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Ruby 1.9.1 Released 226

Posted by kdawson from the yet-another-gem dept.
Janwedekind writes "Yuki Sonoda yesterday announced the release of Ruby 1.9.1 (Ruby Inside coverage with lots of links). The VM of Ruby 1.9, formerly known as YARV, was initiated by Koichi Sasada and has been in the making for quite some time. Ruby's creator Yukihiro Matsumoto has already presented many of the upcoming features in his keynote at RubyConf 2007. Most notably, Ruby 1.9 now supports native threads and an implementation of fibers. A lot of work also went into encoding awareness of strings. The 1.9.1 version is said to be twice as fast as the stable 1.8.7. It will take some time though until the majority of existing Ruby extensions get ported to 1.9."

Comment Re:Second on the drive thing (Score 1) 835

by jovetoo (#26572547) Attached to: How To Diagnose a Suddenly Slow Windows Computer?

I think it would require listening to changes on every directory on the filesystem with an active daemon. You could keep the database up-to-date like that, but I can assure you lots of overhead when doing file manipulations. (compiling, unzipping...).

I'm unsure what you mean with breaking something of POSIX, but it would mostly likely ruin your "computing experience".
Nintendo

Nintendo Files Patent For Game That Plays Itself 152

Posted by Soulskill from the say-what-now dept.
Kotaku points out a recent patent filed by Nintendo which automates gameplay unless the user specifically chooses to play a particular part of the game. Quoting: "The new system, described in a patent filed by Nintendo Creative Director Shigeru Miyamoto on June 30, 2008, but made public today, looks to solve the issue of casual gamers losing interest in a game before they complete it, while still maintaining the interest of hardcore gamers. The solution would turn a game into a full-length cut scene of sorts, allowing players to jump into and out of the action whenever they wanted. But when played this way, gamers would not be able to save their progress, maintaining the challenge of completing a game without skipping or cheating."
Microsoft

Submission + - Say NO to the M$ OpenXML format as an ISO standard (noooxml.org)

Submitted by
magesor
magesor writes: "Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

There is a petition that I just copy here:

I ask the national members of ISO to vote "NO" to the ballot on the Microsoft Office OpenXML (OOXML) specification to become an ISO standard for the following reasons:
  1. There is already a standard ISO26300 named Open Document Format (ODF): a dual standard adds cost to industry, government and citizens;
  2. There is no provable implementation of the OOXML specification: Microsoft Office 2007 produces a special version of OOXML, not a file format which complies with the OOXML specification;
  3. There is missing information from the specification document, for example how to do a autoSpaceLikeWord95 or useWord97LineBreakRules;
  4. More the 10% of the examples mentioned in the standard do not validate XML conformity;
  5. There is no garantee that anybody can write a software that fully implements the OOXML specification without being liable to patent damages or patent license fees;
  6. This standard conflicts with other ISO standards, such as ISO 8601 (Representation of dates and times), ISO 639 (Codes for the Representation of Names and Languages) or ISO/IEC 10118-3 (cryptographic hash);
  7. There is a bug in the spreadsheet file format which forbids to enter any date before the year 1900: such bugs affects the OOXML specification as well as software versions such as Microsoft Excel 2000, XP, 2003 or 2007.
  8. This standard has not been created by bringing together the experience and expertise of all interested parties (such as the producers, sellers, buyers, users and regulators), but by Microsoft alone.
Petition
EOOXML objections
"
The Internet

Submission + - Will You Say Yes? (willyousayyes.co.uk)

Submitted by
Matt
Matt writes: "Will You Say Yes saves you the embarrassment of rejection by letting you see if that girl (or guy) you like is willing to go on a date with you.
For those with long-term partners it also lets you see if your partner is ready for marriage before you pop the ever-so-dangerous question.
Just hope that the love of your life hasn't lied to the website in order to humilaite you."
Privacy

Submission + - Keylogger Hardware Embedded in New Dell Laptop (virus.org.ua)

Submitted by
kendbluze
kendbluze writes: "Here's an EE who was doing a simple repair to a nearly-new Dell 600m laptop when he noticed something a bit curious. Turns out he found a hardware keylogger sitting between the keyboard and ethernet controllers! See what Homeland Security didn't have to say about it."

Feed AACS hacked to expose Volume ID: WinDVD patch irrelevant (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed

Filed under: Home Entertainment

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/movies/AACS_hacked_again_to_expos e_Volume_ID_WinDVD_patch_irrelevant'; The DRM "protecting" HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc films -- AACS -- continues to unravel at the seams. In parallel efforts, hackers in both the Xboxhacker and Doom9 forums have exposed the "Volume ID" for discs played on XBOX 360 HD DVD drives. Any inserted disc will play without first authenticating with AACS, even those with Volume IDs which have already been revoked by the AACS LA due to previous hacking efforts. Add the exposed processing keys and you can decrypt and backup your discs for playback on any device of your choosing. So yeah, it looks like last week's WinDVD update has been quickly and definitively made useless just as we expected it would be. Well, for XBOX 360 HD DVD drive owners anyway but you can see where this is heading, right? Now go ahead AACS LA, revoke the Toshiba-built XBOX 360 HD DVD player... we double-dog dare ya.

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Microsoft

Submission + - Vista may reach an astonishing 12% of market

Submitted by RockDoctor
RockDoctor writes: Harris Interactive, a polling company, have been conducting a survey of users, asking their likelihood of "switching or upgrading" to Vista : 67% no, 20% not sure, 12% yes. The corresponding numbers for before the Vista release were 31%, 49% and 20%. Which you could read as 40% of Vista's potential customers have been turned away by the reality compared to the hype, and many "maybe" people saying "no". The survey is reported at Information Week, and the details are at Harris Interactive.

"A lack of consumer faith in Microsoft's promises that Windows Vista will significantly improve their computing experience is what's behind the low numbers, said Milton Ellis, VP of Harris' Technology Group."

Ahh, poor little Bill, people not believing his Marketing Department. Poor Billy!
The Courts

Submission + - SCO Attacks PJ of Groklaw

Submitted by
Litigious Bastards
Litigious Bastards writes: "SCO has just filed court papers saying that they were unable to subpoena PJ of Groklaw. While they quietly disseminated rumors via shills like Dan Lyons of Forbes that they were attempting to subpoena PJ, and apparently sent their crack team of process servers out looking for random people named Pamela Jones, it would appear that they were unable to locate the bright yellow envelope labeled "Email PJ" on the Groklaw website to ask for directions to serve her in person."
Music

Why the RIAA Doesn't Want Defendants Exonerated 199

Posted by Zonk from the so-many-reasons-just-pick-one dept.
RageAgainsttheBears writes "The RIAA is beginning to find itself in an awkward position. A few of its many, many lawsuits don't manage to end in success for the organization. Typically, when they decide a case isn't worth pursuing (due to targeting the wrong person or not having sufficient evidence), they simply move to drop the case. Counterclaims are usually dropped in turn, and everyone goes separate ways. But recently, judges have been deciding to allow the RIAA to drop the case, but still allowing the defendant's counterclaim through. According to the Ars Technica article: 'If Judge Miles-LaGrange issues a ruling exonerating Tallie Stubbs of infringement, it would be a worrisome trend for the RIAA. The music industry has become accustomed to having its way with those it accuses of file-sharing, quietly dropping cases it believes it can't win. It looks as though the courts may be ready to stop the record labels from just walking away from litigation when it doesn't like the direction it is taking and give defendants justice by fully exonerating them of any wrongdoing.'"
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Journal Journal: RIAA: Take some advise

Journal by jovetoo
I never understood why the RIAA does what it does the way it does it. Even settlements are horrible.

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