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BBC Click - Chris Long, Friday, 30 November 2007:
"The advent of High Definition TV has spurred a minor boom in the sales of screens on which to watch such gorgeous images. But buying a HD TV involves making a difficult choice about which of the two competing HD formats you back."
This report overviews the three major differences between the two competing formats: supporting consoles (PS3 and Xbox 360), player prices, and the special features interfaces (BD-J vs. HDi).
People, this is prostitution. Granted that most television is prostitution in one form or another but this is more blatant than most. The show is taking advantage of people from economically depressed countries and giving them a change to make more money just for having sex, er, marrying a U.S. citizen. I can only trust that this show will have people of all races, sexes, colors and creeds trying to manipulate their way into a better economy, just to be fair.
A gamer has provided shots from the Yodobashi Kichijoji at about 9:30am yesterday when Wii Fit officially went on sale in Japan. In front of him and behind him there were massive queues for the product which indicates Nintendo has another winner on their hands.
We weren't sure that our government would ever actually, you know, listen to the people that it apparently serves -- at least so far as electronic voting goes. That may soon change, given that internetnews.com is reporting that the National Institute of Standards and Technology will recommend "the 2007 version of the Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines (VVSG) decertify direct record electronic (DRE) machines." (Those would be the non-"software independent" boxes whose votes cannot be audited and certified, yet which are used in 30% of jurisdictions.) Why the sudden change of heart? Well, apparently all of the attention that's been put on the lack of a paper trail or some kind of verified voting system has actually made a difference -- huh, fancy that. Of course, predictably, there remains a naysayer in the midst, an election expert named Roy Saltman, who told internetnews.com: "If you insist on paper you're tying elections to an old technology." Um, Mr. Saltman, that may be true, but until we can get our new tech to work as well as our old tech, then the new tech is sorta useless, isn't it?
http://www.PhotosOfCities.com - Video shows 52 most popular Philadelphia Photos to buy.
Colin Nash, 35, was struggling with $12,000 in credit card debt late last year. Meanwhile, Michael Fisher, 24, was looking for a new investment. So, Fisher loaned Nash $200. The two men, however, had never met. Nash and Fisher are members of Prosper.com, the U.S. leader in a growing trend known as "peer-to-peer lending," which facilitates loans between complete strangers.
dailygamesnews.com - Ex-Capcom and Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami has said he won't be playing Resident Evil 5 when it arrives because it'll cause him too much stress...
Sony Online Entertainment LLC plans to set up a development studio in India for online games that would have local content and a local partner, a company official said Wednesday.
The company is talking to a couple of game developers in India and aims to set up the studio early next year,
said David Christensen, vice president, business development and international operations.
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The ratings for President Bush have fallen below zero....
Australian police stopped a robbery in Sydney,
arresting three men. The funny part? We think one of them may have
been wearing an iPod, given that trademark white earbud cord
sticking out of his pocket (hit jump for mega version). It's
possible that, having cold feet at the last second, this scared
masked man cranked some Judas Priests to get in that important
armed robbery state of mind. Or maybe he wanted to ensure that his
Nike+iPod account gave him credit for all those steps he'd be
making later, sprinting from the cops. Either way, it's a bit funny
and a bit sad. But from our perspective, mostly just funny.
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It's that time of the year again. That time when everyone relaxes, when everyone pushes pause on their busy lives. That time when everyone takes a break to enjoy a period of humble reflection, thinking back on the things they're most thankful for. And so, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, IGN felt compelled to ponder the past, musing over the many gifts the Nintendo DS has given us in its four years on the market. The many incredibly odd, preposterously strange gifts.
Killing aliens and singing along to your favourite tunes: just another week in the Australian release schedule.
We feel desperately sympathetic towards still-employed members of the media who will have no holiday party to celebrate not being fired at this Christmas. Newsweek moved their party to April, and Hearst, Conde Nast, Viacom and ABC News have canceled their celebrations altogether. But for those richheads who haven't been touched by the grim finger of the recession, it's important to cut back a bit on private parties, writes the Wall Street Journal. This way, the little people know you're feeling the pinch, too:
The WSJ offers a litany of tips for throwing a slightly less expensive party. It's just polite:
"People are looking to scale back a little bit and do more with less," says Debi Lilly, who calls herself chief eventeur of A Perfect Event, her Chicago-based event-planning company.
Ms. Lilly's client list ranges from Oprah Winfrey to luxury-goods company Bulgari to the University of Chicago. "Many of my customers don't think it's appropriate to throw a large, fancy event this year — even if they can afford it," she says. "They just don't think it sends the right message."
One Grey Goose fountain is probably enough this year. Will this also mean no elf waiters? Don't be a grinch, Patrick!
OK, so if Sandee Westgate in sexy lingerie wasn't good enough for you last week, this week I'm sure you'll be more than satisfied when you see that she's stripped down to an itsy bitsy bikini for her review of Ocean's 13. And it's a good thing she did, because there was way too much [...]
I made this commercial for a greeting card line I was thinking of starting. A film by Mark Cheng.
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Shamed British supermodel Sophie Anderton has lost a six-figure beauty contract after she was exposed as a drug-taking prostitute in a sting operation that revealed her charging $20,000 (Ł10,000) for a night of cocaine-fuelled sex. The former Gossard lingerie model, 30, has been sacked by bottled tanning firm Fake Bake - which paid her around $200,000 (Ł100,000) a year to be its face - since she was caught out
The vested commercial interests of scientists meeting at the 10th International
Symposium on the Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms means the public can
have little confidence in the independence or credibility of their risk-analysis.
CNET News: "On Wednesday, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced a free open-source server virtualization and management platform dubbed Sun xVM. Sun says it will commit $2 billion in R&D spending to make Sun xVM a reality..."
Capcom claims they're only trailers.
Gamefly has put up House of the Dead 2 & 3 in their list and they have a pretty good track record, so it might actually be true. With the release of Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles it would make sense that the Wii saw some more shooters that take advantage of the wiimote.
Yellow Dog Linux distributor Terra Soft has been acquired by fellow Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) specialists Fixstars Corp. Terra Soft, whose Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) distribution supports both PowerPC and Cell BE platforms, will be recast as a subsidiary called Fixstars Solutions, says Fixstars.
The pilot of Showtime?s new show ?Insatiable? will be chock full of known celebrities if negotiations go well. The comedy, whose cast already includes Peter Facinelli and Beth Riesgraf will center on four families living in a smalltown and struggling with a variety of addictions.
With little notable improvement to the formula and steps backward in several key areas, SmackDown! vs. RAW 2008 is a big disappointment.
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®) has announced that Pulse~LINK is the winner of two International CES Innovations 2008 Design and Engineering Awards....
Software maker Adobe Systems CEO Bruce Chizen said Monday he would step down, and President and Chief Operating Officer Shantanu Narayen will replace him on Dec. 1. Narayen will retain his title as Adobe's president and join its board in December, Adobe said. Narayen has been president and COO of the maker of the popular Photoshop, Flash and Acrobat programs for almost three years.
Apple on Monday evening began distributing iPhone Software version 1.1.2 to U.S. customers over iTunes.
The software update, which made its debut as part of the German and UK iPhone launches last Friday, had previously been available as a direct d...
CEO Chizen steps down effective December 1.
NPD announced today that iPhone 3G “surpassed Motorola’s RAZR as the leading handset purchased by adult consumers” last quarter, reports Jim Goldman (cnbc.com). “That’d be a big deal no matter when it happened, but it ends RAZR’s 12-quarter winning streak as the nation’s top handset.”
Barack Obama had a lot going for him already in this year's election, but his creative use of the Internet played a huge role in making him president elect, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said Friday.
The soundtrack to Downtown 81 (a.k.a., New York Beat Movie) was released earlier this week, and it features a ton of bands from the Lower East Side art scene of the late ?70s/early ?80s on which the film was based. The film features the late Jean Michel Basquiat basically playing himself as a young artist who is evicted from his apartment and sets off into the streets with a painting, intending to sell it for enough money to reclaim said apartment. Along the way he runs into a (...)
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From the man who will resurrect Van Damme.
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This may or may not be something to lighten the mood today, but the Marzipan Taco podcast has a feature called LET'S CALL AN AGENT -- and this time they called the office of Tom Cruise's CAA team member Tori Metzger (why not Rick Nicita?) to pitch a writer-less silent biopic of Marcel Marceau with Cruise in white [...]
Doubt is set in at St. Nicholas school in the Bronx, whilst America is ever changing seeing the nati
XtremeMac has introduced its AirPlay Boost for fifth-gen iPods and second-gen iPod nanos -- a wireless FM transmitter that features an external antenna.
Far from being the first artificial heart we've seen, the latest iteration unveiled by a team of French scientists is easily the most sophisticated. Built from technology used in satellites and airplanes, the prototype heart is said to "beat almost exactly like the real thing using electronic sensors to regulate heart rate and blood flow." Reportedly, the device boasts "the same tiny sensors that measure air pressure and altitude in an airplane or satellite," enabling it to theoretically react in an instant if the patient suddenly needs more or less blood. Thus far, the heart has only been tested in animals, and now gurus behind it are hoping to net approval from authorities in order to forge ahead with clinical trials. Of course, a "lifelike" heart made from polymer and pig tissue won't come cheap, with initial pricing estimates putting it just south of 200 grand. Or, just enough to give you a heart attack.
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The future holds more acquisitions for Symantec as it looks to strengthen key business areas and keep pace with evolving online security threats, its CEO said Friday.
"If I were to think about broad categories of technology where we have an interest they might include three or four important areas: data loss prevention, transaction-based security, server management, and then complementary services across those three software domains," he said at a Tokyo news conference held alongside the company's Symantec Vision event.
He said Symantec typically looks to acquire a company when its own work might not be fast enough to take advantage of a market opportunity, or when it believes it can acquire a leading company and substantially grow its own business.
"And so a company like Vontu that has achieved leadership in the category of data-loss prevention certainly would be an interesting target," he said.
Earlier in October, InfoWorld reported that Symantec would pay between $300 million and $350 million for Vontu, with which it already has an OEM business partnership.
"Our industry is entering a very obvious phase of maturity where growth rates are starting to slow from the hectic pace of the 80s and 90s, and therefore strong companies with strong balance sheets and strong cash positions and leadership technologies are looking to add components to their overall portfolio," Thompson said. "As you look ahead you should assume that Symantec will continue to be an acquisitive company as we also match that acquisition strategy with 15 percent of revenue spent on internally developed products."
Looking ahead over the next few years Thomson, who has more than three decades experience in the industry, said he believes a couple of trends will dominate.
"The first is perhaps the realization by many users that anti-virus technology alone is not enough to protect them from today's threats," he said. Security will need to be deployed at several layers of the information infrastructure to protect not just the devices on the network, but the information and transactions that occur as well.
Secondly, he sees a shift away from rules- to policy-based security.
"In the world of security 1.0 we thought about firewall rules or rules for the intrusion device or rules for the configuration of the antivirus agent. Those were things that were typically black or white," said Thompson. "The security 2.0 world assumes a significant increase in collaboration, a much more significant increase in the layering of technology to asses multiple factors associated with a threat, and a dramatic shift in the implementation techniques to be much more policy-based than the historical rules-based approach."
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As some people are noticing not all of the Les Pauls are made equal. Some come out of the box perfect with no problems at all - others suffer the ill-fitting neck that causes one or more of the fret buttons to stop working. The problem, of course lies in the union between the neck connector plate and the pins in the body.
This fix should help 95% of those with these button problems. If you're one of the other 5% that this doesn't help let me know and I'll see about doing a more substantial fix write, for now though, because it's cheap and quick let's keep it simple!
The game was a so-so hit with co-op fans, but EA is hoping to revive Army of Two as a Hollywood blockbuster anyway.
Check out this trailer for Frontlines: Fuel of War!
Pats itself on back over "an outstanding start" to year...
Take a look at this teaser trailer for Edge of Twilight.
I was watching this on the news today. The guy (21) still has his freedom after kisking an underaged girl. How messed up is that?
In an example of "no concept is too trashy" 
http://www.PhotosOfCities.com - Video shows 52 most popular Philadelphia Photos to buy.
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The ratings for President Bush have fallen below zero....
Australian police stopped a robbery in Sydney,
arresting three men. The funny part? We think one of them may have
been wearing an iPod, given that trademark white earbud cord
sticking out of his pocket (hit jump for mega version). It's
possible that, having cold feet at the last second, this scared
masked man cranked some Judas Priests to get in that important
armed robbery state of mind. Or maybe he wanted to ensure that his
Nike+iPod account gave him credit for all those steps he'd be
making later, sprinting from the cops. Either way, it's a bit funny
and a bit sad. But from our perspective, mostly just funny.
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We feel desperately sympathetic towards still-employed members of the media who will have no holiday party to celebrate not being fired at this Christmas. 
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