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The Push For Colbert's "Restoring Truthiness" Rally 703

Posted by samzenpus on Friday September 03, 2010 @02:00PM from the giving-truth-the-bump dept.

jamie writes "A grassroots campaign has begun to get Stephen Colbert to hold a rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to counter Glenn Beck's recent 'Restoring Honor' event. The would-be rally has been dubbed 'Restoring Truthiness' and was inspired by a recent post on Reddit, where a young woman wondered if the only way to point out the absurdity of the Tea Party's rally would be if Colbert mirrored it with his own Colbert Nation.'"

The Best Video Games On Awful Systems 272

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday September 02, 2010 @06:39AM from the diamond-in-the-rough dept.

Buffalo55 writes "For the most part, classic games manage to reappear on different systems. Just look at Nintendo. The publisher has done an excellent job bringing NES, SNES, Genesis and even old school Neo Geo titles to the Wii's Virtual Console, while Microsoft's Game Room brings the best of Atari's 2600 into the living room. Of course, not every console was a success. The '90s, in particular, saw quite a few flops from companies like Panasonic, Sega and Atari. Just because a system is a failure, though, doesn't mean all of its games suck. On the contrary, most of these machines have a few gems that fell between the cracks once the console croaked." What overlooked game on a failed platform would you like to see revived?

Lineage II Addiction Lawsuit Makes It Past the EULA 267

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday September 02, 2010 @03:29AM from the four-little-letters dept.

We recently discussed a man who sued NCsoft for making Lineage II "too addictive" after he spent 20,000 hours over five years playing it. Now, several readers have pointed out that the lawsuit has progressed past its first major hurdle: the EULA. Quoting: "NC Interactive has responded the way most software companies and online services have for more than a decade: it argued that the claims are barred by its end-user license agreement, which in this case capped the company's liability to the amount Smallwood paid in fees over six months prior to his filing his complaint (or thereabouts). One portion of the EULA specifically stated that lawsuits could only be brought in Texas state court in Travis County, where NC Interactive is located. ... But the judge in this case, US District Judge Alan C. Kay, noted that both Texas and Hawaii law bar contract provisions that waive in advance the ability to make gross-negligence claims. He also declined to dismiss Smallwood's claims for negligence, defamation, and negligent infliction of emotional distress."

Comment Not exactly a cash cow... (Score 1) 245

by PreacherTom on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @08:13AM (#18765609) Attached to: Customers Treated as Culprits in Support Calls?

The truth of the matter is that customer service departments lose money. The only one that I've heard of that has not at some period is Apple, and that is when their (well-trained, fluent, located in Texas) reps were selling things during the calls. In the eyes of the company, the first goal of the rep isn't necessarily to help, it is simply to make you disappear without complaining too much.

Submission + - Gaming Post-Vista: Myths and Realities

Submitted by

Ant

on Friday November 17, 2006 @09:34PM

Ant writes: "This Ten Ton Hammer article answers personal computer/PC gamers' question on what's coming their way with Microsoft's newest operating system/OS, Windows Vista. With the PC primed to be the primary distribution platform for gaming categories (like Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing games/MMORPGs in particular) for many years to come, it's important to know exactly what we're getting into when Vista rolls out worldwide on January 30, 2007. Jeff "Ethec" Woleslagle offers a quick, non-technical rebuttal to several of the more ambitious PC gaming rumors cropping up around the internet. Seen on Blue's News."

Submission + - Scientists regrow chicken wing

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17, 2006 @07:41PM

An anonymous reader writes: Unlike salamanders and lizards, most animals have lost the ability to replace missing limbs. But a research team in San Diego has been able to regenerate a wing in a chick embryo — a species not known to be able to regrow limbs — suggesting the potential for such regeneration exists innately in all vertebrates, including humans.

Journal Journal: AMD achieves target of 15% Notebook CPU Market Share

Journal by OSTG Marketing on Sunday November 12, 2006 @11:09PM

Last year, AMD set a goal of sharing 15% of total Notebook CPU market . In the first three quarters of 2006, AMD has shipped 2.85M Notebook CPUs, achieving their goal. "In the value market, the most common products are AMD Turion 64 and budget 32 bit Semperon processors. While in the mainstream market, Turion 64x2 formed the flagship range. By the advance of technology, pricing of mobile computer has reached a lowest point and

Submission + - Beyond 3G: Practical Cellular Internet Access

Submitted by PreacherTom on Monday November 06, 2006 @08:09AM

PreacherTom writes: For years 3G, or "third generation," denoted some future wireless utopia where voice, data, and video would all merge into a wondrous amalgam, marked by snazzy phones that do everything perfectly — and fast. There is indeed a new wireless utopia, and again, it's about merging voice, data, and all the other stuff at even faster speeds. It is known as High-Speed Downlink Packet Access, or HSDPA, and it has started appearing on wireless networks operated by companies such as Vodaphone in Europe and Cingular Wireless in the U.S. Meanwhile, South Korea's Samsung has even started building HSDPA-ready phones. The technology promises wireless speeds as high as 3.6 Mbps but in practice will be much slower than that — fast enough, though, to make wirelessly surfing the Web and downloading music and video well worth the effort.

Conducting an International Job Search? 34

Posted by Cliff on Saturday November 04, 2006 @07:30AM from the overseas-classifieds dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "Ask Slashdot recently did a question about leaving America for someplace else, and that got me thinking — for those that left, how did you get started? After you had picked your destination country, did you just hop on a plane and look from there, if so how much money did you keep in reserve? Did you find the job before you went? What is the best site to look at for international job postings?"

HP Acquires VoodooPC 32

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday November 01, 2006 @02:41PM from the jumping-into-the-fray dept.

eldavojohn writes "HP has acquired VoodooPC, a high-end gaming PC provider who's former co-owner will now be the chief technologist of HP's newly formed gaming PC division. Back in May, we saw Dell acquire Alienware. Are gaming machines important options to consumers, or is it just plain profitable? Who will we see enter the gaming market next? Apple?"

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