Archive for July, 2008
Monday, July 21st, 2008
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
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Don’t feel like dishing out $100 for the Roku Netflix player? Well, if you have an Xbox 360 and a Windows Vista PC, you don’t have to.
Last week we reported about this amazing hack and now we’re showing you how to do it! It comes courtesy of Lifehacker.com and takes about 20 minutes to set up.
Streaming Netflix movies isn’t the only thing you can do with this connection–once your Xbox 360 is added as a Media Center extender, you can stream pictures, music, or video from your PC to the console as well.
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-B1ueBurner
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
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Pioneer has developed an optical disc that can hold up to 400G bytes of data easily surpassing previously announced prototypes.
The new disc manages to pack 16 layers, each with a 25G-byte capacity, into a conventional 12-centimeter diameter optical disc. The new discs are similar to Blu-ray Disc technology and slight changes to the hardware on a Blu-ray drive would allow the new Pioneer discs to be used on one.
Pioneer doesn’t have any plans to commercially produce the disc but is looking to work with disc manufacturers who would make it themselves. The technology is about ready to enter commercialization, said Michiko Kadoi, a spokeswoman for Pioneer in Tokyo.
A one-sided Blu-rayDisc has 25G bytes of capacity, far less than the Pioneer disc.
Currently dual-layer 50G byte discs are the highest capacity discs available commercially. Various companies have worked on higher capacity discs and TDK previously announced development of a 6-layer disc with 150G byte capacity but that has yet to reach the market.
Getting a clear signal from each recording layer has been a stumbling block for higher capacity discs with more layers, but Pioneer says it has managed to solve this problem by employing technology it developed for DVDs. The new disc has a structure that reduces interference from adjacent layers and so accurate playback is possible from all 16 layers, the company said.
The initial prototype is a read-only disc but the same technology is also applicable to recordable discs.
A current 50G byte Blu-ray Disc can store about 6 hours of digital high-definition TV so the higher capacity discs, if commercialized, would be able to expand this to 48 hours.
Pioneer plans to detail the technology at the International Symposium on Optical Memory and Optical Data Storage 2008 that will be held in Hawaii from July 13.
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would this eventually play a role in the next-x-gen gaming consoles? -B1uBurner
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Entertainment means astonishment — and the history of gaming is a history of cutting-edge titillation.
But we may have reached the final frontier. Eccentric British programmer Jeff Minter has created next-gen pubic hair on his Xbox 360 dev kit:
“I appear to have accidentally created procedural pubic hair. I was working on adding some control parameters to a shader that I intended to use for making nice-looking star maps and nebulae, when suddenly the screen was filled with pubes!”
“They glisten and curl and everything }:-).”
Note that buzzword: ‘procedural.’ The games industry is just cottoning on to the power of procedural software, code with simple rules that can give rise to near-infinite possibilities. Spore has been praised to the skies for making extensive use of procedural techniques.
And now, procedural pubic hair is within our, er, grasp. Think the games companies would never stoop to such vulgarity? Think again. Many a SKU has been marketed almost entirely on the promise of giving gamers a bit of a perv:
- BMX XXX — Perform tricks to unlock peepshow reels (heavily censored in Australia)
- Dead or Alive — The pioneer of bouncy boobie physics
- Leisure Suit Larry — Featured a drink-spiking rhythm-action game (banned in Australia)
- BloodRayne — Featured a goth bird who did gymnastics in S&M gear.
- Assassin’s Creed — Produced by an attractive woman. Play Jade’s game!
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