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Submission + - Footage of Senkaku Incident Leaked onto Youtube

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on Friday November 05, 2010 @09:00AM

News for nerds writes: "Video footage of a Chinese boat rushing into a Japanese patrol ship at the collision incident near the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands 2 months ago leaked onto YouTube (mirror 1 mirror 2). The source of the leak is not yet known. The U.S. backs Japan on this matter as an ally."

Submission + - Footage of Senkaku Incident Leaked onto Youtube (zggg.com)

Submitted by News for nerds on Friday November 05, 2010 @08:19AM

News for nerds writes: Video footage of a Chinese boat rushing into a Japanese patrol ship at the collision incident near the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands 2 months ago leaked onto YouTube (mirror 1 mirror 2). The source of the leak is not yet known. The U.S. backs Japan on this matter as an ally.

Submission + - Kinecting with the market (mcvuk.com)

Submitted by BanjoTed on Friday November 05, 2010 @07:56AM

BanjoTed writes: Here's an interesting opinion piece from MCV asking whether the games press has allowed its own thirst for 'hardcore' games to negatively influence its reporting of Xbox 360 Kinect, the launch games for which are clearly geared toward the casual audience. The writer also claims that as a result of writing some positive stories about Kinect he's faced some unexpected hostility not only from readers of the site but also from professionals within the industry itself.

Comment Source? (Score 1) 239

by News for nerds on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @11:50PM (#29511797) Attached to: Google Brings Chrome Renderer, Speedy Javascript To IE

> Google Chrome Frame is an early-stage open source plug-in

But where can I get the source code of the plugin itself? (I mean, not the rendering engine for this plugin, but the IE plugin part that glues it to IE)
Can't find it in the Google Code page.

Comment Mod parent up as Informative (Score 1) 202

by News for nerds on Sunday November 02, 2008 @10:38AM (#25602397) Attached to: Opera Mini Not Rejected From iPhone (Yet)

But I'm not sure how "No interpreted code may be downloaded" can become "no other rendering engines". Can someone elaborate?

Submission + - Halo 3 Is Not Hi-Def

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on Thursday September 27, 2007 @05:44PM

News for nerds writes: "Via n4g, a poster at Beyond3D has confirmed that the graphics of Halo 3, a Microsoft Xbox 360 flagship game, is actually rendered in 1138x640 that is less than what can be qualified as HD resolution (1280x720 aka 720p) contrary to big Microsoft fanfare about Xbox 360 as a hi-def game console."

Submission + - Warhawk PS3 Server Clusters (adam.ne.jp)

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on Thursday August 09, 2007 @10:27AM

News for nerds writes: "The official Sony Playstation blog posted the game server details of the upcoming online shooter game Warhawk. Surprisingly the game's Ranked Dedicated servers, available in addition to user-hosted PS3 servers, are hosted in rack-mounted PS3 clusters."

Submission + - Retailers Estimate Xbox 360 Failure Rate as 33% (adam.ne.jp)

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on Monday July 02, 2007 @07:50PM

News for nerds writes: "Dailytech reveals that EB Games held conference calls for its Canadian stores informing them of the new policy changes and revealing alarming failure rates of the Xbox 360. "The real numbers were between 30 to 33 percent," said former EB Games employee. An anonymous Best Buy customer service department manager said that failure rates for the console were "between a quarter to a third" of all units sold."

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