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Submission + - Google Developing OS Based on Chrome/Linux (foxnews.com)

Submitted by superslacker87 on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @04:49AM

superslacker87 writes: Google is developing a new OS for Netbooks. They reason that Android, despite being hardware being developed by some manufacturers, isn't sufficient. So they are building one from scratch with the Linux Kernel as the base. Full Text

Google Earth As a Game Engine For Ship Simulation 84

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @06:47AM from the all-i-ask-is-a-tall-e-ship dept.

dinther writes "Yesterday the program Ships was released. Ships is significant because it is the first serious application that uses Google Earth as a game engine. In Ships, you take control of a selection of ships and drive them around the world (if you have that much time). Building games around Google Earth is now viable, thanks to its ever-increasing level of detail. From a technical standpoint, the Google Earth browser plugin has proven to be quite a capable platform to work with. Further tech details about the application are available as well."

Map Editor, Photoshop Tool Coming To Braid 44

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @10:41PM from the all-things-in-time dept.

Erik J writes "Braid creator Jonathon Blow has revealed that a map editor and image tool will be added to the popular puzzle game. First, though, Braid will receive a patch to fix some issues players have reported. Blow explains: 'After I get a new version out in a few days that fixes the problems some people are having, and when more people have played/finished the game, I am going to post some documentation for the editor. The way it works is you can make levels with the editor (up to a full game, potentially) and run that with -universe later... also a tool will be released that lets you take Photoshop files and import them into the game, if you want to put new graphics in your levels.' It is unclear if these capabilities are coming only to PC or to the Xbox 360 version as well."

Comment Re:Why are we still discussing this?! (Score 4, Interesting) 625

by rendermaniac on Monday January 19, 2009 @11:44AM (#26516281) Attached to: Single Drive Wipe Protects Data

Or a magnetic fish tank cleaner (true story - happened to my brother in law).

Comment standard single sign on (Score 1) 333

by rendermaniac on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @07:37PM (#26365489) Attached to: OpenID Fan Club Is Shrinking

what would be far more useful is an easy way to do single sign on between applications for a single website. I know LDAP exists, but it seems pretty complicated, or you can use half broken bridges, but somethign really simple would be incredibly useful. Or is there something I missed.

Comment Re:Good luck with that. (Score 1) 39

by rendermaniac on Friday December 19, 2008 @08:49AM (#26171509) Attached to: City In Georgia Planning Virtual World For Civic Interaction

Our local council streams it's planning meetings over the web. This is very useful if you can't attend in person (and you can do something else in the boring bits). But you're right - a 3d world is overkill. Static web pages convey this information much better - and most likely already exist in some form. If they really want to get citizens to be more involved then they should write some applications for facebook etc. and exploit a social network that already exists.

Comment Re:Is the case upside down? (Score 1) 120

by rendermaniac on Sunday January 08, 2006 @12:23PM (#14421778) Attached to: Corsair Demos Easy Watercooling PC Rig

I noticed that too. Having the PSU directly under a water cooled CPU sounds like asking for trouble too.

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