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How To Find a Mobile Games Publisher? 119

Posted by timothy from the take-me-away-from-all-this dept.
n01 writes "In the last few months of my spare time, I've been implementing an abstract strategy board game (that I invented) along with a decent AI. The game resembles TwixT in that it is also a connection game, and could be played without the need for a cellphone or computer. The implementation on the Java 2 Mobile Edition platform will soon be finished, with only some minor usability and sound issues to fix. While I enjoyed working on the game (actually more than on my day job as a programmer) I would still like to earn some money from selling the game, so I can work more on such projects in the future. What experiences have Slashdot readers had with selling their applications/games for mobile phones? With which publisher will I have the broadest audience and achieve the highest earnings? Would you try to publish the game both as a mobile game and a traditional board game?"
The Internet

Towards a World Wide Grid? 105

Posted by samzenpus from the one-world-government dept.
Roland Piquepaille writes "In recent months, the concept of 'cloud computing' was all the buzz. European researchers think about another name, the World Wide Grid, which could run on top of the Internet. In an article to appear soon, ICT Results will report about the g-Eclipse project. As the scientists said, 'the g-Eclipse project aims to build an integrated workbench framework to access the power of existing Grid infrastructures. The framework will be built on top of the reliable eco-system of the Eclipse community to enable a sustainable development.' The project started in July 2006 and was successfully completed in June 2008 for a total cost of €2.5 million, including a EU contribution of €1.96 million."
Security

The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker 637

Posted by timothy from the well-deserved-shadenfreude dept.
eldavojohn writes "You might remember the tiny news that Half Life 2 source code was leaked in 2003 ... it is the 6th most visited Slashdot story with over one kilocomment. Well, did anything happen to the source of the leak, the German hacker Axel 'Ago' Gembe? Wired is reporting he was offered a job interview so that Valve could get him into the US and bag him for charges. It's not the first time the FBI tried this trick: 'The same Seattle FBI office had successfully used an identical gambit in 2001, when they created a fake startup company called Invita, and lured two known Russian hackers to the US for a job interview, where they were arrested.'"
User Journal

Journal Journal: In the news today

Journal by CrazedWalrus

In the news this week:

The US government could be entering a bottomless pit of bailouts if it starts propping up failing companies outside the financial sector: (Hoorah for corporate welfare! Glad we're propping up our biggest, most irresponsible and short-sighted companies for another few months!)

http://www.cnbc.com/id/27662540/

Earth

Eight-Armed Animal Preceded Dinosaurs 211

Posted by CmdrTaco from the doc-oc-uber-alles dept.
Garimelda writes "Scientists have discovered what they believe is an eight-armed creature which colonized a large section of the world's oceans over 300 million years before the first dinosaurs emerged."

Comment Re:Look on the brightside McCain supporters (Score 1) 3709

by CrazedWalrus (#25641107) Attached to: Barack Obama Wins US Presidency

Indeed. I would hope it wouldn't be lost on these generations of black youth that it was predominantly *white* people who voted for him. Every black person in the country could have voted for him and he still wouldn't have won if racism and oppression was as rampant as many people claim.

Racial healing? Reality check? The removal of an excuse? All of those things, I'd hope.

Comment Re:A Good Day (Score 1) 3709

by CrazedWalrus (#25641007) Attached to: Barack Obama Wins US Presidency

Why is it that we need to either like him and think he's a "MASSIVE step forward," or we're racist and should die in a fire? Because of his skin color we can't have ideological differences?

Sounds like you're the racist to me, friend. I saw past his skin color and disliked him for his politics and policies.

Comment Re:Finally! (Score 1) 3709

by CrazedWalrus (#25640851) Attached to: Barack Obama Wins US Presidency

Tell you what? Why don't we create an IRS account for "voluntary taxes," and all you guys with extra money to throw around can send in your checks. Hell, we'll even make it tax deductible! Whether or not you ever write that first check, or less likely, the second, please stop volunteering the rest of us just because because of your misplaced altruism.

Comment Re:The party of big government (Score 1) 3709

by CrazedWalrus (#25640609) Attached to: Barack Obama Wins US Presidency

You know, the snark has got to stop. It sounds witty, but there's nothing behind it and it still manages to pass for insightful commentary.

The fact is that people go to work to make money. They aren't going to quit or not work in government because they want smaller government. Why? Because they've got to work somewhere, and if there's a gov't position open, someone's going to take it anyway. Refusing to take it on principle only hurts the prospective employee, and does NOTHING to constrain the size of government.

What needs to happen is the strategic elimination of high-level groups and programs. That absolutely cannot be done by Joe the IT Worker or Sally the Secretary, and their decision to take that paycheck while its available is totally reasonable.

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