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SPAM: Splinter Cell: Conviction is Flawed Yet Fun

Submitted by JudoChinX
JudoChinX writes "Jason Trent with GoozerNation writes: "There was a very obvious effort to make the next title in the Splinter Cell series more palatable to the casual audience who may have been weary of entering this side of gaming. That's not to say that the game has been dumbed down to an extreme, but there are some compromises that have made this game appeal to a larger number of players.""
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Best E-Reader for College?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "This fall I will be joining University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As College costs are really high I was thinking of ways to save money and I realized that e-reader would be perfect help for that. Every year it might cost me around $1500-$2000 in paper text-books. An e-reader even of $1000 would save me alot over the course of 4 years since e-textbooks don'tcost alot. Now the problem is which ereader to choose? Main thing that I am looking for is search, bookmarking, highlighting and in-book note taking ability. Entourage edge was perfect for my purpose until I found out that it was extremely slow. iPad, notion-ink's adam, kindle, nook are some choice, but I dont know which one to choose."
Businesses

Companies Skeptical of Commercial Space

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Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that Boeing and Lockheed Martin will happily sell rockets to carry astronauts into space, but are leery about taking a leading role in President Obama’s vision for a revamped NASA that relies on commercial companies to provide taxi transportation to the ISS. “I don’t think there is a business case for us,” says Lockheed Martin's John Karas about space taxis. Both Boeing and Lockheed were stung during the last burst of optimism for the commercial space business about a decade ago. They invested several billion dollars — Lockheed to develop its Atlas V, Boeing for the Delta IV — in the hopes that the huge market for commercial satellites would supplement their traditional business of launching American military spy satellites. The market did not materialize, and what business there was went to European and Russian rockets that were cheaper. The hoped-for commercial market for space taxis hinges on one small company, Bigelow Aerospace, which is developing inflatable space habitats that it hopes to market as research facilities to companies and foreign nations looking to establish a space program. “I think people who have been in the launcher business for many years find it hard to take the president’s plan seriously,” says Loren B. Thompson, an analyst at the Lexington Institute. “They think it sounds like an elaborate wake for the human spaceflight program more than a plan for moving forward.”"
Science

MIT Researchers Harness Viruses to Split Water-> 2

Submitted by ByronScott
ByronScott writes "A team of researchers at MIT has just announced that they have successfully modified a virus to split apart molecules of water, paving the way for an efficient and non-energy intensive method of producing hydrogen fuel. The team engineered a common, harmless bacterial virus to assemble the components needed to crack apart a molecule of water, yielding a fourfold boost in efficiency over similar processes."
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SPAM: Palm for sale: Buyers, anywhere?

Submitted by IP-192.com
IP-192.com writes "Palm Inc. is up for sale, according to a report on Bloomberg. The Sunnyvale based company is working with investment firm Goldman Sachs to find a potential buyer for the maker of smartphones such as the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi.

Founded in 1992 by Jeff Hawkins, the company first sold PDA’s to consumers. While manufactured by Tandy and distributed by Casio, Palm developed the operating system called PIM. Later it sold handwriting recognition software for Apple’s Newton Message Pad and software that allowed HP devices to sync.

U.S. Robotics picked up Palm in 1995, and the company operated as a subsidiary of 3Com since 1997. On March 2000, Palm became an independent company again and was publicly traded. In 2005, Access paid $324 million to take over Palm, according to Wikipedia. Several Treo models followed, including one that did run on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS.

In return for a 25 percent equity stake, Palm received a $325 million cash infusion from Elevation Partners in 2007. December 2008 marked the end of any PDA development, and in 2009 Palm announced its new WebOS that would run on devices like the Palm Pre in the future."
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Comment: Sounds like a job for Google (Score 2, Interesting) 128

by Alamoth (#31272410) Attached to: Web Heritage Could Be Lost
I would imagine that Google could easily expand their caching technology to facilitate the preservation of everything everyone has to say on the internet. I can understand where the Libraries are coming from. In an effort to chronicle the growth of human culture they keep archives of literature, periodicals and most other media, so why not the internet?

Comment: Is all the hate really necessary? (Score 1) 677

by Alamoth (#31065522) Attached to: Verizon Blocking 4chan
4Chan is just a community. Sure it is full of immature people who participate in illicit and often illegal activity, but the last time I checked, Verizon is not the enforcers of Federal, State or Local law in any jurisdiction. If Verizon thinks that members of 4Chan are participating in illegal activities on American soil, then they are well within their rights (as far as I know) to present their information to the proper authorities who can then take action. Of course this will raise the usual "Your Rights Online" discussions about whether it is legal or a breech of privacy for Verizon to release that information. Nonetheless, you can't have Net Neutrality and then kick 4Chan off the internet. It just doesn't work that way (except in China).

Comment: Re:This is kind of a stupid article. (Score 1) 269

by Alamoth (#16842488) Attached to: PS3 and Wii — Head To Head
But what if you want to PLAY GAMES and WATCH MOVIES?!?!?!

Then what will you do? Will you buy a movie player and buy a gaming console. I had a similar question when I wanted a portable gaming system and I wanted an MP3 player that could display images and play video.

Then the Playstation Portable solved my dilemma.

Why should you go out and buy multiple tools to do the job of one tool, it's inefficient.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. -- Sophocles