offensive driving lessons
http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/magazine/16-06/ps_driving
tasty candy art
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/04/tasty-art-of-chocolate-candy.html
If you live in Japan that is. The well-received puzzle logic solving game wrapped around an intriguing story is making its way to mobile handsets starting with the Panasonic DoCoMo P906i, on which it will be pre-installed. The mobile edition of Professor Layton and the Mysterious Village will include new puzzles to differentiate itself from the DS version, with Professor Layton’s London Holiday to be released soonafter. If you’ve been wondering what all the hype was about regarding the Professor Layton series but didn’t have a Nintendo DS to find out, you might be able to catch it on your mobile phone. Let’s hope it makes its way outside Japan.
(source: Famitsu)
Officials from the United States, European Commission, Japan, and Switzerland are among those secretly working out details for a new anti-piracy treaty to be discussed at this year’s G-8 Summit being held in July. A leaked discussion paper for the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) suggests the adoption of several new legal measures in participating countries that would radically increase the role of government in copyright, patent, and trademark enforcement. Other countries participating in the on-going discussion of the treaty include Canada, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and Mexico.
Discussion on the ACTA proposal started with an initiative begun last October by US Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab along with 5 members of the Congressional Caucus on Intellectual Property and Piracy Prevention in the US House of Representatives. Although consumer rights groups have been denied access to the text of the proposal, according to IP Justice “select lobbyists in the intellectual property industry” have been given access to the document.
We all know the “right†way to run cables. Do it before the walls go up, and run every conceivable type of wire from each room to a central location. However, what if you have an older house, and can’t afford to have professionals fish wires through you home? Well, wireless can solve some of your problems, but for the rest, you’re on your own. Still, if you’re thoughtful and creative, you may be able to run more wires, with less effort than you think.Â
The Wires
First, what wires do you want to run? For audio, there are speaker wires, and line-level stereo audio cable for source distribution (this is cable with two “hot†leads and a common-shield). Room-to-room video may use coax. Use CAT-6 for Ethernet (unless you prefer wireless). Add in some phone and intercom cable, and you have quite a bundle, perhaps more than an inch thick. Hiding this without tearing up your walls could be quite a trick. Read more »
The RIAA has declared complete victory over the infamous Russian music download store AllofMP3 which was accused of selling tracks but not giving any of the proceeds to the artists or record labels.
At its peak, the site had 6 million users who legally downloaded songs and full albums for cheaper than 1/3 the price of iTunes or Amazon. The RIAA said however that the record labels and the artists were not seeing any of this money and filed complaints to get the WTO to shut the site down. In 2007, the site was shut down and the RIAA praised the decision. However, in October of that year, the site was acquitted of any charges and a district court in Moscow confirmed the innocent verdict after an appeal by the record industry group. Despite being innocent, the site shut down and no longer offers music.
It now appears that this week the RIAA dropped its copyright infringement lawsuit against AllofMP3 and claimed victory.
“The site is now defunct and out of business, the result of a successful anti-piracy initiative,†Jonathan Lamy, an RIAA spokesman said.
That may be true, but following the media AllofMP3 received, almost a dozen similar sites have sprung up and are currently fully operational. Even funnier, the founders of AllofMP3 have started a new site called Mp3Sparks which operates exactly the same as the now “defunct” AllofMP3 did.
Talking about the dropping of the lawsuit, John Crossman, representative of the site’s owner, MediaServices LLC says, “They [RIAA] never correctly commenced the proceeding in the first place…Maybe it was a rare triumph of good sense.â€
July 13th, 2003 Note: For those of you looking for an unlock for the new iPhone v2.0 firmware, IT IS NOT OUT YET! Check out our post on the current state of things for more details or come back to Code Retard in a few days. You can be sure we will cover how to do the unlock when it comes out.
So you just bought your iPhone and don’t want to commit to a 2-year agreement with AT&T. No problem! As long as you have a GSM provider (T-Mobile or AT&T) you can simply remove your existing SIM card from your current phone and put it in any unlocked iPhone and you can then use it freely without commitments. Earlier we posted about a video containing the steps to unlock the iPhone but some people are faster readers than watchers since you actually have to watch videos in their entirety. Plus our pictures are less blurry. Read more »
If you’re like me an have to develop in both Linux and Windows platforms, sometimes it’s just useful to be able to share folders across your PC desktop and your Linux box. It’s quite easy to map Linux shares to Windows network drives, that is assuming your Linux box has Samba installed. In most cases, Linux distributions generally ship with this already installed. To test if you’ve got Samba installed on Linux, type: Read more »
The Gun Metal PS3 is now back up for pre-order on Konami’s Website.
Total after shipping can tax comes out to be $670.48
Metal Gear Solid 4 Limited Edition PLAYSTATION®3 Bundle
Platform: PLAYSTATION®3
Coming soon: usually Ships in 1-2 Days after release $599.99 1 $599.99
Items Total: $599.99
Shipping:
3-5 Business Days $20.99
Tax: $49.50
Grand Total: $670.48
