Comment Re:Deep in the WoTC Bunker... (Score 3, Insightful) 43
Except WotC did save D&D... by coming up with the OGL license, which enabled the entire OSR/retroclone movement.
Comment Re:DIY (Score 1) 222
See the MondoNet project for an implementation of this idea.
Comment Re:If only we had this Modulation tech 50+yrs ago! (Score 1) 175
*whoosh*
Submission + - Announcing Bodhi Linux (blogspot.com)
JeffHoogland writes: Bodhi is a minimalistic, Linux distro that uses the Enlightenment desktop. Bodhi comes as a 350~meg download.
Submission + - Life found in deepest layer of Earth's crust (newscientist.com)
michaelmarshall writes: For the first time life has been found in the gabbroic layer of the crust. The new biosphere is all bacteria, as you might expect, but they are different to the bacteria in the layers above: they mostly feed on hydrocarbons that are produced by abiotic reactions deep in the crust. It could mean that similar microbes are living even deeper, perhaps even in the mantle.
Submission + - Chinese military developing drone ducks (wsj.com)
Sara Chan writes: The Wall Street Journal has a story about how China's military is developing unmanned aerial vehicles, i.e. drones. Some of the latest models are quite sophisticated. The story tells that "One model under development ... is about the size of a large duck and has flapping wings. It is designed primarily for carrying out reconnaissance behind enemy lines."
Comment Re:Which is it? (Score 1) 107
Actually, it is PiratBYRÅN.
Carmack & Mustaine Talk Doom Resurrection For the iPhone 57
themacgamer writes "Luis Sosa had a chance to sit down with John Carmack and Tom Mustaine of id Software and discuss Doom Resurrection for the iPhone: 'At the start we thought it was just a touch screen, so you'd tap to shoot the monsters, but it was never fun; it felt too clinical. It didn't feel like you were swinging your heavy gun around to bring down the monster before he chews off your head,' said Carmack. Mustaine added, '[The shooting mechanic] was definitely a trial-and-error thing. You said the word "distilled," and that's definitely a word we've been using. We really wanted to distill the visceral Doom experience into the iPhone.' He also said, '... we have P2P co-op play that's not in the shipping version, but will come later. We didn't expect the 3.0 OS out so quickly! Two players join together, they see each other's cursors, and they either compete or co-op for a score. We're hoping to patch it in down the road. We're also looking at additional levels and potentially some stat-tracking stuff as well.'"
Submission + - Wordpress 2.8 putting the real time web to a halt? (karamell.net)
kers writes: "In an attempt to reduce the numbers of outbound pings a a new undocumented "feature" was introduced in Wordpress 2.8. Instead of notifing ping services every time a post is published or edited, pings are now sent once every hour, at the most."
Dinosaur Posture Still Wrong, Says Study 226
An anonymous reader sends along a piece in Cosmos about new dissension to the current prevailing wisdom on dinosaur posture. The researchers admit that blood pressure presents an unresolved obstacle to their model of dinosaur heads held high. "The current depiction of the way giant sauropod dinosaurs held their necks is probably wrong, says a new study. 'For the last decade the reigning paradigm in palaeontology has been that the big sauropod dinosaurs held their necks out straight and their heads down low,' said co-author Matt Wedel, who researches biomechanics at the Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California. But 'our research [now] suggests that this view of sauropods is simply incorrect, based on everything we know about living animals,' he said." The researchers worried that some other team might beat them to publication, so obvious did they consider their methodology of looking at living animals to gain insight into the biomechanics of extinct ones.
Tetris Turns 25 177
teh.f4ll3n writes "25 years ago a Russian (Soviet) researcher thought of one of the world's most popular games. It is now that we celebrate its 25th anniversary. 'Twenty-five years ago, inside the bowels of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow, a young artificial intelligence researcher received his first desktop computer — the Soviet-built Elektronika 60, a copy of an American minicomputer called a PDP-11 — and began writing programs for it.'"
AMD's Six-Core Istanbul Opterons 123
EconolineCrush writes "AMD's latest 'Istanbul' Opterons add two cores per socket, for a grand total of six. Despite the extra cores, these new chips reside within the same power envelope as existing quad-core Opterons, and they're drop-in compatible with current systems. The Tech Report has an in-depth review of the new chips, comparing their performance and power efficiency with that of Intel's Nehalem-based Xeons. Istanbul fares surprisingly well, particularly when one considers its performance-power ratio with highly parallelized workloads."
Comment Re:Too Easy... (Score 2, Insightful) 490
this brings up a question that has been haunting my house for years now.
those spiral slides, like they have in playgrounds. is that a ramp or a screw?
Comment Re:Me too (Score 1) 887
Comment Re:Global Warming (Score 0, Troll) 656
People like Al Gore fill your minds with this propaganda so that you'll go out and buy their *green* light bulbs
so you prefer the propaganda from people like exon who want you to go out and buy their gasoline?
1. Volcano's and things alike emit more C02 gas then the entire human race.
sure do. and for a long time, before the advent of industrialization, the climate has experienced only moderate fluctuations even with all that volcanic co2. then along came escalades and coal plants and massive human-engineer deforestation projects that when added to all that volcanic co2, it tipped the balance to a general warming trend.
2. The Earth heats up on a cycle. It just so happens that in this point in time were on the warming part.
of course the earth heats and cools on a cycle. no one is claiming otherwise. the concern currently is the amplitude of the cycle and the speed at which the general warming trend is expected to occur... not the existence of the cycle itself.
If we were going into an ice age, I'm sure Al Gore would be saying "Save the dingos from the ice" instead of "Save the polar bears from the heat".
uh, yes, of course he would. people who are opposed to climate change, which so many here seem to call "global warming", are not by extension in favour of global cooling. they're in favour of a global climate that is stable within the normal and natural rates of fluctuations.
Just my two cents.
and fair value at that price.
