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Monday, April 30, 2012

postheadericon ThreeA Toys unveils prototype Portal 2 and Metal Gear Solid 2 statuettes

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Casa de Diseño chino / ridículamente detalladas Compañía de juguetes Toys ThreeA tenido MUCHOS Prototipos de Productos Diferentes en exhibición DURANTE EL Evento Reventure en Hong Kong Este fin de semana, Pero Los Que El Mas ESTAMOS Interesados ??en las reproducciones asombrosamente exactos de
Portal 2
's Altus y P de la Carrocería y

Metal Gear Gear Solid 2 Ray

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Las tres Estatuas Hijo y Prototipos, Como tal, No Hay Información Sobre la disponibilidad, Precios, forma articulada Que Puedes Servicios o Lo Que Ellos "va incluso sin Parecer Una Vez de Que Han Sido Pintados. Además de Es Difícil de sable SI Este Modelo RAY es la versión tripulada Creado a una porción de La Infantería de Marina o De la tripulación de Producción masiva Modelo Diseñado por los Patriots. De cualquier Manera, quieren ESTAS COSAS Desesperadamente de Que adornan Nuestras chimeneas de la chimenea Diversos, tan pronto Como El Mar humanamente posible. Echa de las Naciones Unidas Vistazo de la ONU Fotos de Alta Resolución de las Tres Estatuas en La Galería de abajo. Joystiq


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Sunday, April 22, 2012

postheadericon Starbreeze's 'P13' headed to XBLA, PSN, and PC

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related to the development of other Swedish authorities Thurs - said, Avalanche, Massive - Union
developer Starbreeze keeps a low profile. Having released two projects over the past five years, Starbreeze is not offering many constant reminders that still exist. President and CEO Mikael Nermark aims to change that, and his first two major projects are two games that you probably have not heard about:
P13 and aa cold Mercury

"We're trying to build four independent teams base," said Nermark in a telephone interview today. Beyond Starbreeze existing equipment, software newly acquired Overkill wil use one of these four teams. Thus, four "basic equipment", four projects. Overkill We're working on a sequel to last year salary
: The Heist

, and we know that two other teams are working on P13

and Joystiq cold
Mercury

(respectively), but the room team is a mystery.


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postheadericon Man Builds 737 Simulator In a Garage


linuxwrangler writes: "It started with the dream of building a flight simulator aircraft in full size now, 20 years, $ 150,000 and a divorce later, James Price can walk to your garage and steal the simulator 737 was constructed built. .. the nose of a 737 excess of the article: "James Price was a must-have for finding a new home - once the garage was to be able to keep the nose of a Boeing 737" that I I could come here, I was OK with the house, "says Price. in his garage Price spacious three-car has a cabin air which has traveled extensively on the hidden side of the family car. Aviation experts say prices, 52, is one of only a handful of people worldwide who have built their own flight simulator cockpit in a real airplane nose. "


Monday, April 16, 2012

postheadericon Jesse Townley's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

Favorites this week are usually divided into two groups: ". [Fill-in-the-blank] misbehave" picture stories tall and the combination of these approaches related new technologies is what keeps me check Techdirt every week. Besides, I like seeing my name in lights, ha, ha, ha ...



a brief introduction: I am the CEO of Alternative Tentacles Records, a small basement, punk, emphasis, indie, and most left label is Jello Biafra of the property. One began in 1979 with the single of the Dead Kennedys. Not a member of the RIAA, A2IM, or any group of the music industry. My opinions do not represent those of Jello Biafra and other artists or staff. They are based on my experiences as a band member in several independent labels and working on a couple of labels, as well as being a DJ for 20 years at the local college radio station KALX Berkeley excellent. In addition, as CEO of a small label, I am very closely to technology - our site is very limited, but we have progressed to SoundCloud, blogs, Facebook, Twitter and do our best to maintain our reputation and our own faithful. Of course, in contact with the fans (FCF) and give them a reason to buy (RTB) has always been the rule in punk rock. Without your reputation, you are nothing. If your representative is sinking, you're a sellout, a has-been, and / or a crook. Of course there are always some ignorant players that support it, but the vast majority reject.



The first is a story of Big Picture, which is positive, a little Techdirt. If piracy is so devastating, why are we seeing an unprecedented outpouring of creativity? Tuesday. It is an important reminder that people are creating content and upload it to various social networks and platforms every second. But the bad part of this ringing in my ears prick up are the "copyright industries and cultural commentators" simplistic - and certainly a novel Twitter and YouTube are new webisodes, "real" content, but not an exaggeration to make a value judgment that my word after 10 Facebook is not as creative as, for example, the last album of their favorite band. (Beat that, it depends on how smart I am and what the band I love you [/ tangent]), even referring to an equivalence is a false note in another observer, thought-provoking post.
Another scenario is optimistic medium, medium-depressive - that is the Constitutional Court the right Yes, the sole purpose of copyright is to benefit the public . I'm quite a geek civic, have strong emotions about the Constitution and misunderstandings that bothers me the highest degree. (As you can imagine, my head hurts when I read about the latest attacks on the Constitution by Arizona sheriff particular, the Presidents of recent years, many people in Congress and many others.)



I would like the following paragraph should read for those who want to publish here:


"I find it hard to understand why so many people ... so difficult to separate for the purpose of the method. Yes, the article gives Congress create copyright - but for a purpose. " promote the progress of science "Nowhere is suggested, or even suspicion, the idea that copyright is intended to benefit the creators, but the method is to say that .. the protections of the author are greater than or equal to benefits for the nation, is a clear flip-flop of the method for this purpose. course, do not just flip-flops of the method and purpose, but it completely distorts the nature of maximalist positions of the right author and brings a style that gives the slightest consideration to the way public benefits (or, more importantly, is injured) from specific changes in the copyright. "



A quick post before going negative in the trash talk messages real-er, "[fill-in-the-blank] misbehave." It is related to the foregoing, it is international in scope, which I think is a major asset Techdirt - step by step on what is dominating headlines in the U.S. / North America and social media networks.



is summarized in the title, only because it is now cheaper and easier to spy on everybody all the time, does not mean that the governments should do! It is a good summary of a true "slippery slope" with the points where the slope metaphor, it might be slipping into a surveillance state stopped if people had realized what was happening, if supervision by government that was not the law: It can, could, did not.

(And that's exactly why my colleagues in the music industry "slippery slope" argument fails. They assume that there are no controls on the phenomena of possible slip technology to all free all the time as well as gross and government regulations ultimately useless The fact that artists and labels that I resist the RIAA and A2IM restrictive view of copyright is the key. - they must also earn their living as artists and small businesses in the distribution of creative works. We are not naive idiots and we are considering ways to keep our fans excited about our music and bands in the world in multiple formats.)


stories
Now, "[fill in the blank] Behaving Badly". Let's start w / government. A couple made me see red, partly because, like most Republicans are not rabid, had hoped to put a constitutional law professor at the White House would be enough to stop the destruction of civil rights after 9 Bush 43 / 11/01. Once again, vindictive administration accused a whistleblower as a spy is the kind of story that illustrates the key equivalence famous Ralph Nader Republicans and Democrats were correct. (Make no mistake, Gen. George W. Bush 43 was worse for civil rights, because he attacked the social freedoms and rights at work as well.)

This story is particularly frustrating because it goes after a courageous government employee who blew the whistle on torture damned practiced by our government. Guh.



defender of civil liberties, common sense in me, too bother with companies in New York Thurs convinces offenders registered sex story Kick Off Gaming Services. As a species, but we need to stop hyperventilating the worst of the worst and realize that, like the message, a sex offender can be a lot of people. Someone called the nude, drunk pissing in an alley (not me, I swear!) Or an artist whose work includes nudity, or a couple of teens with oral sex, or a young person who receives a naked picture of how your phone are all potential sex offenders, as is the local DA running for reelection. It kind of embarrasses any silly political posturing all actors and diverts attention from the best efforts of the Government (see: create jobs, feed the hunger crisis, the exclusion of the battle).


now a prime target of Techdirt, the music industry, including myself. As a community radio DJ, I know firsthand the stupidity and unintended consequences of the DMCA. So when the big plunge back into the royalty rate, I'm really nervous and start to duck for cover. The idea of ??royalty and the different types of copyright is based requires that the distribution system does not make sense, even though my work is based on income of creative works and you would think that all aid. Bzzt! Even if they are poorly paid some of these rights (ha ha ha!) It would take a strangle proven promotion (radio) to press a little nickels. Music industry will create a new price is the type of dry analytical discussion, the Copyright Royalty Board that you must be a special breed of geek to understand. And unintended consequences that may require local services to pay for us consumers to store music purchased legally in their services could be enormous. And content creators to us - why my group has to pay extra for Soundcloud hear a song you wrote? This is a detail that must be maintained at the top.
a fan of sampling and remixing and reuse culture, so I always love it when a cool new mash-up or a game of words. That's why the next "Companies Behaving Badly" is Dolce & Gabbana Dolce & Sue banana. I have not the resources of Dolce & Gabbana, but a company wanted to market supply veterinary neuticles called "Testes spare "I'm sure I had loved and advertising as a clever twist on our established brand name.
The last story I want to emphasize is a rare first-person account of an artist, a perspective on the complexities of copyright and creativity of a rape victim by Erin McKeown about his experiences with the protection of their creative work and how their ethics and the law get in his pending case in Eastern Europe.
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postheadericon How Amazon finds tax loopholes

Company

U.S. Map shows states in red, yellow or green to warn executives that the law could result in tax collection

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has always had a keen interest in tax planning. From the beginning, the differences were a key part of Amazon's ability to undercut rivals on price. When the establishment of the company, Bezos even considered it based on an Indian reservation near San Francisco to take advantage of tax loopholes in the state.

retailer in the world's leading Internet collects sales tax of only five states, taking advantage of a court ruling in 1992 that U.S. companies without a physical presence - like a store or warehouse - in a state can not be required to collect their sales taxes. Amazon has a map of each U.S. state of red, yellow or green. Executives who travel to the red states need the permission of the company before entering, if your actions trigger the laws that force Amazon to collect taxes not.

Amazon UK managing director, Christopher North, said in a radio interview recently that the company benefits from lower corporate tax is based in Luxembourg, will pay 20% of the value added rate of UK tax.

"The products we sell and ship to customers who pay the UK VAT rate," said North.

But he acknowledged that it only applies to physical products - and books are zero rated. Tax on e-books is the rate fixed by Luxembourg, which has challenged the European orientation. Instead of applying the tax to the national VAT rate, it takes only 3%, on the grounds that, like printed books, electronic publications are of cultural significance.

a rate of zero during the night will be delivered as Waterstones UK retailers and small independent bookstores, with a border price of 3% of the Amazon and the second largest seller of eBooks UK, Apple iTunes, which also has its European headquarters in Luxembourg.

Amazon was founded in 1995 as an online bookstore, but the "average" sales have formed the smallest portion of their income since 2010. Last year, sales of media worldwide increased 20% to $ 17.8bn (£ 11.2 billion), but sales of other goods rose a staggering 56% to U.S. $ 28.7bn. She now earns more money from the sale of a variety of layers, televisions and golf clubs that makes reading materials, videos and music.

The biggest

Amazon has used acquisitions to diversify, spending $ 540 million in diapers.com baby supply store, buy shoes eTailer U.S., Zappos, and Woot, a site which offers daily offers on everything from shirts to wine.
Diversification has had spectacular results. Net sales increased 41% to U.S. $ 48 billion in 2011. Amazon now has 164 million active registered account holders. Even his band data hosting business - rent server space to other businesses - is one of the largest in the world


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postheadericon Mies van der Rohe: an architect's reputation rebuilt

The German master was despised by postmodernists, but now - as their Google Doodle shows - it is considered possibly the first architect who has the last word

What

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe have to say about the landscape design today? Probably, "I told you was right." Or at least, "I was not as bad as we thought."

126th birthday today would be the German architect, having lived so long (he continued, in a wheelchair and arthritis at the age of 85 years), and I feel really would have done better than in 1986 - the centenary year. Shares of Mies was at its lowest point ever: Postmodernism was in its pomp and Robert Venturi became famous by Mies van der Rohe's "less is more" given in the "less is a bore." In addition, Mies "international" style helped successfully handling blamed for the creation of urban landscapes soft generic set. Then it was his association with the Nazi shadow, before emigrating to the United States in 1937.

Mies real problem is that it was probably the first architect who has the last word. His lasting achievement was to strip architecture in its purest essence - for "almost nothing", he said. Was well placed to achieve this technical progress in building materials and engineering, but he was philosophically reductionist led to his goal. He believed in the revelation of the underlying "truth" of the world, mainly through pure geometric forms and proportions. It was very successful, of course, especially Americans austere structures, like the Seagram Building and the Farnsworth House. But where do you go from there? You can only play what is already created or lower versions of the same - so Mies cheap imitations that came to characterize the international style

Walking
today, Mies also be scratching your head in the ubiquity of the furniture he designed for these houses. President of FC Barcelona, ??for example, that Mies was never intended for mass production, became the last word in the lobby furniture company. Similarly, the president of Brno, he designed for the Tugendhat House. Both entered mass production in early 1960 and have not stopped selling since - in considerable quantities: a new Barcelona will cost about £ 5000. If you find an original that can essentially retired. Like his buildings, which were so simple that it could not be better - but to make cheap imitations


Mies can view elements of their work in the brain architects such as Rem Koolhaas, UNStudio and MVRDV, but can also smile with satisfaction Shard Renzo Piano, is increasingly in London. By 1921, in response to a competition to design a new office building for the Friedrichstrasse in Berlin, Mies presented a drawing of an angular, prismatic proto-skyscraper with a steel frame and walls entirely of glass - the different facets angles to reflect light changes. It would have been completely impossible to build a design at once, of course, but variations of it have been built since then, at least not in the London Bridge. They are probably already sort of Barcelona chairs for its lobby right now.


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postheadericon EFF Slams Righthaven CEO For Pretending He Can Ignore Court Orders

I recently wrote about the strange statement Righthaven CEO Steve Gibson with a court order addressed to it is not applicable because it is only the CEO, and lawyers of company (which I blame for everything) will not return your calls. Now, the EFF (representing Thomas DiBiase in the case) filed a response (pdf) that shows how positive crazy
Gibson's claim that, as CEO, you can avoid responding to court orders addressed to a company. All this is worth reading - these are just a few good songs (which was difficult to reduce it to know which of quote):



Mr. Gibson that he "has not heard of Righthaven Council [Mr. Mangano] since February 2012," and that Mr. Mangano has simply disappeared is similar to that of Mr. DiBiase experience2 to 3 answers. However, it is somewhat surprising given consent to the withdrawal of Righthaven lawyer Dale Cendali last week in the Democratic Republic of Metro v Righthaven, Case No. 10-cv-01356-RLH-GWF (Dkt. 186) ( March 21, 2012), knowing, leaving then only in the hands of Mr. Mangano. Presumably, Mr. Gibson, as director general in charge, would not release this consent Righthaven left without representation.



[....]

Gibson Righthaven lacks funds to order the transcript. Responses to 6, No. 5. Gibson provides no evidence to support its assertion that no funds (highly sought evidence of the Order underlying Feb. 7). To the extent that Mr. Gibson is trying belatedly to assert a defense impossible, seeing is absolutely not "categorically and in detail" why not answer .... Even granting that "Righthaven currently have no income." ... This does not mean that no assets or access to funds. Indeed, Mr. Gibson said that "there is reason to believe that one or more parents not to continue Righthaven capital contributions ...." Mr. Gibson is an oblique reference to himself. As noted above, the State Bank of Righthaven Nevada show that Mr. Gibson has been personally funding for balance Righthaven just above zero.
In addition, Mr. Gibson admits that Righthaven had access to sufficient funds to pay Mr. Mangano for months after admission dried, stating that "[u] p for Mangano became completely incommunicado [in mid-February 2012], Righthaven met all payment obligations to Mangano. "... Righthaven bank statements show that Mr. Mangano was regularly paid in installments of about $ 2475.00 .... The Righthaven money now will save by not paying Mr. Mangano is more than sufficient to pay the transcript noon examination of a debtor. Gibson deliberate decision not to use the funds available for Righthaven not an "impossibility".
[....]



Perhaps anticipating the obvious course of action, Gibson said, without citing that "Righthaven can not represent to the Court" and has the "ability to appear in person before the court without a lawyer. ".... This assertion is belied by the fact that Mr. Gibson
actually Righthaven represented before the Court
in this case . See order granting substitution .... In fact, three Righthaven other counsel Righthaven represented in this litigation: Charles Coons, Joseph and Anna Chu Peroni . When Mr. Gibson represents Righthaven involved, which are often negotiate directly with opposing counsel, and has appeared in court. There is no impediment to Mr. Gibson to enter a glance especially if this is what is necessary to comply with court orders.

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postheadericon Fujifilm X-Pro1 packs for business class: $9000 lens suitcase revealed

Fujifilm X-Pro1 packs for business class: $9000 lens suitcase revealed

Located at the head of the family Fujifilm FinePix, the X-Pro1 was coccooned in luxury. If they resisted in the price of $ 1.700 body only, will probably not be interested in this limited edition kit for Globe-Trotter. The brown leather bag containing a complete X-Pro1 system, including an external flash, 18mm f / 2, 35mm f/1.4 and 60mm f/2.4 lens. As usual with these expensive collections, there are only 12 games for everyone and must hire a private jet to London - only available at Harrods.

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packages for business class: $ 9000 case revealed
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postheadericon Ant behavior inspires more efficient warehouse robots

Fraunhofer's Multishuttle Moves robots, in the distribution center mock-up


When it comes to groups working together for a job well done, the ants are more or less perfected the process. Therefore, computer scientist Marco Dorigo has studied the behavior of creatures, and created his
Ant Colony Optimization
model - an algorithmic technique that can be applied to efforts of man, where efficiency is of the agenda. Scientists at the German Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics algorithms were applied to a swarm of autonomous robots 50 shuttles working in a parts warehouse, in an effort to create a new type of system and better handling of materials. .. Read more ant behavior inspired robots more effective store


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postheadericon World's slowest Linux computer, says 'Hello Wor...' (video)

Image Clearly tired of operation, the processing speed of lightning graphics and bags and bags of memory, the programmer Dmitry Grinberg has decided to return to the fundamentals of computer . And something more. As Linux has evolved into a 32 bit machine with 1 MB of RAM, which has always been considered the minimum requirements to run the operating system open source. Dmitry, however, to put this theory to the test, building a barebones implementation with only 8-bit RISC microcontroller in your heart. Operating at 6.5KHz little sedentary, with only 16 KB of SRAM and 128 KB of flash memory, these are the specifications that make the most phones seem to supercomputers. To make things work, Dimitri had to write an emulator for ARM the system seems to have a 32-bit processor with an MMU, and looks like a 30-pin SIMM

16 MB is added and the map SD to hold the image of Ubuntu. anyway, he was able to load Ubuntu successfully. Course, which lasted four hours, and it was after two hours waiting for the command of bash, but good. Grinberg said the system is still usable, with the command line usually respond "in a minute." So Dmitri, if you're reading this on your computer, happy new year! Watch the video time after the break to see the complete test of patience, action.

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postheadericon Ideabox "Aktiv" prefabricated furnished home

Ideabox prefabricated homes



Ideabox, an architectural firm from Portland, Ore., launched its "Aktiv" line of prefabricated houses, which is equipped with IKEA furniture and appliances. The one-bedroom modular homes are claimed to be environmentally friendly and are designed with no wasted space. .. Continue reading at home Ideabox "Aktiv" furnished prefabricated


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