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Sony, Microsoft Begin Battle of Virtual Worlds 180

Posted by timothy on Friday October 10, 2008 @05:27AM from the who's-your-hiro dept.

Slatterz writes "Sony and Microsoft are poised to do battle in virtual worlds. The console kids both announced Second Life-style virtual environments at the Tokyo Game Show today. Both games show striking similarities to Linden Lab's creation. Players are represented by avatars which live a virtual life — engaging in relationships, going about day-to-day business."

Mozilla Admits Firefox EULA Is Flawed 312

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @02:25PM from the sudden-outbreak dept.

darthcamaro writes "Mozilla has now come around and is taking seriously the concerns of Ubuntu and others about the Firefox EULA, which we discussed vigorously the other day. In fact Mozilla told InternetNews.com that the EULA itself is flawed and will be replaced with something else. Quoting Mozilla Chairperson Mitchell Baker from the article: 'There is a need for something, something to explain the license[.] I'm not sure I would call it a EULA because that has a meaning to many people of adding restrictions to software and we won't be doing that. We'll be having a license agreement much as Red Hat has a license agreement that says the software is available under the GPL and don't use our trademarks et cetera. So we'll have a license agreement but we won't think of it as a EULA.'"

AMD Employee Charged With Stealing Intel Secrets 212

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @11:02AM from the great-now-make-them-all-compatible dept.

IWonderWhatICanPutInThisFieldWithoutBeingDeleted writes "A man who once worked for Intel and then jumped ship to join AMD has been accused of stealing his erstwhile employer's chip secrets. Federal detectives allege they discovered 19 CAD designs and more than 100 pages of confidential Intel documentation."

GCC 4.3.0 Exposes a Kernel Bug 256

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday March 19, 2008 @12:25AM from the my-flag-boy-told-your-flag-boy dept.

ohxten sends news from earlier this month that GCC 4.3.0's new behavior of not clearing the direction flag before a string operation on x86 systems poses problems with kernels — such as Linux and BSD — that do not clear the direction flag before a signal handler is called, despite the ABI specification.

Visualizing the .NET Framework 320

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @08:55PM from the drowning-in-code dept.

eldavojohn writes "If you're a Web developer, you should check out a quick post about the number of types, methods, & fields in the .NET framework. This was done using NDepend. The numbers are quite large — e.g. 39,509 types. The blogger went on to generate tree maps and a dependency matrix."

Comment CS!! (Score 1) 380

by lazyevil on Sunday July 15, 2007 @01:24PM (#19868605) Attached to: Computer Science or Info Tech?

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime." Chinese Proverb IT Degree = ~Like being given a fishing rod that only works in a few ponds CS Degree = ~Like learning to fish, make fishing tools, find new lakes with fish, make lakes with fish, etc....

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