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ASCIIpOrtal Has Been Released 83

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @12:23PM from the watch-out-for-those-boulders dept.

maclizard writes "After much waiting, ASCIIpOrtal has now been released. Joe Larson, the man behind the game, has made sure to provide numerous mirrors so as to avoid the Slashdot effect that killed his site several months ago. An interview with Larson (part two here) is available as well."

Journal Journal: multi touch awesomeness,

Journal by mehemiah on Saturday February 10, 2007 @12:15AM

This might be old hat to some but the multitouch interface has been greatly developed and The MacDevCenter has posted another video of its use.

Cartoon Network CEO Resigns Over Aqua Teen Scare 710

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 09, 2007 @09:35PM from the i-doubt-he's-laughing dept.

DesertBlade writes "Jim Samples, CEO of Cartoon Network, has resigned over the bomb scare prompted by the Aqua Teen marketing campaign. Turner (CN's parent company) ended up paying over 2 million in restitution to the city of Boston, and a man with a thirteen year record at the company has lost his job. Though many people have been citing this as 'the ultimate successful advertising campaign', there have obviously been real consequences from the incident." By virtue of the consequences of the campaign, was this now officially a bad idea? Or is your opinion that this is all far too much knee-jerking? Have your say in the comments.

Journal Journal: Temporary blood vessel shunt to be used to save limbs in war 157

Journal by Stile 65 on Friday February 09, 2007 @08:49PM

The FDA has just approved for military use a shunt which allows partially-severed limbs to continue to get circulation. According to the article, "For most, it won't be a matter of saving a limb outright but rather salvaging the quality of a wounded leg or arm." This is because "The tubelike device is designed to connect the two ends of a severed blood vessel, providing a temporary bridge or shunt around a wound to restore blood flow to an

Submission + - AMD's showcases Quad-Core Barcelona CPU

Submitted by Gr8Apes on Friday February 09, 2007 @08:45PM

Gr8Apes writes: AMD has showcased their new 65nm Barcelona quad-core CPU. It is labeled a quad-core Opteron, but according to Infoworld's Tom Yeager, is really a redefinition of x86. Each core has a new vector math processing unit (SSE128), separate integer and floating point schedulers, and new nested paging tables (to vastly improve hardware virtualization). According to AMD, the new vector math units alone should improve floating point operation by 80%. Some analysts are skeptical, waiting for benchmarks. Will AMD dethrone Intel again? Only time will tell.

Feed Blogs Shift Mideast Dialogue (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday February 09, 2007 @08:12PM

Middle Eastern bloggers tackling everything from human rights to Islam are making it harder for governments to keep their monopoly on the media. By the Associated Press.

Feed MIT Cracks Fiber-Optics Conundrum (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday February 09, 2007 @08:12PM

Researchers say they've created a nifty optics-on-a-chip device that overcomes a major obstacle in harnessing the full power and speed of light waves. By the Associated Press.

Comment Too Early to Regulate? (Score 1) 256

by WeakGeek on Thursday June 08, 2006 @03:32PM (#15496918) Attached to: Eric Schmidt on Net Neutrality

Giancarlo from Cisco has a letter in the WSJ where he says it is basically way to early to regulate a problem that we might not even have ...

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