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Comedian Bernie Mac passed away Saturday morning from pneumonia.
Earlier last week, it was reported he would make a full recovery
despite have been previously diagnosed with sarcoidosis a disease that
affects the immune system. Sadly, Bernie didn’t pull through. People reports:

“[He] passed away this morning from complications due to
pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital,” his rep, Danica Smith, told
PEOPLE. “No other details are available at this time. We ask that his
family’s privacy continues to be respected.”

It was later revealed Bernie’s hospitalization was more serious than
it was reported. He was put into intensive care a full week before the
media was aware of his health problems which were played down to
protect his family’s privacy, according to People:

The sister-in-law says Mac’s inflammatory lung disease
contributed to his death. “He had sarcoidosis, but it was in
remission,” she says. “But because he had it, his immune system was
compromised. He had an infection … He was on a new medication that
suppresses the immune system, and that’s where the pneumonia came from.”

She reveals that Mac – having trouble breathing and running a fever –
was actually hospitalized on July 24, eight days before the date given
for his admittance. The actor was diagnosed with pneumonia and
immediately placed on a ventilator.

Bernie Mac is survived by his wife Rhonda of 30 years and their
daughter Je’Niece who were at his bedside when he passed. ‘Merica, we
lost a good one. Rest in Peace, Bernie.

According to a report, Microsoft isn’t just looking at the next version of Windows (no, not Mojave)
for future OS possibilities, but is looking beyond the Windows
architecture altogether with a project known as Midori. The new OS is
still in the “incubation” phase (which puts it slightly closer to
market than R&D projects), but Microsoft has admitted to its
existence, and the Software Daily Times says at least one team in
Redmond is actively working on the new architecture.

The basis
for the platform centers around research related to Microsoft’s
Singularity project, and envisions a distributed environment where
applications, documents, and connectivity are blurred in a
cloud-computing phantasmagoria which can be run natively or hosted
across multiple systems. The researchers are working to create a
concurrent / parallel distribution of resources, as well as a method of
handling applications across separate machines — religiously-dubbed
the Asynchronous Promise Architecture — which will set the stage for a
backwards-compatible operating system built from the ground up, with
networks of varying size in mind. Says the SD Times, “The Midori
documents foresee applications running across a multitude of
topologies, ranging from client-server and multi-tier deployments to
peer-to-peer at the edge, and in the cloud data center. Those
topologies form a heterogeneous mesh where capabilities can exist at
separate places.” Like it technical? Hit the read link for an in-depth
look at the possible shape of Microsoft’s future.

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Google’s on and off negotiations with Digg
have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we’ve heard from
multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies are close to a
deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property. The
acquisition price is in the $200 million range, says one source.

We first wrote about the Google-Digg negotiations in March. Despite a vigorous denial
by Digg CEO Jay Adelson the negotiations continued, although Google’s
Marissa Mayer reportedly cooled on the company for a period of time.

The companies are now in final negotiations
according to our sources, although it could be a couple of weeks before
it closes. And while the major deal points have been agreed on, the
acquisition could still fall apart. Microsoft, which was previously
interested in the company, may be willing to step back in at a much
lower price.

Most of Digg’s revenue comes from a three year ad deal with Microsoft, which will be terminated on a sale to Google. Digg has raised $11.3 million in venture capital.

Meanwhile, Google’s fascination with the Digg voting concept continues.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A 3-year-old Florida boy with a rare condition
has not slept in three years. Doctors said Rhett Lamb of St. Petersburg
apparently has a condition called chiari malformation that puts
pressure on his brain.

Rhett has never taken a nap or gone to sleep at night, forcing his parents to keep watch day and night.

“(My
husband) has the day shift and I kind of have the afternoon shift,”
mother Shannon Lamb said. “We share the night shift because no one can
sleep in the house when he is up anyway.”

Lamb said she is
working extra to pay for Rhett’s large medical bills. She also said her
husband, David, has given up his job to care for their child.

“I
would give anything for Rhett to be this normal little boy who plays
and has a good time,” Lamb said. “If it takes going to every single
solitary doctor, I will do it.”

According to the May Clinic, chiari malformation is a rare abnormality where brain tissue protrudes in the spinal canal.

Part
of the skull is abnormally small and puts pressure on the brain. Rhett
checked into a hospital for an experimental surgery Thursday.

This really grinds my gears…As reported here in the past, Mass Effect for PC
contains a new type of SecuROM which will be present in all future
EA/Maxis games.

What does it do? Not only does it install itself to your computer
without a word of notification as well as disable your firewall, dvd
drives and cd/dvd burning software. It limits you to installing your
game on your PC up to 3 times.

This can be triggered via using up your 3 activations and each time
you change a piece of hardware, reformat your computer or
install/upgrade a new operating system, it takes up one of the
activations.

This is proven to be true by a guy over at the Mass Effect forums.
He registered and started to play the game (Activation #1). Well, when
he tried to play the game he had strange artifacts on his screen.
Thinking it was an OS-related issue, he reinstalled XP and reinstalled
the game (Activation #2). Finding out that it didn’t help the problem,
he soon figured out it was his graphics card struggling. Well, he
bought a brand new card and that solved the problem (this triggers
Activation #3). Game ran fine for a short period of time (2 days) and
he played thru it and completed the game. Well, a week after that, he
decided he wanted to run thru the game again. This is where he
stumbles upon this error:

“The game can not start. For security reasons, only a
limited number of machines can ever be licensed by a single purchase.
This limit has been reached. Please purchase another registration code, reinstall, and then try again.”

There is no doubt that EA will try to include this new version of
SecuROM on Spore and possibly The Sims 3….and if it is, we are going to
encounter some very serious problems. Heck, I can’t even count the
times I had to reinstall the games, upgrade my hardware and reformat…

You know, come to think of it…EA is doing this to prevent piracy of
their games, but it’s only hurting us legal customers. Look at this:

If you are a Pirate:

• BAD: You do have the same bugs that those with legal copies have, plus new ones depending on how the cracked copy was programmed.
• GOOD: Unlimited Activations!
• GOOD: No SecuROM to deal with
• GOOD & BAD: It’s free, but illegal

If you are a Legal Customer:

• BAD: Limited to 3 Activations
• BAD: Your computer is plaqued with SecuROM
• BAD: Game contains errors and bugs
• GOOD & BAD: You support Maxis by purchasing the game, but you are also supporting EA, and if you support them, you support SecuROM

Honestly…what looks better to you?