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  1. Re:As a LOTRO player on Ask Slashdot: MMORPG Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    Most new players focus intently on making a high damage build, choosing high damage classes as main preference

    I have to blame part of this on the design of games coming out. It seems like any meaningful crowd control, healing, and utility classes are being sidelined for DPS. Even with Guildwars, the mobs all die so fast that DoTs, heals and other utility are pointless.

  2. Re:JavaScript, its better than a kick in the head. on Microsoft Adds Node.js Support To Visual Studio · · Score: 1

    ... Webforms... blech. "Just wrap it in an update panel!"

  3. Re:No surprise on Supreme Court Refuses To Hear EPIC Challenge To NSA Surveillance · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Re-Election...

  4. Re:Why is it broken out of the box? on PlayStation 4 Released · · Score: 1

    Because of the import tax, it's cheaper for some to fly to the US, buy a device and fly back. I say just spend a night in a local hotel and use their Internet (or an open WiFi) to update the device!

  5. Re:Not this time, Sony on PlayStation 4 Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > If it keeps the fuckwits off the service then maybe its not such a bad thing?

    I take it you've never been on XBox Live... I know you said you've been a PlayStation person all these years, but if you've ever been over at a friend's house while they are on a multiplayer game, it can be quite horrific.

  6. Re:not like any 'child' i ever met... on Robots Can Learn To Hold Knives — and Not Stab Humans · · Score: 1

    I can't figure out why it doesn't just move all object as far as possible from humans, yet in the straightest line if possible. Heat map or not. Just don't go waving hammers, forks, feathers, milk, chips, or anything near a human if you don't intend on using that item on them.

  7. Re:Robots Can **be programmed** To Hold Knives on Robots Can Learn To Hold Knives — and Not Stab Humans · · Score: 1

    if we loose our humanity

    If we loose our humanity, it won't matter.

  8. Re:Did he buy the mirror, or make it? on Cold War Spoils: Amateur Builds Telescope With 70-Inch Lens · · Score: 1

    So... call up Safelite and they send a guy out to inject some goop in the glass?

  9. Re:huh? on Tesla Model S Can Hit (At Least) 132 MPH On the Autobahn · · Score: 1

    My 2004 RX8 was 145-148 'ish. The 2008 MX5 was something like 140. I'm sure it depends on the car. I haven't had the location or space to see what my Audi S4 will do, but at 135 or so the slightest rise in the track becomes a bit scary... but I consider it more of a "luxury" than a "sports" car.

  10. Re:huh? on Tesla Model S Can Hit (At Least) 132 MPH On the Autobahn · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Speed is good, but what about range? on Tesla Model S Can Hit (At Least) 132 MPH On the Autobahn · · Score: 1

    My Audi S4 seems to be able to translate what impact my AC has on fuel. It gives a little graph stating how many gallons per hour it's using. I'm sure if the Tesla S has the appropriate sensors a nice little info screen must be hiding around somewhere.

  12. Re:Interesting data point on Atlanta Man Shatters Coast-to-Coast Driving Record, Averaging 98MPH · · Score: 1

    I'd love it. It'd be one step close to recognizing that people are all capable of different things and setting a blanket rule of "this is how fast you can drive" is not always applicable.

  13. Re:OUYA fizzled on Sony Issues Detailed PS4 FAQ Ahead of Launch · · Score: 1

    It depends on who you ask. I use mine almost daily (granted, it's as an XBMC machine... but it does get some game time on the weekend.)

  14. Re:Calling it a thcheme on Jeffrey Zients Appointed To Fix Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    Obviously, it won't work. Every law I've read refuses to use parenthesis and instead use liberal amounts of footnotes and redirections.

  15. Re:Stallman would have something to say about this on Call Yourself a Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights · · Score: 2

    And the people all sit there and stare at the door trying to figure out what's going on?

    You make it sound like people who carry are willing to pull and shoot at the first backfiring car or balloon popping... and they've never heard a firecracker before.

  16. Re:finally on Dell Ad Says Windows 8.1 Apps Will Run On Xbox One · · Score: 1

    Yes. Yes you are.

  17. Re:Easy solution. on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Hardest Things Programmers Have To Do? · · Score: 1

    He doesn't name it that way. He copy pastes it from a tutorial site...

  18. Re:Good. on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 1

    I never knew it had a medical name/reason ... I just have always fainted at the sight of human gore (ie: someone who has stitches exposed or blood) or someone in speech class describing their motorcycle accident.

    I volunteered for a blood drive once... never again.

  19. Re:Oh, I totally agree... on Nokia Design Guru Urges Apple To End Cable Chaos · · Score: 1

    I keep my Nexus 10 tablet next to the bed and the connector is nearly impossible to see in the dark (white paint or not...) I end up basing the orientation of the plug on the way the cable is bending because that's the way it sits on the night stand.

    I kind of wish that the connector was more friendly though, it's annoying enough having to find the port let alone get the orientation correct. It's almost so bad I thought about getting a magnetic connector for the bottom connector that Samsung didn't include a cable for.

  20. Re:simple on Cost of Healthcare.gov: $634 Million — So Far · · Score: 1

    I worked at a small mom and pop computer shop from 99-2001. Same situation. The "owner's" wife was listed as the owner on all documents.

  21. Re:Wait... How are we going to blame this on Obama on US Now Produces More Oil and Gas Than Russia and Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    How long have you been on the planet? I can't think of any president in recent history that wasn't given a hard time. At least, not while I've been alive and I know it went further back than that.

  22. So why continue it... on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 5, Funny

    Once they got the "Windows Key", why did they continue using the Ctrl + Alt + Delete?

  23. Re:Dead in the water on Intel Rolls Out Raspberry Pi Competitor · · Score: 1

    Even if you want more inputs, it's cheap enough to buy another.

  24. Re:Pathetic on Homeless, Unemployed, and Surviving On Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    Sterno? It's a few bucks a can. Generic brands are cheaper.

  25. Re:And how does a McJob prevent homelessness? on Homeless, Unemployed, and Surviving On Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    I don't ever recall my bank complaining when I made several thousand dollar deposits. If you have a sum of cash, there's no saying that you can't just go in and make a deposit weekly.