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  1. I think it pertinent on Taser International Sues Second Life Creator Over Virtual Replicas · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ....that I had absolutely no idea there was such a company, and have thought for at least 15 years that "taser" was a generic term.

  2. Re:In other words on What Would It Look Like To Fall Into a Black Hole? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I can report with certainty that this was rendered (or at least CAN be rendered) on a modern laptop; I attended Professor Hamilton's course on Black Holes in which he used the Black Hole Simulator. It ran at this quality in real-time (including changing angles, time dilation, and different types of black holes) on a 2005 Alienware laptop running Gentoo.

  3. Well... on Console Download Speeds Tested · · Score: 1

    I suppose this could have been a more useless article...if perhaps it was spread across multiple pages in classic C|net style.

    I don't own any of the current-gen consoles, so perhaps someone could clue us in: are there serious frustrations with downloading content on the Wii, or for that matter any of the other consoles? I could see how there might be, depending on the way the content is actually delivered.

  4. Re:good idea, maybe the island is to small for it on Magnetic Levitating Trains Get Go-Ahead In Japan · · Score: 1

    Believe it or not, the idea of loaning the US money has been floating around the upper echelons of Japanese government. You should get +1 "Unintentionally accurate."

  5. Re:I really hate Nintendo as a company... on Nintendo DSi Software Will Be Region Locked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Simple, Nintendo is, in the groupthink, one of the companies that can do no wrong.

  6. Re:A new age of micro-transactions? on South Korea's Free Computer Game Business Model Hits the US · · Score: 1

    One might note that Nexon, the company in question, also published MapleStory.

  7. Re:Sweet! on Japan To Get 1Gbps Home Fiber Connections · · Score: 2, Funny

    They have their own slashdot for that.
    Ironically, this isn't a front page story on slashdot.jp.

  8. Theremin comparisons aside.... on Turn an iPhone Into a Pocket Theremin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The way this app is designed, it seems, you have the ability to "perform music using different musical scales." Therefore, this "instrument" has a much lower barrier of entry than a theremin, because it requires much less exactness to play in a way that -sounds good-.

    Of course, it's also possible that the person in the video is just the best Cosmovox player that will ever live and has been practicing for months, but I suppose the world may never know.

  9. The thing... on The Tell-All Campus Tour · · Score: 1

    ...about sites like this is that while they may tell you as much as a student guidebook, they don't tell you the really important things about a college any more than a guidebook will.

    Further, the thing about any college-related media (everything from campus guidebooks to side-columns in 4th rate magazines to facebook groups) is that there's no such thing as "Tell-all" when it comes to college. Sites like these cater to the same types of people who look at Top 10 lists to decide which college to go to.
    Of course, maybe I'm just bitter at this point...

    I have little patience for slow, clunky websites, and whether it's slashdot's fault or not, this just isn't up to par.

  10. Faster = more memory? on Revamped WebKit JavaScript Engine Doubles In Speed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One of the things we've seen in the past few releases of any browser is that new features seem to increase the already monumental footprint of current web browsers. As far as I've seen, JIT compilers use a whole freaking lot of memory. While I suppose this is acceptable for the whole "Web 2.0 means the web is the only useful thing on your PC!" crowd, I'd like to have a few (3 or 4)browser tabs open while I'm playing a game, for example, without the browser killing my gaming experience.

  11. Or.... on Cisco To Buy Jabber · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I think the real question is not whether Jabber's open-source status will be impacted, but whether Cisco will try to be all redactive and decide that the open source licensing of current and previous versions of jabber (which for most people works perfectly well as it is) are unforkable and/or non-distributable.