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Iowa Aims to Establish International Video Game Hall of Fame 60

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the this-is-my-graceland dept.
eldavojohn writes "Anyone who's seen King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters knows that Ottumwa, Iowa is the Dodge City of video games. Yesterday, 3,500 people showed up to the kick-off speech that announced the intent to build the International Video Game Hall of Fame right there. Radio Free Iowa states Ottumwa's desire to become the 'video game capital of the world' and held a Halo 3 and Guitar Hero tournament there yesterday. Will this town of 25,000 residents secure the title?"

Comment My old B&W Nokia was better... (Score 1) 606

by Rastignac (#27223829) Attached to: What Features Should Be Included With iPhone 3.0?

- How about showing the number of characters when typing a SMS (36/200, 37/200, etc) ?
- How about showing an icon saying "incoming" or "outgoing" in front of each call in the phone log ? (Without having to click the arrow to see the details).

These things exist for years on other phones...

You can add many other things to this list:
- Having more than one camera roll to store all the photos, manageable from the phone.
- A direct "new tab" button in the bottom bar in Safari.
- Enabling developpers to use TvOut for all the applications (games displaying on your TV !).
- Etc...
Mozilla

Submission + - Is Firefox Becoming Bloated? (madpenguin.org)

Submitted by toby
toby writes: As Firefox gets more and more acceptance in the market, is it losing its touch? Is it getting bloated? MadPenguin.org seems to think so. The author writes, "One company line that I grow tired of hearing come up again and again is the issue with memory handling. Take the page-cache mechanism, for example. A feature, but also in many instances a huge resource hog. And now with version 3.0 just around the corner, we have to wonder what other 'features' are going to require me to rush out to purchase a new stick of RAM just to accommodate what older revisions of the same browser just a few years ago would have been fine with.
Power

Submission + - Batteries as we know them soon to be obsolete (wired.com)

Submitted by
jcjewell
jcjewell writes: "Are electrochemical batteries soon to be a thing of the past? This company, understandably being pooh poohed about its claims to have technology to produce an electric car battery that can charge in minutes, rather than hours, has the backing of some prominent venture capitalists — ones who funded companies like Google, in their early years: http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/N/NO_MORE_BA TTERIES?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT"
Wine

Submission + - QuickTime 7.1.6 on Linux with Wine (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Tom Wickline over at Wine-Review has posted step by step instructions on how to install and configure QuickTime 7.1.6 on Linux with Wine. The browser plug-in also works in IE 6 there is also two shots at the bottom of the post of Windows Media Player 9 running in Wine.
Movies

Submission + - HD DVD vs DVD - side by side (fosfor.se)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: So you need to convince your girlfriend to be able to buy that HD DVD/blu-ray drive? Here's a couple of interesting full blown screen dumps from the movie Hot Fuzz. You can see extracts from the DVD version compared with the HD DVD copy. The difference is quite amazing...! Check out the text on the sign; 'Village of the year' — on DVD you can't even read it!

http://gadgets.fosfor.se/hd-dvd-vs-dvd/
Security

Submission + - One-liner to crash IE6 (blogspot.com)

Submitted by
Kelly Yancey
Kelly Yancey writes: "A Japanese fellow going by the name Hamachiya2 has stumbled upon one line of HTML/CSS code that crashes IE6. The magic line is:
<style>*{position:relative}</style><table><input>< /table> You can try it yourself at: http://hamachiya.com/junk/ie_crash.html. Of course, if you are running IE6 or anything that embeds IE6 as a component, you can expect it to crash. All other browsers appear to render the code just fine. I think I may have just found a new signature. :)"
Software

Submission + - BitTorrent 6.0 beta closed source, Windows only

Submitted by makomk
makomk writes: The BitTorrent (Mainline) 6.0 beta has been released, and it's a rebranded version of uTorrent. Unfortunately, it's also closed source and Windows-only. (Apparently, BitTorrent Inc always planned that the next version of Mainline would be closed-source, even before they decided to base it on uTorrent.) It also comes with a mysterious content delivery system called BitTorrent DNA, which appears to consist of a single invisible background task, dna.exe.

Does the original, open source BitTorrent client have a future, or is it time for its users to switch to one of the many other BitTorrent clients?
Microsoft

Submission + - Techtree defines how Windows 7.0 might look like (techtree.com)

Submitted by
Abhishek
Abhishek writes: "Techtree has an article on how Windows 7.0, the next version of Windows Vista might look like. Quoting from the article: "Analysts believe that while both a hypervisor and a new user interface (UI) are distinct possibilities for Windows 7.0, the former is almost a given. The reason being Microsoft would get more control over the hardware it's OS runs on by integrating a hypervisor in Windows 7.0. ""
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - linuX-gamers Live DVD 0.9

Submitted by xer0c
xer0c writes: As a special for the LinuxTag 2007 in Berlin, the linuX-gamers.net team developed a LiveDVD based on ArchLinux for instant gaming.

To their surprise, the DVD came as a bombshell. The visitors of the biggest european Open Source exhibition were amazed about what is possible with a LiveDVD, yet and took along almost 100 DVDs in exchange for a little donation to the linuX-gamers.org foundation.

This 2.4 GB bootable medium contains both the NVIDIA and ATI proprietary Linux drivers and includes the following 3D games: BzFLag, Enemy Territory, Glest, Nexuiz, Sauerbraten, Torcs, Tremulous, True Combat: Elite, Warsow and World of Padman.
This is a development build on the way to the 1.0 release, but users are encouraged to test the live DVD and provide suggestions for the upcoming stable release. For more information please read the release announcement and visit the project's web site.

Download the DVD image via BitTorrent or HTTP mirror: lg-live-0.9.iso (2,464MB).
Mozilla

Submission + - Firefox 3.0 may block sites fingered by Google

Submitted by
os2man
os2man writes: "Mozilla is considering adding a tool to Firefox 3.0 that would block Web sites that are going to try to install malicious programs on your computer using the same Google's technology that warns its search engine users of potentially dangerous sites with an interstitial page. This tool will be quite similar in concept as the anti-phishing filter already present in Firefox 2.0. The current discussion centers on how Firefox 3.0 will warn or alert users to a potentially malicious site"
Republicans

Submission + - Digg May Be Trying Change Users Habits.

Submitted by pilsner.urquell
pilsner.urquell writes: There is a group of stories (webpronews.com, TECH.BLORGE.com and NewsBusters.org ) about Digg.com citing there attempt to curb certain voting habits.

As W Zip wrote, it does appear that Digg is using an algorithm to measure the amount of time between a Digger clicking over to a page and either Digging or burying it. If the algorithm determines that the Digger hasnt spent enough time on the page, then the user could be banned.

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