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Duke Nukem 3D On Unreal Engine 3 118

Posted by Soulskill on Monday October 18, 2010 @02:20PM 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."

Comment Export to PDF (Score 1) 480

by chmodman on Thursday October 14, 2010 @11:25AM (#33894858) Attached to: Microsoft Admits OpenOffice.org Is a Contender

I really like OpenOffice's ability to export in PDF without having to purchase Adobe Acrobat. This is a killer feature IMHO.

Comment Tubing connections with RFID (Score 1) 520

by chmodman on Wednesday August 25, 2010 @12:06PM (#33370014) Attached to: Look-Alike Tubes Lead To Hospital Deaths

They do make medical tubing connections with RFID. This allows the equipment to verify a proper connection before delivering anything through it. Also allows traceability of old connections, logging connect/disconnect, etc. http://www.pddnet.com/editorial-jim-brown-colder-products-trouble_free-fluid-connectors-for-medical-devices-052410/ This is mostly a cost issue, as old hardware needs to be replaced / retrofitted.

Comment Re:All part of their core business (Score 1) 377

by chmodman on Thursday August 19, 2010 @09:45AM (#33300764) Attached to: Intel Buys McAfee

And in other news.. Owners of AMD based computers noticed the latest update to Mcafee reduced the performance of their machines by 300%.

Town Gets Patent On Being the Center of Europe 169

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 16, 2010 @12:23PM from the continental-drift-be-damned dept.

An anonymous reader writes "And you thought software patents were going to far? How about geography patents? Apparently, as a part of the weird fight over what place in Europe represents the 'geophysical center of Europe,' the Austrian town of Frauenkirchen has received a patent (Austrian patent AM 7738/2003) declaring it the center of Europe. Not clear how one 'infringes' on such a patent, but then again, it's not clear why anyone's patenting this either."

Comment Re:Roll out the crazies (Score 5, Informative) 336

by chmodman on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @07:44PM (#29113023) Attached to: Fatal Explosion At Russian Hydroelectric Dam

Go read Cadillac Desert. Damns do more harm to the environment that you might expect.

- Dams stop natural sediment flow, resulting in downstream river erosion

- Fish breeding / migration

- Increased irrigation enabled by dams causes pollution of ground water aquifers (increased salinity etc)

- Methane released decaying plant matter in non-oxygenated stagnant dam water

Comment Not exactly new... (Score 1) 224

by chmodman on Thursday February 26, 2009 @02:58PM (#27001707) Attached to: New Medical Disorder Linked To Gaming

I am not a doctor, but I don't think this is a new condition. In the Northeast US, workers who shuck clams for a living have a similar ailment from handling a clam opener all day. Clams are opened (by hand anyway) using a short blade with a round stubby handle - very similar to the part of the Playstation controller that rests in your palm. People who do a lot of digging with shovels can also suffer from this condition as well.

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