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Comment: Re:Enough is enough (Score 1) 178

by rescendent (#42845811) Attached to: Linux Foundation's Secure Boot Pre-Bootloader Released

What happens to ALOT of old windows pc's? They get linux installed on them to give them a few more years of usefulness = a loss of revenue for microsoft.

The old windows pcs are already paid up with the windows software, where is the revenue that MS would be getting from them if they didn't have linux on?

Google

+ - Google Bans Online Anonymity While Patenting It

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes "'It's important to use your common name,' Google explains in its Google+ ground rules, 'so that the people you want to connect with can find you.' Using a 'secondary online identity,' the search giant adds, is a big Google+ no-no. 'There are lots of places where you can be anonymous online,' Betanews' Joe Wilcox notes. 'Google+ isn't one of them.' Got it. But if online anonymity is so evil, then what's the deal with Google's newly-awarded patent for Social Computing Personas for Protecting Identity in Online Social Interactions? 'When users reveal their identities on the internet,' Google explained to the USPTO in its patent application, 'it leaves them more vulnerable to stalking, identity theft and harassment.' So what's Google's solution? Providing anonymity to social networking users via an 'alter ego' and/or 'anonymous identity.' So does Google now believe that there's a genuine 'risk of disclosing a user's real identity'? Or is this just a case of Google's left hand not knowing what its right hand is patenting?"

Comment: Re:Only MMORPGs that run in the browser are in Fla (Score 1) 295

by rescendent (#37481242) Attached to: Game Devs Predict Death of Flash, Installed Games

The only MMORPGs that run in the browser that I know of are in Flash... (Dofus for example, 11 million players) Unless you count any online game with a bit of a RPG side a MMORPG.

Umm... RuneScape? Java "The game has approximately 10 million active accounts per month, over 156 million registered accounts, and is recognised by the Guinness World Records as the world's most popular free MMORPG" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuneScape

Comment: Re:Shannon would like to have a word with you (Score 1) 295

by rescendent (#37480764) Attached to: Game Devs Predict Death of Flash, Installed Games

Although you may be right, all that means is that in 5 to 10 years Web applications will reach the state of the art of current native applications. This furthermore assumes that the latter will remain static during that time.

So, yes, perhaps in 5 years you'll finally be able to play Angry Birds or WoW on your browser, but I would expect native applications by then to offer an even richer experience.

dZ.

You can already play Angry Birds in your browser, its one of the games on Google+ and you can play it from the Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aknpkdffaafgjchaibgeefbgmgeghloj

And here's some early try outs of Rage levels in WebGL in a browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0S2dsuSxHw

Software

+ - Game devs predict death of Flash, installed games->

Submitted by rescendent
rescendent writes "In an Massively.com interview with Illyriad Games devs, James Niesewand predicts the death of Flash and installed games and the rise of HTML5:

"Especially for MMO game developers, I personally don't believe that developers have any real long-term choice about embarking on this path or not. Ultimately, I believe it's either browser-based or obsolescence. If you don't do it, your competitors will, and they'll be making games that work identically on more device platforms, on more browsers, on more operating systems. It's going to take a very long time to get there, though, but this change has begun now, and we firmly believe that HTML5 is the future."

With Microsoft joining the ranks of Apple and not supporting Flash in Windows 8 — there's definitely a risk to flash — but will browser based games really replace installed games?"
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Comment: Re:More like a platform of no gaming future (Score 1) 95

by rescendent (#35422922) Attached to: Browsers — the Gaming Platform of the Future?
Maybe not quite as full on video and HD graphics; but lengthy games with depth? (e.g. Civ or Sims) then yes these are going into the browser... Except they are hugely more concurrent (rather than just a couple players in multi-player mode)... For example: http://www.illyriad.co.uk/ And with html5 even free civ is browser based: http://www.freeciv.net/
Mozilla

Voting Opens For Mozilla Labs Web Gaming Competition 20

Posted by Soulskill
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nikanth writes "Voting is now open for Game On 2010, Mozilla Labs' first international gaming competition. Game On is all about games built, delivered and played on the open Web and the browser. Out of the 160+ submissions to the first competition, 124 games have been selected to be showcased in the Game On Gallery.'"

+ - UK Digital Economy Act judicial review->

Submitted by rescendent
rescendent writes "TalkTalk and BT's challenge of the Digital Economy Act has now been granted judicial review by the High Court. A judge will now scrutinise whether the act is legal and justifiable, and could make wide-ranging recommendations. BT and TalkTalk argued that the legislation had been "rushed through parliament" before the election.

A judge will conduct a full review in February, considering whether the parts of the act that deal with illegal file-sharing are in breach of the e-commerce directive, which rules that ISPs cannot be held liable for traffic on their networks. The act will also be measured against EU privacy and technical standards legislation. Depending on the judge's ruling, the government may be forced to change or even scrap the legislation."
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Earth

Researchers Pooh-Pooh Algae-Based Biofuel 238

Posted by timothy
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Julie188 writes "Researchers from the University of Virginia have found that current algae biofuel production methods consume more energy, have higher greenhouse gas emissions and use more water than other biofuel sources, such as switchgrass, canola and corn. The researchers suggest these problems can be overcome by situating algae production ponds behind wastewater treatment facilities to capture phosphorous and nitrogen — essential algae nutrients that otherwise need to come from petroleum."

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