Chi-RAV - Slashdot User

Comment The only one I actually care about (Score 1) 285

by Chi-RAV on Thursday April 17, 2014 @03:51AM (#46777169) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Good Print Media Is Left?

Edge Magazine (http://www.edge-online.com/magazine/)
A british gaming industry mag. More about the background, technicalities etc. of gaming.
I still remember they carried a monthly section (in the '90s) where readers could showcase their own 3D modelling skills. Also it had the largest section of gaming vacancies in the UK back then. Joints like RARE and EIDOS posted jobs there.. That should tell you enough about their readership :)

Comment Re:Steam and Electronic Arts (Score 1) 349

by Chi-RAV on Tuesday January 26, 2010 @10:35AM (#30903956) Attached to: Game Distribution Platforms Becoming Annoyingly Common

Enter Disney Keychest
http://topnews.net.nz/content/2686-disney-project-aims-play-film-any-device
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/disney-keychest-to-make-buy-once-view-anywhere-movies-a-reality/

Maybe not applicable to games/mp3/etc. just yet. But consider this:
A vendor-neutral system to manage bought and paid for digital licenses. It doesn't matter if iTunes goes belly up, because your license lives on in the keychest.
I know, I know. It's disney and all. Evil corporations shouldn't mess with this. BUT! It is a good idea, and a step in the right direction. Now if only we could get Keychest out of the hands of captain jack sparrow, erhm, I mean Disney, it would be perfect.

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 500

by Chi-RAV on Thursday August 13, 2009 @04:51AM (#29048955) Attached to: Encryption? What Encryption?

http://www.instructables.com/id/Hidden_USB_Storage/

you say impractical. i say a pr0n stash in each room with an rj-45 socket!

Comment Re:So who was it ?? not (Score 5, Informative) 405

by Chi-RAV on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @09:01AM (#28768637) Attached to: Most Expensive JavaScript Ever?

it's not HP as the link to what they actually buy shows they bought HP blades (http://www.digi.no/504306/her-kjores-egentlig-opera-mini&bid=6)

my money is going on Dell.

Comment Re:Yeesh.. (Score 1) 548

by Chi-RAV on Monday June 29, 2009 @06:06AM (#28511773) Attached to: Exchange Rates Spell High Prices for Windows 7 In the EU

which will run Win7 Starter Ed.

Bringing Up Bill 169

Posted by kdawson on Sunday April 26, 2009 @02:05AM from the plenty-of-freedom dept.

theodp writes "Over at the WSJ, Bill Gates Sr. describes what it took to turn an unruly 12-year-old into Microsoft's founder and the world's richest man. This included throwing a glass of cold water in the boy's face when he was having a particularly heated argument with his mother at the dinner table. 'He was nasty,' says Libby Armintrout, Bill's younger sister. 'I'm at war with my parents over who is in control,' Bill Gates recalls telling a therapist, who told his parents that their son would ultimately win the battle for independence, and their best course of action was to ease up on him. The rest, as they say, is history. The accompanying Gates Family Album is also worth a look."

Comment Re:I think your looking for (Score 3, Interesting) 205

by Chi-RAV on Tuesday January 13, 2009 @06:02AM (#26430165) Attached to: Most Popular Free, Arena-Style FPS?

or Warsaw http://warsow.org/

What Programming Language For Linux Development? 997

Posted by kdawson on Saturday December 06, 2008 @07:46PM from the let-slip-the-dogs dept.

k33l0r writes "Recently I've been thinking about developing (or learning to develop) for Linux. I'm an IT university student but my degree program focuses almost exclusively on Microsoft tools (Visual Studio, C#, ASP.NET, etc.) which is why I would like to expand my repertoire on my own. Personally I'm quite comfortable in a Linux environment, but have never programmed for it. Over the years I've developed a healthy fear of everything Java and I'm not too sure of what I think of Python's use of indentation to delimit blocks. The question that remains is: what language and tools should I be using?"

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