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Businesses

Boss By Day, Gamer By Night 51

Posted by Soulskill from the how-to-excel-at-bejeweled dept.
Ant writes "Computerworld queried seven executives at some of today's top tech firms to learn how they started gaming, what they play now, and how their virtual skills translate to the real world of the office. Alan Cohen, vice president of enterprise solutions at Cisco Systems, had this to say: 'Now, increasingly, games are Internet 2.0 encounters. They're all about how well you work together with others any time, any place, with players from around the world. Rock Band 2, World of Warcraft, even Guitar Hero promote the shared experience and are all about how together we can do more, be more, compete better than we can by going it alone. That's right in line with how the corporate environment is evolving: You can play (or work) anytime you want, and you have to compete and collaborate on a global basis in order to succeed.'"
Programming

Rails and Merb Ruby Web Frameworks Merge 80

Posted by kdawson from the flattened-red-gem dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The Merb and Rails Core Teams today announced a major merger; the two projects will become one, and be released some time in Q2 of 2009 as Rails 3. This is great news for lots of folks who worried about the potential community fracture, as well as great news for all the developers who will now have an all-around better option for programming Ruby. Read more about the details in Yehuda's blog post, or at the Ruby on Rails blog."
Games

Survival-Horror Genre Going Extinct? 166

Posted by Soulskill from the scary-proposition dept.
Destructoid is running an opinion piece looking at the state of the survival-horror genre in games, suggesting that the way it has developed over the past several years has been detrimental to its own future. "During the nineties, horror games were all the rage, with Resident Evil and Silent Hill using the negative aspects of other games to an advantage. While fixed camera angles, dodgy controls and clunky combat were seen as problematic in most games, the traditional survival horror took them as a positive boon. A seemingly less demanding public ate up these games with a big spoon, overlooking glaring faults in favor of videogames that could be genuinely terrifying." The Guardian's Games Blog has posted a response downplaying the decline of the genre, looking forward to Ubisoft's upcoming I Am Alive and wondering if independent game developers will pick up where major publishers have left off.
PC Games (Games)

Multi Theft Auto - San Andreas Goes Open Source 127

Posted by timothy from the prometheus dept.
dan writes " Multi Theft Auto is a third-party modification for Rockstar's hit title Grand Theft Auto San Andreas — and it has become open-source after over four years of closed source development. As a (somewhat) regular player of MTA since the early days of GTAIII, this hit me by surprise, somewhat." (The news is on the project's front page, from which dan extracts more details, below.)
Cellphones

(Useful) Stupid BlackBerry Tricks? 238

Posted by kdawson from the maze-of-twisty-stupid-tricks dept.
Wolfger writes "Continuing the recent (useful) stupid theme: I've recently become a BlackBerry user, and I'm in love with the obvious(?) tricks, such as installing MidpSSH to access my home box remotely. But I'd like to know what more experienced Crackberry addicts can share."
United States

Journal Journal: Guess Who's Barack? 7

Journal by cyranoVR

WHY CAN'T HE SEAL THE DEAL?!! oh...oops, never mind.

It's going to be fun watching Pudgy do a 180 and start feverishly explaining why the President has no real power "according to the Constitution," ignoring / deleting his journal entries from the past 8 years, etc.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the mandatory daily "2 Minutes Hope" sessions. Should be fun!
User Journal

Journal Journal: Guess Who's Back 12

Journal by cyranoVR

Guess who's back?

Guess who's back?

Guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack?!!!!!!!!one
Slashback

Journal Journal: On Irony 6

Journal by cyranoVR

Remember when Katrina happened? There was this one Slashtard (DesCorp?) who was writing these really dark JEs where he wrote (verbatim) "they should just open up the floodgates and wash the entire city [of New Orleans] into the Gulf and not bother rebuilding it." And of course he was blaming the victims for "choosing" to live in such a disaster prone area.
The Almighty Buck

Journal Journal: I'M RICH, BEOTCH 5

Journal by cyranoVR

WSJ: Veronis Buys Stake in Vault.com
By DANA CIMILLUCA
September 25, 2007; Page A15

Vault.com Inc. announced today a majority investment by private-equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson. The investment values the online job-and-education information service at between $60 million and $85 million, people familiar with the matter say. Full terms of the deal weren't disclosed.

Anime

Journal Journal: Eureka SeveN Questions 2

Journal by cyranoVR

Ok, I just finished watching Eureka SeveN. While finishing the series wasn't the same level of catharisis as finishing Neon Genesis EVANGELION, it was satisfying. For once, a happy ending! Anyway, here are the questions I have, which weren't really answered during the series.

1) What was the "Summer of Love?"

2) What is the Seven Swell?

3) Is Anemone a Corallian?

4) What is the "Dispair sickness?"

5) What exactly is the Compac Drive?

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