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  1. Re:I concur, i ahd the same experience on On Transitioning To an Asian-Style MMO, Such As Aion · · Score: 1

    I assume the "alt" question came earlier.

  2. Re:Not just graphics. . . on EA Looking Into Reviving Classic Games? · · Score: 1

    Oh right. The old games had limited worlds because of memory. Like Ultima 4, or Elite....

    I find it's the modern games that have much more constrained worlds.

  3. Re:Malodorous Headline on Chrome OS Designed To Start Microsoft Death Spiral · · Score: 1

    Yeah they "support" flash on "linux". In other words, they produce a very buggy binary for some subset of Linux architectures. Of course, the flash developers have shown themselves to be a bunch of morons over the last 5-6 years. It's too bad it isn't just about twice as bad, so it could be replaced by something decent.

  4. This is not news: organics are about pesticides on UK's FSA Finds No Health Benefits To Organic Food · · Score: 1

    It's widely known that the significant health benefit of organic produce is the lack of pesticides. Other benefits do not appear reliably or significantly in studies. It's also unclear how much benefit is gained from a lack of pesticides, but it is clear that these chemicals are damaging to people in higher concentrations.

    In general, it's extremely difficult to show significant benefits from any given food, given how long the results take to show, the rest of the study group's diets, and so on. Most decisive studies are deliberately skewed.

    The facts remain: organic foods do not have deliberately added poison, while conventional foods do. Organic food production also does not relese nearly the level of pollution in poisons, fertilizer, and microbes into the world. It also typically leaves the soil in amore healthy state for sustanied production.

    That's it. It's not a magic healthy pill, as this study confirms. But that isn't news.

  5. Re:Awesome on iPhone App Tracks Sex Offenders · · Score: 1

    Wait so monitoring == geolocation?

    If a government knows where I am two thirds of the time, I think i'm pretty well monitored.

  6. Re:Why Sex Offenders? on iPhone App Tracks Sex Offenders · · Score: 1

    I think the lesson is that there isn't a way to keep the list clean of people who have no business being on it. A seperate lesson might be (less direct) that no one should be on such a public list.

  7. Re:By the Way - this insane versioning bent on Debian Decides To Adopt Time-Based Release Freezes · · Score: 1

    jrodman@calufrax:~> cat /etc/debian_version
    squeeze/sid

    Oh that's obvious.

  8. Re:Government to blame? on The Irksome Cellphone Industry · · Score: 1

    It's a combination of our worship of the credit industry, and american business pratices.

    In africa, eg somalia, you cannot sell telephone services as a credit transaction, because people will not pay. Therefore the services are all pre-pay which is much simpler and more equitable, if somewhat more hassle for some parties.

    Sweden has a more well ordered economy and credit financing is possible, but the carriers are using a common GSM system, which may simply be a historical accident as opposed to a social goal, or artifact of culture. Nonetheless, the many completely technologically different networks in the united states led to a mentality of exclusion in the industry. This leads to long contracts and unpleasant tie-downs, incompatable hardware, and locked up firmware.

    Those are some of the differences. There are undoubtedly more.

  9. Re:Mod me paranoid on Google Wave Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Please post the link to the server code download package.

  10. Re:Article misses the mark on Massively Single-Player Gaming? · · Score: 1

    I usually play a healer, and this problem is still existent. Players flake, or suck, and it ruins the experience.

  11. Re:Player matching on Massively Single-Player Gaming? · · Score: 1

    It's a nice theory, but there's a lot of antisocials who get their entertainment by harassing those who aren't interested. Where do they go?

  12. Re:Online worlds FTW; online players suck. on Massively Single-Player Gaming? · · Score: 1

    Having played wow, I disagree. I played it for about a year. I raided in top server guilds, totally mastered multiple classes. I know it pretty much inside out.

    The game would be better without other players.

  13. Re:Great advertising for new versions! on Why Game Developers Should Shut Up About Used Games · · Score: 1

    Whooosh!

  14. Re:Use doubleTwist instead. on Apple Update Means Palm Pre Can No Longer Sync With iTunes · · Score: 1

    Let's paraphrase your worldview here.

    "Interoperability doesn't matter when competition is involved."

    If you really believe this, then you deserve the results of it.

  15. Re:No Mention of Bing or Natal? on How Microsoft Has Changed Without Bill Gates · · Score: 1

    The community promise regarding C# is classic microsoft. It's a PR move with no substance. Only the language features themselves are covered, which were already in the ECMA spec, so it offers theoretical coverage to people reimplementing C# without implementing *any* of the .net framework.

    People who actually write programs in C# aren't being protected at all.

  16. To go with your monitoring system: splunk on What Would You Want In a Large-Scale Monitoring System? · · Score: 1

    A far as the actual question goes, I think a patchwork of tools that you understand well and have proven themselves reliable is often a better choice than the all-singing all-dancing approach. The patchwork does take more time to roll out and configure, but if the tools are simple and easily managed, it is probably the better choice for large environments. However, at the 5000 device level, I'm not sure if you're at that break-even point. I've only personally deployed nagios, cacti, and similar tools on the small scale.

    .

    But more usefully, I'd recommend a tool that is *not* network monitoring to go along with it. Monitoring is great for seeing what is going on at the moment within a domain of events, but once you find out about a problem, how do you then dig into it? I really recommend feeding all your monitoring data and *other* IT data as well into a system that lets you investigate all of them. I think Splunk is pretty good way to do this. It's a search engine into all the time-series data in your environment, so you can learn things like what *else* broke at that time, who was logged in, and so on all pretty quickly. It's commercial, but reasonably priced, and can be used free at some data levels.

    .

    Caveat, they pay my bills, so I may be biased.

  17. Re:Here's a thought... on Bike Projector Makes Lane For Rider · · Score: 1

    Going down devil's slide is fine. You go 40mph without trying and can go up to 45-50 if you put some effort into it. Drivers don't like to go faster than that themselves.

    Climbing to the top north to south is a bit sketchy, but the distance that's truly problematic is short and can be timed (both avoiding rush hour and avoiding overtaking traffic).

    Climbing south to north is not viable.

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    I've never really been worried about being hit by a motorcycle, unless in dense city traffic. On a road like route 1, motorcycles frequently are limited to normal traffic speeds, and when they aren't they're *loud*.

    When you hear (fast) oncoming motorcycles, you can either pull over entirely, or go to the middle where you're more easily seen, and then drop to the shoulder the instant you know you're in view.

    Now, if they start making electric motorcycles, I'll be in trouble.

  18. Re:Nice thought, bad planning on Bike Projector Makes Lane For Rider · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, your whole argument unhinges when you realize that bicycles do have the exact same legal rights to road usage as motorists.

  19. Re:Here's a thought... on Bike Projector Makes Lane For Rider · · Score: 1

    If I was *ever* on a one-lane street where 5 cars were stuck behind me, as a cyclist, I would pull over.

    This never happens.

    In any one lane road where it's remotely possible for you to accumulate many cars, there's safe and legal passing space by using the opposing lane, or the road is a lane-and-a-half where I don't obstruct traffic at all.

    If you can find a counterexample, I'm interested. The best I can come up with is Rt 1 on the approach to Devil's Slide, but I bike that on the very last inch of the road and at off times.

  20. Re:Here's a thought... on Bike Projector Makes Lane For Rider · · Score: 1

    Where do you live then? That isn't true anywhere in the United States.

  21. Re:Here's a thought... on Bike Projector Makes Lane For Rider · · Score: 1

    Every cyclist violating the law egregiously should be criticised. I do it daily, whether walking or on my bicycle.

    It would be nice if the police would join in.

    That said, the following things, at least in my state of california, are legal:

      - lane sharing
      - traversing a pedestrian crossing at walking speed

    Either can done in a way which is unsafe and unacceptable.

    Passing any vehicle without safe clearance is not allowed. If you can't do that without crossing the center line, then you shouldn't be doing it at all.

  22. Re:Here's a thought... on Bike Projector Makes Lane For Rider · · Score: 1

    So um.. It's really just angry-making that bicyclists ride where it's safest for them. And your response is to say "i'm bigger than you, GTFO".

    Go back to the part where it's safer for them to use the whole lane. That's why they do it, for safety. If people maximizing their own safety makes you angry, then you should stop driving entirely.

  23. Re:The downside is... on Firefox 3.5 Benchmarked, Close To Original Chrome · · Score: 1

    Accurate or not, this position is hilarious.

    The mozilla and firefox team has utterly failed at configuration management since day one.

    This problem is really not *that* hard. Why do people seem to think the "delete all your data every time you have a problem" is acceptable? It's like we're back to running Mac OS 7.

  24. Re:Caps lock will be the end of unintended shoutin on Lenovo Tinkers With Larger Delete and Escape Keys · · Score: 1

    Right, because it would be impossible to request for your text to be capitalized ANY OTHER WAY.

  25. Re:Units... sigh. on The Commodore 64 vs. the iPhone 3G S · · Score: 1

    300 baud is also 300bps. This is not true for all values of baud and bps, but it is true for these two.

    Consider yourself counternitpicked!