Comment Re:Details on the Ubuntu Wiki (Score 1) 320
It means that it's time to open up wikipedia and educate yourself.
Comment Re:Rules of Ad Blocking (Score 1) 660
No, that's the second rule of ad blocking. The first rule of ad blocking is you don't talk about ad blocking.
Comment Re:A lot of people (Score 1) 359
The cure is waitpid?
Submission + - Tremulous moves to Xbox, loses sight of open roots 1
An anonymous reader writes: Following in the footsteps of popular open source shooter Nexuiz, Tim Angus, better known by the open source gaming community as "Timbo", has announced that a deal has been reached between Microsoft game studios and Darklegion Development to bring the Tremulous concept to Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Xbox live service. As part of the deal, Microsoft has acquired all rights to the Tremulous brand, including the tremulous.net domain.
Unfortunately, while attempts were made by the community to negotiate the co-existence of xbox and open source projects under the same name, MGS flatly refused to allow this and, just hours after the original announcement, the disgruntled ex-dev team made the decision to fork Tremulous. The resulting project, "Librelous", a portmanteau of Libre and Tremulous, promises to breath new life into the game with brand new music, sounds and high res graphics, in addition to the much anticipated flashlight.
Unfortunately, while attempts were made by the community to negotiate the co-existence of xbox and open source projects under the same name, MGS flatly refused to allow this and, just hours after the original announcement, the disgruntled ex-dev team made the decision to fork Tremulous. The resulting project, "Librelous", a portmanteau of Libre and Tremulous, promises to breath new life into the game with brand new music, sounds and high res graphics, in addition to the much anticipated flashlight.
Comment Re:yay facts! (Score 1) 949
What about if you upload it directly to them?
Comment Re:Microkernel? (Score 2, Interesting) 631
Actually most current monolithic kernels are multithreaded, so they can have one thread working on reading that CD, while another threads handles user input, etc. The only difference from microkernels is that it's all in a single address space.
Comment Re:Pascal (Score 1) 407
Actually VB.Net is quite different from VB6/VBA/VBS. It's basically C# with a VB-like syntax.
Comment Re:Interesting graph! (Score 5, Insightful) 295
I believe that the two drops and spikes correspond to a new version of Windows being release. Prior to release, people will stop buying the old version, which would be seen as a drop in profits. After the release, a lot of people will upgrade, which accounts for the spike in profits. The second spike (2009) is bigger than the first (2006) because Windows Vista wasn't as successful as Windows 7.
Comment Re:No difference to them (Score 1) 849
All citations have been suppressed, silenced, destroyed and/or killed.
Comment Re:They're giving it 160%! (Score 1) 143
There are quite a lot of engines which are PC and Xbox only because they only have a DirectX renderer and don't have the time or experience to make one for the PS3 (Source engine). I don't know any exact numbers, but that could explain the results.
Comment Re:I rarely get to say this... (Score 1) 296
Probably because they lose money on each PS3 sold, hoping to catch up with game sales. So people who use their console for something other than games cause them to lose money.
Comment Re:Logistics (Score 1) 178
Considering they already have a pretty sophisticated system for filtering the Internet, filtering text messages could be easily added on to that.
Comment Re:Oblig XKCD (Score 1) 709
Of course we make up for that by building overly complex multi-language systems that somehow manage to make the build process actually take a long time through all the ancillary activities surrounding the actual chunks of compilation.
Autotools?
PhD Candidate Talks About the Physics of Space Battles
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darthvader100 writes "Gizmodo has run an article with some predictions on what future space battles will be like. The author brings up several theories on propulsion (and orbits), weapons (explosives, kinetic and laser), and design. Sounds like the ideal shape for spaceships will be spherical, like the one in the Hitchhiker's Guide movie."
Comment Re:Remove the Internet. (Score 1) 105
Well at least they'll be sure they they have working filesystems.
