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Duke Nukem Forever Release Date Revealed 288

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 21, 2011 @10:54AM from the restocking-bubblegum dept.

stupid_is writes with news that Duke Nukem Forever has now gotten a firm US release date: May 3rd. It will release worldwide three days later. The game was resurrected last fall by Gearbox Software and 2K Games after 3D Realms' 12-year attempt at development came to an end in 2009 when the company closed its doors.

Capcom 'Saddened' By Game Plagiarism Controversy 163

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 14, 2011 @04:18AM from the all-the-way-to-the-bank dept.

Capcom's recent release of action platformer Maxsplosion for the iPhone caused indie developer Twisted Pixel to call Capcom out for copying the concept from their successful Xbox Live game 'Splosion Man. Twisted Pixel said they had no plans for legal action, since they were "too small to take on a company like Capcom." The indie studio had even pitched the game to Capcom for publishing at one point, but were declined. Now, Capcom has released a statement denying that Maxsplosion's development team had any knowledge of the meetings and saying, "MaXplosion was developed independently by Capcom Mobile. Nonetheless, we are saddened by this situation and hope to rebuild the trust of our fans and friends in the gaming community."

Chemical Cocktail Can Keep a Heart Viable 10 Days, Outside the Body 97

Posted by timothy on Saturday May 15, 2010 @12:32AM from the with-very-few-exceptions-not-a-worm dept.

nj_peeps writes "Harvard professor Hemant Thatte has developed a cocktail of 21 chemical compounds that he calls Somah, derived from the Sanskrit for 'ambrosia of rejuvenation.' Using Somah, Thatte and his team have accomplished some amazing feats with pig hearts. They can keep the organ viable for transplant up to 10 days after harvest — far longer than the four-hour limit seen in hospitals today. Not only that, but using low temperatures and Somah, they were able to take a pig heart that was removed post mortem and get it to beat 24 hours later in the lab."

Lower Merion School's Report Says IT Dept. Did It, But Didn't Inhale 232

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 06, 2010 @03:46PM from the so-what's-a-few-snapshots-anyhow dept.

PSandusky writes "A report issued by the Lower Merion School District's chosen law firm blames the district's IT department for the laptop webcam spying scandal. In particular, the report mentions lax IT policies and record-keeping as major problems that enabled the spying. Despite thousands of e-mails and images to the contrary, the report also maintains that no proof exists that anyone in IT viewed images captured by the webcams."

Comment PDF size is definitely bloated, ODF is not (Score 1) 941

by MLamar on Thursday October 27, 2005 @04:45PM (#13892141) Attached to: OpenOffice Bloated?

As a quick-n-dirty test I used a PC running Windows 2000, OpenOffice.org v2.0 and MS Office 97 to build .pdf files of quotes submitted to me as an Excel spreadsheet (one printed page) and a Word document (8 pages). The .pdf engine used with word and Excel was Software995's pdf printer driver. I accepted the default settings for pdf creation in both OOo and MS Office apps.

The OOo spreadsheet.ods was 16K, the Excel spreadsheet.xls was 24K in size. The OOo document.odt was 38K, the Word document.doc was 131K in size. In fairness, the documents did contain VB macros that the .odt file did not save. The OOo spreadsheet.pdf was 120 KB , the Excel spreadsheet.pdf was 32KB in size. The OOo document.pdf was 200KB, and the Word document.pdf was 100KB in size. I will check PDF creation on these same documents from my Linux box at home to complete the comparison. My curiosity will then be satisfied.

To me, the expense of archiving data files is of greater interest that the expense of RAM needed to support the software. I must archive documents for many years. Disk space requirements are constantly growing, while the RAM in each PC is reusable.

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