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Emulation (Games)

Nintendo Upset Over Nokia Game Emulation Video 189

Posted by Soulskill from the super-mario-takedown dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Nintendo is investigating potential copyright infringement by Nokia during some video demos of their N900 phone, which can be seen emulating Nintendo games. Nintendo spokesman Robert Saunders says: 'We take rigorous steps to protect our IP and our legal team will examine this to determine if any infringement has taken place.' In the video, Nokia says, 'Most publishers allow individual title usage, provided that the user is in possession of the original title.'"
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Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child 331

Posted by samzenpus from the snack-is-going-to-be-on-the-floor-today dept.
Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California have shown that the more germs a child is exposed to, the better their immune system in later life. Their study found that keeping a child's skin too clean impaired the skin's ability to heal itself. From the article: "'These germs are actually good for us,' said Professor Richard Gallo, who led the research. Common bacterial species, known as staphylococci, which can cause inflammation when under the skin, are 'good bacteria' when on the surface, where they can reduce inflammation."

Comment Re:Why Chrome never can be my browser: (Score 1) 383

by nicholasjay (#29994452) Attached to: Google Betas Chrome 4, Touts 30% Speed Boost
Firefox doesn't include an ad blocker either. But Firefox has ad blockers available as a plug in. Oh, So does Chrome. http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/adblock/

I agree with you about trusting everything to Google, but your only complaint about Chrome just got shot down in flames.

Comment Re:frickin' bad taste... (Score 1) 383

by nicholasjay (#29908429) Attached to: "Frickin' Fantastic" Launch of NASA's Ares I-X Rocket
The 'Frickin' comment wasn't in an official announcement. If you watched the actual footage of the launch, you would understand. One of the controllers (I assume) told the rest of the group that it was a 'frickin fantastic' launch, and congratulated everyone on a great job. It just so happened that his microphone was piped through to NASA TV, so everyone heard it. Can't fault a guy for 'letting go' when he poured his heart and sole into this project. Or aren't NASA engineers human?
It's funny. Laugh.

2009 Ig Nobels Awarded, For Gas-Mask Bras and More 123

Posted by kdawson from the classical-gas dept.
alphadogg notes that the 2009 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded yesterday evening in Cambridge, MA. (You may find that site has been pre-Slashdotted; and improbable.com's video feeds of the ceremony don't work at the moment either.) News.com.au has coverage of the bra that converts quickly to two gas masks, a study of why pregnant women don't tip over, the award for literature, and other gems. "Ireland's police won the literature prize from writing more than 50 traffic tickets to a frequent visitor and speeder named Prawo Jazdy. In Polish, this means 'driver's license.' Pathologist Stephan Bolliger and colleagues at the University of Bern in Switzerland won for a study they did to determine whether an empty beer bottle does more or less damage to the human skull than a full one in a bar fight."
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Transformers Special Edition Chevy Camaro Unveiled 299

Posted by samzenpus from the nerds-roll-out dept.
roelbj writes "Automotive stories are few and far between on Slashdot, but today's news from Chevrolet might just make a few readers' mouths water at the chance to own their own Bumblebee. Today at Comic-Con, General Motors officially announced the 2010 Chevy Camaro Transformers Special Edition. The $995 appearance package can be applied to LT (V6) and SS-trim Camaros in Rally Yellow with or without the optional RS package."

Comment Re:Oh I promise (Score 1) 225

by nicholasjay (#28436955) Attached to: Watch TV On Your Satnav
What ever happened to personal responsibility? Why should this device protect the user from doing something stupid? Isn't that what the user is for? We are trusting the drive to pilot a 2 ton projectile already. That being said, most people are idiots. I don't want to watch TV while I'm driving, but my passengers might.

Comment Re:VxWorks PC support (Score 2, Interesting) 141

by nicholasjay (#28228513) Attached to: Intel Buys Embedded Software Vendor Wind River
To tell you the truth, I just have more experience with RTEMS. Back before the real time extension were available, Linux of any variant wasn't truly a real-time OS, and that pushed it from consideration from projects. Now there are a lot of real time Linux variants out there, but the ball got rolling with RTEMS before Linux ocould be considered seriously. Now whether or not a specific mission needs 'real-time' as in 'hard real time' or as in 'really fast' is a totally different topic.

Comment Re:VxWorks PC support (Score 1) 141

by nicholasjay (#28228481) Attached to: Intel Buys Embedded Software Vendor Wind River
JPL uses VxWorks on a lot of projects and almost has WindRiver people constantly on site. Even with this JPL developed their own file system to address the inadequacies of the filesystems VxWorks comes with (dosFS, HRFS, etc). Beyond that there are a lot of other NASA centers that use VxWorks that don't have as nearly a good relationship with WindRiver as JPL. There has been a lot of time spent mucking with the source code of VxWorks to enhance performance to acceptable levels.

Comment VxWorks PC support (Score 1) 141

by nicholasjay (#28228229) Attached to: Intel Buys Embedded Software Vendor Wind River
I wonder how this is going to affect VxWorks' PPC support. The PPC architecture is used on a lot of spacecraft. If WindRiver slowly gets 'nudged' to drop PPC support/updates/new versions of VxWorks and boost x86 support, then that may be enough to get us off the VxWorks teat and on to something more open, like RTEMS.

Comment Re:The Law of Unintended Consequences (Score 1) 1186

by nicholasjay (#28009583) Attached to: US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016
You have something a bit wrong. The big boat wagons did disappear because of the fuel crisis in the 70's, but fuel economy standards haven;t kept them down. CAFE standards work differently than you might think. Cars like the Chrysler PT Cruiser and the Dodge Magnum are classified as 'light trucks' as far as the CAFE standards go, so they are helping offset the Dodge Rams and Durangos as far as average mileage goes. But why can't there be a big station wagon? There's nothing preventing it. It wouldn't drive down the CAFE average for cars, but it would usually boost the average for trucks. It's just that not a statistically relevant number of buyers want a huge station wagon over the crossover SUV and truck-based SUVs we have today.
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Submission + - Where are the toys?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Has the video game industry completely missed the boat? Julian Murdoch over at GamersWithJobs thinks so this morning:

I propose that this is a shameful missed opportunity. True toys, designed from the first thought toys that use a video game engine, are far too rare. All this takes is an act of will in parenting. The bits that we insert in our consoles and call up on our PCs are not the product of some kind of unconscious parthenogenesis — real people make games. Real people who, one hopes, had a youth full of unstructured play, devoid of rules and board game paths and score keeping. One suspects that the minds behind Electroplankton and Flow are at least in touch with their proverbial inner children, but the products of their efforts are far too tentative, far to restrictive to actually work as toys. For any developers reading this, allow me to gift you with the killer apps. Microsoft Paint and GarageBand
Is he right? Has the game industry grown so focussed on Next Gen (tm) multiplayer high-gloss gaming that they're missing the big picture?

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