Comment Re:hi (Score 0) 62851
That sounds like a troll comment to me
This sid is meant to be a place for like minded people to drink late's and read poetry, so please keep this in mind the next time you post.
Journal Journal: Well another First Post - So how is it going peeps!
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3091059&cid=41213441
Comment FIRST PRIOR ART POST (Score -1) 81
... bitches
Journal Journal: So, what's everyone been up to lately? 1
Me? I've been busy at work - what are you all doing. So where do all you trolls hang out these days
Comment Re:Pissants (Score -1) 132
Agree - it only takes a single fuckup for people to lose control of their data (whether running an application or phishing scam). Though it is a concern that everyone has these accounts linked.
Comment So who is going to go to Google+ ? (Score 0) 62851
I am currently using Myspace and it fullfills all my social needs (apart from trolltalk of course - LOL )
So who is going to get onto Google Plus, and more importantly - what sort of circles will you create? Here are some tips....
"Slashdot trolls I never want to meet in real life"
"Slashdot trolls I hope to have sex with" (for slashpanda)
"People who like Cracky chan"
"People who like Mercatur"
"Bees"
Comment Where did all the Trolls go? (Score 0) 62851
So how does everyone get their trolling fix these days since slashdot cleaned us mostly out (and trolltalk was spammed by slushpanda)
Post on reddit? which sub?
Oh, and if the only person on here is slashpanda - then I guess I am wasting my breath, as he is so gay he probably will direct me to justin beebers site.
Comment Re:And let's not forget... (Score 0) 133
I concur. And well done on getting the first post.
It now takes 3-5 seconds to 'preview' a one line text post, so my days of first posting are clearly numbered! Maybe that was the intent?
Pumpkin Pie increases Male Sex Drive 173
Dr. Alan Hirsch, Director of Chicago's Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Center, says the key to a man's heart, and other parts, is pumpkin pie. Out of the 40 odors tested in Hirsch's study, a mixture of lavender and pumpkin pie got the biggest rise out of men ages 18 to 64. That particular fragrance was found to increase penile blood flow by an average of 40%. "Maybe the odors acted to reduce anxiety. By reducing anxiety, it acted to remove inhibitions," said Hirsch.
British Pizza Chain To Install Cones of Silence 122
itwbennett writes "British pizza chain Pizza Express is installing iPod docks and soundproof domes in booths of their new iPizzeria stores. 'The idea is that you can plug in your iPod and play whatever music you like without disturbing other diners,' says blogger Peter Smith. 'But I'm sure it'd work for talking about government secrets and other spy stuff, too.'"
Why Warhammer Online Failed — an Insider Story 235
sinij writes "An EA insider has aired dirty laundry over what went wrong with Warhammer and what could this mean for the upcoming Bioware Star Wars MMORPG. Quoting: 'We shouldn't have released when we did, everyone knows it. The game wasn't done, but EA gave us a deadline and threatened the leaders of Mythic with pink slips. We slipped so many times, it had to go out. We sold more than a million boxes, and only had 300k subs a month later. Going down ever since. It's 'stable' now, but guess what? Even Dark Age and Ultima have more subs than we have. How great is that? Games almost a decade [old] make more money than our biggest project."
The (unverified) insider, who calls himself EA Louse (named after the EA Spouse who brought to light the company's excessive crunchtime practices) says similar trouble is ahead for the development of Star Wars: The Old Republic. EA has not commented yet. God of War creator David Jaffe has criticized the insider for having unrealistic expectations of working in the games industry.
Preserving Virtual Worlds 122
The Opposable Thumbs blog has an interview with Jerome McDonough of the University of Illinois, who is involved with the Preserving Virtual Worlds project. The goal of the project is to recognize video games as cultural artifacts and to make sure they're accessible by future generations. Here McDonough talks about some of the technical difficulties in doing so:
"Take, for example, Star Raiders on the Atari 2600. If you're going to preserve this, you've got a couple of problems. The first is that it is on a cartridge that is designed to work on a particular system that is no longer manufactured. And as long as you've got a hardware dependency there, you're really not going to be able to preserve this material very long. What we have been looking at is how feasible is it for things that fundamentally all have some level of hardware dependency there — even Doom has dependencies on DLLs with an operating system, and on particular chipsets and architectures for playing. How do you take that and turn it into something that isn't as dependent on a particular physical piece of hardware. And to do that, you need information about that platform. You need technical specifications that allow you to basically reproduce a virtualization that may enable you to run the software in its original form in the future. So what we're trying to do is preserve not only the games, but preserve the knowledge that you would need to create a virtualization platform to play the game."
StarCraft II To Be Released On July 27 220
Blizzard announced today that StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, the first game in a series of three, will be released on July 27. The game will contain the Terran campaign (29 missions), the full multiplayer experience, and "several challenge-mode mini-games," with "focused goals designed to ease players into the basics of multiplayer strategies." It will launch alongside the revamped Battle.net, which we've previously discussed. Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime said, "We've been looking forward to revisiting the StarCraft universe for many years, and we're excited that the time for that is almost here. Thanks to our beta testers, we're making great progress on the final stages of development, and we'll be ready to welcome players all over the world to StarCraft II and the new Battle.net in just a few months."
Brain Training Games Don't Train Your Brain 151
Stoobalou writes with this excerpt from Thinq.co.uk: "A new study has shown that brain training games do little to exercise the grey matter. Millions of people who have been prodding away at their Nintendo DS portable consoles, smug in the knowledge that they are giving their brains a proper work-out, might have to rethink how they are going to stop the contents of their skulls turning into mush."
Lord British Claims He Owns the Moon 144
An anonymous reader writes "Following the recent discovery of Richard Garriott's old moon rover, the man known as Lord British has laid claim to his own lunar territory. Moon dwellers, all hail your new overlord!"
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