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What's the deal with garden gnomes?
This collection of classics and their updates is a frustrating mix of old-school fun and dumb design choices.
I attended a Brocade File Area Networking (FAN) event and this is a report of what the audience of prospective and existing Brocade customers heard. (You can read about the origination of the FAN term here.)
Date Added: News Forecast That Looks Like A Penis Classic (The Words On The Bottem Say Copyright FJ) 02/04/2008 20:29
Moviehole says Nathan Fillion ( Serenity , "Firefly") has joined Renée Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr. in Universal's Chilled in Miami , directed by Jonas Elmer.
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The trailer for Breaking Upwards which will debut at SXSW 2009.
Breaking Upwards follows a young New York couple who, after four years together, have grown stifled. Desperate to escape their ennui, but fearful of life apart, they decide to intricately strategize their own break up.The film blurs the line between documentary and narrative by casting real life couple (and filmmakers) Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones as themselves. An uncensored look at young love, lust, and the pangs of codependency, Breaking Upwards follows its characters as they navigate each others' emotions across the city they love. It begs the question: is it ever possible to grow apart together?
Gas Powered Games, developers of Supreme Commander and Dungeon Siege, are planning to show off the "next big thing" on February 15.
This comes from Chris Taylor, who updated his personal facebook page with a message saying: "Another busy day, can't wait to announce our next big thing on the 15th... I hate keeping secrets. :)"
A First-Hand Report on Where People Age Best
Artist:
Corinne Bailey Rae
Review:
With a 2006 debut that showed off her fluttery, Billie
Holiday-inflected wine-bar soul, Corinne Bailey Rae gave a boost to
the U.K. export industry in women singer-songwriters, earning
Grammy nods and an A-list career. Then her husband died of an
overdose. Her latest is both reckoning and rebirth. "So young for
death," she sings, smearing her girlish coo into gray-scale
abstractions and deep emotions. Fragile arrangements —
guitar, auto-harp, orchestra — suggest indie rock ("Are
You...
Rating:
3.5 Stars
In the 90's there was a great tool called BrainSport, which was a nifty digital pedometer that track your daily movement and allowed you to compete others. Why can't that technology exist in mobile or iPod & create the drive for Social Exercising.
Liam Neeson may be in his mid-50s and best known for playing Oskar Schindler, but the guy definitely can kick some serious ass.
Neeson is unexpectedly but thoroughly credible as ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills in this terse but tough thriller from the writers of Léon: The Professional and the Transporter trilogy (Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen). Tired of Bryan's always-away-from-home exploits on behalf of "the company," wife Lenore (Famke Janssen) left him years ago, took their daughter Kim (Maggie Grace), and married a sickeningly wealthy businessman. On the eve of Kim's 17th birthday, a remorseful, retired, and far from rich Bryan has left behind his world-trotting ways and moved into a crappy apartment near his ex's Los Angeles mansion, hoping to make up for lost time by reconnecting with his kid.
Far from a suave James Bond type, Bryan is a sympathetically forlorn father without any female companionship, steady means of support, or apparent future prospects. A self-described
Granted, we've no idea what it takes to really push the efficiency level of a solar cell, but we're getting pretty bored with these incremental improvements year after year. If you'll recall, the record for solar cell efficiency sat at
40.7 percent in 2006, and that was raised to an
amazing 40.8 percent last August. Today, researchers at the
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems have announced an all new milestone: 41.1 percent efficiency. According to team head Frank Dimroth, the crew is simply "elated by this breakthrough." Meanwhile, the rest of planet Earth is suddenly depressed by the thought of perishing from old age before this data point ever breaks the big five-oh.
[Via
Gizmag]
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Several tech and gaming sites are reporting that chips are in production for the successor to Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console and they pack some serious GPU horsepower.
The debut music video from electronic artist The Polish Ambassador. Laugh, cry, dance. http://www.thepolishambassador.com
Runtime: 4 min 27 sec
Sony has named the date for the delayed European and Australian launch of its PlayStation 3 games console: March 23.
Somark Innovations is touting "chipless" RFID technology that it said farmers could use to easily tag and track livestock.
First details emerge on upcoming shooter.
Denmark-based developer Deadline Games is currently in production of Faith and a .45, a new original title for next generation platforms. But we think they mean current generation, and possibly excluding Wii.
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Because geek girls are hot. Here at ThinkGeek, we've been known to stage informal eating contests. Not the "how many hot dogs can you eat" type, but the "I'll do it if you'll do it" variety. One such hot sauce contest resulted in a victorious designerd and a very ouchy code monkey. $18.99
The new release of the cloud-based content management and collaboration system now works better on tablets. But Box also had other big news to report.
We take a closer look at the hip-hop fighting engine.
December was an extremely good month for not only console manufacturers, but for publishers as well, and in the midst of Super Mario Bros. Wii being the best selling game in December, and Madden NFL 10 selling 1.5 million units across all platforms, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 made history.
Guns of the Magnificent Seven is the second sequel to The Magnificent Seven. Seven gunslingers free Mexican political prisoners train them to fight with them so they can attack a Mexican fortress in an attempt to free a revolutionary leader.
5 new shots posted.
Microsoft, Oracle and SAP all plan to unveil applications for the retail industry during the National Retail Federation Conference this week.
Linux Magazine: "Bill Gates said he would get China addicted to Windows and then "collect sometime in the next decade." Now they are indeed coming to collect, but thanks to Linux their plan could backfire, badly."
With JBoss founder Marc Fleury as an adviser, new company offers tools for building rich Internet applications and SOAs.
Firaxis Games has announced the release of a mac client for its title Civilization IV: Colonization, now available for download.
We play the game that blasts the dungeon into space.
I don't consider myself a huge box-office prognosticator. In fact, that box office numbers are reported every Monday on The Today Show seems fairly odd to me. Why do the majority of people out there really care? I know we, a select group of movie fans, get into this stuff but why does the rest of the world care? I don't know that I have an answer but if I had to guess it's because people react one of two ways:...
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NBC Universal and Microsoft have teamed up to stream thousands of hours of video from the Beijing Games this August. Here is the full announcement.
Get ready for some awesome multiplayer action!
Might want to spend the money on joystick lessons instead.
PC kids moaning about the lack of mouse and keyboard support on Xbox have finally got their wish - but it's going to cost them.
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Looking for a cheap, easy NAS solution that also lets you access your data away from home? Iomega's $100 iConnect might be the gizmo for you.
Endowed with four USB ports, plus ethernet and 802.11b/g/n connectivity, setting up the iConnect is as simple as plugging in any USB-based storage device and letting the device do the rest. Iomega's new product also allows you to set up a print server, OS X Time Machine backups, a Bittorrent client, and DLNA streaming. And while it may not possess the open linux platform or remote web-streaming abilities of the Pogoplug, it pretty much does everything else (plus Time Machine!) for $30 less.
Expect to get your hands on Iomega's OS-agnostic iConnect sometime in February. [PR Newswire]
PlayStation Gamer UK Writes: "While checking the websites stats as i like to do from time to time, i did come across some rather interesting information. Looking at the section which tells me what terms people used in search engines before coming across PlayStation Gamer UK. There were the normal "PlayStation UK" and "killzone 2 pre-order" terms, the one which stood out the most however was that was a considerable amount of people (so much so it was the second most searched term before visiting this website ) entering "Will Sony Cancel the PlayStation 3?."
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AOL Moviefone Blog: If you've heard anything about the movie '300,' you know that it's based on the Frank Miller graphic novel, stars Gerard Butler as Leonidas, the king of Sparta, and looks incredibly cool -- 'Sin City' meets 'Troy,' if you will. It opens March 9,...
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I've just received the private message which Shonda Rhimes, creator of Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice, sent to her below-the-line crew on both shows before Christmas:
"December 20, 2007
"I know this holiday season isn't easy for any of us. With the strike rolling on, the future feels murky and uncertain. Along with the other writers, I have [...]
Microsoft's responded to the Zune 30GB failure, blaming a leap-year handling bug. And they've provided a fix. Which is to wait til New Years, when the bug will go away by itself. Huh.
Early this morning we were alerted by our customers that there was a widespread issue affecting our 2006 model Zune 30GB devices (a large number of which are still actively being used). The technical team jumped on the problem immediately and isolated the issue: a bug in the internal clock driver related to the way the device handles a leap year. That being the case, the issue should be resolved over the next 24 hours as the time change moves to January 1, 2009. We expect the internal clock on the Zune 30GB devices will automatically reset tomorrow (noon, GMT). By tomorrow you should allow the battery to fully run out of power before the unit can restart successfully then simply ensure that your device is recharged, then turn it back on. If you're a Zune Pass subscriber, you may need to sync your device with your PC to refresh the rights to the subscription content you have downloaded to your device.
Customers can continue to stay informed via the support page on zune.net (zune.net/support).
We know this has been a big inconvenience to our customers and we are sorry for that, and want to thank them for their patience.
Q: Why is this issue isolated to the Zune 30 device?
It is a bug in a driver for a part that is only used in the Zune 30 device.
Q: What fixes or patches are you putting in place to resolve this situation?
This situation should remedy itself over the next 24 hours as the time flips to January 1st.
Q: What's the timeline on a fix?
The issue Zune 30GB customers are experiencing today will self resolve as time changes to January 1.
Q: Why did this occur at precisely 12:01 a.m. on December 31, 2008?
There is a bug in the internal clock driver causing the 30GB device to improperly handle the last day of a leap year.
Q: What is Zune doing to fix this issue?
The issue should resolve itself.
Q: Are you sure that this won't happen to all 80, 120 or other flash devices?
This issue is related to a part that is only used in Zune 30 devices.
Q: How many 30GB Zune devices are affected? How many Zune 30GB devices were sold?
All 30GB devices are potentially affected.
oscjoy is a simple command line program that lets
you use any connected joysticks as
OpenSoundControl devices. Whenever the state of a
connected joystick changes, oscjoy will send UDP
packets with OpenSoundControl messages in them to
the specified IP address and port. The oscjoy
archive includes source code and binaries for
Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows XP.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
This version adds the ability to specify aliases
for various joystick controls on the command line.
This way you can use different controllers and
have oscjoy take care of handling any necessary
logical remappings, so that your downstream OSC
program doesn't have to know or care about the
differences between the controllers.
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Here are the weekly TV ratings, by number of viewers.
NBC hits #1! OK, it's football and it's probably a temporary thing (plus it's the holidays), but they did it, and NBC even got a few more shows into the top 20 (even if they were temporary reality shows). I'm getting a little sick of typing the letters "CBS" each and every week though, at least when they're attached to shows like CSI. Interesting that 60 Minutes hit #3, considering it was a repeat.
1. Sunday Night Football (NBC)
Continue reading Nielsen ratings for the week ending December 23
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Talk about a nice Christmas present: 'The Mentalist' star Simon Baker has signed a new deal with Warner Bros. TV that will net him a producer credit and a nice $30 million payday.
According to
Deadline Hollywood, Baker extended his six-year contract by one year, and will get a cut of the syndication profits. The CBS drama was sold to TNT for $2.2-2.3 million per episode for Warner Bros.
Baker's producer credit will begin in season 5.
In other TV news ...
o. Conan O'Brien has apologized to Jimmy Kimmel for making a similar Sarah Palin joke. O'Brien issued his apology on air, saying he was unaware of Kimmel's joke from earlier this month. [
WSJ]
o. Chloe Sevigny said she would do another TV series once 'Big Love' ends. "I'm not opposed to another series but I don't think I'd do one in Los Angeles," she said. "I'd like to do a half-hour comedy on a cable network in New York where I play someone really glamorous and really goofy. That's my dream job!" [
EW]
o. 'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' star Lisa Vanderpump said she was verbally attacked at the Polo Lounge. "Last night at the Polo Lounge my friend, Robert Kovacik, was viciously attacked by an aggressive drunk...I am shocked and upset, merry Xmas," the star tweeted. [
TV Guide]
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Famitsu's latest hardware numbers have been released a bit later than usual this week. See how Famitsu's figures compare to Media Create data.
Gametrailers continues their Game of the Year awards, next up, Best Graphics.
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[Gearlog]
The guy at the back picks up 3rd place.
Oprah Winfrey faces a nervous Christmas as she plans for the launch of her new TV network on 1 January (11) - because the ambitious project could be the worst mistake ever.
Duke Nukem Forever is a punchline these days, but that wasn't always the case. At one point, about 10 years ago, it was the anticipated sequel to a respected franchise. A Wired
article recently took a detailed look at where the game went wrong, piecing together interviews, blog posts, and comments from former 3-D Realms employees speaking on the condition of anonymity. While company heads George Broussard and Scott Miller declined to comment due to
pending litigation, the piece gives a good overview of what happened to the game.
First came the wealth. After the success of Duke Nukem 3D, along with expansion packs and licensing of the Build engine, Broussard and Miller were rich enough to indulge in the sequel without much worry of consequences. One employee commented that Broussard said they could go "another five years without shipping a game" due to their funds. While Broussard seemed to see this as a unique advantage, the team was discouraged at the possibility.
And using that money, Broussard was able to frequently delay the game. The arms race of 3D shooters led him to constantly look at the next great thing, and to play a constant game of catch-up with other titles. The game switched from the Build engine to the Quake II engine, then to the Unreal engine. The constant evolution of the industry made a moving target that was impossible to reach. "One day George started pushing for snow levels," said one developer. "He had seen The Thing, and he wanted it." The staff reportedly joked that they couldn't let Broussard see new games, and were afraid what it would mean for their game when Half-Life changed the landscape of game narrative.
Looking for a cheap, easy NAS solution that also lets you access your data away from home? Iomega's $100 iConnect might be the gizmo for you.
