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Comment Re:A DRM ban clause should be added as a constitut (Score 1) 1127

by aespinoza (#26889979) Attached to: Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7
Dude you are missing the point. The point is the practice Microsoft is enforcing. Crackers will find a way to get around this and you will have your pirated copy anyway; it is the practice that Microsoft is enforcing without your authorization. This is going to lead to another messy WGA-like scenario, where applications will just stop working with an upgrade, or simply for no apparent reason. This will cost a lot more money to enterprises just for maintenance of the OS. This is a practice that could potentially kill Windows.
Security

Microsoft Surface To Coordinate SuperBowl Security 218

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the blue-surface-of-death dept.
suraj.sun writes to tell us that in preparation for nearly a quarter of a million people descending on Tampa for the Super Bowl, the Tampa authorities are deploying new tech for security communications and response. All of the incidents and communications will be plotted and tracked on a new implementation of Microsoft's Surface. Hopefully it wont have to reboot after every new incident report. "The Microsoft Surface device will display a Microsoft Virtual Earth map of the entire region tracking events, incidents, resources and tasks in real-time using its unique large display, multi-user, multi-touch and interactive capabilities, also allowing it to communicate with remote devices and PCs. With a quick hand-gesture, the map can zoom in and display a 3D image of the city, including detailed views of buildings and streets and real time resource tracking."
Google

Google To Fund Ideas That Will Change the World 165

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the we-should-all-become-deities-the-end dept.
Peace Corps Online writes "This week, as part of their tenth birthday celebration, Google announced the launch of project ten to the 100th, a project designed to inspire and fund the development of ideas that will help to change the world. They have called on members of the public to share their ideas for solutions that will help as many people as possible in the global community, offering a $10 million prize pool to back the development of those chosen as winners. 'We know there are countless brilliant ideas that need funding and support to come to fruition,' says Bethany Poole, Project Marketing Manager for Google. 'These ideas can be big or small, technology-driven or brilliantly simple — but they need to have impact.' The project's website asks entrants to classify their ideas into one of eight categories listed as Community, Opportunity, Energy, Environment, Health, Education, Shelter and Everything Else. Members of the public have until October 20th to submit their ideas by completing a simple form and answering a few short questions about their idea."
Businesses

Nvidia Settles GPU Price-Fixing Antitrust Case 105

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the buy-your-way-out-of-trouble dept.
arcticstoat writes to report that Nvidia has offered up a settlement for the GPU price-fixing case. As a part of the settlement Nvidia would be required to pay $850,000 into a fund projected to hit $1.7 million (supposedly AMD/ATI would make up the other half). The antitrust case indicated that Nvidia and ATI worked together in order to 'fix, raise, maintain, and stabilize prices of GPUs sold in the US.'"
First Person Shooters (Games)

Review: Crysis Warhead 154

Posted by Soulskill from the bringing-home-the-bacon dept.
When Crysis was released last year, it immediately became known for two things; excellent gameplay and ridiculously high hardware requirements. With the recent release of Crysis Warhead, a standalone expansion to the original game, Crytek's plans were to maintain or improve the quality of gameplay while simultaneously streamlining it so a broader audience would have a chance to enjoy it. As it happens, they succeeded. Fans of the original game will feel right at home in Warhead, and it provides a good chance for new players who were curious but wary of Crysis's graphical requirements to give it a shot. Read on for my thoughts.
Music

MySpace Digital Music Service Is DRM-Free 93

Posted by kdawson from the little-music-with-your-gossip dept.
Anti-Globalism sends word that MySpace flipped the switch on its online, ad-supported, DRM-free music service that will "... give its roughly 120 million users free access to hundreds of thousands of songs from the world's largest recording labels. Unlike much of the material at Apple's iTunes store, the music sold through MySpace's new service won't contain the protections that limit how many times a track can be copied. MySpace is hoping to set itself apart from iTunes even further by allowing its users to create an unlimited number of playlists containing up to 100 songs apiece, a sharing concept similar to music services already offered by Imeem and Last.fm."

Comment Re:Why not expand Gnome or Kde instead... (Score 1) 423

by aespinoza (#11761668) Attached to: Rasterman Responds To Seth And Havoc
I personally don't know the inner workings of Enlightenment, but if what you say is true, the maybe using evas on Gnome won't be that hard to reuse.

Just don't get me wonrg here, I really enjoy having a lot of desktops around, but I am developer, I enjoy changing desktops every once in a while, the problem comes when I have to choose for one of my clients.

Of course the choice would be Gnome, but at this point, they still prefer XP, for whatever reason. Anyways, if this set of libraries are as modular as imlib, then I think Seth and Havoc or the FreeDesktop.org community will eventually reuse them, and that would be great.

:D

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