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Unix is a 3D operating system!
Xbox Live Pricing To Go Up To $60 Per Year 199
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Soulskill
from the nickles-and-dimes dept.
from the nickles-and-dimes dept.
donniebaseball23 writes "Microsoft has raised the annual price of Xbox Live Gold to $60, which is a price hike of $10. The new price goes into effect on November 1, but gamers can lock in the current Xbox Live price by renewing now. EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich is not surprised by the move, nor does he think it will really have much impact on the Xbox momentum."
DRM and the Destruction of the Book 1
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Hugh Pickens writes "EFF reports that Cory Doctorow spoke to a crowd of about a hundred librarians, educators, publishers, authors, and students at the National Reading Summit on “How to Destroy the Book" and said that "anyone who claims that readers can’t and won’t and shouldn’t own their books are bent on the destruction of the book, the destruction of publishing, and the destruction of authorship itself." Doctorow says that for centuries, copyright has acknowledged that sacred connection between readers and their books and that when you own a book "it’s yours to give away, yours to keep, yours to license or to borrow, to inherit or to be included in your safe for your children" and that "the most important part of the experience of a book is knowing that it can be owned." Now with DRM companies like Amazon can revoke books like 1984 from its customers’ ebook readers. "Anyone who claims that readers can’t and won’t and shouldn’t own their books are bent on the destruction of the book, the destruction of publishing, and the destruction of authorship itself," says Doctorow. "The library of tomorrow should be better than the library of today. The ability to loan our books to more than one person at once is a feature, not a bug.""
EA Shuts Down Pandemic Studios, Cuts 200 Jobs 161
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Soulskill
from the say-goodnight-folks dept.
from the say-goodnight-folks dept.
lbalbalba writes "Electronic Arts is shutting down its Westwood-based game developer Pandemic Studios just two years after acquiring it, putting nearly 200 people out of work. 'The struggling video game publisher informed employees Tuesday morning that it was closing the studio as part of a recently announced plan to eliminate 1,500 jobs, or 16% of its global workforce. Pandemic has about 220 employees, but an EA spokesman said that a core team, estimated by two people close to the studio to be about 25, will be integrated into the publisher's other Los Angeles studio, in Playa Vista.' An ex-developer for Pandemic attributed the studio's struggles to poor decisions from the management."
FMRI Shows Man Loves Wife More Than Angelina Jolie 347
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timothy
from the shouldn't-stand-up-in-court-though dept.
from the shouldn't-stand-up-in-court-though dept.
An anonymous reader writes "We've discussed (at length) functional MRI technology as it pertains to marketing and virtual reality, but now Esquire writer A.J. Jacobs has become the first person to go inside the controversial machine to test the science behind his sex drive. As in, he has fMRI experts read his mind as to whether he's actually more turned on by his young wife or Angelina Jolie. The results, unsurprisingly, are both geeky and hilarious. Would you subject yourself to this kind of reality check?"
Zotac's Ion-Based Mini-ITX Board For Atom Debuts 106
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timothy
from the underseat-entertainment-box-for-the-subaru dept.
from the underseat-entertainment-box-for-the-subaru dept.
MojoKid writes "There have been a handful of NVIDIA Ion-based products with Intel's Atom processor that have been unveiled recently, ranging from NVIDIA's own reference system, to the
Acer Aspire Revo SFF PC. Today Zotac announced an Ion motherboard that will be appealing to the DIY crowd. The design of this
IONITX-A model board tested and reviewed here in particular, offers some very interesting features, not the least of which is its DC power input with an external power brick. It also is
built on Intel's dual core Atom process for a bit more horsepower to back up NVIDIA's Ion integrated graphics chip."