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Comment Re:SUVs (Score 1) 897

by Paladin128 on Friday December 26, 2008 @10:59PM (#26238723) Attached to: Can the Auto Industry Retool Itself To Build Rails?

Japan is a much smaller country with much higher population density. The US is a good bit more spread-out. Rail-based infrastructures work better with higher population densities; otherwise, you're laying an awful lot of track to get from point A to point B.

Comment Re:Don't take the bait (Score 2, Insightful) 307

by Paladin128 on Monday December 22, 2008 @02:24PM (#26203307) Attached to: Chrome Complicates Mozilla/Google Love-In

What can they do to stop it? If they do anything, someone will fork Chromium, which is the open-source base of Chrome.

iPhone App Pricing Limits Developers 437

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @10:50PM from the you-get-what-you-pay-for dept.

HardYakka writes "According to this post in the Fortune blog, the iTunes app store has been a boon for users but some developers are saying the number of free and 99 cent apps make it difficult for developers to create complex, higher priced apps. Craig Hockenberry of Iconfactory says the iPhone may never get its killer app like the spreadsheet was for the Mac. If Apple does not do something, the store will be left with only ring tones and simple games. Some are suggesting that overpaid developers are the problem and the recession will soon lower the wages and costs for complex apps."

Race and Racism In Video Games 371

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @10:20PM from the token-hobbit-among-orcs dept.

SlappingOysters writes "Racism in video games has been a key topic of discussion in the game industry this year, thanks in large part to the controversy surrounding the Resident Evil 5 launch trailer. In this article, GamePlayer speaks to developers, publishers, activists and journalists about the issue to get various perspectives and insights into how the video game industry is moving forward on the topic of racism. A related piece also has interviews with Sue Clark from the UK's Classification Board and Dr. Griseldis Kirsch, a lecturer in Contemporary Japanese Studies, about how racism in video games is viewed by the BBFC and Japan respectively."

Comment Re:Hell no. (Score 1) 1141

by Paladin128 on Thursday September 04, 2008 @03:35PM (#24878585) Attached to: Should IT Unionize?

I have 12 years of experience and a degree in CS.

I can't find decent coders. In the last round of interviews, no one fit the bill.

Can you code well? Live in Jersey? Want to try me as a boss? Email me.

Submission + - Analysis of Ruby on Rails contracting market (railspikes.com)

Submitted by nosegay reports on Monday June 18, 2007 @10:02PM

nosegay reports writes: Dan Grigsby at Rail Spikes blog takes a pretty well reasoned look at the amazingly rapid rise and fall of the Ruby on Rails contracting market. Interesting reading for those of us considering ditching our cubes for the wild west of Ruby on Rails development.

Comment Rocky's boots (Score -1) 149

by nutsaq on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @11:12AM (#19477977) Attached to: History of MECC and Oregon Trail

don't forget about Rocky's Boots. Digital and analog circuit design for elementary school kids. Fscking brilliant. I hope my daughter gets to play truly educational games, instead of "dress up barbie, CONSUME!"

Feed Fox Interactive Nears Deal to Buy Photobucket (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Monday May 07, 2007 @05:12PM

Photobucket is in advanced talks to be acquired by Fox Interactive Media, a division of the News Corporation.

Submission + - Disaster recovery

Submitted by moogoogaipan on Monday May 07, 2007 @05:11PM

moogoogaipan writes: After a few days thinking about the quickest way to bring my website back to the internet users, I am still stuck at DNS. From experience, even if I set the TTL for my DNS zone file as low as 5 mins, there are still DNS servers out there won't update until a few days later(yeah you, AOL). Here is my situation. Say, I have my web servers and database servers at a remote backup location. They are ready to serve. So my question for ./ers is that if we get hit by an earthquake at our main location, what can I do in a few hours to get everyone to go to our backup location?

Submission + - South Korea developing robot code of ethics

Submitted by thefickler on Monday May 07, 2007 @04:59PM

thefickler writes: A 12-member task force, consisting of top lawyers, doctors and scientists, has been set up by the South Korean Commerce Ministry to develop a code of ethics for robots by the end of the year, according to TECH.BLORGE.com.

"We expect the day will soon come when intellectual robots can act upon their own decisions. So we are presenting this as an ethical guideline on the role and ability of robots," said South Korea's Commerce Ministry.

Submission + - Myspace eliminates "Gay" option

Submitted by

ishboo

on Monday May 07, 2007 @04:58PM

ishboo writes: "Just recently myspace abolished the option to select "Gay" as a sexual preference in your profile while still leaving bi and lesbian. This comes form chairman of News Corps. (Myspace's parent company) Rupert Murdoch who made this choice based on "Personal Family Values" who has a history of being accused of being homophobic. http://rawstory.com/news/2007/MySpace_deletes_abil ity_of_users_to_0503.html"

Bookmark Kids of same-sex parents do as fine, if not better, study concludes (blogspot.com)

by oga on Monday May 07, 2007 @04:56PM

Submission + - Tikal Bugzilla with features won't find elsewhere

Submitted by kanfil on Monday May 07, 2007 @04:49PM

kanfil writes: Tikal, an open source provider of application development and deployment suites, has launched an enhanced version of Bugzilla, positioned as a high performance issue tracker with a new GUI and the much sought after "custom fields" option (due also in version 2.23 of the community edition of Bugzilla).

Tikal Bugzilla is available for download from Tikal's project at SourceForge.

While Bugzilla is considered an excellent and reliable bug tracker, it is lacking in usability and flexibility. On the other hand, extreme flexibility can be a drag on usability (see Scarab). Balancing all, Tikal has released a "crowd pleaser" version of Bugzilla which includes:

New, easy to use GUI

"Custom Fields" creation via a GUI, no coding needed
True multi type issue tracking

"Easy Orientation" via a personal dashboard

Sub task fields (each can be attributed to a different user)

"View Version Control Activity" feature
And more

Tikal's Bugzilla lets you manage and process the myriad of issues that are part of the development process — change requests, tasks, patches, features etc. Each issue can have several sub tasks, each can be attributed to several owners.

Certified versions and full support is available for Tikal subscribers.

Tikal previously released Tikal Update Manager (TUM), a YUM Extender like, GUI based update manager for Eclipse IDE.

Tikal provides additional open source high performance tools for application development and life-cycle management.

tikalnet@tikalk.com is open for feedback and comments.

Submission + - Apple TV Shipment Delayed until mid-march

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @12:42PM

An anonymous reader writes: "Apple Inc. has delayed until March the launch of its gadget for streaming video and other content from computers to TVs, but the company would not explain why." Link to CNN story. I checked my order status and it has a revised shipment date of March 20th.

Submission + - Neo Geo, MSX and PC games on Wii Virtual Console

Submitted by

Wowzer

on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @12:41PM

Wowzer writes: "Recently Nintendo of Japan showed the Neo Geo logo on their Wii Virtual Console page. From the article: "SNK Playmore will start its support with Neo Geo games [in Japan] in the summer of 2007! No pricing or specific games were announced, nor does anyone know if MSX and Neo Geo games will become available to Americans or Europeans." The MSX games Eggy and Aleste will be available as early as Spring 2007 in Japan. But Americans aren't left behind with its first two casual PC games Jewel Quest II and Sproink hitting the Wii Shop in Q1 2007 as well."

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