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Gen Con 2007 In A Nutshell 125

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday August 22, 2007 @03:11PM from the just-look-at-all-the-stormtroopers dept.

Another year, another Gen Con? Hardly. This year was the 40th anniversary of Gen Con, marked the announcement of the newest edition of Dungeons and Dragons, and was the first year videogame companies were actively sought out as exhibitors. Put together this resulted in what felt like record crowds, a healthy dealer's hall, and an instant conversation-starter with every other person at the event. Read on for notes on the new tabletop releases, thoughts on the new edition of D&D, impressions of the videogames that were in attendance, and a shameful admission of weakness.

Submission + - Google's Growing Pains (mercurynews.com)

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Sunday August 19, 2007 @09:40AM

eldavojohn writes: "The Mercury News is reporting that Google's 500 percent growth since its IPO hasn't come without a cost. With the purchase of DoubleClick, Google is facing antitrust charges in both the United States and the European Union. And with their rising success, there are open source alternatives springing up."

Submission + - Will Web TV be the death of the Internet? 1

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Sunday August 19, 2007 @07:34AM

Stony Stevenson writes: Analyst groups and Cisco have come out saying that the internet is heading for a crash unless it increases its bandwidth capabilities which are being strangled by the increased use of Web TV.

Stan Schatt, research director at ABI said: "Uploading bandwidth is going to have to increase, and the cable providers are going to get killed on bandwidth as HD programming becomes more commonplace." He added that the solution to the problem is to change to digital switching and move to IPTV. "They will be brought kicking and screaming into the 21st century," he said.

Cisco weighed into the argument, adding that it had found American video websites currently transmit more data per month than the entire amount of traffic sent over the internet in 2000.

Comment Sending Halvar back is one thing.... (Score 4, Insightful) 348

by cosicosa on Sunday July 29, 2007 @06:39PM (#20035627) Attached to: US Blocks Entry For German Black Hat Presenter

...reading these knee-jerk jingoist responses on /. is quite another.

And no, not just because ppl should RTFA before engaging in ludicrous parochialisms.

Consider: The Copernican revolution in how the US (unlike any other Western country) deals with travellers like Halvar coming to its borders from a legal, cultural, historical perspective is in the context of a wholesale erosion of human and civil rights -- of American citizens (not the hapless foreigner popping in to educate you). Realise how these incidents do sustained damage to the US reputation, its economy and its already shockingly insular society, and you will also catch a glimpse of the loss of rights and freedoms for Americans themselves.

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