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  1. Re:Anything Else? on Dungeons & Dragons Next Playtest Released · · Score: 1

    And just so you know, someone took the time to scan *all* of it, and more.

  2. Re:There is a d3, it's not a d6 / 2 round up eithe on Dungeons & Dragons Next Playtest Released · · Score: 2

    No. You roll d6, and 1-2 is 1, 3-4 is 2 and 5-6 is 3.

  3. Re:How can you quantify the loss? on The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent a Box Office Record · · Score: 1

    Worse than biting your toenails while addressing a crowd too ?

  4. Re:Change on Hobbit Film Underwhelms At 48 Frames Per Second · · Score: 2

    This. My primary concern since about 1980's and the demoscene was 'how the fuck to get this routine to run at 50fps?" This is just an example of dinosaurs trying to apply skin lotion once again.

  5. Re:Where? on The Ugly Underbelly of Coder Culture · · Score: 1

    Good points, we used one at work. Can't remember the name. Though, the best diagrams came from a whiteboard and was photographed digitally :)

  6. Re:A failure of conventional hack-ism ? on Google Ups Bug Bounty To $20,000 · · Score: 1

    Maybe not just one, but the one that proves fatal could be worth more than both reputation and money. And yeah, upping the ante like this shows the data from the previous program, proved that offering $20000 is optimal and is indeed not a fail.

  7. Re:incorrect much? on Most Game Console Power Draw Comes From Time Spent Idling · · Score: 1

    They bill you exactly as much as they want, has nothing to do with cost of production.

  8. Re:Here we go on In Calif. Study, Most Kids With Whooping Cough Were Fully Vaccinated · · Score: 1

    Humm. I had chicken pox at a late age, about 17 i think. What kind of danger am I in ?

  9. Re:Alleged "no-compromise experience" on The Three Flavors of Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Uh i have a network at home with a dedicated file server..i keep my backups on the file server. why is that a Pro feature ? I can understand that automated backups of multiple servers and important client machines over network to remote sites and such are a 'Pro' feature. But almost everyone i know have more than one computer and a swtich at home.

  10. Prior art on Activision Blizzard Sued For Patent Infringement Over WoW, CoD · · Score: 1

    Remember playing Firepower over parallell cables (ParNet) ? Games where the players are operating in the same world is *ancient*.

  11. Re:We sure don't make stuffs like they used to on Voyager and the Coming Great Hiatus In Deep Space · · Score: 1

    It's a big difference in standing in front of a principle, and hiding behind it. Usually the latter is the case.

  12. Re:Fortunately I don't habe a TV remote on Microsoft Patent Monetizes Your TV Remote · · Score: 1

    I have a TV remote stashed somewhere. Forgot to throw it out with the TV. Cheers!

  13. Re:"does some spying and reporting on you" on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 1

    Yep, I used to do that myself when I was a noob. Downloaded Adobe Photoshop because that was all I had heard about. Then I discovered that Paint.Net does all I want on the Windows platform. Same with a lot of other software these days, I try to use free software if it's within my ability to use it. (I use Linux too). The only software I have 'pirated' is in fact a video editor under Windows, because there are only a few of them that has proper GUI and codec backend. We all know that Linux does not have a full featured video editor that is easy to use. You can bet I will request that software I pirated if I ever get to work with video editors professionally. Paying $10000 to edit a 5 minute video of me playing the guitar ? Nope, I rather not. Would a company invest $10000 in a license if they knew the new hiree would not need any help or training period and was completely up to date with that software and would basically be productive from day 1 ? Maybe. 10K is a bit much when another top of the line video editor that does everything (utilizes multicore, hardware encoding, HD, super easy UI, stable, ++) costs just over 2K for the 'deluxe' version. We don't know what makes OP's editor worth 8K more. He pretty damn well be prepared to be flagged by anti-spyware programs, as well as low sales generally. OP sounds like a troll actually.

  14. Re:The problem with Europe is they are duplicators on Europe Plans Exascale Funding Above U.S. Levels · · Score: 1

    We all played catch up to the _Germans_ which are _European_. The US hired Oppenheimer to build their shit, the Russians stole the blueprints and did it themselves. Thats how the US got to space, that is how the Russians got to space.

  15. Re:Don't waste money. on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 1

    Aye I rather use a pirated version of software i actually have a licence for. Want my money ? Make it DRM and spyware free. 100% installable from DVD, no internet required. I stopped buying software because of DRM.

  16. Re:Moon... dead? on Moon May Not Be As Dead As We Thought · · Score: 2

    Isn't it just gravity pull from the earth ? Lots of other moons in our solar system has gravity trenches.

  17. Re:Excited on Test-Tube Burgers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Oh absolutely, I do *not* support the kind of farms your are talking about. In fact, I try to buy food that claims to have it's animals treated good. (when i can afford it, that is)

  18. Re:Excited on Test-Tube Burgers Coming Soon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nothing wrong with killing animals for food. But if they can make it just as good (or even better) in the lab, I'm all for it.

  19. Re:Inevitable on UK Government To Demand Data On Every Call, Email, and Tweet · · Score: 1

    Either he's trolling or just stupid. /fry meme

  20. Re:For the sake of the Olympics... on UK Government To Demand Data On Every Call, Email, and Tweet · · Score: 1

    Do not underestimate the value of a sports program on TV to Joe Sixpack. It's what, 2 weeks of 24/7 sports? Most people I know would sign away their worldly possessions (except TV and fridge) to see that.

  21. Re:You can do brilliant stuff on Tetris In 140 Bytes · · Score: 1

    Nice list :) Our group pretty much died because we had to go to the military.

  22. Re:You can do brilliant stuff on Tetris In 140 Bytes · · Score: 1

    didn't post to brag, more to show that the place has demos from the early 90s.

  23. Re:You can do brilliant stuff on Tetris In 140 Bytes · · Score: 1

    Plenty ? How about almost every demo ever made. http://www.pouet.net/groups.php?which=926 --- Amiga demos I was part of :D

  24. Re:Slashdot has forgotten history on Tetris In 140 Bytes · · Score: 1

    No we haven't and I'm laughing a little about this. Still remember occasionally hardcoding 6x6 fonts manually into the source code, then writing text rendering code (in 68k asm) to actually get some text on screen.

  25. Re:Not 140 bytes on Tetris In 140 Bytes · · Score: 0

    meh i was gonna mod you funny but had a twitch (major hangover) and rated you overrated instead :) i thought the same thing essentially!