There is no possible way to say this enough times: great graphics don’t make great games. Wii Sports
—a mini-sports anthology that includes golf, boxing, tennis, baseball and bowling—looks like ColecoVision. The little guys on the screen don’t even have arms. The tennis game alone is worth the price of admission. Which is nothing since it […]
Though free software tries to be exactly what the moniker purports, issues of ownership and originality that we take for granted in, say, the media sphere, must be examined thoroughly nearly every time there
’s a dollar to made or a patent to be claimed. There’s IBM, LimeWire, MGM, MySQL AB, Grokster, Eolas, Microsoft and more […]
It’s been one year since Pligg launched, in that time Pligg has gone from a simple digg-like clone to a full blown open source modular content management system. A few of the “too-many-to-list” features in Pligg 9 include, ad revenue sharing, easily add video, and a new private messaging system. Download now for free!read more […]
After seven years of work, the LinuxBIOS project is on the brink of making a free BIOS a standard option for computers. Serious obstacles remain, including a lack of resources and resistance from some proprietary chipset manufacturers and OEMs, but the advantages of LinuxBIOS indicate that its availability to the average computer buyer may be […]
After seven years of work, the LinuxBIOS project is on the brink of making a free BIOS a standard option for computers. Serious obstacles remain, including a lack of resources and resistance from some proprietary chipset manufacturers and OEMs, but the advantages of LinuxBIOS indicate that its availability to the average computer buyer may be […]
While gNewSense enjoys its initial introduction as a fully free as in freedom distribution, it seems at the same time an existing GNU/Linux distribution has turned to slavery. Never before has the contrast between software freedom and intellectual slavery been more clear thanks to the proud efforts of gNewSense, and the craven ones of Novell.read […]
Time Warner Cable is gradually rolling out a new feature called “Start Over.” Available to its digital cable customers in certain areas, it allows viewers to backtrack to the beginning of selected shows and provides limited DVR-like functionality. Currently, the free service is available only on “’selected’ shows on ‘designated’ channels,”read more | digg story
Most politicians are as likely to pass up free TV face time before an election as they would be to refuse a campaign check. Then again, there’s a price to be paid for looking stupid. That’s what members of Congress have learned recently about “Better Know a District,” a sarcastic weekly skit that is part […]
A plea for help. I’m trying to write something about this paper, by John Conway and Simon Kochen of Princeton. Any guidance from physics experts would be greatly appreciated. I’m afraid that when it comes to these sorts of papers I’m like the simple son at the Seder: I don’t even know what questions to […]
Well not really a retail developer (think GamesRadar), but one of the PSP scene’s most respected homebrew developers, FreePlay, points out the faults of GameWorld’s recent claim that the ‘PSP is dead’, as well as agrees with some of the reasons why Sony, did really, mess up, in his latest podcast.read more | digg story