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Comment: Re:Aww poop (Score 3, Informative) 127

by _xeno_ (#40118081) Attached to: Curt Schilling Fires Entire Staff At 38 Studios

This instance isn't quite as bad, because it's only the people of Rhode Island who were screwed. Maybe next time they'll elect a better governor.

They already did - the current governor was against the 38 Studios deal from the get-go. It's one of the reasons he's going to let the studio just die instead of pursue the fallacy of sunk costs.

Unfortunately he's still stuck with the fallout from the idiots who did give $75 million to a company trying to enter a saturated market with no actual shipping products. (The deal predated Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.)

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Curt Schilling Fires Entire Staff At Video Game Company->

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redletterdave writes "On Thursday, former Boston Red Sox pitcher and tech entrepreneur Curt Schilling fired his entire staff at 38 Studios, his Rhode Island-based video game company, leaving more than 300 employees without jobs because the company couldn't repay its debt to the state. 38 Studios failed to pay Rhode Island's economic development agency $1.1 million, which was due last week, and also failed to meet payroll for its staff in both its Providence office and its Maryland subsidiary, Big Huge Games."
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Mac OS X 10.8 Limited to App Store/Signed Apps by Default->

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I(rispee_I(reme writes "The newest preview release of the Macintosh Operating System is configured to prevent applications from running, unless they are signed by Apple. This includes applications found on the App Store. While this setting is optional, it is enabled by default. Is this the latest step in a series of restriction on using Apple platforms for general-purpose computing?"
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Comment: Re:Do it (Score 1) 17

by jawtheshark (#40107297) Attached to: Raspberry Pi

Me? Great deals on computers? Are you kidding? I probably live in the worst 1st world country to get anything cheap.

What I do is the following: I get my stuff in Germany, and not even in the cheapest stores because many companies do not ship to Luxembourg. Luxembourg may have a better "reputation" than Hungary for these things, so your luck is probably reduced (Well that's in Germany: when I order from the US, I usually get problems... but a few calls and a pre-paid wire transfer and I get what I want.

So, my main store is Alternate.de. As far as I know, they do not have an English site. Now do they ship to Hungary? I don't know. I have a few other stores, where I bought stuff with more or less success, but it's speciality parts. I can give you my bookmarks if you wish. Ah, very important for Alternate. The Germans like the system of paying the postman when he delivers stuff. Don't do that, it's very expensive. Use the system they call "Vorkasse": it means you pay in advance (by wire transfer, it's the only thing they accept: no credit card), and when they get the payment, they send the wares.

For the rest, I have newsletters with promotions... The i7, I bought last year? 50% off coupon because of their newsletter. Yes, I was lucky, yes I decided to spend money on something I don't need... and indeed it was probably not the smartest thing to do: I barely use it. My sister and brother use theirs though...

Comment: Re:You seem to want to imply they use flash.... (Score 1) 318

by _xeno_ (#40100221) Attached to: Obama To Agencies: Optimize Web Content For Mobile

That's only the national ones. If you use a local one, and make it animate, they use Flash. For example, the Boston area radar loop.

Which is actually a step up - they used to be a Java applet. The Flash version is a massive improvement. Of course, there's no reason why they couldn't be done using HTML4 (no need anything HTML5 adds), but they're not.

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