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  1. Re:I don't want VR entertainment on Ars: Samsung Gear VR Is Today's Best Virtual Reality · · Score: 1

    there's no need for that. "vr" works just fine for sitting on the couch with gamepad in hand. it's just a more immersive display, there's no fundamental need to only use it with treadmills and all other kind of silly shit that non gamers seem to dream up.

    the best game expriences I had with the ver 1 oculus were mouse and keyboard games. official tf2 (at least the first patches for it) fucked it up by tying up/down looking into the head movement - WHO THE FUCK CAN PLAY A MATCH LIKE THAT?

    that(mouse controlling _where you look_ while you just sit on your fat ass) playing(and no it's not more disorienting than watching a screen playing fps) and joystick games are the way to go with it (you know, flying etc, where the vehicle itself has a natural "forward".

    then there's pure noninteractive entertainment which works okay and again gives you a big field of view without actually having to have 3 curved displays costing an arm and a leg.. and you can sit on the couch while looking at that, or lie in the bed, whatever.

    the walking around shit is highly overhyped and that's done by people who are not big into gaming. those who are big into gaming understand that playing 4-8 hours of jumping around would be prety shitty in the long literal run... and much less feasible. and would need a bigger space.

    also, I wouldn't watch anything 3d with a regular 3d tv, but on goggles it works okay.

  2. Re:It's a feature -- duh. on Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug Or a Feature? · · Score: 1

    well the game shouldn't have needed to restrict them to acceptable solutions.

    but the problem is it seems the game mostly doesn't have acceptable solutions.

  3. Re:GearVR _is_ Oculus VR technology! on Ars: Samsung Gear VR Is Today's Best Virtual Reality · · Score: 1

    yeah it sounds some asshat just wrote the blurb without following any of the story for the past year.

    next month he'll write about the revolutionary google solution....

  4. Re:SimCity 2000 available for free on Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug Or a Feature? · · Score: 1

    it wastes your time.
    and it's named after a company that published good games.

    it's extra shit you need to install to play.. same bin as uplay and all the other shit.

  5. Re:Not the same use cases on PHP vs. Node.js: the Battle For Developer Mind Share · · Score: 1

    there's already too many nodejs toolsets.

    ends up with plenty of bloat with everyone on the project losing scope of where stuff happens...

    though, node is pretty nice for plenty of stuff. certainly far better than php for just about everything, unless you're a php only coder... if you're the sort of who just used php, the rails or whatever and autocreated mostly everything then yeah there's that too for node.js. don't know why you would want that though in the modern world. most projects use frameworks for the sake of using a framework as if that made everything better when in fact it's quite shitty when you have something railsesque sitting between your client(browser) and database for no good reason at all.

    "what format does the multipart upload be in? what changed in the server? " "I don't know, it just appears here on the ruby script magically, I think you need [] in the filename".

  6. Re:How very nice for them. on Silicon Valley's Quest To Extend Life 'Well Beyond 120' · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't know about you..

    but one of the greatest things about the modern age is the considerable technlogically amplified pleasure(entertainment, learning, naked pics) that are available to everyone even if you're a slob working for 5 bucks a day in Asia.

    and hey, cheap sparkling wine ain't so bad either... the difference between having money today and 130 years ago is pretty big. if you didn't have big money then you had no chance of tasting sparkling wine.. even the cheap kind. or communicating on some online forum for that matter. think about it this way, no matter how much money you have your nethack or slashdot experience will be exactly the same.

  7. Re:Schedule D?! on Intuit Charges More For Previously Offered TurboTax Features, Users Livid · · Score: 1

    it's still forty bucks you know.

    unless the program somehow shows you how to deduct it from your taxes..

  8. Re:$1 million? on Silicon Valley's Quest To Extend Life 'Well Beyond 120' · · Score: 1

    oh they're putting more than 1 million.. it's just that these particular charlatans managed to only find 1 million for this prize - which is meaningless anyways considering the worth of the invention would be much more.

    but 1 million is small enough that they'll get new age charlatans up the wazoos trying to claim it with all kinds of diets and other shit. never mind that proving it working obviously takes quite a lot of time, so I suppose the prize might be claimable if you just make some worms live 12x the expected time - that while it has no real impact on any donators life span might still justifiable for the 1M price

  9. Re:Pro- vs Re- on Do We Need Regular IT Security Fire Drills? · · Score: 1

    well but if your "proactive" is doing a fake reactive to the point of doing a "forensics investigation"*... then you're just playing games.

    *imagine doing a fake murder investigation at work and invading everyone's privacy in the process in the way a real investigation would do..

  10. Re:Won't be as big an impact as predicted on The Next Decade In Storage · · Score: 1

    sure it matters. ...that is if they get it scaled to the promised level of replacing ram and hd with this for cheaper.

    surely you would't mind having just 1 tb of what was essentially ram that didn't get wiped if you lost power? but of course, that has to wait until they can produce the thing.. even if that was supposed to be 4 years ago.

  11. Re:God-damn. on Rare Recalled NES Game Stadium Events On Ebay For $99,000 · · Score: 1

    actually, it just depends on what the guy receiving the 100k does with it. maybe he spends it on a charity.

    maybe.

    you see, regardless of that transaction the 100k is still viable to end up at a charity.

    (if he actually just gets that money for it anyways).

    (cheerios aren't that cheap, if you eat them as meals).

  12. look, if it's not offending anyone then it doesn't need freedom of speech protection now does it? nobody cares about stuff that nobody cares about.

    thing with stingy satire is that it will always STING SOMEONE.

    all it takes is for the government to decide that saying it's policies are bad "incites hatred" you know. that's the situation in Thailand now(no really, press is forbidden from saying 'bad' stuff because it 'causes conflict'). what that bad stuff is well, it's not explained, except that explaining why the current policies could be bad for the nation is of course 'bad'.

    and damn well the protection of free speech should mean that you can say anything you want without legal consequences - and despite whatever you say you should still be legally protected from harm, like everyone else. now if some people in your community dislike you for saying shit you say, that's entirely up to them, but that doesn't give them permission to attack you through illegal means.

  13. Re: No such thing in real gambling on Researchers "Solve" Texas Hold'Em, Create Perfect Robotic Player · · Score: 1

    uh sure if the "pro" knew what the robot held in hand.

    knowing what the robot will do when it has certain pair of cards in hand vs. knowing what pair of cards he robot has in hand from seeing what the robot will do.

    especially with limit poker. there's not that many things the robot can do.

  14. Re:russia is devolving on Russia Says Drivers Must Not Have "Sex Disorders" To Get License · · Score: 1

    actually the real deterrent is that if you invaded, you would need to take care of the russian common folk.

    there's a 833 mile border between Russia and Finland. one thing russians are good at is keeping the russians on the russian side of the border...

  15. Re:They (well some of them) are mental disorders on Russia Says Drivers Must Not Have "Sex Disorders" To Get License · · Score: 2

    well, if your blond hair and tendency to draw satire is under control, then it's not a disorder that you're a blond satire cartoonist.

  16. Re:Pedophiles on Russia Says Drivers Must Not Have "Sex Disorders" To Get License · · Score: 1

    they don't drive, they have drivers - and escorts. and not just the escorts of the call girl variety, but like, 3 G mercs. because, you know, it's Russia. Plenty of the Russian elite emigrate just to feel safe.

  17. Re:It may not be a lie. on Canadian Copyright Notice-and-Notice System: Citing False Legal information · · Score: 1

    they're using canadian law in order to send those notices.
    so they're agreeing to act under that law - or face other potential consequences for not acting in good faith etc.

    of course, you can never trust the bastards. then there's double jeopardy and what have you - not that it would stop the bastards from trying.

    if you murder someone in, say, Finland, sure I victims family can sue you in USA civil court but that does go against internationally established practices(damages and such to affected would be handled by the Finnish court as standing practice).

    furthermore, they still wouldn't be able to cut the isp access from the accused..

  18. Re:How is it not the best in this case? on First OSX Bootkit Revealed · · Score: 1

    being able to do it remote or "just by plugging in an usb stick" requires the machine to be up and running.

    big difference.

  19. Re:Can they do it? on BlackBerry's Survival Plan: the Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    well apparently it was real easy for them to reposition qnx from "king of embedded" to an also-ran for IoT.

    frankly speaking, qnx is unnecessary for IoT and if it comes with a licensing cost.. .. would you choose it? it's not like you have to have it.

  20. Re:Can see this in tourist boulevards or retirees on Ford Touts Self-driving Car, Launches Global Mobility Experiments · · Score: 1

    doesn't make sense. you can see it being operated in the exact places where unexpected is to be happening and where a human could react fast enough due to slow speeds.

    it's not dense traffic where you would want it. it's the highway. when you're going 80mph the car can react faster than you in a meaningful way(to a moose, a stopping truck or whatever).

  21. Re:question on White House Responds To Petition To Fire Aaron Swartz's Prosecutor · · Score: 1

    zero?

    you know why? because it's not an appropriate forum for them ;DDD.

  22. Re:Laywood on Hands On With MakerBot's 3D-Printed Wood · · Score: 1

    the carbon/glass fibers are chopped up to be smaller in length than the printer orifice. they do however help the structure in layer bonding(small parts of the fibers end up crossing the layer lines(the layer that the next layer is getting laid on does melt slightly when the next layer is extruded on it, making the whole fdm process feasible) and some other properties.

    so it's short chopped fibers, not one length of it (that would make moving from place to place harder, clog up the nozzle etc).

    the wood fills are basically sawdust, and in that the filler is for feel and appearance mostly(and well, it affects the heat shrink a little bit too).

  23. Re:Laywood on Hands On With MakerBot's 3D-Printed Wood · · Score: 1

    laywood has a bad rep for jamming extruders...

    what you can try is quitar string(small) and push it to the nozzle when the nozzle is hot.

    another thing, if you remove the nozzle you can torch it(high temp torch).

    5th gen has a jam detection system built in, but it's so buggy and badly done it's worthless. for earlier rep1/and rep2 there's an aftermarket filament jam/no-feeding detector and support in the sailfish firmware for that.

  24. not that scam, a different scam on Porn Companies Are Going After GitHub · · Score: 4, Insightful

    this is a scam done to the porn companies, not to the illegal downloaders.

    the way the scam works is that they contact the porn company and say "hey we can takedown things from google for you" and then they just run a lazy google search, send google some dmca notices based on that lazy search(without verifying, or attempting even to verify the urls) and bill the porn company based on how many links were removed(this is where the lazy search turns into a payoff for the company - they do have an incentive to send too many notices! they're not billing by quality but by quantity).

    nevermind that it does nothing to stop the downloading of the stuff(you'll go to the torrent site anyways and search on that torrent site, circumventing the google in that regard).

  25. sue them. on Porn Companies Are Going After GitHub · · Score: 1

    eventually someone will.

    because they don't have the rights to the shit they claim to have the rights to.

    like, they don't think at all. basically running a google search on the word EDGE and banning that comes out. like what the fuck!