I wandered up to Scott, who was leaning against a table showcasing the new device, introduced myself, and got right down to business.
“Why’s the time changed? Heck, why does the iPhone show 9:42 in the first place?”
Scott looked around conspiratorially, and then chuckled.
“You want to know the real reason for that time?”
I nodded, with no small amount of eager anticipation.
The lawsuit did not name the rival company, but Electronic Arts Inc. is based in Northern California’s Redwood City and is thought to be who Activision is referring to in its filing. Asked whether this was the case, EA spokesman Jeff Brown said, “We don’t have the time to comment on the many lawsuits Activision files against its employees and creative partners.”
via Activision fires back at ex-Call of Duty developers, calling them ‘self-serving schemers’.
Date Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:30:41 +0100
From Paulo Marques <>
Subject Performance disparity, problem found
Hi, all
I have two machines that show very different performance numbers.
After digging a little I found out that the first machine has, in
/proc/cpuinfo:
model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.00GHz
while the other has:
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
and that seems to be the main difference.
Now the problem is that /proc/cpuinfo is read only. Would it be possible
to make /proc/cpuinfo writable so that I could do:
echo -n “model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @
2.40GHz” > /proc/cpuinfo
in the first machine and get a performance similar to the second machine?
via LKML: Paulo Marques: Performance disparity, problem found.
Following the recent turmoil over Nexuiz, Microsoft has tipped their hat and purchased Tremulous for the XBOX. As is to be expected, various Tremulous forks have already appeared in the wake of this terrible news.
The first out of the gate, Liberelous, has made their stance on things clear:
We would like to formally announce the arrival of Librelous – A free (GPL), fast-paced first-person / Real time strategy hybrid that works on Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Librelous is a direct successor of the Tremulous Project.
Librelous came about in the wake of recent troublesome changes to the Tremulous project, changes that have left many of the core contributors and community members feeling that the project has been mishandled. As a result, we felt the need to organize a departure to start with a clean slate.
Librelous will place focus on the things we love about Tremulous, and extend our goals to become the game that many thought Tremulous 1.2 should have been.
While technically being a direct successor of Tremulous, the Librelous project is a rethink of the Tremulous project that recognizes the community around it as its principal driving force and will restructure itself to respect that. This means that there will never be a single person with total control over the project.
TimeDoctor Dot Org is seeking an exclusive interview with Librelous team lead, Khalsa.
Mr. Grimes is one of many Tea Party members jolted into action by economic distress. At rallies, gatherings and training sessions in recent months, activists often tell a similar story in interviews: they had lost their jobs, or perhaps watched their homes plummet in value, and they found common cause in the Tea Party’s fight for lower taxes and smaller government.
via With No Jobs, Plenty of Time for Tea Party – NYTimes.com.
Neil Gaiman isn’t a nobody, except when he is at the Oscars:
I had written a book called Coraline, which the director Henry Selick had transformed into a stop-motion wonderland. I’d helped Henry as much as I could through the process of turning something from a book into a film. I had endorsed the film, encouraged people to see it, mugged with buttons on an internet trailer. I had also written a 15-second sequence for the Oscars, in which Coraline told an interviewer what winning an Oscar would do for her. I’d assumed that would get me into the Oscars. It didn’t. But Henry, as director, had tickets and could decide where they would go, and one of them went to me.
