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I see that Paddy Twat has bloody fallen asleep on his cunting keyboard again !
When will he learn eh ? lol. Cunt aint I moonz. :finger:
Sky have launched the sign up for Sky Player on Xbox 360. See links below to register.
http://www.skyplayer.com/xbox360
Watch great Sky TV via your Xbox 360
Here is the Sony PS3 Yellow Light of Death coverage from BBC Watchdog.
“Thousands and Thousands of PS3 have gone kaput”
Even Sony admit thousands have died !! To get it fixed, you have to pay £128 for a refurbished model, which only gets a 3 month warrantee. If it breaks down again after 3 months you have to pay £128 again !! Not to mention you loose all your data/games saves etc as they don’t return your console to you. You get some random refurbished model.
Suddenly the FREE Microsoft 3 year warrantee and detachable HD (so you keep all your important data) doesn’t seem so bad eh !!! lol.
Oh how the Xbox 360 owners laughed at the red faced Sony fanboys..
Many of you will looks at these images and touch yourselves at the sexiness that you’re about to see: the Modern Warfare 2 Limited Edition Xbox 360. Everyone has been raving about the new exclusive bundle, but no one has yet to provide any images… until now. Ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes on the Modern Warfare 2 Limited Edition Xbox 360.
Those of you who aren’t aware of the newly announced bundle will be glad to know a bit about what’s in the box. Erhem. First, you’ll be blessed with a copy of the standard edition of Modern Warfare 2; secondly, Microsoft will be providing you with a whopping 250GB hard drive for you to store all your Xbox 360 goodies; 2 black Xbox 360 wireless controllers; and let’s not forget the Limited Edition Xbox 360 Elite console with an exclusive outer design inspired by Modern Warfare 2. All the little nifty out-of-the-box things that any original Xbox 360 can do, this one can, obviously, also do.
The price tag for this baby is a ‘meager’ $399.99 and can be pre-ordered via Amazon.com. If you got the cash, I hate you. If you don’t, welcome to the club. If you’re biting your fingernails awaiting for the answer as to when this orgasmic limited edition console will be released, feast your eyes on this date: November 10, 2009. Whip out the KY, folks. We know you want to.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002I0HDLE
UK Link soon.
Modern Warfare 2 Limited Edition 360 Already on Amazon - DualShockers
Friday, September 11 2009
Patch 1.6 will be released next week! More details to come.
Have a great weekend!
Friday, August 28 2009
Hey PC fans!
Great news - Patch 1.6 (w/ Map Pack 3) is finished & now in test over at Activision!
Barring any problems popping up, it should be released in accordance with the PC Patching
Process sticky atop this forum =).
Below is a list of what is included in the patch:
Additionally, we do expect a concurrent release of the Mod Tools 1.4 package, Linux
dedicated 1.6 bins, and the Steam 1.6 day-of-date with this patch. More details on
those will be made available once they get cleared through testing.
So touch up on those Zombies skills; Der Riese is on its way!
Regards,
-JD
Vote El Presidente, OR ELSE
We can now get our teeth into banana republic rulership with this Tropico 3 demo just out in time for the weekend!
Demo Details
MISSION 1: Bananas
The abdication of the old Presidente of St. Helena provided the perfect opportunity for your rise to power. Now as the head of state it is your job to lead this small island nation to a new age of prosperity.
St. Helena is a modest island with rich and fertile lands, which have attracted the attention of the American food conglomerate Fruitas LTD. You should make use of the gringos to secure the financial future of the island as well as your own Swiss Bank Account.
MISSION 2: Second Chance
The band of rebels led by your twin managed to drive you out of your own island. Taking the entire treasury, you hitched a ride on an old fishing boat, seeking refuge in your summer residence on the island of El Acantilado.
Chased away from their own homes, your most loyal supporters have followed you. Taking the burden of leadership once again you have promised them a fresh start. Your new island is a poor and dry hunk of rock. Several rich iron ore deposits are its only viable resources…
Tropico 3 goes back to the roots of the hit strategy series closely following the original Tropico story-line. Tropico 3 is being developed by Haemimont Games who previously developed the popular Imperium Romanum and Grand Ages: Rome for Kalypso Media.
Tropico 3 is currently due out 15th September
Demo link, game details and system specs can be found here
Tropico 3 News - Dictator Demo
Microsoft is finally going to take advantage of the best form of advertising for the next release of Windows: word of mouth. The world's largest software maker has partnered with House Party, apparently the world's leading party organizer, to encourage technology enthusiasts to throw Windows 7 launch parties in their communities between October 22 and October 29.
Microsoft won't let just anyone host such a party though; the company is being very selective. If you're interested in becoming an official host, there's an application process you'll have to go through over at houseparty.com/windows7. Furthermore, the offer is only open to residents of 12 countries: Australia, Italy, Canada, Japan, Mexico, France, Spain, Germany, the US, Hong Kong, the UK, and India.
Chosen hosts around the world will be among the first to see, use, and share Windows 7 with their friends, says Microsoft. If you're selected as a host, you'll receive a special Signature Edition of Windows 7 Ultimate. You'll also get a Windows 7 Party Pack (contents currently unknown) to share with your guests, based on one out of four themes that you choose from: PhotoPalooza, Media Mania, Setting up with Ease, or Family Friendly Fun. US residents will also be entered for a chance to win a $750 mini-notebook computer. A total of 64 winners will be notified once all the parties are over (after October 30, 2009).
The first step of the application process is simple: you have to tell Microsoft about yourself, how the company can contact you, where to send the Party Pack, and finally pick a screen name and password (for checking the status of your application). After that, you have to confirm that "by applying for a host spot, you are agreeing to conduct yourself in the spirit of House Party—sharing a product you love with the people you love, through an experience that is fun, free, and exclusive" and that you will abide to five rules:
Once you've agreed to all that, you have to answer six more questions (are you really surprised there are seven in total?). One of the questions of the survey is worth noting as it asks the participant what they are willing to do for the party. As such, it's clear what Microsoft will ask from party hosts:
The second last step is to confirm a legal agreement, and then bam, you'll get a confirmation e-mail. You must then finalize the application by clicking a link. Now the rest is up to Microsoft and all you have left to do is frequently check the status of your application.
Microsoft has not disclosed how many hosts it plans to pick, but the website does insist that "host spaces are very limited." If this is the type of party you want to host, then by all means, hurry up and apply!
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will be kicking off the official Windows 7 launch at an event in New York City on October 22, 2009, the day of Windows 7's general availability. It looks like Microsoft wants to turn what is normally a single launch day, into a launch week. Since the beginning of 2009, the media has been praising Windows 7, and Redmond obviously wants to keep that momentum going strong.
Get Windows 7 for free by hosting a launch party - Ars Technica
(The following is reprinted with permission from www.mentalfloss.com).
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Miss
Kitty Kramer, the first Kodak girl, is shown using the No. 2 Kodak Camera in 1890,
in Rochester, New York.
Most of us spend a lot of time staring at a computer or TV screen, playing video games, or gabbing into our cell phones. The brand names for these products are all familiar, but where did they come from in the first place? Just what is a Nokia? Here's a look at the origins of some of your favorite tech and gadget companies' names.
1. Kodak: Founder George Eastman named the camera and film corporation in 1888. Eastman wanted a short name that was easy to pronounce and could only refer to his products. He later said that he favored the letter "k" because it "seems a strong, incisive sort of letter." Once Eastman decided he wanted the name to start and end with "k," he played around with combinations of letters until he found one that he liked in "Kodak."
2. Nintendo: Nintendo's name translates into English as "leave luck to heaven." The name made more sense before Nintendo got into the video game business; it opened in 1889 to make hanafuda cards, a type of Japanese playing cards decorated with floral designs.
3. Sony: When Sony got its start in 1946, it had a decidedly less catchy name – Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo. Within a few years, the company's founders wanted a new name, so they combined sonus, Latin for "sound," with "Sonny," the term of endearment for a young boy. The newly coined word captured both the superior sound quality and small size the company was shooting for with its products.
4. Sega: Sega got its start in Hawaii in 1940 as Standard Games, a business that provided military bases with pinball machines to help amuse soldiers. In 1951, the company moved to Tokyo and renamed itself "Service Games" to reflect its business of importing coin-op machines for American military bases. In 1965, Service Games merged with another coin-op company, Rosen Enterprises, and shortened its name to Sega.
5. Nokia: The modern telecom giant hasn't always been involved in such tech-heavy fields. The company got its start in Tampere, Finland, in 1865 as a pulp mill and paper manufacturer. When owner Fredrik Idestam opened a second plant in Nokia, Finland, in 1868, he decided the town's name would suit his company, too.
The town takes its name from the Nokianvirta River that flows through it, which in turn takes its name from an archaic Finnish word referring to the small furry animals, mostly sables, which lived on the river's banks.
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6. Cisco Systems: The recent addition to the Dow Jones Industrial Average takes its name from San Francisco, where it was founded in 1984.
7. Atari: The video-game pioneer takes its name the board game Go. In Go, atari is a term that indicates that a player's stone (or group of a player's stones) are in immediate danger of being captured by the player's opponent.
8. Toshiba: Toshiba formed following the 1939 merger of consumer products company Tokyo Denki with machinery firm Shibaura Seisakusho. By taking the "To" from the former and the "Shiba" from the latter, a new company name was born.
9. Sanyo: Sanyo's name means "three oceans" in Japanese; the company's founder wanted to sell his wares across the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific oceans to reach the entire world.
10. Seiko: The watchmaker takes its name from a Japanese word meaning "exquisite" or "success."
11. Canon: When Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory started developing Japan's first-ever 35mm camera equipped with a focal plane shutter, the engineers dubbed the creation "Kwanon" after the Buddhist goddess of mercy. At this point the company's logo even included the thousand-armed goddess.
When the camera was ready to roll out worldwide in 1935, the company decided to tweak the name to "Canon" so it would be easier for international markets to accept.
12. Sharp: The electronics manufacturer got its start in 1912 as metalsmith Tokuji Hayakawa's personal outlet for his inventions, including a specialized snap buckle. In 1915 Hayakawa invented an improved mechanical pencil he dubbed Ever-Sharp, and to honor the fine point of his creation, Hayakawa started calling his company "Sharp."
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13.
Magnavox: The stalwart electronics company began in 1915 when Edwin Pridham
and Peter Jensen created a moving-coil loudspeaker, which they named "Magnavox,"
Latin for "great voice."
14. Coleco: The video game kingpins of the 1970s and 80s (and the people who brought you Cabbage Patch Dolls!), Coleco was originally a company that sold shoe leather. The name Coleco is a shortening of "Connecticut Leather Company."
15. Motorola: Founder Paul Galvin named his company in a twist on the old naming convention of putting "-ola" at the end of phonograph and radio names like the Victrola. Since Galvin and his company were making car radios, he merged "motor" with "-ola" to get the name.
16. Samsung: Samsung got its start in 1938 when Lee Byung-Chull started the "Samsung Store" in Korea. The store initially focused on exporting dried fish and fruit, but it jumped into electronics in the 1960s. The name Samsung is Korean for "three stars," a nod to the lucky properties of the number three.
How 16 Electronics Companies Got Their Names - WSJ.com