biggyfred - Slashdot User

Comment If you don't get it, move along. (Score 1) 403

by biggyfred on Monday February 25, 2013 @04:51PM (#43007623) Attached to: Is the Wii U Already Dead?

Nintendo is the best game maker in the business. For all the talk about smartphones and Call of Duty and frames per second, my 2 year old daughter couldn't give a damn about the 360 or the PS3 or the Nexus 7 with her apps. She wants her Dora on her DSi. And though I'd love to play Kid Icarus Uprising and Mario Sticker Star, I just can't seem to pry my wife off of Professor Layton on the 3DS. The 360 is where I meet my technically... ungifted family for game night because it's easy, not because I want to be there and not because they particularly want to be there. It's just.. easy. The Nintendo ecosystem is where my family games. And the PC is where I game. Steam + Nintendo = gaming bliss. brb, finishing up 999 on the DS before my daughter gets home. 999? Just some amazing game you're missing.

Comment Re:Let's NOT look back. (Score 5, Insightful) 157

by biggyfred on Monday August 20, 2012 @01:24PM (#41056725) Attached to: CowboyNeal Looks Back at the SCO-Linux Trials

Young'ins need to know the story of SUE EVERYONE doesn't begin or end with Apple.

Comment Re:Just keep (Score 2, Informative) 296

by biggyfred on Saturday May 16, 2009 @09:15AM (#27978311) Attached to: Danger Mouse Releases Blank CD-R To Spite EMI

deltree hasn't been in Windows since Win 98, grandpa.

Comment Re:Err. Can we mod summaries? (Score 1) 357

by biggyfred on Saturday April 12, 2008 @03:28PM (#23048438) Attached to: Obama Would Redirect NASA Funding to Education

Wow, it's like digg! I go down as a troll, and the populist gets the plug. You guys are the best.

The Official Ubuntu Book 139

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @03:20PM from the read-all-about-it dept.

Craig Maloney writes "Over the long history of Linux, there have been many different distributions. One of the most famous distributions, love it or hate it, is the Ubuntu distribution. Ubuntu has come quickly from being the new kid on the block with the Warty Warthog release (4.10) to the most recent release Gutsy Gibbon (7.10). In that three year span, Ubuntu has grown from a handful of enthusiasts and developers to a thriving worldwide community. The Official Ubuntu Book is the official book from Canonical, which describes not only the Ubuntu distributions, but also the community from which Ubuntu is derived." Read below for the rest of Craig's review.

Mythbusters to Test Cockroach Radiation Myth 573

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 19, 2007 @04:43PM from the still-be-here-when-we're-gone dept.

redwoodtree writes "An article on the site for the Tri-City Herald sums it up perfectly: 'Contrary to popular belief, not a significant amount of research goes into cockroach radiation.' To test the old saw about 'the cockroaches being the only survivors of a nuclear war' Discovery Channel's Mythbusters are going out to Hanford Site, where plutonium was manufactured for the first nuclear bomb. It's the single most polluted nuclear waste site in the U.S. The Mythbusters are going to take cockroaches and other insects and apply successively higher doses of radiation in a controlled setting."

SCO to Unix developers, We want you back 427

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday June 21, 2006 @12:01PM from the buying-friends dept.

NoGuffCheck writes "CRN is reporting that Darl McBride is looking to get Unix developers back onboard with cash incentives for completing training in SCO's new mobile application kit; EdgeBuilder. It doesn't stop there; there's a 12-cylinder BMW or $100,000 dollars for the development of the best wireless application."

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