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Le service de stockage en ligne Windows Live SkyDrive rafraîchit son interface, mais surtout augmente son offre de stockage en ligne gratuite de 5 a 25 Gigas. Il y a de l’activité du côté la division Windows Live de Microsoft depuis quelque temps. Il y a un mois ils ont ouvert un peu plus au grand publique Mesh, leur service de synchronisation entre plusieurs ordinateurs et maintenant c’est au tour de SkyDrive de faire un grand pas en avant.

Cette offre gratuite de SkyDrive viendra sans doute bouleverser l’univers du stockage en ligne. Plusieurs joueurs tels que Box.net ou DropBox tentent difficilement de se tailler une place et voilà que l’annonce d’aujourd’hui de Microsoft vient leur couper l’herbe sous le pied. Bien que SkyDrive offre 25 Gigas d’espace disque, vous ne pouvez pas charger des fichiers qui dépassent 50 Mb. Malgré cette limitation, ce service peut très bien servir d’espace de stockage pour vos photos, documents ou fichiers MP3.

La nouvelle interface de Skydrive est plus intuitive et offre de nombreuses fonctionnalités.  Vous pouvez créer le nombre de dossiers que vous désirez, partager vos fichiers et photos avec un groupe d’invité et ouvrir certains répertoires pour les rendre publiques. Si vous cherchez un endroit gratuit pour stocker vos photos ou encore partager des fichiers et répertoires avec un groupe de travail, Windows Live SkyDrive est sans doute l’une des meilleures solutions actuellement disponibles.
Benoit Descary

Lien: http://skydrive.live.com
Billets relatifs

• Microsoft Windows Live, mise à jour importante annoncée pour 2009
• Microsoft live Mesh pour Mac
• Windows Live SkyDrive vous offre 5 gigas d’espace disque gratuits
• 5 services qui synchroniseront vos fichiers et répertoires d’un ordinateur à l’autre
• Les applications Web tueront-elles Microsoft?

Le service de stockage en ligne Windows Live SkyDrive rafraîchit son interface, mais surtout augmente son offre de stockage en ligne gratuite de 5 a 25 Gigas. Il y a de l’activité du côté la division Windows Live de Microsoft depuis quelque temps. Il y a un mois ils ont ouvert un peu plus au grand publique Mesh, leur service de synchronisation entre plusieurs ordinateurs et maintenant c’est au tour de SkyDrive de faire un grand pas en avant.

Cette offre gratuite de SkyDrive viendra sans doute bouleverser l’univers du stockage en ligne. Plusieurs joueurs tels que Box.net ou DropBox tentent difficilement de se tailler une place et voilà que l’annonce d’aujourd’hui de Microsoft vient leur couper l’herbe sous le pied. Bien que SkyDrive offre 25 Gigas d’espace disque, vous ne pouvez pas charger des fichiers qui dépassent 50 Mb. Malgré cette limitation, ce service peut très bien servir d’espace de stockage pour vos photos, documents ou fichiers MP3.

La nouvelle interface de Skydrive est plus intuitive et offre de nombreuses fonctionnalités.  Vous pouvez créer le nombre de dossiers que vous désirez, partager vos fichiers et photos avec un groupe d’invité et ouvrir certains répertoires pour les rendre publiques. Si vous cherchez un endroit gratuit pour stocker vos photos ou encore partager des fichiers et répertoires avec un groupe de travail, Windows Live SkyDrive est sans doute l’une des meilleures solutions actuellement disponibles.
Benoit Descary

Lien: http://skydrive.live.com
Billets relatifs

• Microsoft Windows Live, mise à jour importante annoncée pour 2009
• Microsoft live Mesh pour Mac
• Windows Live SkyDrive vous offre 5 gigas d’espace disque gratuits
• 5 services qui synchroniseront vos fichiers et répertoires d’un ordinateur à l’autre
• Les applications Web tueront-elles Microsoft?

Le service de stockage en ligne Windows Live SkyDrive rafraîchit son interface, mais surtout augmente son offre de stockage en ligne gratuite de 5 a 25 Gigas. Il y a de l’activité du côté de la division Windows Live de Microsoft depuis quelque temps. Il y a un mois, ils ont ouvert un peu plus au grand public Mesh, leur service de synchronisation entre plusieurs ordinateurs et maintenant, c’est au tour de SkyDrive de faire un grand pas en avant.

Cette offre gratuite de SkyDrive viendra sans doute bouleverser l’univers du stockage en ligne. Plusieurs joueurs tels que Box.net ou DropBox tentent difficilement de se tailler une place et voilà que l’annonce d’aujourd’hui de Microsoft vient leur couper l’herbe sous le pied. Bien que SkyDrive offre 25 Gigas d’espace disque, vous ne pouvez pas charger des fichiers qui dépassent 50 Mb. Malgré cette limitation, ce service peut très bien servir d’espace de stockage pour vos photos, documents ou fichiers MP3.

La nouvelle interface de Skydrive est plus intuitive et offre de nombreuses fonctionnalités.  Vous pouvez créer le nombre de dossiers que vous désirez, partager vos fichiers et photos avec un groupe d’invités et ouvrir certains répertoires pour les rendre publics. Si vous cherchez un endroit gratuit pour stocker vos photos ou encore partager des fichiers et répertoires avec un groupe de travail, Windows Live SkyDrive est sans doute l’une des meilleures solutions actuellement disponible.
Benoit Descary

Lien: http://skydrive.live.com
Billets relatifs

• Microsoft Windows Live, mise à jour importante annoncée pour 2009
• Microsoft live Mesh pour Mac
• Windows Live SkyDrive vous offre 5 gigas d’espace disque gratuits
• 5 services qui synchroniseront vos fichiers et répertoires d’un ordinateur à l’autre
• Les applications Web tueront-elles Microsoft?

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Comme tous les autres constructeurs Thermaltake fait dans le boitier Gamer. Pour les petits budgets il y a le M9, et pour ceux qui peuvent se le permettre il y a le SPEDO. Les recettes sont les mêmes que chez la concurrence, avec un style sobre mais légèrement agressif, de l'acier, du Métal Mesh et une ventilation capable de refroidir toutes les configurations.

Panzi wrote two texture nodes that were recently committed to the Blender svn repository. He demonstrates their use by creating procedural terrains. Nifty stuff. Panzi wrote: Recently I wrote two tiny texture nodes. They don't do much, just exposing the coordinates (x,y,z) to the node system and a node that calculates the distance between two coordinates (vectors). [...]

pI#8217;m getting married in a few weeks, and one of the final tasks was to make some favors for the guests. a href="http://heather.unwashedmeme.com/blog/"Heather /a and I decided on coffee mugs with a cute logo. We quickly came up with the concept of a heart with gears inside, as we#8217;re having a steampunk/victorian themed wedding.  After one very frustrating evening with the gimp (which ended in a crash before I saved the file), I decided attempt two would be procedural, so I fired up my trusty REPL and a href="http://www.xach.com/lisp/vecto/"vecto/a:/p div id="attachment_107" class="wp-caption alignnone"a href="http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/heart_10.png"img class="size-medium wp-image-107" title="heart_10" src="http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/heart_10-266x300.png" alt="final version" width="266" height="300" //ap class="wp-caption-text"final version/p/div pI seriously considered how to calculate the gear size, teeth, and rotation so they mesh perfectly, then gave up and specified them manually via guess-and-check.  The code is at a href="http://paste.lisp.org/display/71465"http://paste.lisp.org/display/71465/a./p pI was pretty happy, it ended up being one evening of hacking, with much of that taken rendering test images to get gear placement, rotation, and teeth correct.  I was able to get everything drawing in terms of one variable *r*, so I could scale the size of everything simply.  In retrospect, that could probably have been done just as easily using a href="http://www.xach.com/lisp/vecto/#scale"vecto:scale/a.  I used a href="http://www.xach.com/lisp/vecto/#with-graphics-state"vecto:with-graphics-state/a more than I have before, and that made the drawing operations very straightforward./p pI got a little optimistic with the gear-internal generic method, I thought to make many different styles for the inside of the gear, but ended up with only solid and spoked varieties, so had only one specialization for the generic method./p pThe internal shape of the gear (the number of spokes, or if it#8217;s solid) was determined randomly, and I wrote a quick make-samples function to generate a batch of images.  Then I reviewed those with the fiancee to find a random arrangement we liked./p pTo pick a suitable font I found all the .ttf files on my computer, then looped through those to make a test logo for each font (the test-font function).  This proved pointless, as Heather knows her fonts and picked one from memory while I was scrolling through hundreds of png files./p pThe logo is off at the mug printers, and I should be getting a test mug in the mail this week.  Hopefully it will work out and I can offer a href="http://lispers.org/"secret alien technology/a to all my wedding guests./p

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"Blockbuster Inc. caught up to the competition last week by introducing a set-top box that brings rentals from the Internet to the television. Now, the Dallas-based company hopes to pass the pack by teaming with Microsoft Corp. on new mobile services that will let customers watch even more movies on more devices. 'Eventually, we'll give customers instant access to any movie on any device with an Internet connection and a screen,' said Keith Morrow, Blockbuster's chief information officer."

I really love Netflix and their Watch Now service but the truth is their selection is pretty slim pickings. Out of the 400 DVD's in my Netflix queue, only 9 of them are available as Watch Now titles. Out of all of those 9 movies, I cannot play any of them on my Windows Mobile devices or any other mobile device I own. It will be very interesting to see how Blockbuster is able to pull this off, especially since they mention the ability to stream any movie on any device. Now the real question is does any movie count as any movie they carry in their stores and online service or will this be like Netflix where it is any movie they will have in their handful of movies that are able to stream. Only time will tell. It is nice however to see big name companies already utilizing the new Live Mesh platform.

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Last week, I dropped by the PlayStation.Blog to find out what you wanted to know about Ubisoft’s new release, Prince of Persia. And to my excitement, there were well over a hundred questions about the first Prince of Persia game on the PS3. I took the time to answer some of the most interesting questions regarding everything from combat to the game’s new art style. Thanks for your support, and don’t forget that Prince of Persia is available today!
Charliesdad asked: Wondering how you addressed the balance issues from earlier entries in the series. For example, Sands of Time was amazing, but going back to it recently the combat wore thin after a while (especially in the first big group fight) to be followed by long stretches of almost no combat. Does the new game fall on one side or the other or is there a middle ground that you all shot for and hit? And Demo tomorrow? Maybe?

• First, one of our main goals in combat was to make every fight grandiose and meaningful, to make every encounter feel more epic. Thus, we decided to make the new combat system a duel mode in which every enemy has special attributes, a unique personality, cool moves, and his strengths and weaknesses. Having one enemy to fight at one time gave us much more possibility to push this encounter to the limit. Every enemy is as strong as the Prince and will seize his chance to use the environment, his corrupted abilities to counter every mistake the player makes. Every enemy has a background and their own personal objectives that will help push the story forward. Also, there are multiple combat moves and these will take some time to figure them all out and access the most spectacular combos. Using your glove, Elika, your sword and acrobatics, players will be able to combine those to create some breathtaking moves. This new combat system is not meant to be button mashed, but instead requires timing, strategy and the right combo depending on the situation. Also, many quick real-time mini-games where the player has a little fraction of time to react will keep the tension high. The battle system uses some dramatic camera shots that make every fight feel even more epic. Battles will take place usually before saving a fertile ground and pushing away the Corruption. There are different challenges before healing a fertile ground, one might be an acrobatic challenge, a puzzle, a fight and a lot of them are mixes of them all.
  Sorry, there are no demo plans at this time.

KingBroly asked: What’s the framerate like on the PS3 version? I’ve heard this game employs the same engine as Assassin’s Creed, and the framerate on the PS3 version of that…not so good.

• Fluidity of control and animation quality are hallmarks of Prince Of Persia games. We would never ship a POP title unless we were confident the player could fully appreciate the movement of the Prince in acrobatics and combat and – simply put – framerate hiccups get in the way of that. They break the </p> We have some of the most talented PS3 engineers at Ubisoft working for us on POP (and Ubisoft has now made quite a few PS3 titles) and I can assure you the performance on the PS3 is the same as the 360 – a solid 30fps throughout the game.

narde15 asked: are their any trophies?

• POP does indeed ship with trophies from day one.

FeaturePreacher asked: Will the prince be able to use different weapons besides the sword that is seen in gameplay videos?
AND
Will the prince be able to level up his combat abilities? I hope the prince has a long list of combat combinations. Does he?

• We want the player to feel like the Prince is an adventurer with a lot of experience already – he is an acrobatic warrior who has already been through and seen a lot. As such it made sense to us that he start out this adventure with all his abilities unlocked. Elika, on the other hand, evolves in her abilities as the game progresses, unlocking new magical abilities. What is important to us is that the player still feels a sense of progression and development because the « duo » of the Prince and Elika are certainly evolving as you play.
  Finally, simply because the Prince has access to all of his abilities from the beginning of the game, doesn’t mean the players will know how to use them all. If it is your first time playing POP, don’t expect to be able to pull off the 14 hit combos and complete long uninterrupted strings of acrobatics without pausing - you’ll evolve towards that in time as you get more comfortable with the game systems.

SantanaClaus89 asked: Ever since The Sands of Time this series has been in a downward spiral. What if anything has been done to take the series ”back to its roots” so to speak?

• In POP Sands of Time trilogy, the innovation was the Sands of Time. We felt the need to find a new innovation for this new chapter:
  • Open-ended structure
  • New combat system
  • New artistic direction
  • Role of the secondary character, Elika
  But you can also rest assured we’ve also kept the core fundamentals of what made the Sands of Time trilogy great.
  • The balanced mix of acrobatics and combat
  • Excellent visuals
  • Highly detailed character and story
  • Highly responsive controls
  • 1001 night’s universe / fantasy elements
  As you read this some reviews will have already hit online (IGN scored PoP 9.3, for example). One of the best compliments that any reviewer has given us so far is that we’ve recaptured the magic and mystery that made the original Sands Of Time so great.

narde15 asked: are you working on a prince of persia, playstation home space? will you consider one in the future?

• We are not currently working on a Prince of Persia home space but we might consider it for future games.

DeforMAKulizer asked: What made you guys ditch the realistic style followed in AC and trying out for the new water color style? And which game was hard to code for… AC with its realistic graphics? Or maintaining the water color feel in PoP?
Thanks! Can’t wait to go back to the PoP series =D

• We wanted to embrace the fantasy nature that defines every Prince of Persia game. The ‘Photorealistic’ artistic direction that is seen in so many games right now did not fit in well with the magical world we were exploring with this game. We wanted to try something new and the ”Illustrative” art style really represents our vision in this game – to make it feel like a storybook.

chaosatom333 asked: I am disappointed that U guys didn’t include any time-shifting powers.
They were awesome. Why did u guys do that?

• That mechanic started to feel old to us – it had been copied in many other games and had lost some of its uniqueness. Elika is our new sands of time and I think she more than makes up for their absence.

chaosatom333 asked: How long in production have u guys been?

• Three years, start to finish.

chaosatom333 asked: How long is the game relatively speaking? like 12-16 or less. Something like that. How much platforming is there? The more the better imo.
Fights are nice too.

• An average player will probably take around 12-15 hours to finish the game if they do the bare minimum needed to complete it. If you take the time to learn all of the backstory of the characters (through our ODD system) and collect all of the lightseeds (to get all of the trophies) I think you can certainly expect more in the range of 18-20 hours.
  In terms of the breakdown between acrobatics and combat, it is hard to say for sure due to the open structure of our world. Certainly, though, there is the potential for you to spend a lot more of your time doing acrobatics then combat.

narde15 asked: how big is the world of prince of persia? will their be side quests?

• It’s quite big. It will take you some time to travel from one end to another. Also, It depends of the path you take to make your way around. Additionally our world features a lot of vertical gameplay, taking you up to some dizzying heights to survey the world down below you as you progress through your quest. The size and height of our world certainly gives it a massive sense of scope.

Munkeh111 asked: What percentage of the game is combat? I am hoping for a high percentage of platforming!

• It’s hard to say for the exact percentage but you will spend more time platforming than fighting that’s for sure. Collecting all the light seeds will definitely make you spend hours exploring the world, platforming and using your head to figure out how to get to that light seed! There are many combats as well.

lifeRPGs asked: What are Ubisoft’s plans for the after-PoP?

• I’d be drawn and quartered if I gave away those secrets. Just a few days ago I saw an advanced prototype of an incredibly top-secret game and was floored with how cool it looked and felt. While I watched it being demoed I was furiously taking notes for ideas to draw inspiration from on my next game.

CrimsonFox13 asked: Beautiful art style. I’ve never played a Prince Of Persia game before, although I’ve always been interested. The beauty of this game captivated me. The game reminds me of Team ICO games. There’s a beautiful landscape with platforming involved, like the Team ICO games, and you’re traveling with a woman, just like in ICO. Did you draw any inspiration from either or both of the Team ICO games?

• Team ICO is definitely an inspiration for us and both Shadow Of The Colossus as well as ICO were games we played extensively during the development of POP. Team ICO consistently proves that videogames can be so much more then ”just” a form of entertainment – they can enlighten, teach, and make us feel. I welcome any and all comparisons to the incredible development talent of that studio.
  It was very important to us, though, that our game be incredible accessible and action packed, too. We were not creating a game just for those players who like ”art” in their games. We have spectacular acrobatics, incredible combat and a rich story. In many ways we consider games like Burnout influential as well in their immediate accessibility – you pick up the controller, press a few buttons, and right away spectacularly rewarding things occur. This was very important to us in the development of POP.

farmer_steve asked: For somebody who has never played a Prince of Persia game, how would you explain the experience? And what do you think is the main draw to it?

• The first Prince of Persia game was created in the late 80s by Jordan Mechner and has become one of gaming’s most well-known franchises. Prince of Persia is a game with a balanced mix of acrobatics, combat and puzzle solving set in a fantastic Persian world where you control The Prince, the most agile warrior of all time as he Runs, Jumps, Flips and Fights his way towards saving the world. All the games are inspired by the 1001 night’s universe and feature an epic storyline with strong character development.

luckettx asked: How many language tracks have been recorded for the Blu Ray release of this game in Europe?

• English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. There are other localized versions (one Dutch, another Polish, another Russian) but the main version will have those five languages on it.

Yuriki93 asked: Does this game have anything story-related to the previous games?

• No, nothing that will affect the main narrative. We put in a few tongue and cheek references (hint: pay attention to the ODD system) but just as a ‘nod and a wink’ to the hardcore fans. We are telling a new story within the ”Book” of Prince of Persia.

SomethingClever asked: From where did you draw inspiration from (games or other) in this iteration of PoP Some of the big reactions to date have been about the voice of the Prince. What led your team to choose such an American sounding voice actor, and was there any concern over people associating that voice to Nathan Drake?

• The choice of Nolan North (Nathan Drake) as the voice of the Prince is entirely intentional. When we were designing the character of The Prince and trying to identify his personality, the two characters we returned to most often were Han Solo and Indiana Jones. Both, of course, played by Harrison Ford. Nolan North showed in his characterization of Nathan Drake an uncanny resemblance to Indiana Jones both in terms of tone and delivery. We thought it particularly appropriate given the heavy influence of these characters in the writing of The Prince that the voice actor we use be one who manages to capture the essence of the influencing characters deeply.

zombiefriend asked: oh also i just remembered is PoP going to have subtitles? i rly hope so b/c i have hearing loss and i wasnt able to fully appreciate ACs story like i wanted to

• Prince Of Persia, like all Ubisoft games now, is subtitled in all languages.

PlasmaGlory asked: I know that your philosophy with Elika was to make someone that would never hold you back, so what’s to stop someone from just hiding in a corner and mashing the ”Elika Button”?

• It wouldn’t help much to just tap the Elika button in a corner. The game requires you to use all of the Prince’s abilities combined with Elika in order to be effective. Whenever you need Elika’s Help, she is there to do so, but only if you are doing something as well (ie: fighting, in the middle of a jump, etc).
  Standing in a corner and mashing the Elika button will just summons a compass power over and over again – not much help in defeating the guardians of Ahriman.

jazzyrider asked: what additional items are packaged with the limited edition versus the normal package?

• Collectible Limited Edition packaging
• An exclusive look at the making of Prince of Persia
• A Prima digital mini-strategy guide full of developer’s secrets
• A digital art book
• The original soundtrack scored by master composer Inon Zur

sainraja asked: I am looking forward to this but how similar is this to Sands of Time?
Sands of Time was magical! I loved every minute of it. I thought the story was put together very well. It was the Uncharted of last generation! I can’t to try this out but I am hoping it will give me the same feeling that Sands of Time did.

• We consider POP to be the spiritual successor of Sands Of Time. We invested a lot of time and energy into trying to ensure that the sense of magic, wonder and mystery that was so special and unique in SOT was reproduced in this new POP adventure while still bringing some strong visual and gameplay innovations to the series.
  In terms of your passion for Uncharted, let me simply say I share your enthusiasm. Uncharted for me was an incredible game because it was so much more than the sum of its parts. I have a hard time putting my finger on the one feature of Uncharted that stood out as my favorite while I was playing, but as soon as I finished I wanted to start over from the beginning and play through again. It is easily one of my favorite PS3 games to date.

Dark_Vincent asked: Will there be different difficulty levels?

• The game has just one difficulty level, but the challenge certainly progresses as you play and (hopefully) get more comfortable with the mechanics. New traps are released, more corruption infects the world, and the enemies unlock new abilities and combos.

TripOpt55 asked: Hey, I can’t wait for this game. Here’s my questions: Does the game autosave (or how does it save)? Can you create multiple save files?

• POP features a ‘save anywhere’ system. No matter what you are doing, you can create a save (new save or overwrite – there is space for 10 save game slots). We don’t save the exact location, though (ie: if you are in the middle of the air and save, when you load you won’t fall to your death) but rather the last stable platform you were on. Don’t worry, though, these are never very far apart.

Zankantou asked: What motivated your team to take the franchise into a radically new direction artistically?
How did you guys come to the conclusion that this new installment should be not, or loosely, related to the previous trilogy in the last generation of consoles?
Is your team considering using this new artistic engine for future games as well?

• In terms of the art direction, we wanted to do something new, something unique. Most of our favorite games – the ones that stand out in our minds years after playing them – had unique visual styles that did not try to emulate reality. Additionally, as I said above, we felt a more fantastic artistic direction would mesh well with our fantasy universe and story. Finally, we wanted to take the incredible concept art and illustrations that our teams created as reference material and do them justice by creating the tools and technology needed to make our game look like the illustrations – a highly detailed painting brought to life.
  In terms of why we left behind the old trilogy, we felt the story of the Sands Of Time had been told and it was time to move on. We had never planned to continue to tell the story of the Sands of Time Prince forever, and the universe of Prince of Persia has so much potential for other themes to explore. By creating a new Prince, on a new adventure, we’ve added a wealth of material to the Prince of Persia universe to potentially explore in future games.
  
  Finally, I believe very strongly in the artistic choices we took for POP and sincerely hope that this Illustrative style is used again at Ubisoft moving forward. Of course I don’t have any specific details, but I think it safe to say that the response has been positive enough that we’ll likely be returning to this stylistic choice in the future.

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Jonathan Williamson has published a tutorial on Blender#039;s retopo tool on Blender. From the Blender wiki: #034;Retopo (remake topology) is a tool for remaking the topology of a mesh. It#039;s...br/ br/ [read the full article on blendernation.com]img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Blendernation/~4/472668513" height="1" width="1"/

Jonathan Williamson has published a tutorial on Blender's retopo tool on Blender. From the Blender wiki: "Retopo (remake topology) is a tool for remaking the topology of a mesh. It's the opposite of the sculpting tools: instead of reshaping the model but leaving the topology the same, it reforms the topology, but maintains the same shape [...]

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Can you do this, Netflix, hmm? Blockbuster wants to bring its rival streaming movie service to your phone via Microsoft's Live Mesh platform. The Dallas Morning News is reporting that Blockbuster...