dazzawazza - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Lack of experience + overeager salesfolks? (Score 2) 132

by dazzawazza on Thursday April 10, 2025 @10:49AM (#65294781) Attached to: Gas Boiler Fittings Outnumbered Heat Pumps By 15 To One in UK Last Year - Report

The average UK home is too poorly insulated. My 1910 house in London needed £20,000 of insulation (minimum) added making the total bill £25000. We ARE being overcharged for heat pumps but we have much bigger problems of "poor quality" and old housing stock.

Comment Re:Not the UK way to do it (Score 0) 48

by dazzawazza on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @11:28AM (#60003846) Attached to: Number-Plate Cam Site Had No Password, Spills 8.6 Million Logs of UK Road Journeys

It's because they had to work from home.

EVE Online PVP Tournament Streamed Live 101

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday June 06, 2010 @12:21PM from the enemy's-gate-is-down dept.

infinitevalence writes "Every few months the good Viking programmers of the north organize and present one of the most geeky e-sports out there. Thanks to them, for three weekends in a row we get to watch player-controlled spaceships fight it out for accolades and unique in-game items available only to the first, second, and third place winners. This year CCP has all of the content live online and streaming in HD for your viewing pleasure. So find a drink, whip up some snacks, watch the shiny explosions, and listen to the soothing words of player experts as they walk you through the action!"

Revisiting the "Holy Trinity" of MMORPG Classes 362

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 18, 2009 @08:20AM from the or-druid-as-the-case-may-be dept.

A feature at Gamasutra examines one of the foundations of many MMORPGs — the idea that class roles within such a game fall into three basic categories: tank, healer, and damage dealer. The article evaluates the pros and cons of such an arrangement and takes a look at some alternatives. "Eliminating specialized roles means that we do away with boxing a class into a single role. Without Tanks, each class would have features that would help them participate in and survive many different encounters like heavy armor, strong avoidance, or some class or magical abilities that allow them to disengage from direct combat. Without specialized DPS, all classes should be able to do damage in order to defeat enemies. Some classes might specialize in damage type, like area of effect (AoE) damage; others might be able to exploit enemy weaknesses, and some might just be good at swinging a sharpened bit of metal in the right direction at a rapid rate. This design isn't just about having each class able to fill any trinity role. MMO combat would feel more dynamic in this system. Every player would have to react to combat events and defend against attacks."

TwIP - An IP Stack In a Tweet 81

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 30, 2009 @06:21PM from the small-is-good dept.

Adam Dunkels writes "Inspired by the Twitter-sized program that crashes Mac OS X, I just wrote a really, really rudimentary IP stack called twIP, small enough to fit in a Twitter tweet. Although twIP is very far away from a real IP stack, it can do the first task of any IP stack: respond to pings. The entire source code can be found in this 128-character-long tweet. For those who are interested in low-level network programming, a code walkthrough with instructions on how to run the code under FreeBSD is available here. The FAQ: Q: why? A: for fun."

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