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Archive | November, 2007
YouTube Video Optimization is Bullshit
Do you post movies to YouTube? Do you notice from time to time, that your movies can sometimes end up looking like utter shit, while others look awesome? Well I do… and I’ve spent the last 2 days reading through post after post, page after page of “How to create better looking YouTube movies!” or [...]
Continue reading...Evel Knievel Dies at 69 (Diabetes)
30. November 2007
Well hell… Jens Eckels just sent in news that world-renound stunt man from our past, Evel Knievel, died at age 69 from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis. Reports state that in 1999 Knievel underwent a liver transplant after almost dying from Hepatitis C, which was likely caused from an earlier blood transfusion that was necessary after [...]
Continue reading...NVIDIA GeForce 9 Cards in Feburary and June
30. November 2007
Wow… DigiTimes is reporting (via Engadget) that NVIDIA isn’t planning on releasing it’s revised GeForce 9 series cards until February ‘08 with the initial D9E high-end card, and then rounding out the offering with value parts in June. While not much is known at this point what the new cards will bring, a few goodies [...]
Continue reading...XBox 360 Fall Update Features Finalized
30. November 2007
Totally lack-luster… looks like Microsoft is trying to compete with Sony’s 2.0 lackluster firmware update (Ripped from Kotaku): Xbox Originals: Download Xbox classics. Xbox LIVE Arcade Hits: Games like Lumines LIVE! available for less. Inside Xbox: News ticker. Enhanced online profile: Let people know, does your personality match your Zodiac sign? Expanded Friends List access: See friends of friends. Enhanced Parental [...]
Continue reading...BioShock 2 Team Boots Levine, Piss Off!
30. November 2007
For more drama in the gaming sector, the brains behind the original BioShock game and story, Ken Levine (above), looks like he’s getting the boot from making BioShock 2. Destructoid has the scoop, and the quote isn’t very nice: 2K Boston is still recovering - a good chunk of the BioShock team did not want to [...]
Continue reading...GameSpot Fires Lead Editor for Kane & Lynch Review
30. November 2007
I knew shenanigans were going on when I first saw the Kane & Lynch Video Review from Jeff Gerstmann over at GameSpot… lead editor. I subscribe to GameSpot, and was hanging on their video reviews to steer me in the right direction this holiday season, so I was hitting up the site every 30mins or so [...]
Continue reading...White House Ordered to Disclose Tel-Com Ties
29. November 2007
It seems under the Freedom of Information Act, a judge has ordered that the Bush Administration reveal it’s relationship with the tel-com industry and lobbyists. There is also mention that the White House agreed to release the information on December 31st, which is naturally after it would have voted and passed the FISA bill. Who wants to [...]
Continue reading...NASA Scientists Refuse Giving Up Privacy
29. November 2007
Interesting story on Slashdot about how NASA JPL scientists have been “asked” to sign a privacy agreement to relinquish all privacy from their employer and allow investigation into their personal lives “without limit”. Apparently 28 senior level scientists refused to sign the document by the deadline and are blogging about the progress in real time as [...]
Continue reading...Guess Which Celebrity
29. November 2007
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Continue reading...Evolution of Water in Games, Best is Halo 3
29. November 2007
Laurence Hartje sends in a link to 2 interesting stories (Games Radar, PC Games Hardware) that cover the history of water in games. This is actually something that I have always loved and used as a benchmark to “feel” how real the world was. The first thing I would do is run over and [...]
Continue reading...What is it Like to Drive a Bugatti Veyron?
28. November 2007
Autoblog’s Jonathan Ramsey had a freaking awesome opportunity to drive a Bugatti Veyron recently and did a great write-up on it. As a lover of fast things, the parts of his writeup that made me cry with joy were pieces like the following: Hit the gas. The car rockets forward. Immediately. Instantly. … And you’re not even [...]
Continue reading...Verizon to Open Up Network
27. November 2007
What the what… Verizon Wireless has announced they will open up their wireless network to authorized devices that they don’t sell but have passed tests in their testing lab come 2008. In early 2008, the company will publish the technical standards the development community will need to design products to interface with the Verizon Wireless network. [...]
Continue reading...Vista Speech Recognition + Programming = Super Awesome
27. November 2007
Another great movie sent in by a long time reader. The utter disaster of trying to program using Microsoft Vista Speech Recognition technology is hilarious. I’d encourage you to at least watch a few minutes of it, before you throw your keyboard out the window. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLqUf4cdwc Remember when voice recognition was going to replace keyboards and mice [...]
Continue reading...Foreign Exchange Trading via Games
27. November 2007
When you think of “foreign exchange trading” don’t you think of something that looks hellishly complex with trend charts and eye-rapingly wonderful graphs like you see above? I do. Well a long time reader sent in a story about eToro, foreign exchange trading software that masks the complexities of foreign currency markets in the guise of [...]
Continue reading...Motion Capture Technological Evolution
26. November 2007
MIT has developed a kick ass new mo-cap technology that involves wearing a suite that emits radio frequencies in addition to recording acceleration and directions of the limbs. This allows for mo-cap in previously unavailable situations, like driving a car, where traditional mo-cap relies on video cameras capturing key points on character’s bodies and faces [...]
Continue reading...10 Lesser Known PS3 Tricks
26. November 2007
Digital Home put together a list of 10 tricks to do with the PS3 that “Sony doesn’t tell you about”, while some of them weren’t that interesting or ground-breaking, there was 1 in particular I had no idea you could do: 4) Download game saves Chances are someone out there has already beaten that boss for you [...]
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30. November 2007
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