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Valve Releases Updated Alien Swarm For Free With Code Base 164

Posted by Soulskill on Monday July 19, 2010 @05:47PM from the game-over-man-game-over dept.

baronvoncarson tips news that today Valve released an updated version of Alien Swarm, a popular Unreal Tournament 2004 total conversion mod. The creators of the mod were hired by Valve, and they've helped turn it into a stand-alone game running on the Source engine. Valve is also releasing the code base for Alien Swarm and an SDK. The game is available for free on Steam.

Geologists Might Be Charged For Not Predicting Quake 375

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 16, 2010 @05:05PM from the google-will-no-doubt-be-found-at-fault dept.

mmmscience writes "In 2009, a series of small earthquakes shook the region of L'Aquila, Italy. Seismologists investigated the tremors, but concluded that there was no direct indication of a big quake on the horizon. Less than a month later, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake killed more than 300 people. Now, the chief prosecutor of L'Aquila is looking to charge the scientists with gross negligent manslaughter for not predicting the quake."

IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability? 193

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @03:30PM from the one-keybinding-to-rule-them-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I am currently looking to move from text editing with vim to a full fledged IDE with gdb integration, integrated command line, etc. Extending VIM with these capabilities is a mortal sin, so I am looking for a linux based GUI IDE. I do not want to give up the efficient text editing capabilities of VIM though. How do I have my cake and eat it too?"

Comment Re:Hard Drive Stickers (Score 1) 146

by Flying_Manatee on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @12:38AM (#14135226) Attached to: The Funniest Places for Hardware Stickers?

Yes, my LCD monitor has a Dell "300GB 10K Ultra 320 SCSI" label on it.

So does my digital camera. My laptop, however, has the 146GB 15K Ultra 320 SCSI model.

There must be at least 10 items in the office that have a yellow "Caution: Inline powered ethernet" warning as well.
Including cordless phones, a 1970's era Pioneer stereo, a red stapler, and a hammer.

That same pioneer stereo also claims to have an AMD Duron CPU, which blends so well with the brushed aluminum that it's barely noticable.

My LCD monitor also has a "VIA" brand "gra" model chipset heatsink stuck to it. And yes, it does appear to say "Viagra" on it.

And the hammer also has a "designed for Windows 95/NT" sticker on it, and has for at least 8 years now.

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