YouTube response to Japan ‘not satisfactory’
At a meeting in Tokyo last Friday the group discussed YouTube’s response, the details of which have not been made public.
Archive for December 29, 2006
Developing for the Dreamcast years later, interview with redspotgames
On releasing Last Hope Max Scharl executive director says, “the Dreamcast got a very loyal and big fanbase - compared to other consoles of their times in the same age. Also a lot of other high quality shoot em ups were released after the so-called “commercial death” of the Dreamcast, so I think it was the right decision to choose the Dreamcast.”
Nintendo Imprinting Your Mii Faces on Your Wiimote
If you are Japanese…and a part of Club Nintendo Point Service…and got 400 points this year. Reggie needs to implement something like this for us stateside instead of the normal: Become a Nintendo member and receive spam from us in your inbox!
Apple files patent for notebook guard system
Apple Files Patent Relating to a Guard System for a Notebook’s Disk Drive Slot.
Intense Man Devotes his Life to Fantastic 3-D Chess Game called 3D8
The game of 3D8 chess is based upon the Official 3D8L ruleset. There are a few distinct minor modifications that are designed to facilitate the physical act of constructing a set and actually playing a real live game with another person
Bot-infected PCs get a refresh
On Christmas day, the number of bots tracked by the Shadowserver group dropped nearly 20 percent. The dramatic decrease in weekly totals–from more than 500,000 infected systems to less than 400,000 computers–puzzled researchers.
ExpertsHeaven.com on Sale
The domain expertsheaven.com inspired by successful experts community experts-exchange.com is on sale in ebay..
How To Backup Gmail
After reading the recent article “Gmail Disaster” I relized that I use my gmail acount as a massive database of my life. I decided to back it up, just like my computer. To do this, simpily setup any POP email client to download all messages, You can change the download all or only new mail setting under POP Settings in Gmail.
Google.com: Get disorganized in 2007. Use Google Desktop
Google has always launched effective advertising campaigns, but an advertising campaign stating ‘Get disorganized in 2007. Use Google Desktop’? It’s out of the question.
BSD Licensed Code in Windows
Here is a funny experiment - try this at home if you have a dual boot. Under linux mount your windows partition and go to WINDOWS/SYSTEM32. Now run strings on ftp.exe and grep for “Copyright”
strings ftp.exe | grep Copyright -
Supprised? How ironic is it that the windows developers didn’t even bother to strip the copyright notice fr
What’s Wrong With the Xbox 360?
Discussion of the six primary reasons people are NOT buying an Xbox 360. There are some surprises, for example: reason #1 is “the Xbox 360 is too expensive (yes more expensive than the PS3).” Fair and fanboy free discussion, although a bit lengthy.
Controversal Windows Vista Laptop On eBay, Proceeds Going To EFF
Laughing Squid is auctioning off the controversial Acer Ferrari 1000 Windows Visa laptop that was sent to Laughing Squid by Microsoft, AMD and Edelman. Proceeds from the auction will be donated to EFF.