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Virtual Currency Becomes Real In South Korea 203

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 19, 2010 @02:29PM from the license-to-print-money dept.

garylian writes "Massively is reporting that the South Korean Supreme Court has stated that virtual currency is the equivalent of real-world money. For those of you who might not be drawing the link, the core there is that selling in-game currency for real money is essentially just an exchange of currency and perfectly legal in South Korea. This could have sweeping implications for RMT operations the world over, not to mention free-to-play games and... well, online games in general. The official story is available online from JoongAng Daily."

Lake On Titan Winks From a Billion Kilometers Away 139

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 17, 2009 @10:48PM from the next-time-send-chocolate dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes "NASA's Cassini spacecraft took an image of Saturn's giant moon Titan earlier this year that serendipitously provides proof of liquid (probably methane) on its surface. The picture shows a glint of reflected sunlight off of a monster lake called Kraken Mare (larger than the Caspian Sea!). Scientists have been getting better and better evidence of liquid methane on Titan, but this is the first direct proof."

Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex 272

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 17, 2009 @09:40PM from the nice-feed dept.

When an UK man was asked to be the best man at a friend's wedding he agreed that he would not pull any pranks before or during the ceremony. Now the groom wishes he had extended the agreement to after the blessed occasion as well. The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress. The device now automatically tweets when the couple have sex. The updates include the length of activity and how vigorous the act was on a scale of 1-10.

Comment Consider Xilinx System Generator (Score 2, Interesting) 301

by OutaControl on Sunday May 31, 2009 @08:25PM (#28162517) Attached to: VHDL or Verilog For Learning FPGAs?

I've found that I can substantially reduce VHDL development time using Xilinx System Generator and its toolbox for Matlab's Simulink . Writing VHDL graphically makes understanding and testing substantially easier (for me, at least).

It has hand-coded VHDL equivalents for each Simulink function. Generate testbenches, hardware in the loop, etc. You can merge it directly with your own code by writing a simple high level wrapper. It interfaces easily with Chipscope as well (generates files to label each of your inputs).

Comment Microsoft Works drives people to OpenOffice (Score 2, Informative) 451

by OutaControl on Sunday October 26, 2008 @09:03PM (#25522253) Attached to: OpenOffice.org V3.0 Sets Download Record, 80% Windows

Microsoft Works comes as a standard option on the lower end PC's. It's so stripped down that it is actually aggravating to use. It won't even open most existing XLS or DOC files properly!

Open Office was a breath of fresh air for those of us too cheap/unwilling to purchase the full MS Office 2007 (especially given it's lackluster reviews).

It works smoothly, has all of the interfaces we've come to learn and love, and opens/closes Microsoft Office files unlike Microsoft Works...

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