Comment Re:Games (Score 1) 1880
I keep a bootable XP partition
some vendors refuse to accept the fact that people have moved beyond Windows XP
huh.
Comment oops (Score 1) 454
my laptop is old (2003), and i lived off the grid for a while, during which time it was often plugged into a generator that didn't give very a clean (or constant) quality feed. it now lasts for 12 minutes on a "full" charge, and won't even hold that charge for more than 48 hours of being unplugged and off.
Comment Re:OpenGL (Score 1) 541
having only tried TF2 via wine once about a year ago, i'd be inclined to agree with the AC. i got it running, and semi-playable, but the graphics were a little sluggish and stuttery - even on low settings, with directx adjustments and all the other tweaks recommended on winehq. it was enough of a performance hit to make me resigned to running a dual-boot system.
i'll check out playonlinux though, thanks for the link.
(hopes to god that it works, since my win7rc is expiring, i only own a copy of winXP 32bit, and having an entire second OS solely for the purpose of playing 2 or 3 games is getting old regardless...)
Comment scavenged/composted (Score 1) 793
unceremoniously dumped in the woods.
Breaking the Squid Barrier 126
An anonymous reader writes "Dr. Steve O'Shea of Auckland, New Zealand is attempting to break the record for keeping deep sea squid alive in captivity, with the goal of being able to raise a giant squid one day. Right now, he's raising the broad squid, sepioteuthis australis, from egg masses found in seaweed. This is a lot harder than it sounds, because the squid he's studying grow rapidly and eat only live prey, making it hard for them to keep the squid from becoming prey themselves. If his research works out, you might one day be able to visit an aquarium and see giant squid."
Comment 7) other: (Score 1) 507
YOU!
Comment Re:12 hour work days? (Score 4, Funny) 633
i'm willing to bet that she wouldn't describe those 5 minutes as "good."
Comment Re:User action? (Score 1) 145
bas doot
Giant Ribbon Discovered At Edge of Solar System 251
beadwindow writes "NASA's IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer) spacecraft has made the first all-sky maps of the heliosphere and the results have taken researchers by surprise. The maps are bisected by a bright, winding ribbon of unknown origin: 'This is a shocking new result,' says IBEX principal investigator Dave McComas of the Southwest Research Institute. 'We had no idea this ribbon existed — or what has created it. Our previous ideas about the outer heliosphere are going to have to be revised.' Another NASA scientist notes, '"This ribbon winds between the two Voyager spacecraft and was not observed by either of them.'"
Comment Re:Savage 2 (Score 1) 460
another vote for savage 2.
s2 games is also working on heroes of newerth, a dota clone/fork/somethingorother (currently in beta). it runs (on all low settings) on my pentium m 1.8ghz mobility radeon 9700 old laptop. much nicer on my new desktop, but playable on weaker hardware. in short, s2 games gives me hope for the future of linux gaming.
also:
world of goo (amazing)
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20080510052539217/Games.html
http://whdb.com/2008/top-25-linux-games-for-2008/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_gaming
Comment walter (Score 1) 1124
fork it dude, let's go bowling.
Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon 1124
Barence writes "Mozilla has announced that its plans to bring Office 2007's Ribbon interface to Firefox, as it looks to tidy up its 'dated' browser. 'Starting with Vista, and continuing with Windows 7, the menu bar is going away,' notes Mozilla in its plans for revamping the Firefox user interface. '[It will] be replaced with things like the Windows Explorer contextual strip, or the Office Ribbon, [which is] now in Paint and WordPad, too.' The change will also bring Windows' Aero Glass effects to the browser." Update: 09/24 05:01 GMT by T : It's not quite so simple, says Alexander Limi, who works on the Firefox user experience. "We are not putting the Ribbon UI on Firefox. The article PCpro quotes talks about Windows applications in general, not Firefox." So while the currently proposed direction for Firefox 3.7 involves some substantial visual updates for Windows users (including a menu bar hidden by default, and integration of Aero-styled visual elements), it's not actually a ribbon interface. Limi notes, too, that Linux and Mac versions are unaffected by the change.
Comment Re:They Did Not 'Look At The Options' (Score 1) 105
when proselytizing for open source, you might want to avoid comparisons to slave-built structures.
Comment rup is confused (Score 1) 881
"Quality journalism is not cheap, and an industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalising its ability to produce good reporting," he said.
so fox news will still be free, since it clearly MUST be cheap, and they long ago cannibalized their ability to produce good reporting.
Comment didn't rtfa, but i assume it's about tampax. (Score 0, Offtopic) 122
"managing flows" unburied a memory of a tampon commercial.
During your period, your flow level can change from one day to the next. That's why Tampax developed the Compak Multipax. You get 3 tampon absorbencies to meet your changing needs, in one convenient package.
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