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Activision couldn't help but sign on to help market 'Couples Retreat' {Joystiq}
Oct 18th 2009 1:06PM This is just a case of self interest product placement... Its no different than what Sony does by placing tons of their electronic products into their productions.
Universal and Activision are owned by the same parent company Vivendi Entertainment.
PSP Go on sale at Fry's for $200 {Joystiq}
Oct 16th 2009 6:28PM And yet the PSP 1000/2000/3000 are still better buys...
Z Corporation's ZPrinter 350 will create a 3D object of any color you want, so long as it is white {Engadget}
Oct 16th 2009 11:37AM Then the people who are using it don't know what they are doing, because they do work perfectly find for rapid prototyping... you can get printers that are more accurate but they take longer, cost more, waste more, and are more hazardous, and they still can't create a fully working prototype.
Z Corporation's ZPrinter 350 will create a 3D object of any color you want, so long as it is white {Engadget}
Oct 16th 2009 11:16AM This thing gives a similarly confusing error about loobing the print head track... and then you spend an hour trying to figure out how to do it before pulling out the manual and checking how it says to do it, which doesn't help much other than show you where the damb thing loobs at. But at 425lbs and 4'x2.75'x4.6', yes the thing is mostly air inside, you can't just take this thing out and smash it with a baseball bat.
LOL PC LOAD LETTER/LEGAL thank god they changed it to "Tray 1/2/3/etc. Empty - Load Letter/Legal/11x17/etc."
Z Corporation's ZPrinter 350 will create a 3D object of any color you want, so long as it is white {Engadget}
Oct 16th 2009 11:03AM I found out its zp150 but I guess I misread (or misremembered) the information... it cures with water+epsom salt, its not as strong or vibrant of colors but it gives much whiter models, it is still compatible with the older cure materials though.
http://zcorp.fileburst.com/downloads/zp150%20FAQ%206-4-09.pdf
Z Corporation's ZPrinter 350 will create a 3D object of any color you want, so long as it is white {Engadget}
Oct 16th 2009 10:48AM Sounds like you guys have the 450... At the college where I work we got information on a new powder and conversion for several of the systems, including the 450, which uses water as the primary binder and sealer, I would send you a link to it but if you've ever been to Z-Corp's site you know its mostly an ad to get you to buy the printer, its not there to actually promote stuff to current owners.
NES controller flash drive is Konami Code-protected {Joystiq}
Oct 15th 2009 11:20AM Fairly imaginative use of a basic security function board and a switch, but unfortunately could have easily been done using the any number of other NES Controller USB PC Controller/Emulator (USB Drive) Mod Including
http://www.joystiq.com/2004/09/07/how-to-make-a-nintendo-controller-into-a-pc-joystick/
http://edshowtos.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-make-your-own-nes-usb-controller.html
But instead of using joy stick controls (in the case of the first one) using the keyboard controls, and then password protecting the flash drive using the corresponding keyboard inputs as the password, and maintain the usability of the control pad in the process.
NES controller flash drive is Konami Code-protected {Joystiq}
Oct 15th 2009 10:59AM Whylekat, it was origionally used on Gradius, and then included as a backdoor code on several other games released for the NES, including Konami's Contra, which gave you far to few lives for most people to be able to have a chance to beat the game, so the 99 lives granted by the code was needed.
Activision 'Rocktober' trademark conflicts with EA's Brutal Legend marketing {Joystiq}
Sep 28th 2009 4:21PM Activision doesn't have a leg to stand on here... the trademarked a word which was used long before they filed for the trademark...
http://www.heavymetalhorror.com/rocktoberblood.html
In fact pushing it might lose them their trademark because all EA has to do to defend against the injunction is to prove the word was in use in the meaning before the Trademark was granted... such as http://www.geocities.com/dayzi_/bonjovi/photos.html... at which point the trademark would be revoked without re-imbursement of cost of filing... Activision shouldn't have been granted the trademark in the first place, not to mention the word has been used without any infringement filings until now, the only difference is EA is their competition... BTW I'm a supporter of Activision more than EA...
PSP Go review {Engadget}
Sep 28th 2009 3:22PM @Kelmon
The system couldn't be made cheap enough in my opinion, especially with the recent series of updates making a mockery of the industry, and the denial of exiting problems coming from Sony. The PS3 is extremely anti-consumer now, they want to make money off their customers they don't want to provide them with what they actually want, examples - Removal of PS2 compatibility to save $15 a unit on the first gen chip, and $5 a unit on the second gen chip, now they are planning to sell these games all over again though PSN, and don't get me started on their "motion control" Wii mote knock-off which looks more like something a 6 year old girl would wield around while wearing a costume and playing a pixy, and then they get one-upped by Microsoft who plans on getting rid of as much of the controller as possible.
@Dave
The walkman didn't fail completely, it just lost the market because when competition came out Sony kept selling it at a premium because of the product name, and I didn't say the CD failed... The CD Walkman failed... It had an option of a proprietary CD format, which made the recorded CDs worthless unless you were using it in a compatible CD player, which only Sony made them, the things had an extremely bad habit of skipping even with the progressive scan, the Walkman CD Player only released after it was clear that the market had shifted way from the cassette tape, and then they again tried selling it based on the brand, even though there were already existing more reliable brands on the market. The Walkman MP3 player is no better than any number of cut and dry MP3 players its only more expensive, and again it only came on the market once it was clear that’s where the market was going, and then they replaced it with a knock-offs of the IPod/Zune product lines, which are just that knock-offs, Sony may have started the portable music revolution with the brand but now they are always one step behind everybody else.
