Submission + - China vs. Google. Google blinks (cnn.com)
i_want_you_to_throw_ writes: Google will no longer automatically direct its mainland Chinese users to its non-censored Hong Kong search engine, the company said late Monday.
Submission + - Google v. China: Google Blinks (washingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google will stop auto-redirecting its users to its uncensored search site in Hong Kong in an attempt to keep its Internet license to operate in China.
APB To Use In-Game Audio Advertisements 97
Rock, Paper, Shotgun reports that upcoming action MMOG APB: All Points Bulletin will use in-game audio advertisements as part of its business model. The number of ads you hear will be limited: "you'll only hear an ad when you go into a new zone, and that's only once every three hours." Nevertheless, some gamers are upset that these ads will be included on top of APB's already unusual payment plans. The game is set for release next Tuesday. Producer Jesse Knapp says of Realtime Worlds' goals for APB, "We looked at other online action games, and we saw things we felt could be better. Only 12 to 32 players in a match, bad connection due to peer-to-peer, dead cities, way too much time in lobbies, things like that. So what we set out to do was to make a game that has that online player vs. player action game experience in a large city with other players around, no lobbies, dynamic matchmaking, dedicated servers, great experience, and that's been one of the driving factors of APB from the very beginning." CVG recently previewed the game.
Submission + - Using Light to Cure Wounds (popsci.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: In the near future, wounds may be treated with a flash of light. A process called photochemical tissue bonding can replace conventional stitches, staples and glues in repairing skin wounds and even reconnecting nerves and blood vessels.
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, working with funds from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, recently completed a pilot study to determine the effectiveness of light bonding compared to traditional stitches.
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, working with funds from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, recently completed a pilot study to determine the effectiveness of light bonding compared to traditional stitches.
Submission + - XKCD Color Survey Has Interesting Results (xkcd.com)
dragoncortez writes: Randall Munroe has posted the results of his color survey and his analysis is both thorough and surprising. It turns out that men and women name colors pretty much the same as a general rule, although women prefer flower-sounding color names, while men prefer such manly sounding color names as "penis" and "dunno." It also turns out that "nobody can spell 'fuchsia'”.
Comment Grain of salt... (Score 5, Interesting) 254
I'm going to take this with a large grain of salt here. Does the publication in the British Medical Journal actually blame the rise on gaming, or is TFA simply adding the gaming aspect to it to generate a sensational article to post on a tech site with a large demographic who plays games. TFA only has a link to the BMJ homepage.
Oh, and obligatory: correlation does not imply causation
Oh, and obligatory: correlation does not imply causation
Comment Re:Whats the point? (Score 1) 133
yet the majority of their monthly best video card for the money is ATI, I fail to see how they are nvidia advertisers.
Comment Re:Whats the point? (Score 1) 133
MW2 does not have DX11, the numbers I'm quoting is on Dirt 2, which does have DX11. The whole selling point of this card after all, is DX11 support since there are much better cards for that value that does not support DX11. (Note I'm not an ATI basher, I have a HD 5850 which I bought for DX11 in Arkham Asylum and Dirt 2.)
Comment Whats the point? (Score 4, Informative) 133
Toms Hardware's review here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-5670,2533.html
TLDR: While it does support DX11, its not powerful enough to really do much with it, barely keeping 30 FPS at 1680x1050.
Comment hell yes! (Score 1) 643
My first impression was hell yes, nuts like Sophia Huyer won't be allowed inside that zone where I will be sitting, and then I realized it was the other way around.
Comment Re:So what's the difference? (Score 1) 568
Yes, no kidding.
Why can't they make a camera-less version for people like me who would prefer a slightly larger battery or more storage space instead of having the ability to take some blurry pictures or video that I will never look at again?
Submission + - Unexpected Problems For Quantum Money (technologyreview.com)
KentuckyFC writes: Various physicists have suggested that it should be possible to exploit the strange properties of quantum mechanics to create a form of quantum money that can never be counterfeited. One of the important features that any practical currency must have is that anybody must be able to determine its veracity. That's a little more tricky for quantum money given that it's easy to destroy quantum properties by measuring them. However, inspiration for solving this problem comes from public key encryption where anybody can encrypt a message using a public key but only those with a different private key can decrypt it. But the various schemes to do this are all thought to be insecure. Today, a team from MIT describe a new way to create quantum money so that nobody can make a copy, not even the bank that issued it. The technique is based on the kind of asymmetric thinking behind public key encryption and also on the difficulty of repeating quantum measurements once they have been made. However, the MIT team finish their paper with a bombshell. They say that while they expect their technique to be secure, they are unable to prove it. They conclude: "Much as we wish it were otherwise, it seems possible that public-key quantum money intrinsically requires a new mathematical leap of faith, just as public-key cryptography required a new leap of faith when it was first introduced in the 1970s."
Comment what kind of a bank... (Score 4, Funny) 118
Eve Online stole 200 billion "kredits", which he then used as a deposit on a real-world house
What kind of a bank would take 'kredits' as deposit for a house and where can I sign up for an account? I have 500 billion ZWD to use as collateral for a loan.
What kind of a bank would take 'kredits' as deposit for a house and where can I sign up for an account? I have 500 billion ZWD to use as collateral for a loan.
Comment Re:Growing up on Wizardry, Empire, Starflight (Score 1) 427
try the X series (X3:TC in particular), I'm a big space fan myself and X3 has more than satisfied that need. Still playing it after hundreds of hours in. And if you don't look at the online guides/maps etc, there are tons to explore.
Comment Re:same as the PC (Score 1) 389
There are games where console performs better than windows too, like street fighter IV. SO much easier to do a 360 rotation on a gamepad than the keyboard. Of course, I'm able to buy a gamepad for my computer, but what's stopping them from buying a keyboard/mouse for the Xbox? Both uses Live so compatibility shouldn't be that big of an issue.
I think vendors have more to do with this than Sony/MS/Nintendo since they end up losing potential customers. If my friends all play left 4 dead on the PC, there's no reason for me to buy L4D for the Xbox since I can't play with them. Even if I bought a second copy (assuming I already had one for Xbox), MS won't see any of the profits from that, all of it goes to Valve.
