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Comment It's been a very long time coming... (Score 1) 87

by 5hoom (#34448492) Attached to: Australian R18 Games Rating Gets Gov't Support
As an Australian, a long time fan of violent video games and as an indie game-developer, I would just like to say that IT'S ABOUT BLOODY TIME!!! Too long has the Australian video game industry suffered under the tyranny of the uninformed do-gooders & 'think-of-the-childrens!' political types. (This all comes a couple of months after outspoken anti porn/violence/video game/whatever crusader the honourable rev. Fred Nile being caught surfing porn from his office 'net account. Totally a coincidence, but fun non the less!)

Submission + - How should I promote an Android App?

Submitted by smith324
smith324 writes: A recently released application of mine has seen a small but negligible user base since its launch on the Android Market. After spending months working on it I am, needless to say, disappointed by its release. The free application (onTour http://www.appbrain.com/app/ontour/collegelabs.onTour.free) has real potential (at least in my mind) but I honestly have no idea how to increase its visibility. What would you suggest I do my fellow slashdotters?

note: I am the sole developer for this project, no company just me so I don't have boatloads to send on advertising.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Source code marketplace? 2

Submitted by doesntbyte
doesntbyte writes: I spend a lot of my free time writing little programs and libraries that help me accomplish a task or are just a pet project. I'm sure nearly everyone here does this, too. I also contribute to opensource projects a fair amount, too, but sometimes what I'm working on in my free time doesn't match any of their needs very well. After suffering a series of injuries and racking up some medical bills I got to thinking: I have all these great little libraries and algorithms I've created and I'm sure they would be useful to someone.

I guess what I'm wondering is, does anyone know any way I could put these things up for sale? Some of my friends suggested joining RentACoder or ScriptLance, but that's more for selling my time in the future which isn't what I'm really looking for. A friend pointed me to SourceSale, but that looks like it's not getting much action right now. My brother suggested just putting some code up on my personal blog with a PayPal link, but that seems less than optimal as well. Anyone have any ideas?

Submission + - ARM is 20 years old today (armdevices.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: ARM was founded on November 27th 1990 in a converted barn outside Cambridge to exploit Acorn'(TM)s single greatest asset, the intellectual property bound up in its home-grown Acorn -" now Advanced -" Risc Machine processors. 20 Billion ARM processors have been shipped these past 20 years. The founders of ARM consisted of 12 engineers led by Sir Robin Saxby who gave the company its global vision and the innovative licensing model under which it sold not physical silicon but designs for other companies to manufacture.
Science

Submission + - Uncertainty sets limits on quantum nonlocality

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Research in today's issue of the journal Science, helps explain why quantum theory is as weird as it is, but not weirder. Ex-hacker Stephanie Wehner, and physicist Jonathan Oppenheim show that the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle sets limits on Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance'. Wired reports that the discovery was made by "thinking of things in the way a hacker might” to uncover a fundamental link between the two defining properties of quantum physics. Oppenheim describes how uncertainty and nonlocality are like coding problems, enabling us to make a quantitative link between two of the cornerstones of quantum theory.
Sci-Fi

Submission + - Antimatter Tests Could Lead to Starship Enterprise (pcmag.com)

Submitted by digitaldc
digitaldc writes: Scientists at CERN, the research facility that's home to the Large Hadron Collider, claim to have successfully created and stored antimatter in greater quantities and for longer times than ever before.

Researchers created 38 atoms of antihydrogen – more than ever has been produced at one time before and were able to keep the atoms stable enough to last one tenth of a second before they annihilated themselves (antimatter and matter destroy each other the moment they come into contact with each other). Since those first experiments, the team claims to have held antiatoms for even longer, though they weren't specific of the duration.

While scientists have been able to create particles of antimatter for decades, they had previously only been able to produce a few particles that would almost instantly destroy themselves.

"This is the first major step in a long journey," Michio Kaku, physicist and author of Physics of the Impossible, told PCMag. "Eventually, we may go to the stars."
Space

Submission + - Antimatter Breakthrough Could Lead to Starships

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes: Yesterday, scientists at CERN claimed to have successfully created and stored antimatter in greater quantities and for longer times than ever before. According to Michio Kaku, physicist and author of Physics of the Impossible, this break through could lead to Starships and space travel. In a brief conversation with PCMag, Kaku said that this is the first major step in a long journey which could eventually lead us to the stars. His assumptions were based on the beliefs that we may be able to use antimatter as the "ultimate rocket fuel," since it's 100 percent efficient.
Science

Submission + - Life found in deepest layer of Earth's crust (newscientist.com)

Submitted by michaelmarshall
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.
Linux

Submission + - All you need is BASH? (linuxconfig.org)

Submitted by lagi
lagi writes: i was looking for a quick way to manage a CentOS dedicated web server's services, configs and other common tasks, so that my co-workers will have easier life while managing things like Apache Virtual Hosts config files. and control services (via SSH, not using any server management tool) ... i'm a LAMP freelancer developer, so the logical thing was writing a PHP CLI script that does some cool stuff, but then i remembered the days all i knew about Linux is that it's called "hurricane" and then "apollo" and that was c00l! (not as much as Slackware) and i also had this BASH script to fire my ISDN connection, always worked like magic. so i looked in google for some Bash Scripting Tutorials and found this one, it covers all basic topics as well as some advance onces too, all topics with examples and are very straightforward. so i ended up with a 30 minutes script that restarts services, and manage some apache config files in a git like syntax. so now that i have this great ref by my side, i would like to know what other common development and deployment tasks i can do with bash? or maybe i should get a server management software like webmin? looks a bit too heavy for my needs...

Submission + - New evidence for weird quantum supersolid (newscientist.com)

Submitted by techbeat
techbeat writes: Have we ever made a supersolid, a ghostly, quantum form of matter in which a solid flows, frictionless, through itself? The debate rages on, as New Scientist reports. The first supersolid was reportedly made in 2004, but whether the researchers involved had simply misinterpreted their results wasn't clear. Had they instead made a different phase, dubbed a "quantum plastic"? Now the original researchers have new evidence suggesting that genuine supersolids have been made after all.
Wireless Networking

Submission + - New graphene amplifiers could improve Bluetooth (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by schliz
schliz writes: Scientists have built and tested an amplifier made with the one-atom-thick carbon structure, graphene, that could make future Bluetooth, RFID and other wireless devices more efficient. The triple-mode, single-transistor amplifier exploits graphene's ambipolar nature — its ability to switch between negative or positive electric carriers on the fly — to achieve what usually requires multiple transistors and filtering devices in traditional analogue multipliers. The researchers expect graphene to "make it to analog and communication electronics within a decade".

Submission + - What's so wrong with Comic Sans? (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Lotunggim Ginsawat
Lotunggim Ginsawat writes: BBC News Magazine has published a feature story about the typeface that everyone loves to hate (and use): Comic Sans. The article focused upon the online hate campaigns for the typeface, fronted by websites such as ban comic sans. From the article:-

But why, more than any other font, has Comic Sans inspired so much revulsion?

Partly because its ubiquity has led to such misuse (or at least to uses far beyond its original intentions). And partly because it is so irritably simple, so apparently written by a small child. Helvetica is everywhere and simple too, but it usually has the air of modern Swiss sophistication about it, or at least corporate authority. Comic Sans just smirks at you, and begs to be printed in multiple colours.

If I can write this summary in Comic Sans, I would!

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