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The world's largest publisher is pleasantly surprised by the first holiday weekend's sales.
commonc++ is a C++ class library for developing cross-platform systems software for POSIX and Windows systems. It provides an intuitive, object-oriented abstraction and portability layer around common operating system facilities like threads, concurrency mechanisms, sockets, networking, shared memory and other IPC mechanisms, regular expressions, files, streams, logging, process execution, scheduling, and more. It also includes a collection of common abstractions like strings, buffers, and object pools.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
This release incorporates new classes, API refinements, the addition of unit tests, and a large number of bugfixes.
Stallone in the middle of his own underdog story.
developerWorks: "Linux is enjoying a well-deserved surge in popularity for mobile and embedded applications, owing to its ability to scale down to the small footprint needed to run efficiently in compact devices..."
Via Kotaku, a story at the Mainichi daily news about an enterprising exchange student that got himself deported. Wang Yue Si, a Chinese student who went to Japan on a student visa, found himself in need of some spending money. Since he was a gamer, he decided to make some cash by selling virtual items online. He was so successful, the cops noticed. From the article: "He started selling items such as weapons and currency for online games through an Internet auction site in April this year, without obtaining the appropriate residency status. Wang, living in Kumamoto, has admitted that he sold the virtual goods for about 6 million yen ($US 1.3 Million), in violation of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law. A bank worker became suspicious when Wang regularly sent money back home to China and alerted police in August, prompting Kumamoto police officers to investigate the student."
A NES cartridge is being sold on eBay for $12,000. These limited-edition gray cartridges were given to the 90 semi-finalists of the 1990 Nintendo World Championship, a contest that pitted children in a feast of carnage, Mario worshiping and Tetris psychedelia that apparently was inspired by an equally psychedelic movie: The Wizard, with Fred Savage. This special NES cartridge contained three games:
• Super Mario Brothers.
• A special course of Rad Racer.
• Tetris.
If you think it's too expensive, you are right: one of these cartridges was sold already on eBay for $6,100, while the gold version (only 26 of this version were manufactured) has gone as high as $20,000. I would rather keep playing Monkey Island on my iPhone, thank you very much. [eBay via Gamesniped]
Take on new surgeries with New Blood
Stable door, horse, bolted?
The last time I checked, MRC was living in Fantasyland and fully expecting to come up with substitute shows to replace cancelled series Valentine and Easy Money on the Sunday nights that The CW stupidly allowed these network TV neophytes to program this fall. Well, the experiment has failed. Broadcasting & Cable is first with the news [...]
From the 2007 LA Auto Show, Cars.com's Suburban Dad, Patrick Olsen, and Mother Proof's Chief Mom, Kristin Varela, compare their first impressions of the 2009 Mini Clubman.
Shot and produced by: Eric Rossi
Edited by: Lindsay Bjerregaard
ShockTillYouDrop.com has posted a first look at a replica medallion as worn by Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro) in the Joe Johnston-directed The Wolfman . Expertly crafted and cast of metal this life-size, double sided, prop replica captures every detail of the original as seen in the film. You can check it out here !
A reconstructed World War II-era British computer is trying to crack messages enciphered on Nazi hardware in an event sponsored by the U.K.'s National Museum of Computing.
Bill Lawrence, the creator of
Scrubs, is putting his foot down and will not write an emergency season finale, rather a series finale. NBC has been requesting people to end their seasons and before the strike started, the studio asked for an emergency Scrubs ending, but Bill says, hell no, I won't go! "I will use all my leverage to end this show properly, even if it means I have to do all the voices myself and call people up to read it over the phone." You go Bill! Screw the studios, why end your show because you're forced to? It's already your last season. It's almost like they're saying, "And, Stay OUT!"
Coming off its worst week since 2002, things got no better for the Nasdaq on Monday, thanks to a 58% plunge in shares of E*Trade.
Surfer Girl has scoops on Jade Empire II, Everquest PS3, God the Game, Night Driver, Canyon Bomber, and Crystal Castles, and Band of Brothers/The Pacific game.
A high-profile PS3 launch title has been delayed. Hit RPG Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion will hit in the first quarter of 2007.
Like a real life Three Stooges routine, some clown clocks his buddy in the family jewels with a two-by-four.
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PC refurbishers, many of whom have asked for quite some time for relief from Microsoft's byzantine Windows licensing policies for rebuilt machines, have help on the way. It's not entirely out of the goodness of Redmond's heart, though; Linux has the company nervous.
Merrick here...
Jax-Ur sent in this look at the newly...
Filed under: OpEd, Prison Break, Episode Reviews
(S03E06/S03E07) A two-hour
Prison Break? Now what did I do to deserve this? Well, it was really just two back-to-back episodes of
Prison Break instead of a two-hour special. But still, the only thing better than one
Prison Break episode is two
Prison Break episodes.
And they were pretty good episodes to boot. While we didn't get to see the much-hyped escape from Sona, we did get some interesting new developments in the plot.
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Google's launch of the Android mobile phone platform on Monday has been followed by a slew of updates and reactions, including from Apple. Some notes of interest follow.
Android is not an announcement pertaining to any one piece hardware such as a...
OSWeekly: "Has anyone really, and I mean really, spent hours researching the issue of using libdvdcss in Linux to watch DVDs? What would you say if I told you much of what you are reading about this issue is complete bunk...?"
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
Hey, you -- busy rigging up your malfunctioning Guitar Hero III Les Paul using the
low-fi method we showed you earlier this week? If you're just getting started, we'd recommend putting the rubber bands back in the package and taking a look at this. Granted, it seems a bit silly that we're figuring out ways to repair instruments that should have been solid right out of the box, but we digress. This entirely more technical (but equally painless) fix involves a Torx driver, a bit of PCB rearranging and a triple check to make sure the wiring within wasn't installed haphazardly to begin with. If done properly, the contacts should have a much better connection once the axe is reassembled, and if you're still left with nonfunctional frets after all of this, you've certainly got our permission to go all Jimi Hendrix / Pete Townshend / etc. on it.
[Thanks, Kyle]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
An anonymous reader writes "Intel's Skulltrail dual-socket enthusiast platform has been making the rounds on the web for half a year or so, but we haven't seen many details yet. TG Daily got a close look at an almost complete prototype, which surely sounds almost like a production ready version, judging from the article. Everything that TG Daily describes sounds like Skulltrail PCs will be very limited in availability and insanely expensive. Intel also has said it has developed 'special' Xeon processors with desktop processor attributes just for Skulltrail. These chips are currently running at a stable 5 GHz."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.
This is a video of the aftermath of the California Fire Storm. I shot it on Oct. 28, 2007 in Rancho Bernardo and Poway, CA. There were over 1700 homes burned in total.
Saving the galaxy from annihilation has to be emotional, according to a Canadian video game developer who wants players of action role playing title Mass Effect to weigh their choices carefully as they fight for the future.
BioWare Corp, the Canadian game house being bought by Electronic Arts, is giving players a big swath of outer space to explore and defend with its upcoming Xbox 360 title.
But with some of the most realistic and best looking digital actors available in any video game to date, BioWare is also out to prove it can make players feel passionately about the characters in the story.
Filed under: Mac, PC, Retro, Online, Strategy
Ensemble Studios' Bruce Campbell Shelley has been a force in strategy gaming for over 20 years (PC Gamer proclaimed him a "Game God" in 1999). Anyone who's ever played
Civilization I and
II, the original
Railroad Tycoon, or the
Age of Empires and
Age of Mythology titles should be familiar with his work. What you may be less familiar with is the iterative design process he and former MicroProse colleague Sid Meier used to craft the very first
Civilization game.
Shacknews recently caught up with Shelley for a little history lesson on the "design by playing" methodology -- a process he and his design teams still use at Ensemble today. The strategy pioneer fondly recalls being the second person ever to play the first
Civilization prototype on a 5 ¼" floppy disc, and also describes how working with Sid Meier is like going to a game design university. In discussing the influence of
Civilization on
AoE, Shelley had this to say: "There is certainly some
Civilization in the
Age of Empires series. The vision for the original
Age of Empires game was something like the historical and economic aspects of
Civilization merged with the gameplay of
Warcraft and
Command & Conquer."
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Microsoft's gain in the gaming space in bringing Xbox 360 to market early with a standard DVD drive has been Toshiba's loss in the high definition video market.
As ITWire go on they tell the importance of the Xbox 360 to HD DVD survival
It may have been one of the worst kept secrets in the industry, but the cat is officially out of the bag today. After rumors based on corporate cooperation, speculation about job postings, and even an outright acknowledgement by n high-ranking executive, LucasArts and BioWare have finally officially announced their joint massively-multiplayer online game at an event in San Francisco today. Titled Star Wars: The Old Republic, the new game is the first MMO for BioWare and the second Star Wars MMO for LucasArts.
Q How can two people share a computer and get their own music when they sync an iPod to the same copy of iTunes?
Destroy All Humans!: Path of the Furon, Frontlines for PS3, and deBlob pushed back beyond March of 2008 as publisher lowers forecasts due to poor Stuntman and Juiced sales.
Row row row your fail boat, gently down the sea
There seem to be a issue with PS3 users getting stuck on the 'Connecting' screen when trying to access online features.
The face of Air America host Randi Rhodes has had it rough the last couple of days. It lost some teeth; it bruised its eye. First it was reported that Rhodes had been mugged while walking her dog, perhaps by a right wing conspiracy. Then it came out that she wasn't in fact mugged but had imbibed 14 Bloody Marys instead and that that might have had something to do with how her face made the intimate acquaintance of the sidewalk. And now she clarifies—in such a vague and flippant way that we assume that she blacked out and is struggling to come to terms with her alcoholism, which is, judging from this audio clip from her show, not going very well.
"I was watching football at an Irish bar and I went outside to smoke, a cigarette. The next thing I knew I was on the ground face down and bleeding from my mouth and my eyeball. I don't know if someone mugged me from behind or if I had just fainted (I hadn't eaten anything all day) but I can tell you my fall was not broken by my hands, it was broken by my face and a steel grate on the concrete...I think of it as the perfect smoky eye but there is only one."
Giggles! Not knowing at all what had happened, Rhodes wrote Air America saying she had been mugged, that her teeth had been knocked out and that she had to go to the dentist.
Imagine her surprise when she woke up in the morning to see that reports that she had been mugged and that her teeth had been knocked out were splashed across the news world. But since she had a black eye and missing teeth (not to mention a killer hangover) she decided not to comment and let the story grow.
Her doctors couldn't find any physical explanation for why she had fainted. Perhaps someone had hit her from behind and then disappeared. Perhaps the Liquor Fairy did it.
So I have been trying to digest the discussion of the Spring v Guice benchmarks. There seems to be a lot of play on the "Guice isn't *that* much faster than Spring" meme.
The thing is, even the author of this study notes:
Analysis of the CPU metering data also revealed the same strange difference in test ordering across technologies when the table was sorted by the Total column. Because CPU is a thread specific meter I looked at the totals for the Run probe group. Spring (CS) was 11.028 seconds compared with Guice’s (CS) 13.112 seconds - approximately 2 seconds in the difference but not 6 seconds. Could this be a clue? Well not necessarily because the CPU times for Spring (S) and Guice (S) were reversed though somewhat closer - 2.203 seconds compared to 2.075 seconds respectively. It would appear from this that Guice trades additional CPU processing with a reduction in thread monitor contention.
Now, I am not going get into the whole fray here, but in the Web world, isn't this the best tradeoff you can make?
Here's the thing about the web: threading matters. My friend Michael this weekend was showing off MERB, a replacement runtime host for Ruby on Rails that is seriously faster. Why is it faster? Because he cribbed the servlet model. That is, everything is hard threadsafe and therefore a single container can service multiple simultaneous requests, unlike the standard Ruby technique of running multiple Mongrels on a box. Of course, people complain about the non-threadsafe ActiveRecord, which gives rise to hacks like this.
That's a lot of Ruby, but the short version is, they are learning what the Java People figured out a while ago: minimum thread munging makes your app rule. This is, it seems to me, the beauty of Guice.
This continues into the Singleton testing done here...
The Guice singleton tests had not only higher values than the same tests under Spring but more significantly they were higher than the Guice non-singleton tests. But why did the Spring numbers for singleton tests look still too high? I decided to take another look at the validate(...) method and the out bound calls. This time I was looking for a method that might inadvertently create objects. I found the culprit. The JUnit assertEquals(int,int) creates two Integers before calling Object.equals(Object).
Here are the revised figures after replacing the Assert.assertEquals(int, int) method with an implementation that does not create any Integer objects. The Spring results now looked inline with what we would expect from a single factory - an object instance created for each additional concurrent thread.
Really, what is the short answer to this question? Singletons == bad. The idiosyncrasies of JUnit here aside, properly managing singletons in a thread safe factory is hard, which is why we are told to avoid them in the first place. Really in this context, you should be dealing with mostly session scoped stuff anyway, but I digress.
The multi-partner initiative will offer FDE technology utilizing IBM's encryption key management system.
NTT DoCoMo, Softbank, and KDDI hope to supply high speed wireless Internet access, eager to bet billions of yen on cheap and quick file downloads on the run.
A strong performer with a difficult learning curve, iBiz 2.5.3 achieves what it sets out to do by putting projects, clients, and tasks in a logical order, allowing for easy billing and invoicing.
The software includes 24-hour phone support for applications, such as iCal server, mail services, and directory on OS X Server; and Exchange, SQL Server, and Active Directory on Windows Server.
AICN got a chance to chat briefly with TR2N director Joseph Kosinski over the weekend, who revealed that not only was the Comic Con test footage filmed in steroscopic 3D, but the final film will also be filmed and released using the latest in 3D technology. If there is one movie I want to see [...]
Be one of the first to play Resistance 2 exclusively through GamePro.com's Premier Beta giveaway!
Kind of takes the romance out of it. Warning- adult themes.
2006 The Cosmic Funk All Stars, Lead by former Digable Planets MC Cee Knowledge the DoodleBug. Performing Live at The Poorhouse.
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Lebron and his family members get the show started.
Considering he's the brains behind the critically acclaimed Pro Evolution Soccer series, Shingo 'Seabass' Takatsuka likes to keep a low profile. Indeed, when the PlayStation 3 version debuted at Leipzig in August it was notable not because it was the first time PES was playable on a next-gen Playstation, but because Seabass wasn't there to show off his highly-anticipated baby.
But, despite his knack for steering clear of the limelight IGN was granted an audience with the man that made PES, to talk about what we can expect from the next in the series and what elements of his games make him most proud.
