Slashdot Mirror


User: Holammer

Holammer's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
120
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 120

  1. Why bother? on Pornhub Hasn't Been Actively Enforcing Its Deepfake Ban (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In a foreseeable future people will have the CPU crunch and software to render deepfake in real-time. ... on a phone!

  2. This is going to a upend a lot of fiction. on DNA From Ancient Egyptian Mummies Reveals Their Ancestry (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But the memes will live on.

  3. Gorbachev Sings Tractors: Turnip! Buttocks!

  4. on this site, in 1989, nothing happened on Beijing Said Facebook and Google Are Welcome Back To China as Long as They 'Respect China's Laws' (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    New search result when you google 'Tiananmen Square'. If they accept.

  5. Laugh all you want, but we have to discuss this. on Greece's Former Finance Minister Explains Why A Universal Basic Income Could Save Us (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1

    Just imagine how hard the transport sector alone will be hit by layoffs in the coming decades. A quick peak reveals that transportation currently employs 7.4% of the American population. What if they fire 50% of the work force due to increased automation? Or worse.
    Politicians may stall the inevitable by restricting progress to save jobs, but we know it will get to a point where human error is so unacceptable that insurance firms will demand it.

  6. Kids these days! on French Killers Inspired By Breaking Bad TV Show · · Score: 1

    Back in my days we used to wrap the bodies in chicken wire with some stones and dump them in the deep ends of rivers.

  7. The trick... on Douglas Williams Pleads Guilty To Training Customers To Beat Polygraph · · Score: -1

    Is apparently to clench your anus while you lie.
    now read me my rights pig!

  8. So, how about a Sims clone Paradox? on SimCity's Empire Has Fallen and Skylines Is Picking Up the Pieces · · Score: 1

    With Steam workshop support?
    https://youtu.be/u6u88JeFY9g?t...

  9. Steam User Score beats traditional scores on Are Review Scores Pointless? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Steam User Score is currently my most trusted metric for how good a game is, something which is considered "overwhelmingly positive" with a couple thousand user reviews is usually a worthy purchase.
    For non-steam users, imagine Metacritic except you can only submit your score/review if you own the actual game and it's either thumbs up or down.

  10. How about XBMC? on Hackers Leak Xbox One SDK Claiming Advancement In Openness and Homebrew · · Score: 1

    I know a lot of people that would buy an Xbone right away if they could install that.

  11. What if... on Hawking Warns Strong AI Could Threaten Humanity · · Score: 1

    AI and the technological singularity gives way to a 40k style Machine God.

  12. Re:I could make a fortune on Microsoft Tip Leads To Child Porn Arrest In Pennsylvania · · Score: 1

    It only takes a minute to make your own, besides, the ones you're selling are probably bogus ones developed by the NSA with backdoors for mind reading.

  13. Re:consent on In 2012, Facebook Altered Content To Tweak Readers' Emotions · · Score: 2

    Ethics board must be a bunch of chimps. It's not Little Albert, but then again, it's on such a massive scale with 700k users. What if someone committed suicide because this manipulation?

  14. Re:ZOMG PANIC! on Sony Overtakes Rival Nintendo In Console Sales · · Score: 1

    Even if Mario Kart sells well and gets some machines off the shelf, it's not like 3rd party developers will experience a moment of epiphany and line up up to produce exclusive triple A titles for the system. Where did this 'wunderwaffe' type of thinking come from?

    I can't imagine some soulless CEO of EA slamming his desk, denouncing Sony/MS and rushing over to Japan to give Iwata a teary-eyed congratulatory blowjob because MK8 sold so well.

  15. Never heard this. on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 1

    Never heard anyone say this "in the wild", neither did I ever come across a single person that got confused by Wii and WiiU.
    This looks like something marketing and spin doctors would come up with.

  16. Re:Mild banana and clove ? - seriously ? on Klingon Beer · · Score: 1

    CBS and the FDA might have a shit fit if you use blood innit. :)

  17. Being a misantrhope is hard. on Popularity On Facebook Makes People Think You're Attractive · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have a *very* rare name/surname combination, so I'm easy to find, or at least I would be if I had a Facebook account, which I don't.
    So I've had two employers ask me why they can't find anything about me on Google/Facebook, one of them even asked me straight up if I had served time in prison. So I'm not surprised by the findings, at all.

  18. No on The Surprising Second Life of the PlayStation Vita · · Score: -1

    Just smother it with a pillow and put it out of its misery. Cross-platform support and Indie games won't save it.

  19. Win8 upgrade did the same. on Apple Converting Trial and Pirated iWork, iLife and Aperture To Full Versions · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I bought Win8 using a pirated Win7. I suspect MS turned a blind eye as well, as my poorly cracked copy constantly nagged about being counterfeit software etc.

  20. Re:Let's first define shovelware on Can Nintendo Survive Gaming's Brave New World? · · Score: 1

    I like the Urban Dictionary definition. It's descriptive and succinct
    "1. Software that is hastily made, without proper testing, and 'shoveled' down consumers throats in order to make some quick cash. "

    We've had them since time immemorial. Indeed, in the past the precursors of LJN sold cheap chess boards made out of clay, straw and cow dung when real developers used hard wood or ivory.

  21. Re:Yes, They Can on Can Nintendo Survive Gaming's Brave New World? · · Score: 1

    Blaming it on the name... It's a factor but it's not the entire explanation.
    Yes, Nintendo will sell a decent amount of machines whenever they unleash their eagerly awaited first party titles, that's basically Nintendo's own analysis and that's the problem. They're going to sell millions of Zelda/Mario/Kart/Smash Bros, but third party developers get to eat shit and nobody will have the confidence to develop proper games for the system apart from shovelware and some token conversions of 360/PS3 games.
    At this rate Wii U will have the worst third party library since the Wii and N64. They're lucky they have strong handhelds to keep 'em alive.

  22. I just updated to 8.1 on Windows 8.1 Rolls Out Today · · Score: 1

    After it finishes updating you *have* to create a Live account. This was not required before so I set my birthdate to 1905 and name/surname to fückoffwanker. Choke on it Microsoft! I hope I can contribute in some small way by poisoning your data gathering algorithms.
    Looking at the interface, I feel like I gained nothing from this except for multi-coloured metro tiles and a useless start button. Amusingly the system pre-installed a health app on the metro interface. Makes sense for a 108 year old.

    I'm only putting up with this shit because of games, help me Gabe Newell, you're my only hope!

  23. Re:Tradtional arcade fight stick games? on Valve Announces Steam Controller · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the xbox controller, as I use a PS3 pad which works nicely. Not as good as a proper arcade joystick, but passable. Heck, SF2 was really playable on the SNES pad once you broke it in.

  24. Tradtional joypad games? on Valve Announces Steam Controller · · Score: 2

    How do I play Street Fighter or any traditional joypad game on that thing? I don't want to dismiss it out of hand, but I have serious doubts.
    It might actually be a better joypad for console fps gaming, but unless I see good TF2 YTbers like shibby2142 praising the pad and pulling off rocket jumps while shovelling people with ease... I'll stick to kb+m.

  25. Developers will abandon kinect now! on Microsoft: Xbox One Won't Require Kinect To Function · · Score: 1

    Nah... I doubt they ever wanted or intended to develop for it to begin with. Some MS first party titles will have it shoehorned into them; but most games, even the vast majority of games will remain multi platform, so putting in kinect functionality is a wasted effort. Just like PS Move, SixAxis or Wiiu Pad support.