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Submission + - Tractor Beam to Prevent Aircraft Missile Attack

Submitted by mattnyc99 on Thursday March 08, 2007 @12:36PM

mattnyc99 writes: In the race against aircraft terrorism, Boeing's remote control system reported yesterday won't be the only solution. But Northrop Grumman has finally begun testing its laser-powered Guardian defense system in the fight against missiles targeting commercial jets, with nine FedEx cargo jets now carrying the infrared laser deflection system aboard their fuselages. The false heat signature operation is not that unlike Boeing's own airborne laser turret, but the Pentagon's new Global Strike system makes it clear that the U.S. may even have more of an upper hand on offense than defense when it comes to missile technology.

Feed John Maeda Goes Meta on Design (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Thursday March 08, 2007 @12:32PM

Looking for a formula for simplicity? Talk to the director of MIT Media Lab's Physical Language Workshop. He'll tell you to lose the obvious and put Steve Jobs in charge of your company. Wired News interview by Kim Zetter.

Submission + - Britain to become Open Source Leader in Europe

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08, 2007 @12:26PM

An anonymous reader writes: "Shadow Chancellor George Osborne has promised that an incoming Conservative government would create a level playing field for open source software in the UK, in a move which could save taxpayers more than £600 million a year. In a speech at the Royal Society of Arts, he also announced the appointment of Mark Thompson, of the Judge Business School at Cambridge University, to advise the Party on how to make Britain the open source leader in Europe."

Submission + - 'Bill Gates for President' group gives up

Submitted by

netbuzz

on Thursday March 08, 2007 @12:24PM

netbuzz writes: "Dilbert creator Scott Adams had done his best to make this fantasy (or nightmare, depending on your point of view) a viable notion, but after three months of trying the group's leader has acknowledged that it's unlikely Gates will give up his current gig. They've tossed in the towel.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1224 8

Original Slashdot post: http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/ 30/2030205"

Submission + - Creative Places to Work

Submitted by DieNadel on Thursday February 15, 2007 @07:07AM

DieNadel writes: The company I work for as a developer pays a good salary and gives me some stability, but it has a total lack of creative work. We mostly spend our days looking into bugs and doing really boring development. I'm therefore looking for a job in a new and more creative environment, but it's hard to figure out a place besides the usual suspects (Microsoft, Google and Apple). So, the place you work at gives you the ability to be creative? Do you know some companies that fit the profile (in the US and Worldwide)? Please let us know their name and how to apply.

Submission + - Vista = XP SP3

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @06:50AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Vista = XP SP3 Vienna in 2009. Vienna SP1 in year 2010 ? http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/09/HNvistaf ollowup_1.html"

Everybody Votes on the Wii 87

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 15, 2007 @05:41AM from the it's-like-democracy-only-more-efficient dept.

Wired's Game|Life blog has up a post pointing out a surprise from Nintendo: a cute voting application now available on your Nintendo Wii. Unannounced and easy to understand, Everybody Votes appears to be attempting to gain a gestalt view of the Wii-owning population. The app gives you several multiple choice questions to answer, and allows you to submit your own. Chris Kohler hopes that this might be the beginning of downloads for small, entertaining programs Nintendo fans may have never otherwise seen. "If you've ever been to an E3 or read about Nintendo's booth, you know that they often show little demos or applications that never get released. Well, with Wii, it seems that we might actually start seeing those little experiments thrown out to the public. Since Nintendo as a game developer uses this first-prototype-something-fun style of design, we could see all kinds of things that ordinarily wouldn't ever make it out of Nintendo headquarters." I personally hope we get a full-fledged version of the conducting game that Miyamoto used to demo the system at last year's E3.

Submission + - Why Computer RPGs Waste Your Time

Submitted by

spidweb

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @03:24AM

spidweb writes: "RPGVault has an editorial about two particularly noxious qualities of computer role-playing games: They make you work forever to earn the right to do anything exciting, and they make you have to prove yourself by expending tons of your time. From the article: "So now, thinking about playing an RPG just makes me tired. I'm tired of starting a new game and being a loser. I'm tired of running the same errands to prove myself. The next time I enter my fantasy world, I want it to not assume that I'm a jackass."

The article is at:

http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/763/763050p2.html "

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