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Submission + - Duke Nukem Developer Shuts Down (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by

PLSQL Guy

on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @09:01PM

PLSQL Guy writes: "Duke Nukem Forever developer 3D Realms is shutting down, according to Shacknews, who cites 'a reliable source close to the company' who said the developer, along with the recently resurrected Apogee name, is finished and employees from both have already been let go. It looks like all of the Duke Nukem Forever jokes are turning into reality- it looks like DNF might turn out to be the ultimate vaporware after all."

Submission + - Duke Nukem For-Never?!

Submitted by

Norwell Bob

on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @08:58PM

Norwell Bob writes: "Say it ain't so! Looks like we're possibly never going to see Duke Nukem Forever, as 3D Realms has shut their doors!

FTFA: "Rumor has it Duke Nukem Forever developer 3D Realms is shutting down. Shacknews today cites 'a reliable source close to the company' who said the developer, along with the recently resurrected Apogee name, is finished and employees from both have already been let go."

RTFA: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/3D-Realms-Closes-Duke-Nukem,7736.html [Tom's Hardware]

Hopefully we can still make jokes about it, though, right?"

Comment Many Amazon Reviews Appear Faked (Score 1) 1

by chevman on Monday January 19, 2009 @05:13PM (#26520331) Attached to: Belkin's President Apologizes for Faked Reviews

You know the ones, nicely formatted, broken out into discrete paragraphs, almost like they were written by the marketing department....

Submission + - Obama's survey: Pot legalization most important (change.gov)

Submitted by

CWatch

on Sunday December 14, 2008 @05:47AM

CWatch writes: "On 12/11/08, the "Open for Question" program ran for 6-1/2 hours on President-Elect Obamas website, during which time about 10,000 participants cast about 600,000 votes on the significance of about 7,300 questions. The question voted as most significant was: "Will you consider legalizing marijuana so that the government can regulate it, tax it, put age limits on it, and create millions of new jobs and create a billion dollar industry right here in the U.S.?" "

Comment For Laptop Lounging I Recommend Eames (Score 2, Informative) 742

by chevman on Thursday June 12, 2008 @03:08PM (#23768561) Attached to: Best Chair For Desktop Coding?

Maybe not the best for desktop use, I prefer the Eames while surfing on the laptop:

http://www.roomandboard.com/rnb/collection.do?method=get&id=377383&cat=115

Submission + - Liebowitz critique of Strumpf Paper on Filesharing (ssrn.com)

Submitted by

chevman

on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @12:22PM

chevman writes: "Found a very interesting new study by Stan Liebowitz on the effects of file sharing on the music/movie industry.

It addresses a 2004 paper by Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf that was originally covered in this article from Slashdot:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/30/1537232 (MP3 Sharing Not Serious Threat To CD Sales)

New study disputes some of the claims made in the original study on file sharing:

"In the following pages I attempt replications of their quasi experiments and conclude that contrary to their claims, none of their quasi experiment supports a conclusion that file-sharing has a benign impact on record sales.

Second, O/S provide factual details about the industry that appear to be consistent with their overall conclusion. Surprisingly, these 'facts' were almost never supported by reference to actual data. My attempts to verify many of these factual claims indicate that these O/S statements appear to be at variance with actual data.

A reader of the O/S paper will search in vain for documentation of many of their factual assertions or of details of how they constructed their quasi-experiments. The lack of documentation, both for the facts reported and for the construction of the quasi experiments, is one reason that the material below is so lengthy.

The analysis below should be of interest to anyone interested in the impact of file-sharing. I have tried to make this material accessible to non-economists."

Full paper can be downloaded from:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1014399"

Submission + - WPA bug in Vista, is that a security problem? (microsoft.com) 1

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @09:25PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Many people, such as me-said-the-idiot, or maybe all, cannot connect to a WPA protected WiFi network with Vista. So many will have to use an unsecured network configuration in order to go online. Practically all new PC laptops sold now are bundled with Vista, so this could well become the biggest and easiest to exploit security leak.. Many posts on MS forum http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx? PostID=481371&SiteID=17 but apparently it still isn't considered a problem by MS.."

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