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Comment KOTOR (Score 1) 133

by alphabetsoup (#36048284) Attached to: Star Wars MMO Estimated To Cost $100M
KOTOR I and II were 2 of the best RPGs I have played. True that KOTOR 2's ending was botched up, but then it wasn't released by Bioware. I am really excited about this game - I haven't found a really good RPG recently after Witcher. Mass Effect and Dragon Age wasn't that good in my opinion.
Sony

'Anonymous' Plans Sony Boycott On April 16 260

Posted by Roblimo from the suing-your-customers-never-ends-well dept.
Here's an excerpt from PCMag: "Say you're a hacker trying to cripple a major electronics company for suing its own users: how do you launch a cyberattack without harming the people you're trying to protect? In the case of hactivist group 'Anonymous,' which has spent the week targeting Sony to retaliate against Sony's ongoing lawsuits against PlayStation 3 modifiers, you take it offline. Anonymous is staging a 24-hour, in-store boycott at Sony stores around the world on Saturday, April 16. So far over 1,000 people have RSVP'd through Facebook."
Windows

Submission + - NVIDIA entering mainstream CPU race with ARM (pcper.com)

Submitted by Vigile
Vigile writes: For many years NVIDIA has been rumored to enter the highly competitive general processor markets and while the speculation of x86 never actually panned out, at CES yesterday NVIDIA did something nearly as dramatic. Shortly before the Microsoft announcement of a Windows operating system running on the ARM architecture, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang went on stage and discussed Project Denver, the NVIDIA initiative to create high performance ARM processors suitable for desktop and server use at standard wattage and TDPs. This indicates a fundamental shift in computing technology where companies like NVIDIA can compete with Intel without the often-litigated x86 licenses.
Microsoft

Next Generation of Windows To Run On ARM Chip 307

Posted by samzenpus from the let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "Sharon Chan reports in the Seattle Times that at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft showed the next generation of Windows running natively on an ARM chip design, commonly used in the mobile computing world, indicating a schism with Intel, the chip maker Microsoft has worked with closely with throughout the history of Windows and the PC. The Microsoft demonstration showed Word, PowerPoint and high definition video running on a prototype ARM chipset made by Texas Instruments, Nvidia. 'It's part of our plans for the next generation of Windows,' says Steve Sinofsky, president of Windows division. 'That's all under the hood.' According to a report in the WSJ, the long-running alliance between Microsoft and Intel is coming to a day of reckoning as sales of tablets, smartphones and televisions using rival technologies take off, pushing the two technology giants to go their separate ways. The rise of smartphones and more recently, tablets, has strained the relationship as Intel's chips haven't been able to match the low power consumption of chips based on designs licensed from ARM. Intel has also thumbed its nose at Microsoft by collaborating with Microsoft archrival Google on the Chrome OS, Google's operating system that will compete with Windows in the netbook computer market. 'I think it's a deep fracture,' says venture capitalist Jean-Louis Gassee regarding relations between Microsoft and Intel."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Multitouch Mouse - stroke your mouse? (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: Multitouch is great — as long as you have an input device that supports it. For the desktop machine this is something of a problem. Not many have multitouch enabled monitors and the ones that do aren't exactly natural to use in a vertical mode. Multitouch works best on mobile devices that you tend to hold horizontally. Now Microsoft thinks it has the answer in the form a new mouse — Touch Mouse, that supports gestures. This mouse has a capacitive touch sensor on its back bring new meaning to "now stroke your mouse".
Graphics

Submission + - NVIDIA Unveils Denver ARM-Based CPU For HPC (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: In a jam-packed meeting room in Las Vegas today, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang spoke about the massive influx of mobile computing devices over the last few years and NVIDIA’s plans to better infiltrate the burgeoning market moving forward. During the address, Mr. Huang spoke almost about the company’s Tegra 2 processor and its capabilities, although he also dropped a bombshell to close his talk about NVIDIA’s “Project Denver.” Denver is not an x86 device, but rather a custom designed, high-performance ARM core that will target the HPC space. Though low-power ARM architecture hasn’t been geared for the HPC space, instead finding its way into a myriad of mobile devices and smartphones, NVIDIA aims to change that by pairing a custom core with their high performance GPU on a single SoC. NVIDIA's Denver chip is in a good position potentially if the company can execute, especially in light of Microsoft’s announcement earlier today that the next version of Windows will support next-gen System on a Chip (SoC) architectures from Intel, AMD, and ARM.
Microsoft

Submission + - Next Generation of Windows to Run on ARM Chip

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "Sharon Chan reports in the Seattle Times that at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft showed the next generation of Windows running natively on an ARM chip design, commonly used in the mobile computing world, indicating a schism with Intel, the chip maker Microsoft has worked with closely with throughout the history of Windows and the PC. The Microsoft demonstration showed Word, PowerPoint and high definition video running on a prototype ARM chipset made by Texas Instruments, Nvidia. "It's part of our plans for the next generation of Windows.," says Steve Sinofsky, president of Windows division. "That's all under the hood." According to a report in the WSJ, the long-running alliance between Microsoft and Intel is coming to a day of reckoning as sales of tablets, smartphones and televisions using rival technologies take off, pushing the two technology giants to go their separate ways. The rise of smartphones and more recently, tablets has strained the relationship as Intel's chips haven't been able to match the low-power consumption of chips based on designs licensed from ARM and Intel has also thumbed its nose at Microsoft by collaborating with Microsoft archrival Google on the Chrome OS, Google's operating system that will compete with Windows in the netbook computer market. "I think it's a deep fracture," says venture capitalist Jean-Louis Gassee regarding relations between Microsoft and Intel."

Submission + - Microsoft bashes Apple "convergence" at CES (networkworld.com)

Submitted by jbrodkin
jbrodkin writes: Microsoft may be far behind Apple in the consumer devices market with no clear plan for topping the iPad and iPhone, but that didn't stop Microsoft from criticizing Apple while previewing the next generation of Windows at CES. While Apple has made billions by putting several different types of devices in the hands of consumers, Microsoft's Windows division president said the proliferation of iPhones, iPads, iPods and MacBooks are giving users an annoying amount of pieces of hardware to carry. “That’s not particularly converged," the executive, Steven Sinofsky, said during an invitation-only press conference at CES, hours before Steve Ballmer was due to give his keynote. The next generation of Windows will run on a variety of touch-screen tablets, but Microsoft still hasn't explained how it will enable convergence across smartphones, PCs and tablets, especially as it offers two different operating systems with Windows and Windows Phone 7. When pressed on the "convergence" issue, Sinofsky admitted that he doesn't yet know how one single Microsoft device could replace four Apple devices. "Today is really a technology preview and I don’t want to start speculating about devices," he said.
Science

Submission + - Hari Seldon is starting to look less fictional (physorg.com) 2

Submitted by jthill
jthill writes: "Psychohistory" is the basis for the eentirentire Foundation series. Hari Seldon is a university mathematician, develops models good enough to predict social developments the same way engineers can predict physical ones: given enough individuals, probabilistic aggregate behavior becomes all but completely predictable.

So now some mathematicians at Cornell have developed a probabilistic model that behaves like real social groups. Karate clubs. Republicans and Democrats. From the article:

They plugged in data on international relations prior to World War II and got almost perfect predictions on how the Axis and Allied alliances formed.

Submission + - Stuxnet was designed to subtly interfere with uran (wired.com)

Submitted by
ceswiedler
ceswiedler writes: "Wired.com is reporting that the Stuxnet worm was apparently designed to subtly interfere with uranium enrichment by periodically speeding or slowing specific frequency converter drives spinning between 807Hz and 1210Hz. The goal was not to cause a major malfunction (which would be quickly noticed), but rather to degrade the quality of the enriched uranium to the point where much of it wouldn't be useful in atomic weapons. Statistics from 2009 show that the number of enriched centrifuges operational in Iran mysteriously declined from about 4,700 to about 3,900 at around the time the worm was spreading in Iran."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft vs McAfee:How free antivirus outperforme (zdnet.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: Microsoft vs. McAfee: How free antivirus outperformed paid

How effective is free antivirus software? I had a chance to see a real, in-the-wild example just this month, and the results were, to put it mildly, unexpected. The bottom line? Microsoft’s free antivirus solution found and removed a threat that two well-known paid products missed.

Microsoft Security Essentials had detected several files files that it considered malicious. One was a rigged PDF file (not shown here). The other was a single file in the Java cache folder on this system that contained three separate exploits. Using the information in the MSE history pane, I found the file and uploaded it to Virustotal.com, which is a free service that allows you to scan a suspicious file using 43 separate antivirus engines.

Only 17 of 43 antivirus products detected this as a threat. The full results page showed the identification, if any, for each product on the list. Microsoft, Symantec, Avast, and F-Secure were among the engines that flagged the file. But the majority didn’t.

ZDNet: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/microsoft-vs-mcafee-how-free-antivirus-outperformed-paid/2614

Submission + - Michio Kaku: Invisibility Cloaks, Singularity (singularityhub.com)

Submitted by kkleiner
kkleiner writes: Michio Kaku is a physics professor at CUNY with an impressive resume of publications – he was among the first to develop string field theory. Despite this intimidating background, or perhaps due to it, Kaku is also a very approachable popularizer of science. He’s a best selling author many times over, hosts two radio programs that explain and discuss experiments and technology, and has an ongoing blog at Big Think wherein he answers questions from his readers. Recently, he discussed the possibilities of invisibility cloaks, programmable matter, and a Technological Singularity. According to Kaku, Moore’s Law alone isn’t enough to guarantee the rise of artificial intelligence, but we may have human like AI by the end of the 21st century.

Comment Re:Skidrow didn't do the hard work (Score 1) 443

by Beelzebud (#31979998) Attached to: Ubisoft's DRM Cracked — For Real This Time
You can play dumb and naive all you want, but give me a break. How were they pirating? Are you serious? They were pirating by making a website that gave away all the DRM hashes, and then helping to build an emulated server that let others play without paying. You can go with the 'proxy for offline play' if you like, but don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.

Mod this one flamebait too, warez kiddies, the truth must hurt.

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