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  1. Cool style, but the animation... on The Video Game Drawn By Hand · · Score: 3

    is a bit lacking. Actually there is no animation, it just shows you a still picture of a monster and when you attack it or it attacks you, red X's flash on the screen and hit point numbers change.

    At least that's the impression I got watching the video in TFA.

  2. In Russia even the bears are bad-ass on Dashcams Going High-Def, High-Tech · · Score: 4, Funny

    get hit by a car, destroy its radiator, walk away like a boss.

    If it was a EU bear it would be flopping on the ground like a soccer player.

  3. How NSA was able to do this on The NSA: Never Not Watching · · Score: 5, Funny

    they joined the Verizon Share Everything plan.

  4. Doesn't affect me so I don't care on TSA Decides Against Allowing Small Knives On Aircraft · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't carry knives, don't even like them. I use spears.

  5. Re:I beg your pardon on AMD Launches New Richland APUs For the Desktop, Speeds Up To 4.4GHz · · Score: 1

    So if I buy this I won't need my Radeon 7850 video card anymore? Should I sell it on ebay now before resale value plummets?

    Or is this APU just a slightly better version of motherboard integrated graphics that's been around for decades? Not fit to play 3-D games?

  6. Re:Who is the market? on Mozilla, Foxconn Confirm Firefox OS Partnership · · Score: 1, Funny

    people who like to compile their own software from source code... that is their target market.

    Apple has 40% of the market, Android has 50%, Blackberry+Windows Phone+Symbian has 9%, so they are going after the remaining 1%.

  7. FireFoxconn on Mozilla, Foxconn Confirm Firefox OS Partnership · · Score: 2

    they can name their new joint venture FireFoxconn

  8. Re:That explains things on Book Review: Creating Mobile Apps With JQuery Mobile · · Score: 2

    you should come visit my website. We make your computer/phone load jQuery, Prototype, yUI and my own custom libraries. (although not all at once on the same page)

    this is not a joke

  9. It's like ___, but in SPACE on ESA Launches the 2013 Edition of the Summer of Code In Space (SOCIS) · · Score: 1

    works for me!

  10. It will have high return rates on Motorola Building "Self-Aware" Smartphone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When the customer buys one and turns it on for the first time, it start noticing its surroundings and its owner. Pretty soon it will brick itself out of despair and the customer will be left with a dead phone.

  11. Re:robots can't kill people on UN Debates Rules Surrounding Killer Robots · · Score: 2

    you mean the Laws, not the rules... right?

    As in Asimov's 3 Laws.

  12. Re:Lead Lining? on Mars Explorers Face Huge Radiation Problem · · Score: 2

    Of course lead lining fixes this, as will any number of materials (water is also a great radiation shield)... if you have enough of it, that is. The issue has always been:

    "Our rockets suck, we cannot put large payloads into orbit, so our Mars capsule is going to have to be less than X kilograms and our radiation shielding can weigh no more than Y kilograms".

  13. Qbasic by accident on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 1

    Dos 6.0 had a nifty text editor named... EDIT.EXE.However, in order to use it you first had to load Qbasic.sys (or something like that). So I loaded Qbasic to run the text editor (so I could edit autoexec.bat files easier) and then started playing around in Qbasic.

  14. Re:YAHOO! ?? on Ask Slashdot: Can Yahoo Actually Stage a Comeback? · · Score: 2

    It worked for me in 1996. There was no Google for you to google back then. But around 98, I switched Altavista, that was the new hotness. It was kind of like a proto-google.

  15. Re:YAHOO! ?? on Ask Slashdot: Can Yahoo Actually Stage a Comeback? · · Score: 4, Informative

    i used it all the time. It used to have a human-submitted and maintained tree directory of the internet.

    Think about that for a second.

    So if I wanted to find a good website about DOS games, instead of googling for "DOS Games", I would go to Yahoo and select a top category. It might be "Entertainment".

    And find subcategories, such as Games -> Computer Games -> Legacy Games -> DOS

    And look through the listings.

  16. Since I think nothing of Dart on Dart Is Not the Language You Think It Is · · Score: 5, Funny

    not having heard of it, and thus never having any thoughts about it, and since you say it's NOT what I think it is (nothing), I guess Dart *is* something!

  17. Nachos are the perfect printable food on 3-D Printable Food Gets Funding From NASA · · Score: 2

    delicious and easy to print

    Astronauts will be eating a lot of nachos on Mars.

    You heard it here first.

  18. He gave away $28 billion on Bill Gates Regains the Position of World's Richest Person · · Score: 1

    and he STILL has enough to be the richest?

    Maybe he should give away some more.

  19. "Went up significantly following version 3.0" on How Maintainable Is the Firefox Codebase? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    is it a coincidence that 3.0 is when they started versioning up like crazy every two weeks? I think not!

  20. Re:Itunes, not even remotely good. on iTunes: Still Slowing Down Windows PCs After All These Years · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure about the new ipads, but an iPad 2 cannot be charged via PC USB at all. Not enough voltage. It will tell you so when you plug it in. Only way to charge it is to plug it into the wall.

    But aside from that, charging iPhones and iPods via PC USB is also somewhat slower than plugging it into a wall, and this is a plus if you're concerned about battery longevity (not to be confused with battery life). Rapid charging and discharging degrades a battery much faster than slow charging/discharging.

    Another big boost to battery longevity is not letting the battery discharge all the way to 0%, and not charging it fully to 100%... keep it in the middle. Toyota Prius does this, it keeps the battery charge between 40% and 50% constantly. That's how the battery on a Prius goes for decades with little degradation. People who charge their phone to 100% overnight and use it until it shuts down by itself due to low battery, they will notice significant battery degradation after only a few months.

  21. Re:Open source sound localization on Hand-held "Sound Camera" Shows You the Source of Noises · · Score: 1

    it might be possible to use this sound locating algorithm in an electronic package to aid soldiers in battle.

    Imagine if every time a sound of gunfire is heard, it pinpoints the location and displays it on a map, like a radar. You can even integrate it with an existing friend-or-foe system that tracks all friendlies via GPS, so that friendly soldiers are displayed in green and enemy gunfire is painted in red.

    It would work fairly well and help soldiers become more effective. At least until the enemy starts using suppressors or Assassin Pro perk.

  22. They also win the Braveheart award on FSF Certifies Atheros-Based ThinkPenguin 802.11 N USB Adapter · · Score: -1

    FREEEEEDOMMMMMMMM!

  23. Re:$200K ... Uh Oh. on Richard Branson Plans Orbital Spaceships For Virgin Galactic · · Score: 1

    Pilot is out of the question for pretty much everyone here, they're only taking hotshot astronauts with 8,000 hours in combat jets and generally possessing large amounts of the Right Stuff.

    But if you're a moderately intelligent young female with nice legs and a pleasant smile, you have a chance as a spaceship stewardess!

  24. Bring back Teddy on President Obama To Nominate Cable and Wireless Lobbyist To Head FCC · · Score: 2

    The only time that is not true is when enough people oppose the money.

    Or when you have an honest man for a president who truly does place the public good above his own greed. The only two examples I can think of offhand are George Washington and Teddy Roosevelt.

    Obama is just as corrupt as Bush, he is a team player.

  25. Never trust anyone over 30 on Can Older Software Developers Still Learn New Tricks? · · Score: 1

    you heard it here first