Slashdot Items Tagged "legend"

Date / Time Story
Saturday July 11, 2020 @08:16PM Terry Pratchett's Earliest Stories To Be Published In September
Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:41PM The Far Side Returns After 25 Years, and It's All Digital
Sunday July 05, 2020 @10:04PM Linus Torvalds Likes His New AMD Threadripper System
Sunday July 05, 2020 @10:03PM Is Slashdot the Answer to Facebook's Fake News Problem?
Saturday June 20, 2020 @02:05PM Ian Holm, Bilbo Baggins In 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Alien' Star, Dies At 88
Sunday June 14, 2020 @03:03PM Bjarne Stroustrup Releases 168-Page Paper on How C++ Thrived
Saturday April 04, 2020 @11:00AM Vint Cerf 'No Longer Contagious' With Covid-19
Friday March 20, 2020 @02:49PM How Lost Classic Doom 64 Was Revived for Modern Platforms
Friday February 28, 2020 @10:09PM Freeman Dyson, Visionary Technologist, Is Dead at 96
Friday February 14, 2020 @06:08PM 'Pale Blue Dot' Revisited
Saturday January 25, 2020 @03:06PM EFF Defends Bruce Perens Victory Against 'Open Source Security' in Appeals Court
Saturday January 25, 2020 @03:03PM New Trailer, Gameplay Videos Released For Upcoming 'DOOM Eternal'
Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:21PM Monty Python's Terry Jones Passes Away At 77
Thursday January 16, 2020 @02:48PM Bruce Schneier on 5G Security
Tuesday December 31, 2019 @03:22PM Syd Mead, Visionary 'Blade Runner' Artist and Futurist, Dies at 86
Saturday December 21, 2019 @01:13PM Atari's Home Computers Turn 40
Saturday November 02, 2019 @01:29PM Python Creator Guido van Rossum Retires, Heads To Python Conference
Friday October 11, 2019 @07:07PM Alexei Leonov, the First Human To Walk In Space, Has Died At Age 85
Saturday October 05, 2019 @05:44PM Monty Python's 50th Anniversary Celebrated With 'Extremely Silly' Event
Tuesday September 17, 2019 @10:07AM Richard Stallman Resigns From MIT
Saturday September 07, 2019 @12:05PM Sony Releases a Walkman For Its 40th Anniversary
Thursday August 08, 2019 @11:32AM Linux Journal Ceases Publication
Sunday July 28, 2019 @12:59PM 'Doom' Celebrates 25th Anniversary By Re-Releasing Three Classic Games
Wednesday July 24, 2019 @11:31PM Blade Runner Actor Rutger Hauer Dies Aged 75
Sunday June 09, 2019 @01:22PM Cringely Predicts The End Of Broadcast TV Within A Decade
Sunday June 09, 2019 @01:13PM Eric S. Raymond Survives New Medical Problems
Monday June 03, 2019 @12:00PM John Romero Finally Releases Fifth Episode of 'Doom' For Free
Monday June 03, 2019 @11:57AM Eric S. Raymond Calls SaaS 'Dangerous', 'Worse Than Proprietary Software'
Friday May 03, 2019 @12:50PM Actor Peter Mayhew, Who Portrayed Chewbacca the Wookiee in the "Star Wars" Films, Has Died
Tuesday March 12, 2019 @10:47AM Tim Berners-Lee Says World Wide Web Must Emerge From 'Adolescence'
Monday March 04, 2019 @10:50AM Cringely's Final Predictions: Apple Becomes a Financial Service and Hedge Fund
Wednesday February 20, 2019 @11:45AM CERN's World-First Browser Reborn: Now You Can Browse Like It's 1990
Sunday February 17, 2019 @12:15PM Bruce Perens Calls For Open Source, Security, and Data Rights In IBM Ad
Saturday December 29, 2018 @02:23PM How One Merchandiser Lost $1M Trying to Monetize the 'Hamster Dance' Site
Tuesday December 11, 2018 @02:04PM Doom Turns 25: The FPS That Wowed Players, Gummed Up Servers, and Enraged Admins
Tuesday November 20, 2018 @01:22PM Half-Life Celebrates 20th Anniversary With Fan-Made 'Black Mesa: Xen' Trailer
Monday November 19, 2018 @12:26PM Bill Nye: We Are Not Going To Live on Mars, Let Alone Turn It Into Earth
Monday November 12, 2018 @07:13PM Stan Lee, Marvel Comics' Real-Life Superhero, Dies at 95
Thursday November 01, 2018 @12:36PM Tim Berners-Lee Says Tech Giants May Have To Be Split Up
Sunday October 28, 2018 @02:45PM Linus Torvalds and Greg K-H Talk About Linux Community, Dealing with Hardware Bugs, Chromebooks Gaining Traction, Microsoft, Companies Gleaning Data and More
Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:00PM Tim Berners-Lee on the Huge Sociotechnical Design Challenge
Tuesday October 23, 2018 @01:49PM Richard Stallman Announces GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
Monday October 22, 2018 @05:04PM Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux
Sunday September 30, 2018 @05:49PM Tim Berners-Lee Announces Solid, an Open Source Project Which Would Aim To Decentralize the Web
Tuesday September 25, 2018 @03:29PM Myst, One of the Most Influential Games Ever, Turns 25
Thursday September 20, 2018 @07:34PM The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds
Monday September 17, 2018 @11:50AM Linus Torvalds Reflects On How He's Been Hostile To Linux Community Members Over the Years, Issues Apology, and Announces He Will Be Taking Some Time Off
Saturday August 25, 2018 @03:33PM Linux Turns 27
Thursday August 16, 2018 @08:09PM Debian Linux Turns 25
Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:12PM Doug Grindstaff, 'Star Trek' Sound Effects Maestro, Dies At 87
Friday June 01, 2018 @12:12PM Canon Has Sold Its Last Film Camera
Sunday May 27, 2018 @02:46PM Atari Co-Founder Ted Dabney Dies at Age 81
Saturday April 28, 2018 @01:30PM Rick Dickinson, Designer of Sinclair Spectrum Home Computers, Dies
Friday March 16, 2018 @10:26AM Linus Torvalds Slams CTS Labs Over AMD Vulnerability Report
Wednesday March 14, 2018 @10:46AM Stephen Hawking, Who Examined the Universe and Explained Black Holes, Dies at 76
Wednesday February 07, 2018 @10:44PM EFF Founder John Perry Barlow Has Died At Age 70
Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:13PM Fantasy Fiction Novelist Ursula K. Le Guin Dies At 88
Monday January 22, 2018 @12:59PM Donald Knuth Turns 80, Seeks Problem-Solvers For TAOCP
Sunday January 14, 2018 @01:52PM Is There a Warning in 'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams'?
Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:25PM PSA: AIM Will Be Discontinued Tomorrow
Friday December 01, 2017 @10:40PM Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years
Friday December 01, 2017 @06:17PM Linux Journal Ceases Publication
Monday November 27, 2017 @10:40AM Famous Robot from 1956 Movie Auctioned For $5.3 Million
Monday November 27, 2017 @10:35AM Why ESR Hates C++, Respects Java, and Thinks Go (But Not Rust) Will Replace C
Monday October 23, 2017 @05:57PM When an AI Tries Writing Slashdot Headlines
Monday August 14, 2017 @12:03PM Device That Revolutionized Timekeeping Receives an IEEE Milestone
Friday August 11, 2017 @06:07PM Former Bitcoin Developer Shares Early Satoshi Nakamoto Emails
Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:35PM iPhones Are Priced 'High in the Extreme' But They're Worth It, Says Apple Co-founder Wozniak
Monday July 17, 2017 @05:38PM Atari Is Back In the Hardware Business, Unveils Ataribox
Sunday June 25, 2017 @01:27PM Linus Explains What Surprises Him After 25 Years Of Linux
Friday June 23, 2017 @04:44PM Linus Torvalds Says Linux Still Surprises and Motivates Him
Friday June 23, 2017 @10:59AM Ron Howard Steps In To Direct Han Solo Movie
Wednesday May 24, 2017 @01:24PM FCC Won't Punish Stephen Colbert For Controversial Trump Insult
Sunday May 21, 2017 @11:43PM Vint Cerf Reflects On The Last 60 Years
Monday May 08, 2017 @12:49PM How Psychology Today Sees Richard Stallman
Tuesday April 04, 2017 @05:08PM Web Inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee Slams UK and US Net Plans
Monday March 27, 2017 @09:31PM Interviews: Ask Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor John Goodenough a Question
Monday February 27, 2017 @11:26AM Science Fiction Actor Bill Paxton Dies At Age 61
Saturday February 18, 2017 @12:37PM Mozilla Thunderbird Finally Makes Its Way Back Into Debian's Repos
Saturday February 18, 2017 @12:18PM MAME Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary
Wednesday February 08, 2017 @12:50PM Battlestar Galactica Actor Richard Hatch Dies At 71
Sunday January 29, 2017 @01:30PM Actor John Hurt Dies At Age 77
Monday January 23, 2017 @11:58AM C++ Creator Wants To Solve 35-Year-Old Generic Programming Issues With Concepts
Saturday January 21, 2017 @10:53PM Knuth Previews New Math Section For 'The Art of Computer Programming'
Monday January 09, 2017 @10:37PM The End of Yahoo: Marissa Mayer To Resign; Yahoo To Change Its Name To Altaba
Tuesday December 27, 2016 @07:40PM Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60
Sunday October 09, 2016 @06:11PM Why Linus Torvalds Prefers x86 Over ARM
Sunday August 14, 2016 @11:57AM The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol
Sunday July 24, 2016 @03:02PM Star Trek's 50th Anniversary Celebrated at Comic-Con
Wednesday July 13, 2016 @02:30PM FBI Closes D.B. Cooper Investigation After 45 Years
Monday June 13, 2016 @01:32PM Interviews: Ask Perl Creator Larry Wall a Question
Wednesday June 08, 2016 @05:46PM The Web's Creator Thinks We Need a New One That Governments Can't Control
Monday May 30, 2016 @12:15AM William Gibson Announces New Sci-Fi Comic Book
Monday May 16, 2016 @12:49PM Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Doom Story?
Saturday May 14, 2016 @11:42PM Original 'Doom' Level Remade in the New 'Doom'
Tuesday March 22, 2016 @11:28AM Intel's Former CEO (and First Hire) Andy Grove Dead at 79
Wednesday March 16, 2016 @05:45PM Meet the Guy Whose Software Keeps the World's Digital Clocks In Sync
Sunday December 27, 2015 @01:57AM Sci-Fi Screenwriter and Author George Clayton Johnson Dead At 86
Wednesday November 25, 2015 @11:17AM Another Giant xkcd Comics Experiment
Monday November 23, 2015 @11:18AM Randall Munroe Interviewed: Answers In Comic Form
Tuesday November 10, 2015 @12:35PM Sony To End Sales of Betamax Tapes Next Year
Friday October 30, 2015 @08:27PM IMDb Hits 25
Thursday September 24, 2015 @06:54PM Bjarne Stroustrup Announces the C++ Core Guidelines
Thursday September 10, 2015 @01:41PM Interviews: RMS Answers Your Questions
Tuesday September 08, 2015 @09:22PM The Free Software Foundation: 30 Years In
Thursday August 20, 2015 @12:17AM Linus Torvalds Isn't Looking 10 Years Ahead For Linux and That's OK
Wednesday August 19, 2015 @02:20PM Debian Founder: How I Came To Find Linux
Wednesday July 29, 2015 @07:37PM Interviews: Ask Richard Stallman a Question
Wednesday July 01, 2015 @05:32PM Interviews: Linus Torvalds Answers Your Question
Thursday June 25, 2015 @03:22PM Interview: Ask Linus Torvalds a Question
Wednesday June 17, 2015 @02:28AM Linus Torvalds Says Linux Can Move On Without Him
Thursday June 11, 2015 @11:03AM Actor Christopher Lee Has Died at 93
Thursday June 04, 2015 @08:48PM Nichelle Nichols, Uhura from Star Trek, Hospitalized with Stroke
Monday May 04, 2015 @12:54PM Actress Grace Lee Whitney, Star Trek's Yeoman Janice Rand, Has Died
Monday April 06, 2015 @08:26PM 10 Years of Git: An Interview With Linus Torvalds
Friday April 03, 2015 @09:00AM Laptop Destroyed Over Snowden Leaks Is Now an Art Exhibit
Monday March 23, 2015 @08:21PM RMS Talks Net Neutrality, Patents, and More
Thursday March 19, 2015 @10:10AM Gabe Newell Understands Half-Life Fans, Not Promising Any Sequels
Wednesday March 18, 2015 @11:30AM The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty
Monday February 23, 2015 @02:46PM Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge
Friday February 20, 2015 @11:44AM Stephen Hawking: Aggression has potential of destroying human civilization
Saturday February 14, 2015 @12:10PM Vint Cerf Warns Against 'digital Dark Age'
Wednesday February 11, 2015 @12:36PM Jon Stewart Leaving 'The Daily Show'
Tuesday February 10, 2015 @09:36PM Jon Stewart leaving "The Daily Show"
Thursday February 05, 2015 @08:19PM GPG Programmer Werner Koch Is Running Out of Money
Saturday January 24, 2015 @06:01PM Bjarne Stroustrup Awarded 2015 Dahl-Nygaard Prize
Sunday January 11, 2015 @02:24PM NetHack Development Team Polls Community For Advice On Unicode
Monday January 05, 2015 @10:15PM Interviews: Ask Alexander Stepanov and Daniel E. Rose a Question
Friday December 26, 2014 @02:59PM Donald Knuth Worried About the "Dumbing Down" of Computer Science History
Wednesday December 10, 2014 @02:02PM NetHack: Still One of the Greatest Games Ever Written
Friday November 14, 2014 @02:11PM Mathematics Great Alexander Grothendieck Dies At 86
Monday November 03, 2014 @11:03PM "Car Talk" Co-Host Tom Magliozzi Dies At Age 77
Tuesday October 21, 2014 @10:09PM Steve Wozniak accepts adjunct professorship at UTS
Thursday October 16, 2014 @06:42PM Torvalds: I Made Community-Building Mistakes With Linux
Saturday August 30, 2014 @12:34PM Hal Finney, PGP and Bitcoin Pioneer, Dies At 58
Thursday August 14, 2014 @12:46PM Interviews: Ask Bjarne Stroustrup About Programming and C++
Monday June 23, 2014 @12:26PM Interviews: Ask Lawrence Lessig About His Mayday PAC
Thursday June 19, 2014 @06:41PM After 47 Years, Computerworld Ceases Print Publication
Friday June 06, 2014 @11:45PM Tetris Turns 30
Wednesday May 21, 2014 @07:22PM The Linux Foundation and edX Team Up for Intoduction to Linux Class
Tuesday May 13, 2014 @12:23PM H R Giger dead: Alien artist and designer died aged 74
Friday May 09, 2014 @01:09PM The Man Behind Munich's Migration of 15,000 PCs From Windows To Linux
Friday April 25, 2014 @06:00PM Gary Kildall, Father of the PC OS, Finally Gets His Due
Thursday April 03, 2014 @02:05PM Interview: Ask Bruce Perens What You Will
Wednesday April 02, 2014 @10:08PM Vint Cerf: CS Programs Must Change To Adapt To Internet of Things
Wednesday April 02, 2014 @04:33PM Vint Cerf: CS Programs Must Change To Adapt To Internet of Things
Thursday March 20, 2014 @12:02PM Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will
Friday March 14, 2014 @12:51PM XKCD Author's Unpublished Book Has Already Become a Best-Seller
Wednesday February 26, 2014 @01:31PM Interview: Ask Richard Stallman What You Will
Wednesday January 22, 2014 @02:02PM CmdrTaco Launches Trove, a Curated News Startup
Monday December 23, 2013 @10:48PM Mikhail Kalashnikov: Inventor of AK-47 Dies At 94
Monday December 23, 2013 @10:45PM Alan Turing Pardoned
Wednesday December 18, 2013 @03:15PM Ted Nelson's Passionate Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart
Friday November 22, 2013 @09:28PM Tim Berners-Lee: Government Spying is 'Insidious' and 'Chilling'
Friday November 22, 2013 @09:10PM John Carmack Leaves id Software
Saturday November 09, 2013 @01:07PM Ninth Anniversary of Firefox 1.0 Release
Thursday November 07, 2013 @11:59AM Bruce Schneier wants to make surveillance costly again
Thursday October 24, 2013 @06:03PM Torvalds: Free OS X Is No Threat To Linux
Wednesday October 23, 2013 @03:22PM Torvalds: SteamOS Will 'Really Help' Linux On the Desktop
Tuesday October 22, 2013 @01:20PM Hypothetical: Can Bruce Schneier be Trusted
Sunday September 29, 2013 @05:34PM RMS On Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before
Thursday September 19, 2013 @11:24AM Visionary Nintendo President Yamauchi Dies
Wednesday August 07, 2013 @01:51PM John Carmack Joins Oculus VR As CTO
Saturday July 20, 2013 @10:05PM Alan Turing Likely To Be Given Posthumous Pardon
Sunday June 30, 2013 @03:00PM Unix Guru Evi Nemeth Missing, Feared Lost At Sea
Wednesday June 26, 2013 @02:43PM Interview: Ask Jon "maddog" Hall What You Will
Wednesday June 19, 2013 @01:09PM PDP-11 Still Working In Nuclear Plants - For 37 More Years
Monday June 17, 2013 @09:54AM Microsoft Antitrust Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Dead at 76
Wednesday May 29, 2013 @07:18PM Groklaw on ten years of Linux legalities:
Thursday April 18, 2013 @02:58PM Interviews: Ask Freeman Dyson What You Will
Friday February 08, 2013 @05:02PM Woz Says iPhone Features Are 'Behind'
Thursday January 24, 2013 @02:26PM Alan Cox Exits Intel, Linux Development
Wednesday January 23, 2013 @05:41PM Alan Cox On Fedora 18: "The Worst Red Hat Distro", Switches To Ubuntu
Tuesday January 15, 2013 @02:46PM Doom 3 Source Code: Beautiful
Sunday December 09, 2012 @01:01PM Sir Patrick Moore Dies Aged 89
Friday November 16, 2012 @03:29PM Woz Worries Microsoft Is Now More Innovative Than Apple
Saturday October 13, 2012 @03:43PM AMD Reportedly Preparing Massive Layoff
Friday October 05, 2012 @12:04PM 15 Years of Stuff That Matters
Wednesday October 03, 2012 @01:30PM CmdrTaco Looks Back on Fifteen Years of Slashdot
Tuesday October 02, 2012 @11:46AM Results of multi-billion-dollar treasure hunt in Hindu temple to be revealed
Friday August 17, 2012 @01:37PM Hans Camenzind, inventor of the 555 timer chip, Dead at 78
Wednesday August 15, 2012 @02:48PM Harry Harrison Dies
Thursday August 09, 2012 @05:04PM A Conversation with Rob Malda - Part Two of Three (Video)
Friday August 03, 2012 @01:05AM CowboyNeal Reviews Orcs Must Die! 2
Thursday August 02, 2012 @12:02AM Commodore 64 turns 30
Tuesday July 17, 2012 @05:24PM Rob CmdrTaco Malda AMA On Reddit
Wednesday July 11, 2012 @05:52PM Contest To Crack William Gibson Poem Agrippa
Friday June 15, 2012 @01:59PM New Signs Voyager Is Nearing Interstellar Space
Monday June 11, 2012 @08:52PM Honoring Alan Turing, "Father of Computer Science"
Wednesday June 06, 2012 @03:01PM Ray Bradbury Has Died
Friday May 18, 2012 @05:54PM Wozniak's Original System Description of the Apple ][
Thursday May 10, 2012 @09:14PM Richard Stallman Falls Ill At Conference
Wednesday May 02, 2012 @06:02PM When Was Slashdot's Heyday?
Thursday April 19, 2012 @03:48PM Neal Stephenson Takes Blame For Innovation Failure
Monday April 09, 2012 @08:50PM Apple founder fears patent war fallout
Thursday April 05, 2012 @01:40PM RIP, Electric Amplifier Inventor Jim Marshall, 'Father of Loud'
Wednesday March 21, 2012 @02:27PM Yamato, Macross director Noburo Ishiguro passes away.
Thursday February 23, 2012 @08:23PM Submitting "Nuking the Fridge" To Scientific Peer Review
Wednesday February 22, 2012 @11:13PM Submitting "Nuking the Fridge" to Scientific Peer Review
Monday November 28, 2011 @06:31PM Legend: Tabletop Gaming For a Good Cause