Slashdot Mirror


User: reshin

reshin's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
14
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 14

  1. Congratulations FreeDOS! on FreeDOS Is 20 Years Old · · Score: 1

    Thanks for your contribution to the world, Jim! Makes me want to look for Scorched Earth now.

  2. Re:An easier easier plan on US Intelligence Planned To Destroy WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    An even simpler explanation is that this story itself was planted by US counterintelligence as part of a plan to discredit Wikileaks.org by using it to publish details of US counterintelligence plans that do not exist.

  3. Re:Electric Shock on How Do You Get Users To Read Error Messages? · · Score: 1

    User analysis, task analysis, and usability testing.

  4. iChat Screen Sharing on A Full-Time 2-Way Video Link To Grandparents? · · Score: 1

    You can also access Leopard's screen sharing feature from within iChat, if you ever have the need to tweak their computer after it's been set up. I use it to help Mom when solitaire crashes.
    http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1160240&seqNum=5

  5. A list of fun games on What Are The Best Free Games Online? · · Score: 1

    can be found here -> http://goodexperience.com/games/

  6. Maybe it's not the trademark... on Rockstar/EA Tit for Tat in GTA/Simpsons Feud · · Score: 1

    I don't think it was a good move as far as building credibility with gamers, but maybe the underlying reason isn't trademark, which does sound absurd. Maybe Rockstar is more concerned that the references in a franchise many more conservative parents would find acceptable (the Simpsons) will bring Rockstar unwanted attention from a potentially hostile audience. Despite all the press about sex/violence in Rockstar's titles, I'll bet that many of the details have remained below the radar of many of these parents. Maybe the fear is that all the references, in a game these parents' children own, will start getting explained in more mainstream media, leading to more legislative pressure. Maybe a stretch and maybe flawed in reasoning, but it sounds just as plausible to me.

  7. Cosmic Radiation! on European Launch Site For Virgin Galactic · · Score: 1

    "The company said last year they would be conducting research into the safety of such a flight. Scientists have little information on how the storms that produce the northern lights affect spacecraft. [The] joint NASA-Canadian Space Agency THEMIS project will launch five satellites into space in February to monitor the northern lights..."


    Sounds like this ride could be the perfect culmination of a Fantastic Four experience fantasy camp.



  8. My wild guess on Apple To Unveil iPod Cellphone Next Week? · · Score: 1

    A phone or standalone device with full access to the entire iTunes catalog at a low annual resubscription rate. Maybe the pricing is integrated with a phone plan? $60 annually standalone or maybe phone plan + $5 per month?

  9. The worthy challenge on Grand Challenges For The Next 20 Years · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Save the environment; most other things can be delayed. Discover efficient alternative energy sources to plant and fossil fuels; develop the materials and processes to implement these alternatives; build more detailed environmental models to aid in the study of the effects of pollution and the effects of tearing down natural habitats.

  10. Re:From the early days on Amazon Sued For Recommending Books · · Score: 1

    I remember something like that at MIT around 1993 by the name of Ringo. It remember it asking about bands rather than CDs. It think became Firefly then got gobbled up by Microsoft.

  11. Smackdown on Australia Vulnerable to Korean Hacking Army · · Score: 1

    They finally blundered. They can threaten our allied countries with nuclear weapons as much as they like, but once they threaten to shave the profit margins of our administration's corporate friends, watch out. There is no way our president will stand for this outrage. BOOOOM!!!

  12. social hacking on Catch Me If You Can · · Score: 1

    I think this explains why I like Eddie Murphy's Beverly Hills Cop movies.

  13. colorblind, bad tables, bad html on From Rambus to DDR:Memory Explained · · Score: 1

    The white text probably means the author never bothered to preview the tables on any browser other than IE. It's probably the result of bad HTML grammar or the use of non-standard table properties which lets the text color of the rest of the page seep into the tables. Do Mozilla and NS 6 show it as intended (black text)?

  14. Re:Interesting Minnesota Statute on Busted for (L0pht)Crack Possession · · Score: 1

    I really don't know the applicable statutes, but when I asked the master locksmith at Har-Mar Mall, Roseville, MN, about his lockpicks, he chewed my ass out just for asking and told me that I needed a license to possess any. Apparently, he didn't appreciate the vocational interest (originally sparked by the guide as an MIT freshman). :-)