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Comment Yeah, right (Score 3, Insightful) 71

raises hope for the more than 300,000 babies born with the infection around the world each year.

Especially when the majority of these infants are born in "third-world" countries, where people can't afford the basic stuff like food and water, they'll be able to cure their infants with this new treatment because the big pharmas will provide it for free. Can't wait for this to happen, along with the sun rising from the west

The Internet

Submission + - Ziff-Davis shuts down Gamespy

mvar writes: Thursday 21 was the last day of operation for famous PC gaming site Gamespy.com. The parent company, ZIff Davis, which owns the IGN network announced that they'll be closing down Gamespy along with sites 1UP and UGO. Gamespy has been running since 1999, offering a multiplayer match-making service for various games. Although the site's content has been dropping in quality and quantity since 2008 with a lot of columns (like planetFargo, top 10 etc) taking the axe, during the last 12 months the game reviews and related articles seemed to stray away from the path of praising every and all mainstream titles, and became more objective and independent than ever.

Comment Speed-dial (Score 1) 171

Does speed dial count as a bookmark? Anyway never used the classic bookmark menu in what seems like ages..I still keep my "favorites" around since the late 90's, I even have bookmarks to site reviews for the Geforce 256, but never went through the list to clean it up or sort it out. Most sites I visit are news-related so they end up in the speed dial. For forum posts with troubleshooting notes etc, there's google search, and for the rest (guides, articles etc) either google search or "save to disk" (for really helpful stuff like guides etc)
Python

Submission + - Python trademark at risk in Europe

mvar writes: It seems that a company in the UK is trying to trademark the "Python" term for all-things-computing and the PSF (Python Software Foundation) is asking for help. According to the PSF, they contacted the company in order to settle the matter but "They blew us off and responded by filing the community trademark application claiming the exclusive right to use "Python" for software, servers, and web services — everywhere in Europe. ". They now seek help from the community in several ways: By sending a letter to the EU council if you happen to work on a company that uses the Python programming language, by providing EU-published material regarding the Python language (articles etc) and/or financially supporting the PSF in the upcoming legal battle.
Idle

Submission + - Meteorite crashes in Russia

mvar writes: Details are sparse now, but apparently several meteorites crashed into Russia earlier today, setting off giant explosions and forcing nearby schools and office buildings to be evacuated. The meteorites, or whatever they were, reportedly landed in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia, where witness said the explosions shattered the window of nearby buildings. The regional Emergency Ministry said the flashes and explosions were caused by a meteorite shower, but locals think it might be the result of a jet crash or a missile. There's even a cool video from a passing driver's dashcam.
Networking

Submission + - Cisco opens up EIGRP

mvar writes: Cisco uploaded a video on Youtube according to which they're willing to open up the EIGRP Protocol so that 3rd party vendors can use it too. Although this is considered by most a nice move, there's a catch: Advanced features such as stub areas are not going to be released plus the proposed RFC retains control of the protocol to cisco.

Comment Re:Not surprising (Score 4, Interesting) 255

I second that. Years ago I worked for a company where we installed-supported logistics & accounting programs from a specific vendor. The main software, the vendor's "best-seller" was DOS-based. When they released the newest, Windows-only version which completely changed the user experience by the introduction of the mouse, most customers went nuts upon hearing that the DOS version was going EOL. They were used to the keyboard and having to re-learn everything and memorize where and what to click in order to go to the next field or print an invoice was considered unnecessary by the majority of the customers. The vendor eventually had to recall the EOL and to this day they still support & release updates for this decades-old software.

Comment Microsoft? (Score 1, Insightful) 171

no other first-generation smartphone leader has been able to pull off this kind of rebirth. Palm and Symbian are dead and Microsoft is struggling

So the crap-failure that was Windows CE managed to make Microsoft a "smartphone leader" and on top of that they are now struggling for a rebirth?!?

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