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Tower Switch-Off Embarrasses Electrosensitives 292

Posted by samzenpus on Friday January 15, 2010 @03:03PM from the radiation-placebo dept.

Sockatume writes "Residents in Craigavon, South Africa complained of '[h]eadaches, nausea, tinnitus, dry burning itchy skins, gastric imbalances and totally disrupted sleep patterns' after an iBurst communications tower was put up in a local park. Symptoms subsided when the residents left the area, often to stay with family and thus evade their suffering. At a public meeting with the afflicted locals, the tower's owners pledged to switch off the mast immediately to assess whether it was responsible for their ailments. One problem: the mast had already been switched off for six weeks. Lawyers representing the locals say their case against iBurst will continue on other grounds."

Firefox 3.7 Dropped In Favor of Feature Updates 252

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 15, 2010 @12:43PM from the lessons-from-the-trenches dept.

Barence sends in a report from pcpro.co.uk that says "Under its original plans, Mozilla would roll out Firefox 3.6 and 3.7 over the course of 2009, each bringing minor improvements to the browser. However, a steady stream of delays to Firefox 3.6 has rendered that goal unobtainable, forcing Mozilla to rethink its release. As a result, Firefox 3.7 has been dropped and will be replaced with feature updates for Firefox 3.6 that will be rolled out with security updates. This should free up the team to work on the next major release, Firefox 4, slated for the last quarter of 2010, which is expected to follow the same development process." Updated 20100116 00:54 GMT by timothy: Alexander Limi, from Firefox User Experience, says that the PC Pro article linked above misinterprets the situation, and that 3.7 is still on the roadmap before 4.0. The confusion stems from a schedule realignment: the out-of-process plugins feature, originally slated to land in 3.7, will instead ship as a minor update in Firefox's 3.6 series. According to Limi, CNET gets it right."

Comment What? (Score 1, Insightful) 27

by daveisfera on Saturday September 13, 2008 @05:04PM (#24993141) Attached to: The Development of <em>Braid</em>

I don't see how someone who has received so much acclaim for his game design can completely miss the boat on a VERY popular game.

I've actually never played WoW (just don't have the time), but I imagine that the experience is much like Diablo on a grander scale. The enjoyment in a game like Diablo was far more complex than leveling up. The biggest driver for me was the social aspect of the game (playing together online, seeing how friends/others used resources to develop their character, etc).

I understand that the whole "RPG-style" of games like WoW/Diablo just isn't appealing to some people, but I don't see how a developer like this can completely misunderstand it.

Submission + - Global Warming, Not All That Bad?

Submitted by

Moses48

on Monday April 09, 2007 @11:48AM

Moses48 writes: "An interesting article from a Meteorologist about global warming. Is it really such a bad thing? Take note of the credentials of the author. "A warmer climate could prove to be more beneficial than the one we have now. Much of the alarm over climate change is based on ignorance of what is normal for weather and climate.""

Feed 28% of US homes have HDTV (pheedo.com)

From feed by thfeed on Monday April 09, 2007 @11:32AM

More than a quarter of US households now own a high definition TV set, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.

Submission + - Microsoft's Xbox 360 Gets IM Capability

Submitted by YesL on Monday April 09, 2007 @11:02AM

YesL writes: Microsoft Corp. said Monday that it is launching Windows Live Messenger on its Xbox 360, an entertainment system, so users can message directly from their television. Windows Live Messenger currently has more than 260 million active accounts, the company said.

Taxes, Second Life and Warcraft 441

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 09, 2007 @11:00AM from the get-on-the-ype-train dept.

An anonymous reader wrote in to say that there is "...a new law review article that explores the tax treatment of players in Second Life and World of Warcraft. The bottom line is that commercial activity that occurs in virtual worlds should be taxed the same as in the real world. But purely personal activity within virtual worlds should not be taxed."

Apple TV "Barely Watchable" 424

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 09, 2007 @10:20AM from the so-was-baywatch dept.

lpangelrob writes "Peter Svensson of the Associated Press reviews the Apple TV, and comes away less than impressed.While the Apple TV gets solid marks for "a very iPod-like interface, commendably clear and easy to use", the Apple TV experience falls apart on an HD television. The reviewer notes that "videos from Apple's online iTunes store look horrible on an HDTV set. The movies and TV shows have the same nominal resolution as DVDs, but look much blurrier, approaching the look of standard-definition broadcast TV.'"

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