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Comment Re:Either this is false or they are idiots (Score 1) 202

by rsergeant on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @01:42AM (#50945619) Attached to: Belgian Home Affairs Minister: Terrorists Communicate Via PlayStation 4

Oh, he is an idiot, without any doubt... In fact his whole party is full of idiots except their Great Leader (capitalization is intentional)... They are an extreme right wing neo-liberal party that has as only goal to make the rich richer and the rest of the country poor (and in doing so constantly attack minorities, labour unions and everybody that has a different opinion). Unfortunately it says more about us (Dutch speaking Belgians) because they got +30% votes (well around 20% counting the whole of Belgium) during the last election.

Game Industry Optimistic About Surviving Economic Crisis 52

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday November 27, 2008 @03:08AM from the food-is-boring-buy-a-console dept.

CNet is running a story about how the gaming industry is looking at the recent economic troubles. Despite their status as luxury items, games and game systems have seen strong sales numbers in recent months, and that trend is expected to continue into the holiday season. Most companies are optimistic, despite the fact that many of their stock values have been hit hard and that analysts' views are divided on whether game-related purchases will be one of the first things cut from consumers' budgets. "'I do think that the video game industry is going to do reasonably well in this time of recession because video games are a pretty damned efficient use of time,' said Bridges. 'That said, the...industry has some other problems that it has been ignoring for awhile and that are creeping up on it.' Essentially, Bridges explained, he thinks that the dominance of giant publishers like EA and their general reliance on physical, in-the-box, units, can't hold up. Instead, he said, new tools, ubiquitous broadband and hungry independent developers are going to all combine to eat away at the continued supremacy of the $60 big-name title. And that could spell big trouble for the industry."

Rocketman Crosses Colorado Gorge 71

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 27, 2008 @02:05AM from the up-up-and-away dept.

nandemoari writes "Remember the 1991 film, 'The Rocketeer,' where a young pilot uses a jetpack prototype to become a masked vigilante and win the heart of Jennifer Connelly? That scenario isn't as far-fetched as it once was, given that an American stuntman recently used a jetpack to soar over Colorado's Royal Gorge. The stuntman in question is one Eric Scott, who recently appeared on CBS' Early Show and a variety of local cable channels after making his daring leap. Scott has been testing jetpack devices for 16 years, and was confident that he wouldn't plummet to his untimely death when he straddled the Gorge above the Arkansas River earlier this week. Despite an enormous gulf between the two sides — 1,500 feet across and 1,000 feet down — Scott made the trip safely."

Rewriting a Software Product After Quitting a Job? 604

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @03:57AM from the clean-room-white-coats dept.

hi_caramba_2008 writes "We are a bunch of good friends at a large software company. The product we work on is under-budgeted and over-hyped by the sales drones. The code quality sucks, and management keeps pulling in different direction. Discussing this among ourselves, we talked about leaving the company and rebuilding the code from scratch over a few months. We are not taking any code with us. We are not taking customer lists (we probably will aim at different customers anyway). The code architecture will also be different — hosted vs. stand-alone, different modules and APIs. But at the feature level, we will imitate this product. Can we be sued for IP infringement, theft, or whatever? Are workers allowed to imitate the product they were working on? We know we have to deal with the non-compete clause in our employment contracts, but in our state this clause has been very difficult to enforce. We are more concerned with other IP legal aspects."

November Indie Game Round-Up 39

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @02:59AM from the digging-for-treasure dept.

cyrus_zuo writes with this month's round-up of independent game reviews. Leading the pack is World of Goo, a popular puzzle game in which you build structures to get blobs of goo from one place to another. "WoG could have zero personality and still be a good game, but on top of the tremendous technical execution, you are presented with a quirky and odd world that teems with character. WoG has a style all its own and the flair and dynamics of the world just add to the pleasure of losing time with the game." Also scoring high were action RPG Mount & Blade and the third release in the Strong Bad series.

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