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Duke Nukem 3D On Unreal Engine 3 118

Posted by Soulskill from the all-out-of-bubblegum dept.
Julefrokost writes "While we're waiting patiently on Forever, there's some real news in the Duke Nukem realm. Ars Technica has a story about a fan-made Duke 3D project on Unreal Engine 3. There's an awesome demo video up on YouTube. Created by hardcore fan Frederick 'fresch' Schreiber, we can hopefully expect to see an upgraded Duke 3D in the near future." The article also notes, "Gearbox ultimately decided to support the project, and gave Schreiber a personal, non-commercial license to Duke Nukem 3D. He can't sell the work or profit from it directly, but he can use the characters and design of the game without fear of being shut down."

Comment Why does it matter? (Score 1) 4

by machxor (#33788724) Attached to: Linux-based GPS Units?
Honestly I'm curious as to why this matters to you? Just because the device is running Linux doesn't mean that your purchasing it gives anything back to the community. My only guess is that you are assuming that because someone is using Linux on their device means they are somehow contributing to Linux which is quite simply not the case.

Comment Re:TV shows in countries other than the US ? (Score 1) 238

by machxor (#33539634) Attached to: King's <em>Dark Tower</em> Series To Be Adapted For Film, TV

How will the TV shows be handled in countries other than the US. I live in the Netherlands. We will probably get the movies in the movie theaters. I doubt the TV series will broadcast here at the same time as in the US. Usually it takes months if not years for TV shows to appear on TV here. So most likely We will see movie #1, then a long wait of nothing, see movie #2, the first TV series may (or not) start airing here. Then we get movie #3 and then after a long wait .... TV series #2. Point: it will be all out of sync. Just curious how that will be handled.

Just curious; if you go to nbc.com -> Watch Video do you see localized content (does NBC even exist in your market?) or do you see the same things I do or maybe nothing at all?

Submission + - King's "The Dark Tower" to Be Adapted to Film, TV (deadline.com)

Submitted by Kozz
Kozz writes: Universal Pictures and NBC Universal Television Entertainment have closed a deal to turn Stephen King’s mammoth novel series The Dark Tower into a feature film trilogy and a network TV series, both of which will be creatively steered by the Oscar-winning team behind A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code.
Iphone

Submission + - Real-time video edge detection on iPhone... (youtube.com)

Submitted by videoguy
videoguy writes: This is a demo of real-time video edge detection on the iPhone. It shows both a standard Canny edge detection and an adapted "skeletonize" effect that produces a sketch or line drawing style image at 30fps. This is the first app (of which I'm aware) that utilizes the raw video feed available in iOS4 to perform rendering or true video effects.

Comment Re:Quicktime? (Score 1) 232

by machxor (#33526830) Attached to: Open Source VLC Media Player Coming To iPad

I dunno, it's pretty vague (most of the guidelines are).

Why say "media" if it only applies to music?

What does "access" mean? Open a stream to and then decode in your application? Or actually decode through the MediaPlayer framework (ie: no non-Apple supplied codecs).

Overall reading through those guidelines were a waste of time for me. Most of them were common sense and the rest were so vague and subjective (I think that was the intention though).
Sci-Fi

Submission + - The Dark Tower Coming To Theaters Near You (nymag.com) 1

Submitted by westlake
westlake writes: Nothing quite like this has ever been tried before. But Reuter's, The L.A. Times and many others are reporting that Ron Howard will produce Stephen King's The Dark Tower, for Universal as a theatrical trilogy with the in-between stories told through two seasons of an NBC television series. No news as yet on casting — suggestions anyone?

Comment Re:But... (Score 4, Informative) 1090

by machxor (#33442144) Attached to: Armed Man Takes Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ

Alas, we'll now get to listen to him rant in court, too.

Only if your Ghost Lab option comes true... Oh and the court decides to start trying ghosts...

The gunman, identified as James Lee, was killed by police following four hours of negotiations but the hostages are all safe, said Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger.

Google

Submission + - Google Backs Out of JavaOne (infoworld.com)

Submitted by
snydeq
snydeq writes: "Citing concerns about Oracle's lawsuit against it, Google has backed out of the upcoming JavaOne conference. 'Oracle's recent lawsuit against Google and open source has made it impossible for us to freely share our thoughts about the future of Java and open source generally,' Google's Joshua Bloch said in a blog post. The move may signal eventually fragmentation for Java, with Google conceivably splintering off the Java-like language it uses for Android."
AMD

Submission + - Acer Ferrari One Ultraportable Upgrading to AMD On (trippletech.com)

Submitted by hasanabbas1987
hasanabbas1987 writes: According to a new rumor, Acer is getting ready to upgrade the Ferrari One line-up of devices. Instead of that dated AMD Athlon processor, the manufacturer is planning on using a brand new chip from the AMD Fusion line, called the Ontario. Things get a bit curious here, though, as the source suggests that Acer is getting ready to launch the upgraded ultraportable by the end of this year. While AMD hasn’t come forward and said exactly when the Fusion line of processors will launch, the last word heard on the street was that it was coming early 2011.

Submission + - First Details on Civ 5's In-Game Mod Browser (bitmob.com)

Submitted by bbretterson
bbretterson writes: In an interview conducted by Bitmob's Rob Savillo, Civ 5 Lead Designer Jon Shafer revealed the first details about the game's mod tools and in-game mod browser. The stand-alone world builder allows players to create random maps and customized scenarios. The SDK will allow players to fully mod Civ 5 into anything they want, and the in-game mod-browser allows them to to search, share, install, and manage user-created content without exiting the program.

Submission + - Facebook says it owns "book." (chicagobreakingbusiness.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Facebook has sued a tiny start-up called Teachbook.com over the use of “book” in its name. The start-up, which has two employees, aims to provide tools for teachers to manage their classrooms and share lesson plans and other resources. “Effectively they’re bombing a mosquito here, and we’re not sure why they want to do that,” Teachbook.com co-director Greg Shrader told the Tribune. Facebook said its use of “book” in its name is “highly distinctive in the context of online communities and networking websites.” Facebook apparently is alleging that no other online “network of people” can use the word “book” in its name without violating its trademark. Book 'em, Marko.

Comment Re:Location (Score 2, Informative) 560

by machxor (#33363138) Attached to: UVB-76 Broadcasts New Voice Message

The station's transmitter is located just outside Povarovo, Russia at (..., ...), which is about halfway between Zelenograd and Solnechnogorsk and 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of Moscow, near the village of Lozhki. The location and callsign were unknown until the first voice broadcast of 1997.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft's Bing Now Powering Yahoo Search

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes: More than a year after their search deal was first announced, Microsoft's Bing is now officially powering Yahoo's search results in the U.S. and Canada. At this point, only English is supported, but more languages will be added in the coming weeks and months. The 10 year deal will allow Microsoft to power Yahoo's search site while Yahoo will manage the sales force for both companies' premium search advertisers. Experts have long believed that the move actually made sense from the get go because Yahoo's form of search was the least effective of anything online because it was built on an idea that wasn't scalable. Where as for Microsoft, partnering with Yahoo, in this way, gives Bing exactly what it needs — lots more eyeballs.

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