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  1. Headhunter? on Most Popular Free, Arena-Style FPS? · · Score: 1

    I still miss the Quake I/II mod Headhunter, very nice in that it had strategy without teamplay, is there anything else that is more complex than deathmatch but doesn't have teams? Not to knock teamplay, but when your teammates are pickup game players who are not interested in having a clue (we need more than just me to guard the flag folks!).

  2. Re:FiOS on Time Warner Recommends Internet For Some Shows · · Score: 1

    Creak, still around, barely. Why I remember when /. ran on an alpha station.

  3. Re:Wow, !vaporware? on Superconducting Power Grid Launches In New York · · Score: 1

    The Air Force was flying aircraft with superconducting antennas for electronic warfare a decade ago.

  4. Re:Okay I'll bite on Smartphones For Text SSH Use — Revisited · · Score: 1

    Nasty thing about android is that as far as I have read, initially they will be much like a sidekick, sure linux underneath, but all you can see is a java interpreter. They should be more open, and eventually you should be able to get a real open linux box.

    I want a sidekick form factor that is a linux box with the phone stuff as files in /var/phone but I will have to keep dreaming for a while. I think Android with be the software package, but I may have to wait a while longer.

  5. Re:Already been done on Hi, I Want To Meet (17.6% of) You! · · Score: 1

    OKCupid alows some degree of letting people edit your profile (not looked closely as to just what the limits are).

  6. Re:Well good luck with that on Is Cash No Longer Legal Tender? · · Score: 1

    Move to Las Vegas, the casinos cash checks for free and give you stuff to boot. :-)
    Banks charging to cash their customers checks is just insane, charge the customer, not the person they've paid.

  7. Burning in windows on Is Ubuntu a Serious Desktop Contender? · · Score: 1

    http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm is free and works quite nicely, right click and burn.

  8. Re:Why would I? on Are You Switching to 64-bit Processors? · · Score: 1

    This was generally true for sane 32bit designs, ie RISC, though some things like databases got big speed boosts. x86 is a whole nother ball game, over time (current systems still have a heavy focus on 32 bit performance), I'd expect 64 bit performance to become dramatically better than 32 bit on the same CPU.

  9. Re:Paedo-hysteria on Slashback: AMD/ATI, Tokamak Fusion, Laptop Privacy · · Score: 1

    Once you have started to entery a country, you have no right to change your mind. Yup, not nice, not saying anything about right or wrong or good or bad, but that is the rule, here and everywhere.

  10. Re:Problem with pay-for-performance on Worst Tech CEOs Earn the Most Money · · Score: 1

    Pay them with options that do not vest for 5 or more years, with the current share price (indexed for inflation) as the price. So if the company does well, so do they, if not, they don't, and that is far enough out that they do have to think fairly long term. No repricing the options either.

  11. Re:Jobs upset? on Apple Losing Touch With the OS Community? · · Score: 1

    Seeing as NeXT damn near needed to be sued to get them to release the modifications to gcc they made for Objective-C, I think Steve is quite happy being closed.

  12. Re:my advice on Dealing with Corporate FUD About Linux? · · Score: 1

    SAP says that Linux is their future, they are the huge ERP company, this means that they must think they can get the Fortune 500 to trust their most critical systems to Linux.

  13. Re:emacs anyone ? on Note-taking Software for Unix? · · Score: 1

    That would be "The X Window System" or simply X.

    I used Xemacs because for a while, Xemacs would run in both console and X in the same instance, unlike emacs. Thus my laptop could run in console only, and open gui sesions in X on my desktop. Handy, and kept my laptop usable much longer that otherwise posible.

  14. Re:Good thing...but far from perfect? on Stealing Data? A Sniffer Shows it's Easy · · Score: 1

    they did that for everything, dial into the pots switch login admin, and start forwarding calls to where ever

  15. Tip Jar? on The Case for Free WiFi? · · Score: 1

    Why not a tip jar for the wifi?

    As for me, my favorite cafe charges for wifi. I only go there if I'm planing on leaving my laptop at home, I go to two closer places if I think I might want to use the laptop, because they offer free access.

    If my fav place offered free access, I'd always go there.

  16. Re:How soon we forget on Apple Switching To Intel Chips In 2006 · · Score: 1

    I do recal pentuple fat binaries, but I don't recall all the platforms they were for.

    By the way, we know each other, I was the best man at Aaron's wedding.

  17. Re:How soon we forget on Apple Switching To Intel Chips In 2006 · · Score: 1

    NeXTStep ran on Intel for version 3.[1,2,3,4] and 4.[0,1,2] and DR1 and DR2 of OS X also ran on Intel, in the day, they (and developers) shipped 5 way compatable binaries (yup, 5 different chips, 68k (Next), PARISC, i386, SPARC, and Alpha(?)).

    So all they have to do is keep things up to date (and they do quite a bit that way with Darwin) and they have their port.

  18. Re:Pauline beat him to it on Cockroach-Controlled Robot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It was a Guinea Pig, and it controled the movements of the machines limbs directly with its limbs. It was intened to reverse the psycological power relationship between people and small rodents, and the rodent seemed to enjoy it. Never shown publicly because animal rights sorts got in a tizzy about it.

  19. Re:I haven't paid for proprietory licensed softwar on Key Advantage of Open Source is Not Cost Savings · · Score: 1

    Last I heard, Oracle was $25K per cpu for internet, you can only handle so many users per cpu.

  20. Re:Here we go again.... on Hitchhiker's Movie is Bad, says Adams Biographer · · Score: 1

    The way to do that in a film would be no words at all, just a quick slideshow flashback of that sequence to find the plans, think of Dory realizing who Nemo is at the end of Finding Nemo.

  21. Re:document rentention policies on Proposed Federal Rules On E-Document Destruction · · Score: 1

    It is that email was missing for a month before and several months after each meeting with Burst, over a long period, and not just on servers, but also on peoples personal machines.

  22. Re:Local weather webcam on Adam Dunkels on Embedded Sensor Networks · · Score: 1

    I've long thought this would be a great idea, get the local TV (or other) broadcasters to push it, and distribute cheap sensors that you plug into your computer, and then use the network to process the data, thus giving you very high resolution forcasting for any urban area.

  23. Re:What this all means on IBM Pledges To Make Xen More Secure · · Score: 1

    Why not use http://www.conmicro.cx/hercules/ to get a real 370/s390/z type box on your Linux machine? From mainframe like to mainframe.

    And then there is FLEX-ES if you want support, and that can even use pci-to-channel cards to support real mainframe devices.

  24. Re:Adult stem cells on Paralyzed Woman Walks Again · · Score: 1

    They would not have seen it that way then.

  25. Re:Backpack + Sleeves on What's The Ultimate Multi-Laptop Bag? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most definately, your back will thank you! I caried too much for too long in a regular bag, the back pack is much nicer to live with.