Minecraft Dev Kills Plans for Oculus Version After Facebook Buy; How Missing Malaysian Plane Was Tracked Down

What Do You Consider Elegant Code? | Microsoft Finally Releases Source Code for MS-DOS, Word for Windows To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Minecraft Dev Kills Plans for Oculus Version After Facebook Buy How Missing Malaysian Plane Was Tracked Down What Do You Consider Elegant Code? Are DVDs Inconvenient on Purpose? Microsoft Finally Releases Source Code for MS-DOS, Word for Windows Hot Comment: "The Luddites were on to something. Not that mechanization is evil..." From the Vault: Does DRM Drive Gamers to Piracy? Watch It: Fly an Aerobatic Quadcopter with Curtis Youngblood Poll Booth: I prefer my peppers ... Sponsored Resource: Responding to and Recovering from Sophisticated Attacks Minecraft Dev Kills Plans for Oculus Version After Facebook Buy The news of Facebook acquiring Oculus wasn't even an hour old when Markus "Notch" Persson announced that he has ceased all discussions about bringing his hit game Minecraft to the Oculus Rift. "I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me out," he tweeted. Sound Off>> How Missing Malaysian Plane Was Tracked Down Based on satellite data analysis from UK company Inmarsat, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that Malayian Airlines flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean and no one on board survived. Inmarsat explains how it looked at the doppler effect to help find the plane.  Sound Off>> What Do You Consider Elegant Code? lxrslh writes that since the dawn of computing, unfixed bugs, security leaks, spaghetti code and other flaws have existed in programs we use and depend on every day and asked: "Do you have an example of a compact and elegant program for which the code is publicly available?" Sound Off>> Are DVDs Inconvenient on Purpose? Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes: "Why do Netflix and a few other companies keep the DVD format alive, when streaming is more convenient for almost all users? The answer is not obvious, but my best theory is that it has to do with what economists call price discrimination." Sound Off>> Microsoft Finally Releases Source Code for MS-DOS, Word for Windows With the help of the Computer History Museum, Microsoft has posted the source code for MS-DOS 1.1 and 2.0, and Word for Windows 1.1a. It's been a long time coming -- DOS 2.0 was released for IBM PCs in 1983, and Word for Windows 1.1a came out in 1990. Sound Off>> "The Luddites ...were on to something. Not that mechanization is evil - it is progress. But what we're seeing now that we have not faced in the past is technology and automation advancing faster than society's capacity to restructure the economy so that everyone has an opportunity for some basic livelihood. Extremes of poverty and desperation are not a good alternative." --by Livius Read More>>   Does DRM Drive Gamers to Piracy? Three years ago, independent retro games retailer Good Old Games spoke out about digital rights management, saying that it can actually drive gamers to piracy, rather than acting as a deterrent. In an interview, a spokesperson for the company asked, "Would you rather spend $50 on a game that requires installing malware on your system" or "download a cracked version without all that hassle?" Read More>>  Fly an Aerobatic Quadcopter with Curtis Youngblood It goes up, it goes down, it goes upside down and keeps on flying. We're talking about the latest quadcopter prototype from Curtis Youngblood, who has been flying and competing with RC Helicopters since the early 1980s and is a Multi-time World Champion and Multi-time 3D Champion. Youngblood's creations are not your ordinary off-the-shelf kits. His are sophisticated aerial beasts that can carry still and video cameras and could easily be used as short-range drones. See one in action. 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