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In Israel, Potential Organ Donors Could Jump the Queue 582

Posted by timothy on Monday March 15, 2010 @02:08AM from the unorthodox-move dept.

laron writes "In Israel, a new law is in the making: Holders of donor cards and their families would get preference if they should need an organ for themselves. Apparently this initiative faces resistance from Orthodox rabbis, who hold that organ donation is against religious law. Jacob Lavee, director of the heart transplant unit at Israel's Sheba Medical Center, and one of the draftees of this new law, hopes that a broader pool of organs will ultimately benefit everyone, but acknowledges that one of his primary motivations is 'to prevent free riders.' (Apparently receiving an organ is OK under religious law.)"

Hacking Hi-Def Graphics and Camerawork Into 4Kb 255

Posted by timothy on Monday July 20, 2009 @11:49AM from the thumbdrive-could-hold-the-entire-world dept.

TRNick writes "The old home-computing art of hacking elaborate graphics and camerawork into tiny amounts of memory has been lost, right? Not so. The demoscene is keeping ingenious coding skills alive, and TechRadar finds out the latest developments. Winner of the 4kb competition at 2009's Breakpoint party was RGBA's demo 'Elevated,' a gorgeous scrolling demo featuring photo realistic landscapes and music, which fits into the memory used by one of your PC's desktop icons. This is really impressive stuff."

Michael Crichton Dead At 66 388

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @09:39PM from the velociraptors-confirm-it dept.

Many readers have submitted stories about the death of Michael Crichton. The 66-year-old author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain died unexpectedly Tuesday "after a courageous and private battle against cancer," a press release said. In addition to writing, he also directed such sci-fi classics as Westworld and Runaway. Crichton was married five times and had one child.

Ubisoft To Merge Tom Clancy Games 19

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 17, 2008 @09:20PM from the consolidation-of-a-franchise dept.

SlappingOysters writes "In an interview with Gameplayer, Tom Clancy's EndWar Lead AI Programmer Vinh-Dieu Lam spoke in detail about plans to tie all the different Clancy franchises together into one big game experience in the near future. Among other things, he had this to say: ' ... with EndWar, the meta-campaign side of it is a standalone server so you can feed things into this system so it can basically generate any sort of mission. So its missions generate for EndWar at the moment, but there is no reason why we cannot generate missions from the other franchises. This is where we are looking at tying together the different franchises. So maybe in the next EndWar you will need to attack Paris, but before you can, it may generate some sort of Splinter Cell recon mission, or a Ghost Recon mission or things like that. But that is the direction we are looking at.'"

Comment Re:Lackluster vendor makes incremental, pitiful st (Score 1) 305

by iBooks on Thursday December 13, 2007 @12:04AM (#21679981) Attached to: Switching Hospital Systems to Linux

I work at a Canadian hospital where the main clinical application is Cerner. In the IT Dept we usually stick with thin installs (connect to Citrix server) but we throw thick installs on a small number of computers that need to work. The thick install is roughly 2GB, 5k files. For fun, I looked at what made up a 2GB enterprise application:
800 executables
1200 help files
2000 dll's
1000 ActiveX controls

I have no idea how it works. Well, that's not entirely true, when you do something wrong it throws VBErrors, so I figured it's mostly coded in VB6.

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