Comment Re:Old news for buses (Score 2) 176
Not all of the power is being converted into a magnetic field. Some of it is being lost due to resistances in the circuit from cables, copper traces, and other components where it is converted to heat.
Comment Re:The end of an era. (Score 5, Informative) 154
He's the CTO for Oculus, developers of the Oculus Rift VR HMD. He already has his plate full, and the writing has been on the wall since August when he joined Oculus. Gaming has much more to gain from him now that he's no longer tied to the past and can put all of his effort into VR gaming.
Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 568
When we wanted to go to the moon, we did.
We only went to the moon to beat the commies. It was a competition. The current ISPs have no competition, and they have no reason to improve unless something like Google Fiber comes to their neighborhood.
Comment Re:Gov't project (Score 1) 516
Papa loves Mongo.
Comment Re:Not the first VR device Carmack played with... (Score 3, Interesting) 125
He specifically mentioned this in his Quakecon 2012 keynote, and the part about the camcorder was pretty amusing.
Lucas, Ford to Start Filming New Indiana Jones Film 477
Alchemist253 writes "George Lucas has announced that the script for the long-rumored fourth Indiana Jones film has been finalized and is to begin filming this year, with Harrison Ford once again in front of the camera. From the article: 'In a statement, the 64-year-old Ford said he was ready for another turn as the globe-trotting archaeologist. "I'm delighted to be back in business with my old friends," he said. "I don't know if the pants still fit, but I know the hat will."' All three of the earlier movies were shot in the 80s. How well do you think this character is going to translate into a movie made today?
Submission + - XBox 360 has been cracked
Hopscotch writes: German IT site heise news reports, that during the 23. Chaos Communication Congress this week in Berlin the XBox 360 has been cracked and evidently unsigned code has been executed. A completly disguised hacker came in to the lightning talk session on day four and brought an XBox 360 connected via serial port to his notebook. The XBox was also connected to the beamer. First he booted into the game "King Kong" where he loaded a saved game. During that the screen changed from black to white and our beloved penguin along with the Mac OS logo and the text "comming soon" started bouncing around. The bouncing seems to be the proof that this is not a plain shader hack but actual unsigned code running on the box. The video can be downloaded here.
