NEW YORK — Footage leaked from “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2″ reveals that players of the upcoming video game can shoot innocent civilians in an airport in a realistic rendering of a terrorist attack.
The game, which has an “M” rating for mature audiences, comes out next month in what its publisher hopes may be [...]
Terrorist Attacks in next Call of Duty!
NEW YORK — Footage leaked from "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" reveals that players of the upcoming video game can shoot innocent civilians in an airport in a realistic rendering of a terrorist attack. The game, which has an "M" rating for mature audiences, comes out next month in what its publisher hopes may be the most lucrative launch in the history of entertainment, not just for games but counting music and movies too. In a statement, game publisher Activision Blizzard Inc. said Wednesday the footage was taken illegally and is not representative of the game's overall experience. Instead, the scene ...
DROID aims to make Apple iAnnoyed
As Wuher the scowling bartender said in Star Wars, AT&T Wireless and Apple doesn’t “serve their kind in here”, but the DROIDs are coming, like it or not. Verizon recently launched its DROID Does web and TV campaign which is a preview of their upcoming Motorola DROID, their longly-awaited iPhone-killer running Google’s Android 2.0 smartphone operating system. Many carriers and device manufacturers have claimed to have iPhone-killers. They tried and failed to unseat the giant, which has a huge following of users and a massive application store. But right now, at least in the United States, iPhone is tied to AT&T Wireless, ...
Apple’s Profit Burden: Great Expectations
Apple has shown few signs of being slowed down by the recession. That's likely to continue when it reports fiscal fourth-quarter results on Monday. The maker of iPods, iPhones and Macintosh computers is projected to post a 13% year-over-year earnings increase to $1.42 a share, according to Thomson Reuters, well above the top end of Apple's own forecast of $1.18 to $1.23. But some on Wall Street are quietly expecting even more -- Apple has a record of exceeding estimates and some investors are anticipating around $1.60. Apple's revenue is forecast to rise 17% to $9.2 billion. Analysts believe sales of Apple's ...
Terrorist Attacks in next Call of Duty!
October 28, 2009 | 8 Comments | Featured Content
testing again
October 27, 2009 | 5 Comments | General Technology
This is a pointless bunch of text… oh, wait I should get that lorem epsum stuff. Hold on… BRB…
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it [...]
Here’s another post
October 27, 2009 | 2 Comments | Financial Tech
This is a pointless bunch of text… oh, wait I should get that lorem epsum stuff. Hold on… BRB…
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it [...]
This is a quick post to test the forum
October 26, 2009 | No Comments | General Technology
Here is a quick little bit of text, I’m typing but I can’t think of anything good to say, so I might as well just type what I am thinking. I went to Cirque De Solie yesterday, it was incredible as always. We sat in the front row and almost got picked as a volunteer, [...]
Flash Creating a Basic GUI With Adobe Flash Tutorial
October 26, 2009 | No Comments | General Technology
I am going to show you how to make a simple GUI with Flash and add some action script code.
If you don’t have Flash, you can get the trial here.
Flash uses a timeline for animation but for now we are just going to use the first frame on the timeline. You don’t really have [...]
Netflix movie streaming coming to PlayStation 3
October 26, 2009 | 1 Comments | Digital Media, Gadgets & Devices
PlayStation 3 owners will soon be able to stream movies and TV shows from Netflix to their TVs using the gaming console, just as Xbox 360 owners have been able to do for a year.
Sony Corp. and the DVD rental company announced the service Monday and plan to launch it next month. It will be [...]
DROID aims to make Apple iAnnoyed
October 19, 2009 | 3 Comments | Featured Content, Gadgets & Devices, General Technology
As Wuher the scowling bartender said in Star Wars, AT&T Wireless and Apple doesn’t “serve their kind in here”, but the DROIDs are coming, like it or not.
Verizon recently launched its DROID Does web and TV campaign which is a preview of their upcoming Motorola DROID, their longly-awaited iPhone-killer running Google’s Android 2.0 smartphone operating [...]
Apple’s Profit Burden: Great Expectations
October 19, 2009 | No Comments | Featured Content, General Technology
Apple has shown few signs of being slowed down by the recession. That’s likely to continue when it reports fiscal fourth-quarter results on Monday.
The maker of iPods, iPhones and Macintosh computers is projected to post a 13% year-over-year earnings increase to $1.42 a share, according to Thomson Reuters, well above the top end of Apple’s [...]
Research Challenge
May 18, 2009 | 1 Comments | General Technology
Your Research Challenge is to choose a specific animal, or a specific animal’s sense, and develop a system that will enable a person to experience the physical or social world as that animal does. We encourage you to solve the problem creatively. Here are some possible approaches:
A novel sensing device based on an animal’s [...]
