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  1. Re:First Krita post on Beginning GIMP · · Score: 1

    Krita and GIMP turn the usual KDE/GNOME relationship on its head. Krita is a KDE app whose UI is easier to understand than its GNOME counterpart. It even has less features, and is less configurable.

  2. Re:Comments from people who actually create Creati on Beginning GIMP · · Score: 1

    You could pronounce it 'jimp'. To hell with however the idiot who gave it this shitty name wanted it pronounced. Problem is, it still sucks even like that.

    Perhaps someone should create a seperate project consisting of rebranded versions of all the source and binary releases past and present, identical except for a better name. Then just follow the releases and continue rebranding it until the owners change its name to something acceptable.

  3. Re:Comments from people who actually create Creati on Beginning GIMP · · Score: 1

    You're right that there ought to be a slider, but you're wrong about the current menu being hard to find

  4. Re:They missed something in the article. on Tom's Hardware Reviews ATI and Nvidia on Linux · · Score: 1

    What non-free software do you have to run to play Quake 3? Or is there non-free software somewhere else in the game itself? The installer? What?

  5. Re:Just ask Ted Stevens on Net Neutrality a Threat to Online OSes? · · Score: 1

    No ISP will be "absolutely flooded with calls to cancel their service" when they prioritise MySpace over NewServiceThirty, even if NewServiceThirty has some cool new ideas. One of the main strengths of the internet in its current form is that new sites and ideas can become big through their own merits. There's your free market.

  6. The lazy man's way on Input Solutions for Repetitive Stress Victims? · · Score: 1

    My temporary mousing solution for when I injured a few of my fingers was to turn the mouse backwards. Then you can just rest the palm of your hand on the top of the mouse without gripping at all, and you click by gently twisting your arm to the right. The only downside is that you have to get used to the cursor moving the opposite way to normal.

  7. Re:WTF?!!! on Debian Locks Out Developers · · Score: 5, Funny
    Old password:
    > ******
    New password:
    > *****
    Retype new password:
    > *****

    WARNING
    This is a really stupid password, the kind that would put this entire computer at risk.
    Are you sure you want to continue?
    [ Y / n ]
    > Y

    BASTARD
    Okay then, fuck you. Your account has been completely cleared out, to help you understand the importance of choosing a secure password.

    Now, let's try again, shall we?
    Old password:
    >
  8. Re:WTF?!!! on Debian Locks Out Developers · · Score: 1
    What I'm most surprised by is that there's no weak password detection during account creation:
    Your stupid password is too fucking weak. Try again, and this time try not to be such a failure.

    I mean, if they already wrote a script to identify weak hashes, surely it's not too huge a modification to run it on individual hashes before they're sent off to the database or /etc/passwd or wherever?

  9. WTF?!!! on Debian Locks Out Developers · · Score: 1
    "An investigation of developer passwords revealed a number of weak passwords whose accounts have been locked in response," Schulze wrote.

    An investigation? Doesn't it a long time to bruteforce properly encrypted passwords? How did they carry out this 'investigation'?

    Can somebody please cure me of my chronic ignorance?

  10. Hah on Whatever Happened to the Gaming Mascot? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They died of old age. I can remember loving the first issues of Sonic the Comic back when I was about 7 years old. I was part of the generation that Sonic and co were designed to appeal to. Time passed, and we all grew up.

    Now most gamers are 20+. Mascots don't carry the marketing power that they used to.

  11. No on An AI Coach for Bad Gamers? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is the wrong way around. If a gamer is having difficulty in a single-player game, the right thing to do is usually to detect this and ramp the difficulty down for them. Believe it or not, most people who are bad at gaming are bad because they are casual gamers. The last thing people like that would care about is any kind of coaching.

  12. Re:They need to change technology on MySpace's Trip to The Top · · Score: 1
    Who moves from CFM to .Net? *barf*
    America's favourite website, apparently.
    O wise masters! You have much to teach us!
  13. Re:I don't understand what is going on here on MySpace's Trip to The Top · · Score: 1

    We're all bots, you insensitive clod.

  14. Re:attn timothy on MySpace's Trip to The Top · · Score: 1

    I don't know what you're complaining about mdash; I can't see any problem.

  15. Re:Reason Why on MySpace's Trip to The Top · · Score: 1
    I'm now hungry for bad grammar and pre-teens... mmmmm Myspace
    Or more elegantly put:
    mmmmm internets
  16. Re:Forever War on Windows Rootkit Wars Escalate · · Score: 1

    Okay, OS advocacy is par for the course on Slashdot, but if you're going to do it in terms of security, you might want to pick a better champion than Ubuntu

  17. This just in on Computer Control, by Bug and by Brain · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sony marketing droids, having confused this story with a Nintendo press-release, have announced that the PS3 controller "was going to have a mind-chip all along", and promised a barely functional demonstration model by early next week.

  18. Re:Soo.. on Computer Control, by Bug and by Brain · · Score: 1

    Actually, I do it all the time.
    I am going to click Submit for this worthless post, though.

  19. My twelve on Review: Nerdcore Hip-Hop Compilation CD Project · · Score: 1
    1337 g33k b34t - Bill Gates Revolution
    Beefy - Internet Celebrity
    Beefy - Tub of Tabasco
    Futuristic Sex Robotz - WoW
    Incredibad - I Think I Might Have Killed The President
    MC Hawking - Rock Out
    MC Jeff Z - No Money
    Monzy - Kill Dash Nine
    Monzy - So Much Drama in the PhD
    Myf - Top Secret
    Rappy McRapperson - I'm a Gangsta
    Sudden Death - Reign of Error

    All in all, it looks like far too many nerds think that the only way to make credible rap is by pretending to be a black gangster, which is sad.

    Another problem was the volume. Why should I strain to hear your lyrics? Why would you want to hide them under your music in the first place? DELETED

    50MB of music from nearly 400MB of torrents. Disappointing.

  20. Re:some bad nerdcore rap fer ya on Review: Nerdcore Hip-Hop Compilation CD Project · · Score: 1

    Your post made me laugh
    Mainly that cathedral part
    Wait, this isn't rap

  21. Urban MMORPG on Urban-Themed Video Games 'Basically Dead'? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ignoring the intended meaning of 'urban' as in 'all cities are violent and rap plays in the background 24/7 and people shoot each other', I'd quite like a MMORPG in an urban setting.

    By that I mean modern to futuristic, since technically Ironforge in WoW counts as an urban setting. Basically, I'm sick to death of witches and wizards and magic spells. I'm also discounting the Anarchy Online style of city: a bunch of simple blocks of texture rationalising a collection of shops.

    What I want is a proper interactive city environment. A properly scaled big city would be easily big enough for a MMORPG, and wouldn't require the player to consciously suspend their disbelief because of the distorted geography like all MMORPGs so far. Graphically, you could have more detail up close where it counts, because you wouldn't need to render miles and miles of landscape.

    Example: Midgar would make a good environment for a MMORPG
    And no, this doesn't count

  22. Re:Stepped up? on Sony Pulls Controversial PSP Ad, Issues Apology · · Score: 1

    You forgot to explain how the ad in question is racist.

  23. Re:Stepped up? on Sony Pulls Controversial PSP Ad, Issues Apology · · Score: 1
    you go through centuries of slavery, then more decades of racism
    Black people are immortal now?
  24. Re:rating system on Review: Nerdcore Hip-Hop Compilation CD Project · · Score: 1

    I'll be using that special "Delete" key on the cruft out of these torrents, because these files were free. But the vast majority of my music cost real money, so with my hard drive being nowhere near full, I may as well keep them around. If my hard drive was even bigger, I'd probably never bother deleting at all.

    Do not underestimate the power of subjectivity.

  25. Re:Geez on Review: Nerdcore Hip-Hop Compilation CD Project · · Score: 1, Funny
    (c)rap
    Anyone else stop giving a shit about this guy's opinion the moment they saw this?