The Neo-Geo Song 70
At least 50% of my paychecks would be converted into tokens and put into one of many Neo-Geo machines at the arcade when I was in high school. It's good that my favorite old games finally have an anthem.
Comment Re:All mine were cheap! (Score 1) 1259
8.5% may be from a graduate plus loan. I work at a loan servicer and the current interest rate in the ffelp which the government sets every jul 1st has been 8.5% for parent plus(which are in the parents name) and graduate plus which are in the students name for the last few years.
Star Wars: the Force Unleashed Demo Sets Xbox Download Record 175
The demo version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was released a few weeks ago for download through Xbox Live and the Playstation Network. Now, LucasArts has announced that the game shattered records for the number of downloads on Xbox Live, taking only eight days to reach 1 million. The full version is due out next Tuesday, and LucasArts will be holding a launch party in San Fransisco on Monday night to celebrate. The game is part of a multimedia project which includes a best-selling book, a comic, action figures, and other tie-ins. According to Eurogamer's interview with producer Cameron Suey, previous Star Wars games suffered from a "lack of ambition." Suey also shows off some of the gameplay in a video. A video walkthrough of the PS2 and PSP versions is available at Kotaku. The game will not be available for PC. Early reviews for the game are good, but not great, and developers recently mentioned that George Lucas himself provided input on the project.
Jedi Knights Course Offered By Queen's University Belfast 180
Starting in November, Queen's University Belfast will offer a course that will use the psychology of the Star Wars Jedi Knights to teach students communication skills and personal development. The university's publicity material reads 'the course "Feel the Force: How to Train in the Jedi Way" teaches the "real-life psychological techniques behind Jedi mind tricks"' and promises to explore 'wider issues behind the Star Wars universe, like balance, destiny, dualism, fatherhood and fascism.' The course is very affordable but the droid fees are outrageous.
Ubuntu To Pay for Upgrades To the Free Software User Experience 546
jcatcw writes "Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, is using his millions to improve the Linux user experience, hiring people to work on X, OpenGL, Gtk, Qt, GNOME and KDE. He had doubted that desktop Linux could ever equal the smooth, graceful integration of the Mac OS. Now, between the driving pace of open-source development, and Shuttleworth's millions, it might be happening. Why not? After all, Mac OS itself is based on FreeBSD. Desktop Linux's future is starting to look brighter."
Comment Overreaction! (Score 1) 710
The lighted ads featuring the mooninites were already up in new york city for 3 weeks when they were put up in boston. In my opinion, boston didnt even bother to check into it, and made a big fuss over nothing. Not everything is a terroristic threat, even after 911, and we shouldnt live in fear of a terroristic threat either. We need to live our lives and if something happens fine, but not take things too seriously. As for the law enforcement in this situation, did they even do any checking at all into anything before declaring it a terroristic bomb scare plot? I doubt they did and it is this overreaction that can and will let terrorism flourish in our country.
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