QAChaos - Slashdot User

Comment Re:this.. (Score 2) 619

by QAChaos on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @05:10PM (#48973343) Attached to: Google, Amazon, Microsoft Reportedly Paid AdBlock Plus To Unblock

hey i'm just saying that if my ti 999/4a booted up with advertisements or came with an on call pager that would wake me up in the middle of the night when there was a production down because my basic program from compute! suddenly crashed I might have made a different career choice.

Comment this.. (Score 1) 619

by QAChaos on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @03:44PM (#48972187) Attached to: Google, Amazon, Microsoft Reportedly Paid AdBlock Plus To Unblock

when I was in my early teens playing with my ti99/4a I would never have thought that I would have to deal with BS like this( advertising on my computer , programs that block the advertisers, companies pay said programs to advertise on my computer) on my computer. That and a production on call support schedule

Comment and with that insult (Score 1) 97

by QAChaos on Monday July 21, 2014 @03:08PM (#47502719) Attached to: UEA Research Shows Oceans Vital For Possibility of Alien Life

the last dolphin says "so long and thanks for all the fish"

Comment Re:2d biggest? (Score 1) 257

by QAChaos on Thursday February 20, 2014 @03:36PM (#46297665) Attached to: WhatsApp: 2nd Biggest Tech Acquisition of All Time

i 2ded that!

Comment reminds me of at&t (Score 2) 643

by QAChaos on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @02:38PM (#35669436) Attached to: MS Global Strategy Chief: Tablets Are a Fad

when I worked at at&t I bought the eeepc 701 right when it came out because a small, cheap laptop without a cdrom was exactly what i wanted to carry around. So i got into the elevator with an at&t exec, he looks at the eeepc and with a smirk says "oh that is one of those kids laptops" ... yeah whatever...

Comment not the first time.... (Score 1) 389

by QAChaos on Saturday May 15, 2010 @05:50PM (#32222290) Attached to: Obama Sends Nuclear Experts To Tackle BP Oil Spill

the last time had some pretty good results http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater

Comment Re:Sun virtualbox (Score 4, Interesting) 195

by QAChaos on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @05:12PM (#27069287) Attached to: Parallels Desktop For Mac Vs. VMware

i also have always liked virtual box - i was surprised at a mac store one time - a customer asked if vmware or parallels was better and the sales person actually suggested that they try virtual box.

Comment 140 character or less (Score 2, Funny) 320

by QAChaos on Sunday October 26, 2008 @05:18PM (#25520537) Attached to: US Army Sees Twitter As Possible Terrorist "Operation Tool"

i guess the US Army only have to worry about the terrorists whose plans can be described in 140 characters or less!

Woz Talks About His Gaming Past 64

Posted by Zonk on Friday May 04, 2007 @01:59PM from the world-of-wozcraft dept.

Gamasutra has up a rare article with founding Apple visionary Steve Wozniak about his love of games, and his history with the medium. The article discusses Woz's prototype for the title Breakout prior to his involvement with Apple, the gaming habits of Steve Jobs, and the influence that videogames have had on the personal computing industry. " The reason Atari wanted me to design [Breakout] is they were tired of their games taking 150, 200 chips, and they knew I designed things with very few chips, so we had incentives for getting it under 50 or under 40 chips. That was my forte. Now I designed it, but it was... To save parts, I'll make no part go to waste and have tricky little designs that are hard for just a simple engineer to follow. Once you understand it, it's very easy because there's so few parts, it's easier to understand. But they had trouble understanding it."

Feed News: The Broodax Imperiate (penny-arcade.com)

From feed by pennyarcadefeed on Friday May 04, 2007 @01:32PM

Tycho: Even those who are not big into table gaming have often heard of Settlers of Catan. With over twelve million copies of the game sold worldwide, it's often used by crafty tabletop proponents to lure non-gamers with its colorful tiles and straightforward, intensely social systems. The digital version, developed by staunch devotees over at Big Huge Games and delivered via Live Marketplace, is a deeply reverent execution of the original.

Journal Journal: respect and integrity

Journal by QAChaos on Monday September 19, 2005 @01:08AM

so I know someone in austin who knows these guys who play in a clan. He invites them to dinner with us and I'm fucking like get a room guys because they are acting like they are fucking married...anyways it turns out after they left that one of them was married and the other started messing with his wife so they got divorced and his wife is now dating his friend? and they still are gaming together because they don't want to break up the clan?! fucked up at the time but I can kind of see it mayb

Journal Journal: almost took down the queen

Journal by QAChaos on Monday September 19, 2005 @12:47AM

again another game night of alhambra with carola, duane alfonso and myself and I almost took down the queen! after enough wine and getting nicely drunk everything came into place. However what once helped me then started hurting me, after getting too drunk the pieces called the tents made me feel paranoid and scared so I didn't buy them and now of course looking back they would have given me the extra loving to beat the queen! and god damn it ! carola took the last purple tower that would have

Journal Journal: robo rally and a free night

Journal by QAChaos on Tuesday August 23, 2005 @03:54PM

last night had a fun time with a 6 way robo rally - the board games just really kick ass ... almost beat the master if I hadn't thought the 3 flag was the 2nd flag I would have made it....again got past the area of halo that I was previously stuck at so everything is new on the game now - I don't think I'm playing the easier level but anyways it is a pretty cool game ... going to be free tonight so looking to see what I want to install - the java bug has been

Journal Journal: os x

Journal by QAChaos on Monday August 22, 2005 @02:59PM

my evil cousin decided to paruse the bittorrent sites and came upon osx for the x86 - not bad - the download was fast and it was already for vmware...the first problem was I would get this massive cool core dumps...I knew it was because I had vmware 4 and suspected that they had done it with 5. editing the config file just made it worse but I got the apple logo...so upgrade I did and it worked but the spinner would not stop...added the cdrom to the vmware setup and the spinner stopped, now I ju

Journal Journal: finished max payne 2

Journal by QAChaos on Monday August 22, 2005 @02:46PM

just finished max payne 2, after getting it for xmas about 2 years ago...there was a time when I had the time to play the games - well I still have the time but said time is spent in this cube where there is no privacy for games ( and then came the psp!yeah! with shitty games!! boo! ) anyways in those days I played diablo 2 on each level with multiple characters and then there was quake 2 and me playing it multiple times on each level...alas now I can barely play the game once...max payne 2 was

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