Gaming 22 - Take Two
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Currently codenamed S1, the device will have a 9.4-inch capacitive touch screen (1280 x 800 resolution), run Android 3.0, and will be powered by a Tegra 2 processor, according to "two highly trusted and independent sources" cited by Engadget. It is focused on Qriocity, the company's music, game, ebook, and video on-demand service that recently launched in Europe. The gaming tablet will come preloaded with Sony PS One games, and a Bravia Media Remote. It also features front- and rear-facing cameras as well as a USB-A port. The physical buttons include volume, on/off, and possibly a Q for Qriocity. There's even an IR port built-in allowing you to control other devices.
The tablet will have a "wrap" design that mimics an open paperback stuffed into a back pocket, or a magazine folded backward upon itself such that only a single page is visible. In terms of functionality, this will supposedly give the tablet's display enough of an angle to comfortably touch-type when placed on a table, make one-handed operation a bit less taxing on the wrist, and to reduce the torque that makes 10-inch tablets uncomfortable to hold one-handed for an extended period of time.
The target price for the WiFi-only version of the S1 is $600 with a planned September 2011 ship date. Remember, this rumor is still a very early one, so anything can change. The product may even be canned, but hopefully that won't happen.
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The release of markedly different proposed budget plans from President Obama and Republican members of the House of Representatives over the last several days marks the beginning of a legislative contest that will likely last most of the year, and that could have a major impact on funding for the development of clean energy. The House plan includes big cuts for clean-energy research, while the president's plan would in some cases double spending.
The president's plan looks ahead to fiscal year 2012, which starts in October. Congress failed to pass a fiscal year 2011 budget last year, and the government is operating on stopgap bills that keep funding at 2010 levels. The latest expires in early March, and this week, the House started debate on a bill meant to fund the government for the rest of the year.
Because of the big differences between the House bill and Obama's goals for energy funding, among other things, some experts say that it could be difficult to come to an agreement by the March deadline, making a government shutdown possible. The stakes are high on the form this bill takes, not only because the House cuts could have a big impact on the functioning of government agencies this year, but also because it will serve as a baseline for the 2012 budget negotiations.
President Obama's proposed budget includes major cuts in many areas in response to concerns about federal budget deficits and the national debt. But the president includes big increases in support for clean energy, including money for R&D and for deploying existing clean-energy technologies, which include renewable power such as wind and solar, conventional low-carbon energy sources such as nuclear power, and electric-powered vehicles. Obama plans to pay for these increases in large part by eliminating 12 tax breaks to oil, gas, and coal companies.
The House bill cuts U.S. Department of Energy R&D by $1.38 billion compared to 2010 levels, while the president's budget request increases it by $2.15 billion. According to an analysis of the bill by the Center for American Progress, money for research, development, and deployment of renewable energy in the Republican plan would be cut by $800 million from $2.2 billion. "This cut is really drastic," says Daniel Weiss, senior fellow and director of climate strategy at the Center for American Progress. Because of costs associated with terminating employees and closing down labs, in some cases, the cuts may not even be possible over the six months that would remain in the fiscal year, says Patrick Clemins, director of the R&D Budget and Policy Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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The release of markedly different proposed budget plans from President Obama and Republican members of the House of Representatives over the last several days marks the beginning of a legislative contest that will likely last most of the year, and that could have a major impact on funding for the development of clean energy. The House plan includes big cuts for clean-energy research, while the president's plan would in some cases double spending.
The president's plan looks ahead to fiscal year 2012, which starts in October. Congress failed to pass a fiscal year 2011 budget last year, and the government is operating on stopgap bills that keep funding at 2010 levels. The latest expires in early March, and this week, the House started debate on a bill meant to fund the government for the rest of the year.
Because of the big differences between the House bill and Obama's goals for energy funding, among other things, some experts say that it could be difficult to come to an agreement by the March deadline, making a government shutdown possible. The stakes are high on the form this bill takes, not only because the House cuts could have a big impact on the functioning of government agencies this year, but also because it will serve as a baseline for the 2012 budget negotiations.
President Obama's proposed budget includes major cuts in many areas in response to concerns about federal budget deficits and the national debt. But the president includes big increases in support for clean energy, including money for R&D and for deploying existing clean-energy technologies, which include renewable power such as wind and solar, conventional low-carbon energy sources such as nuclear power, and electric-powered vehicles. Obama plans to pay for these increases in large part by eliminating 12 tax breaks to oil, gas, and coal companies.
The House bill cuts U.S. Department of Energy R&D by $1.38 billion compared to 2010 levels, while the president's budget request increases it by $2.15 billion. According to an analysis of the bill by the Center for American Progress, money for research, development, and deployment of renewable energy in the Republican plan would be cut by $800 million from $2.2 billion. "This cut is really drastic," says Daniel Weiss, senior fellow and director of climate strategy at the Center for American Progress. Because of costs associated with terminating employees and closing down labs, in some cases, the cuts may not even be possible over the six months that would remain in the fiscal year, says Patrick Clemins, director of the R&D Budget and Policy Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will be among the attendees of President Obama?s event with business leaders in San Francisco this coming Thursday evening according to a report from ABC News.
The three will be among the many business leaders in technology and innovation the president will sit down and talk to, as he continues to sell his State of the Union message.
In light of recent reports regarding Steve Jobs? health, will he definitely be making an appearance? And if so, in what state?
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Throw in a new conservative Republican majority and Mr. Boehner is confident of the outcome.
?I have no doubts in the coming weeks and months that people will see our resolve around solving our deficit problem,? Mr. Boehner said in an interview. ?We are going to cut spending. There aren?t any ifs, ands or buts about it.?
Just six weeks into the takeover of the House, Mr. Boehner said Republicans had transformed the way Washington thinks about federal dollars, provoking a shift that has all sides ? Republicans, Democrats and the White House ? talking about less spending, even though they may differ on the total amount and exactly what gets cut.
?There has never been a cultural change so quickly,? Mr. Boehner said as House members on Wednesday upped the ante, making further reductions to the $61 billion in cuts that Republicans hope to make in what federal agencies are now spending. ?Compare that with the last couple of years. There was no limit to the money that was rolling out of here.?
The focus on less spending has also put the spotlight on Mr. Boehner?s central economic argument that paring federal outlays will translate into new private sector jobs.
Democrats and some leading economists say that in the short term, Mr. Boehner?s approach would instead mean fewer jobs and threaten the fragile economic recovery. And they note that Mr. Boehner did not appear to be upset at that prospect this week when he replied, ?So be it,? about predictions of federal job losses as a result of the Republican cuts.
?We agree that we have to put the country on a sustainable fiscal path, and we have to reduce the deficit as part of the strategy of long-term growth,? said Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee. ?But doing a hatchet job on the budget will cost Americans their jobs in the short term.?
But with the endorsement of a set of economists and added encouragement from the Republican rank and file, Mr. Boehner is steering Republicans on a course of budget cutting that he said would reduce uncertainty about the nation?s fiscal condition and spur private investment even as government spending is reduced.
Most Democrats ? and many economists ? say the economy would have been much weaker if President Obama had not pushed through a big stimulus package soon after taking office two years ago, allowing government to make up for the lack of demand from the private sector. And they say that low interest rates suggest that budget deficits are not crimping borrowing by businesses, which in any case are cumulatively sitting on substantial piles of uninvested cash.
But from Mr. Boehner?s perspective, the reliance in the last two years on the stimulus plan and other federal intervention to spur job growth has failed and caused the business community to withhold investment.
?When you see these deficits, it just raises more uncertainty,? he said, citing his own experience in the business world before his election to the House in 1990. ?It causes people to wonder about the future. And when they have those doubts, they are not going to want to invest in new plants, new equipment, new employees.?
Mr. Boehner said the rising deficit and debt, when coupled with the requirements of the health care law and the overhaul of Wall Street rules, has led business executives to shy away from taking commercial gambles. At the same time, he said heavy federal borrowing has also consumed capital that could otherwise go to private investment.
?It is that much less money that is invested,? he said. ?People are buying all this debt. Where is the money to invest in the private sector??
In trying to bolster his case that cutting spending will bring a return in jobs, Mr. Boehner this week sent Mr. Obama a statement from 150 economists who said that ?immediate action is needed to rein in federal spending? to spur job creation.
But that is not a universally shared view. Appearing recently with Senate Democrats, Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody?s Analytics, cautioned against trying to rein in federal spending too quickly, saying such a move could dilute the positive economic impact of the tax deal reached late last year between the White House and Congress.
House Republicans pushed forward on Wednesday with cuts in a wide-open floor debate that took unexpected twists. For example, lawmakers voted to eliminate money for a jet fighter engine that provided jobs near Mr. Boehner?s Ohio district and restored money for a Clinton-era program that helps communities hire added police officers.
Mr. Boehner said legislative setbacks are the price of allowing legislation to be hammered out on the floor in contrast to past Republican and Democratic efforts to assure the outcome before the vote was held.
?I?m committed to an open process around here, and when you have an open process it is not going to always go the way the way the leaders want,? Mr. Boehner said. ?This is a new way of doing business in the House. I?m totally comfortable with it.?
But Mr. Boehner indicated he would not be comfortable with a failure to reach agreement with the Senate and White House on substantially reducing spending this year.
Lack of a deal could lead to a series of short-term measures that keep federal spending at current levels, a prospect Mr. Boehner called ?not sufficient.? Another potential outcome is a spending impasse that would lead federal agencies to shut their doors, which Mr. Boehner said he did not favor.
He accused Democrats of rooting for a shutdown in the hope that it would boomerang politically on Republicans.
?It appears that the Democrats are cheering and hoping for a government shutdown,? Mr. Boehner said. ?It is not our goal. Our goal is to cut spending, not shut down the government.?
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Requiem has more going for it than just a single feature and a passing similarity, though. It was also one of the first modern games to tread in Half-Life?s shoes; trapping players in a first person perspective and allowing players to travel back and forth through some levels.
Unfortunately, Requiem had a whole heap of problems, which outweighed these strengths and stopped it from collecting acclaim of either the critical or commercial variety. Firstly, the levels were incredibly boring to fight through and, while Requiem opens strongly with a few gory levels in hellish Limbo, it eventually descends into a blocky romp through generic sci-fi locations. The obligatory sewer section doesn?t help either.
Requiem?s biggest problem, however, is simply the subject matter; Catholicism.
Despite trying to liven up the game with an injection of blood and bullets, however, Requiem always feels like it?s held back by its subject matter. Like it or not, religion just isn?t cool, meaning that the violence and gritty edges bolted onto Requiem feel try-hard and at odds with the rest of the game design.
It would be really difficult to make a decent first person shooter with a religious premise. I honestly have no idea how you?d do it.
That said, though, I bought the game back when it was released in 1999, so maybe there was an audience for it after all. Of course, I only bought it because I liked the cover art.
I?d love to say that Requiem is an underrated shooter and that, if you can look past the religious trappings and hokey level design then there?s a solid and interesting shooter underneath. Sadly, that?s just not true ? Requiem is average at best, despite a plethora of industry firsts and clever ideas. Looking back on it now my response is one of pure ambivalence.
Times Completed: Twice. It was a long, boring summer.
Random Trivia: Requiem: Avenging Angel was Cyclone Studios? last game before closure ? unfinished projects included BattleSport for the Nintendo 64 and a sequel to Requiem called Wrath of the Fallen.

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Apps for both movies are currently listed for free, but you don't get the complete film, of course. The freebie includes a five-minute preview and some sample bonus material such as photos, trivia and a soundboard. There's also some level of Twitter and Facebook integration in the "share" tab.

Users have responded with varying degrees of interest, but some believe Apple won't allow movies to be sold as apps for long. Citing section 2.21 of the Apple Guidelines for Developers, a commenter on 9to5mac notes: "apps that are media-only should be submitted to the iTunes store instead."

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For big computing jobs, such as data analysis or video processing, it's often cheaper for businesses to use rented resources rather than hardware they own. They can lease access to hardware for a specific period of time, or they can use a cloud computing service, which charges for the amount of computer power used. Now a service launched this week by Toronto-based Enomaly will let companies buy and sell unused computing capacity.
Enomaly's marketplace, called SpotCloud, is meant to help companies that aren't in the cloud computing business make money off resources that might otherwise be lying idle, and to help smaller companies compete with larger, better-known providers. Meanwhile, buyers may get a cheaper deal?and the chance to select a provider according to criteria such as how much processing power it offers and where the computing systems are physically located.
Some cloud computing companies already sell excess capacity. Amazon, for example, offers the opportunity to bid on this resource through its Elastic Compute Cloud, providing customers with a discount on processing. But SpotCloud brings together excess capacity from many different companies, creating broader competition.
Reuven Cohen, founder and CTO of Enomaly, says if a business finds that it has many customers in Brazil, for example, it could rent computing power in a major Brazilian city to speed up access there. Before allowing providers into its market, SpotCloud vets them by running tests on their hardware to ensure a baseline quality of service. However, it doesn't reveal who is providing specific services to buyers.
During SpotCloud's testing phase, Cohen says, many of its customers were traditional Web hosting companies looking to use a space unexpectedly freed up?say, by a big customer who went out of business.
The SpotCloud marketplace itself is built on top of Google's App Engine. Enomaly provides technology that helps a buyer transfer a computing job to the seller. Buyers use Enomaly's SpotCloud Package Builder to create a virtual machine that can run the job. The system then uploads the job to the seller, who has to have software installed that's compatible with SpotCloud.
Cohen notes that having a marketplace allows prices to fluctuate according to supply and demand. In the testing phase, Enomaly found that prices for services in Silicon Valley were lower because there are a lot of computing resources available there. On the other hand, in Brazil and Asia?expanding markets where resources are relatively scarce?prices were higher.
"Part of the flip side of computing becoming a true utility service is that the infrastructure providers will have massive amounts of hardware," says Ben Kepes, an analyst and business advisor who runs Diversity Limited, a consultancy specializing in cloud computing and business strategy. That tends to mean they have excess capacity lying unused. "In order to drive the efficiency of the marketplace, a clearinghouse where vendors can unload excess capacity at discount rates is necessary," Kepes says.
But SpotCloud will face challenges, says Krishnan Subramanian, an independent cloud computing analyst. For example, Subramanian notes that keeping sellers' identities hidden may put off some enterprise customers. "Before I put my organization's data into anyone's facility, I really want to know who they are," he says. SpotCloud also does not offer service-level agreements, which guarantee customers a certain standard of performance. To be successful in the long term, Subramanian says, SpotCloud will have to attract enterprise customers and set them at ease.

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