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Comment Goodbye and Good Luck! (Score 1) 1521

by ThoraX695 (#37214650) Attached to: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

Rob,

It's been a pleasure to have been part of this community since 1998 or so. And the community and I thank you for your service in steering the ship for all of these years, despite system issues, trolls, and memes that would not die. (We had memes before we knew what memes were. "First Post!") And who from the early days doesn't remember things like Voices from the Hellmouth? (http://news.slashdot.org/story/99/04/25/1438249/Voices-From-The-Hellmouth) Slashdot appeared during the expansion of the World Wide Web from localized communities of geeks to ubiquitous access to practically everyone across the globe. (And in space... like Geeks in Space!) It helped pioneer large aspects of news aggregation and delivery and aspects of social networking. You know, that's one fun thing about being a geek. Sometimes in our creativity, we don't really know we're creating something new or forging new paradigms. It's good to look back and reflect on where we've been. And Slashdot will always be remembered to be a key player in this era of computing and hopefully continue to be on the cutting edge as time marches on.

P.S. You have our permission to guest post as much as you want on April Fool's Day. And turn Slashdot pink again!
The Military

North Korea Missile Launch Fails 609

Posted by timothy from the one-of-the-strings-must-have-broken dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Remember the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launch by the North Koreans last night? You know, the one that went over Japan and supposedly put a 'communications satellite' into orbit. Well, according to the US Northern Command and NORAD it has been a complete and utter failure, with the second stage and payload 'falling in the Pacific.'"
Image

Researchers Discover The Most Creative Time of Day 154

Posted by samzenpus from the ask-me-that-in-a-few-hours dept.
Creativity is least likely to strike in the afternoon, according to a survey that suggests office workers have little chance of solving problems after lunch. A poll of 1,426 people showed that a quarter of us stay up late when seeking inspiration. Taking a shower or just sitting in the bathroom proved to be a popular way of getting the creative juices flowing. The survey found that 10:04pm was the most creative time, while 4:33pm was the least. I'll think of something funny to write here later.
Games

Saving the Street Fighter Franchise 76

Posted by Soulskill from the ha-dooooo-ken dept.
Gamasutra did an in-depth interview with Yoshi Ono, producer of Street Fighter IV, about trying to bring the series back to the quality and popularity of the '90s. Ono also talks about broadening the market to include casual players, who were slowly driven away from the game by the increased focus on competitive play. Quoting: "If you think about chess for instance, a kid and a grandfather can play the same game, with the same ruleset, and understand what's going on. I think through our competitive spirit back then; we were always out to out-complicate each other, and make our systems deeper and deeper. It was ok then because there was a wide player base who understood how to play these games, but that's not true anymore. What we're trying to do with Street Fighter IV is bring them back in. There's not a whole lot of other fighting games out there to compare it to, but hopefully, if we play our cards right and get people back in to the genre, we can blossom the genre itself again and spread things out and get it back to the way it was."
Education

Review of Discovery Institute's Evolution Textbook 756

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the just-partner-it-with-dawkins'-god-delusion dept.
Darwinned writes "Intelligent Design is still a hot topic, as evidenced by recent legislation mandating that it be taught in school. Pro-ID group Discovery Institute has released an evolution textbook for use in schools, but a review shows it to be chock full of bad science and questionable reasoning. 'The book doesn't only promote stupidity, it demands it. In every way except its use of the actual term, this is a creationist book, but its authors are expecting that legislators and the courts will be too stupid to notice that, or to remember that the Supreme Court has declared teaching creationism an unconstitutional imposition of religion.'"
IBM

Submission + - How to really bury a mainframe (networkworld.com)

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "Some users have gone to great lengths to dispose of their mainframe but few have gone this far. On November 21, 2007, the University of Manitoba said goodbye to its beloved 47-year-old IBM 650 mainframe Betelgeuse by holding a New Orleans style jazz funeral. In case you were wondering what an IBM 650's specifications were, according to this Columbia University site, the 650's CPU was 5ft by 3ft by 6ft and weighed 1,966 lbs, and rented for $3200 per month. The power unit was 5x3x6 and weighed 2,972 pounds. The card reader/punch weighed 1,295 pounds and rented for $550/month. The memory was a rotating magnetic drum with 2000 word (10 digits and sign) capacity and random access time of 2.496 ms. For an additional $1,500/month you could add magnetic core memory of 60 words with access time of .096ms. Big Blue sold some 2,000 of the mainframes making it one of the first successfully mass-produced computers. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/23123"

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