Dear Readers,Sorry for the post-E3 tumbleweeds around here. For what it’s worth, I spent a couple of weeks in Japan, and then got sucked back into my (exciting) Panic-related work upon my return. Returning from vacation is, as they say in China, like p…
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The investment that Simply Hired took from Fox Interactive seems to be paying dividends already. Tonight at 9 pm PST MySpace, a subsidiary of Fox Interactive, will unveil MySpace Careers, a new job site on MySpace powered by Simply Hired. This is interesting news mostly because of the massive traffic that the MySpace home page […]
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So we’ve been fooling around with our Xbox for the last few days since we got the big spring ‘06 360 update, and we haven’t really noticed any issues; everything has been downright snappy, and the new interfaces and options have been rather useful. But it might appear not everyone got off so luckily. According to MaxConsole and Xbox 360 Fanboy, a number of users are experiencing major issues with their 360, including problems with saving, freezing, skipping, or long load times in NHL 2k6, GRAW, Burnout, Half Life 2, and Oblivion — but it sounds like the noise has died down a little. So now that we’ve had a little more time to really see what’s up, what say you, 360 users? Any issues worth mentioning that seem out of the ordinary?
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Filed under: Gaming
So we’ve been fooling around with our Xbox for the last few days since we got the big spring ‘06 360 update, and we haven’t really noticed any issues; everything has been downright snappy, and the new interfaces and options have been rather useful. But it might appear not everyone got off so luckily. According to MaxConsole and Xbox 360 Fanboy, a number of users are experiencing major issues with their 360, including problems with saving, freezing, skipping, or long load times in NHL 2k6, GRAW, Burnout, Half Life 2, and Oblivion — but it sounds like the noise has died down a little. So now that we’ve had a little more time to really see what’s up, what say you, 360 users? Any issues worth mentioning that seem out of the ordinary?
[Via MaxConsole]
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TWiT 57 was a pip, featuring Dvorak, Patrick Norton, Amber MacArthur, Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron, Ask A Ninja’s Kent Nichols, Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc, Microsoft’s Robert Scoble, and a special appearance by the father of RSS and podcasting, Dave Winer.
But with all those voices it’s taking me longer than usual to make a good clean show. Give me an extra 24 hours for editing. We should have both audio and video available late Monday.
Thanks for your patience - I promise it will be worth the wait.
An anonymous reader writes to mention an Economist article wondering how safe should robots be? From the article: “In 1981 Kenji Urada, a 37-year-old Japanese factory worker, climbed over a safety fence at a Kawasaki plant to carry out some maintenance work on a robot. In his haste, he failed to switch the robot off properly. Unable to sense him, the robot’s powerful hydraulic arm kept on working and accidentally pushed the engineer into a grinding machine. His death made Urada the first recorded victim to die at the hands of a robot. This gruesome industrial accident would not have happened in a world in which robot behavior was governed by the Three Laws of Robotics drawn up by Isaac Asimov, a science-fiction writer.” The article goes on to explore the ethics behind robot soldiers, the liability issues of cleaning droids, and the moral problems posed by sexbots.
The U.S. Military runs another delay ruse by us. Just this morning, the New York Times reported:
With rumors circulating in the Iraqi news media that Mr. Zarqawi had begun to run from the house as the first bomb struck, American officials said Saturday that two military pathologists had arrived in Iraq to perform an autopsy on his body to determine the precise cause of his death. The results from the autopsy, and Mr. Zarqawi’s precise location at the time of the airstrike, will be disclosed soon, an American military official said.
The autopsy is now complete but the military is not releasing it yet.
“The autopsy is completed. However, we are not releasing results yet,” Maj. William Willhoite told The Associated Press. Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said officials were awaiting the results of a DNA test.
Why do they need to wait for the DNA test, which will take 2 to 3 days, when Gen. Casey said on Fox News today they are 100% sure the dead man was al-Zarqawi.
We have a 100 percent match on the fingerprints, and we have a good match on scars and tattoos on the body.
Hi, everyone. “Moriarty” here with some Rumblings From The Lab…
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The Windows Vista Beta 2 download weighs in at a whopping 3.2 GB (even the product guide is over 70 mb). You can download the file or order a DVD. Microsoft is strongly pushing the DVD option, noting that their servers are under severe strain from downloads and that many customers are simply unable to […]
NBA players union executive director Billy Hunter told Bloomberg News that he would not agree to blood tests that would show the use of HGH.
There will be a status conference Monday (pfd) in the Scooter Libby trial.
On a related note, in addition to partially granting and denying Libby’s motion to compel discovery on June 2, the Court issued an order on classified information. It ruled that by June 9, the Government must turn over substitutes of these classified documents:
(1) The government shall provide to the defense by June 9, 2006, the proposed substitution recounting Valerie Plame Wilson’s employment history with the Central Intelligence Agency from January 1, 2002, and thereafter.
(2) The government shall provide to the defense by June 9, 2006, the proposed substitution discussing potential damage (if any) caused by the alleged disclosure
of Valerie Plame Wilson’s affiliation with the Central Intelligence Agency.(3) The government shall, as requested, provide to the defense by June 9, 2006, the true names of three individuals whose identities were redacted from classified documents previously made available to the defense, and shall identify for the
defense the specific documents and locations within those documents where those
names should be inserted.