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Comment: Re:Detection = failure (Score 1) 320

by Bobosan (#34532690) Attached to: Vuvuzelas Blare On Pirated Copies of Music Game
Yes, Paradox Interactive doesn't use DRM. But they do release damn buggy games to get money, then correct the flaws with patches. Look at Hearts of Iron III for example, I don't know how pissed off I got over the game crashing every 20 minutes. Or the eventual slowdown from the memory leaks in their initial builds. Yes, with Semper Fi, it's a lot better than it used to be, but PI is way,way,way,way worse than Morrowwind or Oblivion was before their patches. So with other games that might have bugs due to cracks, you have game changing bugs that result from not enough time to debug and program effectively.
Book Reviews

Drools JBoss Rules 5.0 55

Posted by samzenpus
from the read-all-about-it dept.
RickJWagner writes "Drools (sometimes called 'JBoss Rules') is a Business Rules Engine and supporting ecosystem. Drools, like other BREs, promises to lower the barriers to entry for application programming. Armed with this book, can a Business Analyst be used to write application logic? I don't believe so, and I'll tell you why." Keep reading for the rest of RickJWagner's review.
Earth

A Warming Planet Can Mean More Snow 1136

Posted by kdawson
from the black-ice-and-white dept.
Ponca City, We love you writes "NPR reports that with snow blanketing much of the country, the topic of global warming has become the butt of jokes; but for scientists who study the climate, there's no contradiction between a warming world and lots of snow. 'The fact that the oceans are warmer now than they were, say, 30 years ago means there's about on average 4 percent more water vapor lurking around over the oceans than there was... in the 1970s,' says Kevin Trenberth, a prominent climate scientist. 'So one of the consequences of a warming ocean near a coastline like the East Coast and Washington, DC, for instance, is that you can get dumped on with more snow partly as a consequence of global warming.' Increased snowfall also fits a pattern suggested by many climate models, in which rising temperatures increase the amount of atmospheric moisture, bringing more rain in warmer conditions and more snow in freezing temperatures."

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