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Classic Games (Games)

GOG.com Not Really Gone 276

Posted by samzenpus from the stepped-out-for-a-minute dept.
gspr writes "On Sunday, Slashdot and many others reported that DRM-free games site GOG.com was shutting down. Now the site is back, revealing that it was all a hoax. According to the site: 'Now it's time we put an end to all the speculations once and for all. It's true that we decided that we couldn't keep GOG.com the way it was so we won't. As you probably know by now, GOG.com is entering its new era with an end of the two-years beta stage and we're launching a brand new GOG.com with new, huge releases.' So it was all an advertising stunt."

Comment teamspeak (Score 0) 228

by cryoman23 (#33512712) Attached to: Lo-Fi Phones and the Future
i use teamspeak alot and whenever i have to talk on a regular old phone it pains me from the quality... a course im in the middle of no whare and line quality is bad and so forth so it may not be as bad elseware
Wine

Wine 1.2 Released 427

Posted by Soulskill from the pop-the-cork dept.
David Gerard writes "Stuck with that one Windows app you can't get rid of? Rejoice — Wine 1.2 is officially released! Apart from running pretty much any Windows application on Unix better than 1.0 (from 2008), major new features include 64-bit support, bi-directional text, and translation into thirty languages. And, of course, DirectX 9 is well-supported and DirectX 10 is getting better. Packages should hit the distros over the weekend, or you can get the source now."
Biotech

Familial DNA Testing Nabs Alleged Serial Killer 258

Posted by Soulskill from the relatively-incriminating dept.
cremeglace writes "A quarter-century of conventional detective work failed to track down the killer responsible for the deaths of at least 10 young women in south Los Angeles dating back to the mid-1980s. But a discarded piece of pizza and a relatively new method of DNA testing has finally cracked the case, police announced last week. On July 7, L.A. police arrested Lonnie Franklin Jr., 57, a former garage attendant and sanitation worker they suspect is the serial killer nicknamed the 'Grim Sleeper.' The key evidence? A match between crime-scene DNA and the suspect's son, obtained by a search through the state's data bank of DNA collected from 1.3 million convicted felons."

Comment Re:Suffering ? (Score 0) 304

by cryoman23 (#32830362) Attached to: Pixel Inventor Goes Back To the Drawing Board
i read it... and mainly says that less pixals is better and make each pixal bigger if it is similar enough to the surrounding pixals, it lowers the resolution by then deleting the surrounding pixals and replacing them with that one big pixal, basically were not suffering if u ask me
GNU is Not Unix

Would You Die To Respect a Software License? 233

Posted by timothy from the visit-from-the-compliance-department dept.
Julie188 writes "Some 2,000 licenses cover the 230,000+ projects in Black Duck's open source knowledge base. While 10 licenses comprise 93% of the software, that leaves 1,980-odd licenses for the other 3% — and some of them have really crazy conditions. The Death and Repudiation License, for instance, requires the user to be dead."

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