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3D Blu-ray Spec Finalized, PS3 Supported 157

Posted by Soulskill from the but-at-least-one-dimension-will-have-drm dept.
Lucas123 writes "The Blu-ray Disc Association announced today that it has finalized the specification for Blu-ray 3-D discs. The market for 3-D, which includes 3-D enabled televisions, is expected to be $15.8 billion by 2015. Blu-ray 3-D will create a full 1080p resolution image for both eyes using MPEG4-MVC format. Even though two hi-def images are produced, the overhead is typically only 50% compared to equivalent 2D content. The spec also allows PS3 game consoles to play Blu-ray 3-D content. 'The specification also incorporates enhanced graphic features for 3D. These features provide a new experience for users, enabling navigation using 3D graphic menus and displaying 3D subtitles positioned in 3D video.'"

Comment Useful feature gone. (Score 1) 446

by soup4you2 (#30390152) Attached to: Facebook Masks Worse Privacy With New Interface
With the new privacy controls added in, it seems a feature that would have now been useful for this change is now gone. and thats the ability to view your Wall as one of your friends. Since you can now restrict posts to groups, it would be nice to have this feature to see what all information each group is seeing. You still have the ability to view your information as one of your friends, but they removed the wall tab.
Games

Submission + - Here there be Dragons... (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by babboo65
babboo65 writes: Dungeons and Dragons Online is enjoying a second life in terms of player count and buzz, all thanks to a new business strategy: giving the game away. Turbine is making their MMO as accessible as possible, and that includes making players who don't pay anything as happy as possible. Subscriptions are up 40 percent. Ars explores how free can be very profitable.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft contractors to be out in the cold by Chr

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celeb8 writes: "Microsoft datacenter services negotiations lately concluded, with Siemens and HP taking the majority of the support contracts. VMC/Volt has lost most of their contracts, but they recently admitted (after a long period of refusing to disclose any of this to their people) that despite not having the jobs, they will be enforcing the non-compete clauses that most of their workers labor under. This means that although Volt/VMC has requested that their employees stay loyal to the end in a recent e-mail, they won't be signing the non-compete agreements so that other potential employers will feel free to hire them. How would you deal with this situation? Is there a way out besides being unemployed for the 6 months to a year it takes for these to expire? Whatever else you take away from this, its important that others know what to expect from Volt/VMC as a future employer. Don't make the mistake we did."
Debian

Debian Elevates KFreeBSD Port to First-Class Status 376

Posted by timothy from the you-want-options-here-are-options dept.
Reader tail.man points out this press release from Debian which says that the port of the Debian system to the FreeBSD kernel will be given equal footing alongside Debian's several other release ports, starting with the release of Squeeze. Excerpting from this release: "The kFreeBSD architectures for the AMD64/Intel EM64T and i386 processor architectures are now release architectures. Severe bugs on these architectures will be considered release critical the same way as bugs on other architectures like armel or i386 are. If a particular package does not build or work properly on such an architecture this problem is considered release-critical. Debian's main motivation for the inclusion of the FreeBSD kernel into the official release process is the opportunity to offer to its users a broader choice of kernels and also include a kernel that provides features such as jails, the OpenBSD Packet Filter and support for NDIS drivers in the mainline kernel with full support."
Science

Oldest Skeleton In New World Discovered 485

Posted by CmdrTaco from the god-is-burying-tests-again dept.
Death Metal Maniac writes "Dubbed Eva de Naharon, or Eve of Naharon, the female skeleton has been dated at 13,600 years old. If that age is accurate, the skeleton along with three others found in underwater caves along the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán Peninsula could provide new clues to how the Americas were first populated. The skeletons' skulls hint that the people may not be of northern Asian descent, which would contradict the dominant theory of New World settlement. 'The shape of the skulls has led us to believe that Eva and the others have more of an affinity with people from South Asia than North Asia,' González explained."

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