Comment Soooo..... (Score 2) 103
Sooo... "Need to eavesdrop on someone? There's an app for that." And I make this joke as an iPhone user who got the 4S the first week it was out, so please, no "Apple hater" accusations.
Comment FireSSH (Score 2) 151
Comment Re:It's a lot better now. (Score 1) 234
Uhh. Yes, RIFT is doing quite well and is preparing to release a new major patch.
Comment Completely Enix's fault (Score 2) 234
Ever since the merger, the company's games have been shit, and I completely blame the Enix side of the family. Square Co. produced some of the most memorable and genre defining games, such as FF, Chrono Trigger, Xenogears, Secret of Mana/Evermore. (full list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Square_games).
WTF has Enix ever released that was as noteworthy or even approaches the quality of Square?
Comment To Google: Just buy the rights to Java from Oracle (Score 1) 264
Seriously, Google uses Java prolifically enough across multiple platforms --- why not just buy the rights to Java and open source it. The company has tons of money, and I'm pretty sure Google would be a better steward.
I mean, how long has Java 7 been in the works? Even Google's own Java architect thinks the language has fallen behind. Google could fix what's wrong with Java and in record time.
Journal Journal: Can This Fruit Be Saved? - Popular Science
I was just reading about this oncoming banana disease, and flowing through my tiny little head were questions about how bananas will be handled by U.S. law.
Submission + - Wikipedia Founder to Launch Search Engine
Anonymous writes: The founder of Wikipedia wants to launch his own search engine.
From the article: "The U.S. founder of the Web encyclopedia Wikipedia says his planned Internet search engine, Wikiasari, could rival Google and Yahoo!."
http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061223 -085944-3351r
Nobel Laureate Attacks Medical Intellectual Property 449
An anonymous reader writes "Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who was fired by the World Bank blasted drug patents in an editorial in the British Medical Journal titled 'Scrooge and intellectual property rights.' 'Knowledge is like a candle, when one candle lights another it does not diminish its light.' In medicine, patents cost lives. The US patent for turmeric didn't stimulate research, and restricted access by the Indian poor who actually discovered it hundreds of years ago. 'These rights were intended to reduce access to generic medicines and they succeeded.' Billions of people, who live on $2-3 a day, could no longer afford the drugs they needed. Drug companies spend more on advertising and marketing than on research. A few scientists beat the human genome project and patented breast cancer genes; so now the cost of testing women for breast cancer is 'enormous.'"
Bookmark Cocoa not just limited to Mac (daniweb.com)
Submission + - Internet routingtables to BIG
my-naming-skillz-suck writes: "In a recently published paper, from the IETF, http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-raws -report-00.txt Leslie Daigle warns people of overgrowing routing tables.
Since, the old Design for the handling of the routes isn't very scalable, and there are resource restrictions on Routers, there is a need to derive new Designs.
This problem becomes even more prominent with the upcomming switch to ipv6, with all the millions of Devices that will probably connect directly to the net."
Since, the old Design for the handling of the routes isn't very scalable, and there are resource restrictions on Routers, there is a need to derive new Designs.
This problem becomes even more prominent with the upcomming switch to ipv6, with all the millions of Devices that will probably connect directly to the net."
Submission + - Can you tell a story in shellscript?
Anonymous Cowboy writes: Maddox Kent has written a novel called Living Things, published via Bob Young's post-Red Hat venture Lulu.com — and a whole chapter is written in a script language inspired, according to the author, by the bash shell. A significant portion of the novel takes place in an MMO, and there's even reference to a "GTA-Persistent" thirty-odd years from now...
Ender's Game arguably made videogames into a literary device: are there any other novels (bar the Halo/Splinter Cell spinoffs) that feature games as a significant factor? If cinema can grasp gaming as a storytelling device (The Last Starfighter, Tron, even Hackers at a pinch) why is it still so rare in literature? We are always badgering gamemakers to tell better stories: Tom Clancy aside, who outside the industry is willing to engage with games as a storytelling medium?
Submission + - NetBSD Up & Running on Sharp Zaurus
mathemajikian writes: "NetBSD has finally been ported to the following Sharp Zaurus models: C3000, C3100, C3200. Now you have the choice of either running OpenBSD or NetBSD on your favorite Zaurii! For more information visit the official NetBSD/Zaurus webpage: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/zaurus/"
