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Guitar Hero: Metallica Setlist Released 82

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 26, 2009 @04:01AM from the exit-light-enter-night dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Metallica has announced the setlist for their upcoming Guitar Hero game. They have a wide variety of songs from their different albums. There are 28 Metallica songs and 21 from other artists. They have also confirmed the release date of March 29th. The list includes Enter Sandman, The Unforgiven, One, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Fans who pre-order the game will have an opportunity to get an extra bass drum pedal to keep up with Lars Ulrich's beats."

Visualizing Complex Data Sets? 180

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 19, 2009 @10:44PM from the see-it-to-believe-it dept.

markmcb writes "A year ago my company began using SAP as its ERP system, and there is still a great deal of focus on cleaning up the 'master data' that ultimately drives everything the system does. The issue we face is that the master data set is gigantic and not easy to wrap one's mind around. As powerful as SAP is, I find it does little to aid with useful visualization of data. I recently employed a custom solution using Ruby and Graphviz to help build graphs of master data flow from manual extracts, but I'm wondering what other people are doing to get similar results. Have you found good out-of-the-box solutions in things like data warehouses, or is this just one of those situations where customization has to fill a gap?"

Comment Re:Depends on the bechmark (Score 2, Insightful) 182

by danpat on Monday December 22, 2008 @03:32PM (#26204131) Attached to: Security Flaws In Aussie Net Filter Exposed

While projects like this might hit their modest targets initially, they're totally doomed in the long term.

If 1% of users can get around it with highly technical trickery, it's not going to be long before one of those 1% packages the workaround up into a nice one-click piece of software that everyone can use. Just look at CSS. It only took one DVD-Jon to figure it out and now CSS is effectively useless.

That's why I think lots of people argue that it's either 100% or don't-bother.

Comment Re:Somewhat reasonable (Score 2, Funny) 204

by danpat on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @10:38PM (#26141037) Attached to: Australian Court Lets Lawyer Serve Papers Via Facebook

I also am not a lawyer, but my housemate is, and he agrees with you.

Submission + - Patents For Sale Online Marketplace

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 16, 2007 @05:38PM

An anonymous reader writes: What's New on the Legal Web
By Robert J. Ambrogi
Law Technology News
June 18, 2007
http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleL T.jsp?id=1181898350208&rss=newswire

Patents marketplace. A new Web site, LegalForce,( http://www.legalforce.com/) offers an online "marketplace" for buying, selling and licensing patents. Through July, listing patents for sale costs nothing. Interested buyers can view listings and post bids, which are nonbinding and serve as invitations to negotiate. The site also provides a networking forum for inventors, attorneys and IP professionals, where they can participate in topical forums, post videos (illustrating their inventions, for example), post classified ads and list events.

According to the Web site, LegalForce also offers IP legal services, including patent preparation and prosecution, "through a network of U.S. patent attorneys using LegalForce intellectual property support services in India." According to a white paper, this means that much of the patent work is outsourced through U.S. patent attorneys to patent engineers in India.

Submission + - NBC: "Piracy more serious than burglary and fr

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 16, 2007 @04:33PM

An anonymous reader writes: ArsTechnica is reporting how detached and manipulative the discussion about copyright is becoming: 'NBC/Universal general counsel Rick Cotton suggests that society wastes entirely too much money policing crimes like burglary, fraud, and bank-robbing, when it should be doing something about piracy instead. "Our law enforcement resources are seriously misaligned," Cotton said. "If you add up all the various kinds of property crimes in this country, everything from theft, to fraud, to burglary, bank-robbing, all of it, it costs the country $16 billion a year. But intellectual property crime runs to hundreds of billions [of dollars] a year." '

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