Comment Re:when? (Score 1) 398

by Shard013 on Friday February 26, 2010 @05:17AM (#31282834) Attached to: When PC Ports of Console Games Go Wrong

Dragon Age is a PC game that was ported to console, possibly the same for Mass Effect 1 and 2.

Virtual Currency Becomes Real In South Korea 203

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 19, 2010 @02:29PM from the license-to-print-money dept.

garylian writes "Massively is reporting that the South Korean Supreme Court has stated that virtual currency is the equivalent of real-world money. For those of you who might not be drawing the link, the core there is that selling in-game currency for real money is essentially just an exchange of currency and perfectly legal in South Korea. This could have sweeping implications for RMT operations the world over, not to mention free-to-play games and... well, online games in general. The official story is available online from JoongAng Daily."

Comment Thirty Meter Nano-Telescope (Score 3, Funny) 64

by Shard013 on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @03:15AM (#27934339) Attached to: Engineering the 30-Meter Telescope

I was hoping for the Thirty Meter Nano-Telescope (TMNT)

Comment BASIC or Pascal (Score 1) 214

by Shard013 on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @10:22AM (#27134237) Attached to: A High School Programming Curriculum For All Students?

Personally I would recommend teaching BASIC or Pascal to high school students. Both of them were more or less designed for teaching or beginners.

Students that are not interested in computers can at least make little songs using beeps in BASIC in a few minutes with a little teaching but hopefully can continue learning more about programming or computers.

Building Linux Applications With JavaScript 288

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 19, 2009 @07:59PM from the keeping-it-local dept.

crankymonkey writes "The GNOME desktop environment could soon gain support for building and extending applications with JavaScript thanks to an experimental new project called Seed. Ars Technica has written a detailed tutorial about Seed with several code examples. The article demonstrates how to make a GTK+ application for Linux with JavaScript and explains how Seed could influence the future of GNOME development. In some ways, it's an evolution of the strategy that was pioneered long ago by GNU with embedded Scheme. Ars Technica concludes: 'The availability of a desktop-wide embeddable scripting language for application extension and plugin writing will enable users to add lots of rich new functionality to the environment. As this technology matures and it becomes more tightly integrated with other language frameworks such as Vala, it could change the way that GNOME programmers approach application development. JavaScript could be used as high-level glue for user interface manipulation and rapid prototyping while Vala or C are used for performance-sensitive tasks.'"

Comment Re:cant wait (Score 4, Insightful) 280

by Shard013 on Monday November 24, 2008 @07:21PM (#25878997) Attached to: Samsung Mass Produces Fast 256GB SSDs

ditto, but im waiting for permanent data erasure to become a little more mature. i understand the wear leveling incorporated into SSD can cause current programs to stumble.

The mean time to fail in the new SSD's is a bucket load better that most regular HDD's.

http://www.google.com/search?q=ssd+mean+failure+vs+hdd

Between the 10,000-100,000 writes and the logic used to try not to rewrite the same place over and over they do quite well.