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Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac 398

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @05:53PM from the vlc-generally-rocks dept.

plasmacutter writes "The Video Lan dev team has recently come forward with a notice that the number of active developers for the project's MacOS X releases has dropped to zero, prompting a halt in the release schedule. There is now a disturbing possibility that support for Mac will be dropped as of 1.1.0. As the most versatile and user-friendly solution for bridging the video compatibility gap between OS X and windows, this will be a terrible loss for the Mac community. There is still hope, however, if the right volunteers come forward."

Submission + - An Organ Replaced: Fully Functional Bioengineered (medgadget.com)

Submitted by cdrpsab on Saturday August 22, 2009 @09:28PM

cdrpsab writes: The individual in the photo is not displaying his newly acquired gold tooth bling, but rather something more precious: the first fully functioning 3D organ derived from stem cells, described in PNAS as "a successful fully functioning tooth replacement in an adult mouse achieved through the transplantation of bioengineered tooth germ into the alveolar bone in the lost tooth region."

The Perils of Pointless Innovation In Games 260

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday April 12, 2009 @02:11PM from the why-does-my-rocket-launcher-have-reloading-minigame dept.

Negative Gamer is running a story discussing the need felt by the major game developers to create the next huge blockbuster, which often leads to innovation and change for their own sake rather than simply focusing on what makes a game fun. Quoting: "There seems to be this invisible pressure to create something that is highly 'intuitive' and incorporates the highest level of innovation that we have ever seen. The problem is that the newest ideas put into games are either gimmicky, terrible in execution, or blatantly ripping off another title. On the other hand there are series that feel the need to completely revamp a game that played perfectly fine before into something completely new that falls flat on its face. ... There's a critical problem with popular, mainstream video games that isn't as large with other mediums; they are expensive to make and require a lot of time and effort put in to create something masterful. With that, games must take cautious paths. I fully understand the risks, but adding unneeded material to certain games is not justifiable."

Submission + - Backdoor in Quicken?

Submitted by

sehlat

on Monday June 25, 2007 @04:39PM

sehlat writes: "Robert X. Cringley's blog has an entry entitled Quicken's secret backdoor? According to the article, Elcomsoft claims to have discovered and cracked a backdoor built into Quicken 2003 through 2007. The announcement is here."

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