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Neo900 Hacker Phone Reaches Minimum Number of Pre-Orders For Production 109

First time accepted submitter wick3t writes "The Neo900 fundraising campaign has already achieved the milestone of 200 pre-orders which means that mass production is now feasible. This follows a successful first prototype that was showcased at the OpenPhoenux-Hard-Software-Workshop 2013. Their next target is 1000 pre-orders as they aspire to reduce the production costs of each device." For those not familiar, the Neo 900 is an offshoot of the OpenMoko GTA04 designed for use in the popular Nokia N900 case (and, yes, they're fixing the weak usb port).

Comment Phantasy Star (Score 1) 555

I'd highly recommend Phantasy Star Online 2. It's a very different game where unlike in most MMOs where you just stand around waiting for cool downs, you instead are actively dodging incoming attacks by rolling away or through other means. There's no auto attack and you will fall quickly if you try to play like that. Some have described it as a Diablo clone in 3d, but actually the series has been around since 1987. There is no official US release however there is an english fan patch available.. If you're interested in seeing what it looks like I have a let's play going on my channel under the same username. Science fiction also plays a great deal in it.

Comment Online Action RPG PSO2 - F2P, Not Pay to Win (Score 1) 280

Sega has seen a ton of success with the latest itteration of the Phantasy Star series (currently celebrating its 25th anniversary) called Phantasy Star Online 2. It is slated to be localized some time in 2013. I've been playing the japanese version with an partial english patch and have enjoyed every moment of it.

Comment Let's be honest about something (Score 1) 412

Based on what we know about the asteroid, specifically the fact that it's 140m in size, we're not looking at the end of the world here. The impact crater will be about 2-3 km in size and major effects felt up to about 100-200 miles away. This is not an armageddon situation and even at the worst case that it's made of something really dense, it's not going to cause global damage. We won't have a chunk of the planet missing and the axis won't change. Once we know what the deal is we should have more than enough information that even if we miss our target, there will be plenty of time to evacuate whatever town is going to get flattened.
Books

New Hitchhiker's Guide Book "Not Very Funny" 410

daria42 writes "An early review of part of the Eoin Colfer-penned sequel to Douglas Adams's Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy series has panned the book as not being very funny. If you read Hitchhiker to have a good laugh, maybe you're going to be disappointed," wrote Nicolas Botti, on his Douglas Adams fan site earlier this month."
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Bitterness To Be Classified As a Mental Illness 511

Some psychiatrists are trying to get excessive bitterness identified as a mental illness named post-traumatic embitterment disorder. Of course this has some people who live perfect little lives, and always get what they want, questioning the new classification. The so called "disorder" is modeled after post-traumatic stress disorder because it too is a response to a trauma that endures. "They feel the world has treated them unfairly. It's one step more complex than anger. They're angry plus helpless," says Dr. Michael Linden, the psychiatrist who put a name to how the world works.

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