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World of Goo from the Ubuntu Software Center

I have it on good authority that this is the person responsible. His name is Justin Bonsey, but now is going by Justin B.

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6862/justinbonseygoogleprofi.png

Is it any wonder WP7 is all "fucked up"?

And they are. If you try a proxy to the USA some time and check the price in dollars, you'd notice that most of the time it's approximately the same, adjusted for currency differences. Sometimes, however, the prices in Europe are inflated somewhat. Here, let me make some screenshots for you (one from a proxied webbrowser, the other from steam's built-in browser):

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/2829/dollarsr.jpg
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/7897/euroqi.jpg

I did a quick count on all the ones that have EUR==USD prices: 4. Four games from four wholly different publishers, that just couldn't be arsed.

And they are. If you try a proxy to the USA some time and check the price in dollars, you'd notice that most of the time it's approximately the same, adjusted for currency differences. Sometimes, however, the prices in Europe are inflated somewhat. Here, let me make some screenshots for you (one from a proxied webbrowser, the other from steam's built-in browser):

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/2829/dollarsr.jpg
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/7897/euroqi.jpg

I did a quick count on all the ones that have EUR==USD prices: 4. Four games from four wholly different publishers, that just couldn't be arsed.

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/102/networkcabletobrain.jpg for a proof of it. [grin] Yes, I have a cat5 network cable connected to my brain. I can do my Internet in my sleep too.

However, I haven't gotten the wireless part to work though to be true 24/7. [grin] :)

There will be a cost. Companies like NVIDIA and ATI may slow their development pace since they can't monetize as well any future advancements. Who is willing to shell out $300 to run MW2 at 90fps vs. 50fps...? Are we done generating real time photo-realistic images? Does this look like a screenshot from an action movie yet? I for one don't think so.

We need the next Crisis. That game that will bring to a halt all but the top 1% of existing PCs on maximum settings. The industry needs it. I need it. You need it too - you just don't know it.

This is a pretty funny picture. Someone should put it on a T-shirt.

I just keep thinking about this. (From the movie 5th Element if you don't get it.)

Here's just a few reasons to jailbreak;
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/3563/photomnk.png

I have read that the ispell app is reported to phone home and thus may be a backdoor. On some forums people claim they removed the app but still saw it was running something in the background that was accessing the web. Claim is you have to re-install the OS from scratch to rid yourself of it. Never used it myself.

I love that sort of attitude, "I don't need it so you shouldn't need it either".
Here's just a few reasons to jailbreak;
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/3563/photomnk.png
The iPhone lacks so many features or seemingly obvious functions that without the tweaks that jailbreaking provides, I'd probably swap phones.

You can almost see the smoke. That's a WP7 Marketplace support person. No kidding. You can't make this stuff up.

http://img14.imageshack.us/i/justinbonseygoogleprofi.png/ [imageshack.us]

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http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6862/justinbonseygoogleprofi.png [imageshack.us]

You can almost see the smoke. That's a WP7 Marketplace support person. No kidding. You can't make this stuff up.

http://img14.imageshack.us/i/justinbonseygoogleprofi.png/ [imageshack.us]

[URL=http://img14.imageshack.us/i/justinbonseygoogleprofi.png/][IMG]http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6862/justinbonseygoogleprofi.png[/IMG][/URL]

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http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6862/justinbonseygoogleprofi.png [imageshack.us]

Thanks for banning me, Justin, and hiding behind WP7 Marketplace support. Good luck with your "JOB". And if you didn't want the world to see this, you should not have made it.

http://img14.imageshack.us/i/justinbonseygoogleprofi.png/

[URL=http://img14.imageshack.us/i/justinbonseygoogleprofi.png/][IMG]http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6862/justinbonseygoogleprofi.png[/IMG][/URL]

[URL=http://img14.imageshack.us/i/justinbonseygoogleprofi.png/][IMG=http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6862/justinbonseygoogleprofi.png][/IMG][/URL]

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6862/justinbonseygoogleprofi.png

Thanks for banning me, Justin, and hiding behind WP7 Marketplace support. Good luck with your "JOB". And if you didn't want the world to see this, you should not have made it.

http://img14.imageshack.us/i/justinbonseygoogleprofi.png/

[URL=http://img14.imageshack.us/i/justinbonseygoogleprofi.png/][IMG]http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6862/justinbonseygoogleprofi.png[/IMG][/URL]

[URL=http://img14.imageshack.us/i/justinbonseygoogleprofi.png/][IMG=http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6862/justinbonseygoogleprofi.png][/IMG][/URL]

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6862/justinbonseygoogleprofi.png

Sad but true. There is a reason for this double-standard: physical abuse is usually treated more seriously than mental abuse (the latter is often hard to entangle as it frequently goes both ways, whilst physical abuse almost always goes in one direction) and males are more likely to physically abuse their female partner than the other way around. But the difference isn't that large statistically and there shouldn't be a double-standard. In the UK, the Home Office started an anti-domestic abuse program. Fine and good, but it was focused on women only. There was a very nice satire picture of it here which is probably similar for America too.

yes

Seriously, guys, do you even want to have visitors on /., or is the new layout just an elaborate ploy to kill this site? Please click here and tell me that it is "by design" that I can't see my own post after clicking submit (and that "what you submitted appears below" is just a vestigial piece of text)!

Never mind all the outrageous fancy-stuff that breaks the entire site layout, I'm a geek. I can deal with ugly. If you think you can get more visitors by improving how the site looks instead of improving the quality of editing/reporting, more power to you. But I can't deal with non-functioning. Here's a non-exhaustive list of what's functionally broken since the new slashcode:

- following a link to a comment from a journal page
- opening a subthread in a new window
- bookmarking a specific comment in order to return to it later
- the ability to read more than 50 comments without javascript (no, it doesn't work in classic mode either)
- the ability to "get more comments" after you've fetched them all. What, you think that nobody leaves a /. page open for more than a few minutes?
- the ability to fetch all comments before scrolling down to read. It's not like /. has a threading system, all newly fetched comments are always added at the bottom of the page, right?

Blessing just didn't work

For some reason the Brain Enhancer scene in Forbidden Planet springs to mind :-)

I'm guessing that's a trap door link, right? linking to goatse soon? wget http://ow.ly/3Ou1l --02:34:18-- http://ow.ly/3Ou1l => `3Ou1l' Resolving ow.ly... 75.101.155.42, 184.72.246.159 Connecting to ow.ly|75.101.155.42|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://bit.ly/gsokC2 [following] --02:34:18-- http://bit.ly/gsokC2 => `gsokC2' Resolving bit.ly... 168.143.172.53 Connecting to bit.ly|168.143.172.53|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Location: http://webwiki.dyndns-wiki.com/ [following] --02:34:19-- http://webwiki.dyndns-wiki.com/ => `index.html' Resolving webwiki.dyndns-wiki.com... 204.13.248.125 Connecting to webwiki.dyndns-wiki.com|204.13.248.125|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://img43.imageshack.us/i/screenshot1rx.png/ [following]

> e.g., I search for intel drivers, and I get three pages worth of intelligence tests from stupid quiz sites)

I'm going to have to call shenanigans on at least one point; I just did a search for "intel drivers" (no quotes), and the entire first page was ... Intel Drivers related.

Here's a screenshot: http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/1377/20110130184253.png

The Google Slashbox layout is broken:
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/7817/slashdotgooglebox.png

I don't get this "too much white space" issue everyone has, some times a little breathing space is nice.

A little?

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/6848/slashdotr.png

Problem with that reasoning: the wall doesn't prevent Qassam rockets, yet Hamas has stopped firing those as well as suicide bombings.

Much easier on the eyes, and less white space, when you block all but the raw blue-and-white. Here's a nice clean screenshot.

Here's what I see:
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/4351/22025058.jpg

http://img62.imageshack.us/i/slashdot.png/

Maybe it's browser/OS specific. It's a bit of an annoying bug, for sure, but running Firefox on Windows 7 seems to render much *better* than the old one. The old one used to be a fixed-width textarea regardless of where you were in the nested comments, and looked very out of place. This one seems to be a pretty good size, and it's the right width for the comment I'm replying to.

And oh look, I'm also not seeing the sidebar overwriting content glitch that people have been complaining about. I would not be surprised if they didn't test this on every mainstream os/browser combo. That would have required work.

In all, I do think it's an improvement over the old layout. There's more whitespace, but it's not excessive.

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space.

Plus it seems to assume everyone has a HD widescreen display and always have their browser windows maximized. Meaning thinks get cropped Like this

Reminds me of Fark's Infamous redesign with the classic You'll get over it line from the admins.

Picture: http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/4388/captureyik.png

I'm not sure if my description is very clear, but in my mind I described how Slashdot used to do things.

This is what I'm used to seeing: Old Slashdot

This is the forum post from their singular IT team member about the incident: http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/3715/lushpostuk.jpg

I find it kind of funny that HDR means the opposite thing in photography versus video games
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/7391/1244894383293.jpg (pulled from some old digg post)

Traditionally games render the world and keep it between 0 and 1 (zero being black/completely dark and 1 being white). HDR is computing values above and below and clipping so things that are blown out (like reflections and highlights) are super white. I think it was an update to Half Life 2 that first did this in a commercial game.

In photography, they take multiple exposures and stick them in to an HDR image. Then, they use tone mapping to convert it to an 8-bit visible image. Tone-mapped images are generally called HDR, even though that's a misnomer.

> 2) It's impossible to get in the new version.
Which is fine, because the only thing it was ever useful for is seeing where links lead, and that job has been taken over by something else.

It was very useful to me.
Here's an example of my statusbar at work. At home, I have more indicators on it.

> Which of those options makes any sense to you...?
(2), since it gets rid of a largely useless UI element and streamlines the interface.

The fact that you fail to use it to its full potential does not mean it is useless.

Next question?

Were you born a dick or did you have to work at it?

In America, the "filthy rich" pay most of the income taxes (and presumably sales tax as well). The top 1% pay 38%, the top 5% pay 59%, the top 10% pay 70%.

As for wasting money, I have little doubt that governments are inherently wasteful. That said, some are much better than others. Ranking the "very highly developed nations" by percent of GDP collected in taxes divided by the human development index squared reveals striking differences. Hong Kong and Singapore have very low tax rates, so they easily come out on top (outliers?), but the rest are clustered together starting with the US (HDI .902, Tax 28.2%), Australia (.937, 30.5%), Japan (.884, 27.4%), Switzerland (.874, 30.1%), Canada (.888, 33.4%), and Ireland (.895, 34%). Here's a graph for those who would rather see a raw scatterplot rather than my data manipulations.

Hotspot apparently works on Rogers right now.

I, unfortunately, am unable to verify the claims. But this screenshot looks pretty legit: http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/5767/photojan1251329pm.jpg

From what I gather it is a carrier enable-able feature. If AT&T does not support it, it is due to their call, not Apple's.

I was bored, but I still couldn't bring myself to do an "other body parts" one.

I remember those days.

http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/8268/ipadimg0255.jpg

Not a new tactic for a confirmed hate group, which means they have already lost.

http://slashdot.org/journal/201888/In-Soviet-xkcd, Journal entry by a /.'er who met Randall Munroe IRL, which leads to this picture: http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/1855/01721azf4.jpg

Ever wonder what Comcast's connections to the Internet look like? In the tradition of WikiLeaks, someone stumbled upon these graphs of their TATA links. For reference, TATA is the only other IP transit provider to Comcast after Level (3). Comcast is a customer of TATA and pays them to provide them with access to the Internet.

1 day graphs:

Image #1: http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/78/ntoday.gif
Image #1 (Alternate Site): http://www.glowfoto.com/viewimage.php?img=13-224638L&rand=6673&t=gif&m=12&y=2010&srv=img4

Image #2: http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/749/sqnday.gif

Image #2 (Alternate Site): http://www.glowfoto.com/static_image/13-205526L/4331/gif/12/2010/img6/glowfoto

Notice how those graphs flat-line at the top? That's because they're completely full for most of the day. If you were a Comcast customer attempting to stream Netflix via this connection, the movie would be completely unwatchable. This is how Comcast operates: They intentionally run their IP transit links so full that Content Providers have no other choice but to pay them (Comcast) for access. If you don't pay Comcast, your bits wont make it to their destination. Though they wont openly say that to anyone, the content providers who attempt to push bits towards their customers know it. Comcast customers however have no idea that they're being held hostage in order to extort money from content.

Another thing to notice is the ratio of inbound versus outbound. Since Comcast is primarily a broadband access network provider, they're going to have millions of eyeballs (users) downloading content. Comcast claims that a good network maintains a 1:1 with them, but that's simply not possible unless you had Comcast and another broadband access network talking to each other. In the attached graphs you can see the ratio is more along the lines of 5:1, which Comcast was complaining about with Level (3). The reality is that the ratio argument is bogus. Broadband access networks are naturally pull-heavy and it's being used as an excuse to call foul of Level (3) and other content heavy networks. But this shoulnd't surprise anyone, the ratio argument has been used for over a decade by many of the large telephone companies as an excuse to deny peering requests. Guess where most of Comcasts senior network executive people came from? Sprint and AT&T. Welcome to the new monopoly of the 21st century.

If you think the above graph is just a bad day or maybe a one off? Let us look at a 30 day graph...

Image #3: http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/8917/ntomonth.gif
Image #3 (Alternate Site): http://www.glowfoto.com/static_image/13-205958L/4767/gif/12/2010/img6/glowfoto

Comcast needs to be truthful with its customers, regulators and the public in general. The Level (3) incident only highlights the fact that Comcast is pinching content and backbone providers to force them to pay for uncongested access to Comcast customers. Otherwise, there's no way to send traffic to Comcast customers via the other paths on the Internet without hitting congested links.

Remember that this is not TATA's fault, Comcast is a CUSTOMER of TATA. TATA cannot force Comcast to upgrade its links, Comcast elects to simply not purchase enough capacity and lets them run full. When Comcast demanded that Level (3) pay them, the only choice Level (3) had was to give in or have its traffic (such as Netflix) routed via the congested TATA links. If Level (3) didn't agree to pay, that means Netflix and large portions of the Internet

Ever wonder what Comcast's connections to the Internet look like? In the tradition of WikiLeaks, someone stumbled upon these graphs of their TATA links. For reference, TATA is the only other IP transit provider to Comcast after Level (3). Comcast is a customer of TATA and pays them to provide them with access to the Internet.

1 day graphs:

Image #1: http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/78/ntoday.gif
Image #1 (Alternate Site): http://www.glowfoto.com/viewimage.php?img=13-224638L&rand=6673&t=gif&m=12&y=2010&srv=img4

Image #2: http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/749/sqnday.gif

Image #2 (Alternate Site): http://www.glowfoto.com/static_image/13-205526L/4331/gif/12/2010/img6/glowfoto

Notice how those graphs flat-line at the top? That's because they're completely full for most of the day. If you were a Comcast customer attempting to stream Netflix via this connection, the movie would be completely unwatchable. This is how Comcast operates: They intentionally run their IP transit links so full that Content Providers have no other choice but to pay them (Comcast) for access. If you don't pay Comcast, your bits wont make it to their destination. Though they wont openly say that to anyone, the content providers who attempt to push bits towards their customers know it. Comcast customers however have no idea that they're being held hostage in order to extort money from content.

Another thing to notice is the ratio of inbound versus outbound. Since Comcast is primarily a broadband access network provider, they're going to have millions of eyeballs (users) downloading content. Comcast claims that a good network maintains a 1:1 with them, but that's simply not possible unless you had Comcast and another broadband access network talking to each other. In the attached graphs you can see the ratio is more along the lines of 5:1, which Comcast was complaining about with Level (3). The reality is that the ratio argument is bogus. Broadband access networks are naturally pull-heavy and it's being used as an excuse to call foul of Level (3) and other content heavy networks. But this shoulnd't surprise anyone, the ratio argument has been used for over a decade by many of the large telephone companies as an excuse to deny peering requests. Guess where most of Comcasts senior network executive people came from? Sprint and AT&T. Welcome to the new monopoly of the 21st century.

If you think the above graph is just a bad day or maybe a one off? Let us look at a 30 day graph...

Image #3: http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/8917/ntomonth.gif
Image #3 (Alternate Site): http://www.glowfoto.com/static_image/13-205958L/4767/gif/12/2010/img6/glowfoto

Comcast needs to be truthful with its customers, regulators and the public in general. The Level (3) incident only highlights the fact that Comcast is pinching content and backbone providers to force them to pay for uncongested access to Comcast customers. Otherwise, there's no way to send traffic to Comcast customers via the other paths on the Internet without hitting congested links.

Remember that this is not TATA's fault, Comcast is a CUSTOMER of TATA. TATA cannot force Comcast to upgrade its links, Comcast elects to simply not purchase enough capacity and lets them run full. When Comcast demanded that Level (3) pay them, the only choice Level (3) had was to give in or have its traffic (such as Netflix) routed via the congested TATA links. If Level (3) didn't agree to pay, that means Netflix and large portions of the Internet

Ever wonder what Comcast's connections to the Internet look like? In the tradition of WikiLeaks, someone stumbled upon these graphs of their TATA links. For reference, TATA is the only other IP transit provider to Comcast after Level (3). Comcast is a customer of TATA and pays them to provide them with access to the Internet.

1 day graphs:

Image #1: http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/78/ntoday.gif
Image #1 (Alternate Site): http://www.glowfoto.com/viewimage.php?img=13-224638L&rand=6673&t=gif&m=12&y=2010&srv=img4

Image #2: http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/749/sqnday.gif

Image #2 (Alternate Site): http://www.glowfoto.com/static_image/13-205526L/4331/gif/12/2010/img6/glowfoto

Notice how those graphs flat-line at the top? That's because they're completely full for most of the day. If you were a Comcast customer attempting to stream Netflix via this connection, the movie would be completely unwatchable. This is how Comcast operates: They intentionally run their IP transit links so full that Content Providers have no other choice but to pay them (Comcast) for access. If you don't pay Comcast, your bits wont make it to their destination. Though they wont openly say that to anyone, the content providers who attempt to push bits towards their customers know it. Comcast customers however have no idea that they're being held hostage in order to extort money from content.

Another thing to notice is the ratio of inbound versus outbound. Since Comcast is primarily a broadband access network provider, they're going to have millions of eyeballs (users) downloading content. Comcast claims that a good network maintains a 1:1 with them, but that's simply not possible unless you had Comcast and another broadband access network talking to each other. In the attached graphs you can see the ratio is more along the lines of 5:1, which Comcast was complaining about with Level (3). The reality is that the ratio argument is bogus. Broadband access networks are naturally pull-heavy and it's being used as an excuse to call foul of Level (3) and other content heavy networks. But this shoulnd't surprise anyone, the ratio argument has been used for over a decade by many of the large telephone companies as an excuse to deny peering requests. Guess where most of Comcasts senior network executive people came from? Sprint and AT&T. Welcome to the new monopoly of the 21st century.

If you think the above graph is just a bad day or maybe a one off? Let us look at a 30 day graph...

Image #3: http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/8917/ntomonth.gif
Image #3 (Alternate Site): http://www.glowfoto.com/static_image/13-205958L/4767/gif/12/2010/img6/glowfoto

Comcast needs to be truthful with its customers, regulators and the public in general. The Level (3) incident only highlights the fact that Comcast is pinching content and backbone providers to force them to pay for uncongested access to Comcast customers. Otherwise, there's no way to send traffic to Comcast customers via the other paths on the Internet without hitting congested links.

Remember that this is not TATA's fault, Comcast is a CUSTOMER of TATA. TATA cannot force Comcast to upgrade its links, Comcast elects to simply not purchase enough capacity and lets them run full. When Comcast demanded that Level (3) pay them, the only choice Level (3) had was to give in or have its traffic (such as Netflix) routed via the congested TATA links. If Level (3) didn't agree to pay, that means Netflix and large portions of the Internet

And here's a picture in jpg at an image hosting mirror.

KiCad is far better than EAGLE, and it's never crashed on my computer. I used it daily in my last job, to develop real, commercial products.

Here's a USB controlled LED array I made:

Bare PCB: http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/820/pcb.png
Finished device: http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/7591/vlcsnap2010100718h10m41.png

KiCad is far better than EAGLE, and it's never crashed on my computer. I used it daily in my last job, to develop real, commercial products.

Here's a USB controlled LED array I made:

Bare PCB: http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/820/pcb.png
Finished device: http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/7591/vlcsnap2010100718h10m41.png

Here's a screengrab http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/853/fixgrab.png

Damn, there have been malicious commits already. Look what I got compiling the latest GNU Bash!
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/984/clippyinconsole.jpg

Heck, forgot Biplanes (and TeleNova Compis/CP/M Top Gun which I can't find a screenshot off :)

Anyway, point was: Graphics not resolution.