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Comment Re:Titan's Quest (Score 1) 480

by muzip (#36359998) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Adventure Game To Start With?
I'd also recommend the Monkey Island remakes... The new graphics are nice and still 2-D, moreover, they have the option to switch back to the original graphics and midi music for geezers like us wanting to have a little bit nostalgia.

Secondly I definitely recommend Day of the Tentacle. It was and still is my favourite for point and click adventure genre... Might be because I've spent an entire semester in my youth trying to solve the puzzles :) (My English was terrible back then) However, the graphics might be somewhat outdated, 320x240, if only they also remade it like MI series...

Comment Re:It's a lot to do with Japanese character set (Score 1) 242

by muzip (#33027838) Attached to: The Puzzle of Japanese Web Design

All characters are also the same size as CAPS so it feels like their websites are shouting at you.

I agree with that, but that is looks like that is the only way they can represent readable Kanji characters on computer screen. Making them smaller and lighter will make them indistinguishable.

On the other hand, this might have something to do with default japanese fonts we use, maybe there are better alternatives out there. Higher dpi fonts, perhaps?

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Submission + - $26 of software defeats American military. (wsj.com) 2

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reporter writes: According to a report just published by the "Wall Street Journal", SkyGrabber — a computer program that can be easily purchased for $25.95 off the Internet — can read and store the data transmitted on an unsecure channel by an unmanned drone. Drones are crucial to American military operations, for these aerial vehicles enable Washington to conduct war with a reduced number of soldiers.

The Iranians have taught Islamic thugs in Iraq how to read the intercepted data. " ... the intercepts could give America's enemies battlefield advantages by removing the element of surprise from certain missions and making it easier for insurgents to determine which roads and buildings are under U.S. surveillance. ... Some of the most detailed evidence of intercepted feeds has been discovered in Iraq, but adversaries have also intercepted drone video feeds in Afghanistan, according to people briefed on the matter. These intercept techniques could be employed in other locations where the U.S. is using pilotless planes, such as Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, they said."

Submission + - The perfect way to slice a pizza (newscientist.com)

Submitted by iamapizza
iamapizza writes: New Scientist reports on the quest of two math boffins for the perfect way to slice a pizza. It's an interesting and in-depth article;

"The problem that bothered them was this. Suppose the harried waiter cuts the pizza off-centre, but with all the edge-to-edge cuts crossing at a single point, and with the same angle between adjacent cuts. The off-centre cuts mean the slices will not all be the same size, so if two people take turns to take neighbouring slices, will they get equal shares by the time they have gone right round the pizza — and if not, who will get more?"

This is useful, of course, if you're familiar with the concept of "sharing" a pizza.

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