Comcast Plans Data Caps For All Customers
While the rest of the planet is already way ahead of us in speed and pricing, Comcast plans to stick with data caps and usage-based billing. Nice.
A Comcast executive said he expects the company will roll out "usage-based billing"—what most people call "data caps"—to all of its customers within five years. Speaking with investors today, Comcast Executive VP David Cohen said, "I would predict that in five years Comcast at least would have a usage-based billing model rolled out across its footprint."
Comments
Read More ...
Oculus Rift Hires Halo Art Director
It looks like Oculus Rift has added another big name to its stable of talent.
Welcome Kenneth Scott (@superactionfunb), Oculus Art Director, formerly of 343 and id Software. Ken is building our 1st-party content team!
Comments
Read More ...
New SUPERHOT Trailer
Have you guys seen this game yet? It's a first person shooter where time moves only when your character moves. Confused? Watch this video:
Comments
Read More ...
On the Test Bench
Playing around on the motherboard test bench this afternoon has been fun. 16GB of Corsair Dominator Platinum memory running at 2400MHz out of the box is nice on MSI's new Z97 Gaming7 motherboard using its XMP profile. It just looked too damn nice to not share a picture of it.
Read More ...
BitFenix Colossus M
There is a review of the BitFenix Colossus M posted at pcGameware today for those of you interested.
Don't let the small size fool you the Colossus Micro-ATX packs quite a punch. Dual graphics cards up to 320mm in length can be installed along with tower coolers up to 160mm in height. Alternatively, users can opt for a slim 240mm water cooling radiator with a single graphics card installed. Along with a fully flexible storage system that allows for up to four 3.5″ hard drives or three 2.5″ SSDs, Colossus Micro-ATX brings colossal flexibility to the micro-ATX form factor.
Comments
Read More ...
PCAST Releases Report on Big Data and Privacy
So, if I understand this correctly, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology wrote this report. Isn't Eric Schmidt a PCAST member?
Today, PCAST is releasing its analysis via a new report, Big Data: A Technological Perspective, which details the technical aspects of big data and privacy. The ubiquity of computing and electronic communication technologies has led to the exponential growth of data from both digital and analog sources. New technical abilities to gather, analyze, disseminate, and preserve vast quantities of data raise new concerns about the nature of privacy and the means by which individual privacy might be compromised or protected.
Comments
Read More ...
Why Men Choose Female Avatars in World of Warcraft
When given a choice, do you prefer to play as a male for female character? Why?
In fact, it's all about the butts. Because players see their avatars from a third-person perspective from behind, men are confronted with whether they want to stare at a guy's butt or a girl's butt for 20 hours a week. Or as the study authors put it in more academic prose, gender-switching men "prefer the esthetics of watching a female avatar form."
Comments
Read More ...
Even The Part-Timers Are Miserable At Amazon
Okay, I read this sob story twice and I can't help but laugh. Please repeat these "soul crushing" stories to the millions and millions of people that do manual labor for minimum wage.
They do have some wicked smart people working there. I was really impressed, the campus is amazing, but everyone looks stressed out and beat down, at least on my team. Needless to say things did not improve. In 8 months I went through 4 managers. All of them look exhausted and stressed and had been there for about 2 years.
Comments
Read More ...
Are Microtransactions Making You Lazy?
The question of the day: Are microtransactions making you lazy? Answer of the day: Yes.
Think about this for a moment; you're paying more money for content you already own because you say you're too busy. Has someone set a deadline for when you must finish the game? Is there a gun pointed at your head hooked up to some bizarre, rapidly advancing contraption that is forcing you to reach the endgame before it expires?
Comments
Read More ...
U.S. Prisons Play Pirated Movies to Inmates
You have to admit that watching pirated movies in prison wouldn't be very fun if you were in jail for copyright infringement.
"If people are going to prison for copyright infringement, prison mind you, where they are supposed to be paying their debt to society and rehabilitate for their crimes? How is it that the prison itself is showing pirated movies?" Humphrey says.
Comments
Read More ...
Microsoft Giving Pro-Rated Refunds On Gold Memberships
Microsoft says that, if you decide to cancel your Gold membership now that entertainment apps like Netflix no longer require it, you are entitled to a pro-rated refund.
Will I be able to cancel my Gold membership?
Yes. Once the Xbox One and Xbox 360 system updates become available in June, Xbox Live Gold members who purchased a paid membership before that day can cancel and receive a pro-rata refund of any unused remaining days between the date of cancellation and the date their paid Gold membership ends. Cancellation and pro-rata refund requests must be made by August 31, 2014 and require six to eight weeks for processing.
Comments
Read More ...
3D Video Capture With Oculus Rift And Three Kinects
This is pretty neat. Imagine how cool this would be with those second generation Kinects.
Comments
Read More ...
Available Tags:Amazon , Microsoft , 3D ,
No comments:
Post a Comment