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Wipeout Recreated With an RC Car 90

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday August 05, 2010 @03:16AM from the eagerly-awaiting-his-xwing-project dept.

An anonymous reader writes "If you've owned any of Sony's PlayStation consoles then there's a good chance you've also played one of the Wipeout games. It's a high-speed racing game that helped make the PSOne popular, and it's now been recreated using a remote control car. The project is the idea of Malte Jehmlich. He decided to create a track out of cardboard reminiscent of the Wipeout tracks. He then hooked up a wireless camera to a remote control car, and modified the controller to be an arcade cabinet with a wheel and forward/reverse selector."

Adobe May Change To Monthly Patch Cycle 76

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 27, 2010 @03:40PM from the are-you-on-the-patch? dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "Adobe, which has been under fire for the security of its flagship products, Flash and Reader, for some time now, may be on the verge of changing its patching process to push fixes out on a monthly schedule, which would coincide with Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday releases. The change would be the second major adjustment to Adobe's patching process in the last year or so. In 2009 the company moved to a scheduled quarterly patch release process in an effort to give its customers a better chance to plan for testing and deployment. That change was generally well-received. Now Adobe may change the schedule again in order to get patches out more quickly. The company is considering releasing its security fixes for Reader on a monthly schedule, the same day that Microsoft releases its patches."

Comment Re:that was impressive (Score 1) 150

by senocular on Friday May 14, 2010 @07:31PM (#32214844) Attached to: The Futurama of Physics

Meh. It's been going downhill since season 3.

3-D Printer Creates Buildings From Dust and Glue 139

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 18, 2010 @02:20PM from the one-layer-at-a-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "D-Shape, an innovative new 3-D printer, builds solid structures like sculptures, furniture, even buildings from the ground up. The device relies on sand and magnesium glue to actually build structures layer by layer from solid stone. The designer, Enrico Dini, is even talking with various organizations about making the printer compatible with moon dust, paving the way for an instant moonbase!"

Comment Food != Best Place To Work (Score 1) 317

by senocular on Tuesday January 09, 2007 @10:00AM (#17521652) Attached to: Google Tops 100 Best Places To Work

I've met/know a few people who *worked* for Google but quit because they weren't happy. Yes, they enjoyed the food and other perks, but that didn't make the actual work (when ever they did it) any better for them. My current counterpart at Adobe is one of them and he is enjoying himself quite a bit more now than he was when working for Google.

Microsoft Denies the Windows Kill Switch 513

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 02, 2006 @10:04AM from the pirates-beware dept.

WindozeSux writes "Microsoft has denied that WGA will kill pirated copies of Windows. According to Waggener Edstrom,"Microsoft anti-piracy technologies cannot and will not turn off your computer." Microsoft also says that WGA is a necessary part of its campaign to catch those illegally using Windows XP which leads one to think what WGA really does then."

Improve Your iPod with Rockbox 343

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 14, 2006 @12:05PM from the who-will-if-you-won't dept.

polar_bear` writes "The allure of the iPod is undeniable -- they're well-designed, sleek little music players that pack a lot of features into tiny packages. However, iPods fail to deliver when it comes to support for free codecs like Ogg Vorbis, and -- let's face it -- iTunes leaves a lot to be desired. If you'd like to enjoy the hardware goodness of the iPod with GPLed firmware, give Rockbox a try. Tim Lord explains how over on NewsForge.com." NewsForge is also a part of the OSTG network, and Tim Lord is "timothy", one of our own editors.

Unusual Open Source 262

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 17, 2006 @05:59PM from the business-action-penguin-folk dept.

Dumitru Erhan writes "The Economist has a special report on open-source. It analyzes the way open-source projects succeed and finds that a rigid, business-like organizational structure is of vital importance to the quality of the final product. It cites Firefox, MySQL and (more recently) Wikipedia as examples of projects that do not simply allow anarchy to rein in, but which have 'real checks and balances, and real leadership taking place'. There is also a discussion of open-source methods being applied to non-software projects." From the article: "Constant self-policing is required to ensure its quality. This lesson was brought home to Wikipedia last December, after a former American newspaper editor lambasted it for an entry about himself that had been written by a prankster. His denunciations spoke for many, who question how something built by the wisdom of crowds can become anything other than mob rule."