Slashdot Mirror


User: damien_kane

damien_kane's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,019
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,019

  1. Re:Looks all right on EVO Linux Gaming Console Opens Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    Every game controller outside of the Dual Shock -- including the original PSX controller -- is designed so that the primary inputs on both sides are directly under the relaxed thumb. Thus you get the face buttons on the right where they are in every controller, and the left analog stick where they are on everything that isn't a Dual Shock.

    Except that with many games on the PS3 (and many later PS2 games) the face buttons aren't the primary control buttons.
    The Triggers (L1/L2/L3, R1/R2/R3) combined with the two analogue sticks are the primary controls for most modern games.
    Try holding your Dualshock 2/3 in that configuration. I personally find it much more comfortable than the XBox/360 controllers, and the original (non-analogue) PS controllers.

    YMMV

  2. Re:off-shore power on Offshore Windpower To Potentially Exceed US Demand · · Score: 1

    While the near-shore environment is reasonably suited to cables, the cost of long distance power transmission in the deep ocean environment may be problematic.

    While I'm not countering your transmission of the power via anhydrous ammonia, who said anything about long-distance power transmission?

    The wind farms would be put on the continental shelf, within the 200 nautical mile expanse of US sovereign territory.
    230 miles isn't that far to string a few high-voltage cables.

  3. You forgot to take into consideration the scale on Offshore Windpower To Potentially Exceed US Demand · · Score: 1

    Since when is double == none?

    It's not. Considering the scale, however, and relating it to the total number of birds and small mammals, the net effect is essentially zero.

    If I make $100/day, and you make $200/day, then sure, you make double the amount of money I do in a day.
    Compare that to the GDP of the US, however, and the net effect of either or both of us losing or retaining our jobs is zero.

  4. Re:Since when does.... on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    Since when does quantum physics make something impossible? Probably never.

    To be fair, while quantum physics can make something deterministically possible (and relatively probable, at that), that same thing is quite indeterminately improbable.

  5. Re:Oh well on Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That would actually be a pretty smart thing to do...

    Step 1: Agree to pay the RIAA/MPAA's "protection" fees (retroactively, of course)
    Step 2: Agree to the deal where WB takes control of your company (both assets and liabilities)
    Step 3: Profit?!!

    (As WB now has to pay out all of it's cash-on-hand to the RIAA/MPAA)

  6. Re:it had to happen sooner or later..... on Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town · · Score: 2, Funny

    So they're the ones that blew up the propane station last year here in Toronto...

  7. Re:They've done it! on 20 Years After Cold Fusion Debut, Another Team Claims Success · · Score: 1

    Second time lucky... right? right?!?!

    I think it's more akin to:

    "Fool me once, shame on you...
    Fool me... If you fool me I can't get fooled again"

  8. Re:Myth busters episode on Spider Bite Allows Man To Walk Again · · Score: 1

    Get Kari too...

    Mmm... Kari: Naked, paralyzed, and covered with Hot Grits

  9. Re:To nitpick on Computer Science Major Is Cool Again · · Score: 1

    I doubt anyone is simplifying the tax code anytime soon.

    Why not?

    It's the complex tax code, full of all of its loopholes and niches to hide money in, that got all the $BIGMONEY$ players screwed over in the first place, thereby screwing over everyone else when $BIGGOV$ steps in to save them all.

  10. Re:Mod parent young! on Brain Decline Begins At Age 27 · · Score: 2, Funny

    He may of course also be a girl...

    Wouldn't that make the comment, and all of his/her children, cease to exist? This is /., girls don't exist here ; ;

    But then, of course, the fact that this post, my parent post, and all of the (uncle/aunt?^H^H^HOther Child-) posts exist, proves that he is not a girl.

    There's no reason, however, that your pigtail comment need not apply, it could very well still be valid

  11. Re:Bad Headline on Use Your iPhone To Get Out of a Ticket · · Score: 1

    Or, we Canadians...

    (Not to be confused with wee Canadians, although they would work too)

  12. Re:Parking tickets on Use Your iPhone To Get Out of a Ticket · · Score: 1

    Jurys don't decide punishment. They only decide guilt. Sentencing is handled by the Judge, only once guilt has been affirmed by said jury.

  13. Re:Parking tickets on Use Your iPhone To Get Out of a Ticket · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to your Bill of Rights, any American Citizen can request trial by a jury of their peers when the amount in question is in excess of $20.00.

    Granted, that $20.00 was worth a lot more when the bill was passed, and any jury that got pulled from work to try your parking ticket is going to be pissed (good luck finding an unbiased group), but you do have the federally mandated right to do so.

  14. Re:Note to self on Wife of Harried Pirate Bay Witness Gets Buried in Internet Love · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Ponders", "punders", "punts-her"; who's to argue semantics?

  15. So in the next Tomb Raider... on Square Enix To Buy Eidos, Midway Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 2, Funny

    It will be revealed that Lara is actually a man...

    They'll only take away half of her cup-size, though.
    As we all know, SE only makes male leads (except in the craptastic FFX-2), but they all look like girls

  16. Re:suddenoutbreakofcommonsense on Cambridge, Mass. Moves To Nix Security Cameras · · Score: 1

    Your analogy would work if, before forcing everyone to contribute to the payment of your $50,000 car, the person selling you the car was forced to drop the price to $6. Who's stupid now? The people that get the government to pay $6 to ensure their health? Or the ones who shell out $50,000 because the people selling the treatment (not the cure, that's not cost-effective) want to charge exhorbitant rates?

  17. Re:Not that hard. on The Tech Behind Preventing Airplane Bird Strikes · · Score: 1

    In your calculations, take careful note of the trajectory of the engine as it breaks loose from the wing and brings half the wing with it. :-D

    As long as your name isn't Donnie Darko, you should be OK.

  18. Re:How soon until... on "Nuclear Archaeology" Inspires Replica of Hiroshima's Little Boy · · Score: 1

    If you're going to quote the mayor of Pompei, at least give proper attribution.

    Why?
    What's he going to do, sue me?

  19. Re:Well. on Microsoft 'Vista Capable' Settlement Cost Could Be Over $8 Billion · · Score: 1

    If I go into best buy and buy a PC on the consideration that the clerk said it'll run Photoshop CS4, but it won't, should Adobe then be responsible for buying me a new computer so that I can run their software?
    No.

    Had I already bought CS4, they should provide a free downgrade to CS2 or 3 that will run, but no hardware should be surprised.
    It's my own fault for buying the lesser hardware.

    Same deal with MS... Provide a XP license and install media, perhaps even a rebate of the difference between a Vista license and an XP license, and let the consumer deal with their OEM supplier with respect to "being cheated" on their hardware purchase.

  20. Re:Worth a read - interesting article on Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump · · Score: 1

    The other 0.04% is other isotopes of Plutonium.
    Plutonium doesn't decay into more plutonium, so the relative purity of the plutonium itself is unchanged, once the decay products are removed.

    Iron coated in Iron Oxide (rust) is still Iron if you grind off the rust.

  21. Re:Yay DRM on Sniping Could Be the Next Killer iPod App · · Score: 1

    While you may not be able to borrow ammunition from other snipers, at least you can share it wirelessly (albeit spent rounds, but shared nonetheless)

  22. Re:hmmmm on Pushing 800W of Wireless Power at 5 Meters · · Score: 2, Funny

    As opposed to non-radioactive radiation?

    Yes, non-radioactive like the radiation of heat from the ductwork in your house on a cold day, or from the side of an older toaster. Perhaps non-radioactive like the radiation of visible light from a fluorescent or incandescent light bulb. Radiation is just transmission of energy. It is not always due to radioactive decay.

  23. Re:2 Elephants in the Room on Supreme Court To Rule On TV Censorship · · Score: 1

    I'd actually go so far as to say that the latter phrase was more disrespectful than simply "Fuck off!".

    "I find your dabbling in my affairs to be inexcusable and demand that you desist. I don't care if you are my parent." is incredibly arrogant and condescending, in my opinion.
    If all of your children speak nothing but Her Majesty's English in accordance with proper style and grammar, then the latter would be fine. In most households, though, this would be so far from the common vernacular that it is now the more vulgar approach.

    I'm not in any way an expert with respect to the English language, however. Your opinions may differ.

  24. Re:That's an easy one! on Why Don't We Invent That Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    At least you know exactly when the earth will be swinging by to pick you up...

    All you have to do now is survive the week

  25. Re:Menacing?? on Voice Chat Can Really Kill the Mood · · Score: 1

    "LEEEERRROOOYYYY JEEENNNKKIIIINNSS" does, though, doesn't it?

    Damn lameness filter, not letting me all-caps.
    I know it's yelling.. that's the point