Gaming 29 - The Post-Pub Podcast

Gaming 29 - The Post-Pub Podcast

Posted on 17th Jul 2011 at 08:23 by Podcast with 13 comments

Custom PC veteran Phil Hartup and PC Pro's Mike Jennings join Joe and Paul for a late-night, post-pint rant. This episode of the podcast, perhaps because it's sponsored by alcohol, stumbles along with vague coherency through topics such as BioShock Infinite and Just Cause 2.

Mass Effect 2 is obligatorily drawn into the discussion too, as is tradition.

Boozy fumes aren't enough to stop us tackling the thorny issues, however - Phil explains why he expects Battlefield 3 will be a shoddy console port, while Joe shoots down the defence that 64-player multiplayer is something to be proud of.

*hic*


On top of that, Phil brings us a report on how APB: Reloaded is faring after being brought back from the dead, while Joe orates further on his favourite topic of the moment; Frozen Synapse.

As always, we've also got our weekly competition, which this time gives you a chance to win yourself a copy of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood on the PC and Raving Rabbids on the Nintendo 3DS. You can also find out who won the last competition and bagged themselves a Roccat Vire Gaming Headset.

As ever, the bit-tech hardware podcast features music by Brad Sucks, and was recorded on Shure microphones. You can download the podcast direct, listen in-browser or subscribe through iTunes using the links below. Also, be sure to let us know your thoughts about the discussion in the forums.

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Latest iPhone iOS 5 beta pushed to devs "over the air"

In an iDevice first, the latest development release of iOS (iPhone OS 5 Beta 4) is being pushed wirelessly to developer iPhones by Apple. OTA (over the air) updates are certainly not new: Android, Blackberry and WP7 users all currently enjoy this convenience. However, this is the first OTA update provided by Apple since they first enabled the feature in iOS 5 Beta 2 nearly a month ago.

The new feature will send iOS updates via both cellular data network (3G) and Wi-Fi (802.11x) to Apple's entire mobile line-up, including the iPhone 3GS (or newer), iPad (or newer) and iPod Touch (third generation and up). Updates beamed out to devices through cellular wireless are said to be delta patches only. Delta patches are updates containing only the differences between versions, thereby creating smaller path files and conserving bandwidth. As a result, users downloading updates through 3G are expected to be limited to incremental updates only (eg. iOS 5.0 to 5.1, but not to 5.0 to 5.3). Users who connect to their own wireless at home or in the office will receive the full updates OTA from Apple.

Currently, there are developer reports suggesting devices are not being updated properly without manually checking for software updates first. You can find this setting under Settings > General > Software Updates. Meanwhile, developers who have problems with OTA updates can still play with the new "iTunes Sync" feature which allows for wireless synchronization with iTunes.

The final version of iOS 5 is expected to drop this fall and brings a plethora of new features to iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches. You can find a thorough list of changes and features for iOS 5 Beta 4 here.

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TNW Sessions featuring Tomer Dvir and Roee Adler of Soluto [Audio]

The Next Web Sessions returns with a look at the top headlines from the past week. We?ll also tell you about what apps or sites we?ve found that we can?t live without.

We?ll talk in depth about Spotify?s US launch, what it means for artists and how it compares to Spotify in the rest of the world. Then, to finish off Sessions, we?ll spend some time talking with Tomer Dvir and Roee Adler from Soluto about how their company is making your computer life easier.

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On this week?s show: Brad McCarty (Nashville), Alex Wilhelm (Chicago), Michael Backes (Hamburg)

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Can Google beat Twitter and Facebook as a tool for journalists?

Google+ has taken off like no other social network before it. While it?s still in ?limited field trial? mode, it?s already being seriously considered as a contender to take on Twitter and Facebook. Journalists already use both those networks to great effect. Could Google+ see similar usage?

Some journalists have already started experimenting with Google+ as a way to share, discuss or source news. Here are a few examples:

  • Alexis Madrigal, Senior Editor at The Atlantic, is running an ?experiment in real-time news? called The Atlantic PLUS, which he posts each day to his Google+ account. It comprises links to Atlantic stories, details of what he and other Atlantic journalists are working on that day, links to news on other websites and a photograph for the day.
  • Sarah Hill, an American television journalist at KOMU in Missouri, used a Google+ video chat Hangout yesterday to bring together Norwegians to talk together from different locations about the Oslo bombing. This was recorded and broadcast on TV.
  • Robert Schultz has been taking advantage of  the ability to edit posts on Google+ by turning it into a liveblogging tool.
  • Benjamin Cohen, the technology correspondent for Channel 4 News at ITN in the UK, has used Google+ as a multimedia extension to his tweets, posting breaking news relating to the News International phone-hacking scandal, and then linking to it in tweets to help drive traffic to them from Twitter.

So, what makes Google+ an appealing journalistic tool? Benjamin Cohen tells me that the combination of speed, ease of use and the way it encourages discussions makes it potentially very powerful.

?If you take the example of the statement Rupert and James Murdoch were refused permission to give at the (UK government) Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, News Corporation released that to the press and I had it up on Google+ within twenty seconds of receiving it. If I had put it on the Channel 4 News website, it would have taken a lot longer ? I?d have had to wait for the content management system to load, and perhaps had my article checked by an editor before it was published,? Cohen explains.

?The feedback is better than Twitter too,? he continues. ?While I might get a lot of replies on Twitter, it?s difficult for others to see the full scope of the conversation because they can?t necessarily see what others are saying. Google+ may lack brevity, but it?s better for discussion.?

Cohen adds that Google+ is also useful for identifying where mistakes might have been made. Users being able to ?+1? comments as well as posts makes it potentially easy to see where a particular commenter might have an important point that needs addressing. Additionally, there?s the potential to easily identify new leads for stories amongst the comments ? leads which may be lost on Twitter as retweets can quickly push them off the Mentions stream.

What about Facebook?

Facebook has made a concerted effort of late to encourage journalists to use its platform in their work. There are definitely strengths to Facebook as a reporting tool, not least access to its 750,000,000 active users. However, while he admits Facebook is a much greater driver of traffic to news websites such as the Pink News site he also runs, Benjamin Cohen sees Google+ as offering a number of advantages despite its current small user-base.

?Being able to edit mistakes is an important thing ? you can?t edit something you?ve posted to Facebook once it?s published, you have to delete it and then all the comments and likes are lost too. On Google+ you can edit as you go. If you write something inaccurate on Twitter or Facebook, it?s difficult to deal with, but posts on Google+ can be edited for accuracy as needed.? Cohen has also built a larger audience on Google+ than his professional Page on Facebook. At the time of writing, his Facebook Page has 752 ?Likes?, while he?s in 1,364 people?s circles on Google+.

Not everyone sees Google+ as the future?yet

However, not everyone sees Google+ with such a rosy glow. Anthony DeRosa, the Social Media Editor at news agency Reuters, tells me that he finds it currently has too small and specific an audience to be useful as a mainstream journalistic tool.

?It?s good for discussion, sort of like the old school BBS (Bulletin Board System), but morphed with the Facebook wall,? says DeRosa. ?It?s mostly full of tech and media people so it?s a bit too insidery to really spread across many topics. It tends to be a bit geeky and not mainstream enough to be interesting beyond the topics that my media and tech friends care about. Our readers want to know about a wide variety of topics and Google+ just doesn?t have diverse enough an audience yet to get into them. I?ll go to Google+ as my last social media platform, usually when I am trying to kick back a bit and have time to read more and respond in a longer format.?

While DeRosa uses Twitter as his go-to social network (?It?s a signal and a way to gather more information by way of sources, be it a traditional journalist or just someone who happened to be in the right place at the right time.?) and sees Facebook as attractive due to its audience size and the ability to create ?a slightly more personalized space?, he notes another service as worth considering ? Tumblr.

?Tumblr actually, in my opinion, gives a journalist the most creative platform to really personalize their space completely,? says DeRosa. ?Brian Stelter and CJ Chivers are two really great examples of that. There are countless other journalists there, I?m actually surprised they don?t yet have their own Vadim Lavrusik (Facebook?s Journalism Program Manager) type person at Tumblr. They?re missing a great opportunity there to really help get journos what they need. Mark Coatney is the closest thing they have to that. While he was with Newsweek, they were the first mainstream media publication, along with BlackBook, to make a splash on Tumblr.?

How Google+ can improve its offering to journalists

Both Benjamin Cohen and Anthony DeRosa have practical suggestions for how Google can better serve journalists with its social network.

Cohen notes that television journalists like him may use it in a different way to online journalists due to the fact that they don?t necessarily have to worry about driving traffic to their websites and can instead use it to break news in a way that may help surface new leads to use in their TV reports. This is an argument borne out by Sarah Hill?s successful use of a Hangout to cover the Norwegian tragedy, as mentioned above. However, Cohen notes that official short URLs to profiles are essential so that TV shows can direct viewers to Google+ to continue a discussion.

For DeRosa, meanwhile, it?s all about scale and Google playing to its strengths by integrating its other services. ?Until they have as many (users) as Facebook, it will be a niche that (journalists will) use last and focus their attention where the most eyeballs are. The level of feedback and engagement at Google+ seems high, despite much lower numbers than Facebook, so that?s in their favor. I think Google should try to do something interesting to tie together what a journalist has on Google News and create some custom feed just for that journalist that they can somehow pull into their profile.?

Meanwhile, on his Google+ profile yesterday, DeRosa made a pertinent observation in light of the events in Norway. Google+ lacks a proper search function and the convenient tool that is the hashtag. ?I Love Google+ but it doesn?t hold a candle to following #Oslo news today. I woke up and didn?t leave TweetDeck pretty much the entire time. Google+ will be great to discuss it at some point but for fast breaking news and stories, Twitter is and always will be king.?

The future of Google+ lies with the user-base it develops and how those users choose to use it, but early experiments show that it?s certainly getting off to an interesting start as a way to source and report stories. Still, it has a long way to go to seriously challenge Twitter.

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A Rock-Solid Conservative Who?s Willing to Bend

Now that the debt limit negotiations between the White House and Republican lawmakers have collapsed, however, Mr. Coburn suddenly seems more like Dr. Probably. Months after he abruptly exited the so-called Gang of Six, a bipartisan group of senators in search of a solution to the nation?s increasing deficits, Mr. Coburn reappeared last week, saying he supported the group?s path.

With that, he advocated revenue raising as a way to break the stalemate over the budget deficit, embroiling him in a verbal war with Grover Norquist, the activist responsible for the antitax pledge taken by so many Congressional Republicans. Mr. Coburn said Mr. Norquist ?represents the silliness of our political situation today.?

And so Mr. Coburn, a Republican and one of the longest-standing deficit hawks on Capitol Hill, finds himself on a divergent path from the Tea Party newcomers whose spirit and politics he shares but whose means he is at odds with. It is a divide that underscores just how intractable the spending debate has become.

But please don?t call him a moderate. ?I have a 100 percent conservative rating,? Mr. Coburn, 63, said in an interview in his Senate office. ?I?ve offered more ways to cut the government than anybody in the last 30 years in Congress. I know who I am and I know what I believe.?

His conservative views were underscored Friday night when he issued a statement praising John A. Boehner, the House speaker, for holding out for more spending cuts. ?Raising the debt limit without addressing the cause of our debt ? out-of-control spending, especially in entitlements ? will be as damaging as a default,? he said.

Last week, Mr. Coburn presented his own plan to cut $9 trillion from the federal government over the next decade ? far more than others have proposed ? in a manner that would radically reduce government services but also produce $1 trillion in new tax revenues.

President Obama invoked Mr. Coburn in his weekly radio and Internet address on Saturday, saying: ?Earlier this week, one of the most conservative members of the Senate, Tom Coburn, announced his support for a balanced, bipartisan plan that shows promise. And then a funny thing happened. He received a round of applause ? from a group of Republican and Democratic senators.?

Mr. Coburn is known for objections that delay votes on bills for days, infuriating even his fellow Republicans. Yet he almost always strikes a deal eventually, as was the case recently with his plan to end ethanol subsidies.

?I?m contrarian,? he said. ?I?m not much of a partisan. I go after Republicans as much as Democrats.?

Mr. Coburn said that the 87 freshmen Republican House members are ?the most wonderful thing to happen to our country in a long time,? and that they ?are a fantastic addition to the debate in this country.? But he also talked about balancing the passion for ideas with the need to get on board with things you dislike in part, even sometimes in large part.

?The No. 1 thing people should do in Congress is stay true to their heart,? Mr. Coburn said. ?But you have to recognize that we?re in a situation that?s dire for our country. If you put your name on something that will move the ball forward, you?re going to get hit.?

Mr. Coburn is the Lady Gaga of fiscal conservatives: he was born that way. A former businessman turned doctor, Mr. Coburn was swept into a House seat as part of the Republican wave in 1994. He retired in 2001, in accordance with his self-imposed term limit.

His first campaign for the Senate, in 2004, focused somewhat on social issues, like his opposition to gay rights and embryonic stem cell research. But it focused even more on his critique of President George W. Bush on spending, saying it was ?immoral to spend the next generation?s standard of living.?

He referred to that race as a ?battle of good versus evil.? Like his Tea Party brethren in the 2010 House elections, he beat a more moderate establishment candidate who enjoyed party backing. He was re-elected last year and says he will not run again, citing his personal term-limit rule.

A few years ago he was seen as one of the more outspoken and argumentative members of the Senate, but now that role has been assumed in large part by Tea Party colleagues like Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.

?Tom Coburn is very, very conservative,? said Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate. ?He is a true believer, but he is one who can see the other side, which is not the case with what is going on in the House right now.?

Mr. Coburn, who served on the president?s fiscal commission and then the Gang of Six, walked out of the group?s talks this spring over his request for $130 billion more in Medicare cuts than others had proposed. His exit devastated the other members, particularly the Republicans who needed his backing.

When he saw the group?s presentation last week, he felt that it was no panacea for ending the impasse over raising the federal debt limit, but was the right start.

?My idea with the Gang of Six was to try and get something moving,? Mr. Coburn said. ?Is it my ideal? Absolutely not. It is a compromise? Yes. Will it go a long way toward helping us get off the dead center? Yes. If I had my pleasure and I was king, we would lower revenues. But I?m not king. So that?s where I am.?

Mr. Coburn has many admirers ? when Mr. Obama was Senator Obama he was fond of Mr. Coburn, and they still have a cordial relationship that is sometimes visible in embraces when they meet ? and some freshmen consider him a mentor.

?I think I would characterize him as conservative who is solutions-oriented,? said Representative James Lankford, a freshman from Oklahoma who sought Mr. Coburn?s advice before he ran, and seeks his counsel now and then. ?That has made him an independent voice but conservative voice who actually solves the problem.?

Mr. Coburn has taken his smacks, and he expects to again. ?We?re all human,? he said. ?There isn?t a senator or a member of the House that at some time doesn?t get a little too full of themselves.?

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The Mechanics of Blast Injuries

Scientists have discovered a mechanism underlying the type of brain injury that soldiers often suffer as a result of roadside explosions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The work could point the way toward early treatment for these acute blast injuries by identifying potential drug targets.

Two new papers from the Disease Biophysics Group at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, led by Kevin "Kit" Parker, use tissue-engineering techniques to model the physical and biochemical effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the brain and blood vessels. Parker says the work represents a first step toward a "TBI on a chip" that could be used to screen for drugs to treat blast-injured soldiers before long-term damage sets in.

TBI induced by blasts from improvised explosive devices and rocket-propelled grenades is the most common injury among soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even mild TBI is an insidious injury, because it damages the brain in ways that aren't immediately apparent and that physicians currently can do little to treat. It's commonly believed that the injury damages the brain by stretching neurons to their breaking point, ripping small holes in the cell membrane that eventually kill the cells. But Parker says his team found that it wasn't necessary to harm the membrane to induce TBI-like injuries in the cell.

Both papers focus on integrins, a type of cell-membrane protein that translates the mechanical forces of injury into internal changes in the cell. The researchers subjected cells to brief, abrupt forces. Such systems have been used in the past, but Parker's team used forces that weren't powerful enough to physically rip the cell. They found that this could cause the same kinds of structural changes in both neurons and blood vessel cells as those seen in the brains of people with TBI.

David Hovda, who directs the Brain Injury Research Center at University of California Los Angeles, says the studies will lead people who have been working on TBI to think about these injuries in a new way. He also believes that the findings could potentially apply to people with other kinds of brain injuries, although the difference between blasts and other traumas is currently controversial. However, Hovda says that like other studies on isolated cells, they may or may not really capture what's happening in the brain. "Trauma is the most complicated form of injury, and the brain is the most complicated organ," he says. He says that more studies and autopsies on wounded soldiers must be conducted to understand the effects of blasts in human brains.

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Researcher to demo hack that destroys MacBook batteries

Your Apple notebook might be vulnerable to an attack that could cause its battery to die, harbor malware or even explode, according to security researcher Charlie Miller. Speaking with Forbes, Miller explained that modern laptop batteries contain a controller that monitors their power level and regulates when they start and stop charging. After examining various MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air batteries, he found a way to manipulate the chip to cause some disastrous effects.

The batteries ship with a default password that restricts access to the controller's firmware, but that can be bypassed fairly easily. Miller discovered two of Apple's battery passwords by dissecting a 2009 software update released to fix a glitch with MacBook batteries. With those keys in hand, he managed to reverse engineer the controller's firmware, allowing him to reprogram the chip so it reports the wrong readings and eventually burns itself out -- be that figuratively or literally.

Batteries slain by Miller's hand

Potentially more startling than a flaming battery, an attacker could infect the firmware with malware, allowing them to harvest the victim's personal data. Miller noted that it would be especially nasty because few IT professionals would consider the battery as a source for the malware, allowing it to reinfect the machine perpetually. Someone could install a new hard drive, a fresh operating system, flash the system's BIOS and the malware-laden battery would live on to reattack the machine.

During his research, Miller claims to have bricked seven batteries, but he didn't attempt to push them far enough to catch fire because he works at home. "You read stories about batteries in electronic devices that blow up without any interference. If you have all this control, you can probably do it," he said. Miller will demonstrate the flaw during next month's Black Hat conference along with releasing a tool for MacBook users called "Caulkgun" that changes the battery's default password.

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Lawmakers Renew Push to Reach Deal on Cutting Deficit

?We are working, and I?m confident there will be resolution,? Mr. Boehner told fellow House Republicans on an afternoon conference call, according to participants. ?There has to be.?

Hours after that call, Mr. Boehner met in his Capitol office suite for about an hour with the other leaders of the House and Senate ? Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader; Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader; and Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader ? in an effort to iron out contentious points in an emerging deal they would like to make public on Sunday before the opening of financial markets in Asia.

President Obama opened a morning meeting with Congressional leaders at the White House by noting that global markets could react adversely to Friday?s collapse of his and Mr. Boehner?s negotiations as early as Sunday, when trading begins in Asia. His Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, reinforced the point at the meeting?s end.

The tense series of high-powered meetings on Saturday was reflective of the sense of urgency among lawmakers little more than a week before the federal government risks defaulting on its debts, a fate that could be avoided if Congress agrees to increase the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling. Congressional Republicans, Democrats and Mr. Obama have seized on the debt fight as a way to win approval of a debt-reduction package, but have disagreed sharply over what it should include.

The speaker, who abruptly broke off budget talks with Mr. Obama on Friday evening, said he hoped the plan could be finished within 24 hours and indicated on the conference call with House members that the savings would most likely be achieved in two stages.

As described by knowledgeable Congressional aides, the emerging agreement would enact a first round of cuts of just under $1 trillion, an amount they said was sufficient to clear the way for a debt limit increase through 2011. A second increase would follow after a newly created legislative commission considered a broader range of spending cuts, program overhauls and potential revenue increases.

But Republicans and Democrats were divided over how that second increase in the debt limit would be approved, since Democrats have dug in against anything they see as a short-term extension that would require multiple votes on the debt increase before the end of next year.

?I will not support any short-term agreement, and neither will President Obama nor Leader Pelosi,? Mr. Reid said in a written statement on Saturday. ?We seek an extension of the debt ceiling through at least the end of 2012. We will not send a message of uncertainty to the world.?

Mr. Reid and the other leaders met at the White House on Saturday morning at the request of Mr. Obama. The meeting broke up without resolution just before noon, after about an hour of discussion.

In a statement after the White House session, Mr. McConnell indicated that he and his leadership counterparts were trying to devise a fallback measure to assure the borrowing ceiling was raised in time.

?The president wanted to know that there was a plan for preventing national default. The bipartisan leadership in Congress is committed to working on new legislation that will prevent default while substantially reducing Washington spending,? Mr. McConnell said.

The White House, in its own statement, said that Mr. Obama reiterated his opposition to a short-term extension of the ceiling because it would hurt the economy, prompt rating agencies to downgrade the nation?s credit rating and drive up interest rates for all Americans.

?As the current situation makes clear, it would be irresponsible to put our country and economy at risk again in just a few short months with another battle over raising the debt ceiling,? the White House statement said.

The rancorous ending to the debt discussions on Friday means that leaders of the House and Senate now have only days to find a debt limit solution that has eluded them for months, gaming out ways to get a debt increase through a Republican-controlled House packed with conservatives demanding deep cuts and no new revenues.

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WOF: Do you know what your CPU's clocked at?

Considering TechSpot's audience mix of techies, hardware enthusiasts, IT pros and gamers, the question above sounds overly simplistic, if not insulting, but is it? Over the last decade, the MHz measurement in your PC's processor has lost much of its meaning, in part because it's no longer an absolute reflection of performance, but that may not the end of it.

For example, I know I'm running a Core i7 870 processor in my workstation, but I have no clue what exact frequency the CPU is running at. I don't think that would have been the case 5 or 10 years ago when I ran my overclocked Celeron 300a or Athlon dual-core processor. Back then I cared about clock and bus speeds, RAM timings, and other details that today I barely pay attention to before upgrading to a new platform.

With devices like smartphones and tablets invading the consumer space in sheer numbers, bringing potential irrelevancy to component specifications, do you think this is a trend that will inevitably hit computers sooner or later?

How about yourself, off the top of your head (DON'T LOOK IT UP), do you know what's your PC's CPU clock speed? Discuss.

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