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Submission + - SAMURAI JACK IS BACK (newsarama.com)

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JT The Geek
JT The Geek writes: ""Genndy Tartakovsky has returned to his most famous incomplete tale, Samurai Jack. He will be writing and directing a feature length movie the marks the return of one of the most original characters in the world of animation." "Even though there was one episode where Jack caught a glimpse of the future and it showed him triumphant, the series never was truly completed. After four seasons and 52 episodes, Tartakovsky stopped production as he was also working his third series, Star Wars: Clone Wars, and claimed the demands were too much. There were also inside sources saying the ratings of Jack had taken a severe dip in the last two seasons. In a last interview granted to Animated Shorts, Tartakovsky stated he wanted to go on to full-length feature films. " "Anyway, according to Variety, the new Jack is being produced by an up-and-coming legend in the animation world, Fred Seibert. The former president of Hanna-Barbera has opened up a new division of his highly successful TV studio, which has previously produced such highly successful series as The Fairly OddParents among many others. Seibert and Tartakovsky have a long history together as the former produced the first Dexter's short for the latter. ""
Communications

Submission + - T-Mobile contract terms held unconscionable (ca.gov)

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Stephen Lindholm
Stephen Lindholm writes: "Good news for T-Mobile customers. In a class action brought against T-Mobile, this past week, the plaintiffs have successfully argued that T-Mobile cannot prevent its customers from filing a class action against it. The plaintiffs are suing over non-prorated early termination fees and the selling of SIM-locked handsets.

T-Mobile, as many other cell phone companies do these days, had written into its contract with customers that any disputes between T-Mobile and the customers had to be resolved by arbitration. Requiring customers to go to arbitration means that customers cannot sue, and more importantly it means that customers cannot file class actions. The result, if the contractual terms requiring arbitration were valid, would be that the most abusive cell phone company practices could not be limited by customers bringing lawsuits.

However, in the suit Gatton et al. v. T-Mobile USA, Inc., the plaintiffs convinced the trial court that the contractual provision requiring arbitration was unconscionable and therefore not enforceable. On June 22, 2007, the California appeals court affirmed the trial court's ruling. The class action is going forward.

Presumably, this means that customers of other cell phone companies will be able to sue their own cell phone companies as well. The particular grievances against T-Mobile in this class action are the imposition of non-prorated early termination fees and the selling of SIM-locked handsets. Both of these are common to other cellular carriers, although it's not clear from the appellate opinion whether T-Mobile is doing something extra-shady with the SIM-locking. (The appellate opinion states, "T-Mobile requires equipment vendors to alter the handsets they sell to T-Mobile by locking them with SIM locks and setting the SIM unlock code based on a secret algorithm provided by T-Mobile.") So if this suit is unltimately successful in California, it may not take long before non-prorated early termination fees and SIM-locked handsets die a long-awaited death."
Operating Systems

Submission + - Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "http://lunapark6.com/ubuntu-704-feisty-fawn.html Review of Ubuntu's Feisty Fawn. Reviewer's pretty ecstatic about the way Feisty makes Linux easy to use. "From Feisty's new migration assistant in their installer, to the new Restricted Drivers Manager, to the ease of setting up Beryl or Compiz things went so smoothly that I was amazed. This would be the first Linux distro that I have encountered where I would think even my mother could use.""
Operating Systems

Fragmentation in Linux Documentation? 61

Posted by Cliff from the where-is-an-up-to-date-repository-for-docs dept.
twilight30 asks: "While trying to figure out why a supposedly-supported SATA-II controller isn't recognized on my motherboard I thought I'd go back and visit the Linux Documentation Project's pages. It was a trip down memory lane, but I soon wondered about the state of many of the documents there. Much of TLDP is old, maybe even crufty. So, I'd like to ask what you think of TLDP.org and its 'competitors'. Do people get info from other sites or Wikis? Are people more likely to look at their distro's forums first? Are distros good enough now that TLDP is basically irrelevant? For the BSDheads, do you think the BSDs' documentation pages have lessons to teach TLDP? Is TLDP still relevant to you? If not, what would have to change for TLDP to become relevant again?"
Microsoft

Submission + - Torvalds on Vista

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bl8n8r
bl8n8r writes: "Linuxworld is running an article on Linus Torvalds' take on MS Vista. "I don't actually think that something like Vista will change how people work that much," Torvalds told Computerworld. "I think it, to some degree, has been over-hyped as being something completely new and I don't actually think it is." Torvalds also cites (hardware requirements being one) a few reasons why Vista may cause a wider adoption of Linux. Perhaps the only reason behind Vista is to sell all those SuSE licenses Microsoft bought?"
Programming

Submission + - 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn't Live Without

Submitted by Sushi
Sushi writes: CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the design of pages can be easily changed, just replacing a css-file with another one. Over the last few years web-developers have developed many useful techniques, which can save you a lot of time — of course, if you are able to find them in time. The article 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn't Live Without lists essential techniques, which make the life of web-developers easier. Thanks to all developers who contributed to accessible and usable css-based design over the last few years. We really appreciate it.

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