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  1. Re:Not fixed in 7 years: The Firefox CPU hogging b on Google Releases Chrome V2.0 · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you had that by setting someone to "Foe" and then setting "Foe" to "-10 points" and viewing at +1.

    But /. developers have given the interface a good AJAXing and now I can't find the settings.

  2. Re:RDP on Using 1 Gaming Computer For 2 People? · · Score: 1

    How about both games running in windowed mode?

    Thou. you would still have the issue with different controllers to solve.

  3. Re:good gnus on Duke Nukem For Never · · Score: 1

    but at the expense of a bug in the game engine being able to write over kernel data and potentially write nonsense all over your hard drive.

    But how did the Spore installer work then?

  4. Re:Intentional Inefficiency? on Duke Nukem For Never · · Score: 1

    great not get. I really must learn to read what I write.

  5. Re:Intentional Inefficiency? on Duke Nukem For Never · · Score: 1

    In The Pit did get work with the Doom 3 lighting system.

  6. Re:Take-Two won't do the right thing. on Duke Nukem For Never · · Score: 1

    I hope they release each of the unfinished versions. It would be cool to see the directions it took over the years.

  7. Re:God uses Linux, Linux implies !C64 on Duke Nukem For Never · · Score: 1

    Linux or a free UNIX-em-up? as all I can find is LUnix.

  8. Re:Police State on UK Government Plans 10-Year Database of Citizens' Travel · · Score: 1

    Computerised records of all 250 million journeys made by individuals in and out of the UK each year will be kept for up to 10 years.

    will be a travel permit. Papers please

    Like a passport?

  9. Re:Police State on UK Government Plans 10-Year Database of Citizens' Travel · · Score: 1

    From The Fucking Article:

    Similar schemes run in the US, Spain and Canada

  10. Not so sure on Ubisoft Expecting New Consoles By 2012 · · Score: 1

    Nintendo often drag stuff out. I think it will release a "Wii Tiny" and "Wii With Integrated Whats-It" and "Wii With Integrated Whats-It, but in pink. You need to buy it again" and no games will require the newer Wii, but fan boys will buy them anyway.
    Sony will shrink the PS3. Maybe shrink it some more and release it in pink with a special, but completely pointless port. Fireware or USB3 or two DVI ports. A few games will use them, but the games will still run on older PS3s.

    Microsoft have only released two consoles (and no handhelds) up to now so I don't think you can put too much stock on the previous release schedule. I'd guess they will go down the same route, and not release 360+1 until they know that that the PS4 is well under development.

  11. Re:mii in GTA? on Game Devs Warming Up To More Mature-Rated Games On the Wii · · Score: 1

    Excluding Mii family-base hookers, that would so rock.

  12. Re:wow on If Programming Languages Were Religions · · Score: 1

    Which Queen? Then English one? If so then you are way off base. For a start you would have no violence, the most you would have would be an upset letter in the Daily Mail.
    The "moderate English" would either laugh (if it was a funny joke made at HM expense) or ignore it completely.

    I have seen cartoons of the Pope (and the Queen) in papers. Nothing has happened in either case.

    The Jerry Springer Opera took some quite offensive digs at Christianity from what I understand. It was broadcasted on the BBC. The results: "Hundreds of Christian protesters rallied outside BBC buildings before and during the broadcast on BBC Two." Quite far off demanding someones head.

  13. Does anyone who is not MS use this? on Silverlight On the Way To Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've not seen any Silverlight outside a MS product.

  14. Re:Supreme Commander on Square Enix Announces Supreme Commander 2 · · Score: 1

    I'd not take that as a rush. To me rushing is more T1 spam. Which is what most of the online games I've played turned into. IMO T1 spam is just not fun.

  15. Re:Supreme Commander on Square Enix Announces Supreme Commander 2 · · Score: 1

    Depends on how formal you take "No Rush". We never have the No Rush option ticked, just a gentleman's agreement that none of us would spam units in early game.

  16. Re:Supreme Commander on Square Enix Announces Supreme Commander 2 · · Score: 1

    Aye it did not. Online the game was simple - Who rushed who first.

    Against friends, when you could build in some extra "this makes the game fun" type rules it is a great game.

  17. Hit it with a hammer on (Useful) Stupid BlackBerry Tricks? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then jump on it.

  18. Re:Actively screw up their plan. on UK Outlines Plan For Internet Black Boxes · · Score: 1

    Why go with commons words? Al-Jazeera, islam and howto bomb would give much better stats.

  19. Re:What is it? on Amazon Beefs Up Its Cloud Ahead of MS Announcement · · Score: 1

    I'd take scalability to be a key aspect of "cloud", regardless of what Wiki thinks. Both Google and Amazon seam too as well. Else it really is just a VPS.

    But then I also take Web 2.0 to mean "poorly defined buzzwords" (among some less kind meanings)

  20. Re:What is it? on Amazon Beefs Up Its Cloud Ahead of MS Announcement · · Score: 1

    I think pricing generally differs on "cloud" based systems. With VPS you pay per instance per month with cloud it is instance per minute or request.
    Amazon (and I'd guess others) also have APIs for starting and stopping instances. I've not come across a VPS that does this (but I've never really looked) but this is down to pricing, why stop something that will cost you £50 a month regardless.

  21. Re:What is it? on Amazon Beefs Up Its Cloud Ahead of MS Announcement · · Score: 1

    Virtualization on someone elses kit where you only pay when your VM is active (where the definition of "active" is different on different "Cloud" venders).

    The idea is Google/Amazon/whoever have lots and lots of hardware. You are too cheap/small to buy your own. Buying a single VPS will still be just a single VPS when you get slashdotted. But with a "Cloud" based system you can start up a new instance of your server when you get to 90% usage on your primary one and then shut it down when the load drops. (I think Google handle all this differently, Amazon uses straight VPSes, Google has a load of web servers running Python or Ruby or the like so you don't need to start extra instances - it just scales)

  22. Re:Space Elevator Music on Japanese Begin Working On Space Elevator · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hentai. So five year olds. If you are lucky five year olds with big fake plastic breasts.

    No thanks.

  23. Buy a PDA/Phone? on Fast-Booting Text-Editor Operating System? · · Score: 1

    A good one with a keyboard.

  24. Re:Slashdot filters need revision! on Scrabulous Is Dead, Hasbro's Version Brain-Dead · · Score: 1

    New stuff rarely kills old stuff, or books would be gone. And radio.

    All have a place in the world. Esp. "real world" tools.

  25. Re:Wait, CCTV owners? on An Imaginative Use For CCTVs · · Score: 1

    Shop/bank owners, local councel, who ever local councel pays to operate them.