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First Person Shooters (Games)

John Carmack Says No Dedicated Servers For Rage 162

Posted by Soulskill from the will-you-rage-over-rage dept.
AndrewDBarker writes "Modern Warfare 2 will use a matchmaking setup powered by IWNet for online play (as we've discussed). It's too early to say what Rage will use, but Carmack indicated he believed the servers are something of a remnant of the early days of PC gaming. That said, he realizes the affinity many PC gamers have for them — and is glad Rage won't be leading the charge away from them. 'The great thing is we won't have to be a pioneer on that,' he says. 'We'll see how it works out for everyone else.'"

Submission + - The Reverse Geocache Puzzle Box

Submitted by whitefox
whitefox writes: An enterprising friend of the bride & groom hands them a wedding gift. They unwrap it to find a locked, wooden box the size of a book with a small LCD screen and a single button. When they press the button, assuming a GPS signal is available, a message appears:

Bonsoir, famille Immel!
This is attempt 2 of 50.
Distance 391km
*Access Denied*
Powering off...

What follows is an interesting story on the creation of a puzzle box that will only unlock itself when it's in the right geographic location and its presentation to the newlyweds. A follow-up sequel to the story is now available.

Comment I'm not sure what they got... (Score 5, Funny) 267

by whitefox (#29698437) Attached to: Inside the Windows 7 Launch Party Pack

I received my package yesterday and it had everything mentioned in the article plus balloons, streamers, and a few more goodies. Sounds like their package wasn't complete.

The way we're going to do it is I'll install a temp copy of 7 on my laptop, show a few things I know, and then let my guests play with it. We're also hosting a BBQ, playing some GH, RB, Wii Sports, and just plain chilling out.

I'm still undecided on whether to raffle off the single goodies (e.g. playing cards) or do some kind of trivia game: what kind of car was BG driving when he got hauled for the infamous mugshot?

After everyone's gone home I'll simply put my production hard drive back in the laptop and start using with my copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. :)

All in all, it should be a good time just getting together and hanging out.
Graphics

Replacements For Adobe Creative Suite 3 Apps? 270

Posted by timothy from the best-of-luck-to-ye dept.
Gilmoure writes "With rumors of Adobe not supporting Creative Suite 3 applications on Mac OS X 10.6, I was wondering what Open Source apps folks would recommend to replace Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Dreamweaver? If the apps can work with the native file formats, all the better but if they provide the same functionality, that's still good. I have several designer friends that are looking forward to the speed boost of OS X 10.6 but don't want to go through the Adobe upgrades so soon after the CS2 to CS3 upgrades. Especially when Adobe's already working on CS5."
Windows

Submission + - Windows 7 Activation Crack Already Available (neowin.net) 1

Submitted by B1oodAnge1
B1oodAnge1 writes: According to neowin.net, a full activation crack for Windows 7 Ultimate Edition has been released on several chinese forums, months in advance of the actual release of the operating system to the general public.

Microsoft has confirmed that they "are aware of reports of activation exploits that attempt to circumvent activation & validation in Windows 7."
Intel

Submission + - The story behind Intel's Atom processor (goodgearguide.com.au)

Submitted by
angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "Intel had to hustle to catch up with competitors in developing chips for mobile devices like smartphones, but the effort led to the development of the highly successful Atom chip, an Intel exec has revealed. Intel kicked off the Atom project in 2004, when it was doing work on developing Arm chips in parallel. At the time the company was "running like crazy" to develop a chip for mobile devices to catch up with the fast evolution of wireless devices, especially voice services, which were peaking at the time."
Cellphones

Submission + - EFF: Apple's jailbroken iPhone/tower claim FUD (computerworld.com)

Submitted by
CWmike
CWmike writes: "The EFF took exception today to Apple's claims that jailbroken iPhones could cripple a mobile carrier network, calling the argument nothing but "a hill of beans." "This is all just a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt," said Fred von Lohmann, an EFF senior staff attorney and the organization's expert in intellectual property law. He said Apple's claims that jailbroken iPhones could bring down a carrier's tower software was just a hypothetical game. "None of this has ever happened [with jailbroken iPhones]," von Lohmann said. "You don't see the independent iPhone stores filled with malicious software tools. Instead, they're filled with the software that Apple has refused to offer in its App Store. If we had to live under this kind of regime for computers, consumers would rebel," said von Lohmann. "This isn't about stopping attacks, it's about Apple and AT&T trying to lock out other programs. I can't imagine anything that's any more blatantly anti-competitive.""
Programming

Submission + - Clutter 1.0 arrives (moblin.org)

Submitted by moblinzone
moblinzone writes: The Moblin project has achieved the first stable release of Clutter, an innovative 3D graphics library aimed at helping UI developers exploit graphics hardware acceleration without using the low-level OpenGL APIs. The arrival of Clutter 1.0 means application developers can now add the appealing Moblin graphics technology to new and existing apps in confidence that the APIs will not change prior to the next major version number (i.e., the arrival of Clutter 2.0).
Patents

Submission + - Company Awarded "The Patent for Podcasting" (newteevee.com) 2

Submitted by
Chris Albrecht
Chris Albrecht writes: "VoloMedia announced today that it has been awarded what it called the "patent for podcasting." According to the press announcement, patent number 7,568,213, titled "Method for Providing Episodic Media," covers: "...the fundamental mechanisms of podcasting, including providing consumer subscription to a show, automatically downloading media to a computer, prioritizing downloads, providing users with status indication, deleting episodes, and synchronizing episodes to a portable media device.""
The Internet

Submission + - Inside the AP's Plan to Wrap/DRM its News Content (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: Associated Press, reeling from the newspaper apocalypse, has a new plan to "wrap" and "protect" its content though a "digital permissions framework.

The Associated Press last week rolled out its brave new plan to "apply protective format to news." The AP's news registry will "tag and track all AP content online to assure compliance with terms of use," and it will provide a "platform for protect, point, and pay." That's a lot of "p"-prefaced jargon, but it boils down to a sort of DRM for news--"enforcement," in AP-speak.

According to the AP's announcement ( http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_072309a.html ), the news registry it plans to set up relies on a new "microformat," described thusly:

        The microformat will essentially encapsulate AP and member content in an informational "wrapper" that includes a digital permissions framework that lets publishers specify how their content is to be used online and which also supplies the critical information needed to track and monitor its usage.

        The registry also will enable content owners and publishers to more effectively manage and control digital use of their content, by providing detailed metrics on content consumption, payment services and enforcement support. It will support a variety of payment models, including pay walls.

To make the system clear, the AP also released this not-in-any-way confusing chart ( http://static.arstechnica.com/2009/07/28/AP-chart.jpg ) of what it intends to do.

ARSTechnica : http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/drm-for-news-inside-the-aps-plan-to-wrap-its-content.ars

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