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Split Screen Co-op Is Dying 362

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 21, 2010 @04:41AM from the just-like-lan-parties dept.

kube00 writes "Split-screen co-op and local multiplayer are becoming things of the past. What happened to cramming a bunch of gamers into a room with two TVs and doing a system link match in Halo? Where have the all-night GoldenEye matches gone? Like the arcades of gamers' youth, the local multiplayer and co-op bonding experience has been replaced with individual gamers and a network."

Comment Re:Is it just me? (Score 1) 437

by doubtless on Friday September 24, 2010 @12:11AM (#33683898) Attached to: E-Books Are Only 6% of Printed Book Sales

a device with e-Ink screen is the way to go, I can't stand reading on PC/other handheld devices either but absolutely love the experience on Nook.

There are of course Kindle/iRiver/Sony Reader etc etc, but they essentially all use the same e-Ink screen from the same supplier.

Comment Re:eBook pricing (Score 1) 437

by doubtless on Friday September 24, 2010 @12:06AM (#33683876) Attached to: E-Books Are Only 6% of Printed Book Sales

not to mention that there's an initial investment on the hardware and the trade off of untrade-ability of ebooks

Comment Re:price (Score 1) 437

by doubtless on Friday September 24, 2010 @12:05AM (#33683868) Attached to: E-Books Are Only 6% of Printed Book Sales

and that's a real shame, haven't they learn anything from the evolution of digital music?

Comment Re:Ha! (Score 3, Informative) 141

by doubtless on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @11:55PM (#33505290) Attached to: Journalist Tricked Captors Into Twitter Access

except that his captors weren't Taliban but a group of corrupt local warlords trying to stir the taliban government.

this is from his tweet - http://twitter.com/shamilsh/status/23085559558

Aussie Gamer Loses PS3 Court Case Over 'Other OS' 206

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday September 01, 2010 @03:32AM from the misrepresentation-is-relative dept.

dotarray writes "An Australian man who took Sony to court over the company's decision to remove Linux functionality from the PS3 console has now lost his claim, with the court clearing the manufacturer of any wrongdoing regarding the upgrade."

Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex 397

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @04:02PM from the there's-a-lap-for-that dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to OK Cupid's survey of 552,000 user pictures iPhone users have more sexual partners than BlackBerry or Android owners. By age 30, the average male iPhone user has had about 10 partners while female iPhone users have had 12. By contrast, BlackBerry users hover around 8 partners and Android users have a mere 6. As the blog's author's wryly observe: 'Finally, statistical proof that iPhone users aren't just getting f*@ked by Apple.'"

How Sperm Whales Offset Their Carbon Footprint 150

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 17, 2010 @03:38PM from the all-natural-solution dept.

Boy Wunda writes "Scientists at Flinders University in South Australia found that in an awesome example of design by Mother Nature, Southern Ocean sperm whales offset their carbon footprint by simply defecating – an action that releases tons of iron a year and stimulates the growth of phytoplankton which absorb and trap carbon dioxide. If only we humans could say the same for our poop, which really doesn't do much more than just sit there." I'm going to do my part by buying some iron supplements and a can of chili, and heading off toward the ocean.

WordPress 3.0 Released 79

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 17, 2010 @03:21PM from the now-even-wordier dept.

An anonymous reader writes "WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download and comes with 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements. Major new features in this release include a new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them easily to implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies."

Comment Re:Let's see how long he can keep it. (Score 1) 212

by doubtless on Sunday May 17, 2009 @11:31PM (#27991219) Attached to: Maddog's New Hampshire "Unix" Plate Turns 20

Please call her I-Lin

Submission + - SDLC Tools Recommendations? (kyspeaks.com)

Submitted by

doubtless

on Friday January 04, 2008 @03:43AM

doubtless writes: "I am asked to search for methods/processes and tools that can aid a small team of programmers in improving the way we work (mainly maintenance and development.) as we are about to inherit a product source code that comes with almost zero documentations. So far I have looked at IEEE standards, IBM Rational Method Composer, EPF from Eclipse, and TopTeam Analyst. Each of these offers help in different areas of Software Development. However, I am searching for something that will also aid the process of creating all necessary documentations of the said software (from requirements to design documents to user manual), any suggestions?"

Submission + - 9 Most annoying Vista "Features"

Submitted by

firenurse

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @12:24AM

firenurse writes: "Fox news has an interesting story titled "Microsoft Windows Vista's Nine Most Annoying Features". According to the article, "Windows Vista tries hard to protect us from ourselves. One unintended consequence is that it will sometimes block actions that we purposefully generated — and not even recognize that we selected the option." The link is here. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250344,00.html "

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