Burdell - Slashdot User

Dennis Ritchie has died 0

Submitted by Burdell on Wednesday October 12 2011, @11:26PM

Burdell writes "I haven't found an obituary in English yet, but Dennis Ritchie has died at the age of 70 He was the creator of the C programming language and a codeveloper of Unix. Much of modern computing comes from his work."

Duke Nukem ForNever? 0

Submitted by Burdell on Wednesday May 06 2009, @09:27PM

Burdell writes "GameSpy is among sites reporting that 3D Realms is shutting its doors. Apparently, the pre-orders of Duke Nukem Forever were not enough to pay the bills."

Sci-Fi Channel is no more 1

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Burdell

on Monday March 16 2009, @11:58AM

Burdell writes "Effective July 7, they are rebranding themselves "SyFy". They chose the new name because it "made us feel much cooler, much more cutting-edge, much more hip"."