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Submission + - Liposom (articlesbase.com)

Submitted by dnielrobin
dnielrobin writes: Studies show the link between obesity and insufficient sleep wherein there is an increase in hormones that stimulates appetite and reduction in hormones that burn fat. For this reason, various supplements are formulated past few years that act as stimuli that suppress all unwanted craving and weight gain in the human beings.
Idle

Submission + - Recasting the presidents as famous dictators (yoteinvoco.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A pretty simple, non-scientific Google exercise confirming that, regardless of their political platform, US presidents inevitably end up being compared to famous dictators by their detractors, with Hitler being the go-to comparison (hello, Godwin's law).
Google

Submission + - Rupert Murdoch: iPad may save newspaper industry (theaustralian.com.au) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Murdoch spoke at the National Press Club saying "We're going to stop Google and others from taking our content" and using it for free, not mentioning Google has repeatedly offered to stop if requested, but the newspapers like the web traffic they get. Murdoch wants Google to instead "just publish our headline and a sentence or two" from the article, and include "a subscription form for the Journal". He also called the iPad a "wonderful" tool for listening to music, watching videos and reading newspapers. "It may well be the saving of the newspaper industry," by making it cheaper to distribute content to a broader audience.
Microsoft

Submission + - MechWarrior 4 free release 'held up' by Microsoft (joystiq.com)

Submitted by Vamman
Vamman writes: Way back in July 2009, Smith & Tinker announced that it was going to authorize MekTek to release MechWarrior 4 and all its expansions for free "soon" — likely to drum up interest for the upcoming MechWarrior reboot. After nearly a year, the game remains unreleased. The reason for the delay, according to MekTek, lies with Microsoft. The group claims that the project is "held up at Microsoft" and it's currently "unknown" when the release will receive its "final go ahead."

The studio adds the unfortunate revelation that it's now in dire financial straights thanks to the delay. "Due to the demands placed upon us by industry lawyers to release the Mechwarrior 4 Free release we were forced to insure our Studio at a premium rate to meet the Microsoft standard," reads the announcement, adding that group's server fund has "run dry" and is currently being paid directly by staff. MekTek is asking for donations from players that download its MekPak 3.1 expansion. According to the announcement, MekTek would be able to keep the servers running for an entire year if all those who downloaded the expansion were to donate $5. MekTek is saying thank you for support from another company caught up in this mess Virtual World Entertainment, the company which owns and operates the Tesla Cockpits simulators also running Mechwarrior.

MekTek has released to their community a major update for their existing community expansion MekPak 3.1. Check em' out! They are also promising their new expansion — MekPak 4 in a few weeks as open beta!
Intel

Submission + - The ARM, the PPC, the x86, and the iPad (neosmart.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: With the release of the iPad, and more specifically, its use of the new ARM-based A4 CPU, a lot of questions are being asked about x86 and ARM, and where they're used. NeoSmart Technologies takes a lengthy look at the underlying architecture of the iPad, Apple's rumored purchase of Intrinsity, and explains the differences between the CISC x86 and the RISC ARM/PPC architectures. Incredibly informative, and easy to understand even if it's all new stuff.
Games

Submission + - Game Development Extends to the Heart of Africa 1

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Peace Corps Online
Peace Corps Online writes: "The Internet has been credited with "flattening" the world economy, giving anyone, anywhere with the requisite skills the opportunity to build a game or create an app on Facebook. Now the Mercury News reports on a new game for the iPhone called iWarrior, founded by two 26-year old developers in Africa, Eyram Tawiah, a Ghanan, and Wesley Kirinya, a Kenyan, who created every element of their game — the mechanics, the graphics, the music — overcoming considerable obstacles to develop their first product. The game is "a feed 'em up game, not a shoot 'em up" says Tawiah where you "defend your village by feeding and driving away the animals before they crash it and feed on your livestock and garden!" with threats including "thundering elephants," "mighty rhinos," "swift cheetahs" and "crafty hyenas." Leti, which means star in the Ewe language, was nurtured by the philanthropic arm of San Francisco-based Meltwater Group, an Internet business services company, which in 2008 founded the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Accra, Ghana. "We believe talent is everywhere," says Meltwater founder and CEO Jorn Lysegger."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft's Unsung Success

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Microsoft gets no respect, I tell ya, no respect. While he's not abandoning his Macs anytime soon, Newsweek's Daniel Lyons says Microsoft deserves some props for Windows 7, a smash hit. In five months, Microsoft has sold 90 million copies, making the OS the hottest-selling product in the company's 35-year history. So why does nobody seem to care? Microsoft occupies what's called the 'mushy middle,' the huge dead zone that lies between sexy, expensive products at the high end and the low-end products that appeal to bargain hunters. So, Microsoft generates loads of money — last year's net profit was $14.6B — but not much in the way of excitement.
Businesses

Submission + - What The Top U.S. Companies Pay In Taxes

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: If you've ever wondered how it's possible that you pay more to the IRS than General Electric, Forbes has an explanation. You, my friend, do not have the tax benefit of overseas operations. Microsoft, for example, has its overseas subsidiaries license software to its U.S. parent company in return for handsome royalties that get taxed at lower overseas rates. Exxon limits its tax pain with the help of 20 wholly owned subsidiaries domiciled in the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands that shelter cash flow from operations in the likes of Angola, Azerbaijan and Abu Dhabi. As a result, of the $15B it paid in income taxes last year, Exxon paid none of it to Uncle Sam, and has tens of billions in earnings permanently reinvested overseas. Likewise, GE has $84B in overseas income parked indefinitely outside the U.S. Now quit your carping and get back to filling out that 1040!
Unix

Submission + - Rolling Back the Clock: Shell only Programs (systhread.net)

Submitted by jjrff
jjrff writes: System Administrators who remember the day when they did not have a graphics display rarely think about wanting to time travel for the pure joy of using a terminal. It is possible, however, to virtually do so by using either all or mostly text only utilities and perhaps a retro looking X windows desktop. In this text a look at a small experiment to see how well that went in one particular instance.

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