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Duke Nukem Forever Release Date Revealed 288

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 21, 2011 @10:54AM from the restocking-bubblegum dept.

stupid_is writes with news that Duke Nukem Forever has now gotten a firm US release date: May 3rd. It will release worldwide three days later. The game was resurrected last fall by Gearbox Software and 2K Games after 3D Realms' 12-year attempt at development came to an end in 2009 when the company closed its doors.

Comment Something is rotten here (Score 1) 529

by Edsj on Monday January 17, 2011 @10:33PM (#34911734) Attached to: Goldman Sachs Says No Facebook Shares For US Investors

If they drop US investors, some bells did ring at GS lawyers. Trust me on this one, this isn't a good sign. There is a lot of money avaliable on the market now, even in the US.

This move probably will give top investors more doubts about the real financial status of Facebook. I think myself the actual valuation is high and if someone is trying to invest in a .com thinking that this valuation will make sense some years ahead I would probably laugh. No .com stays too much time on top. Yahoo had it's time, as AOL, ICQ, and others. I just see only one trend in a near future, devaluation of the stock prices to a reasonable level.

Submission + - MS-led consortium still after Novell patents (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruhlinger on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @05:56PM

jfruhlinger writes: Open source advocates breathed a sigh of relief this morning when it appeared that German regulators had stopped a plan by a consoritum consisting of Microsoft, EMC, Apple and others to acquire some of Novell's patents. But it now appears that the plan is still alive, with this morning's moves called "a purely procedural step".

Submission + - MySpace as a cautionary tale (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruhlinger on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @05:40PM

jfruhlinger writes: While everyone is busy anointing Mark Zuckerberg the new messiah, MySpace, the social networking giant of only a few years ago, is laying off half of its staff. News Corp. will probably say that it's that you shouldn't spend half a billion dollars on an unprofitable website. Blogger Chris Nerney thinks there's a deeper moral: things on the Internet are very easily discarded and replaced.

Submission + - The Need for IPv4 to IPv6 Planning (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @01:37PM

wiredmikey writes: The Internet's supply of IPv4 addresses is quickly running out, setting the clock ticking on the final exhaustion of the Internet numbering plan that the world has used for over three decades. Expected to occur in March of 2011, the event will be a wake-up call for connected organizations everywhere. It is clearer than ever before that IPv6 transition plans are urgently needed. Once all IPv4 addresses are depleted, organizations will only be able to receive IPv6 address space.

If you haven't started to work on an IPv6 strategy yet, you're probably behind the curve. IPv6 was designed largely to solve the IP address exhaustion problem. It exponentially increases the amount of address space available to Internet-connected devices. IPv4 addresses, which are represented by a 32-bit number, enables a mere 4,294,967,296 (4.3 billion) IP addresses. IPv6 uses 128 bits, allowing 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 (340 trillion trillion trillion) addresses.

The inevitable switchover to IPv6 has been anticipated for a long time, but the cutover is imminent. When the IANA runs out of IPv4 addresses, headlines will be created, even more awareness will be raised. CIOs who have not planned IPv6 transition plans as part of their strategic agenda must act now, or risk the entire enterprise online.

Submission + - IBM study shows electric car pitfalls, potential (networkworld.com)

Submitted by coondoggie on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @01:28PM

coondoggie writes: High gas prices alone will not fuel an electric car revolution, rather if the auto industry could address a variety of other concerns having to do with recharging, convenience and cost it would go a long way toward making the vehicles more popular. These were a few of the conclusions of a pair of IBM studies of consumer attitudes and auto industry executives. IBM interviewed 1,716 US drivers and 123 auto executives.

Submission + - Chinese Stealth Fighter Completed Test Flight (sina.com)

Submitted by hackingbear on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @01:24PM

hackingbear writes: As reported by Chinese websites, the elusive Chinese stealth fighter jet has shown to be more than a photoshop job or a mock-up. It has conducted a first successful test flight in Chengdu (with quite some pictures; here is the google translation and the mention of the test in Wikipedia.) A J-20, escorted by a J-10S, took to the sky at 12:50pm on Jan 11 and landed 18 minutes later. Civilians around the base cerebrated with firecracker after the landing. According to Wikipedia, J-20 has features similar to both F-22 Raptor and the Sukhoi T-50 but has larger weapon bays and carry more fuel.

Submission + - Microsoft-led group to buy Novell patents nixed (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @01:18PM

alphadogg writes: In a move that will be seen by many as a big win for open-source advocates, a plan to create a consortium led by Microsoft to buy Novell patents has been withdrawn. Novell is being bought for $2.2B by Attachmate. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/112210-attachmate-to-feast-on-novell.html

Early in December Microsoft, Apple, EMC and Oracle notified the German regulator that they planned to form CPTN Holdings with a view to purchasing 882 of Novell's patents. But the filing was withdrawn on Dec. 30. No reason was given for the withdrawal by German authorities, but it is likely voluntary as authorities would not yet have had time to investigate the proposal.

However, in recent weeks the German Federal Cartel Office has received letters and recommendations from various open-source organizations including the U.S.-based Open Source Initiative and the Free Software Foundation Europe.

These open-source advocates are extremely alarmed that patents with claims on some elements of open-source software could fall into the hands of companies that compete with that open-source software. Given Novell's past involvement in free software development, it's seems very likely that at least some of the company's patents would cover free software technologies.

Submission + - OCZ Abandons RAM Market to Focus on SSDs

Submitted by arcticstoat on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @01:04PM

arcticstoat writes: Premium memory maker OCZ is now no longer a premium memory maker. The company has surprised the PC industry by announcing its departure from the DRAM market in order to concentrate on the apparently more lucrative SSD sector. In figures unveiled as a part of the company's regular earnings call, OCZ explained that it made a mere 22 percent of its revenue from DRAM products in the third financial quarter of this year. The company's exit from the DRAM market is expected to be completed by 28 February, although it will take time for stock to work its way out of retailers' inventories.

Submission + - Thunderstorms proven to create antimatter 1

Submitted by radioweather on Monday January 10, 2011 @09:53PM

radioweather writes: Scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter from thunderstorms in the form of positrons hurled into space. Scientists think the antimatter particles were formed in a terrestrial gamma-ray flash (TGF), a brief burst produced inside thunderstorms and shown to be associated with lightning. "These signals are the first direct evidence that thunderstorms make antimatter particle beams," said Michael Briggs, a member of Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) team. He presented the findings at a news briefing at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle. As the late, great, Johnny Carson of the Tonight Show used to say, “That is some weird, wild, stuff“.

Submission + - Swiss banker who used WikiLeaks faces trial (businessweek.com)

Submitted by Edsj on Monday January 10, 2011 @09:33PM

Edsj writes: Rudolf Elmer, a former employee of the swiss bank Julius Baer is now facing a trial for uploading files to WikiLeaks.
The files reportedly showed that the bank helped its clients set up secret offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes. In Feb 2008, the bank won an injunction that forced WikiLeaks website to be temporaly shut down.

If convicted he could be sentenced to up to three years in prison and a fine.

Submission + - AMD CEO Dirk Meyer resigns (goodgearguide.com.au)

Submitted by

angry tapir

on Monday January 10, 2011 @07:00PM

angry tapir writes: "Advanced Micro Devices has announced that Dirk Meyer has resigned from the post of CEO, and that the company is beginning to search for a new chief executive. Meyer resigned in a mutual agreement with the board of directors, and the company has appointed Thomas Seifert, the company's chief financial officer, as the interim CEO. Meyer was installed as CEO in 2008 as a replacement to Hector Ruiz, just as the company was making its way out of rough financial times. In October, AMD posted a third-quarter net loss of US$118 million."

Comment Re:Dead on. (Score 1) 470

by Edsj on Sunday January 09, 2011 @12:13PM (#34814868) Attached to: Is Mark Zuckerberg the Next Steve Case?

I think the main point is: Linkedin IPO is coming and probably soon Twitter and Facebook.

The question we should all be making: Do you really think the shares prices will go up? Would you advise your friends to buy their shares?

Myspace is still there. Even AOL is still there. But would you pay the price they were valued in the past?

This train already left the station. Don't try catch it.

Comment Re:stupid (Score 1) 470

by Edsj on Sunday January 09, 2011 @11:10AM (#34814420) Attached to: Is Mark Zuckerberg the Next Steve Case?

But wasn't the reason of AOL merger with Time Warner to get a broadband infrastructure? AOL even with broadband avaliable failed to get advantage of it.

Give them credit too for their own failure.

Submission + - No Unstructured Play Makes Jack a Dull-Witted Boy

Submitted by theodp on Saturday January 08, 2011 @01:38PM

theodp writes: The average 3-year-old can pick up an iPhone and expertly scroll through the menu of apps, but how many 7-year-olds can organize a kickball game with the neighborhood kids? An effort to restore children's play is gaining momentum, with scientists, psychologists, educators and others who comprise the play movement saying that most of the social and intellectual skills one needs to succeed in life and work are first developed through unstructured childhood play. Among the evangelists is Sarah Wilson, who was shocked to see her child's kindergarten classroom featured a wall of computers and little desks instead of the messier old-school sandbox, blocks and toys. 'There's no imaginative play anymore, no pretend,' lamented Wilson.

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