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Comment Re:In future news.. (Score 1) 174

by forsetti on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @10:15PM (#38299028) Attached to: US Launches Virtual Embassy For Iran

Can you give me tomorrow's lottery numbers?
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/010250/iran-shuts-down-us-virtual-embassy

The Fuel Cost of Obesity 285

Posted by samzenpus on Friday August 13, 2010 @12:36PM from the 20-miles-per-cheeseburger dept.

thecarchik writes "America loves to complain about gas mileage and the cost of gasoline. As it turns out, part of the problem is us. How much does it really matter? A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found a 1.1 percent increase in self-reported obesity, which translates into extra weight that your vehicle has to haul around. The study estimates that 1 billion extra gallons of fuel were needed to compensate for passenger weight gained between 1960 and 2002."

Looking Back At Dungeons & Dragons 189

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @03:28AM from the lightning-bolt dept.

An anonymous reader sends in a nostalgic piece about Dungeons & Dragons and the influence it's had on games and gamers for the past 36 years. Quoting: "Maybe there was something in the air during the early '70s. Maybe it was historically inevitable. But it seems way more than convenient coincidence that Gygax and Arneson got their first packet of rules for D&D out the door in 1974, the same year Nolan Bushnell managed to cobble together a little arcade machine called Pong. We've never had fun quite the same way since. Looking back, these two events set today's world of gaming into motion — the Romulus and Remus of modern game civilization. For the rest of forever, we would sit around and argue whether games should let us do more or tell us better stories."

Comment Re:GNU\Linux Marketing Department (Score 1) 498

by forsetti on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @07:58PM (#29676417) Attached to: London Stock Exchange Rejects .NET For Open Source

I was typing from DOS Edit -- the one Microsoft word processor that has never crashed on me -- and we DOS'rs use '\' !

Comment GNU\Linux Marketing Department (Score 2, Insightful) 498

by forsetti on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @04:54PM (#29663527) Attached to: London Stock Exchange Rejects .NET For Open Source

I can't wait for the GNU\Linux Marketing Department to make a campaign out of this!!! Oh wait ..., well, Slashdot it is then!

Comment Re:To hell with OpenGL and Direct3D (Score 2, Informative) 161

by forsetti on Wednesday July 01, 2009 @08:10PM (#28552583) Attached to: Virtualbox 3.0 Announces OpenGL/Direct3D Support

"Odd protocols, like GRE?"
Hmmm .. not a network guy, are you? Should I use a standardized, widely implemented protocol like GRE, or a single-implementation solution like OpenVPN. Don't get me wrong, I love OpenVPN and thing those guys have a fantastic cross-platform solution ... but GRE isn't exactly an "odd protocol".

Submission + - Ubuntu's Laptop Killing Bug Fixed (launchpad.net)

Submitted by

jeevesbond

on Thursday January 15, 2009 @01:35PM

jeevesbond writes: "Back in October of 2007 Slashdot reported on a bug that would dramatically shorten the life of laptops using Ubuntu. Ubuntu users will be glad to know that a fix has finally been released for Ubuntu versions: 9.04, 8.10 and 8.04 (LTS). However, as this fix is not yet in the update repositories, anyone wishing to test it should follow these instructions for enabling the 'proposed' repository. Report your results on the original bug report. Happy testing!"

Ricardo Montalban Dead At 88 280

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @07:05PM from the welcome-to-fantasy-island dept.

DesScorp writes "Ricardo Montalban, immortalized as Khan in the Star Trek franchise, is dead at age 88, passing at his Los Angeles home. Montalban had a long and successful career on television and film. The voice of Rich Corinthian Leather is silenced, but we still have the memories."

Comment Re:Have they ever heard of BER/DER? (Score 1) 332

by forsetti on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @04:17PM (#24106201) Attached to: Google Open Sources Its Data Interchange Format

Heh -- I'm not talking about the *implementers* ... just the *protocol designers*. That's why I left out *OpenLDAP* and *OpenSSL*. ;-)

Seriously though - ASN.1 is pretty good for specification, and some of the serializations aren't bad. Fairly compact, flexible ... But don't code it by hand - se a ASN.1 compiler.

The Great Microkernel Debate Continues 405

Posted by Zonk on Thursday January 31, 2008 @11:21AM from the tiny-issues dept.

ficken writes "The great conversation about micro vs. monolithic kernel is still alive and well. Andy Tanenbaum weighs in with another article about the virtues of microkernels. From the article: 'Over the years there have been endless postings on forums such as Slashdot about how microkernels are slow, how microkernels are hard to program, how they aren't in use commercially, and a lot of other nonsense. Virtually all of these postings have come from people who don't have a clue what a microkernel is or what one can do. I think it would raise the level of discussion if people making such postings would first try a microkernel-based operating system and then make postings like "I tried an OS based on a microkernel and I observed X, Y, and Z first hand." Has a lot more credibility.'"

Feed Sony ponders potential PS3 price cut (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Friday June 15, 2007 @09:32AM

Hurry up, Howard

The chairman and chief executive of Sony, Sir Howard Stringer, has said the company was attempting to "refine" how much it could afford to reduce the price of the PS3 console by, and has been quoted as saying there was "no question" consumers wanted the price to be lower. Duh.

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