LittleBigPlanet: great game with religion and server issues

Isn't it sad how the game's fun is overshadowed by the religous controversy in one song? They had their review copy for some time now, and before that they played the beta extensively. Ironically, one of the first thoughts about the game was how inviting and family friendly it is; this is the game that every console maker dreams about. A religious flap later, and it's postponed and in the headlines.
Developers would created the level-design tools first and then simply went wild creating great things. You'd race, you'd fly, you'd compete, you'd find the hidden secrets, and just when you think you've seen it all, something new will come up. Playing games is fun alone and or with friends. However you'll have to sit through a good amount of rather boring tutorials to learn how to use everything, in a little while you'll be creating objects and goals with everyone else.


Source: Kuchera, B (2008, October 28). LittleBigPlanet: great game with religion and server issues. Retrieved October 28, 2008, from arstechnica.com Web site: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081028-littlebigplanet-great-game-with-religion-and-server-issues.html

Never mind the radiation: fear the cell phone's nickel

Attention has been focused on the electromagnetic radiation that powers their communications with cell phone towers as the popularity of cell phones has increased. Nickel is now used widely and, BAD (British Association Dermatologists) would like to remind us that there apparently is a health risk associated with cell phone use: contact allergies. Nickle is harmless in the solid forms but if, soluble nickle salt was consumed in quantity of a gram then it is toxic. A fraction of the population is prone to skin sensitivity when in contact with nickel for long periods of time. Called nickle allergy. This problem causes when people who wear jewlery that has some nickle and also trumpet players because of their trumpets. BAD was able to track down similar reaction to nickle, cell phones. According to the dermatologists, nickel allergies may affect as many as 30 percent of the UK's population, and incidence may be rising.


Source: Timmer , J (2008, October 21). Never mind the radiation: fear the cell phone's nickel. Retrieved October 22, 2008, from arstechnica.com Web site: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081021-never-mind-the-radiation-fear-the-cell-phones-nickel.html

Ars looks at the joy (and pain) of developing iPhone games

Arshad Rahaman is a iPhone game developer, who is also a member of the Ars Technica forums. Rahman finds the iPhone to be one of the best platforms for creating, and then selling, games. Rahaman says that it is tricky to find the right product for the market. Rahman believed that creating a higher-quality, more polished game would pay off, but that strategy doesn't seem to be working. Even though the iPhone is more powerful than any of those early machines, it's still very limited compared to a modern desktop and that's what makes it fun to program on. But he hopeful about his future for iPhone gaming.


Source: Kuchera, B (2008,October 21). Ars looks at the joy (and pain) of developing iPhone games. Retrieved October 21, 2008, from arstechnica.com Web site: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081021-ars-looks-at-the-joy-and-pain-of-developing-iphone-games.html

Google's Android Source code starts to Begin

Google has jut published the source code for source code of its Linux-based Android mobile platform. The platform includes a selection of preexisting open-source components under a wide variety of licenses, including SQLite, WebKit, a modified version of the Linux Kernel, which is distributed under the GNU's General Public License (GPL). The source code released today also includes Google's Dalvik virtual machine and Java-based middleware layer, which are distributed under version 2 of the Apache Software License. The source code is housed in Google's git version control repository. The code can be obtained by installing git and running repo, a wrapper script written in Python that automates some git interaction.

Source: Paul, R (2008,October 21). Google liberates Android source code, so start developing!. Retrieved October 21, 2008, from arstechnica.com Web site: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081021-google-liberates-android-source-code-so-start-developing.html

Family ties not broken by technology, survey says

According to a new survey, American families are now as tightknit as in the last generation or more so because of the widespread use of cellphones and the Internet. Barry Wellman, a sociology professor at the University of Toronto and one of the authors of the report said,"There had been some fears that the Internet had been taking people away from each other," but they found just the opposite. Sixty percent of adults in the survey said that the new technologies did not affect the closeness of their family, 25 percent said cellphones and online communication made their families closer and 11 percent said that the technology had a negative effect. (For more information go 2 DallasNews.com)


Source: (2008,October 21). Family ties not broken by technolgy. Retrieved October 21, 2008, from DallasNews.com Web site: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/102108dnnatfamilypoll.3ebb563.html

Geuss What!!

Future planes, cars may be made of...

Geuss what they're going to might make planes and cars aircraft and automobiles, more powerful computers, improved TV screens and many other products out of. BUCKYPAPER!!! Buckypaper is 10 times lighter but potentially 500 times stronger than steel when sheets of it are stacked and pressed together to form a composite. Buckypaper is made from tube-shaped carbon molecules 50,000 times thinner than a human hair!! (For more information go 2 DallasNews.com)


Source:
(2008,October Friday). Future planes, cars may be made of `buckypaper'. Retrieved October 21, 2008, from DallasNews.com Web site: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/ptech/stories/10_18_08dnbusPaper.12088ffa3.html

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