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In a demo of its upcoming
streaming service, OnLive president and CEO Steve
Perlman confirmed something long suspected -- players will not be able to adjust graphics settings.
"We don't want somebody going and changing the settings to something different for what the game is
optimized for," he told Joystiq in an interview during the 2010 Game Developers Conference. "We'll go and scale or
adjust or do whatever changes we need to make in order to make it work."
Perlman also demoed an OnLive "cloud gaming" feature which will allow players to "suspend" action
at any time retrieve the session later through any OnLive source (PC, Mac or on TV). "This is also
good if something happens to your connection," Perlman said. "Take as long as you want to resume.
So, literally, you can pause a game with OnLive, quit -- suppose you're on your TV -- and then
later on in the office a few days later, resume. And it will pick up where it left off."
According to Perlman, OnLive's lowest end server resource offers twice the GPU performance of the
Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The service also has the ability to "virtualize" servers, allowing
multiple players per server or creating dedicated servers for players for high-end games. "We can
also go and, in principal, tie together multiple servers so you can get something like an SLI type
of experience," Perlman concluded.
OnLive will launch this summer
with various pricing and
service models, which Perlman says may change as "statistics of usage" data is examined and the
company learns what levels "peak loads" reach.
In a demo of its upcoming
streaming service, OnLive president and CEO Steve
Perlman confirmed something long suspected -- players will not be able to adjust graphics settings.
"We don't want somebody going and changing the settings to something different for what the game is
optimized for," he told Joystiq in an interview during the 2010 Game Developers Conference. "We'll go and scale or
adjust or do whatever changes we need to make in order to make it work."
Perlman also demoed an OnLive "cloud gaming" feature which will allow players to "suspend" action
at any time retrieve the session later through any OnLive source (PC, Mac or on TV). "This is also
good if something happens to your connection," Perlman said. "Take as long as you want to resume.
So, literally, you can pause a game with OnLive, quit -- suppose you're on your TV -- and then
later on in the office a few days later, resume. And it will pick up where it left off."
According to Perlman, OnLive's lowest end server resource offers twice the GPU performance of the
Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The service also has the ability to "virtualize" servers, allowing
multiple players per server or creating dedicated servers for players for high-end games. "We can
also go and, in principal, tie together multiple servers so you can get something like an SLI type
of experience," Perlman concluded.
OnLive will launch this summer
with various pricing and
service models, which Perlman says may change as "statistics of usage" data is examined and the
company learns what levels "peak loads" reach.
In-store only, Office Depot offers the RS To-Go Height-Adjustable Mobile Laptop Cart in
Black/Silver, model no. SC-860, for $19.99. (You can't order online, but you can check for stock
at your local store.) That's $7 under our mention from last May and the...
President Obama 'outraged' as drug violence claims three workers with connections to US consulate
There was growing pressure on the Mexican government today to prove that it has not completely
lost control of the drug wars raging around the country, after three people associated with the
US consulate in the border city of Ciudad Juárez were murdered.
A White House statement said Barack Obama was "outraged" by the murders, which took place in two
separate incidents on Saturday afternoon.
A pregnant consulate worker, Leslie Enriquez, and her husband, Arthur Redelfs, were shot in their
car after leaving a children's birthday party at a colleague's house. Their seven-month-old baby
was found unharmed in the back seat.
Almost simultaneously, assassins in a different part of the city killed Jorge Alberto Salcido,
the Mexican husband of another consular employee who was driving away from the same event. His
two children, aged four and seven, were recovering from gunshot wounds in hospital.
An army and police spokesman, Enrique Torres, said both murders took place after a brief car
chase involving at least one vehicle with several gunmen inside. "They were not caught in
crossfire," he said. "They were targeted, although we don't know why."
Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón, promised his "unbreakable commitment to resolve these
grave crimes".
The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, said the killings reinforced the need to work with
the Mexican government "to cripple the influence of trafficking organisations at work in Mexico".
An estimated 19,000 people have died in drug-related violence since Calderón sent in tens
of thousands of troops to crack down on the cartels' inter-gang warfare three years ago. Very few
of the murders have been resolved.
Juárez, just over the border from El Paso in Texas, suffered about 2,500 murders last year
alone. The local cartel is trying to fend off incursion into its territory by the Sinaloa cartel,
headed by trafficker Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
At street level, the war involves different local youth gangs associated with the different
cartels, but the violence has been increasingly affecting people outside the gangs.
President Calderón was due to visit the city tomorrow as part of a drive to respond to
growing anger there at the government's inability to control the killing and provide some hope to
a community living in terror.
Fury boiled over after he initially dismissed 16 victims of a massacre at a teenager's party in
January as gang members. There is no evidence to suggest they were anything other than ordinary
school students trying to have a good time in a besieged city.
Saturday's murders were not the first time US citizens have been caught up in the violence, but
the victims' links to the consulate and the timing raises the possibility that the gunmen may
have been specifically targeting US officials.
The US state department has announced that consular workers will be allowed to evacuate their
families across the border.
A statement from the Mexican police indicated that the first line of investigation in Saturday's
murders pointed to a street gang called the Aztecas, which is linked to the Juaréz cartel.
It did not give any more information and the US embassy in Mexico was unavailable for comment.
Local media reported today that FBI agents were in Juaréz investigating the case.
It was not immediately clear how the murders might affect US support of the Mexican government's
offensive, that began under President George W Bush and increased after Obama took office.
Obama has called Calderón "a hero" for taking on the cartels.
Recently, however, there are suggestions that the US authorities are working behind the scenes to
encourage Calderón to alter the emphasis of his strategy away from the overriding military
focus that does not seem to be working.
This has been nowhere more intense than in Juaréz itself, where the number of soldiers
patrolling the city reached 8,000 in 2009. The numbers were reduced earlier this year in a move
described by the US ambassador, Carlos Pascual, as "intelligent". There are currently 5,000
soldiers and 2,600 federal police in the city.
Nigerian
officials have said that at least two bombings struck a government office building in the African
nation on Monday, after a rebel group warned that it had placed explosives around the perimeter.
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Window on Eurasiareports:
“The Internet petition campaign launched last week calling for the Vladimir Putin’s
departure from office not only has already collected some 7500 signatories but nearly 80 percent
of these have given their names, their professions and their place of residence, thus opening a
window onto the attitudes of various Russian groups toward the powers that be.”
The unprecedented box office returns for Avatar and Alice inWonderland prove that the public has a
strong appetite for immersiveviewing. The only remaining question is whether —
given thespecialized glasses and occasional bouts of vertigo that come with it—
they want 3D in their homes.
TubeMogul announced today that it has
built an ad network on top of its distribution and analytics platform, extending its
capabilities to help advertisers better target their video ads to users while also increasing
visibility into how those ads perform. But the big revelation might be that the ad network, which
has just been operating in beta trials over the past year, is already bringing in more revenues
than TubeMogul’s analytics business.
TubeMoguls’ Play Time ad network gives advertisers a level of transparency and data that
most other ad networks don’t provide. While advertisers are given lists of participating
publishers that their campaigns might have run on, in most cases they don’t get very
detailed analysis of where their ads appeared or how well they performed. It tells advertisers
where on a publisher’s page a video ran, whether it was click-to-play or auto-play, and
gives them detailed information about how long an ad played before a viewer clicked away.
TubeMogul has opened an office in New York and hired a couple of media buyers, and has spent the
past year testing the platform with more than 100 campaigns from advertisers like 20th Century
Fox, Coke, Nestle and Kmart. To extend its reach, the company has been buying inventory on
Facebook and other top sites, and it is using its analytics platform to target ads to users that
are most likely to view them. By doing so, TubeMogul CEO Brett Wilson says the company has seen
click-through rates up 200 to 400 percent above average video ads, with viewing times up some 30
percent.
So far the program has been extremely successful. Despite being in testing, the Play Time ad
network already racks up more in revenues than its traditional analytics business. But the
company has plans to increase those revenues even further, by making its network an open platform
for media buyers, while also extending its tools out to its publisher partners. By extending the
Play Time network out as a self-serve platform, advertisers will be able to manage campaigns on
their own without TubeMogul’s help, which should help increase the volume of ads that can
be delivered through the network.
Just as importantly, the company has plans to make its ad targeting tools available to
publishers, allowing them to improve CPMs and engagement times of the ads that appear on their
pages. “All of the same technology that we use for ourselves is going to be available for
our publishing partners. We will be giving our publishers the same audience segments and
targeting information back to them to help them increase their own play time,” Wilson said.
Just think of all the fun you could have if the iPhone could interact with RFID tags. But you
don’t have to wait for Apple for iPhone version 7 for this feature. Nope. You can build
your own iPhone compatible RFID reader right now.
Maybe not right now. First you probably have to get through your day at the office and make your
way home only to spend a few mundane hours with the family. But maybe in the 35 minutes you have
after your last kid goes to bed and the nightly news starts, you could assemble this project.
Last year LANVA reported the IP-addresses of 106 users of the country’s largest BitTorrent
site to the police. The anti-piracy group claimed that the site’s users were sharing a copy
of the Windows 7 Ultimate operating system and took action on behalf of Microsoft without
notifying the software company.
The self-proclaimed investigators evidence consisted of a screenshot of peers as listed by
uTorrent. The evidence was gathered in conjunction with a local police officer, but none of the
parties involved was authorized to conduct an investigation of this kind.
LANVA nevertheless took one of the 106 users to court, hoping to set a favorable precedent that
would allow them to go after other alleged copyright infringers. The case went before the courts
and the verdict handed down today was not the one the anti-piracy outfit had hoped for.
Citing faulty evidence, the District Court judge
closed the case and fully acquitted the sole defendant Sergej Bernotas. The judge stated that
LANVA had no right to collect and use the information they gathered. In addition, the judge ruled
that such evidence gathering techniques have to be approved before they can be used.
Sergej Bernotas Came Out As a Winner
For now, uTorrent and for that matter all other BitTorrent clients remain uncertified as proper
evidence collection tools. To be used as such, the developers would also have to give their
approval, something that obviously didn’t happen in this case.
At the court hearing it also became clear that the police officer involved had no IT experience
and simply carried out what LANVA told him to. When the policeman was asked what tools he used to
gather evidence he replied “a computer” resulting in laughs from the audience.
Aside from the action against several LinkoManija users, the alleged operator of the site is also
facing
legal action from LANVA and Microsoft. In January software giant Microsoft sued the alleged
operator, demanding $43 million from the defendant and his company for assisting in the illegal
distribution of Office 2003 and 2007.
The case against the operator is still ongoing, but today’s ruling makes it unlikely that
LANVA will be successful in pursuing the site’s users. The anti-piracy outfit does have the
option to appeal, but if they do the case won’t be heard before the coming winter.
Jeffrey Katzenberg was right: 3D is the
future of movies. USA Today interviewed Avatar director James Cameron about this new era of
filmmaking, and the director revealed plans to bring a certain unsinkable hit back to theaters in
2012, this time in 3D: Titanic.
Because of the success of Avatar — and now
Alice in
Wonderland — studios are scrambling to release as many big titles in 3D as
possible. Thanks to computer technology, 3D effects can be added to films shot without the use of
3D-specific cameras like Cameron used for Avatar. This includes Warner Bros.’s
upcoming Clash of the Titans, a film that was not shot in 3D, but is being converted to
3D over an eight-week period in hopes of capturing more attention (and higher ticket sales) at
the box office.
While Cameron was critical of how little time some of these conversions were taking, he
wasn’t opposed to the idea that old titles be converted — as long as the original
director is the one who oversees the process.
From the interview:
“They’re converting Clash of the Titans in eight weeks. But I’m
guessing six months to a year to do it right. We’re targeting spring of 2012 for the
release (of a 3D version of Titanic), which is the 100 year anniversary of the sailing
of the ship.”
Titanic, for its time, was actually a quite technically advanced film. Many of the
interior and exterior shots were completely computer-generated, as was much of the water in the
film. That offers up some better options when re-processing the film for 3D because artists are
working with digital imagery — not to mention the improvements in visual effects and CGI
that have taken place in the ensuing 13 years.
Cameron also discusses 3D television sets and plans
for Avatar in Blu-ray and in 3D.
What do you think about technology retrofitting classic films into 3D — or 2.8D as Cameron
calls it? Let us know!
Irrespective of
whether you exercise vigorously, sitting for long periods is bad for you. 'Your chair is your
enemy. It doesn't matter if you go running every morning, or you're a regular at the gym. If you
spend most of the rest of the day sitting — in your car, your office chair, on your sofa at
home — you are putting yourself at increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, a
variety of cancers and an early death.' 'Several strands of evidence suggest that there's a
"physiology of inactivity": that when you spend long periods sitting, your body actually does
things that are bad for you.' This is not exactly
[warning: video] new or
controversial research.
» Why Wikipedia should be trusted as a breaking news source, even
though anyone can edit it. [ReadWriteWeb]
» Facebook announces plans to open an office in Hyderabad, India.
[Facebook blog]
» Disney (NYSE: DIS) will phase out Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers Digital studio (most
recently, of A Christmas Carol fame) over the year until it closes next January.
[LATimes.com]
» China says Google’s partners must comply with their
censorship laws, even if Google (NSDQ: GOOG) doesn’t do so. [NYTimes.com]
» Facebook is the most popular U.S. site, surpassing even Google,
says Hitwise. [TechCrunch]
» Why Wikipedia should be trusted as a breaking news source, even
though anyone can edit it. [ReadWriteWeb]
» Facebook announces plans to open an office in Hyderabad, India.
[Facebook blog]
» Disney (NYSE: DIS) will phase out Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers Digital studio (most
recently, of A Christmas Carol fame) over the year until it closes next January.
[LATimes.com]
» China says Google’s partners must comply with their
censorship laws, even if Google (NSDQ: GOOG) doesn’t do so. [NYTimes.com]
» Facebook is the most popular U.S. site, surpassing even Google,
says Hitwise. [TechCrunch]
In the world outside Yahoo's
office park headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, there is a general consensus that Yahoo (YHOO)
CEO Carol Bartz's days at the top of the company are numbered.
[Not a Lisp job, but supporting a major Lisp provider]
Franz Inc. is the provider of Allegro Common Lisp and associated
products. Â We are looking for a qualified applicant to help with the
following responsibilities:
* IT administration and maintenance of internal computer systems.
Possible tasks could include:
- hardware and software upgrades of Linux or Windows servers
- hardware and (system) software troubleshooting
- virtualization of existing servers
- network management
- attending to backups
Experience in the following areas would therefore be valuable:
* Linux installation and administration – shell scripting, perl, NFS,
autofs, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, Samba, iptables, RAID and LVM.
* Windows (2000 and later).
* Mac OS X experience is a plus.
This is a part-time position. Â Ideally, it would be 20 hours per week
spread over 3 days (M-F). Â This position is office-based and not
eligible for telecommuting.
If you feel you are a good match for the above, please send a letter
of interest and your resume to hrbox at franz dot com. Â EOE.
Apparently there was some sort of media summit in
Abu Dhabi recently, and a big topic of discussion was copyright infringement. (I think we need to
reserve the word “piracy” for actual, sea-faring piracy, not kids grabbing the random
Sublime song off LimeWire.) Rupert Murdoch called on governments to stop copyright infringers,
asking them to punish them as they would shoplifters. I guess Murdoch doesn’t understand
the different between theft and copyright infringement. And Ari Emmanuel, Rahm Emmanuel’s brother (and the
inspiration for the Entourage character Ari), has been lobbying President
Obama to implement some sort of three-strikes policy, like they have in France.
France!
A couple things: one, I’m pretty sure President Obama is a little busy trying to get some
sort of healthcare law passed; the concerns of Hollywood bigshots aren’t exactly on his
radar right now. Two, we’re beginning to enter the next election cycle, so Congress is
going to be on its tippy toes trying not to offend anybody or do much of
anything. It’s sorta like laying low come 3pm Friday, so your boss doesn’t
saddle you with a last-minute assignment that’ll keep you at the office one longer that you
need to be. Congress is busy doing nothing, in other words.
As for Murdoch: whatever, dude. I think my government has more important things to do than track
down high schoolers who download an episode of 24. At least I hope it does!
You may
think that, being born into this world, Tomonobu Itagaki escaped the womb wearing a pair
of sunglasses and one bitchin' leather jacket -- and you may well be right. Back then, medical
records simply did not document such phenomena. Also, if the records did, we wouldn't know because
we can't read Japanese. Let's just say he did.
Moving on, it would seem Itagaki doesn't have to don the shades and treated animal skin for
every picture taken, as this interview
with his new outfit, Valhalla
Game Studios, shows. Around the office, Itagaki is your usual stylish glasses-wearing, button
down shirt-sporting dude. The leather and sunglasses are more his press persona, which stems from
his original dream of being "a pro gambler of mahjong."
"If you let someone read your eyes, you may lose many chances to win," Itagaki said. "So I came to
wearing sunglasses outside. Basically." You know, it's a simple explanation, but it kinda takes
some of the magic out of it, don't you think? Regardless, head on over and give the interview a
read for insight into how Valhalla set up the new office work flowand how it plans to get its
upcoming it's-not-a-fighter
out on store shelves.
You may
think that, being born into this world, Tomonobu Itagaki escaped the womb wearing a pair
of sunglasses and one bitchin' leather jacket -- and you may well be right. Back then, medical
records simply did not document such phenomena. Also, if the records did, we wouldn't know because
we can't read Japanese. Let's just say he did.
Moving on, it would seem Itagaki doesn't have to don the shades and treated animal skin for
every picture taken, as this interview
with his new outfit, Valhalla
Game Studios, shows. Around the office, Itagaki is your usual stylish glasses-wearing, button
down shirt-sporting dude. The leather and sunglasses are more his press persona, which stems from
his original dream of being "a pro gambler of mahjong."
"If you let someone read your eyes, you may lose many chances to win," Itagaki said. "So I came to
wearing sunglasses outside. Basically." You know, it's a simple explanation, but it kinda takes
some of the magic out of it, don't you think? Regardless, head on over and give the interview a
read for insight into how Valhalla set up the new office work flowand how it plans to get its
upcoming it's-not-a-fighter
out on store shelves.
CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- Cramer-Krasselt has promoted Karen Seamen, general manager of
the growing independent network's flagship Chicago office, to the new, network-wide post of chief
operating officer.
Officials with the show have also announced this month that Rob Lowe will make
an extended guest appearance on the series, and Adam
Scott will join as a regular cast member.
Michael Schur, who co-created Parks and Recreation along with
The Office creator Greg
Daniels, said Schneider is expected to make guest appearances in the third season.
If you ever read terms of use pages for websites, you know that they are mostly boilerplate.
Unfortunately whatever template all these businesses seem to be sharing makes some ridiculous
assertions, perhaps the worst of which is a provision against hyperlinking to the site without
written permission.
Of course, to anyone who understands the internet at all, that term is clearly unenforceable. But
these standardized terms show up all over the place, so I had always assumed that it was a bit of
vestigial legal jargon, and that most businesses weren't even aware of it. UK blogger Malcolm
Coles discovered otherwise when he obeyed the terms on the Royal Mail website and requested
written permission to link to a page. This initiated a bureaucratic farce that
lasted for four months with no resolution.
To get your licence posted to you:
You have to write a letter to find out the right web address for the application form.
The letter back gives you a web address
The web address tells you to email.
When you email they don't reply.
But they do give you the option to, er, write in again.
That's right: the post office in the UK wants you to send them a letter and an email
before you link to their website — and even then they never get around to giving you
permission. Oh, and the page Coles wanted to link to? It was Royal Mail's business start-up
services, which he was trying to promote for free.
Barak Ravid / Haaretz: Israel envoy: U.S. ties at
their worst in 35 years — Israel's ambassador to the United
States, Michael Oren, has told the country's diplomats there that U.S.-Israeli relations face
their worst crisis in 35 years, despite attempts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office to
project a sense of “business as usual.”
Business > Le
"Alice au Pays des Merveilles" de Tim Burton conserve avec autorité la tête du
box-office américain en rapportant encore 62 millions de dollars de recettes. Les quatre
grosses nouveautés du week-end n'y peuvent rien.
Ca y est, après 5 années de bons et loyaux services votre chère Xbox 360
faisant office de dernier survivant du clan des McLoad a enfin fini par crever sous un
déluge de loupiotes rouges clignotantes ? Oui je sais, votre coeur saigne après
tous ces bons moment passés à PWNer du 'ricain sur le Xbox ...
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