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Open Sarcasm Fighting Copyrighted Punctuation 155

Posted by samzenpus on Monday July 26, 2010 @10:51AM from the free-language dept.

pinkushun writes "SarcMark is a copyrighted punctuation mark, that claims 'It's time that sarcasm is treated equally!' Pretty damn cheeky while they're charging for their software, which only inserts their punctuation through a hotkey. Open Sarcasm is destroying SarcMark by advocating a new punctuation mark (not displaying here properly — alt+U0161) as the new open and free sarcasm symbol. Either way, this will be one interesting turnout. With bad unicode support across the web, displaying the characters properly might be an issue. PS Left out sarcastic end sentence as Slashdot doesn't display the U0161 character."

US Air Force To Suffer From PS3 Update 349

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday May 13, 2010 @06:45AM from the sounds-like-an-act-of-terrorism-to-me dept.

tlhIngan writes "The US Air Force, having purchased PS3s for supercomputing research, is now the latest victim of Sony's removal of the Install Other OS feature. It turns out that while their PS3s don't need the firmware update, it will be impossible to replace PS3s that fail. PS3s with the Other OS feature are no longer produced since the Slim was introduced, so replacements will have to come from the existing stock of used PS3s. However, as most gamers have probably updated their PS3s, that used stock is no longer suitable for the USAF's research. In addition, smaller educational clusters using PS3s will share the same fate — unable to replace machines that die in their clusters." In related news, Sony has been hit with two more lawsuits over this issue.

Lord British Claims He Owns the Moon 144

Posted by Soulskill on Monday March 29, 2010 @05:14PM from the enjoy-the-property-tax dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Following the recent discovery of Richard Garriott's old moon rover, the man known as Lord British has laid claim to his own lunar territory. Moon dwellers, all hail your new overlord!"

Comment Finally a release date!!!!! (Score 1) 39

by i_hate_windows on Wednesday January 13, 1999 @05:14AM (#2042603) Attached to: K7 to exist in socket variety by 2000

I've been reading about sharptooth for 6 months and can't wait for it to come out. Intel better watch out lots more L1 cache and AMD says they will release K7's with up to 8 megs of L2!!
The K7 will also be a 64 bit processor and have a 200 MHz front side bus! Also plan for clock speeds up to 1 GHz!
This is the great stuff you get when Dirk is making your processors

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