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Biggest surprises of E3
The Electronic Entertainment Expo was most of the way back to its former glory. Booth babes, large crowds, but more importantly, Excitment. After a few failed years, the organizers have finally realized that while you need to put a limit on how big and crazy something gets, you cant make it small and mundane and expect anyone to care. Think about it, there are hundreds of confrences and expos each year…how many do you know about? . There are may takes on what was the biggest surprise of E3, but I have two that I think just have me standing here scratching my head. The first is Microsofts project Natal, which is getting rave reviews. In a nutshell, Natal is a way of making the act of interfacing with your gaming console or computer more compley,
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iPhone required! Tuition not included
. University of Missouri, Columbia students entering this year have been given an interesting if not stupid requirement. Along side things like your school text books, a computer, and other normal class essentials, the university is now saying that they REQUIRE all students to purchase an Apple iPhone, or iPod Touch. The reasoning is suspect at best, and the justification that students can add the costs to their student loan forms does little to help the double pain of a public university requiring a specific companies device (a dang expensive one at that), dispite it having no unique functionality that cannot be duplicated in other ways. One of the main reasons given for the requirement by Brian Brooks,
Twilight movie reivew
When a teenage girl leaves Phoenix to spend a year with her father in a small town, she knew there would be things that would take some getting used too, she just never though it would be quite this different. Slowly, she begins to realize that a group of students at the school is not just a little strange, but there is something very different about them. Soon she learns the truth, there is a family of vampires who have taken up residence in her fathers small town, and she is falling for one of them. Twilight is a cautionary tale, thinly veiled in the vampire mythos. Lessons on abstinence and trust are woven throughout the story, and as with any good vampire movie, we get a little lesson in blood feeding.
Salvo fired across Apple’s bow by BluWiki
News is coming out that BluWiki is taking a rather aggressive legal stance against what it believes are “Baseless legal threats.” In a nutshell, Apple is none too pleased with the fact that BluWiki is hosting forums that contain information on how to use your iPhone to run software that has not been approved (or has even been rejected) by Apple. The complaint raised by Apple is another heavy handed use of the DMCA, claiming that allowing a discussion on how to use an iPhone with unapproved software is in itself violating the law. It pains me to think, that we have really fallen this far from a free market and a free society, that anyone could
HissyFitWatch, is Time Warner lying to everyone?
There is a disturbing report over at Stop the Cap! that leaves me fuming. According to the report, Time Warner may be saying they are shelving the bandwidth caps for now, but what they are actually doing is worse. Ryan Howard is saying that his internet stopped working suddenly this week, and after multiple calls to the Time Warner support line, and several new modems purchased at the store, he was eventually directed to the Security and Abuse center for TW. I wont even get into the pathetic lack of customer service it takes to have a paying customer need to call three or more times to discover the ‘problem’ is due to the company intentionally disconnecting you.
