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AMD Puts Out Radeon HD 6000 Open-Source Driver 138

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 07 2011, @12:26PM
from the incremental-promise-fulfillment dept.

An anonymous reader writes "AMD has just released their open-source driver for the Radeon HD 6000 series graphics cards (sans the Cayman GPUs) with KMS, 2D, and 3D acceleration."

Humble Bundle 2 Is Live 217

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday December 15 2010, @12:49AM
from the now-how-much-would-you-pay dept.

Dayofswords writes "The first Humble Bundle was a monster success, with over 100,000 people donating over $1 million in total to support the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Child's Play, and of course the developers behind the games. The second bundle is now live (bundle site), containing five great games: Braid, Cortex Command, Machinarium, Osmos, and Revenge of the Titans. Each game is DRM-free, the games work on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and you pay what you want and decide where your money goes."

A JavaScript Gameboy Emulator, Detailed In 8 Parts 62

Posted by timothy on Friday November 05 2010, @09:20PM
from the behind-the-scenes dept.

Two9A writes "JavaScript has shed its image of being a limited language, tied to DOM manipulation in a browser; in recent years, new engines and frameworks have given JS a reputation as a language capable of bigger things. Mix this in with the new elements of HTML5, and you have the capacity to emulate a game console or other system, with full graphical output. This series of articles looks in detail at how an emulator is written in JavaScript, using the example of the Gameboy handheld: starting at the CPU, and (as of part 8) running a copy of Tetris."

Firefox Mobile 1.1 Released 57

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 03 2010, @06:20AM
from the don't-fennec-me-in dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Firefox Mobile 1.1 has been released for Maemo devices such as the Nokia N900. Madhava Enros has put together a field guide for Firefox Mobile 1.1 which highlights what's new and notable in this release."

OpenTTD 1.0.0 Released 107

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 06 2010, @02:51AM
from the and-so-soon dept.

Gmer writes "Eming.com reports that OpenTTD, the open source clone of the Microprose game Transport Tycoon Deluxe, has reached a milestone. OpenTTD 1.0.0 has been released 6 years after work started on the first version, with the help of hundreds of contributors and thousands of testers/players. Over 30 language translations are considered complete, and OpenTTD is available for *BSD, Linux, Solaris and Windows. OpenTTD is a business simulation game in which the player is in control of a transport company and can compete against rival companies to make as much profit as possible by transporting passengers and various goods by road, rail, sea or air."

Australian Judge Rules Facts Cannot Be Copyrighted 234

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 14 2010, @05:32AM
from the same-time-same-channel dept.

nfarrell writes "Last week, an Australian Judge ruled that copyright laws do not apply to collections of facts, regardless of the amount of effort that was spent collecting them. In this case, the case surrounded the reproduction of entries from the White and Yellow Pages, but the ruling referred to a previous case involving IceTV, which republishes TV guides. Does this mean that other databases of facts, such as financial data, are also legally able to be copied and redistributed?" Here are analyses from a former legal adviser to the directory publisher which prevailed as the defendant in this case, and from Smart Company.

OpenOffice 3.2 Released 260

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 11 2010, @03:20PM
from the compatability-can-opener dept.

harmonise writes "Version 3.2 of the OpenOffice.org office suite is now available. This marks the tenth anniversary year of the office suite, with over three hundred million downloads recorded in total. The new features include faster start up times; improved compatibility with open standard (ODF) and proprietary file formats; improvements to all components, particularly the Calc spreadsheet, with over a dozen new or enhanced features; and the Chart module (usable throughout OpenOffice.org) has had a usability makeover as well as offering new chart types."

Comment: Apple Daily? (Score 1) 344

by I didn't on Wednesday January 20 2010, @04:33AM (#30829402) Attached to: 2-D <em>Avatar</em> To Be Pulled From Theaters In China

They are famous in being "emotional" in their reporting. A huge grain of salt is recommended.

Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Released 272

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 08 2009, @06:48PM
from the hot-bits dept.

supersloshy writes Today Mozilla released Thunderbird 3. Many new features are available, including Tabs and enhanced search features, a message archive for emails you don't want to delete but still want to keep, Firefox 3's improved Add-ons Manager, Personas support, and many other improvements. Download here."

Comment: By 'People' I mean the people from mainland China (Score 1) 114

by I didn't on Saturday July 11 2009, @09:49AM (#28659537) Attached to: Apple To Sell Wi-Fi-less iPhone In China

Sorry I didn't make it clear in previous post.

I'm not sure what this 'no WiFi' thing is aiming at but be honest 802.11-capable gears have been pretty common in China. For example these 'Shanzhai' internet tablets* support 802.11b/g and I haven't seen any mention of WAPI.

* ARM11 running Linux and costs less than US$150, nice toy.