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Comment Re:Only $375 Million? (Score 1) 184

by kwakmunkee (#40868811) Attached to: NASA Splits $1.1B For Three Commercial Spacecraft

And $154 billion modern-day dollars ($25 billion in 1969) returned sensors that detect hazardous gases, haz-mat worker suits, cordless power tools, better insulated clothing, reflective blankets, CAT scans, magnetic resonance imaging, athletic shoes, freeze-dried food, new water purification technology that reduces lead poisoning, kidney dialysis, physical therapy now used by football teams and rehabilitation centers, advances in avionics, telecommunications, and computers...

All pretty much useless to $700 million of today's dollars, wouldn't you agree?

http://space.about.com/od/toolsequipment/ss/apollospinoffs.htm
Games

Game Endings Going Out of Style? 190

Posted by Soulskill from the to-be-continued dept.
An article in the Guardian asks whether the focus of modern games has shifted away from having a clear-cut ending and toward indefinite entertainment instead. With the rise of achievements, frequent content updates and open-ended worlds, it seems like publishers and developers are doing everything they can to help this trend. Quoting: "Particularly before the advent of 'saving,' the completion of even a simple game could take huge amounts of patience, effort and time. The ending, like those last pages of a book, was a key reason why we started playing in the first place. Sure, multiplayer and arcade style games still had their place, but fond 8, 16 and 32-bit memories consist more of completion and satisfaction than particular levels or tricky moments. Over the past few years, however, the idea of a game as simply something to 'finish' has shifted somewhat. For starters, the availability of downloadable content means no story need ever end, as long as the makers think there's a paying audience. Also, the ubiquity of broadband means multiplayer gaming is now the standard, not the exception it once was. There is no real 'finish' to most MMORPGs."
Red Hat Software

Red Hat Set To Surpass Sun In Market Capitalization 221

Posted by CmdrTaco from the now-that's-a-milestone dept.
mytrip writes "In what may come to be seen as a deeply symbolic moment in the history of operating systems, Red Hat is on the verge of surpassing Sun Microsystems' market capitalization for the first time. Sun, perhaps unfairly, represents a fading Unix market. Red Hat, for its part, represents the rising Linux market. Given enough time for its open-source strategy to play out, Sun's market capitalization will likely recover and outpace Red Hat's."

Comment no new threads (Score 1) 760

by kwakmunkee (#1507689) Attached to: Slashdot's Top 10 Hacks of all Time
sorry about replying off-topic, but no new threads are allowed i guess anyway, my top-ten hacks are as follows (in no particular order) open source and the idea of sharing information as it has revolutionized the entire desktop and higher-level industries. the GIMP for all the wonderful nifty stuff it does. einstein's theory on relativity. the transistor - i like having two computers (and more if i had $$) in one room! the linux kernel, it is amazing! the best programming language of all time, C! packet-switching networks, i suppose beginning with the ARPAnet in '69 GL and 3d acceleration (i wouldn't waste productivity any other way) similar ones are amazing hacks too, but admit it, HTML has completely changed the entire world with the "World-Wide-Web." the apollo series of moon-missons (especially 11 and 13), because we got just what we wanted, if not more, out of those. and 13 because it WAS amazing how we recovered it.

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