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Comment Re:I like this (Score 1) 316

by eZtaR on Monday April 23, 2012 @07:08AM (#39769063) Attached to: Pay Less If You're a Nice Person: Valve's Freemium Model For <em>DOTA 2</em>

Actually you're not far off, currently in the beta, after a match you can choose to commend players within four categories: Friendly, Forgiving, Teaching and Leadership. This also shows up on your public profile. Furthermore you can report players within these categories: Intentional feeding, voice abuse, text abuse and intentional ability abuse. I imagine this is going to be the basis for their new pricing system.

Comment Southpark did it! OH sorry i mean Greenday (Score 4, Informative) 296

by eZtaR on Saturday May 16, 2009 @09:31AM (#27978403) Attached to: Danger Mouse Releases Blank CD-R To Spite EMI

Didn't Greenday already do this like five years ago?

Comment Re:Firsssssssst Posssssssst (Score 1) 397

by eZtaR on Wednesday August 13, 2008 @10:07AM (#24582529) Attached to: Digitizing Rare Vinyl

Transcoding from a lossy format to another lossy format sounds GREAT on the ears!

Wav lossy? What world do you live in?

Submission + - Linux 2.6.22 Kernel Released (kerneltrap.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 08, 2007 @08:23PM

An anonymous reader writes: Linux creator Linus Torvalds announced the official release of the 2.6.22 kernel, "it's out there now (or at least in the process of mirroring out — if you don't see everything, give it a bit of time)." The previous stable kernel, 2.6.21, was released a little over two months ago on April 25'th. New features in the 2.6.22 kernel include a SLUB allocator which replaced the slab allocator, a new wireless stack, a new firewire stack, and support for the Blackfin architecture. Source level changes can be tracked via the gitweb interface to Linus' kernel tree.

Submission + - Gadget transforms regular LCD into touchscreen

Submitted by eZtaR on Saturday May 05, 2007 @05:22PM

eZtaR writes: NAVisis are introducing a new USB-gadget, LaptopTablet, which you mount onto the side of your regular LCD monitor transforming it into a fully functional touchscreen, controlled with an included pen. Pricing at around $100 it seems a good alternative for photoshoppers.

Journal Journal: Elevator effect on second life 167

Journal by razpones on Saturday May 05, 2007 @02:40PM

There is an interesting video on npr on how real human reactions translate to the virtual world, it's interesting in the view of the question posted here about rape on second life . The video is about a little experiment on second life where the reporter gets together with a psychologist to see if breaking some unspoken human rules apply on the virtual world, such as staring or being too close

Submission + - Winner of nasa glove contest named

Submitted by eZtaR on Saturday May 05, 2007 @08:00AM

eZtaR writes: The winner of NASA's $2000 spacesuit glove contest has been found. He's an unemployed aerospace engineer, named Peter Homer, and claims to have bought most of the materials in local shops and on eBay.

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