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Thursday, February 05, 2009 - Posts
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Fun Script, also known as F-Script, is a command-line based interactive Cocoa shell. The open source F-Script offers a new way to create and interact with Cocoa objects using a simple scripting language and a Smalltalk-like development environment. Recently, the F-Script shell went beta, providing a new way to interactively build Cocoa.
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For a free ad-supported game, Duck Shoot delivers an amusing little treat that may occupy a few spare minutes of your time, but is unlikely to become a long-term passion. Based on the standard carnival game, you must shoot down little tin ducks while avoiding hitting "babies" with your shots. The ducks move around your screen, changing style, color, and difficulty, adding a light tinge of challenge to gameplay.
To aim, simply tilt your phone to move the rifle sights around the screen. When you've set your target, tap the screen (just once! a second tap will always miss) to shoot. Blue ducks are worth an extra point.
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Bringing 3D games to the Apple's touch-oriented platform is still pretty rare, but Gameloft is doing its best to be the first game developer exclusively associated with the genre. Not only that, but the company is working to put out quality action titles for the App store. Previously, we were taken to Ancient Greece with Hero of Sparta; this time, we're liberating WW2 Europe from the *** in Brothers in Arms: Hour of Heroes.
The game tells the story of soldiers in the 101st Airborne as they fight their way through a total of thirteen missions across the regions of Normandy, Ardennes, and Tunisia. The story here is pretty basic, not much more than "go here, shoot these guys," but most players don't really need much of a plot when they're taking on Axis forces across Europe.
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According to the Microsoft Security Response Center, Microsoft will issue four Security Bulletins on Tuesday, and it will host a webcast to address customer questions on these bulletins the following day (February 11 at 11:00 AM PST, if you're interested). Two of the vulnerabilities are rated "Critical" and the other two are marked "Important." All four earned their rating through a remote code execution impact, meaning a hacker could potentially gain control of an infected machine. At least one of the patches will require a restart.
The list of affected operating configurations includes Windows 2000, Windows XP (x86 and x64), Windows Server 2003 (x86 and x64), Windows Vista (x86 and x64), and Windows Server 2008 (x86 and x64). Microsoft Exchange Server 2000, 2003, and 2007, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005, as well as Visio 2002, 2003, and 2007 are also affected.
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Update: Upon further reflection, we regret posting this rumor. The source was anonymous and not one of our usual, trusted tipsters.
Warning: this information came to me via an anonymous tip and is not from a trusted source of mine. That aside, the reason I'm putting this in the rumor box for now is that there is pricing for Windows 7 Starter, which we know will be sold worldwide, but only via OEMs. Ultimate pricing is also present, and while Microsoft says it will not be selling that edition via retail, the company did say that it will sell and give away the edition during certain promotional periods.
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You may recall Intel's unveiling of its next-generation, quad-core Itanium chip at last year's ISSCC, where I asked in our coverage: "What rhymes with 'Godzilla,' weighs 2 billion transistors, and has enough on-die cache to take out Tokyo?" Tukwila, as the part is codenamed, is a seriously big chip, especially on the 65nm process on which it will debut. Check out the chart above for wattage numbers for the 21.5x32.5mm2 part.
Tukwila was supposed to be out before the end of the year, and now it's being pushed back even further due to validation issues. But the validation delay is related not to the chip, but to the Itanium platform, and in particular to enhancements that will enable the platform to host much more DDR3 memory than it otherwise could.
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R-Type Dimensions is an interesting case of right decisions made when updating an arcade classic, while also stumbling a few times. The game brings R-Type and R-Type II from the arcades to the Xbox Live Arcade, and the game play feels as strong as it did upon release. You have one ship to fight an evil space army, the Bydo, and you have a floating drone that you can attach to the back or front of your ship, along with upgradable weapons. It's a nearly impossible task, but that's what makes shooters so great.
What's fun about this release is that you can switch between the classic, pixels-as-big-as-your-fist graphics and the updated 3D graphics and art by tapping the "Y" button. Being able to see what each level and baddie looks like with the original graphics and the graphics today is a great peek into the design of shooters, and how to bring them up to date. You'll find yourself using this function much more than you probably expect.
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New research from the economic research organization The Conference Board indicates that the total number of online job advertisements has dropped
sharply in the past two months, as has the number of new job postings. Advertised vacancies fell in all 50 states through December and January;
currently, only North Dakota and Wyoming are offering more jobs than the official number of unemployed workers. The numbers get no prettier when we dig
into the fine print.
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