cydblack - Slashdot User

Comment should we really be destroying US companies now? (Score 1) 313

by cydblack on Sunday January 25, 2009 @12:08AM (#26595457) Attached to: Microsoft 'Vista Capable' Settlement Cost Could Be Over $8 Billion

I don't like Microsoft. However, in case anyone hasn't noticed, the US economy just collapsed. We are in a major recession, posting the worst economic indicators since 1945, and with some economists painting an even darker picture drawing parallels that foreshadow another Great Depression. Now I know monopolies are evil and such but...am I the only person who is thinking that right now just might not be the right time to be attacking US companies and trying to tear them down with massive class action suits? Perhaps once everyone has a job again and isn't going to lose their house, then maybe we could worry about this? I'll be the first to admit I was on the front lines frothing at the mouth to tear down Microsoft when the anti-trust litigation was going on years ago, but right now isn't the time people. Perspective is needed here.

Submission + - Crayon Physics Game is Uber Cool 1

Submitted by IamAHack on Tuesday January 13, 2009 @04:04PM

IamAHack writes: NPR covered a new game that seems would have great appeal to slashdot readers: Crayon Physics. FTA ( http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99080116 ): "A new computer game went on sale this week. It's not a blockbuster like Halo or World of Warcraft. There's no first-person shooting, no sports, no guitar, no microphone. Instead, there's a crayon. The game is Crayon Physics Deluxe. It's a simple, mesmerizing game created by a 25-year-old independent games designer from Finland named Petri Purho. 'It's a game where your crayon drawings come to life,' Purho tells NPR's Melissa Block. 'You draw stuff and your drawings behave physically correctly.As soon as you release the last button, the laws of physics are applied to your drawing.'" Check it out at http://www.crayonphysics.com/

IE Market Share Drops Below 70% 640

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 01, 2009 @08:06PM from the probably-too-late-to-open-source-ie dept.

Mike writes "Microsoft's market share in the browser dropped below 70% for the first time in eight years, while Mozilla broke the 20% barrier for the first time in its history. It's too early to tell for sure, but if Net Applications' numbers are correct, then Microsoft's Internet Explorer will end 2008 with a historic market share loss in a software segment Microsoft believes is key to its business."

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