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Comment Enviro Friendly? (Score 1) 9

by k31bang (#35240772) Attached to: Funeral later this week.

And it's more environmentally friendly than burying a few gallons of embalming fluid.

You do know if you donate your body to science they soak your body in a vat of formaldehyde after embalming it (or at a minimum just embalm it). So It won't be anymore environmentally friendly if used for a medical science. On top of that, I can just can't stand the idea of some bio medical firm getting my knee or something similar to use for testing, and then making money on it, when i can't sell my own blood or parts when i'm living. (yes i know i can sell blood plasma).
First Person Shooters (Games)

Duke Nukem 3D On Unreal Engine 3 118

Posted by Soulskill from the all-out-of-bubblegum dept.
Julefrokost writes "While we're waiting patiently on Forever, there's some real news in the Duke Nukem realm. Ars Technica has a story about a fan-made Duke 3D project on Unreal Engine 3. There's an awesome demo video up on YouTube. Created by hardcore fan Frederick 'fresch' Schreiber, we can hopefully expect to see an upgraded Duke 3D in the near future." The article also notes, "Gearbox ultimately decided to support the project, and gave Schreiber a personal, non-commercial license to Duke Nukem 3D. He can't sell the work or profit from it directly, but he can use the characters and design of the game without fear of being shut down."
Games

Massively Single-Player Gaming? 209

Posted by Soulskill from the world-of-me-craft dept.
Massively is running an article discussing the trend in recent MMOs to enable and encourage solo play. Where the genre's early offerings, like Everquest and Ultima Online, were heavily dependent on finding other people to interact with, it's common for today's games to allow players to experience most of the content by themselves. Quoting: "It is human nature to want to be the center of attention or at least feel like the hero on some level. It's also not too far of a stretch to call members of our species generally selfish. How can you really deliver this experience if you force your players to ask for help all the time? I think this was simply a natural progression of the genre in trying to appeal to our natural traits. ... Finally, I believe it all comes down to the mighty dollar. Audiences grew and so followed the market and competition. Suddenly, you couldn't make MMOs on the cheap anymore (though a stalwart few still try). Not only are game studios focused on appealing to the solo casual gamer to maximize earnings, they also want to build in artificial time sinks to make players stick around."

Comment Re:Bad for what tourism? (Score 1) 623

by k31bang (#26756247) Attached to: Utah Mulls a Database of Bar Customers

I honestly don't mean this as a troll, but seriously, how much non-Mormon tourism is there in Utah?

SLC hosted a World Cup Qualifier(USA vs Costa Rica)that I attended in 2005. That counts,I believe, as tourism. I didn't make it to one of the private clubs. I did however drink some "lovely" stout at some family friendly sports bar type of place.

Comment Re:Calling and canceling today. (Score 1) 360

by k31bang (#26644631) Attached to: AT&T, Comcast To Join RIAA Team

That's it. I'm so sick of these companies I'm going to get ClearWire, I don't care if it's slower at least it's independent and not in bed with the Government/RIAA.

Doesn't Sprint basically own Clearwire?

Lets see (googling).

"It's official. Sprint and ClearWire are combining their WiMAX business to form a new joint venture. Sprint will have 51 percent ownership, ClearWire 27 percent, and new investors Intel Capital, Time Warner Cable, Bright House, Google, and Comcast will own 22 percent."
Handhelds

Gamepark Holdings Officially Announces the WIZ Handheld 166

Posted by timothy from the no-more-aa-goodness dept.
Croakyvoice writes "Gamepark Holdings, the makers of the GP2X Console, have today announced the successor, which is called the WIZ. The new GBA Micro-sized console features a touchscreen, Linux OS, an Arm9 533MHZ 3D processor with 64MB of ram and will have commercial games on sale at launch in October. Best of all for fans of homebrew and emulation on the GP2X, all that needs to be done is recompiling of sourcecode."
The Courts

Submission + - RIAA Complaint Dismissed as "Boilerplate"

Submitted by
NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "The decision many lawyers had been expecting — that the RIAA's "boilerplate" complaint fails to state a claim for relief under the Copyright Act — has indeed come down, but from an unlikely source. While the legal community has been looking towards a Manhattan case, Elektra v. Barker, for guidance, a case in which amicus briefs had been submitted by various industry groups and the US Department of Justice (see case file, and from Warner v. Cassin, a similar motion in the same Court's Westchester division, the decision instead came from Senior District Court Judge Rudi M. Brewster of the US District Court for the Southern District of California, in a decision denying a default judgment (i.e. the defendant had not even appeared in the action). Judge Brewster not only denied the default judgment motion but dismissed the complaint for failure to state a claim. Echoing the words of Judge Karas at the oral argument in Barker , Judge Brewster held (pdf) that "Plaintiff here must present at least some facts to show the plausibility of their allegations of copyright infringement against the Defendant. However, other than the bare conclusory statement that on "information and belief" Defendant has downloaded, distributed and/or made available for distribution to the public copyrighted works, Plaintiffs have presented no facts that would indicate that this allegation is anything more than speculation. The complaint is simply a boilerplate listing of the elements of copyright infringement without any facts pertaining specifically to the instant Defendant. The Court therefore finds that the complaint fails to sufficiently state a claim upon which relief can be granted and entry of default judgment is not warranted.""

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