Evening Reading
by Nick Breckon, Aug 03, 2009 6:00pm PDTPlayed the IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey 360 demo the other day and hit some really terrible framerate problems. Hopefully the full game isn't that shoddy.
News:
- Mothership Zeta the last of the Fallout DLC
- Batman: Arkham Asylum demo coming this Friday
- Sims 3 expansion adds tomb raiding
- Sign an internet petition, save Alan Wake PC
- Team Fortress 2 closed beta to test competitive balancing
Chatty: Diablo III, Dragon's Dogma
FileShack: Unity of Command, Skyjacker
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
This guy says theres 6 major cell phone platforms, and the market cant support that many
RIM's Blackberry
Microsoft's Windows Mobile
Apple's iPhone
Nokia's s60
Palm's WebOS
Google's Android
How many platforms do you think there will be in 5 years? And which ones?
I personally think WinMo, iPhone and Android will be the only ones with real marketshare in a few years. Others might still be around, but once the other 3 move into RIMs business space, I dont think they'll innovate enough. And the WebOS is a great idea, but I think it'll get copied.
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http://channelnine.ninemsn.com.au/video.aspx?videoid=c0288610-015f-40bf-ab93-164539c0e8cb
my SISTER and farmer russell
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I have:
1) scout batting helmet
2) demo fro
3) pyro beanie
4) spy fedora
seeking medic and heavy!! lololol
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http://www.wwtdd.com/2009/08/miranda-kerr-is-sol/
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http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/index.php?pluginoption=productinfo&item_id=12
The ability to add a Blu-Ray drive just makes it a bit sweeter, but all I really need is the ability to watch as many different formats of HD content as possible.
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Sign up for Week 7!
http://www.shackmatches.com/index.php?title=Week_7_Tourney
It's back to double elimination singles and mechanicalgrape/blue chino are on vacation, so we all have a shot at glory!
Congratulations to this week's reigning champion eeeealmo, whose success as C.Viper has been a long time coming!
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gi_joe/
GI joe is at 80% currently
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I got my first ever ticket tonight and wondering what the fuck I can do. I hear Cali is a real bitch for these things. What's the cheapest and less pain in the ass option?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwYFxCnc9fg
Philip Glass's "Vessels," from the score to the movie Koyaanisqatsi. Just listen all the way through once and tell me you are not a little amazed.
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But what the fuck? The game lags like crazy, the sound crackles on cutscenes and It's pretty much unplayable. My PC runs Crysis, Far Cry 2 and all those technical dem... games on max, so where the hell is the problem? (hint - It's in the game!)
Is this what PC games have come to? This game makes all other console ports look like the best games ever.
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I have an absolutely fantastic chicken breast now that I can shred up for Taquitos! The poaching liquid and all of its good chicken flavor will also be put to good use.
Poaching: It ain't just for your juevos!
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http://www.thedigitalbits.com/mytwocentsa170.html
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Recently started playing again, have a 71 NE Hunter, and I'm curious about how to get to Dalaran. Is there a quest line somewhere? I know there's one for a mage, and also other ways to get ppl to portal you in, but I was looking for the 'legit' way to get in.
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I believe I am done buying games for my PS3. This Wipeout shit is fucking atrocious. It should be illegal. If they put ads in the game from the start, I could just avoid buying it. But since they added in advertising AFTER both the game and expansion were released I can't do shit about it. It's like saying "Hey, remember that game you bought? We want more money for it."
The last thing I want to look at when I play a game is a fucking State Farm advertisement. This is why I stopped watching TV. I play games or watch movies to get away from that shit.
And if that isn't bad enough it adds to the load times. You can see for yourself in this Youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX4f9zts6JM
Even if they removed it from consumer outrage, it still feels like someone is saying "Hey, lets see how much bullshit we can get away with before people stop buying our stuff."
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Is this what SyncToy is for? (i've heard of it, but never used it)
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my company is finally switching over to indesign from QuarkXpress. I'm familiar with the majority of adobe products but have never touched indesign. how similiar is it to QuarkXpress and or other adobe products? thanks in advance
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http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=87390.0
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I'm just reinstalling it and I came across the Morrowind Graphics Extender in my search for mods. Holy shit it looks good, but now I have to buy the GOTY edition from Steam so I can use the latest version :(
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/images/5535-1-1193035109.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhVMqVu0TzE&feature=related
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i played pretty frequently for a decade but then slipped off. just picking up tablature and getting finger stamina back up is tough.
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http://ve3d.ign.com/poll/283/Best-Website
(repost for the nightshift, then this should be enough to win by a landslide)
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http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/08/03/apple-bans-app-stores-3rd-most-prolific-developer/
A Pakistani developer has had his license to publish apps pulled along with all 943 apps that he's released in the last 9 months. The apps didn't duplicate functionality on the iPhone or rape AT&T's network or business model. Most of the apps didn't do much of anything at all except display pictures or news stories that he pulls from random websites and he charges $4.99 for each. Basically, the guy is making shovelware and exploiting quantity and keywords to appear in App Store searches. All of his apps have been individually approved (at a rate of 5 per day). But he hasn't been banned for spamming his apps, there are other developers who have far more apps than this guy. He was banned for plain copyright infringement claims made against at least 100 of his apps, which he offered no comment on.
Now, I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. It's really kind of a gray-area thing. Apple did what was easiest for them to do, which is to remove all of these apps rather than to investigate all of them individually. I imagine that for any individual app that had a copyright claim made against it, Apple would pull that app right away, too. Still, there's an unfairness in Apple's handling of developers when some developers can get 5-10 apps approved per day (even if there's a six week backlog) and others who want to put one out have to wait in line behind them. And then 900 apps get approved bypassing any basic copyright search while others are denied for arbitrary reasons.
In any case, while it's still true that 90% or more of Apple's 50,000 apps are crap, at least now you can say that they're doing something about it.
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Does anyone have a wallpaper quality photos of a beach that they visited, along with any info on reasons that I should go? Bonus points for seclusion and/or if you had a great time there. Hell the pictures could be stolen from someone else, I don't care. I just want something to look at and help me work harder.
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