Gaikai Ramping Up Open Beta 44

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday November 18, 2010 @05:20AM from the you-got-your-internet-in-my-game dept.

Gaikai, the cloud gaming service currently under development, has begun its open beta phase, sending out first 1,000 and then 10,000 invites to players who requested them. Dave Perry said in a blog post that they will continue sending out invites in batches of 10,000 until they pin down any outstanding server issues. His post also includes video of a player streaming Mass Effect 2 to a Linux system. "We are working with lots of publishers / retailers / media sites / electronics makers / telecom companies etc. We have at least 60 deals in the pipe at some stage. (You can imagine how nuts that is to manage.) ... Everyone will be getting invited in batches, and if you are too far from our servers, don't worry — you've actually helped, as you've shown us where we need to install more data centers. (We're effectively reverse-engineering the internet, letting the traffic show us where the best data center position would give access to the most people.)"

Raising Doubts About Australia's Broadband Upgrade Plan 98

Posted by timothy on Friday November 07, 2008 @03:01AM from the doubt-doubt-doubt dept.

RcK writes "In addition to the rising controversy of the possible Australian version of the Great Firewall Of China already mentioned several times of late here on Slashdot; the viability of the proposed AU$5Billion internet infrastructure upgrade promised by the Federal Government during their 2007 election campaign is under fire. The MD of arguably Australia's leading internet company, iinet, has branded the proposal a waste of taxpayers money. Steve Ballmer, during his current Australian visit, has also weighed in on the topic and diplomatically indicated that Australia should get on with the job. Much of the current criticism appears to surround the likelihood of people in remote areas being left out of the proposed plan. Ironically, where I lived previously (remote town in central Aus — nearest town over 400km away) everyone had, at the absolute least, subsidized satellite internet, and most had ADSL. In my case a flawless 512k connection for ~4years. However, I now live 5 minutes from the center of a capital city and due to archaic telephone infrastructure cannot get ADSL, and even line noise is too great for dialup!" Today's front page at Whirlpool Broadband News also features several articles relating to the saga.

Comment Re:Oh dear (Score 1) 515

by hfnarqkh on Wednesday December 14, 2005 @11:33AM (#14256210) Attached to: What Makes a Good Web Font

Part of me agrees with your "works of art" comment. The other part of me says "let the designers design, that way I don't have to".

I've had sIFR suggested to me before (not by a desinger, but a manager/sales type person). I had never heard of it, but after doing a bit of research, I refused. There have already been some comments here about Flash being bad, so I won't get into that, as I didn't with this manager who wanted sIFR. My refusal was based on performance for those who choose to allow flash content in their browsers. One can only attempt to auto-generate and spit out so much flash before the site is a fat pig and doesn't load well for anybody (broadband connection or not).

Usually I just try to encourage the designers I work with to acutally learn CSS. They usually forget about crap like sIFR after that.

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