July 2006
11 posts
BF 2142 Interview with Colin Clarke
Colin Clarke Interview - Battlefield 2142 - BF2142.com - BF2142 Forums - Battlefield 2142 Forums - The ultimate resource for all things BF2142: “So far I am wholly stunned by the progress in 2142. It’s an amazing game and it’s not even finished. I know that sounds like a cheesey marketing pitch but its the honest truth. This game kicks ass.”
Youth Crime In America DECLINING: Video Games To...
“An 11 year decline in youth violence has led the U.S. Department of Justice to proclaim, “the offending rates for 14-17 year olds reached the lowest levels ever recorded.” The lowest levels ever recorded. In other words, the PlayStation era has, in fact, produced the most non-violent kids ever. From October 2005, but it needs repeating.”
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Wii Wins Against PS3 in Japanese Polls
“In the latest issue of its Otona Fami (the casual version of the Weekly Famitsu), Enterbrain has made a study on the approaching launch of the Wii and the PS3, with Nintendo’s machine winning over gamers, retailers and developers.” There is even a poll with women’s opinions.”
Here are the findings:
Gamers:
73.6%: Wii
16.7%: PS3
9.7%: neither
Retailers:
65.9%:...
Watch internet users’ behaviour with ClickTale
TechCrunch � Blog Archive � Watch internet users’ behaviour with ClickTale
A month after I presented my capstone project on capturing and analyzing mouse activity of users interacting with websites, TechCrunch has this article about a company called ClickTale who is doing just this. The features are not yet absolutely clear, but it appears they are offering recordings and playback of individual...
Insecure by design
Insecure by design | Free Software Magazine: “CALEA (Computer Assistance Law Enforcement) is quietly in the background of current news again, because the FBI is pushing congress to mandate that all future routing equipment manufactured will include back doors for law enforcement. Like in CALEA mandates for telephone switching equipment, such back doors require no warrant to activate, and...
Ethanol blues
In this smartmoney.com article, the author discusses ethanol in the end. It has some interesting points about how once the ethanol supply reaches it’s max, it won’t be able to replace even a percentage of all the gas America uses. Once this happens, it won’t be competatively priced against gasoline. In addition, even though it burns cleaner, the milage is worse.
What Gas...
How Washington will shape the Internet and Digital...
How Washington will shape the Internet - The Practical Futurist - MSNBC.com: “The most potent force shaping the future of the Internet is neither Mountain View’s Googleplex nor the Microsoft campus in Redmond. It’s rather a small army of Gucci-shod lobbyists on Washington’s K Street and the powerful legislators whose favor they curry.”
The government should stay away from the...
CONFIRMED: Free Game With Wii
We called three Toys’R’Us stores in Australia and all reported the same thing. They are now taking pre-orders for the Wii at US$249, and that will include an unspecified free game! Could Nintendo be including Wii Sports as so many have speculated? At least we now know a free game is included in the package - the question is, which one will it be?
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Wal-Mart asked Al Gore to speak to its executives
What is he going to tell them? “How about not being a giant corporation that rapes whatever small town you set up shop in?”
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Microsoft will buy you music to use their...
So Microsoft is coming out with their own “ipod-killer” which will have a larger screen than the ipod video and they will GIVE you whatever music you’ve bought on iTunes for free on their network.
Sounds like something worth checking out.
Microsoft planning WiFi-enabled portable media player, working on MVNO for next year - Engadget: “But it gets better. To attract...
Early Launch for Nintendo Wii?
Nintendo Wii due for early launch? - Engadget: “CNNMoney.com’s Chris Morris, who cites P.J. McNealy and other unnamed ‘industry insiders’ that the Nintendo Wii is due for October, with a slight chance of late September if the cards are right. This would contrast it to the November 17 PS3 launch, and Microsoft’s November 22 last year, and give Nintendo a bit of a head...