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Blizzard Set To Debut 'Something New' At PAX East 150

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday February 28, 2013 @01:01PM from the battle.net-forum-users-already-upset-about-it dept.

skade88 writes "Ars is reporting that Blizzard will announce a new game on March 22, 2013 at PAX East. They say the new game is not a sequel or expansion. Blizzard is also saying the new game is not the long rumored MMO named Titan. Considering that every game Blizzard released since 1998 has had the name StarCraft, Warcraft or Diablo in it, this is big news. Ars speculates in the article that the new game could be Blizzard's version of a DOTA game. They showed off Blizzard All-Stars at BlizzCon 2010 as a SC2 custom map. It could be ready for launch as its own standalone game. I guess we will have to wait and see!"

Comment Re:Invalid Assumptions (Score 1) 287

by Emunix on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @07:25PM (#42124261) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Which OSS Database Project To Help?

Using a database (or any product) very effectively often has little or not translation into working on the guts of the product.

However, knowing how to use a product effectively is one of the keys to writing useful documentation.

Comment Re:This guy has a sense of entitlement. (Score 1) 1008

by Emunix on Monday June 13, 2011 @10:24AM (#36424838) Attached to: Apple Store Employee Attempts To Form Union

If he is stuck in a part time position then he is probably does not show any initiative. Showing some initiative should be the first step and trying to pursue full time status.

Is it just me or doesn't going through all the hassle of trying to unionize his store show some serious initiative?

Not saying he's a model employee, but there aren't too many people who try to organize unions because it's easy.

Comment Re:also: more doctors, less pay, more compassion. (Score 2, Insightful) 584

by Emunix on Monday June 21, 2010 @08:39AM (#32639396) Attached to: What US Health Care Needs

You say there's no optimal command style solution to health care...

The trouble with applying market economics to health care like this is that markets achieve maximum efficiency through consumers acting as -rational- actors seeking to maximize value. When it comes to health care, people are not terribly rational and not terribly good as assigning value.

Sometimes, it's a matter of information. (Turns out, there might be something in that decade of schooling for doctors.) Sometimes, it's a matter of emotion... I mean, what wouldn't you pay to save your life? What about your arm? Or your vision? (I'd pay damn near anything... I'm just glad I live somewhere where I won't be paying personally.)

Man Arrested For Taking Photo of Open ATM 1232

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @07:38PM from the i-will-tackle-you dept.

net_shaman writes in with word of a Seattle man who was arrested for taking a photo of an ATM being serviced. "Today I was shopping at the downtown Seattle REI. I was about to buy a Thule hitch mount bike rack. They were out of the piece that locks the bike rack into the hitch. So I was in the customer service line to special order one. It was a long line and while I was waiting, I saw two of guys (employees of Loomis, as I later learned) refilling the ATM. I walked over and took a picture with my iPhone of them and more interestingly of the open ATM. I took the picture because I'm fascinated by the insides of things that we don't normally get to see. ... That was when Officer GE Abed (#6270) spun me around and put handcuffs on me."

Submission + - CPR not as effective as chest compressions alone

Submitted by

patiwat

on Saturday March 17, 2007 @02:38PM

patiwat writes: "A Japanese study has found that people suffering from cardiac arrest were more likely to recover without brain damage if rescuers focused on chest compressions rather than on rescue breaths, and some experts advised dropping the mouth-to-mouth part of CPR altogether. Interrupting chest compression to perform mouth-to-mouth ventilation might do more harm than good if blood flow to the heart was not properly re-established, a researcher from Tokyo's Surugadai Nihon University Hospital said. Also, people could be too squeamish to lock lips with a stranger, whereas more might be prepared to attempt hands-only resuscitation, noted the study published in the current issue of The Lancet. Dr Gordon Ewy, the chief of cardiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, wrote in the same journal that the results "should lead to a prompt interim revision of the guidelines for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest." More than 300,000 Americans die from cardiac arrest each year. Roughly 9 out of 10 cardiac arrest victims die before they get to a hospital — partly because they do not get CPR."

Submission + - why exercise boosts brainpower

Submitted by aditi on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @12:45AM

aditi writes: CNN reports that exercise boosts brainpower by building new brain cells in a brain region linked with memory and memory loss.
Tests on mice showed they grew new brain cells in a brain region called the dentate gyrus, a part of the hippocampus that is known to be affected in the age-related memory decline that begins around age 30 for most humans.Researchers used magnetic resonance imaging scans to help document the process in mice — and then used MRIs to look at the brains of people before and after exercise.They found the same patterns, which suggests that people also grow new brain cells when they exercise.

Submission + - Microsoft XML fast-tracked despite complaints

Submitted by Lars Skovlund on Monday March 12, 2007 @04:18PM

Lars Skovlund writes: Groklaw reports that the Office XML standard is being put on the fast track in ISO despite the detailed complaints from national standards bodies. The move seems to be the decision of one person, Lisa Rachjel, secretariat of the ISO Joint Technical Committee, according to a comment made by her.

Submission + - Making Sense out of Census Data with Google Earth

Submitted by

mikemuch

on Monday March 12, 2007 @01:08AM

mikemuch writes: "Irman Haque has developed a mashup of Google Earth with data from the U.S. Census Bureau, called gCensus. The app uses the XML format known as KML (Keyhole Markup Language), which can create shapes and colors on the maps displayed by GE. Haque had to build custom code libraries (which he's made available as open source) that could generate KML for the project. He also had to extract the relevant data from the highly counter-intuitive Census Bureau files and store them in a database that could handle geographic data. gCensus lets you do stuff like create colorful overlays on maps showing population ages, race, and family size distributions."

1 Million OLPCs Already On Order 158

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 15, 2007 @05:22PM from the lots-of-happy-kids dept.

alphadogg writes "Quanta Computer has confirmed orders for 1 million notebook PCs for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. The article goes into some background on the project, and lays out the enthusiastic adoption that the project is seeing overseas. The company estimates they'll ship somewhere between 5 and 10 Million units this year, with 7 countries already signed up to receive units. The machines currently cost $130, but with that kind of volume the original goal of $100 a machine may be viable. Even with the low cost, Quanta expects to make a small profit on each machine, making charity work that much easier."

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