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Submission + - Bioshock goes gold

Submitted by wiggles on Friday August 10, 2007 @04:15PM

wiggles writes: Title says it all. From the press release: "2K, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), announced today that BioShock(TM) has gone to gold master exclusively for the Xbox 360(TM) video game and entertainment system and Games For Windows"

Submission + - HD content downgraded by Vista (hdtvinfo.eu)

Submitted by xbox360cooldown on Friday August 10, 2007 @04:11PM

xbox360cooldown writes: The very strict content protection features in Windows Vista are preventing customers from playing high-quality HD audio/video & harming system performance. Especially people who make their own HD home movies are affected by these strict protection features.

http://www.hdtvinfo.eu/content/view/114/1/

Many users are finding they can't play any content if it's considered "premium." Microsoft acknowledged that quality of premium content would be lowered if requested by copyright holders. Microsoft defended its copyright protections, saying they are common features of many playback devices.

The protections allow copyright holders to prevent video from being played in HD unless users have equipment that supports the HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) digital rights management system.

Submission + - Warning! Virtualization is Addictive to Management (toutvirtual.com)

Submitted by

virtual-addict

on Friday August 10, 2007 @03:47PM

virtual-addict writes: "A Proper Virtual World points out, From this point onwards, your management is no longer those wonderful exhibits of kind nurturing entities, but changed some how, some thing more grey than black, but still repeating over and over... what can we virtualize next... what can we virtualize next. I woke in the middle of the early morning, rain is hammering down on the roof and blanketing the windows with vague ghostly shapes, in a cold room with no covers on the bed, pillows on the opposite side of the room, with the words of my boss echoing between my ears... what can we virtualize next, what can we virtualize next! Even the Dachshunds have left the room, to escape my tortured screaming reply... Nothing, nothing, some one save me... nothing! My mournful, no sorrowful, cries are left unanswered. Why do I feel like Neo trapped in the Matrix? Is that real air I am breathing? read more about Warning! Virtualization is Addictive to Management"

Submission + - AT&T Censors Pearl Jam's Anti-Bush Lyrics (forbes.com)

Submitted by

VE3OGG

on Friday August 10, 2007 @03:31PM

VE3OGG writes: "Numerous news agencies are reporting that Pearl Jam's recent Lollapalooza concert has met with some controversy. According to the news reports, when Eddie Vedder sang: "George Bush leave this world alone. George Bush find yourself another home." AT&T censored the lyrics on its webcast. AT&T has said that this was an accident on the part of Davie-Brown Entertainment and should never have happened as it is against their policies of editing political messages out of webcasts and has posted an apology and is taking steps to publish the songs in their entirety on its Blue Room website, however Pearl Jam has gone on record as saying "AT&T's actions strikes at the heart of the public's concerns over the power that corporations have when it comes to determining what the public sees and hears through communications media.""

Submission + - High-quality HD content can't be played by Vista (hdtvinfo.eu) 2

Submitted by

DaMan1970

on Friday August 10, 2007 @03:04PM

DaMan1970 writes: "Content protection features in Windows Vista from Microsoft are preventing customers from playing high-quality HD audio/video & harming system performance.

Vista requires premium content like HD movies to be degraded in quality when it is sent to high-quality outputs, like DVI. Users will see status codes that say "graphics OPM resolution too high"

http://www.hdtvinfo.eu/news/hd-video-formats/high- quality-hd-content-cant-be-played-by-windows-vista .html

There are ways to bypass the Windows Vista protection by encoding the movies using alternative codecs like X264, or DiVX, which are in fact more effective sometimes then Windows own WMV codec. These codecs are quite common on HD video Bittorrent sites, or Newsgroups."

Submission + - Microsoft to Red Hat: Come on down!

Submitted by MsManhattan on Monday June 18, 2007 @09:36AM

MsManhattan writes: Microsoft hopes to lure Red Hat into a licensing and interoperability agreement akin to those it has signed with Linspire, Xandros and Novell, but so far Red Hat remains stand-offish, according to the article 'Microsoft interoperability team: Bring on Red Hat.' 'We continue to believe that open source and the innovation it represents should not be subject to an unsubstantiated tax that lacks transparency,' a Red Hat spokeswoman said in an e-mail. Nonetheless, rumors suggest that a deal between the two rivals is 'imminent.'

Submission + - How Google Will Win the OS War with Google OS (osweekly.com)

Submitted by

tomsHEW

on Monday June 18, 2007 @03:08AM

tomsHEW writes: "Matt Hartley of OSWeekly.com fame publishes his commentary and tells us all why Google will win the OS wars with Google OS. He writes, "I've said it once and I will say it again: Google already has a Google OS. Because they support each operating system, they do not limit themselves the way Microsoft does. Best of all, it is quickly outpacing Microsoft with regard to ingenuity with the possible exception of Silverlight and Popfly. Then again, as cool as the two previously mentioned projects happen to be, the fact remains that Microsoft is alienating Linux users whenever possible. At the end of the day, they feel they need to protect their Windows Vista investment."

Submission + - AT&T Updates Email-as-txt addresses (jakersblog.com)

Submitted by

jakertberry

on Thursday June 07, 2007 @04:59PM

jakertberry writes: "Earlier today my email server went down briefly. When I brought it back up, I realized that I didn't get my usual text message telling me that the server went down. AT&T dropped the old "mycingular.com" domain in favor for a new one.
Good thing to know, especially if that's how you get notified of an outage of your own network."

Submission + - Broken Daylight Savings Patch?

Submitted by

lys1123

on Monday February 19, 2007 @01:55PM

lys1123 writes: "Windows Update on our work computers automatically installed an update over the weekend and now the NUnit testing on our current project has gone from all green to all red. The reason? Our test data includes data that was inserted on 11/01/2005 and this is now being treated as Daylight Savings Time instead of Standard time. Has anyone else run into this problem? Have you found any fixes that actually work?"

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