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A new company, Cloudsmith, has created a Web-based service meant to let developers access and exchange "virtual distros," or custom configurations, of open-source software.
Date Added: lol 11/26/2008 06:12
How interesting that, more than 15 hours after I filed my report, Dare We Hope A Deal Has Been Struck...?, Variety has finally caught up. Without credit, of course.Â
Ross Longney from Poggenpohl New Zealand with the new Porsche Designed P’7340
kitchen. ©Linda Bell.
CNET's Tom Krazit reports:
At the Nvidia's GeForce LAN 4 event in Alameda, California, on Friday, November 16, panelists from Nvidia, Intel, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, and Crytek reassured the cheering attendees that all was well in the PC gaming world - even though NPD's numebers show that sales of PC gaming software in 2006 were down substantially from 2001. The panelists claimed that those numbers do not reflect the increasing number of games distributed digitally, although the Krazit notes that they sounded defensive as they discussed some of the broader issues.
Krazit discusses why gaming consoles has the PC gaming industry on the defensive these days, what the PC industry would like to try to do to get gamers interested in the PC again as a gaming platform, and how the PC gaming is becoming more of a specialized experience for only certain types of games.
This will solve all the problems in our government.
We were perusing this month's Glamour (Shut up - like you can resist anything with Sandy Bullock on the cover.) and we came across "Glam cam," the feature where readers send in their photos in response to a mag-directed question. Do you see what we see? It's Gawker pal Julia Allison! Congratulations to our favorite extremely attractive sex columnist for continuing to seek out - and get - attention. Glamour is a big step up from AM New York. Now let's see you try to convince Brandon Holley you're a virgin.
Earlier: Gawker's coverage of Julia Allison
You knew it was going to happen...
IPEVO today announced that all of its Skype devices are compatbile with Mac OS X 10.4 and later, as is its software software. The company's Mac-compatible and Skype-certified phones include the Free.1 USB phone -- a plug-in handset designed exclusively for Skype with a slim and compact design -- as well as the Free2 USB phone and the TRIO three-in-...
Mysterious industry "insider" Surfer Girl reveals more "trainwrecks" and/or "nightmares" hidden behind the closed door of Ubisoft:
? How the editorials at Ubisoft have power of life or death over any project in the company.
? How Martin Tremblay, former CEO of Ubisoft Montreal, was "asked to resign" because a certain then senior producer named Yannis Mallat could not stand him. (Mallat has connection to the the Guillemot family that owns Ubisoft; After Tremblay's departure, Mallat was promptly promoted to CEO.)
? How Mallat influenced the editorials to kill an unannounced "AAA" HUDless FPS.
? The early troubled development of Assassin's Creed, and its secret sci-fi twist.
? Tom Clancy's connection (or lack of) to Ubisoft Montreal and Splinter Cell Conviction.
Ars Technica reports that the PC Gaming Alliance has declared themselves the "guardians of PC gaming," which includes finding ways to help gamers decide on gaming hardware, and to make progress on the issues of piracy and DRM. "[PCGA President Randy Stude said,] 'The PCGA will take up the challenge of piracy, not to assume the responsibility that the ESA has taken on... rather the PCGA would like to address the methodology that publishers might be able to take to solve, or to do a better job trying to solve, the piracy challenge for their substantial investments in content.' The PCGA won't give a standard approach to publishers, saying it is much more likely it will release a series of recommendations to publishers, and track piracy on an annual basis to see if the problem is growing or shrinking. The PCGA is also working on methods for members to track how effective their antipiracy measures are once a game has been released."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Chairman Strauss Zelnick directly addresses reports stemming from his address to a business summit earlier this week, says industry sales shouldn't be so holiday-centric.
Ready Lisp packages an ANSI Common Lisp
environment for Mac OS X users as a single
application bundle. It repackages and configures
the following components: Aquamacs Emacs, SBCL
Common Lisp, the SLIME Lisp IDE, and more.
License: Freeware
Changes:
This version is for OS X Leopard, for users with 32-bit and 64-bit Intel-based Macs. It will not run on 10.4 or PowerPC architectures. Previous versions that run on 10.4 with 32-bit Intel processors are available.
Date Added: Monkey Inspection 11/06/2007 08:30
Prime Minister Helen Clark must explain what she meant by ?tidying things up?
when she said the ?Minister for Crown Research Institutes (CRI?s) would be subsumed?,
says National Party Science spokesman Paul Hutchison.
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said in a recent quarterly meeting that his company may no longer follow the traditional five-year console lifecycle when releasing a Wii successor.
Gil and Tony get into a deep conversation in the woods.
Hewlett-Packard has been credited with almost single-handedly driving the PC TV tuner market, by including TV capabilities with almost all of its PCs.
All has been relatively quiet on the 1-18-08 front for the last few months since the San Diego Comic-Con, but a source for ComingSoon.net has revealed to us that the J.J. Abrams-produced monster movie will get a new trailer AND its title will finally be revealed on November 16 in front of Robert Zemeckis' animated Beowulf .
Filed under: Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Casting, Newsstand, Remakes and Sequels
For your Monday perusal, here are the latest casting blips from
Variety:
- Brett Granstaff, who has appeared in films like Deserted and States of Grace, and looks ridiculously familiar although I've never seen his movies, has got himself a role in that Al Pacino/Robert De Niro flick, Righteous Kill. It's not too shabby for the new actor, since he's already finished The Deal with the likes of Meg Ryan, William H. Macy, and Jason Ritter. The dude has gone from no-buzz to high-buzz flicks, so I'm sure we'll be seeing much more of him in the future. For now, you can just stare at the pic to the right.
- The following news amuses me. Just last week, I found myself in need of entertainment and was saved by a very friendly Aussie woman who let me watch some of her CSI: Miami episodes -- for amusement, of course. It was this uber-ridiculous, yet almost-funny episode called Triple Threat that you'd have to see to believe. Now word has it that Colin Ferguson, who co-starred in the episode, will star as an ex-NFL football player in an upcoming film called The Egg Factory. According to Yahoo, it's being directed by William Fruet, and is about a kid genius who is mourning the death of his dad. However, he "finds a new friend and champion in Cutter Hanson, his dad's estranged brother, a former NFL player." But that's not all -- the pair team up to "save a young girl from a group of murderous mobsters." You know, instead of those stuffed animal-loving mobsters. Man, Ferguson knows how to pick interesting, spastic premises.
- Ally Walker, who has spent time on television shows like The Profiler and Tell Me You Love Me, is going to star alongside Sanaa Lathan and Matthew Broderick in Wonderful World. That's the film I posted about earlier this month, which "centers on a depressed, divorced, and unemployed father who finds solace in his Senegalese roommate's sister." Variety says Walker will play Broderick's wife, but I assume that means "ex-wife." The awesome kid from Tideland, Jodelle Ferland, is also involved.
- Ah, Brian Bloom. I never watched his first acting stint, As the World Turns, but man, his face was always in those celebrity teen rags. This is some television spin-off news, so I'll just be brief. He's scored himself a recurring role in The Sarah Conner Chronicles. Will he be a man? A machine? Variety isn't saying; however, in the meantime, you can check him out in Smokin' Aces.
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Ripten lists its top ten developers of all time, moving in stealth for the kill at #5 with Ubisoft.
For all its high-tech bells and whistles, director Kenneth Branagh’s modernization of the 1972 black comedy remains a remake we could live without, especially when it takes a serious turn for the worse.
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Ynsats writes "The Register is reporting that SGI is filing suit against ATI for patent infringement. The suit alleges that ATI violated patent number 6,650,327, "Display system having floating point rasterization and floating point framebuffering", which was filed in 1998 and granted in 2003, in its Radeon graphics cards. This is coming fast on the heels of AMD's announcement of the intention to buy ATI for $4.2B and it doesn't seem to be swaying AMD's intentions. AMD hopes to finish the takeover by the end of this year. SGI has also issued an ominous statement stating that they have plenty of intellectual property left and there will be more litigation to come."
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Household
What was once an art form of sorts has become somewhat of an antiquated skill, as touting a green thumb certainly isn't as awe-inspiring as it used to be; with gizmos like
RFID-enabled terrariums,
hydroponic gardens, and
remote-controlled greenhouses, it shouldn't be all that difficult to keep that flora flourishing. Giving further aid to the clueless plant owner is a USB stake sensor that resides a few inches beneath the soil, and provides "information about light, moisture, soil composition and other factors that can affect plant growth and health." Start-up PlantSense has designed the intelligent stake to relay the data via USB to a subscription-based website, where it informs users what they're doing wrong (too much sunlight or not enough fertilizer, for example) as well as "providing recommendations on which plants might grow best in a particular microclimate." The self-proclaimed "lifecycle development platform" will likely sell for $49.95 (includes a stake and one year of data analysis) if it can scrounge up the necessary funds from eager VCs, while additional years of the service will run $20 -- but that's a small price to pay if your home-based garden looks more like a cemetery anyway.
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Engadget Chinese]
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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD A new documentary series. Be part of the transformation as it happens in real-time
Aspyr Media today announced that The Sims 2 Pets is live on its Website, and that the fourth expansion pack for The Sims 2 is scheduled to ship for Mac in November just following the Windows release. The Sims 2 Pets allows users to create the perfect...
"I'm looking forward to playing Far Cry 2", Cevat Yerli tells CVG.
Boss of Far Cry developer Crytek has told CVG that he's not only keen to play Far Cry 2 but that he applauds Ubisoft's design goals for the sequel.
Click here to read the full article
Sega again revises street date of iconic mascots' Olympic showdown on the Wii; Miis playable in-game, new modes revealed.
In which we take a look at what games you, the readers, are jonesing for.
Adaptation of the young adult fantasy series.
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360
Not content with merely
launching the Xbox 360 in local game stores, the South African and somewhat fidgety arm of Microsoft also shoved the next-gen console into the spotlight at
rAge -- that's a
really awesome acronym for "Really Awesome Gaming Event." The annual show provides a rare opportunity for South African gamers to gather en masse, play games, discuss trends, purchase goods and generally complain about ineffectual airconditioning. What better place to erect snazzy stands and lure uncertain gamers into a nexus of high-definition visuals and inescapable green lighting? Indeed, it seemed like the ideal opportunity to convince uncertain gamers as to the overwhelming and decidedly monstrous power of the Xbox 360.
Perhaps it was the fuzzy graphics, odd aspect ratios and the indecipherable text that gave it away, but it became abundantly clear that those lovely HD visuals were being strangled by a hissing composite cable. A quick inspection of all the consoles revealed a disturbing truth -- Core systems running at a paltry 480i, the mistake magnified for all to see on Samsung LCD screens. Stranger still was the fact that neighboring booths managed to get it right. Both EA and a prominent local distributor had correctly configured Xbox 360s, showing more adherence to the ubiquitous HD marketing than even Microsoft themselves. How did that happen?
We spoke to several people involved with the distribution of the console, all of them pointing the blaming finger at an amorphous "miscommunication." It seems that Core systems were deemed suitable for the show and were promptly sent out to the organizers -- the fact that the Xbox 360 Core does
not contain HD AV cables was apparently overlooked until it was too late. Thankfully, one brave man made the connection and, in the final moments of the first day of the expo, arrived with a collection of VGA cables and rescued several (but not all) consoles from standard definition peril. The resolution (OOF!) came a bit late, but it certainly defused some of the embarassment that would have been an entire weekend of non-HD HD gaming.
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Artist:
LeAnn Rimes
Review:
By the time Rimes turned twenty-one, she had a slew of country hits
("Blue"), one big pop crossover ("How Do I Live") and the weirdest
Christian-porn version of "Purple Rain" ever. Now twenty-five, she
scores with a fantasy of the footloose youth she never had
("Nothin' Better to Do") and a Tanya Tucker-style tale of childhood
strife ("Family"). The songs are uneven, but the peak is a duet
with Mr. Nashville himself, Jon Bon Jovi.
Rating:
3.5 Stars
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Gets a new gig before her debut in The Golden Compass.
Magazine publisher Enterbrain reported that the value of the computer game market in Japan, at 292.8 billion yen (2.54 billion US dollars or 1.79 billion euros,) was 21.7 percent higher in the fiscal first half between March 26 and September 23 than a year before, largely because of the success of Nintendo DS. Sales of Nintendo Wii and Sony PSP3 also helped the market expand.
The hardware market expanded by 33.5 percent to 138.3 billion yen (1.20 billion US dollars or 846.32 million euros) and the software market increased by 12.8 percent to 154.5 billion yen (1.34 billion US dollars or 945.45 million euros.)
Read the full story for the sale figures for DS, DS Lite, PSP, and top selling Wii and DS software.
Action, from Disney Interactive Studios
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here playing a little bit of catch up. Moriarty...
Gamersyde at FDJV writes:
"Another one of the rare game I managed to film at the FDJV is Far Cry 2, and this one with no other than the game's lead level designer at the controls! He was very proud of this game, and if you guys have the patience to watch all the videos as I will add them to this news, you may understand why a bit better. All footage is from the Xbox 360 version, and of course there is no sound (stop asking)."
Editor's note: part 4 and part 5 of the video added to the alternative source.
Just stay under the car!
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Dodging a deadly military crackdown, bloggers in Burma are
now on the front lines providing news and photos of death and insurrection.
