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Journal Journal: Cities in the Clouds

Journal by s20451 on Wednesday December 13, 2006 @07:43PM

As long as we are dreaming big dreams about colonies on the moon and Saturn's moon Titan, how about making a cloud city into reality? Not on Earth, of course, but floating high among the cloud tops of the outer gas giants such as Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, where there is no solid ground to st

Submission + - Al Shugart dies

Submitted by Stavr0 on Wednesday December 13, 2006 @07:40PM

Stavr0 writes: Reuters — The founder of Seagate Technology, now the world's largest maker of computer disk drives, died on Tuesday following complications from heart surgery, said Julie Still, a family friend and Seagate spokeswoman.

Submission + - PSone and PS2 games look awful on the PS3

Submitted by Sad at Sony on Wednesday December 13, 2006 @06:49PM

Sad at Sony writes: Sony's slipped up once again. The PS3 games console seems to be having a really hard time dealing with PSone and PS2 games.
It seems that there is a serious issue with the way the new PS3 handles PSone and PS2 games. The 480i games are outputted at a lower resolution. To make matters worse, the output is jagged and contains a number of distracting screen artifacts.
This issue apparently has nothing to do with the TV used, cables or resolution settings ... it's just down to the console. Hopefully this can be fixed by a firmware update, but you would have thought an issue of this kind would have been picked up on by Sony some time ago.

Did Sony actually do any serious testing of the PS3 or did they just push it out of the door in a rush to satisfy shareholders?

Submission + - Sony 'Fesses Up to Viral Marketing

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13, 2006 @06:23PM

An anonymous reader writes: After a wave of articles revealing Sony's YouTube-based viral marketing scheme, Sony has removed all videos and posted a confession on the "blog".

Submission + - Fox Threatens Website for Linking to Online Videos

Submitted by

tttonyyy

on Friday December 01, 2006 @12:33PM

tttonyyy writes: "Link to videos on YouTube, and you might find the full force of Fox's lawyers bearing down on you and your ISP. This is the position that Quicksilverscreen finds itself in. Although no video material is hosted on the site, Fox have served takedown notices for linking to material that infringes on their intellectual property rights. It would be interesting to know if similar takedown notices have been served to the sites that hosted the videos."

Microsoft Makes Testing IE6 and 7 Easier 167

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 01, 2006 @12:20PM from the was-keeping-me-up-at-night dept.

davidmcg writes "Finally, Microsoft has made steps to make testing IE6 and IE7 easier for Windows users. Previously, you had to pay for an additional Windows license to legally run both versions of IE for testing purposes. Now Microsoft is making available free Windows XP/IE6 images available for VirtualPC (also free as MS is competing with VMWare). This means that you can run IE6 in a virtual machine while running IE7 on your host machine. The drawback is that the download is set to expire April 2007 ... although we are promised new versions will be released. What Microsoft doesn't mention is that Virtual PC also runs on Windows 2000 (and IE7 doesn't). Therefore it's possible to install this Windows XP VPC image on your Win2k machine. You can then update IE6 on the XP image to IE7, testing IE7 without upgrading from Win2k. This is all-around excellent news for web developers."

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