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  1. Re:My doubts about VR on Valve Prepping Source 2 Engine For VR · · Score: 1

    Camera on the front, adjustable transparent real-world overlay?

    Wheel + switch on the side for a) virtual only, b) blended via wheel, c) real world only?

  2. Re:Looked into it for a friend's build on AMD's Kaveri APU Debuts With GCN-based Radeon Graphics · · Score: 3, Informative

    And they have spoken a bit of using both the integrated GPU and a discrete graphics card in tandem, similar to using two GPUs in Crossfire, but they haven't released the drivers for it, nor listed which cards will work, and the card they chose to demo it with was their bottom-end graphics card.

    That's not very truthy:
    http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/dual-graphics/pages/dual-graphics.aspx#3

  3. Played It on 2-D MMOG Glitch Released Completely Into the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Game left a big "?" as to why one would wish to play it.

  4. Re:the video was spectacular on Stunning Time Lapse of the Earth From the ISS · · Score: 1

    This is so beautiful, it hurts.

  5. Re:Thanks for all the Fish Wrapper on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I spent many a night in college reading Slashdot instead of doing coursework. At work instead of being productive, I read Slashdot and Fark, then Slashdot and Digg, now Slashdot and Reddit... well, you get the idea.

    I keep coming back for the comments and the people, trolls and all. Who hasn't wanted to flamebait every now and then? So from this little karma-moderated corner of the Internet, thanks. I eventually got my own Beowulf cluster thanks to you slags.

    -theGreater.

  6. Re:Explosion on Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan · · Score: 3, Informative

    Video of the explosion and ensuing steam cloud: http://youtu.be/DHfR_wybvw0

  7. Re:Workaround, yeah on Intel Talks 1000-Core Processors · · Score: 1

    Now, if I could get one with over 1TB of RAM installed too, then I'd be in business.

    If you're serious about this and your time is worth enough money, try a Dell r910 with 48 threads, 1TB of RAM, and 16 SSDs. More than enough PCIe I/O to add in a bunch of GPU's.

  8. Re:Vertical Tabs on Google Starts Charging a Signup Fee For Chrome Extension Developers · · Score: 1

    Prototype vertical tabs are enabled on Windows -- not sure about OSX or Linux. I'm on the dev schedule release, and I can just r-click and select "use side tabs". But as I said, prototype: no indentation, no tree collapse, and they open above instead of below your current tab.

  9. Re:radiation and solar flares a serious problem on When On the Moon and Mars, Move Underground · · Score: 1

    Orbital laser / microwave. Easy to drive on crude fused glass.

  10. Re:"Multi-breasted female figure" on Newton's Apple Story Goes Online · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursa_Major#Mythology

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis#Artemis_as_the_Lady_of_Ephesus

    Short version -- Artemis as the Lady of Ephesus was depicted with "accessory breasts", and is related to the constellation Ursa via legend. AFAICT it's just decoration.

    FWIW,
    -theGreater.

  11. Re:I want to register... on Rival Green Groups Bid To Snatch .eco Domain · · Score: 1

    You can, but first you'll have to find your way through a clever maze of forms while hallucinating.

  12. Re:'breaking the internet' on Linux, Twitter, and Red Hat "Win" Big At Pwnie Awards · · Score: 1

    No, but there -has- been a mass breakout of 'hacked' Google Apps / Twitter accounts. What's that, social engineering and guessing of weak passwords? Well, that doesn't have the same cachet as poking fun at newsworthy companies, so we'll just sensationalize it and give it a misleading title instead.

    -theGreater must be new here.

  13. Re:sure it is on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This would be funny except it's scary instead ...

    Also, sad. F'r instance, http://images.google.com/images?q=windows+powershell&imgcolor=black&imgsz=med

    I will now translate "I hate what I fear, and I fear what I don't understand. Unfortunately I don't understand you, so now I'm going to take all your stuff and fish around with impunity until something is found with which to hang you."

  14. Re:Also watch out for Multi Level Marketing on Ponzi Schemes Multiply On YouTube · · Score: 1

    People at the top earn more than people at the bottom. There, fixed that for you.

  15. Somebody catch me... on Norwegian Broadcasting Sets Up Its Own Tracker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Experience from our early tests show that if we're the best provider of our own content we also gain control of it.

    ... think I'm going to faint.

  16. Re:FOSS Humiliated By HP on HP Releases New Netbook GUI For Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Niggling.

  17. Re:Easier said than done on IBM Hides the Bodies, Eyes US Government Billions · · Score: 1

    All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

  18. Re:Selling to both sides? Brilliant! on IBM Hides the Bodies, Eyes US Government Billions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What were the German IBM managers supposed to do? Say "no" to Hitler???

    Yes. Yes, they were.

  19. Between WhiteSpace and 700Mhz, on FCC Approves Unlicensed Use of White-Space Spectrum · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... I, for one, welcome our multi-frequency overlords. But seriously, fractal antennas ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_antenna ) and golomb rulers ( http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/26/0037258 ) just got even more important. And I will of course be happy to assist them in finding handsets to toil in their data mines.

  20. Ahh, but he did! on Facial Hair and Computer Languages · · Score: 2, Informative

    For the LOVE OF GOD, would someone PLEASE go grab James Gosling and SHAVE HIS BEARD!!!! http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/beardless_conspiracies
  21. Life imitates art on Hacking a Pacemaker · · Score: 1

    From http://www.snpp.com/episodes/BABF01

    % The Simpsons happen upon Krusty, who is having a Y2K crisis of his
    % own. His pacemaker is stuck in the "hummingbird" mode. Krusty
    % lifts himself in the air briefly by flapping his arms, before
    % collapsing on the ground.

    See also:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_X#Life.27s_a_Glitch.2C_Then_You_Die

    -theGreater.

  22. Re:Marketing on PHP Optimized for Windows Server 2008 · · Score: 1

    As I mentioned previously ( http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=474960&cid=22636850 ) FastCGI is available (at least as a tech preview) for 2003r2/IIS6 -- it's not all roses and afternoon tea.

    -theGreater.

  23. Re:FastCGI != Apache Module on PHP Optimized for Windows Server 2008 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Furthermore, FastCGI under IIS (haven't tried with anything newer than 2003r2/IIS6) isn't fully compatible with at least one popular application that I can think of.

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/150672

    -theGreater's $0.02.

  24. Sadly, Android and OpenMoko... on First Sight of Google Android · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...seem destined not to converge in any significant way, in spite of some pretty awesome hacks:

    http://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/21/android-neo1973

    -theGreater.

  25. "Who goes Nazi?" by Dorothy Thompson on National ID Cards Mandated in the US, If You're Under 50 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It may be Godwin, but it's also Harper's Magazine... from 1941.

    http://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/0020122

    -theGreater.