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RC Battleship Combat

Tuna_Shooter writes "For you war buffs... These people have a LOT of free time on their collective hands...." I thought Slashdot had done a story on this hobby, but I don't see it in the archives. The RCWarships site is probably the best place to start.

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  1. Oh no! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My car won't start!!!

  2. Dammit.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You sunk my destroyer.

    I hate when that happens.

    *down with the ship*

  3. Re:Sad news ... Stephen King dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't forget to update your subject line tomorrow ... It's his 55th birthday.

    Happy Birthday Stephen!

  4. Already Slashdotted. by breon.halling · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hope their server will to live fight again another day. ;)

    --
    "Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
  5. *BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

    Fact: *BSD is dying

  6. Re:Ugh, popup laced website. by erik+umenhofer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ha! that's cool! What's worse, pop-ups or goat.cx

  7. Stephen King was a great writer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He entertained many. It will be sad to see hime go. :-(

  8. Re:Bismark sunk by 8-year-old Timmy by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Haha this is great, mod this up

    --

    In Soviet America the banks rob you!
  9. Re:uh... this is a dupe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    chicken or the egg?!

  10. good, i'm so sick of stephen king.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ..dying every fucking week several times here on slashdot. just watch.. one day he WILL die and then it will be even funnier.

    1. Re:good, i'm so sick of stephen king.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      glad to see this not modded down i got taken in last week by obfuscation

  11. Re:Ugh, popup laced website. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    using ie or something? i don't see any popups...

  12. Re:Heh, it'd be fun to shoot the driver by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    jimmy g jimmyg- hey i don't know you!

  13. Re:Hmmmm. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    holy shit. that would be something. wooT!

    ps, first post?

  14. AMEN!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Take me to the Lord now, brother... for I am much hungered for the holy manchode meal, and I must eat.

  15. GET THE POPUP ADD FILTER by danny256 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you can still use IE and no popups
    i'm not posting a link, look it up yourself
    here's the cd key anyway: MP739343291188802719
    changed my life