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Will Oracle Keep Funding Sun's Pet Java Projects? 234

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 27, 2009 @12:15PM from the money-to-burn dept.

gkunene writes "Oracle expects Sun to contribute to its operating profit right away. To make that happen, Oracle may pull funding and staff from projects such as JavaFX, Project Looking Glass, and Project GlassFish."

Comment Re:Steam pricing is the weak point (Score 3, Informative) 159

by dapendragon on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @11:36AM (#27135355) Attached to: The Age of Steam

Steam pricing in Europe went from good to poor after they decided to implement the 1 € = 1 $ pricing scheme around new year.

This happened at the same time that they introduced the € as currency for everyone in Europe but UK residents, even for countries that do not use the euro. There's a long topic of complaints and documentation about this on the Steam forums.

Up until this change I would usually buy from Steam since it was cheaper or the same price as any other place, with the digital distribution as a bonus. Now I'll only buy from Steam if there's no other option available.

Despite Valve's reputation as an open company, there's currently been no official comment regarding this change.

Comment Re:Source? (Score 1) 1055

by dapendragon on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @07:50AM (#26446603) Attached to: How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out?

And it just so happens that in Norway most people have a standard 37,5 hour work week. :)

Feed Google's Next-Gen of Sneakernet (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @04:12PM

For scientists dealing in terabytes of data, Google offers help. There's 'FedExNet" for those times when it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight (or thereabouts). By Cyrus Farivar.

Submission + - Will lack of DX10 on XP spur OpenGL development?

Submitted by

Sparr0

on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @04:10PM

Sparr0 writes: "Since Microsoft's announcement that DirectX 10 will not be released for Windows XP, which means no Shader Model 4.0 and no Geometry Shaders, I have been waiting for news of game developers switching to OpenGL in order to get the best graphics on the best hardware on the most popular gaming OS... But there is nary a whisper of such. Will such a shift occur, even if only in small amounts? When? Why not? It is probably safe to say that Unreal Tournament 3 (AKA UT2007) will have OpenGL as an option in Windows, but that is both unsurprising and also a long way off. Ditto for Quake Wars, and most anything else that we already knew was going to have a native Linux clients. But where are all of the other big names with Windows-only offerings? Why haven't we heard from Valve, Blizzard, Sony, or EA, to name a few?"

Prototype Telescopes Complete Key Test 78

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday March 10, 2007 @01:02PM from the if-this-trend-continues dept.

Matthew Sparkes writes "Two prototype antennas for the world's largest array of millimeter-wave telescopes have passed a key test, working to track and image Saturn for more than an hour. Ultimately, ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) is expected to resolve details 10 times finer than the Hubble Space Telescope when it is completed in 2012."

Comment Re:NO! Don't link. (Score 1) 1570

by dapendragon on Wednesday November 22, 2006 @09:22AM (#16948356) Attached to: Creationism Museum To Open Next Summer

...you might as well believe the world was created 5 minutes ago by a spaghetti monster.

...and I for one welcome our new Spaghetti Monster overlords.

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