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Aug 10

Custom Droid X ROMs starting to break loose, eFuse be damned

Despite Motorola’s best intentions to the contrary, the Droid X has been making steady progress toward viable custom ROMs, first with root access, then with a recovery method… and now, at long last, we’re starting to get the first few glimpses at legit cooked firmware.

…Despite Motorola’s best intentions to the contrary, the Droid X has been making steady progress toward viable custom ROMs, first with root access, then with a recovery method… and now, at long last, we’re starting to get the first few glimpses at legit cooked firmware. The two options we’re seeing so far are Sapphire — originally designed for the Droid of old — and a so-called “FlyX” ROM from longtime contributor Birdman. In both cases, the benefits of eschewing Motorola’s standard builds are pretty obvious: you get Froyo, root, and a host of apps and capabilities preferred by the superuser crowd like surcharge-free mobile hotspot access. The process is a little involved to get these bad boys installed at this point, but with time, we’re willing to bet it becomes a pretty painless endeavor. Follow the break for a quick video of Sapphire booting into stock Froyo on the X — a tantalizing sight, indeed….

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Aug 10

Guess which one didn’t get to walk on the moon?

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…Aldrin and Armstrong were at most 50 feet away from the nearest human (each other) as were the other moonwalkers and the non-Mercury Project orbiters (for the US, anyway). Only the solo flyers count.
permalinkparentKozmo199 26 points27 points28 points 19 hours ago[+] (6 children)Kozmo199 26 points27 points28 points 19 hours ago[-]The edge of space (the outer limits of the stratosphere) are only about 30 km from the surface of the planet. I’ve been further than that from other people on camping trips.
permalinkparentDJPho3nix 32 points33 points34 points 18 hours ago[+] (0 children)DJPho3nix 32 points33 points34 points 18 hours ago[-]You’re assuming the balloon is directly over another human being.
permalinkparentCaptnHector 4 points5 points6 points 17 hours ago[+] (1 child)CaptnHector 4 points5 points6 points 17 hours ago[-]Not doubting you, just wondering: where did you go camping? That’s very remote.
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Aug 10

5 Ways Tech Startups Can Disrupt the Education System

“Revolutionary.” “Disruptive.” These terms are used with such frequency that they may have lost much of their meaning. That’s not to say that there aren’t plenty of products and services that are innovative, and plenty of systems, plenty of organizations that are ripe for disruption or “revolution.” Take education, for example. Our modern education system is, after all, not so modern, with many of its practices strongly rooted in a “factory” model circa the Industrial Revolution.

…Is it based on profitability? Scale? Test scores? Overthrowing old theory and pedagogy? Overthrowing established companies in the industry? And as one of the companies on the Teaching Mater list was founded in 1999, I feel I have to ask again, what’s the definition of “startup”? (And I should note here that this doesn’t mean established tech companies are not doing innovative things or that educators aren’t using older tools in the classroom in innovative ways.)

In preparing to write several back-to-school stories for ReadWriteWeb, I initially considered a post featuring some of these “interesting” and “revolutionary” ed-tech startups. But instead of another list of disruptive ed-tech startups, I’d like to offer a list of the 5 disruptive things ed-tech startups are doing. I would love to hear your thoughts - as educators, as entrepreneurs - on what other metrics you might use for evaluating this disruption. After all, if as Bill Gates suggests that in five years the best education will come from the web,…

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Aug 10

Week in Apple: effects processors, magazines, and Apple TV rumors

As we prepare for “next week’s Apple event, Apple TV and 99 TV show rumors continue to swirl. However, our top stories from this last week included a comparison between effects processors on the iPad, a look at magazine subscriptions in the iPad age, and more. Read on for the roundup

…TV show rentals from Apple. Fox might be the first to offer the cheap(er) shows, with others soon to follow.
Apple looking at dual-mode touchscreen desktops and laptops: Apple has considered how touchscreen-equipped Macs could switch from traditional keyboard and mouse input by switching UI paradigms according to a patent application filed with WIPO earlier this year.
App Store showdown: effects processors for the iPhone: No amp? No pedals? No problem. Ars takes a look at the two guitar effects simulators for the iPhone to decide who comes out on top.
Have a great weekend everyone, and don’t forget to follow our liveblog of Apple’s special media event on September 1!…

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Aug 10

Top 5 Games That Will Scare the Shit out of You

There have been some truly brilliant horror games released over the years, and coming up with a definitive Top 5 of the ‘scariest’ was always going to be a tall order. However, after much pondering and re-living of virtual nightmares, I present to you my in-no-way-scientifically-determined selection of the games which have most haunted your sleep.

…Doom 3 is on this list? I mean, maybe you jump the first couple of times a monster pops out, but once you figure out it’s going to happen every time you touch a medkit, it gets very old. Also, most of its supposedly terrifying moments rely on the protagonist being unable to hold a pistol in one hand and a flashlight in the other. If this scared you, you were in the minority. Everyone else just thought it was stupid, and a transparently artificial means to try, and largely fail, to induce tension in an otherwise dull first person shooter.
Why isn’t FEAR on this list, with its genuinely creepy moments that didn’t rely on the ancient and worn out mechanic of monster boxes? Or STALKER, with its crumbling cities and roving mutant dogs with frighteningly realistic pack behaviors? In addition to these, Resident Evil 4, AVP2, and Clive Barker’s Undying are all scarier than anything on this list….

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Aug 10

DRM vs. No DRM (pic)

…You work and sell Games and not the freaking DVD! If I buy 1 licence for a game you build I will install it and if you have to know that it is installed gime a freaking activation procedure.
If my computer breaks because of catastrophic hardware failure what then? Should I buy another copy of the game? I already payed for my freaking license!
Control is needed but when I buy your digital product I do not want to bond with your freaking DVD!
Just give me a download and activation and let me figure out the rest!…

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Aug 10

Zombies Return to Call of Duty

Best Buy has let the undead cat out of the bag by revealing that Treyarch will be bringing the wildly popular zombie mode to its Call of Duty: World at War follow up, Call of Duty: Black Ops.

…I’m sure Treyarch/Activision would’ve wanted to announce this in some spectacular fashion, but because they wanted to get a high level of consistent news throughout the pre-release period, they sat on the announcement. And this is what you get when you do that. They should have told us about this months ago, because if they just recently became sure it’s going to happen, it’s going to suck….

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Aug 10

Apple to buy Chinese game developer?

Apple’s admiration for games and their ability to makes us spend more and more time with our iPhones, iPads, and iPods continues with news that the company may be acquiring a large Chinese development studio.

…Why Apple would pick this particular studio is unclear, save for the desire to get into a relatively untapped market with huge potential early. Handseeing’s expertise in Java-based online gaming technologies is apparent, and it enjoys a relationship with Sun Microsystems that resulted in the deployment of Tianya Club, an online community that is now one of the largest social networks in China….

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Aug 10

Will Portal 2 Scare Off Casual Gamers?

It came as no surprise that something as good as Portal appealed not only to a hardcore audience, but also casual gamers. The wait for Portal 2 is getting shorter, but as more information is revealed one thing keeps coming up: is Portal 2 going to be too hard? Will it scare off the casual fans Portal was able to pick up?

…is getting shorter and shorter, but as more information is revealed about the game one thing keeps crossing my mind: is Portal 2 going to be too hard? Will it scare off the casual fans Portal was able to pick up?

For some people, Portal served as their introduction into the era of modern gaming. It offered an easy transition by giving players who hadn t picked up a controller since the NES the chance to learn how to use dual-analogue sticks and offered visceral rewards for outsmarting the puzzles without a bunch of rummaging and collecting. You could explore as much or as little as you wanted in Portal and that appealed to people without a ton of prior videogame…

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Jul 10

Bethesda Not Planning Wii or Motion Control Games

Bethesda is waiting on adding Kinect or Move support to games, and isn’t working on a Wii title, nor are they rushing to add 3D.

…Over the last couple years, TheFeed has written so many stories about development companies leaping into the iPhone game space, or diverting resources from core game development to focus on Wii titles, or shoehorning in motion controls where they don’t fit, that it’s nice to write a story from the opposite point of view.
According to executive producer Todd Howard, Bethesda is waiting on adding Kinect or Move support to games, and isn’t working on a Wii title, nor are they rushing to add 3D. Bethseda is also not making a Facebook game. He didn’t mention it, but I assume Howard is not working on a browser-based, casual MMO either. Instead, they’ll be creating the epic games gamers actually want. Although Howard did mention wanting to make an iPhone game, but the project is on the “back burner”

Industry Gamers asked Howard whether his company is working on any 3D or Kinect titles, and he said:
“No, I sort of take a wait-and-see approach on that. We do a bunch of games, so ‘X’ developer might decide, ‘Hey…

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