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Comment Re:Send the wah-mbulance. (Score 1) 481

by rocur on Thursday December 16, 2010 @02:27AM (#34570920) Attached to: Netflix Touts Open Source, Ignores Linux

I know that wasn't your point. I was being pedantic. But I do disagree with your statement. I think it is perfectly possible to appreciate OSS without having one's software be OSS. Think of it as the difference between the ideal and the business reality.

Comment Re:Send the wah-mbulance. (Score 1) 481

by rocur on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @09:40PM (#34569272) Attached to: Netflix Touts Open Source, Ignores Linux

But if their existing client was Open Source, it would be much, much easier for someone else to reimplement it as a Linux client.

True, but if their existing client was Open Source, they wouldn't have any content to stream (cf MPAA).

Doctor Invents 'Zero Gravity' Radiation Suit 83

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 08, 2010 @11:12AM from the baron-harkonnen-approved dept.

DrFrasierCrane writes "You think you feel weighed down when your dentist lays that lead apron on you to take X-rays: how about the doctors who deal with radiation treatments and have to wear those aprons all day long? A Dallas, Texas, doctor has created a 'zero gravity' radiation suit for just that problem. From the article: 'Physicians are supposed to wear a lead apron during those procedures. It is back-breakingly heavy and doesn't cover the body completely. The zero gravity suit eliminates the weight and the exposed openings.'"

BioShock 2's First DLC Already On Disc 466

Posted by Soulskill on Monday March 15, 2010 @03:28PM from the read-the-rest-of-this-post-in-a-month-for-five-bucks dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this quote from 1Up: "Trouble is brewing in Rapture. The recently released Sinclair Solutions multiplayer pack for BioShock 2 is facing upset players over the revelation that the content is already on the disc, and the $5 premium is an unlock code. It started when users on the 2K Forums noticed that the content is incredibly small: 24KB on the PC, 103KB on the PlayStation 3, and 108KB on the Xbox 360. 2K Games responded with a post explaining that the decision was made in order to keep the player base intact, without splitting it between the haves and have-nots."

Hand Written Clock 86

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 14, 2009 @02:11PM from the up-to-the-minute dept.

a3buster writes "This clock does not actually have a man inside, but a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009."

Infinity Ward Fights Against Modern Warfare 2 Cheaters 203

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @07:56AM from the be-careful-they-cheat dept.

Faithbleed writes "IW's Robert Bowling reports on his twitter account that Infinity Ward is giving 2,500 Modern Warfare 2 cheaters the boot. The news comes as the war between IW and MW2's fans rages over the decision to go with IWnet hosting instead of dedicated servers. Unhappy players were quick to come up with hacks that would allow their own servers and various other changes." Despite the dedicated-server complaints, Modern Warfare 2 has sold ridiculously well.

Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115

Posted by kdawson on Friday November 20, 2009 @05:40PM from the going-in-circles dept.

feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."

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