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  1. Re:Keyboard and mouse hasn't changed for a reason on Valve Job Posting Confirms Hardware Plans · · Score: 1

    They already make mice with d-pads... but they are designed for use with the consoles.

    I have the predecessor (non-elite) to this one for the PS3: http://www.amazon.com/Aimon-PS-Elite-PC-PS3/dp/B0044B6WYE

    It works pretty well.

  2. Re:Scope on Valve Job Posting Confirms Hardware Plans · · Score: 2

    Some games will switch state. If you are right click scoped, the wheel zooms, but otherwise it swaps weapons. Generally, I think you are right, but I don't play a tremendous amount of FPS anymore.

  3. Re:LIke the Boston Molasses Disaster? on Police Probing Theft of Millions of Pounds of Maple Syrup From Strategic Reserve · · Score: 1

    Oh... that's the one!

  4. Re:LIke the Boston Molasses Disaster? on Police Probing Theft of Millions of Pounds of Maple Syrup From Strategic Reserve · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's the link I was responding to in the GP post: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3086599&cid=41193099

  5. Re:So, let me get this straight... on ArenaNet Suspends Digital Sales of Guild Wars 2 · · Score: 1

    The person that did it said he noticed a very lucrative way to convert one asset to another and no other methods to do it netted such a profit, then he shared it with thousands of others instead of submitting a bug to let the developers know that the numbers were off. The reason for the ban wasn't that he found and used the exploit for the most part. It's that he shared it with all his friends and told them the how to do it.

  6. Re:Slashdot vs reddit reactions on ArenaNet Suspends Digital Sales of Guild Wars 2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Being an avid reader of both Slashdot and Reddit, I find that it's a maturity thing. There are some immature people here, but the average maturity level of Reddit I'd place far lower than here. People here would be quicker to point out how exploiting the cost of an item could be detrimental and can follow the path of consequence better than Reddit.

    Also, Reddit is more easily gamed. The perception that Reddit is not happy with something can easily be just one person with an army of followers (human or programmatic) that are not happy. It's harder to influence mood here because not everyone gets mod points at the same time. It happens a bit, but trolls (in this case, people looking for validation) quickly move on to other forums where it's easier to game the system.

  7. Re:Maple Syrup Strategic Reserve? on Police Probing Theft of Millions of Pounds of Maple Syrup From Strategic Reserve · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just pictured a Austin Powers-esque or MST3K scene where a giant blob of molasses was "chasing" after these people.

  8. Re:Valve finds Intel's driver to be great. on Valve Finds Open Source Drivers To Be Great · · Score: 1

    I read your post and I just imagined a flat cable of wires sticking out of the CPU that requires yet another special connector from the PSU to use it. ;)

  9. Re:No it doesn't on Twitter Jokes: Free Speech On Trial · · Score: 1

    You'll be fine if you just follow my morals.

  10. Re:Bad time on Torchlight 2 Release Date: 20 September · · Score: 1

    For me it's not about the WoW expansion, but Borderlands 2 releases two days before it.

  11. Re:So which field of engineering on Bill "The Science Guy" Nye Says Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children · · Score: 1

    My point is, if this god wanted you to follow that instruction book, it would have been written out by that god himself in a consistent language that everyone would understand. What this bible is, is recollections of stories past and until it was written down it's no better than that game of telephone kids play on School Buses. You cannot rely on any of that information further than you can throw it.

  12. Re:So which field of engineering on Bill "The Science Guy" Nye Says Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children · · Score: 1

    You do know that the Bible you read today was written and voted upon by humans? (Romans to be exact) It's a popularly voted upon instruction manually for people who wanted to unify under a common banner where they got to pick and choose what to put in... It doesn't "change over time". The people that decided what to put in and what order to place them did that. They sat down with various religious documents and tried to come up with one that they could stand behind and preach. So, how are you supposed to follow a manual that doesn't include all the instructions, maybe puts some of them in different orders and isn't consistent? How do you seriously constitute that to the "will" of said god? Maybe that ignorance you speak of is not mine.

    http://www.deism.com/bibleorigins.htm

  13. Re:So which field of engineering on Bill "The Science Guy" Nye Says Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children · · Score: 1

    Because I fail to see the reasoning for living your life on a fictional novel?

    If "God" wanted everyone to live by the Bible, he's say: "Here's my manual"

    Instead, you put your faith in a bunch of humans who tell you they are right, some of which like to do inappropriate things to children. Hypocritical Bastards... all of them.

  14. Re:Growth? on Weebots: Driveable Robots For Babies Who Need Them · · Score: 1

    It looks like the chair is easily replaceable. Snap off the old, put on a bigger one until they reach the point that the entire device is the chair.

  15. Re:There's Serviceable and then .... on Samsung Unveils Windows Phone 8 Device and Android-Based Camera · · Score: 1

    This one has it pretty bad. The light from the sky over washes the building, but the taller building in back "protects" the middle area.

  16. Re:There's Serviceable and then .... on Samsung Unveils Windows Phone 8 Device and Android-Based Camera · · Score: 1

    One thing I always hated with Camphones in general is the awful bloom... also, I totally wanted to see a pile of dog shit at the end of that "smell this" arrow.

  17. Re:I disagree; Bill is an idiot. on Bill "The Science Guy" Nye Says Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously, the education system is the work of the devil. Those degrees are only signs of how high you are in the devil's rankings.

    (I feel like I'm gonna pay for that comment somehow...)

  18. Re:Does Windows 8 have an opt-out feature? on Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Technically, Ubuntu offers an option to collect download and installation data from the software center. I believe it prompts you though and clearly explains that's it's anonymous.

  19. Re:What is currency? on BitInstant Continues Bitcoin Paycard Plan · · Score: 2

    Everyone is free to have opinions. I have no issue with that at all. It's interesting to me how much energy people put into "name calling" (ghetto currency, true believer asocial cranks, parasitical Bitcoins) It's reminiscent of "Conversational Terrorism" of which you may or may not be aware that you are doing. You say you are not discrediting anything, but through using derogatory leaning words you are basically ad hominem attacking anyone associated with Bitcoin.

    By all means, have an opinion. But when you exert so much energy in posting, it just feels like you are positioned to benefit from it.

  20. Re:What is currency? on BitInstant Continues Bitcoin Paycard Plan · · Score: 1

    You seem to be vehemently opposed to BitCoins for whatever reason, so i have to ask... why not just let people make mistakes if you feel it's such a bad thing? They aren't spending your money on them. If it falters, do you gain some reward? If it succeeds, do you get penalized?

    I haven't ever bought BitCoins, nor had the need or desire to... but I find it interesting that so many people are fighting to have it discredited.

  21. Re:Launched? Unveiled? on Microsoft Unveils First New Company Logo In 25 Years · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Damn, there's some awful optical illusions going on there... Gray dot in the middle, faint lines of off colors equidistant from the white separator bars in each of the color boxes.

    Maybe it's just the poor quality of JPG?

  22. Re:screw that on Sources Say ITU Has Approved Ultra-High Definition TV Standard · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't understand why they skipped Super HDTV ... anyone that grew up in the 80s knows that Super is before Ultra.

  23. Re:useless aspect ratio on Sources Say ITU Has Approved Ultra-High Definition TV Standard · · Score: 1

    So, why don't they make 1:1 monitors?

  24. Re:So the research is wrong... on Former Xerox PARC Researcher: Windows 8 Is a Cognitive Burden · · Score: 1

    The only thing I use the start menu in Windows for is shutting down... the rest of the time, I'm in Steam.

  25. Re:The core question.... on Ubisoft Claims PC Piracy Rate of 93-95% · · Score: 1

    And who's to say someone didn't figure out that phone home and was hitting the server with various serial numbers trying to find a working one?