Comment Re:OpenCOBOL.org (Score 1) 318
Dead for six years.
Comment Re:Cedega (Score 1) 363
CEDEGA died because the Co. found something more profitable to do,
Comment Re:Sony should be scared. (Score 1) 147
the name alone will kill it.. who the fuck thought of "ouya"?
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The Japanese always name their stuff oddly. Remember the Nintendo Wii?
Comment Manly or Not? (Score 1) 370
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There's fewer viruses for other OS's, most likely owing to the lower install base of the same. Even black hats are interested in ROI.
Those are all girlie-man malware. Most of them written ten years ago and none which work on any distros less than 5-yrs old.
Comment Re:When linux just worked and you could get shit o (Score 1) 156
Second best is your sister's purse.
Comment Play the original for free .. (Score 1) 277
EDuke32 is an awesome, free homebrew game engine and source port of the classic PC first person shooter Duke Nukem 3D— Duke3D for short—to Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, several handhelds, your family toaster, and to your girlfriend's vibrator. We've added new renderers, hundreds of cool features and upgrades for regular players, and thousands of additional editing capabilities and scripting extensions for mod creators. EDuke32 is completely free, open source software.
Developed between August 2004 and now by Duke community leader Richard "TerminX" Gobeille and NVIDIA software engineer Pierre-Loup "Plagman" Griffais—and incorporating work by 3D Realms/Ken Silverman/Jonathon Fowler/Matt Saettler, what started as a learning experience and an excuse to learn C soon rose from obscurity to become the best Duke Nukem 3D port ever.
EDuke32 is licensed under the GNU GPL and the BUILD license. http://eduke32.com/
Comment Re:Wow. Vectors! (Score 1) 277
Looks like Lucifer will finally have to buy a pair of ice skates.
Hoo! Hoo! Hooi! Good one. If he wants a pair that fit, he should invest in a pair of CCM Vectors. Guaranteed to fit even the oddest goat's foot or debbil's claw.
Comment Gross Negligence (Score 1) 306
Sony has a terrible attitude toward its customers. We entrust Sony to protect our information and they leave it on the Internet, without a firewall and possibly even unencrypted. The corporate officers need to do much more than bow to restore our confidence. Do the right thing: åè....
Comment Re:80 million registered users (Score 1) 68
Haa! Is that amount before or after they closed every non-US account. I DEMAND A RECOUNT.
Comment Too much lag. (Score 1) 47
Unfortunately, there is too much lag on the Kinect for any serious gamer to use.
Comment Too much lag. (Score 1) 30
Unfortunately, there is too much lag on the Kinect for any serious gamer to use.
The Fall of Wintel and the Rise of Armdroid 431
hype7 writes "The Harvard Business Review is running a very interesting article on how this year's CES marked the end of the Wintel platform's dominance. Their argument is that tablets are going to disrupt the PC, and these tablets are predominantly going to be running on Google's Android powered by ARM processors — 'Armdroid.' Quoting: 'Both Microsoft and Intel have suffered from the same problem that most successful companies face when dealing with disruption. They cannot find a way to profitably invest in low-end offerings. Think about it from Microsoft's point of view: now that Windows 7 has been developed, to sell another copy, they don't have to do a single thing. Because of this, it becomes very hard for any executive to advocate the complete development of a low cost OS that will run on tablets: not only would it cost Microsoft a lot to develop, but it would result in cannibalization of its core product sales. Intel has the exact same issue. Why focus on Atom, or an even lower-end chip, when there is so much more margin to be made by focusing on its multi-core desktop processors?'"
How Europe Will Lower Emissions — Self Driving Cars 317
thecarchik writes "Scientists in Europe are working closely with industry and government as part of a new initiative called SARTRE (SAfe Road TRains for the Environment), which hopes to develop self-driving technology that will allow vehicles to drive autonomously in long road trains on the highway. The team behind SARTRE has now conducted its first real world test, using a sole Volvo S60 sedan that followed a lead truck around the automaker's test facility near Gothenburg, Sweden. In the video, the driver is free to take his eyes off the road and his hands off the wheel. In fact, he uses neither his hands nor feet during the test. Subsequent phases of the work will be carried out in 2011, and early 2012 will see the concept demonstrated on a five-vehicle road train with strategies handling interaction with other road users."
Righthaven Adds Forum Posters To Copyright Suit 83
eldavojohn writes "The last time we discussed the Las Vegas Review-Journal and their litigating attorneys at Righthaven LLC, they were suing all the websites that had violated their news copyrights. Well, they've now added seven individual message board posters that they've managed to identify, bringing the number of DMCA-related lawsuits they have launched since March to 203. In one case, LVRJ is upset that a Google Groups user named Jim_Higgins posted a column that cited the columnist but failed to cite the original LVRJ article. But Google Groups is protected from these suits, as the article explains: 'Both the madjacksports and Google sites are somewhat protected from copyright lawsuits because they have posted "DMCA" notices as required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. These notices, which must be registered with the US Copyright Office, inform copyright holders who to contact if they would like infringing material removed.' The first decision of this cluster of lawsuits was against Righthaven, yet the onslaught continues. Righthaven has publicly dismissed fair use as well."
Microsoft Research Takes On Go 175
mikejuk writes "Microsoft Research has used F# and AI to implement a consumer-quality game of Go — arguably the most difficult two-person game to implement. They have used an interesting approach to the problem of playing the game, which is a pragmatic cross between tree search with pruning and machine learning to spot moves with a 'good shape.' The whole lot has been packaged into an XNA-based game with a story."
