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Submission + - Xbox 360 boat at the PS3 launch event in Paris

Submitted by snark
snark writes: Yesterday, for the European launch of their Playstation 3, Sony held a party near the Eifel tower. Due to the cold and the huge price of the console in Europe, it was quite a flop as few people came to buy the PS3. The event (to which I didn't take part) was reported to be very badly organised by Sony.

The funniest moment of the evening was this boat passing by the Seine river, just next the temporary shop Sony built for the occasion. This was a boat promoting the XBox 360 from Microsoft, with a huge "XBox 360 loves you" message on the side.

You can see the boat in this video (French commentaries), at around 2/3 of the video: http://www.jeuxvideo.tv/reportage-lancement-de-la- ps3-video-34234.html
Sony

Submission + - PS3 European launch is a success...or not

Submitted by Agony
Agony writes: The french (and european) ps3 launch was scheduled yesterday at midnight in Paris in front of the Eiffel Tower. Beginning at 19h00, with some PS3 games trailer and a Sony pictures film projected on a giant screen, the waiting ended at 00h01 when a giant inflatable PS3 arrived on a river-boat reorganised in a sony-store. However, far from the expected commercial buzz, there were more journalists than actual customers and the event turns totally out of proportion for the 20-30's buyers that were present at the time. Fortunatly, some folks were here to "lighten up" the mood with a "XBOX 360 loves you" boat Xbox360 boat and pairs of boat horn ! Read the article (french) here or there
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - PS3 Hits the UK, with a free HDTV

Submitted by
aslate
aslate writes: "After the recent bad publicity over terrible backwards compatibility and a huge £425 ($835) price tag, the PS3 has hit the UK and Europe. To help get their sales up the first 100 customers at the launch at Virgin Megastores on Oxford Street got a nice shiny £2,500 HDTV set absolutely free, courtesy of Sony. The article covers the launch where 'Oxford Street has seen its fair share of console launches in the last five years and typically they follow a pre-ordained pattern — fans queue up in the cold, laser lights and spotlights criss-cross the sky, a highly-paid celebrity starts the sales and a few hundred gamers troop onto the shop floor. But this time there was no celebrity-injected glamour or son et lumiere. Sony still needs to convince the mass market that the PS3 is the console of choice. And it cannot give away a free HDTV as an incentive to everyone who buys the console'"
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Not aCathedral; Open Source Not Bazaar

Submitted by
AlexGr
AlexGr writes: "By Sean Michael Kerner (InternetNews.com) It's not every day that you see a Microsoft employee demonstrating Microsoft software running natively on Linux. Yet that's exactly what happened at AJAXWorld here, as Brad Abrams, group program manager at Microsoft for ASP.NET AJAX (codenamed Atlas) did today. During a morning keynote, Abrams declared that Microsoft is not the cathedral and that open source isn't really a bazaar when it comes to AJAX, a claim that undermines one of the core underpinnings of the open source movement. http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3 667066"
User Journal

Journal Journal: Slashdotters need Help with Story Submissions 7

Journal by drinkypoo

While I am perhaps not the best person to talk about this as I've only had one submission accepted, my recent time spent with the Firehose has demonstrated to me that most people have a hard time crafting an acceptable story submission, in spite of the numerous examples on the front page. The following is just a list of hints and tips that might help someone assemble a story submission that makes sense.
Programming

Submission + - Is Haskell the future of programming?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Antonio Cangiano — a Ruby expert employed by IBM — wrote an interesting article about the future of programming languages, surprisingly suggesting that Haskell could be the way to go. In Haskell Eye for the Ruby Guy, he outlines the reasons why we should pay attention to functional languages like Haskell and Erlang, in order to manage software complexity and take advantage of multiprocessor architecture.
Nintendo

Submission + - Ten Things Nintendo Did Right in 2006

Submitted by
Matt Elliott
Matt Elliott writes: "The results are in, and January 2007 saw Nintendo and its Wii console deliver record-breaking sales. Just a few short years ago, Nintendo was nearly gasping for life, with dwindling returns and exhausted franchises. In this two part series, be-something.com explores ten things that Nintendo did right in 2006, covering issues like software, branding, consumer perception and overall strategy. It's been a long road for the House that Mario Built, and there's no doubt that 2006 was a pivotal year for them. Let's take a look at the moves they made."
Robotics

Submission + - Robot to journey to the center of the earth

Submitted by
iambarry
iambarry writes: "In what would be sure to lead to a global catastrophe if not for the heroic action of one special robot, scientists are planning a mission to the earth's mantle : "the hole exposes the mantle, the material that makes up Earth's interior...We do not know why that is...Because of this gap we can see directly into the Earth's mantle." A "robotic device will land on the bottom of the crater...and dig into the mantle to bring back samples.""
Books

Submission + - link between religion and violence.

Submitted by niloroth
niloroth writes: This study finds a link between violence and scripture. "Even among our participants who were not religiously devout, exposure to God-sanctioned violence increased subsequent aggression. That the effect was found in such a sample may attest to the insidious power of exposure to literary scriptural violence." What does this say about fundamentalists of all religions, and for the atheists that responded in the same way? Does this mean that religious scripture should have a 18+ rating? Does this mean that a video game with a religious theme is the most dangerous thing in the world?
Space

Submission + - Travel Back in Time Not Possible

Submitted by anthemaniac
anthemaniac writes: Time travel has long been one of those "theoretically possible" things that makes Sci-Fi thrive. But while going forward in time is still perhaps possible, going back has been all but ruled out, according to an article (and accompanying videos) at LiveScience. Chiming in are four scientists who think about this a lot: Brian Greene, Charles Liu, Michio Kaku and J. Richard Gott. Liu flatly states: "It is not possible for you and me to travel backward in time."
Security

Submission + - P2P trojan threatens to "kill you," delete

Submitted by
soulxtc
soulxtc writes: "Instead of the proverbial "gotcha letter" via your ISP, a mysterious copyright holder has created a trojan that overwrites all of their program, music, and system files with popular comic book character images warning them not to use P2P or it will "kill them." Have Japanese copyright-holders in fact gone "nuclear" in their fight? It will most certainly only backfire as parents have to soon start consoling their children about how their favorite comic book character is dancing on their PC screen deleting all of their kids files and threatening to "kill them" or "turn them in to the police.""
Portables (Apple)

Submission + - Lack of MacBook options

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Norman Shutler has submitted a very interesting and humorous article at http://www.osviews.com/article/show/62103/MIA_MacB ook_Options about the lack of optional enhancements in the MacBook. Additionally, given how much time, energy and expense has gone into the development of Apple's "i" products, the company's demonstrably poor bolstering of their MacBooks, via optional hardware, has not only left Mac-addicts, but would-be crossover buyers from the Windows community, most especially those heavy into multi-media work, (Apple's forte — go figure) decidedly underwhelmed!

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