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Alright guys, I have a confession to make.  I'm a story writer.  I have been writing a Hero story for a while now and I have written thirty-five episodes/chapters now.  In episode form, that's two seasons completed now.  In book form, that's probably only half of an actual book, lol.  The story revolves around one girl named Zoey Hanson.  As she finds the junior year almost over, the greatest part of her life hasn't ended yet.  She finds out she has cat-like powers from her new friend and guardian, sixteen year-old, Jacob Cypher, and she becomes a superhero.  Through these new abilities given to her at childbirth, Zoey will now fight against the forces of supernatural evil called the Monsoon (which are a legion of vampires, psychic beings, lycans, phantoms, and worst of all, wraiths).  Here she will learn the true meaning of friendship and how there is, as a matter a fact, no "I" in "team".

Now...If that interested you any bit, please, give me your email address and I will personally send you the first two chapters to you.  If you like what you've read, just requet for more and I'll keep sending it to you.  Make sure your not like Jeremy Alosio and actually read it.  Don't lie to me (lol, yes Jeremy I know your not reading my story).

If you choose to read this adventure for the fight for our planets future, I hope you enjoy!!!

 

Im doing my blog about a new demo of GT5, the demo was at the Tokyo Game Show. The Testers looked at the new damage model that is new to the series. They said theirs no big damage when you hit a wall but their will be gradual damage over time like doors falling off and scuffs on the paint. I'm not sure about anyone else but i cant wait for this game and am anxiously awaiting its release next year.

Over the years the Call of Duty series has set the bar for immersive, action-packed, cinematic FPS gaming, and no matter what camp you're from there's no denying the franchise's influence on the industry. When Infinity Ward moved from the classic World War II setting and blazed new ground with Modern Warfare we saw the first obvious split within the world of Call of Duty. The series dropped its historic focus, created a new cast of characters, and began treading on new ground by taking the first-person shooter genre to new locales, and pushing the boundaries of what military games are willing to show. With Modern Warfare 2, the sheer amount of hype has been practically inescapable, with preorders alone setting it up as one of the biggest selling games of all time, the addition of even more multiplayer modes and features, and the game's new Special Operations mode has set Infinity Ward's lastest up as the game to beat this year.

The real question: has it been worth the wait, and can Modern Warfare 2 live up to the precedent set by over half a decade of Call of Duty tradition?

Over at MIT, a Computer input device has been created that could possibly be the basis of many future technological advancements. The device was a set up that was able to track hand gestures, and manipulate objects on the screen without contact with the screen. The use of motion detection by the device is fascinating, and for a more in depth look at how it works check out this video.

This is a big step forward for technology like this. I personally believe that the technology is pretty interesting, and I think it would be interesting to see it implemented in many different fields, because the possibilities for such a creative device are seemingly limitless. For more information follow this link :
 http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/mit-gestural-computing-makes-multitouch-look-old-hat/

December 11, 2009 by Larry Hardesty

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Media Lab researchers demonstrate a laboratory mockup of a thin-screen LCD display with built-in optical sensors. Photo: Matthew Hirsch, Douglas Lanman, Ramesh Raskar, Henry Holtzman

(PhysOrg.com) -- The iPhone’s familiar touch screen display uses capacitive sensing, where the proximity of a finger disrupts the electrical connection between sensors in the screen. A competing approach, which uses embedded optical sensors to track the movement of the user’s fingers, is just now coming to market. But researchers at MIT’s Media Lab have already figured out how to use such sensors to turn displays into giant lensless cameras. On Dec. 19 at Siggraph Asia -- a recent spinoff of Siggraph, the premier graphics research conference -- the MIT team is presenting the first application of its work, a display that lets users manipulate on-screen images using hand gestures.

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Many other researchers have been working on such gestural interfaces, which would, for example, allow computer users to drag windows around a screen simply by pointing at them and moving their fingers, or to rotate a virtual object through three dimensions with a flick of the wrist. Some large-scale gestural interfaces have already been commercialized, such as those developed by the Media Lab’s Hiroshi Ishii, whose work was the basis for the system that Tom Cruise’s character uses in the movie Minority Report.

But “those usually involve having a roomful of expensive cameras or wearing tracking tags on your fingers,” says Matthew Hirsch, a PhD candidate at the Media Lab who, along with Media Lab professors Ramesh Raskar and Henry Holtzman and visiting researcher Douglas Lanman, developed the new display. Some experimental systems — such as Microsoft’s Natal — instead use small cameras embedded in a display to capture gestural information. But because the cameras are offset from the center of the screen, they don’t work well at short distances, and they can’t provide a seamless transition from gestural to touch screen interactions. Cameras set far enough behind the screen can provide that transition, as they do in Microsoft’s SecondLight, but they add to the display’s thickness and require costly hardware to render the screen alternately transparent and opaque. “The goal with this is to be able to incorporate the gestural display into a thin LCD device” — like a cell phone — “and to be able to do it without wearing gloves or anything like that,” Hirsch says.

Wow, technology's come a long way, huh? So, if this all works out, we can just point to something and it opens! That opens up plenty of frontiers for technology to expand. Gaming, Music, All sorts of things.  definitely want to see this happen

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Some franchises just don’t know when to quit. Whether or not people are getting sick and tired of the whole Pirates of the Caribbean thing, when a franchise makes that much money, it’s hard to let it die. We’ve been hearing rumblings about a possible fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie for months now, but tonight I got an email from the old friend of the site which not only confirmed a fourth movie will almost certainly be happening, but dropped details on where the series may end up going when it continues.

Our source says that Pirates of the Caribbean 4 is no longer just a possibility, it’s almost a certainty. More importantly, Johnny Depp is all but assured to return, though our scooper claims he may end up making as much as $35 - $40 million to do it. Also returning will be Geoffrey Rush and Gore Verbinski as director, but forget about the rest of the cast because from now on the movies will only be about Captain Jack.

That’s right, Pirates 4 will cast aside Will and Elizabeth to make it an all Jack Sparrow movie. That won’t be the only change Disney is planning to make when the series continues though. Our scooper says, “the ending of Pirates 3, the fountain of youth story might not be the only story they might used the next pirate’s film. The fountain story could used in another form to introduce the story for Pirates 4… the next film might be a departure from the same formula of the last three movies as well, meaning that Jerry Bruckheimer could be planning to enter the realm of Science Fiction this time around and it could be the heart of a new trilogy with Jack Sparrow and his crew of misfits. Some of the brainstorming going around involves some Jules Verne type of scenarios involving some pretty big flying machines, a man who wants to rule more than just the ocean, a encounter with the most famous and dangerous pirate of all, a race to get to a lost world (Hint, Hint) and Jack and his crew going to where no pirate has gone before (No, its not space but Disney had made animated movie about this place before with Michel J Fox voicing one of the characters).”

Pirates science fiction? What the heck? The Michael J. Fox movie our source is referring to is almost certainly Atlantis, which would tie in the Jules Verne and science fiction elements mentioned. Apparently we’ll also get more of Jack’s past and his family, which could also mean more Keith Richards. I’d actually be ok with that, Keith was surprisingly good.

Don’t get too attached to the idea of another Pirates of the Caribbean sequel though. Our insider thinks that Disney plans to take a long, long breather between Pirates movies: “word is that the start date could be around 2009 to 2011.” I don’t think we need another Pirates sequel, but if they’re going to do one, giving the franchise time to recharge is probably a very good idea.

As always, consider everything above as nothing but rumor till something more develops. Our source is a proven one, but if we can’t give you our source, then consider anything we tell you as unconfirmed gossip.

 

I would not mind seeing this movie, like all the pirates of the carribean movies. It all comes down to the core issue, however.

Is it good? Will it be a good movie? I hope it is like the disney movie, Atlantis, because Atlantis was a great movie. 

 

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Barnes & Noble, Sony and other e-book vendors may be the manufacturing brawn in the ongoing e-reader war, but the brains directing the challenge against Amazon.com Inc.'s market-leading Kindle is Adobe Systems Inc.

On Wednesday, the software maker tallied up its alliances and customers in a bid to show that while this holiday season may belong to the Kindle, future ones may not.

Adobe announced that more than 100 publishers, book retailers and libraries are using Adobe's Content Server 4 software to deliver encryptable e-books via the two formats favored by Adobe: PDF and ePub.

 

Those in the Adobe camp include 17 e-book reader manufacturers who have licensed the Adobe Reader Mobile Software Development Kit (SDK) to enable their readers to display PDF and ePub-formatted e-books.

 

I think that its cool that technology has allowed us to read books on a portible device. The fact that there is more than one will inspire faster increase in technological advances. So let the battle continue for the sake of technology. This is how war can be beneficial.

Australia, December 7, 2009 - Darksiders is a hugely anticipated title, and for good reason - we've played through the opening few hours, and it's shaping up to be one hell of a game. Vigil has taken inspiration from a number of genres, from the action of God of War and Devil May Cry, to the overarching structure of Zelda and Castlevania, while putting its own defining stamp on the title. The opening hours are polished and absorbing, with a good balance between exploring the world and kicking ass. In fact, while the combat is a little unwieldy (prepare to use EVERY button on your controller), it's also really versatile and flowing, and evolves at a steady pace as you earn souls and unlock new abilities. I am personaly very excited for this game...it sounds like a real good game...if you would like more on this game follow this link.