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PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Naked War celebrates 100k, now in Free Play mode! (zee-3.com)

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StePickford
StePickford writes: "Indie publisher Zee-3 witnessed the 100,000th turn in their highly acclaimed two-player strategy game Naked War today and to celebrate switched the game into free play mode!

"We wanted to mark this landmark event in Naked War's history by doing something to say a big 'thank you' to the Naked War community," said co-designer Ste Pickford."
Television

Submission + - BT, BBC and ITV to offer HD Freeview on demand (custompc.co.uk)

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arcticstoat
arcticstoat writes: "Today, BT has teamed up with the BBC and ITV in the UK to form a collaborative project that ITV says will 'bring broadband and television together in one box.' This, says ITV, 'is the next natural evolution for Freeview.' In a joint statement, the three companies said that they will 'promote a common industry approach.' This, they say, will 'see the development of a standards based open environment for broadband connected digital television receivers.' The three companies also stressed that 'the initiative is open for all public service broadcasters, device developers and other ISPs.' New Freeview boxes based will offer the standard free to air digital channels, but will now also offer the 'potential for films, shows and interactive content from a range of other providers.' Interestingly, the statement says that the new services could also be offered in 'high definition.'"
iMac

Submission + - Mac Book Pros Might Suffer NVIDIA Failures (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Inquirer has taken an electron microscope to a 15" Macbook Pro bought off-the-shelf from a California retailer to test whether the bump material that joins the chips to the circuit board is similar to that which is alleged to be the cause of many failing NVIDIA parts this summer for which they have already taken a $200M charge.

NVIDIA is currently stating that the bumps are not bad, while The Inquirer points out that there is evidence disputing some of NVIDIA's past statements on the topic. In September a lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed against NVIDIA claiming that its executives concealed the original problems for at least 8 months.
Software

Submission + - Chandler PIM reaches 1.0, loses financial support (chandlerproject.org)

Submitted by TuringTest
TuringTest writes: I was surprised to learn that Chandler, the open-source Personal Information Manager (covered on Slashdot after releasing some stable versions), has silently reached its 1.0 milestone this summer only to (or maybe because of) having its financial support removed at the end of 2008. Chandler inherits organization concepts from Lotus Agenda and is a brainchild of Mitch Kapor (of Firefox, EFF and Lotus fame). It shares an approach to unified information representation with recent PIMs like MIT's Haystack and KDE's Nepomuk. What happened to the persistent universal data storage that object-oriented desktops and metadata filesystems were never able to provide? Did it finally arrive as a userland application, and nobody cared?
The Internet

Submission + - Diamond Giant Tries To Force Spoof Ad Offline (computerworld.com)

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CWmike
CWmike writes: "A provision in the Communications Decency Act protects domain name registrars and hosting providers from being held legally liable in most cases for the content clients post on their sites. But that hasn't stopped some companies from trying to pressure Internet intermediaries into disabling sites that contain what they consider to be objectionable material. The most recent example involves diamond conglomerate De Beers, which is trying to get registrar Joker.com to take down a spoof New York Times site that includes a satirical De Beers ad saying that diamond purchases would enable De Beers 'to donate a prosthetic for an African whose hand was lost in diamond conflicts.'"
Medicine

Doctor Performs Amputation By Text Message 242

Posted by samzenpus from the l33t-5ki11z dept.
Peace Corps Online writes "Vascular surgeon David Nott performed a life-saving amputation on a boy in DR Congo following instructions sent by text message from a colleague in London. The boy's left arm had been ripped off and was badly infected and gangrenous; there were just 6in (15cm) of the boy's arm remaining, much of the surrounding muscle had died and there was little skin to fold over the wound. 'He had about two or three days to live when I saw him,' Nott said. Nott, volunteering with the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, knew he needed to perform a forequarter amputation requiring removal of the collar bone and shoulder blade and contacted Professor Meirion Thomas at London's Royal Marsden Hospital, who had performed the operation before. 'I texted him and he texted back step by step instructions on how to do it,' Nott said."
It's funny. Laugh.

PETA Using Games To Spread Its Message 477

Posted by Soulskill from the looking-for-a-new-audience-to-harass dept.
Cooking Mama is a series of games for the Wii and the DS in which players go through a number of steps to prepare meals using a variety of recipes. Last week, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) created their own Flash-based parody of the game, highlighting the use of meat products by having a more bloody-minded Mama do things like pull the internal organs from a Thanksgiving turkey. Cooking Mama's maker, Majesco, issued a light-hearted response, pointing out the vegetarian meals in the game. PETA then said they plan to continue making parody games as a way of "engaging the public."
Technology

Researchers Getting the Lead Out of Electronics 178

Posted by samzenpus from the space-age-polymers dept.
alphadogg writes "Researchers at the University of Maryland say they have discovered a material to replace lead, a potential environmental hazard, in electronics products. The material, bismuth samarium ferrite (BSFO), was found by researchers in the university's A. James Clark School of Engineering. It can be used in products such as biomedical imaging devices and inkjet printers, and if implemented commercially could keep lead out of landfills and the ecosystem, they say. While manufacturers have developed replacements for lead in many products, until now no commercial replacement existed for lead zirconate titanate (PZT) — the material of choice for transducers, actuators, sensors and microelectromechanical systems used in common electronic devices, the university says."

Comment Wouldn't this cut both ways? (Score 1) 794

by writermike (#25818925) Attached to: Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots?

Ok, so maybe I'm not paid for the time my computer boots up. But what about the boss? Is she working non-stop from entrance to exit?

When the spouse calls to complain about the imported ottoman that's off by 17cm than what was advertised?

When she goes to the bathroom?

When the VP comes in to ask a question about yesterday's meeting then digresses onto that awesome play he saw last night on TV?

When the boss spends 15 minutes looking for a binder she knows she "put right here?"

What if she eats lunch at her desk and works the entire time? Does that mean the time can be taken later? Is she docked per chew?

This is all just a little ridiculous.

Comment Re:Continuity problems already (Score 1) 320

by writermike (#25741361) Attached to: First Trek Film Footage Unveiled

And as others have mentioned in comments to previous stories here, Chekov wasn't on the Enterprise until later on well after Kirk took command. He really doesn't fit into this movie.

True. But, then again, why did Kahn recognize him in ST2? I recall reading somewhere the explanation that Chekov wasn't a bridge officer during Space Seed. Well, ah, whatever.
Operating Systems

Linux Kernel Surpasses 10 Million Lines of Code 432

Posted by timothy from the nice-round-figures dept.
javipas writes "A simple analysis of the most updated version (a Git checkout) of the Linux kernel reveals that the number of lines of all its source code surpasses 10 million, but attention: this number includes blank lines, comments, and text files. With a deeper analysis thanks to the SLOCCount tool, you can get the real number of pure code lines: 6.399.191, with 96.4% of them developed in C, and 3.3% using assembler. The number grows clearly with each new version of the kernel, that seems to be launched each 90 days approximately."
Games

Spore Expansion Announced, Another Coming In 2009 105

Posted by Soulskill from the evolving-content dept.
EA announced this week what many suspected for a while, now: Spore expansions are on their way. The first, due out in November, will be an addition to the creature creator, offering more parts for players to use. The next, due in Spring 2009, will provide new gameplay: "The expansion will give space-faring species the ability to beam down from their ships to explore other worlds and complete missions. And along with this, the expansion will include an Adventure creator, in which players can build — and then share — their own customized missions."
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Pico-ITX goes "stackable" (linuxdevices.com)

Submitted by nerdyH
nerdyH writes: Via's Pico-ITX motherboard form factor is looking more and more like the heir apparent to PC/104, a stackable motherboard form factor widely used in industrial computing. That's because pico-ITX has been adopted by the Small Form Factor SIG (special interest group), an industry standards group planning to add a stackable high-density expansion interface called "SUMIT" to it. The result: a board that's smaller than PC/104 but with modern expansion options that include low-speed USB as well as "ExpressCards" — PCMCIA cards that connect via PCI Express.
The Internet

The Semantics of File Sharing 506

Posted by Soulskill from the you-say-tomato-i-say-cease-and-desist dept.
ethericalzen writes "The LA Times has published an opinion article about the legal semantics and analogies of file sharing. The article includes arguments from those who believe file sharing is theft and those who strongly disagree. As it points out, the common analogies to theft are often incomplete or inaccurate. The author states, "balancing the interests of content creators against the public's ... is a much more complicated task than erecting a legal barrier to five-fingered discounts." He recognizes that it is not a trivial concept, and that the clamoring from both camps about definitions and moral boundaries will dictate how businesses and users function in the future."

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