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Submission + - 25 Games Tested in Vista

Submitted by

mikemuch

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @03:55AM

mikemuch writes: "Jason Cross at ExtremeTech has installed more than 25 PC Games in Windows Vista and reports back with his experiences with each. For the most part, the OS handled games with aplomb, but on the whole ran them slightly slower than XP, and some required logging in as administrater to install them. These and other minor issues were the result of immature drivers. It was hit or miss whether games would appear in the Games Explorer correctly with box art, and GameTap doesn't work yet at all."

Cheap, Safe, Patentless Cancer Drug Discovered 576

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @02:41AM from the an-age-of-medical-marvels dept.

PyroMosh writes "The New Scientist is reporting that researchers working at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada have discovered that an existing drug called dichloroacetate (DCA) is effective in killing cancer cells, while leaving the host's healthy cells unharmed. DCA has already been used for years to treat metabolic disorders, and is known to be fairly safe. Sounds like great news, is it too good to be true? Why is the mainstream news media failing to report on this potential breakthrough? The University of Alberta and the Alberta Cancer Board have set up a site with more info, where you can also donate to support future clinical trials."

Journal Journal: Reflections on the Gaming Industry

Journal by IrresponsibleUseOfFr on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @02:39AM

I've ended my employment at Electronic Arts and am currently in progress of moving to a new job. In the time in between, I would like to take some time to expound on software and particularly the challenges the game industry faces. I have recently begun reading "Dreaming In Code" by Scott Rosenberg. I can already tell that I am going to like the book. But, the central question: Why is software so hard? Has already been answered, many times in countless ways. People expect there to be so

Submission + - A Diamond is a scientist's best friend

Submitted by

jd

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @02:36AM

jd writes: "The Diamond Light Source synchrotron ring opened Feb. 5th for operation. The largest scientific facility to be built in the UK for over 30 years, it is the size of five full-sized soccer stadia and boasts a three GeV synchrotron ring hooked up to two booster accelerators. For those who prefer more normal units, the circumference is 562.6 meters. By no means as large as the Large Hadron Collider being built through the Alps, this is still considered the best medium-energy synchrotron ring anywhere in the world — according to their publicists. Their press release states that this ring is to replace the Synchrotron Radiation Source (SRS) accelerator at Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire, which is due to close at the end of 2008."

Feed Wal-Mart and Studios in Film Deal (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @02:12AM

Wal-Mart will introduce a partnership with all of the six major Hollywood studios — to sell digital movies and television shows on its Web site.

Submission + - Astronauts Gone Wild

Submitted by timeOday on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @02:04AM

timeOday writes: Looks like somebody just blew a chance to inaugurate the 200-mile-high club. Lisa Nowak, a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery in July, was arrested Monday on charges of battery and attempted kidnapping after allegedly trying to subdue a romantic rival with pepper spray and abduct her from a parking lot at Orlando International Airport. It seems both women were chasing astronaut Bill Oefelein, a Navy commander. Police have recommended Nowak be held without bond.

Submission + - Astronaut Charged With Attempted Kidnapping

Submitted by

friedo

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @01:47AM

friedo writes: "US Navy Capt. Lisa Nowak, a NASA astronaut who has served on the space shuttle and ISS, was charged with attempted kidnapping, battery and destruction of evidence over an apparent romantic dispute with another woman. Nowak drove 900 miles wearing diapers to confront Colleen Shipman. And then it gets weird."

Submission + - Kiwi's build sand castle on Santa Monica beach

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @01:44AM

An anonymous reader writes: Native American tribes have welcomed a group of New Zealanders onto Santa Monica Beach for a special project to celebrate the New Zealand National Day known as Waitangi Day. A group called Made From New Zealand have created a huge 100 foot silver fern sand castle on the Los Angeles hot spot. The group from "down under" descended on the Santa Monica beach yesterday, and with the help of volunteers created the beach sculpture ahead of schedule. A previous effort can be seen here on YouTube. Under the terms the approval to create the sand sculpture, it has to be removed by tomorrow.

Submission + - New dual core PPC sampling from PA semi

Submitted by OfNoAccount on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @01:40AM

OfNoAccount writes: Looks like PPC CPU newcomer PA semi is actually shipping silicon, if only in sampling quantities at the moment. If you want an eval platform they're available, with support for Linux, QNX and WindRiver.

Key specs of the PWRficient(TM) — 1682M:
Power efficient Dual core 64-bit PPC with vector extensions (think Altivec) — 2GHz @ 5-13W typ, 2Mb L2 cache, dual-DDR2 memory controllers, SGMII onboard, and many other SOIC features on-die.

Low power consumption and high integration should make this a favourite amongst the high density computing brigade!

Submission + - Astronaut Charged With Attacking Engineer

Submitted by

Lothar+0

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @01:26AM

Lothar+0 writes: "Navy Capt. Lisa Marie Nowak, who was a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery in July, has been arrested for battery and attempted kidnapping. She had allegedly attacked Colleen Shipman, an engineer with the 45th Launch Support Squadron, with pepper spray at Orlando International Airport. The incident allegedly stemmed from a rivalry over the affections of Navy Cmdr. Bill Oefelein. Oefelein was the pilot of the last shuttle mission, which was also aboard Discovery."

Submission + - Kodachrome mystery woman

Submitted by

leery

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @12:35AM

leery writes: "Has this ever happened to you? Photographer/collector Stephen Edgar bought a bag of orphaned Kodachromes and found himself a mystery. The same attractive young woman appears on nearly all the slides. Other slides feature, presumably, her husband, family and friends. Most seem to have been taken in the '50's, and, it would appear, in the Southwest US.

Mr. Edgar has so far put some of the cleaned up scans on a website as well as on a tabblo, hoping someone may recognize these people or spot a clue.

Any suggestions to further (or end) the quest? (For that matter, anyone recognize these people?)"

Feed Microsoft Spurns Appeal to Intervene in Russian Piracy Case (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @12:12AM

Microsoft rebuffed a public appeal by Mikhail Gorbachev for its chairman, Bill Gates, to intervene on behalf of a Russian school principal charged with software piracy.

Feed F.T.C. Reaffirms Rambus Antitrust Ruling (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @12:12AM

The Federal Trade Commission made final its ruling that the memory chip designer violated antitrust laws, imposing limits on the royalties the company can charge.

Feed Profit Slips at Sony on Losses for PlayStation 3 (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Tuesday January 30, 2007 @04:12AM

Sony faulted a strategic decision to set the price of the PlayStation 3 below the cost of production as a way to bolster market share.

Feed Blue Ribbon Debut for Office 2007 (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Tuesday January 30, 2007 @04:12AM

The newest version of Microsoft Office arrives this week, complete with a tricked-out user interface intended to impress the Windows-weary. By Scott Gilbertson. Plus: Gallery: Office 2007: Take a visual tour in our screenshot gallery. Vista Review: Was the OS worth the five-year wait? By Bruce Gain. Gallery: Vista Tour: See the OS shine in Bruce Gain's screenshots. A History of Windows: Watch the OS evolve. By Keith Axline. The Rise of Solitaire: Why it's Vista's real killer app. Sci-Fi Does Windows: Microsoft references in movies and books.

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