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The Redmond, Wash. company is shipping release candidates for Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008.
Take a look at this exciting new Halo 3 trailer.
Supercomputers are growing more and more powerful, thanks to multicore processors. But lower costs are helping to broaden the use of high-performance computing technology in business applications.
Jim Carrey in a horror/thriller? Jim like you've never seen him before.
Runtime: 2 min 28 sec
A failed school assignment.
Shot on Canon
Wax on, wax off for the good of the state.
This is not how this was supposed to end up, but man was that great!
Gametap: "It hasn't even been a minute since I hit "start campaign" before I simultaneously ask and answer the following question: What's the weirdest thing about the newest Unreal Tournament title?
Yes, there is a story. One with characters, motivations, and chapters. There's an intro cinematic, and characters actually exchange dialogue without trying to shoot each other! I find myself in the bizarre position to give a story summary for the latest UT game. The game opens as the main character, Reaper (who resembles Marcus Fenix, but sans bandana and growly attitude and with a bizarre armored skirt) is trying to rescue his family and friends from a Necris attack on a colony. He gets taken out by the Necris, only to find himself revived and under the employ of the Izanagi corporation. Izanagi is in full-out war with the Axon Corporation over territory, and has hired you to help it win".
Difficulty level 4 movie quote for this Thursday
A national lab is developing lunch-box-size pathogen sniffers that can spot anything from anthrax to a nasty flu. By Luke O'Brien.
This is a quality version of Defender that will definitely please fans of the original, but the game doesn't hold up especially well today.
Even though HP has been plagued by recent boardroom scandals, the company still reported net income of $1.7 billion for the fourth quarter -- more than four times than earnings for the same period last year.
An epic romance is undermined by its horny hero. Review by Brian Orndorf. (Grade: C)
The Toronto Star's Raju Mudhar on Nov 17, 2007:
"Nintendo coming out in front (in the seventh-generation console war) simply because they've changed the way we play. While Sony and Microsoft engage in an arms race of bigger, faster and more complex games, Nintendo's outside-the-box thinking has created a system anybody can pick up and enjoy.
PS3 problems stem from how the box was handled at launch and a top-down attitude telling consumers what they want as opposed to listening to their concerns. But, recently, Sony is making some strides, the best example being the price cuts on their all-in-one machine.
The Xbox 360 is actually sitting quite pretty. It's currently the hardcore gamer's choice and has the largest library of games. Their online component is a model that their two competitors should seriously look at and rip off.
But the Wii's effort to expand the gamer marketplace is to be lauded, and also for helping ushering in the whole casual gaming trend. They are leading the industry into new areas, and we are very happy to be pulled along."
Mudhar reviews and compares the three companies and systems in terms of:
? Sales
? What they do best
? Where they could improve
? What's to come
? What they say
? Best exclusive games
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"Those who can, do; those who can't, sue." Although the original version of this phrase is (unfairly) used to describe teachers, we think that it does a nice job summing up the current state of the consumer electronics industry as well; it seems that nary a week goes by these days without some "intellectual property firm" crying patent infringement against a company that actually makes something, and this time around it's silicon powerhouse AMD being taken to the mat by lawsuit-happy Opti Inc. According to
Reg Hardware, do-nothing Opti is suing AMD for violating three of its patents covering "Predictive Snooping of Cache Memory for Master-Initiated Accesses," and is hoping that a jury will decide to ban the sale of those chips which supposedly employ this arcane technology. As a bit of background, Opti started out as a chip developer itself before selling most of its assets to another company called Opti Technologies (no relation); after the sale, Opti Inc. was de-listed from NASDAQ due to a business plan that hinged on "pursuing license revenues from companies we believe are infringing Opti's patents." While it's tempting to dismiss this suit as yet another baseless gold-digging scheme, Opti -- like
NTP -- does have a history of prying cash away from big ballers in the industry: in late 2004, the company accused NVIDIA of violating these same patents, and was able to wrest somewhere around $7 million from the graphics powerhouse. Sadly, with
Transmeta suing Intel,
SGI suing ATI, and now Opti targeting AMD, it looks like most of the PCs we buy next year will be labeled Via Inside.
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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
Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Capcom's Vice-President of Strategic Planning & Business Development Christian Svensson explains why and how Capcom decided to bring back Okami on the Wii. In Capcom's official blog, Svensson starts off by praising Okami and admits that the game did not sell well. After seeing constant repeated requests from fans, he believes Okami really deserved a second chance.
Svensson discusses why Okami failed to sell well on the PS2, how he picked and persuaded Ready at Dawn to develop Okami for Wii, how the project was green-lighted by Japan, and the current status of the development.
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Two guys get into a violent fight in the middle of Hollywood.
Big Blue outlines new "Blue Cloud" strategy.
Dell updates their XPS system with an Intel quad-core CPU and ATI CrossFire graphics. Underneath the striking red exterior of the massive red chassis beats the heart of a very average system.
A number of forum users on CheapAssGamer.com have managed to get their hands on the title up to ten days before launch.
The latest album from Icelandic wunderkinds Sigur Rós is a bit of a
tease. The band's newest release, Hvarf/Heim, isn't really new
material: it's half live album, half unreleased recordings. The
Hvarf EP is made up of songs that got lost on the cutting
room floor over the years, while the Heim EP is a collection
of live recordings.
Since Hvarf gathers tracks left off of previously
released Sigur Rós albums, the EP serves as a brief history of where
the band has been over the years. The opening track, "Salka," is pure
Sigur Rós with its high-pitched whale calls and melancholy
orchestrations. "Hljómalind" starts off gentle and unassuming, only to
explode into a grandiose rock song. "Í Gaer" mines similar territory,
expanding auditory horizons with Pink Floyd flair in between
opening and closing choruses of haunting xylophones. "Von," one of the
band's earliest tracks, plays like modern-day Vivaldi, the
Chicago-based rapper Common will be releasing his eighth full-length release December 9 via Geffen. The album will span a nice round 10 tracks and will feature the likes of Kanye West, Santogold, Pharrell Williams, and Cee-Lo Green. According to Billboard, one track even features the MC rapping over a Pat Benatar-inspired guitar riff. Production on the album will be split between The Neptunes and Outkast crony, Mr. DJ.
Now, don't get me wrong, Common is a cool guy — I loved (...)
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From edge-online.com (http://www.edge-online.com/news/e3-la-three-years ):
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The Los Angeles Convention Center and Visitors Bureau said that L.A. will be E3's home for the next three years.
It's an important deal for Los Angeles, as the city expects $18 million in economic impact from the upsized expo, with everything from cab fares to hotel and food expenses pumping money into th local economy.
The city estimates 33,000 room nights to be paid during the Entertainment Software Association's games industry event, taking place June 2-4 next year.
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Full Story: edge-online.com (http://www.edge-online.com/news/e3-la-three-years )
Tokyo, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Sony Corp said on Thursday it is raising its PlayStation Portable sales target for the year to next March to 10 million units the previous estimate of 9 million.
It also raised it sales target for the PlayStation 2 game console for the current business year to 12 million units from 10 million.
Sony kept unchanged its PlayStation3 sales target of 11 million units for the current year.
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WiebeTech today introduced a series of v4 Combo Adapters to complement its new v4 ComboDock imager, completely redesigning the earlier series of adapters to make the new series sleeker and easier to use. Combo Adapters work with the WiebeTech ComboDo...
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As if demanding John McCain to stop using his music wasn’t enough, John Mellencamp has lent his voice to a radio commercial in Indiana throwing more support behind Obama. “I’ve seen a lot of small towns, and now I’m seeing small towns across America dying,” Mellencamp says in the ad, adding that eight years [...]
A 2007 Ask Men survey lists Nintendo's Miyamoto ahead of Richard Branson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Prince Harry, Stephen Colbert, and Tiger Woods as one of this year's top 49 men.
Excited for White Knight Chronicles drip fed PR? Kotaku isn't, but maybe someone is.
New White Knight Chronicles details have surfaced from Famitsu. Read on for the info.
The Washington Post Express has posted more videos from this weekend’s SPX, including interviews with Fantagraphics’ Gary Groth, Top Shelf’s Chris Staros, Laika creator Nick Abadzis, and Oni’s Randal Jarrell:
Related: Reports from Liz Baillie, The Daily Cross Hatch, Jeff Lemire, Dave Kellett
While the rest of the country is gearing up for a huge presidential election, some of the characters on ABC FamilyÂ’s Greek are more concerned about a more localized election. Of course IÂ’m referring to the race for the ZBZ presidency.
Destructoid interviewed Running With Scissors CEO Vince Desi during the Leipzig Games Convention:
"It was a fun and worthwhile talk, conducted days after Manhunt 2's eventual approval by the ESRB while the game's UK release remained up in the air, - a situation which sadly still hasn't changed - during which we took in the Postal games, the joys of comedy violence in the media, the failings of both the ESRB and Take2, over-complicated and patronizing games ratings systems and of course, Harry Potter's sexual problems."
Will there be a PS3 version? Is Microsoft still publishing?
"Of course, if Microsoft and BioWare plotted a trilogy from the start, Microsoft would have been smart enough to broker an exclusivity deal for all three games, right? It's not simple. BioWare, and in effect EA, owns the Mass Effect IP, not Microsoft; Both BioWare and Microsoft have been hazy about what happens after Mass Effect is released on November 20..."
1UP tries to find out what will happen to Mass Effect 2 and 3.
Last month, we provided the first look at the upcoming
Indiana Jones LEGO sets as well as the
packaging designs for 2008. Now check out the official debut over at
StarWars.com. Can you see the subtle changes?
4 new shots posted.
Here you were, thinking the execs in the music industry couldn't get any more offensively idiotic, when some Brits come along and set a new standard for hubris. Yes, the UK-based Performing Rights Society — the Brit equivalent of ASCAP or BMI — wants to make listening to music loud enough for anyone else to hear an offense punishable by hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. Sound like an Onion article? Oh, how I wish it were.
The chumps at PRS are suing Kwik-Fit, a car repair chain, for copyright infringement, claiming that they play their music too loudly and that people can hear it. Yep, that's the offense. They claim that if you play music loud enough for others to hear, it counts as "performance." Of course, if Kwik-Fit had a license to play their music, everything would be dandy. The price of said license? A mere $61,000 a year.
Are they insane? Seriously, this blows my mind. By their logic, you would need to pay the labels to listen to music in your car with your windows rolled down at a stop light if you were delivering pizzas or to listen to music at your desk at your office. Those all count as "performances" now, and if you're at a place of business, they'd better pay up. Seriously, will someone burn this industry to the ground and built it anew with people who have souls? [Ars Technica]
Meet the exotic array of aliens in this upcoming Sci-Fi game exclusive to the XBOX360.
Joining Google may no longer be a quick path to wealth for most new employees, although the company says its compensation packages are in line with industry figures.
Election ads due to air from Jim Anderton's Progressive Party attack National's plan
to increase tax on business.
Once a consumer has committed to a purchase of a particular brand and model of product, maximizing the momentum of his Web research and purchase experience is a great opportunity and challenge for a manufacturer. Best practices have found that as consumers are searching online, if 100 people arrive at a manufacturer's Web site, 10 or 12 of them might buy directly from the manufacturer if that was offered.
