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Activision To "Monetize" Call of Duty Online Play 114

Posted by Soulskill from the paypal-now-for-ammo-reloads dept.
With Call of Duty: World at War set to hit store shelves this November, Activision has been making plans to monetize the online component of the game. "Infinity Ward-developed CoD4 has paid downloadable maps available on digital storefronts, but with CoD5, developed by Activision studio Treyarch, downloadable content will be a considerably bigger priority. Griffith added that Activision 'plans to increase online monetization' with CoD5, offering '3x the amount of content available for download and premium content called Day One Advantage.'" Activision also announced that for Call of Duty 6 they will be going back to Infinity Ward for development, the company who developed the first, second, and fourth offerings in the series. Treyarch made the third and fifth installments.
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First Image of a Planet Orbiting a Sun-Like Star 131

Posted by kdawson from the cold-jupiter dept.
Several readers including houbou and DigitumDei sent links to what may be the first-ever image of a planet orbiting a sun-like star (research paper). The giant planet, the mass of 8 Jupiters, orbits its star at 330 AU, or 11 times the distance to Neptune's orbit. If the imaged object does turn out to be a planet — and it's not certain it is — then theories of planet formation may have to be adjusted. "The bulk of the material from which planets might form is significantly closer to the parent star... The outermost parts of such disks wouldn't contain enough material to assemble a Jupiter-mass planet at the distance from the star... at which the Toronto team found the faint object."

Comment Re:MythTV is great (Score 1) 480

by santellij (#5780534) Attached to: Home-Grown TiVo Stories?
I am working on getting a MythTV machine up and running as well. I have digital cable and hope to use a serial cable to change the channel. If that doesn't work out I go with an IR blaster. I don't think that will be the end of the world.

I don't want to get into the TIVO vs "roll your own" but I am definitely doing this project so I can make my own. I've even gone so far as to get an '83 top loading beta VCR for a case.

asus a7n266-VM ($75)
AMD XP 2100+ ($75)
512 PC 2100 ($50)
20 Gig drive (will add more, budget: $100)
ATI tv wonder VE ($40)
VCR case ($10)
300W Power ($50)
IR receiver (followed diag on lirc.com) (~$10 for parts)
cables and other parts ($100)
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~$500

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