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Shattered Horizon
This game is going to be awesome. I am a beta tester, but I cannot post any videos or screenshots of the game due to the non-disclosure agreement I accepted. All I have to say is, this game is refreshingly unique. Most first person shooters these days are all essentially the same, but Shattered Horizon puts a new spin on the first person shooter- zero gravity. You fight it out on asteroids, ruined space stations, and similar places. It’s made by Futuremark, the people who make the 3DMark and PCMark benchmarking utilities. Check out the teaser trailer below, and be sure to pick it up when it’s released.
[Engadget] Video: Phoenix Instant Boot BIOS starts loading Windows in under a second
Phoenix is showing off a few interesting things at IDF, but the real standout is their new Instant Boot BIOS, a highly optimized UEFI implementation that can start loading an OS in just under a second.
[Engadget] Video: doctors implant tooth into eye, restore sight, creep everyone out
Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis. It’s a real procedure that really does revive people’s ability to see, yet we get the feeling that people will be more, um, excited about how it’s done than why it’s done. The seemingly Mary Shelley-inspired doctors extract a tooth from a blind person and drill a hole through it, where a prosthetic lens is placed, and the resulting macabre construction is implanted into the blind person’s eye.
Videography / Paintball
Well, my Sister has a videocamera that she got for Christmas and never uses. It’s a JVC Everio GZ-MG330AU. A few weeks ago Brad (Nododgy, he posts here…sometimes…=P) and I played paintball. I brought said camera, and he gave me an old half-broken tripod he no longer had any use for. It broke after it was used that Sunday, but I’ve since ordered a new one and it’s making me want to start getting more into video editing. So far all I’ve done with it is set it up and have whoever wasn’t playing record me and my friends playing, so the videos aren’t too good, nothing I can really use to make a mix or anything. I think I may try to go to a tournament in the near future and get some good footage I can use to play around with video editing. I doubt It’ll be as good as the great stuff PBCulture puts out, but it’s something to do. I’d also like to get into still photography as well, but I have way too many expensive hobbies as it is. Too much time and interest, and not enough money = the story of my life. My Vimeo account is http://vimeo.com/ericj/videos , you can go there to see me and Brad playing. (That’s me in the picture below, and to find Brad just look for a gold mask, red jersey, and grey pants.)
[TorrentFreak] Kiosk of Piracy: An Offline Copy of The Pirate Bay
In the past weeks the Pirate Bay has been ripped, copied and rebuilt by avid file-sharers, guaranteeing that the site’s legacy will be preserved no matter what. The people behind the Kiosk of Piracy take this trend to a whole new level as they have created an offline copy of the site which is open to the public.
More #archlinux IRC fun :)
<murderbymodem> ondemand governor failed, too long transition latency of HW, fallback to performance governor
<axionix>o.O
<john_f>try the conservative governor
<john_f>it reacts slower.
[TorrentFreak] Facebook Bans LimeWire’s Share Feature
Limewire is so much fail. Use FrostWire Instead. – Gabe
LimeWire is by far the most used filesharing application, with a market share of approximately 35%. The client recently updated its BitTorrent support and added the option to share files with friends on Facebook, a feature that thousands of users reviewed positively.
[Splashgear] HDMI 1.4 adds ethernet, bi-directional audio, 1080p 3D
Internet-connected TVs and other home media devices could soon see a boost, as the new HDMI 1.4 standard bundles not only video and audio support but data capabilities too. HDMI 1.4 can support data rates of up to 100MB/s, effectively replacing a standard 10/100 ethernet cable, as well as introducing bi-directional audio (aka “upstream audio”) and HD support up to 4096 x 2160.
[TorrentFreak] Anti-Piracy Boss Confiscates Confiscated Hacker Laptop
Tim Kuik, managing director of Dutch anti-piracy gang BREIN, has publicly admitted that he’s currently using a Sony VAIO laptop previously confiscated from a ‘hacker’. Although he doesn’t elaborate on how he obtained the machine, it is hard not to conclude that it has been misappropriated.