Comment WhatTheyClaimed (Score 4, Informative) 188
The mySociety folk that created TheyWorkForYou, PledgeBank and others have their own MP expenses site and also want your help. See here: http://whattheyclaimed.com/
Comment Also (Score 4, Interesting) 615
In other (related) news, Slashdot today allowed me to disable all the ads on the site, simply for occasionally moderating an not posting stupid crap all the time. I was using adblock anyway but this removes the blank space and allows the content to expand into the areas the ads used to occupy.
Thank you Slashdot.
Comment Re:Better than mplayer? (Score 2, Informative) 488
Don't you mean wxWigdets, formerly wxWindows ?
Comment Re:Bastards! (Score 4, Insightful) 562
Thus demonstrating that Apple don't always innovate, they copy good ideas too.
Comment Re:Bastards! (Score 4, Interesting) 562
We stopped showing that one off when the State of the Art demo came out
Go look, it's still good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB10C16xSqY|
Comment Re:Bastards! (Score 2, Informative) 562
Deluxe Paint IV
The Art Department
Real 3D
DevPack
AWeb
OctaMed
Also some of the large adventure games did use the OS. I had Beneath a Steel Sky installed to the hard disk for example.
Comment Re:baling wire, not bailing wire (Score 1) 412
No only that, but leave duct tape alone. It's an excellent way of holding things together. I'd trust your life to the stuff.
Comment Re:Hi again (Score 1) 276
Hi Bruce,
Nice article. As I was reading it I was all ready to disagree and post here complaining that you didn't include the AGPL, but there it was on page 4. So thanks for introducing this license to so many that didn't know of it's reasons for existence.
Hadron Collider Relaunch Delayed 223
SpuriousLogic writes "There's been another delay in the schedule announced for getting the Large Hadron Collider switched back on — now it's September 2009, a year after it shut down due to a malfunction. Scientists had said they expected the $5.4B machine to be repaired by November 2008, but then pushed the date back to June 2009, before the latest delay."
Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live 951
Pickens writes "MacArthur fellow Carl Safina, an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University, has an interesting essay in the NYTimes that says that equating evolution with Charles Darwin opened the door for creationism by ignoring 150 years of discoveries, including most of what scientists understand about evolution — Gregor Mendel's patterns of heredity, the discovery of DNA, developmental biology, studies documenting evolution in nature, and evolution's role in medicine and disease. Darwinism implies an ideology adhering to one man's dictates, like Marxism, says Safina. He adds that nobody talks about Newtonism or Einsteinism, and that by making Darwin 'into a sacred fetish misses the essence of his teaching.' By turning Darwin into an 'ism,' scientists created the opening for creationism, with the 'isms' implying equivalence. 'By propounding "Darwinism," even scientists and science writers perpetuate an impression that evolution is about one man, one book, one theory,' writes Safina. '"Darwinism" implies that biological scientists "believe in" Darwin's "theory." It's as if, since 1860, scientists have just ditto-headed Darwin rather than challenging and testing his ideas, or adding vast new knowledge.'"
Comment Re:Minor pet peeve (Score 4, Informative) 125
90% of Gaming Addiction Patients Not Addicted 333
phorm writes "BBC is carrying an article which states that 90% of visitors to Europe's 'video game addiction clinic' are not, in fact, addicted. The problem is a social one rather than a psychological issue. In other words, the patients have turned to heavy gaming because they felt they didn't fit in elsewhere, or that they fit in better 'in the game' than elsewhere in 'the real world.' This has been discussed before, with arguments ranging from gaming being a good way to socialize, the clinical definition of gaming addiction, and claims than males are wired for video-game addiction."
Comment Holding his breath ? (Score 3, Funny) 203
"I've been holding my breath since 2001 for this patch"
With lungs like that he should try free-diving!
Guitar Hero World Tour Won't Allow Copyright Infringement 92
1Up did an interview with two of the developers for Guitar Hero: World Tour about the process of creating the game. One of the interesting things they mention is that they won't be putting up with people who use the song creation tools to make covers of existing songs. "We'll be actively monitoring the site. And, obviously, if the copyright holder complains, Activision will pull it down immediately. We can't condone people putting up covers of music. It's really there for original content." We discussed the creation tools themselves recently. Since then, Activision has announced that they'll be including a MIDI sequencer to assist with making your own tunes.
Microsoft and Nokia Adopt OSS JQuery Framework 126
soliptic writes "The jQuery blog today announced that 'Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform.' So the open-source javascript framework will be shipped with Visual Studio and ASP.NET MVC. Microsoft's Scott Hanselman notes: 'It's Open Source, and we'll use it and ship it via its MIT license, unchanged. If there's changes we want, we'll submit a patch just like anyone else.'" There's also a story at eWeek about the decision.
