 6 degrees freedom when solo. A mouse is a pretty essential controller in most games.

Comment Re:Unfortunately, Nokia has no Steve Jobs (Score 1, Offtopic) 363

by Neva on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @04:40AM (#40670693) Attached to: It Costs $450 In Marketing To Make Someone Buy a $49 Nokia Lumia

Linux smartphones may have been abandoned by the Elop-led Nokia, but a new company called Jolla has hired the devteam and is working on releasing a Meego-phone this year (2012).

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/07/17/0053229/meego-startup-jolla-signs-phone-deal

Comment Re:Similar but different (Score 1) 384

by Neva on Sunday August 29, 2010 @03:09AM (#33407474) Attached to: Icons on my (computer) desktop:

Or, when using Linux with Gnome-do, press super+space, type fi and press enter. I count that as 5 keypresses.

Super key in linux terminology is the one with the windows logo on it.

Comment in Finland (Score 1) 229

by Neva on Sunday June 07, 2009 @12:57AM (#28239183) Attached to: Where To Buy A Machine With Linux Pre-Installed

A list of mini-laptops with comparisons:
http://www.mbnet.fi/tuoteseuranta/index.aspx?rrid=1

Availability was scarce in verkkokauppa:
http://www.verkkokauppa.com/?page=http://www.verkkokauppa.com/main.php?path=tietokoneet%2Fkannettavat&title=Tietokoneet+/+Kannettavat&search=1&cat1=Tietokoneet&cat2=Kannettavat&cat3=Linux

Some sell Acer aspire one: http://hintaseuranta.fi/tuote.aspx/171402

Here's Asus:
http://hintaseuranta.fi/tuote.aspx/164709

Lenovo T61 is pricier:
http://hintaseuranta.fi/tuote.aspx/81991

MSI wind:
http://hintaseuranta.fi/tuote.aspx/79914

You can check driver availability to about any laptop, even if it doesn't have linux preinstalled:
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/

My personal choice would be Asus Eee PC 901. Enough CPU and SSD-drives which are more tolerant to shaking and movement, in addition of being fast.
To play DVDs, an external drive would be needed:
http://www.verkkokauppa.com/popups/prodinfo.php?id=2585 ..commenting in the order that the device is supposed to work with Linux.

DVD-drive compatibility chart:
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/search_res.php?pattern=dvd

Feed Plug-in Has 3-Wheel Drive (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Sunday February 18, 2007 @04:12AM

It can pivot like a motorcycle and run for 100 miles on battery power -- a new plug-in hybrid in development has some safety challenges but it's spry. In Autopia.

AMD's "Frantic Price Cuts" May Pressure Intel 135

Posted by kdawson on Thursday February 15, 2007 @12:01PM from the chips-falling-where-they-may dept.

kog777 writes in with news of a Needham analyst report alerting their clients to a possible price war between AMD and Intel. Analyst Y. Edwin Mok notes that AMD has cut its prices three times in three weeks. He says that Dell has been playing off the two chipmakers against one another to drive costs down. He suggests that bargain-hunting clients avoid both AMD and Intel stock for now. As an aside, Mok notes that so far Vista is not causing a spike in demand for chips. This story hasn't been picked up very widely; other coverage is at Seeking Alpha.

Music Execs Think DRM Slows the Marketplace 224

Posted by kdawson on Thursday February 15, 2007 @11:22AM from the well-duh dept.

MacGod writes "From BBC News comes a story about a Jupiter Research survey conducted before Steve Jobs's anti-DRM essay, indicating that most music industry execs see DRM-free music as a way to expand sales on digital tracks. The survey covered large and small record labels, rights bodies, digital stores, and technology providers. To summarize: 54% of music execs think that current DRM is too restrictive and 62% think selling unencumbered music would be a way to boost sales. Even limiting the survey to the record labels themselves, 48% believe this. Yet, many also believe it's not going to happen without significant governmental intervention — even though most insiders think DRM is harmful, the labels are keen to stick with it. Is this yet another sign of the typical media industry 'head in the sand, refuse to change' approach, or might we be seeing the early stages or some actual change?"

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