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Submission + - What Slashdot think about Assange's speech? (youtube.com)

Submitted by lagi
lagi writes: This are the words of Wikileaks editor Julian Assange just before the December 21, 2012.

Our buildings can only be as tall as their bricks are strong. And our civilization is only as strong as its ideas are true. When our buildings are erected by the corrupt. When their cement is cut with dirt. When pristine steel is replaced by scrap—our buildings are not safe to live in.
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And when our media is corrupt. When our academics are timid. When our history is filled with half truths and lies. Our civilization will never be just. It will never reach the sky.
Games

Submission + - Project Godus completed funding of £450,000 at Kickstarter (kickstarter.com)

Submitted by lagi
lagi writes: at £550,000 strech goal 22cans promise also to include Linux and OUYA version. and only 44 hours left for campaign.

GODUS is an innovative reinvention of Populous, the original god game and delivers exciting global co-operation, competition, creation and destruction to a whole new generation.
It's worth to mention Molyneux's last project in Bullfrog was Dungeon Keeper — GODUS blends the power, growth and scope of Populous with the detailed construction and multiplayer excitement of Dungeon Keeper and the intuitive interface and technical innovation of Black & White.

Iets boost this project, it's good investment.
Programming

Submission + - FactoryPal: New Scala framework for creating objects as test data. Say no to Fix (blogeek.com.ar)

Submitted by
mgonto
mgonto writes: "FactoryPal is a scala framework that lets you create objects as test data. All you have to do is define the templates for each of the classes that you want FactoryPal to create objects from. After that, FactoryPal takes care of the rest.
Have you ever heard of factory_girl a super cool Ruby framework? Well, FactoryPal is factory_girl for Scala. It is pretty similar in its use. The difference is that FactoryPal is 100% type safe, which all of us Scala people love.
Here is a link to Github for the anxious https://github.com/mgonto/factory_pal"
Businesses

Submission + - 6 Weird Habits Of Successful People (openforum.com)

Submitted by
Esther Schindler
Esther Schindler writes: "With a title like 6 Weird Habits Of Successful People I bet you're expecting superstitions, like Charles Dickens insisting on sleeping facing north. (Gee, I thought you're supposed to face east?) But this short article really does have some useful advice, such as:

They are quitters. You know the saying “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” Not so much. In fact, that’s wrong. Winners quit a lot. They have a keen eye for what is not working and not supporting the finish line (check rule one again for that). Once they identify the thing sucking energy, money and resources from their business, they cut it out fast.

I liked it. I think you might, too."
Programming

Submission + - How experienced/novice programmers see code (synesthesiam.com)

Submitted by
Esther Schindler
Esther Schindler writes: "We always talk about how programmers improve their skill by reading others' code. But the newbies aren't going to be as good at even doing that, when they start. There's some cool research underway, using eye tracking to compare how an experienced programmer looks at code compared to a novice. Seems to be early days, but worth a nod and a smile."
Hardware

Submission + - NVIDIA, fuck you! - worked (steamforlinux.com)

Submitted by lagi
lagi writes: It looks like cursing NVIDIA worked out, for Linus. the R310 release features 'double the performance and dramatically reduce game loading times for those gaming on the Linux operating system.' this was tested on Intel Core i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz with 8 GB memory, GeForce GTX 680 and Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit. ya sometimes it needs some cursing to get things done.
Games

Submission + - Chris Robert's Star Citizen completed it's total funding, Alpha in 12 months (kickstarter.com)

Submitted by lagi
lagi writes: The new stretch goal is set for $750,000 @ Kickstarter page, if that one is reached everyone will get a AMX-1 Class I Repair Droid — that repairs your ship (but it can't talk). this adds to total of $1,547,463 raised at game's website. this game's funding (from the internet) is tending at $3.5 mil+. about 1700 places left for the $35 pledge, this includes final game, early access to alpha + beta + ship + robot.

It's too bad native Linux support is not gonna happen anytime soon as CryEngine 3 is not supporting it currently.
Linux

Submission + - Steam linux beta (valvesoftware.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It's all on.
Valve annouced today an internal steam beta for linux and a limited participation beta starting soon. One free game included.
Windows

Submission + - Here's why Windows 8 is crap, and how it wasted my time for nothing. (fedoraproject.org)

Submitted by lagi
lagi writes: With Windows 8 to be released soon, I'm sure some slashdot windows users (as primary OS) asked them selves, "Is it time to install some nice Linux distro and dodge the pain?" Well, after using Windows 7 since it was released and trying the Windows 8 RC for over two months, i came to a conclusion, it's defensibly the time! After all, I did the same when Windows 98 came out, so i didn't feel the pain of neither ME or XP, and Windows 2000 was great as secondary system.

I don't like Windows 8 and i don't want "Metro" start screen or however it's called — the old start menu worked slow and nicely, I don't want pointy window corners (or at least wanna have the ability to choose), don't need a slow Task Manager that looks too much like "System Monitor", don't need 3487 types of dialog interfaces, don't need a "cool" progress bar that shows copy progress but never shows the right time, don't want MS to take over my facebook account and not let me unbind it and I certainly don't want to pay any money for something i don't own (especially when I can have Linux for free).

I decided installing Fedora 17 on my new SSD, and connect Windows HD to SATA slot #2. I'm actually using Mageia 2 @ work, and it's really nice and works kinda well, but I always liked the RedHat way, been using it's flavors since 98~. so after being very disappointed from Fedora (15-16) and Gnome 3 combination, i wanted to give it another try. I downloaded the 600MB~ Live image, put it on USB, and installed Fedora, from within Fedora, the whole process including configuration screens took less then 30 min, no errors, all devices detected including my unknown wifi adapter, and my machine fully booted in 10 secs without any tweaks, and Gnome 3.4 is actually not so bad, I was super happy.

Until I tried rebooting back to Windows.
Fedora installed GRUB2 on MBR of the new disk (Windows 8 boot option was added automatically pointing to sdb1), of course when i chosen it Windows went insane, "like wtf you're doing ?!!", and rebooted my PC right away.
I figured out the install didn't configure GRUB right for win8, so i manually change bios boot back to windows hd, booted again, without asking anything it went into this strange "automatic repair" mode... asking me if i what restore to last point? ... well i said "no!", cause i didn't understand what it will actually do ... but it started preforming repairs anyway... I have no idea what it was doing to my poor (non-SSD) hd for like 30 min, when it finished (?) an encouraging message was displayed saying "sorry, we couldn't repair your system" with just one option "shutdown" ... so i did. then i booted again, and just like i expected, windows booted up just fine like nothing happened.
Microsoft

Submission + - Windows 8 Devs Enticed By Offers - Such As Meet Steve Ballmer! (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: Microsoft really has a lot riding on the success of Windows 8 and the UI formerly known as Metro. So much so that it is offering as much help and encouragement to developers it can think of. For reasons that aren't immediately obvious, the latest round in the "encourage developers" war is being waged with a UK-specific website. You sign up for all sorts of help but if you submit an app before the official Windows 8 launch date then you can win a meeting with Steve Ballmer. The only reason I can think that a dev might want to meet Mr Ballmer is to kick his shins in revenge for the number of technologies he has chosen to dump in a single OS upgrade and for how stability rates fairly low at the new re-imagined Microsoft.

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