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It's Just Keeps Getting Better And Better by dma_packet · 2012-12-29 06:54 · Score: 0 · on In Japan, PlayStation 2 Ends a 12-Year Run

You actually just posted a link to a fucking Xbox 360 game that was ported to PS3 as some sort of 'proof' that the 360 is able to put out PS3 level graphics?

Really???

I think I am finally seeing the sad and pathetic logic that allows people like you to lie to themselves in order to not have to face a reality they desperately don't want to deal with. In this case that the PS3, no surprise, destroyed the Xbox 360 in graphics this gen - just like every console engineer knew it would six years ago.

Ya don't get to pick and choose which game's graphics demonstrate the relative strength of two consoles. It is hilarious that you actually tried to do so.

The PS3 has Uncharted 1/2/3 - What does the Xbox 360 have of the same level?

NOTHING

No fucking surprise since the 360 is gimped by the smaller than last gen disc format that can't hold the 24 or more gigs of data for materials and geometry in the Uncharted games. Nor does the 360 have the same insane parallel floating point power in the PS3's Cell chip to run Uncharted's animations.

Instead the best the 360 can do is the 'amazing' Gears of War games that look like this:

http://kineticninja.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html

Laughably primitive lighting, jerky primitive animations, materials that look straight out of the PS2/Xbox era.

The PS3 has Killzone 2/3 - What does the 360 have that can compete?

NOTHING

Once again the massive data of materials and geometry can't fit even on 3 of the 360's gimped less than DVD sized discs. And the 360's gimped 10 megs of EDRAM can't fit the massive render buffers that advanced deffered shading engines like Killzone 2/3 run on the PS3. And this is why all the Xbox fanboys screamed that Sony was lying about Killzone 2's graphics before Sony shut them the fuck up at E3 with graphics that matched the 'impossible CGI level' graphics:

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/3238/killzone2comparw1.jpg

Either you post these mystery 360 games that magically make the wimpy Xbox hardware do what not a single Xbox developer has been able to for the past seven years.

Until you can do that, sit down and shut the fuck up. Your crappy little underpowered 360 got the shit kicked out of it graphically this gen. No other console has been so humiliated that it has not a single exclusive title that can be held up that is of the same level as the exclusives on its competing console.

OUYA is not a sealed box. Vents confirmed. by Randwulf · 2012-12-28 11:01 · Score: 1 · on Ouya Dev Consoles Ship, SDK Released

Vents in the OUYA have been confirmed:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/837/ouya016.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/835/ouya017.jpg/

OUYA is not a sealed box. Vents confirmed. by Randwulf · 2012-12-28 11:01 · Score: 1 · on Ouya Dev Consoles Ship, SDK Released

Vents in the OUYA have been confirmed:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/837/ouya016.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/835/ouya017.jpg/

I prefer Pi by mandark1967 · 2012-12-27 03:37 · Score: 1 · on Raspberry Pi vs. Cheap Android Dongle: Embarrassment of (Cheap) Riches

I admit I'm biased but I prefer the Pi over the Android dongles.

It just seems like there's more of a fun factor in making a Pi-based system than just plugging in a dongle-type system.

At least with the Pi I get to play with legos

My Pi system based on the 28 port Manhatten usb adapter
http://imageshack.us/g/1/9907766/

Re:Not again... by WaffleMonster · 2012-12-20 20:43 · Score: 1 · on 30 Days Is Too Long: Animated Rant About Windows 8

I'm not YT conspiracy theorist but something has to be wrong here....

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8659/screenshotfrom201212211.png

300 views
600 likes?
200 dislikes?

If I was not feeling particularly lazy I would post a youtube link to none other than Alex Jones (who is a certified conspiracy theorist) explaining technical reasons for inconsistancies in the view counters.

The weirdness is due to "distributed systems" following one of those "eventually consistant" memes.

Re:Not again... by oztiks · 2012-12-20 18:34 · Score: 1 · on 30 Days Is Too Long: Animated Rant About Windows 8

I'm not YT conspiracy theorist but something has to be wrong here....

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8659/screenshotfrom201212211.png

300 views
600 likes?
200 dislikes?

Re:NASA did not mention... by flayzernax · 2012-12-17 15:00 · Score: 0 · on NASA On Full Court Press To Deflate Doomsday Prophecies

Oh don't worry about me I'm totally crazy already. My favorite is Giorgio Tsoukalos

While it's highly unlikely (according to NASA), I would be giddy with joy if Thor thought 12.21.2012 was an epic day to troll us all.

Re:What's good for the goose... by terjeber · 2012-12-11 22:37 · Score: 1 · on Outrage At Microsoft Offshoring Tax In the UK, Google Caught Avoiding US Taxes

Really? There is no such evidence? Is there evidence showing a connection then?

In the following, the author documents why all the gun myths are wrong with references to studies and data. The following graphic shows the murder rate and gun ownership relationship for the states in the US, if you have problems reading graphs you will see that if there is a trend it is negative. The sad, sad truth is that there is a much stronger relationship between African American population size and murder than there is between gun ownership and murder rate. In fact, if you take black-on-black killings out of the US statistics on gun homicides, the level of homicides in the US is equivalent to that of Sweden or so (varying year over year of course).

So, in one sense you are right, you can't prove a negative, but then again, there is no data showing a relationship between gun ownership and homicide rates is there?

Re:Well, duh. .. Speaking of "DUH..." by Muad'Dave · 2012-12-10 01:35 · Score: 1 · on Researchers Find Crippling Flaws In Global GPS

At least it will allow the government to clean up the maritime charts by removing the LORAN-C TD lines that clutter them up.

http://www.loran-history.info/Atafu/LoranChart-Atafu.jpg
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/7070/clipimage002it.jpg

Re:Does Yahoo even still exist? by UnknownSoldier · 2012-12-04 05:48 · Score: 1 · on Yahoo "Loses" $2.7B In Mysterious Mexican Yellow Pages Lawsuit

Indeed.

History of Google vs Yahoo homepage over the years ...
http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/443/yahoovsgoogle1996to2005ys4.png

Google focused on doing one thing extremely well. Yahoo is a perfect example of the bloated web 2.0 in search of monetization.

Oh Great...now I gotta redesign my lego case by mandark1967 · 2012-11-23 18:22 · Score: 2 · on On Demo, a $25 1080p Camera Module For Raspberry Pi

fuck me, right?

Granted, I did go a bit overboard in the powered USB Hub department, what with 28 ports and all, but it almost fit within the confines of a 32x32 lego plate

http://imageshack.us/a/img811/6440/img0191nq.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img59/7307/img0194ct.jpg

Oh Great...now I gotta redesign my lego case by mandark1967 · 2012-11-23 18:22 · Score: 2 · on On Demo, a $25 1080p Camera Module For Raspberry Pi

fuck me, right?

Granted, I did go a bit overboard in the powered USB Hub department, what with 28 ports and all, but it almost fit within the confines of a 32x32 lego plate

http://imageshack.us/a/img811/6440/img0191nq.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img59/7307/img0194ct.jpg

Do not anger Oprah. by Guano_Jim · 2012-11-19 23:34 · Score: 1 · on Is Oprah Cheating On Her Microsoft Love?

Or she will unleash the bees.

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/7044/oprahbees.gif

Re:Points by Lunix+Nutcase · 2012-11-13 01:03 · Score: 1 · on UW Imposes 20-Tweet Limit On Live Events

*facepalm*

Re:Not allowed! by interkin3tic · 2012-11-10 15:39 · Score: 2 · on 'Treasure Trove' In Oceans May Bring Revolutions In Medicine and Industry

Relevant poster, not sure who made it first

Re:Lies, Lies and More Lies by Lazar+Dobrescu · 2012-11-08 06:37 · Score: 2 · on Buckyballs Throws In the Towel

Here is that same package from another angle:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/534/cimg0101l.jpg/

and from slightly above:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/818/cimg0105s.jpg/

That same warning is also on the carrying case for the buckyballs and on the manual.

The full text of it is:
WARNING
Keep Away From All Children!
Do not put in nose of mouth.
Swallowed magnets can stick to intestines causing serious injury or death.
Seek immediate medical attention if magnets are swallowed in inhaled.

Re:Lies, Lies and More Lies by Lazar+Dobrescu · 2012-11-08 06:37 · Score: 2 · on Buckyballs Throws In the Towel

Here is that same package from another angle:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/534/cimg0101l.jpg/

and from slightly above:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/818/cimg0105s.jpg/

That same warning is also on the carrying case for the buckyballs and on the manual.

The full text of it is:
WARNING
Keep Away From All Children!
Do not put in nose of mouth.
Swallowed magnets can stick to intestines causing serious injury or death.
Seek immediate medical attention if magnets are swallowed in inhaled.

Re:hacking of Logica? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-22 16:59 · Score: 0 · on Pirate Bay Co-Founder In Solitary Confinement

He should have holed-up in the Ecuadorian embassy.

http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/4038/fbcmmt.jpg

Cute, but let us not forget that Julian Assange is wanted for questioning in relation to rape. Whether it's legitimate or not is not the issue.

Re:hacking of Logica? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · 2012-10-22 09:59 · Score: 1 · on Pirate Bay Co-Founder In Solitary Confinement

He should have holed-up in the Ecuadorian embassy.

http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/4038/fbcmmt.jpg

Re:Logical Fallacy Bingo by Dahamma · 2012-10-16 15:11 · Score: 3, Insightful · on US Presidential Debate #2 Tonight: Discuss Here

If you can't decide between the Green Party and the Libertarian Party, you probably shouldn't vote for either... they are pretty much polar opposites as far as the government's overall influence in many areas.

That said, if you want to throw darts at a board, go for the Greens. They are probably less likely to shoot you for straying onto their proppity, and they make better lifeguards.

Re:To WHOM is this OWED? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · 2012-10-16 13:31 · Score: 1 · on US Presidential Debate #2 Tonight: Discuss Here

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/5325/ows111204mahurinart1605.jpg

Re:Everyone should post as Anonymous by houghi · 2012-09-21 18:59 · Score: 4, Funny · on Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name

Posting as John Smith, Adrian Cronauer, Samual T. Jameson or any non-fake looking name.
Interesting part is that my alias is more distinct then if I were be using my own name.
And look right here what happens when you use your own name and that name is Justin Bieber.

OMG!!! Ponies!!! by Psicopatico · 2012-09-21 11:35 · Score: 1 · on Get Your 15 Years of Slashdot Shirt (For free, Depending)

I'd really love a t-shirt with the OMG Ponies logo.

Meh, I think I'll do it by myself, just for the fun of it.
Reference

the shirt is wrong! by rbrausse · 2012-09-21 05:08 · Score: 1 · on Get Your 15 Years of Slashdot Shirt (For free, Depending)

the anniversary shirt is boring and doesn't catch the _essence_ of slashdot.

I would prefer a design like this one (based on Z34107's comment)

Blame China, actually. Greenies need to outreach by exabrial · 2012-09-21 02:04 · Score: 1 · on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency'

Ok, the greenie morons in the USA needs to quit thinking this is their fault. China and India are the main problem... Take a look at this pic from Hangzhou, CN from about 2 years back: ImageShack.us The spire on the hill is 3/4mile away from where I was sitting. No it's not foggy, that's just how polluted it is ALL THE TIME over there. If you truly are an environmentalist, voting for Obama isn't going to save the planet. America has already won this battle.... but since climate science is now in mainstream pop culture, no one actually wants to travel overseas to do the hard work to save the environment.

Looks more like a Vulcan ship. by Max+Threshold · 2012-09-17 18:57 · Score: 1 · on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought

http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/8239/vulcanships.jpg

Image is poorly Photoshopped - restored version by wonkey_monkey · 2012-09-08 10:54 · Score: 4, Informative · on China's Yangtze River Turns Red

Based on a quick study of the poorly Photoshopped image (you can clearly see the mask lines, and the bits they forgot to alter) it looks like someone simply doubled the saturation on the water.

I've made an attempt to restore the image to something approaching reality.

Re:Anyone seeing the point of this? by Misagon · 2012-08-23 09:26 · Score: 1 · on Sources Say ITU Has Approved Ultra-High Definition TV Standard

The size of the display and the distance to the viewer are also significant.
I found this chart to be useful when comparing.

On my 32" 1080 TV at home, I can see the same channel in both SD and HD (1080), and I can just barely see the difference between them when sitting in the sofa, 6 feet away. When I saw this chart for the first time, I saw that I am just right between the green and the red line.

Re:Logo is fine, font is wrong. by metamatic · 2012-08-23 08:35 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Unveils First New Company Logo In 25 Years

Like the new logo I designed for them?

Re:Of course they won't be by DarwinSurvivor · 2012-08-22 02:42 · Score: 2 · on After Hacker Exposes Hotel Lock Insecurity, Lock Firm Asks Hotels To Pay For Fix

Lock Picking. A subtle and proud art... Long since rendered obsolete by the Broad Axe.
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/336/motivationalposterlockp.jpg

Sorry about the imageshack link, but every devotevational website seems to have removed this one. Someone must have gone on a DMCA rampage or something :(

Re:It's a great design by Hatta · 2012-08-07 04:40 · Score: 4, Informative · on Ask Slashdot: Understanding the SNES?

If anyone has an NES with the blinkies, you can disable the CIC by snipping one pin.

This is merely viral marketing by fragMasterFlash · 2012-08-06 18:27 · Score: 1 · on The Pacific Ocean Is Polluted With Coffee

Next thing you know mermaids will be serving coffee on every street corner.

Wow what fail. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-30 11:48 · Score: -1 · on ScummVM 1.5.0 'Picnic Basket' Released

So I've been trying out the new ScummVM but I'm seeing massive graphical issues as you can see here. How can they really expect people to use this?

WTF Apple?!? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-30 10:26 · Score: -1 · on Company Claims 80% of Facebook Ad Clicks Are From Bots

So I've been trying out OS X Mountain Lion and here is a screenshot of my desktop. LOL how could anyone *really* work like this? Apple is clearly integrating the wrong aspects of iOS into OSX.

Fuck Apple! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-30 08:36 · Score: -1 · on Images Show Apollo Moon Flags Still Standing

So I've been trying out OS X Mountain Lion and here is a shot of my desktop. LOL how could anyone *really* work like this? Apple is clearly integrating the wrong aspects of iOS into OSX.

Re:Mechanical coupling more efficient than Gen/Mot by guidryp · 2012-07-26 13:31 · Score: 1 · on Asking Slashdot: Converting an SUV Into an Hybrid Diesel-Electric?

Also, here is efficiency Map of an actual BLDC motor suitable for a full blown EV:

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/2418/evmotor.png

Now this is a 95% peak efficiency so you have that minor point.

But look at the efficiency map and tell me what a reasonable number for overall efficiency when used in a car would be?

If you think about it, you will realize it is under 90%. As you can't cruise at any legal speed and be using enough HP to push even to the 90% region. Brief spurts of acceleration may go a bit above 90%, but you don't spend enough time accelerating for that to matter. And if you are in stop and go traffic your RPMs will be too low to get anywhere near 90%.

I really think you are dragging out minutia here. 90% for a real full EV Motor(as a pure series hybrid would have to be) is an extremely reasonable, if not optimistic number.

Real world, street legal, full EVs are not getting better than 90% efficiency from their motors.

Re:Open but crap by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-20 07:34 · Score: -1 · on Valve & Intel Collaborating On Open-Source Drivers

If that were true why don't my benchmark figures here show any issues with these supposed "garbage drivers". Framerate is very steady and smooth even for an HD4000.

Re:105 Tesla by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-20 03:25 · Score: -1 · on New Type of Chemical Bond Predicted To Exist In White Dwarfs

This is amazing to see this posted. I was doing some lab work myself on this and I just wanted to share this imagery I had taken when doing my work. Science as ever makes lufe way more interesting!

Apple WTF?!?! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-20 02:16 · Score: -1 · on EFF Challenges National Security Letter

So has anyone else here been trying out the latest beta version of OS X Mountain Lion? Here is a shot of my desktop. LOL how could anyone *really* work like this? Apple is clearly integrating the wrong aspects of iOS into OSX.

WTF Apple by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-19 12:26 · Score: -1 · on ESA Summer of Code In Space 2012

So I've been trying out the latest beta version of OS X Mountain Lion and here is a shot of my desktop. LOL how could anyone *really* work like this? Apple is clearly integrating the wrong aspects of iOS into OSX.

Re:Stopped reading at "Mathematical chinks" by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-19 12:18 · Score: -1, Troll · on Higgs Data Offers Joy and Pain For Particle Physicists

So I've been trying out the developer version of OS X Mountain Lion and here is a shot of my desktop. LOL how could anyone *really* work like this? Apple is clearly integrating the wrong aspects of iOS into OSX.

NSFW picture.

Re:Stopped reading at "Mathematical chinks" by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-19 12:04 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Higgs Data Offers Joy and Pain For Particle Physicists

So I've been trying out the developer version of OS X Mountain Lion and here is a shot of my desktop. LOL how could anyone *really* work like this? Apple is clearly integrating the wrong aspects of iOS into OSX.

Re:So you're telling me by UnknownSoldier · 2012-07-13 13:19 · Score: 1 · on Windows 8 Mail Leaves Users Pining For the Desktop — or Even Their Phones

Technically Yahoo supports IMAP on mobile devices BUT not on desktop clients! Even if you are a paying customer.

Yahoo sucks.

i.e.
http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/443/yahoovsgoogle1996to2005ys4.png

Re:Downhill by damicatz · 2012-07-07 12:38 · Score: 1 · on Mozilla Downshifting Development of Thunderbird E-Mail Client

SeaMonkey has a very different interface from Firefox 4+ : http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/6435/seamonkey2g.png.

I am not a fan of the data manager either; unfortunately I don't see Firefox retaining the classic cookie manager for long, given the obsession with putting everything in a tab. But that is really the only area of SeaMonkey where I take issue with that does not come from upstream.

The main reason I like SeaMonkey is that the developers are unapologetic about targeting it towards power users and state so right up front (https://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey:Reasons). They also give you options; even with the new "data manager", the old cookie/passwords interfaces still remain.

SeaMonkey also is faster, less bloated, and uses less memory, which is ironic considering the entire reason that Firefox was created is because the Mozilla Application Suite (which SeaMonkey is the continuation of) was considered to be slow and bloated.

IMHO, I think the best thing to do for Thunderbird would be to combine efforts with SeaMonkey. A standalone client could still be made but the combined resources could benefit both projects.

Re:Oh wow. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-17 04:28 · Score: 0 · on At Canadian Airports, Your Conversation May Be Remotely Recorded

Don't forget about roaches!

Re:The Stupid Cursor Image by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-11 20:16 · Score: 0 · on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE?

(Sorry to reply to my own post, but I'm the anon from above)

Here's a few screenshots of the Fedora 17 Live CD - the most recent version, and the version that was okay for RedHat and the community to release as "good enough". I have to admit things have improved since I last checked, but there are still some issues.

Screenshot 1: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/708/snapshot1wv.png/
Here we see the network applet menu and an overlay on mouseover. If the network applet menu is being shown then I would say that overlays should be disabled, because it's typical for me to click on the applet, move my mouse (unintentionally), and leave it there for a bit. This shows the overlay, which is pointless and distracting. This is not an issue in Ubuntu.

Screenshot 2: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/842/snapshot2mx.png/
Here we see the default file browser, notice the bookmark sidebar? Notice how it is ridiculously small? I would argue that the sidebar should take up as much space as it needs (up to a maximum, I would say 30% of the width of the modal window or until all of the bookmark names are shown entirely - you don't need to show blank space if there's nothing to take it up and _use_ it). Also, notice all of the flat grayness everywhere? This looks okay, but I think it could look better if the gradient didn't extend all the way down the window. Doing that indicates that the window "object" is curved from the top to the bottom. This is one thing Gnome got right - the borders are gradiented, but the inside is flat - see http://www.webupd8.org/2010/01/nautilus-elementary-simplified-nautilus.html for a good example.

Screenshot 3: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/26/snapshot3bz.png/
Here is the textbox for Slashdot, brought up in Konqueror. The scroll bar on the right is drawn incorrectly - this is 2012! Why is the default browser not rendering a simple fucking scrollbar correctly?

Screenshot 4: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/577/snapshot4p.png/
Here we see a window popped up by Konqueror that let's me download Flash from adobe's website. First of all, Adobe has stopped supporting Flash on Linux, especially x86_64 (which the LiveCD and computer are). Second of all, Konqueror should handle this like Firefox in Ubuntu does - it prompts the user to enable the appropriate repository, and then to install Flash - all without needing the admin password. But, in Fedora, apparently I would have to mess with Flash to get it to work in a web browser that can't block popups and popunders (I had a few while typing this) or render fucking scroll bars correctly. WTF Fedora KDE devs? Who is your target audience? Why should 10000 nerds waste 2 hours of each of their lives messing around with Konqueror and Flash to get it to work? Or do you expect people to simply install a usable web browser like Chrome/Chromium or Firefox? If that's the expectation, then why make Konqueror the default web browser, or why include it on the LiveCD to begin with? It seems to me that it would be much less jarrring for normal people to use Firefox (with good KDE integration) than a crappy web browser that they've never heard of and don't know where every option is at. Either Konqueror needs to be not the default web browser, or it needs some drastic improvement. I'm in favor of using Firefox by default because that is one less thing for people to relearn when they switch to Linux. The lower the barrier to entry to using Linux, the more (normal) people we get using Linux, the more pull we have with hardware manufacturers (read: video cards, printers, wireless cards, and every other device that doesn't have Linux driv