Slashdot Mirror


User: AmberBlackCat

AmberBlackCat's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,906
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,906

  1. Re:I use Paytrust on Pitfalls of Automated Bill Payment · · Score: 1

    I guess that's one of the strong points of setting the bank account to do automatic monthly payments for you, since it will only make the monthly payment you specify, regardless of whether that is the full payment. The main reason I haven't set up that service in my bank account is I read their agreement and it seems that by setting up the automatic bill payment, the user gives the bank permission to run a credit check, presumably to offer them a credit card or something.

  2. Re:It's her day so... on Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band? · · Score: 1

    Since everybody seems to think your Iridium ring is going to make your girl an amputee, I think that ring is not the way to go. My suggestion is you give her a traditional ring, and if she accepts your proposal then present her with an Iridium necklace or bracelet.

  3. Re:Hahahah on McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate · · Score: 2, Funny

    I heard Hillary's so mean that when it's pitch black, she's likely to eat a grue.

  4. Re:A Grain of Salt on Nvidia 55nm Parts Are Bad Too · · Score: 1

    I pretty much turned against Nvidia several years ago when they had an essay contest to win a high-end graphics card. The contestants had to write an essay about innovative ways to use an Nvidia card. I entered with an essay that was on the level of the ones I typed for my college assignments, about ways the card could be used. Then I found out the winning essay was by some guy that said he was a DJ and needed good graphics for playing music at his parties. Fuck you Nvidia.

  5. Re:Shows what competion can do. on IE8 Beta Released To Public · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And Firefox would never have happened without earlier versions of IE.

  6. Re:SATA, not IDE on Digital Storage To Survive a 25-Year Dirt Nap? · · Score: 1

    I'm so sick of all of these redundant replies. Just store the photos inside KARR. Somebody will dig the Firebird up and it will explain to them how to get everything working again.

  7. Re:Um, first question: WTF is MapReduce? on MapReduce Goes Commercial, Integrated With SQL · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought those were like Rubik's Cubes where you just rip them apart and put them back together right.

  8. Re:Now you're getting silly on Scientists Discover Cows Point North · · Score: 1

    Maybe they can take several frames from Google Earth and do some stop motion.

  9. Re:Wait a minute on Has Google Lost Its Mojo? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think the problem is they started out by offering these services and changed things later. Kind of a bait-and-switch.

  10. Re:Gender difference? on Software To Provide Astronaut Counseling · · Score: 1

    I disagree. I had people issue the complaint that women don't want to say what's wrong with them. So I would outline to these guys exactly what my problem is with them, or what I wanted from them. They hate knowing what's wrong every bit as much as not knowing what's wrong.

    And it is my hard-earned experience that men don't want a woman to brainstorm about practical ways to solve a problem. They want you to brainstorm about how sex can solve the problem. I'm just saying.

  11. Re:you called it what??? on Wizards of the Coast Declares Gleemax Site a Critical Failure · · Score: 1

    That wouldn't be a bad name for a vibrating feminine nakpin. Maybe they should make those instead of online games? It would be even better if they could find a way to make them in pizza ovens.

  12. Re:Cheat code for even Sudoku?? on Solving Sudoku With dpkg · · Score: 1

    Just imagine what the average Sudoku player thinks about Slashdot.

  13. Re:Cheat code for even Sudoku?? on Solving Sudoku With dpkg · · Score: 1

    I don't know if a cheat code could ever turn somebody on but, as a person who has actually played Life Force and Contra, I can say that getting it wrong can definitely make you seem monkey-like.

  14. Re:So in summary on Some Eye-Popping Research From Siggraph · · Score: 1

    Well I'm not overweight and I don't think I'm ugly. But I have tried some shots with the camera up higher than me because I wanted to give the viewer (hopefully a man) the sensation of being taller than me and looking down at me. I figured guys like that. And I have a friend who did a high camera angle specifically to give a view of what's in her shirt. So there are at least two reasons for experimenting with high camera angles that have nothing to do with trying to deceive the person viewing the photo. And both of looked basically the same regardless of the angles.

    For the people who look radically better or worse with these weird camera angles, I personally don't think the angle is the problem. I think trying to take the picture while holding the camera in their hand is the problem. It keeps the subject too close to the camera.

  15. Re:Better solutions are out there.. on Time Warner Cable Box Rental Inspired Antitrust Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    In Kansas City, the Time Warner boxes compress the video too much. To make it worse, it seems you never get the video directly, it records the live video on the drive, and then plays that back to you simultaneously. So all you ever get is their overly compressed video, even when you're watching "live" TV. This has caused a fair amount of blurriness and blocking artifacts that don't seem to be there if you have a box without the DVR capability. So I would like to be able to get all of the channels and use an alternative box just so I can get adequate video.

  16. Re:Still doesnt solve jack on Americans Refusing To Wait For Mainstream EVs · · Score: 1

    Even if the electric companies try to inflate their prices, we'd be better off with two viable energy sources for cars. The gas and electric guys would be forced to compete with each other, and not so likely to increase their prices just because they can.

  17. Re:So... on Smart Contact Lenses · · Score: 1

    That would be enough for now.

  18. Re:Apple needs to step up and try to match this. on Lenovo Intros the Monstrous ThinkPad W700 · · Score: 1

    I think a midrange Mac Pro has all that, if you count the disc drive as a cupholder.

  19. Re:The Chicken and the Egg on OpenGL 3.0 Released, Developers Furious · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have two friends so far who have been unable to go from Vista back to XP because their new computers came with serial ata drive controllers and their XP discs don't have the drivers. It effectively kept them using Vista even though they couldn't run all of their favorite software, because losing hardware was an even bigger deal. I'm thinking this scenario will ultimately cause Vista to become popular. Oddly enough, I know another person who bought a new phone because there was no Vista driver for her old phone. Hmmm.

  20. Re:correction: on Scientists Closer To Invisibility Cloak · · Score: 1

    I think I'd get a kick out of the fact that he'd be in there and he could hear us but wouldn't be able to see anything because all the light's going around him.

  21. Re:Refunds on Apple Can Remotely Disable iPhone Apps · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that diamonds can be produced so rarity isn't so much of an issue, and the lab diamonds are actually better than the mined ones. I actually think the I Am Rich app is more honest than the diamond industry because they're more straightforward about the value of their product. And for what it's worth, no Africans had to slave in a hole to produce the app... unless, you know, it was an African programmer in his mom's basement who made the app. But you know what I mean.

  22. Re:Wha? on Google Earth Used To Predict Electrical Problems · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    My guess is Google is paying some money to Slashdot as an advertiser, unless slashdotters really are this interested in Google every week. Maybe they are. I also think the energy people have their own systems to predict electrical problems. Maybe they don't. Either way, I just can't imagine a bunch of government officials being excited that because Google exists, they finally have a way to get weather information and maps of their area. Maybe they are.

  23. Politicians on MySpace Suicide Charges Threaten Free Speech · · Score: 1

    It's interesting how we have all these "think of the children" laws getting people in trouble for having drawings of children, and having child avatars on Second Life, and even getting children in trouble for what they do together... yet we have this case in which an actual adult goes online and hurts an actual child and none of those laws help.

  24. Re:Die Emo Die on MySpace Suicide Charges Threaten Free Speech · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You know, if they lock the woman up in the right cell, she'll probably get bullied and harrassed herself. Maybe it would actually be a way for the punishment to fit the crime. You know, as long as they don't kill her.

  25. Re:Sweet on MIT Team Working On a $12 Apple (II) Desktop · · Score: 1

    WebTV was a really good web browser for TV before Microsoft took over. We never had trouble with the text. In fact it had us spoiled to the point that we were very disappointed with the blurriness of the next television web browser we experienced, which was the Dreamcast.