Developer of Far Cry 2, Ubisoft Montreal, states that Crysis was not the benchmark for the development of Far Cry 2."Crysis wasn't our benchmark, we were our own benchmark," art director Alex Amancio said at UbiDays yesterday. "But we think
The good folks over at the Gartner Group have revealed the top 10 technologies that they believe will change the world over the next four years. The usual suspects including multi-core chips, virtualization, and cloud computing are on the list.
There are phrases that creep into your daily vocabulary over time. Little slangs that you use once or twice, but in time, they can weave themselves into the fabric of your communication style. Little things like substituting "yeah" for "yes".
Hams in Bevard county assisted with emergency services as their community fights a suspicious 13,000 acre fire. Check out their cool emergency operations truck, the hams got it with a $100,000 grant from their state, and they donate its services
The National Science Technology Council has issued a full report on climate change and is endorsing the view that mankind has a lot to do with recent fast changes and it will be impacting more as years go on.
Recent morphological studies of extinct Pterosaurs are calling into question the commonly accepted belief that they were surface water "skimmers" for feeding. The analysis shows their neck and jaw features are nothing like other known examples of sea skimming birds,
Low prices for their goods combined with huge fuel increases have lead to a mass strike by Portuguese and Spanish fishermen. This is in addition to a growing dairy farmer strike that has started in Germany and is gaining traction
is a new podcast from Daniel Jalkut and me, with a focus on the daily life of a Mac developer and whatever related subjects are going through our heads. There was so little time between the "let's do it" idea
Mark Graber writes at Balkinization, When thinking about the role of courts, lawyers, legal scholars and citizens should not automatically treat Brown as a paradigm and such cases as Dred Scott, Hepburn, Pollock and others as anomalies. Seen from broader
Triumph of Newspeak at the Pentagon: telling the truth is considered dishonorable behavior. Colonel Says Speaking Out Cost a Medal [The former chief military prosecutor for terrorism trials at Guantanamo Bay, Air Force Col. Morris] Davis's dispute with Air Force
I have a collector car I won't drive in the snow, so I'm forced to use a battery tender to keep the battery alive while it collects dust during the winter. In years past, I've used a variety of chargers/tenders
An Internal Revenue Service employee snooped on the tax records of about 200 celebrities and athletes, confessing to investigators that he accessed the confidential material out of "curiosity."
Macfilink, my affiliate link cloaking tool, has been updated to version 1.4.3.This update includes a few fixes, and is free for existing customers:Improved the reliability of the two web views (Original Page and Generated Preview), allowing them to better load
I see that people are talking about Twitter's obvious scaling problems - one of their developers, Alex Payne, said this: The events that hit our system the hardest are generally when "popular" users - that is, users with large numbers
How much time does it take to design a full-featured Sudoku game for Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade? If you're lead designer Ben Moy, then the answer is about two and a half years. Number puzzle fanatics are cheering this week...
Last year I worked on a UK mobile phone and mobile phone deals comparison site: Omio.comWhen the project kicked off, we knew we wanted a beautiful interface with rich behavior. For example, the ability to filter deals and compare phones
Game: Tiger Woods 2008 Architect: Larry86 Comments: Portmarnock Golf Club is located just eight miles north of Dublin, Ireland. It is situated on a sandy peninsula and surrounded by water on three sides which gives it a somewhat isolated feel
