A video on YouTube that finally answers the old Internet forum question of: Who would win in a battle between the Enterprise and an Imperial Star Destroyer? Very clever editing of the original movie/show footage and dialog, combined with CGI.
Now this is definatley worth a look. We can finally put this question to rest, hopefully....
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The Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman has ruled that the Apple iTunes service breaks the law, and has given the company two weeks to fix the problem.
Vista beta 2 will be available to download today.
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Today in Japan, Nintendo gave its Management Policy Briefing in which company President Satoru Iwata stated that the price announcement would be this September.
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A site with a video with of a playable work in progress of Quake 1 ported to the nintendo DS.
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Michael Arrington discusses Google and how everyone jumps and screams everytime they launch a new product. What Google product has really changed our lives, other than Search and Gmail?
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Nintendo said on Wednesday it is unlikely to lose much money on the launch of the Wii, in sharp contrast to Sony, which expects a hefty loss on the debut of its PS3.
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Dark Alex has released a new beta ISO loader which enables you to run UMD files from a hard drive (or just USB flash disk), leaving plenty of space free in your limited memory sticks for other media. Hopefully Duggmirror gets ahold of this before it gets "Dugg."
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A site with a video with of a playable work in progress of Quake 1 ported to the nintendo DS.
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Another week, another Google product launches. Or almost launches in this case. Google hasn't opened up Google Spreadsheets, an Ajax spreadsheet, to the general public yet but they have published a tour of what the product will look like once it actually does launch, and you can request an invitation to try it out.
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Iwata revealed that games for Nintendo's "virtual console" that will allow Wii owners to play old titles on their consoles will be priced at ¥500 and ¥1,000, roughly US$4.50 to US$8.99. For reference, classic retro games for the Nintendo GameBoy sold for upwards of US$35 for some titles, US$19.99 for others.
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Historical prices and sales suggest the PS3's price may cause it to fail. Will this trend continue... or will games, graphics, etc. bail out Sony's new console?
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"The database problem is actually...so many new users and the current hardware setup isn't tuned perfectly," "It takes a while to get everything right in a complex system like The Pirate Bay.... We've had some 404 problems with torrent-downloading, but that is due to overload and some bugs in our software. They will be fixed in a couple of days."
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Several articles outlining in detail how Blizzard Entertainment (makers of World of Warcraft, Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, etc) have gained power, how they are wielding power, and the how the entire game industry has changed because of them. Especially how the rest of the world has changed views of people that play multiplayer games.
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Not content to merely hit back at Creative with one copyright suit in exchange for being dragged into court over possible interface patent infringements, Apple has thrown down another lawsuit to make 'em really sorry.
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Of all the great DIY projects at this year's Maker Faire, the one project that really caught my eye involved converting a regular old $60 router into a powerful, highly configurable $600 router....
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The Russian music site AllofMp3.com fires a return salvo on its legality, royalties, and the WTO.
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It happens all too often that some website owner in the US is sued with claims of libel over comments on that site in an open forum.
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"They push us to think about things that we may not always think about," said Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's sales and marketing group. "We were hoping for that to happen and that certainly happened," he said
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"Their concern is more about technology: Can the computer network of "Second Life," using an unusual configuration that dedicates each server to a sliver of virtual real estate, scale with growing demand?"
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The Pirate Bay is back with a vengeance, and back with its search! Order has been restored!
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It was, without doubt, one of the finest minds of all time. Now scientists have proved that Albert Einstein's brain was not only unique in its ability to process concepts: it was also physically different.
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After 40 years as one of the biggest franchises in television and movie history, CBS Paramount Television is opening its archives to the public and letting Star Trek fans own a piece of the cult favorite.
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"Do not mess with this man - or his mates"
This guy, his brother, and 3 'henchmen' tracked down an awkward ebayer, escorted him to a cash machine and convinced him to pay for the goods...
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Hacker extraordinare "Dave" has managed to squeeze that beast into a custom case, along with a battery, screen, and front mounted controls.
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If you haven't received your invite yet but you want to know the look & feel of Google Spreadsheets, take a look at the screenshots and videos.
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GameDaily reports that Japanese magazine "Ultra One" has discovered PS3 will include the PS2 chipset hardware to provide hardware-based backwards compatibility until a software-based emulator is complete, upon which PS2 hardware will cease to ship PS2 hardware within the PS3, possibly allowing for a small price reduction.
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"Never heard of SIRA? That's the way Big Copyright and their lackeys want it, and it's bad news for you. Simply put, SIRA fundamentally redefines copyright and fair use in the digital world. It would require all incidental copies of music to be licensed separately from the originating copy."
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[Toshiba] is coming out with a 2.5-inch drive for notebooks later this year with platters that hold 178.8 gigabits per square inch, which will likely be a record when the drive hits shelves. The current record for areal density for a commercially released drive is 133 gigabits per square inch.
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Review and benchmarks of NVIDIA's 7950 GX2 - a pair of circuit boards, 2 GPUs and 2 sets of memory chips, an "SLI setup on a stick", which fits in the same PCI Express space as other top-end graphics cards. Although DIYers are prevented by NVIDIA from doing Quad SLI with 2 of them, it's still a monster performer that uses less power than expected.
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This is a real court case report based in Virginia. Basically a police office decided something was not right based on the assumption of home-made Cd's viewable in drivers car.
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Get a small piece of land in Australia for $40. You can't do a lot with it, but it's still pretty cool I think. Better than buying a couple of pixels :-)
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If you want your voicemail in the same inbox with your email, GotVoice is an excellent choice.
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Tim Lord has written up his experiences installing and using the hottest MP3 jukebox player software package on the planet -- RockBox -- on his iPod. He loves it and explains why.
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This article shows you how to quickly and easily install two additional operating systems on your iPod (RockBox and Podzilla aka iPod Linux) with a startup menu to choose between them.
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The CIA's website has surprisingly detailed instructions (and pictures) for making smokable opium and heroin. Oh and you can can legally buy and grow papaver somniferum in the US. It only becomes illegal when after you derive opium from the poppy pod.
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This article from the upcoming Game Informer magazine focuses on the pros and cons of the development environment of the upcoming Nintendo Wii. As well as revealing the last big secret concerning hardware functionality
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A Norwegian newspaper asked users to send in their Google Earth findings. Look at what they got. Pretty cool.
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Extremetech tests Vista's ability to run the latest games. Games in the article included World of Warcraft, Splinter Cell, Half Life2, Battlefield2, Fear and a few more. Conclusion, Mr Vista got a B- rather than a full A+.
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"Dell computers ship with the software tools, which are activated by service reps with the permission of customers. By commandeering the computers, technicians can often find and correct problems faster than trying to talk the customer through the fix."
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Apple computers has decided to close its India software operations. The company had commenced operations in April and hired about 30 people for its subsidiary, Apple Services India Pvt Ltd. The employees will be given 2 months pay as a severence package. This could equal about 1000-5000$ based on salaries in bangalore.
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A big and successful pirate demonstration with ~500 people in Stockholm demanding the servers back and changed laws etc.
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The pictures are kind of blurry, but this is what engadget had to say "An anonymous tipster sent us a bunch of pictures he shot last night from the outside of the Saturn Cafe in Santa Cruz.. this guy claims the pics depict the filming of a commercial of a possible "iPod killer" from Microsoft"
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Pretty insane footage - enjoy :)
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"I just opened a letter sent to Boing Boing from some fools at Dewey Cheatem and Howe LLP in London."
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Mark Colling is aiming for a world record with a 19ft-long ship, complete with an 8ft match model of the iceberg which sunk the Titanic in 1912. Mr Colling is building the model in his garage in Llanelli.
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Summertime, and the living is easy -- or at least it should be. Unfortunately, between packing bags and keeping up with busy kids' schedules, sometimes it feels anything but. We've compiled 17 hot products in four separate categories that will aid and assist you in countless ways this summer.
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The purported problem of violent and sexually explicit video games has resurfaced on politicians' agenda as the November election draws near.
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This is an editorial from the good folks over at Linux Today. It makes sense to me, here's hoping their right :)
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American trade negotiators have threatened to scuttle Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization unless the country shuts down the AllOfMP3.com website
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Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet is reporting an exclusive interview with an unnamed 17 year old high school student who claims it was him that took down the Swedish Police website as revenge for the raids against the Pirate Bay.
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Interfacing older, non VGA displays to systems with VGA hardware without the help of a hardware scan converter.Almost every linux embedded project out there today uses some form of LCD text or graphics display. CRTs have been abandoned as bulky and obsolete. But not all are. Forgotten are the tiny portable b/w televisions.
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The head of the One Laptop per Child project says he must be doing something right if he's upsetting Microsoft and Intel.
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Scot Finnie, Computerworld: "I have no problem with Microsoft copying Apple's or any other company's best interface designs. We all win when that happens. What's really strange is when a company lifts good ideas and makes them worse, not better."
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The FBI found a baby jar full of Ricin and several pipe bombs. Ricin is a poisonous protein ; as little as 500 micrograms, enough to fit on the head of a pin, will kill an adult.
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JetBlue Airways Corp. won a wireless license to offer high-speed Internet and other communications services on commercial aircraft in a U.S. Federal Communications Commission auction that ended on Friday. The company's subsidiary LiveTV LLC bid $7 million for a 1 megahertz wireless license.
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The one Laptop Per Child Project last week produced a first working prototype. This site has a movie where Red Hat's Christopher Blizzard shows off the device's features and then boots it up, showing it running Fedora.
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Video from the ISP that hosted the pirate bay. The intro text says that this copy can't be used as evidence. Why are the police covering the cameras one by one?
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"BellSouth officials denied Friday that they had blocked consumer sites MySpace and YouTube, although customers in Florida and Tennessee said that they were unable to access them."
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This is good news because perhaps we will get some good non-bias reporting in the US. Jeremy Hillman, the new editor of BBC World said: "We really feel there's actually a huge vacuum for us to fill in terms of global, responsible, impartial reporting,"
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One of the biggest concerns that people have expressed with Office 2007 is the cost of training. Thanks to a completely overhauled user interface, businesses could be concerned that they may need to shell out quite a bit of cash to get the entire office trained. Businesses need not worry; Office 2007 was designed with Erma from Processing in mind.
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In an interview with GameDaily John Swinimer from ATI hinted that the Wii is capable of a lot more than what we've seen so far. Many reported Gamecube-level visuals at E3 even though Wii is supposed to be 2-3 times more powerful.
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Google insider selling has become so fast and furious over the past month that it's completely off the charts. That's not just a figure of speech. It has LITERALLY gone off the charts- take a look for yourself.
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The Web site of Sweden's national police was shut down after a hacker attack that investigators on Friday said could be a retaliation for a crackdown on a popular file-sharing site called The Pirate Bay. ...after a so-called denial of service attack....
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Turn on a switch by waving your hand by an antenna.
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Simple guide for getting your wireless card working in linux without Ndis or Madwifi
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A Samsung exec last month ran off at the mouth, revealing that Samsung's PortalPlayer would drive the next-gen iPod Nano...It is not surprising that Apple would "punish" Samsung for commenting publicly about the iPod Nano follow-on, and we believe that SigmaTel is likely to be the resulting beneficiary of the Samsung executive " gaffe"
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Bridgestone has just unveiled the world's thinnest 2 color e-paper display. The display is fully bendable and text/images will not distort due to its special ribbed structure. Practical applications include billboards, electronic books, and name tags.
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"Our friendly anonymous source at Microsoft has provided us with a few more details concerning the 360 accessories announced back at E3." "If you'd like information on what other peripherals are coming out and at what price, read on for more."
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"Check out these instructions on how to to turn an old monitor into a trash can. I use one of these at my office and it gets a lot of compliments from visitors. Fits a standard 13 gallon trash bag. This is a fairly dangerous project for anyone that lacks a healthy dose of fear for the power of CRTs. Wear safety gear including gloves & goggles."
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Check this, bellsouth is blocking youtube, facebook, myspace and probably more in Florida. Link goes to technorati where people are blogging about it like crazy. The war has begun. The war of net neutrality.
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According to the web site MMOGCHART.com, it has hit a new milestone by moving past the 50 percent mark for market share of massively multiplayer online games.
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Firefox 1.5.0.4 is a security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. The new version features improvements to product stability and several security fixes.
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According to the creator of 'DSRobot', you can soon turn your Nintendo DS or Nintendo DS Lite to a powerfull programable Robot. Here is a video of prototype for a DSRobot.
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A dev team from Redhat has created an open-source project called Mugshot that some are touting as MySpace on steroids. It isn't. But here's what it really is...
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A fresh look a the tag structure of websites, in a visual way.
This is really neat, and also very artistic. Its pretty neat to see what any website looks like in a graphical form.
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Very interesting post that I was reading on the LOA Fourms, of people being at the wrong place at the wrong time....
Almost in the wrong place at the wrong time...
As most people know, Tass is getting married tomorrow.. So Tami and I run down to the mall to get clothes for the wedding (all our stuff is still in storage from our house fire).
We run down to the cingular store to replace my phone and hit JC Penny's. We are just inside the Penny's door when we hear a gun shot. I tell Tami to hit the floor (she doesn't of course - not realizing it was a gun).
A few seconds later we hear another shot that was A LOT louder. Now she hits the floor. hehe
This all went down about 30 feet from us.
What happened....
2 guys get in a fight in the mall.. right in front of Penny's and the arcade. There are tons of people and small children around. One guy pulls a hand gun and shoots at the guy that he was fighting. Now the guy was running away though the crowd in the center of the mall. The shooter hits the other man he was fighting. A Sherrif was having lunch in the mall and pulled his gun. The shooter turns to go after other kids that was with the guy he shot.
The sherrif one shots the guy in the head. Killing him instantly..
I think that sherrif should get a medal. The potential for this to have been real bad. His qucik thinking I feel saved lives.
Instead pirates will get more private and use new tools.
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"To sum up my experience with Ubuntu's Dapper I will say that it is easily the most impressive Linux distribution I have used to date. The combination of speed, stability, ease of use and the excellant apt-get package manager, makes it the Linux distro to beat."
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These are some of the first Intel Conroe 2 Extreme Benchmark tests to hit the net, and they look beastly.
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In an interview with Kikizo, Peter Moore got a little chest-thumpy and started talking about how gamers don't really care about backwards compatibility. Then he says that Msoft "under promised and over delivered" on the Xbox 360's Backwards Compatibility.
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I ran into this while searching on google, it seems they are now releasing a web accelerator that is supposed to speed up pages for Broadband Users. Its currently a Google Labs product, though many google products are in a sense in perpetual beta, so it could have bugs. I've not personally tried it, but it's worth a look. It even works with Firefox.
Google Web Accelerator is...
• Designed for Broadband – Web pages load even more quickly on DSL and cable connections
• Easy to use – Simply install and enjoy faster web browsing in seconds
...And that caused a can of Sure deodorant to explode with such force that it not only blew out windows but cracked a wall and even, briefly, lifted the roof off the bungalow.OMG, I knew that deoderant was flammable if you put a flame near it, but that must of been an extreme ammount of deoderant to cause THAT!
PC World magazine on Wednesday issued its 2006 Hardware Company of the Year award to Apple, which had five products land on its list of the 100 Best Products of 2006: the iPod nano (#4), Boot Camp (#10), the Mac mini (#35), the iPod (#36), and iTunes (#43).
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Valve have now released the first half life 2 expantion, HL2:EP1, Playable on steam NOW
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US Government ordered the close down of PirateBay according to Swedish television. The request came originally from US Government and ultimatley MPAA.
The Swedish police then acted on direct order from the Swedish government, even though the police knew that they didn't have the law on their side.
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Early in 2005, more than a dozen Sony employees from the company's consumer electronics divisions gathered for an unusual meeting in the tiny Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters of digital media start-up Kinoma.
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MPA, IFPI and Antipiratbyrån jubilation proves impotent, as ThePirateBay.org prepares its return.
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Ubuntu 6.06 is here! Get started with over 25 tips to tweak, personalize and otherwise polish the diamond that is Dapper Drake. Tips include installing multimedia codecs, adding extra repositories, adding a Windows-like "Start" button, and much more!
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Henry Gerbus said Best Buy assured him the computer's old hard drive -- loaded with personal information -- would be destroyed.
"They said rest assured. They drill holes in it so it's useless," said Gerbus. That wasn't the case.
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Ok, it's an upgrade from their previous advice of 'Strong Sell,' but it's interesting to note the phrase "a lack of visibility in Sony's games division."
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For the same price as a 2 bedroom apartment in San Francisco you can get something that would house an army and possibly did.
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Make a simple cannon out of some tube and a vacuum cleaner.
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University of Birmingham microbiologists have found a bacterium that excretes electricity-generating hydrogen when fed sugar, and have made electricity from waste chocolate headed for the landfill.
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University of Birmingham microbiologists have found a bacterium that excretes electricity-generating hydrogen when fed sugar, and have made electricity from waste chocolate headed for the landfill.
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