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Rockstar Co-Founder Dan Houser Is Leaving the Company 13

Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @06:00AM from the moving-on dept.

Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar Games, is leaving the company in March after taking an "extended break" in the spring of 2019. "Rockstar Games was founded in 1998, and Dan Houser contributed prominently to the company's successful franchises, including Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, Red Dead Redemption, and more," notes The Verge. From the report: Take-Two Interactive is the holdings company for Rockstar Games, and it hasn't officially announced the departure yet. Here's the snippet in full, straight from [an SEC document registered by publisher Take-Two Interactive, which first confirmed the news]: "After an extended break beginning in the spring of 2019, Dan Houser, Vice President, Creative at Rockstar Games, will be leaving the company. Dan Houser's last day will be March 11, 2020. We are extremely grateful for his contributions. Rockstar Games has built some of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful game worlds, a global community of passionate fans and an incredibly talented team, which remains focused on current and future projects."

Submission + - MIT Produces Electricity Using Thermopower Waves (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by MikeChino on Monday March 08, 2010 @01:13PM

MikeChino writes: MIT scientists have discovered a never-before-known phenomenon wherein carbon nanotubes can be used to harness energy from “thermopower waves”. To do this they coated the nanotubes with a reactive fuel and then lit one end, causing a fast-moving thermal wave to speed down the length of the tube. The heat from the fuel rises to a temperature of 3,000 kelvins, and can speed along the tube 10,000 times faster than the normal spread of this chemical reaction. The heat also pushes electrons down the tube which creates a substantial electrical current. The system can output energy (in proportion to its weight) about 100 x greater than an equivalent weight lithium-ion battery, and according to MIT the discovery “opens up a new area of energy research, which is rare”.

Comment Re:dropbox? (Score 1) 305

by 0100010001010011 on Thursday November 19, 2009 @06:29PM (#30164930) Attached to: Synchronize Data Between Linux, OS X, and Windows?

2 Complaints:

1) no command line/daemon version. My 2 Linux systems are headless. No GUI of any sort. I want something that goes in init.d and behaves like everything else debian (start|stop|restart) for these machines.

2) I can't use my own service. The people that plan on using their own hosting service really don't overlap with the type of people that are paying them big money to host their data. XMarks (Formerly FoxMarks) lets you host all your data on a WebDAV host. Let me add my own SSH/SFTP/WebDav host and I'd even consider paying for it with how awesome it works.

As someone else posted, I have everything benign at the root level (Fine, steal my grocery list) and everything else is in a true crypt disk.

Comment Zarafa already has a lot of exchange features. (Score 2, Informative) 249

by gambit73 on Saturday January 31, 2009 @05:04AM (#26675803) Attached to: Exchange Comes To Linux As OpenChange

If you want a replacement of Exchange and you don't want to wait a year, you could look at Zarafa. www.zarafa.com

Comment Re:not vetted/tried and true (Score 1) 434

by gambit73 on Saturday September 20, 2008 @09:00AM (#25084265) Attached to: Drop-In Replacement For Exchange Now Open Source

Not true. The calendar is open source. The so called Multi user calendar is not though. It's a calendar where you have an overview of the calendars of multiple users in one display. Zarafa Webaccess acts and performs like OWA and is free.

Submission + - Drop in replacement for Exchange now Open Source (zarafa.com) 1

Submitted by Fjan11 on Thursday September 18, 2008 @03:03AM

Fjan11 writes: Over 150 man years of work were added to the Open Source community today when Zarafa decided to put their successful Exchange server replacement under GPLv3. This is not just the typical mail-server-that-works-with-Outlook, it is the whole package including 100% MAPI, web access, tasks, iCal and Activesync. (The native syncing works great with my iPhone!.) Binaries and source are available for all major Linux distros from the link. So there goes one of the last reasons to run windows server; just reformat; put your favorite Linux flavour on with Zafara and you are now free of MS tax (and silly mailbox limits!). If you listen closely you can hear chairs flying in Redmond.

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