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Submission + - Jack Valenti dead

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Widowwolf

on Thursday April 26, 2007 @07:31PM

Widowwolf writes: "WASHINGTON (CNN) — Jack Valenti, the longtime head of the Motion Picture Association of America, has died at age 85, the association announced Thursday. Valenti suffered a stroke "recently," said a representative at the Motion Picture Association of America, which he led for 38 years. No cause of death was immediately announced. Valenti was central to creating the MPAA rating system — now G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17 — as a way to rate films' appropriateness for certain age groups. Valenti was a life member of the Directors Guild of America and a member of the board of trustees of the American Film Institute"

Submission + - Should I worry about my employment contract?

Submitted by on Thursday April 26, 2007 @01:53AM

An anonymous reader writes: I was preparing to accept a software developer job at a California company and was put off by the contract which claimed ownership of any ideas I create (on my own time or at the company) during my stay at the company and required me to inform them of any ideas (related to the company or not) during my employment and for a year afterwards. I found references to a couple instances where this became a legal problem for the developer. Is this something to worry about?

Python On Planes Supersunday Release 135

Posted by Zonk on Sunday April 01, 2007 @07:18PM from the sunday-sunday-sunday dept.

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spo0nman writes "The PythonOnPlanes release team has just published PythonOnPlanes-1.3.07 aka. 'the SuperSunday' release. For those in the know PythonOnPlanes is a rapid development framework for Python which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association DataMapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables Python users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility.'Major highlights in the release include Active Scrum Manager 1, Sanity Preserver 3.13 and Lart 22.21. This is also the first release with the *PythonOnPlanes Live CD Installer* officially debuting on the x86 platform.'"

Submission + - EMI Event Monday May Announce Beatles iTunes Play

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01, 2007 @07:08PM

An anonymous reader writes: According to the BBC, music label EMI sent out invites to a London press event to announce an "exciting new digital offering" Monday. The guests for event? Why Apple CEO Steve Jobs and an "unnamed artist" who will perform at the event. This, of course, is fueling speculation that Apple has finally acquired the exclusive digital rights to the Beatles catalog, a move that has generated hype for some time now. But as MP3 Newswire's Richard Menta points out "the Fab Four have been freely available on the Net since the original Napster, so if true this is more a big press opp for the two companies than anything of real consequence for consumers."

World's First Gold Farming RPG 91

Posted by Zonk on Sunday April 01, 2007 @05:19PM from the dispensing-with-the-illusion dept.

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Kevlar_Sindome writes "Verse Studios announced today that they have officially 'changed everything', with the release of their first game: Fool's Gold. Fool's Gold lets players take on the role of the heroic gold farmer seeking profit from gold hungry characters who seem to have an unlimited amount of money to spend, but never enough time to spend it. Touted as the first Gold Farming Role Playing Game ( GF-RPG ), Verse Studios hopes to get a jump on starting a new game genre. Fool's Gold is free for download off the Verse Studios website."

Journal Journal: SpaceX launches Falcon1 at 8:10pm CST

Journal by mswope on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @11:17PM

Spaceflight Now is reporting that SpaceX's Falcon 1 two-stage rocket launched successfully at 8:10pm CST. However, details of the post-launch ascent indicate problems that may have prevented the second stage from reaching orbit. Further word is pending...

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