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Comment Re:Obvious name (Score 1) 246

by gorsh (#35164260) Attached to: Secret Plan To Kill Wikileaks With FUD Leaked

To clarify any potential confusion, Palantir Technologies (palantirtech.com) is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Palantir.net, Inc. (palantir.net), which creates open source software solutions. Palantir.net is not involved in any way with these allegations.
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America's Army Games Cost $33 Million Over 10 Years 192

Posted by Soulskill from the your-tax-dollars-at-play dept.
Responding to a Freedom Of Information Act request, the US government has revealed the operating costs of the America's Army game series over the past decade. The total bill comes to $32.8 million, with yearly costs varying from $1.3 million to $5.6 million. "While operating America's Army 3 does involve ongoing expenses, paying the game's original development team isn't one of them. Days after the game launched in June, representatives with the Army confirmed that ties were severed with the Emeryville, California-based team behind the project, and future development efforts were being consolidated at the America's Army program office at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. A decade after its initial foray into the world of gaming, the Army doesn't appear to be withdrawing from the industry anytime soon. In denying other aspects of the FOIA request, the Army stated 'disclosure of this information is likely to cause substantial harm to the Department of the Army's competitive position in the gaming industry.'"
Open Source

Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195

Posted by CmdrTaco from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.
diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."

Comment Re:More good than harm. (Score 1) 1098

by Particle Man (#12755182) Attached to: Dvorak Says Apple Move to Intel Will Harm Linux
So, as a long time Windows user, I was put off by the "application can be open but have no windows" thing... But now I see that I can a) keep Mail open without having a window cluttering my desktop and still get a notification when a new email comes in, and b) keep iTunes open and control it from the Dashboard widget while the main window remains closed. I think this enhances the user interface. It's certainly not "dreadfully incompetent."

I also found rather quickly that I could resize the dock to make it smaller. It really doesn't take up much room at all on my 23" Cinema HD display. :)

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