Posted by 8dee on August 28, 2005 – 11:41 pm
A Chinese exchange student was arrested in Japan last week for using bots to run virtual stick-ups in the Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle online game, stealing items from players then reselling them on eBay.
Police in Kagawa prefecture, on the island of Shikoku, arrested the student, the Mainichi Daily News reported. He used game bots — automated characters that have been tweaked — to beat up and rob other players’ characters, said police.
The items, which could have included Lineage II staples such as the “Earring of Wisdom” or the “Shield of Nightmare,” were then fenced on e-auction sites, claimed NCsoft, the Korean maker of Lineage II. Players of the game noted on message boards that the items had appeared on eBay.
I remember reading TheStar InTech about a gamer in China reported to police when other gamer sold his item, but the police laught and then the gamer went to kill the gamer who stole his item. People are getting over addicted to game. Anyway there is Gamer Clinic in China.
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Posted by 8dee on August 25, 2005 – 11:39 am
Universal and Twentieth Century Fox agreed to pay Microsoft $5 million plus a percentage of movie ticket sales. The total price being paid is capped at 10 percent of domestic box office receipts
Universal spokesman Paul Pflug said the studios are aiming for a summer 2007 release of a movie based on “Halo” and “Halo 2,” a science fiction series about an alien-fighting warrior named Master Chief.
I never played this game, but when I was in United States, this game was such a hit. Not sure if Malaysia played it a lot a not. There is also PC version, should be running on Xbox emulator.
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Posted by 8dee on August 22, 2005 – 10:06 am
The bursting of the internet bubble have cost a lot but those who still survived the bubble blow are all doing very well now.
We shall learn from our mistake and not let mistakes slow us down.
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Posted by 8dee on August 21, 2005 – 1:12 pm
It is said that using power line network would be much faster. Maybe by then, you don’t need to have a phone line to get internet broadband.
HomePlug AV’s theoretical maximum throughput is 200 mbps; real-world data rates should run between 70 mbps and 100 mbps, says Andy Melder, senior vice president for strategic business development at Intellon, one of the companies contributing to the spec.
Intellon expects to have its first HomePlug AV chips by the end of September; Melder says he anticipates seeing prototype HomePlug AV adapters at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, with commercial ones to follow by early spring. However, he cautions that we probably won’t see the first consumer electronics products with integrated HomePlug AV–set-top boxes, digital video recorders, and the like–until a year from now.
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Posted by 8dee on August 17, 2005 – 4:01 pm
The comming month would be fall in US and Prinston University will be able to buy digital books. This digital books cost a third less than paper (that is quite expensive as new average textbooks in US cost more than US$100). Digital means you need to print or bring a laptop to school (both will cost you some bucks), the second disadvantage is that there is no resale value (selling your books to friends will get you 75% of the value you buy, usually, but book store usually give you slightly less than 50% and you run the risk of new version or change of textbooks).
Anyhow, buying books from Malaysia (same book, sometimes different paper quality or cover quality) are actually cheaper compare to US. Some students do buy books for next semester when they come back for summer breaks. You can order them from MPH also.
�??�DVDs and CDs. Two next-generation DVD players, Blu-ray and HD-DVD, will have safeguards designed to keep them from playing pirated DVDs. Record company Sony BMG, which represents artists such as Shakira and Jennifer Lopez, is expanding a program started in 2004. Protected CDs can be copied a limited number of times and transferred to some digital music players. EMI and other labels are launching similar programs.
�??�Digital video and software. Microsoft has licensed technology from copy-protection firm Macrovision that makes it tough to pirate video feeds as they move from PCs to TVs and other devices. The software giant also now requires users to prove that they have an official version of its Windows operating system before downloading updates. If a user has a pirated copy, Microsoft offers a legitimate one at a reduced rate.
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Posted by 8dee on August 16, 2005 – 2:53 pm
That is a lot…..too bad there is no hybrid car here in Malaysia. There is a lot of them already, I heard there is even plan to make Toyota Harrier to a hybrid vehicle not sure if it is out in the market already. Honda civic also have its hybrid when I was in San Francisco, US on Mid 2004. Because of expensive gas price, hybrid car are becomming very popular in United States. (Gas also expensive in Malaysia loh!) Hybrid car cost a little more expensive but in the long run, it is beneficial and environmental friendly. Why can’t we get them here in Malaysia? Gas Expensive? Car Expensive? Siong man.
This guy even modify his Toyota Prius and add 18 brick size battery (sacrificing his trunk space) and acheived 250 MPG (miles per gallon). From my conversion on google 250 miles per gallon = 106.285926 kilometer per liter. That is freaking a lot, this allow us to travel 106km with just RM1.62. Think a while, and you will know that it is really really cheap. But the weird thing is that, you will need to charge your car with a plug to your house socket (like any handphone or laptop).
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Posted by 8dee on August 16, 2005 – 10:11 am
Nice to know that NASA people also do podcast. Mission Specialist Steve Robinson before the day of landing. His podcast could be download or read from here
I am not really into podcast, but I have an O2 for me to record my lovely voice wherever I go, maybe someday I will start a podcast thing on my personal website.
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Posted by 8dee on August 14, 2005 – 12:12 pm
This Japanese, Memesana, an overclock extreme manages to overclock 3.8GHz to 7.1GHz setting a world record. It uses liquid nitrogen to cool down the system.
Man…..7.1GHz……almost double the speed now. Maybe after 1-2 years only we can see this kind of speed in the market.
According to the posted statement, the system managed to calculate ???(pi) number to 1 million decimal places in 18.516 seconds, which is currently the world�????s record.
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