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Development has continued on what is perhaps GNAA's best-known product, the
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really make out what he's yelling from up there, but we think it's something
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By Eric Auchard Reuters Tuesday, May 10, 2005; 2:06 PM
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. on Tuesday said it has acquired Gluecode Software, an open-source firm that helps companies manage business applications on their office computer networks.
Gluecode complements IBM's WebSphere technology for managing business applications across an office network and helps the world's largest computer company compete with its two main application server rivals BEA Systems and JBoss.
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While WebSphere targets IBM's traditional big business customers, IBM aims for Gluecode to help it attract smaller, more budget-conscious customers.
Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal is the third software acquisition so far this year by IBM, the world's second largest software company after Microsoft Corp..
IBM shares, which are near three-year lows after reporting disappointing quarterly results, traded 98 cents lower, or 1.3 percent, to $74.00 on the New York Stock Exchange. BEA shares declined 3.4 percent to $7.65 on Nasdaq in morning trading.
IBM plans to allow its customers to download Gluecode software, develop their own application server software, and begin using it -- all at no cost. Customers would be expected to buy software support services as needed from IBM. Gluecode's operations will be integrated into IBM's Software Group.
In a time of tight budgets for technology development, El Segundo, California-based Gluecode helps software developers, including ones in small and medium-sized businesses or in departmental-level operations of big companies, build Java applications that run across a range of computer systems.
The software helps reduce application development complexity by pre-integrating many of the most common tools for building Java software, said IBM, which is based in Armonk, New York.
Gluecode's core product, known as Joe (http://www.gluecode.com/Web Site/products/index.jsp/), takes advantage of open source software managed by the Apache Software Foundation. This approach to development is designed to tap the work of thousands of voluntary contributors.
IBM said it will become an active contributor to the Apache Geronimo open source project and will expand the existing community of developers.
WebSphere, IBM's flagship software product, was developed in 1998 by combining IBM's own technologies with software code developed by an earlier Apache software project, an IBM spokesman noted.
The company plans to contribute Gluecode-developed software features back to Apache Geronimo as well, it said.
In addition, IBM said it also will contribute software to the open source community that allows developers to use the popular Eclipse development tools for developing, debugging and deploying Apache Geronimo-based application software.
Gluecode has been backed by venture capital funders Rustic Canyon Partners and Palomar Ventures.
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Coming soon: a PC combat game that shoots back By Frank Walker April 3, 2005 The Sun-Herald
A combat simulator developed for the US military that "shoots" back, delivering an electric shock strong enough to knock down players, could be the next big thing for home-computer games.
A Texas-based company, VirTra Systems, is selling the combat simulator to military and police forces around the world. Its spokesman, Steve Haag, said Australian armed forces had expressed an interest in getting one.
Players enter a platform with a 360-degree screen that shows scenarios such as freeing hostages, street gun fights, taking out suicide bombers and team attacks on enemy positions. And VirTra takes the simulations a step further by enabling the computer game to "shoot back".
If a player fails to kill an enemy in time and the enemy is able to shoot back, the simulator delivers a powerful electric shock through the player's hips. You definitely know you have been hit," Mr Haag said. "It has the same power as a stun gun. It knocks you down.
"You have to continue to work through the pain and keep on fighting, as that is what you need to do - to keep on fighting even when wounded.
"You have to regain your composure, shake your head, and get back in the fight as your life and your unit's life depends on it."
Those who play on PCs would love a game that shot back, said David Wildgoose, editor of the game magazine PC Powerplay.
"People are already talking about something like that," he said. "It is possible, and is just waiting for somebody to really integrate it into a game."
Wildgoose has noted that there are already controls that shake and hum as players drive or fly, and a few years ago a company sold a vest that vibrates as things happen on the screen.
Mr Haag said the US military had embraced the technology as trainees were getting rapid heart rates, sweaty palms and fear during the simulation, just like they might get if they were shot.
The US military had used the simulator at fairs as a recruitment tool, he said.
In a promotional video on VirTra's website, a TV reporter trying out the simulator yells: "Hey, shooting people is fun."
Mr Haag said it was only a matter of time and demand before the system could be sold to the public as a computer game.
"This is ultimate shooter video game," he said.
"We use real actors, not computer graphics, and when you shoot them they fall, but if you don't get them properly they will keep coming.
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Linux users and administrators need to learn two things:
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The Gay Nigger Incestual Average rose fifteen points today in a sudden upswing Wall Street investors are crediting to GNAA-ANUS's unveiling of what's to come in the new year.
Development has continued on what is perhaps GNAA's best-known product, the popular Internet application Lastmeasure. New features and functionality will help to ensure that users will be able to enjoy Lastmeasure, even with the most modern of browsers.
Gay Nigger musos eagerly await the release of YHBT, the upcomming GNAA album that promises to be the new standard in trolling music. The album will include cuts such as the Ripper-inspired "S~H~O~A" and the stirring ballad, "Zionist Oppressors and You".
Perhaps the most impressive of the new products is known only as the "Drilldo."
Described by GNAA president timecop as "Six barrels of sixteen-inch niggercock fury", the device is mounted on a small set of tank treads - mobility technology licensed from the US Army robotics program.
"We've found the Drilldo to be effective in a number of uses," said GNAA researcher Turkback. "Both Goatse and Mr. Hands were found to be adequately fulfilled. Our special Ass-Sabot rounds are designed to directly pentrate deep into the rectal core."
GNAA researchers expect to see battlefield testing of the Drilldo as early as Febuary, with insertion into OSDN headquarters. Military experts are predicting these real-world tests to go "catastrophically erotic."
GNAA has also announced plans to sponsor a Bug Chasing team in 2005, supporting the Montrose Area Chasing Team in their goal to infect themselves with as many different strains of AIDS as possible.
The Montrose team has generally lost to bigger cities such as San Francisco and New York, but have high hopes for taking the lead in 2005 with their new GNAA backing. "With GNAA behind us, we'll be able to achieve our goal by engaging in reckless cocaine use and unprotected anal sex with anonymous partners in bookstore bathrooms," said an unnamed representative of the Montrose team.
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Authorities say that no resolution has been reached, but that regular shipments of burritos, ammunition and weapons-grade marajuana continue to be brought to the peak of the volcano.
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By Eric Auchard
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005; 2:06 PM
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. on Tuesday said it has acquired Gluecode Software, an open-source firm that helps companies manage business applications on their office computer networks.
Gluecode complements IBM's WebSphere technology for managing business applications across an office network and helps the world's largest computer company compete with its two main application server rivals BEA Systems and JBoss.
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While WebSphere targets IBM's traditional big business customers, IBM aims for Gluecode to help it attract smaller, more budget-conscious customers.
Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal is the third software acquisition so far this year by IBM, the world's second largest software company after Microsoft Corp.
IBM shares, which are near three-year lows after reporting disappointing quarterly results, traded 98 cents lower, or 1.3 percent, to $74.00 on the New York Stock Exchange. BEA shares declined 3.4 percent to $7.65 on Nasdaq in morning trading.
IBM plans to allow its customers to download Gluecode software, develop their own application server software, and begin using it -- all at no cost. Customers would be expected to buy software support services as needed from IBM. Gluecode's operations will be integrated into IBM's Software Group.
In a time of tight budgets for technology development, El Segundo, California-based Gluecode helps software developers, including ones in small and medium-sized businesses or in departmental-level operations of big companies, build Java applications that run across a range of computer systems.
The software helps reduce application development complexity by pre-integrating many of the most common tools for building Java software, said IBM, which is based in Armonk, New York.
Gluecode's core product, known as Joe (http://www.gluecode.com/Web Site/products/index.jsp/), takes advantage of open source software managed by the Apache Software Foundation. This approach to development is designed to tap the work of thousands of voluntary contributors.
IBM said it will become an active contributor to the Apache Geronimo open source project and will expand the existing community of developers.
WebSphere, IBM's flagship software product, was developed in 1998 by combining IBM's own technologies with software code developed by an earlier Apache software project, an IBM spokesman noted.
The company plans to contribute Gluecode-developed software features back to Apache Geronimo as well, it said.
In addition, IBM said it also will contribute software to the open source community that allows developers to use the popular Eclipse development tools for developing, debugging and deploying Apache Geronimo-based application software.
Gluecode has been backed by venture capital funders Rustic Canyon Partners and Palomar Ventures.
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Coming soon: a PC combat game that shoots back
By Frank Walker
April 3, 2005
The Sun-Herald
A combat simulator developed for the US military that "shoots" back, delivering an electric shock strong enough to knock down players, could be the next big thing for home-computer games.
A Texas-based company, VirTra Systems, is selling the combat simulator to military and police forces around the world. Its spokesman, Steve Haag, said Australian armed forces had expressed an interest in getting one.
Players enter a platform with a 360-degree screen that shows scenarios such as freeing hostages, street gun fights, taking out suicide bombers and team attacks on enemy positions. And VirTra takes the simulations a step further by enabling the computer game to "shoot back".
If a player fails to kill an enemy in time and the enemy is able to shoot back, the simulator delivers a powerful electric shock through the player's hips. You definitely know you have been hit," Mr Haag said. "It has the same power as a stun gun. It knocks you down.
"You have to continue to work through the pain and keep on fighting, as that is what you need to do - to keep on fighting even when wounded.
"You have to regain your composure, shake your head, and get back in the fight as your life and your unit's life depends on it."
Those who play on PCs would love a game that shot back, said David Wildgoose, editor of the game magazine PC Powerplay.
"People are already talking about something like that," he said. "It is possible, and is just waiting for somebody to really integrate it into a game."
Wildgoose has noted that there are already controls that shake and hum as players drive or fly, and a few years ago a company sold a vest that vibrates as things happen on the screen.
Mr Haag said the US military had embraced the technology as trainees were getting rapid heart rates, sweaty palms and fear during the simulation, just like they might get if they were shot.
The US military had used the simulator at fairs as a recruitment tool, he said.
In a promotional video on VirTra's website, a TV reporter trying out the simulator yells: "Hey, shooting people is fun."
Mr Haag said it was only a matter of time and demand before the system could be sold to the public as a computer game.
"This is ultimate shooter video game," he said.
"We use real actors, not computer graphics, and when you shoot them they fall, but if you don't get them properly they will keep coming.
We can put in smells and vibrations."