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What Game Devs Should Learn From EVE 270

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday May 20, 2010 @06:27AM from the watch-out-for-volcanoes dept.

An anonymous reader passes along this excerpt from Gamesradar about EVE Online's Council of Stellar Management (CSM), a group of elected player representatives that serve to facilitate communications between the developers and the community: "On the last day, the devs announced that after the earlier discussions about improving the CSM’s ability to effect change, the CSM was being raised to the status of its own department within CCP. This is revolutionary; in one swift move, the CSM went from what could be considered a glorified focus group to what CCP considers to be a 'stakeholder' in the company, given equal consideration with every other department in requesting development time for a project. That means the CSM — and the entire playerbase it represents — has as much influence on development projects as Marketing, Accounting, Publicity and all the other teams outside of the development team. This is, of course, the stated intention. But has any developer gone to such lengths for its fans?"

FSF Response To Steve Jobs's Letter 572

Posted by kdawson on Saturday May 01, 2010 @09:18PM from the pot-meet-kettle dept.

boilednut writes "Steve Jobs's recent missive on the deficiencies of Adobe's Flash is still reverberating around the Internet. In this editorial, John Sullivan of the Free Software Foundation responds, arguing that Apple is presenting users with a false choice between Adobe's proprietary software and Apple's walled garden."

Comment Re:Hey guys... (Score 1) 412

by Private.Tucker on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @04:22PM (#29029175) Attached to: AT&T Makes Its Terms of Service Even Worse, To Discourage Lawsuits

There's the confusion. I agree the wireless site is missing a time stamp. The one I was looking at was the above linked one for broadband. For wireless, I did a search for TOS, and the support post mentions that the TOS was updated back in 2007. It's all too shady.

Comment Re:Hey guys... (Score 1) 412

by Private.Tucker on Monday August 10, 2009 @09:54AM (#29010093) Attached to: AT&T Makes Its Terms of Service Even Worse, To Discourage Lawsuits

Also if you go on the site there is no date stamp telling you when the contract was last updated. The date stamp leaves me rather displeased with ATT though as i should not have to guess when it was last updated

It's at the bottom, reading "Last Updated: June 14, 2009"

Comment New Cliche? (Score 1) 79

by Private.Tucker on Sunday March 30, 2008 @09:02AM (#22911146) Attached to: The Squid's Beak May Revolutionize Engineering

"The best thing since the Squid's Beak!"

Feed Symantec completes Altiris buy (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Monday April 09, 2007 @08:12PM

Acquisition of IT management software company, announced in January, valued at about $830 million.

Feed Photos: Hybrids that give back to the grid (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Monday April 09, 2007 @08:12PM

PG&E and CalCars demonstrate how owners of plug-in hybrids could one day send electricity back to the grid.

Submission + - Sunspots reach 1000 year peak

Submitted by rlp on Monday April 09, 2007 @07:54PM

rlp writes: Researchers at the Institute for Astronomy in Zurich are reporting that solar sunspot activity is at a 1000 year peak. Records of sunspots have been kept since 1610. The period between 1645 and 1715 (known as the Maunder Minimum) was a period of very few sunspots. Researchers extended the record by measuring isotopes of beryllium (created by cosmic rays) in Greenland ice cores. Based on observations and ice core records, we are now at a sunspot peak exceeding solar activity for any time in the past thousand years.

Feed Scientists Identify Protein Key To Breast Cancer Spread, Potential New Drug Targ (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Monday April 09, 2007 @07:13PM

Researchers have identified a protein that they say is key to helping a quarter of all breast cancers spread. The finding could be a potential target for new drugs aimed at stopping or slowing the growth and progression of breast cancer.

Feed People Who Are Severly Overweight Grow Faster Than Other Obese Americans (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Monday April 09, 2007 @07:12PM

The proportion of Americans who are severely obese -- about 100 pounds or more overweight -- increased by 50 percent from 2000 to 2005, twice as fast as the growth seen in moderate obesity, according to a new study.

Submission + - Perens Counters ACT's Claim that GPLv3 is "Ris

Submitted by

Microsoft Delenda Est

on Monday April 09, 2007 @06:43PM

Microsoft Delenda Est writes: "After ACT, a Microsoft front group, started claiming that the GPLv3 was legally "risky" and could give rise to anti-trust liability, eWeek has published a rebuttal by Bruce Perens. Aside from the fact that IBM, HP, Red Hat, and a couple dozen corporate lawyers are watching over the creation of the GPLv3, there is already precedent saying that shows the GPL is unlikely to give rise to any significant liability — Daniel Wallace v. FSF. In that case, pro se litigant Daniel Wallace was all but laughed out of the courtroom for alleging the GPLv2 violates anti-trust law, and the GPLv3 clauses in question are simply clarifications and extensions of clauses in the GPLv2. Presumably, that is why the ACT neglected to cite any precedent substantiating their allegations."

Submission + - ScummVM Ported to Nintendo Wii

Submitted by Croakyvoice on Monday April 09, 2007 @06:04PM

Croakyvoice writes: Rodolfo Portillo has released a port of ScummVM for the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Gamecube. ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games like Simon the Sorcerer, Broken Sword and Flight of the Amazon Queen. You will have to use SD Load to run this on your console.

Submission + - Researchers chill mirror to near absolute zero

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09, 2007 @05:58PM

An anonymous reader writes: Physicists have managed to cool a dime-sized mirror to within one degree of absolute zero, the lowest laser-induced freeze yet achieved with a visible object. http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/ 2007/409/1

Journal Journal: April Fool's Submissions Overboard and Underfunny 2

Journal by evought on Sunday April 01, 2007 @08:08PM

I agree with some of the comments and submissions I have seen today that the yearly stupidity on Slashdot is just plain dumb. Unfortunately, these comments are drowned out. One or two good hoaxes would have made my day. ("Google Paper" was actually quite good). A score of idiotic and unbelievable posts just ruins the site and real news is buried. Having looked through the Firehose at several points today, there have been several serious submissions that have been voted up but have never made

Submission + - RIAA Can't Have Defendant's Son's Desktop

Submitted by

NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Sunday April 01, 2007 @05:48PM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "The RIAA's attempt to get Ms. Lindor's son's desktop computer in UMG v. Lindor has been rejected by the Magistrate Judge. The judge said that the RIAA

"offered little more than speculation to support their request for an inspection of Mr. Raymond's desktop computer, based on ... his family relationship to the defendant, the proximity of his house to the defendant's house, and his determined defense of his mother in this case. That is not enough. On the record before me, plaintiffs have provided scant basis to authorize an inspection of Mr. Raymond's desktop computer."
Decision by Magistrate Judge Robert M. Levy. (pdf)"

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