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Mmmmm, polygons.

After arriving and chatting for a bit outside, the UK group went out for lunch while us Americans were led into Rockstar's inner sanctum, and up to a conference room decorated with framed prints of various San Andreas artwork. It was there that we saw the giant Nintendo DS Rockstar built from a dev-kit. Upon which we were given a demo of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.

Previously I had only seen a handful of screens, so going in I was pretty much expecting a classic "2.5D" game with a blocky map and a lot of fancy sprite work to simulate 3D. Being a big fan of the old school GTAs, this would have been more than good enough for me. Once again, however, Rockstar had something better in mind; namely wowing us with a fully 3D game. Obviously the tiny DS can't render every little pothole/doorknob/finger/etc.. in 3D like GTA IV, but all the buildings, cars, peds, on down to street rubbish and signs, are made of polygons.

Naturally, the peds and cars are somewhat simple since they're so small, but on a triangle for triangle basis, the level of detail in the map is roughly comparable to GTA III. Given the size of the screen and the limitations of the hardware, this is truly impressive. On top of just being detailed, the map is huge. While they've tweaked and moved things around a bit so the scale would better match the action, the map is essentially the same Liberty City (minus Alderney) found in GTA IV. As such, the world should feel instantly familiar to anyone who has played IV, yet totally fresh at the same time, thanks in part to the slick cartoon shader. Oh, yea, and everything casts real-time shadows which move as the time of day changes.

Classic chaos.

But enough about the technical artsy stuff, how does it play? Well, after picking up our jaws off the floor following the demo on the giant DS, we all gathered around the table in the conference room to try it out for ourselves.

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* Update: While traveling added through the FAQ, I couldn't advice but yield agenda of the final question...

Can the user abundance applications on an alien SD card?

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Having gone from Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 to the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008, the software behemothic is now basic the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010. According to Microsoft, the band-aid accelerator will be tailored to the next releases of the Windows applicant and Server operating systems.

“The latest adaptation of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, MDT 2010, is currently getting developed. This new version, which is due to be appear anon afterwards the Windows 7 release, will offer: abutment for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2; deployment Workbench and Software architectonics improvements; affidavit improvements,” appear a affiliate of the MDT team.

Up to this point in time, the software behemothic did not announce in any way the borderline for the supply of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010. However, in aboriginal December, the aggregation acicular out that MDT 2010 Beta would alpha getting broadcast in the advancing weeks. For the time getting Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008 Update 1 is accessible as a chargeless download, and is advised to abutment the deployment of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3.

“Please assurance up for at the Connect website to be notified as anon as it is available, if you haven’t already done so. To assurance up, chase these simple steps: admission Microsoft Connect; assurance on application any accurate Live ID; from the Connection Directory, acquisition the 'Solution Accelerators' connection; administer for the 'Microsoft Deployment Toolkit;' program. Approval is automatic,” the MDT aggregation affiliate added.

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With an apparatus that allows creating accent constructs as simple as creating classes or methods is in a accepted language, you can decidedly change the way you advance software.

This new appearance of programming, if you actualize specialized languages, use them to advance software, and extend them if and how required, is alleged Accent Oriented Programming (LOP).

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Despite the ambit of programming languages accessible today, we are still bound by them. It makes faculty to extend the absolute languages to actualize added domain-oriented ones, which acquiesce autograph programs on a college akin and in a address that is added accustomed to anniversary domain.

With an apparatus that allows creating accent constructs as simple as creating classes or methods is in a accepted language, you can decidedly change the way you advance software.

This new appearance of programming, if you actualize specialized languages, use them to advance software, and extend them if and how required, is alleged Accent Oriented Programming (LOP).

MPS Story

Meta Programming System started in 2003 as a analysis project. In 2004, its basal concepts were declared in the Accent Oriented Programming article. In 2005, we opened an Aboriginal Access Program for MPS. We've been application MPS back 2006 to advance some of our new products. Over these years, we accept accumulated a lot of our own acquaintance and aggregate admired acknowledgment from aboriginal adopters, and this angry MPS from a analysis activity into a complete artefact that we wish to present to you now. MPS is now appear as Beta, with the 1.0 absolution planned for aboriginal 2009.

MPS is a free product with most of its source code available under Apache 2.0 license. Download MPS.

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The bearings has acquired Microsoft to appear up with the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC images, a band-aid advised to avoid the limitations of IE active on Windows via virtualization.

With the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC images, Microsoft is alms developers no beneath than four chargeless copies of Windows packaged as Virtual Hard Disk Images and advised to accommodate with the company's chargeless virtualization offerings. The four VHD downloads affection a new absolution date, just advanced of the end of 2008, although the launched articles are agnate to those fabricated accessible in August 2008, afterward the availability of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2.

“VPC Hard Disk Angel for testing websites with altered IE versions on Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista,” Microsoft revealed. “This download page contains four abstracted VPC images, depending on what you wish to test: IE6-XPSP3_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP3 with IE6 VHD file; IE7-XPSP2_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP2 with IE7 VHD file; IE8B2-XPSP3_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP3 with IE8 Beta 2 VHD file; and IE7-VIS1.exe+IE7-VIS2.rar+IE7-VIS3.rar accommodate a Vista Angel with IE7 VHD file. Note: For The Vista image, you will charge all three files, downloaded and in the aforementioned directory, again artlessly run IE7-VIS1.exe.”

According to Microsoft, all the VPC images are time austere and set to expire in January, 2009. In aboriginal 2009 the aggregation affairs to bear Internet Explorer 8 Absolution Candidate 1, accepting already fabricated accessible the pre-RC Partner Build. After the availability of IE8 RC, the Redmond behemothic is accepted to bear a beginning set of VPC images with a new cessation date.

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External Mirror 1 - IE6-XPSP3 [EXE]

External Mirror 2 - IE7-VIS1 [EXE]

External Mirror 3 - IE7-VIS2 [EXE]

External Mirror 4 - IE7-VIS3 [RAR]

External Mirror 5 - IE7-XPSP2 [RAR]

External Mirror 6 - IE8B2-XPSP3 [EXE]

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This action started as a acicular antic at George W. Bush's expense: the Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge. In the Challenge, which CodeWeavers launched in July, the aggregation said it would accommodate its software for chargeless in the absurd accident that beneath Bush's administering any of the afterward things happened: Return the banal bazaar to it's 2008 high; Reduce the boilerplate amount of a gallon of milk to $3.50; Create at atomic one net job in the U.S. this agenda year; Return the boilerplate home amount to its Jan. 1, 2008 level; Accompany Osama Bin-Laden to justice; or, and this one that in fact happened, accompany the boilerplate gasoline prices in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul) to $2.79 a gallon.

As Jeremy White, admiral and CEO of CodeWeavers, explains, "I was bushing my catchbasin at Big Steve's Gas Palace in St. Paul, I had just accomplished my morning blah dog and 64-ounce Dr. Pepper if I looked at the pump and noticed gas was at $2.79. I screamed 'Woohoo,' again I yelled 'Oh, crap!' as I accomplished every American can now accept my software for free. Affectionate of upsets my fourth division acquirement projections..."

White admits this is not how he foresaw the Challenge unfolding. "I launched the attack to affect Admiral Bush to accomplish the a lot of of his final canicule in office. Who knew that our Challenge would accept this affectionate of appulse on the country?" White said. "On the added hand, who knew that the abridgement would implode, causing oil appeal to bead into the abysm and gas prices to collapse as well. Clearly, investigating Bear Stearns, AIG and those guys is confused -- CodeWeavers is amenable for this mess. So it's chargeless software for all!"

Somehow, I don't anticipate it absolutely formed absolutely that way, but hey, chargeless software is chargeless software. To get a archetype of CrossOver Mac Pro, Crossover Linux Pro, CrossOver Mac Amateur or CrossOver Linux Games, appointment the company's Web website and download the software. You will, eventually, get a accord cipher that absolutely enables the software and gets you six-months of abutment as well.

I say 'eventually,' because appropriate now the website is swamped. White says admitting that the aggregation will forward the allotment cipher to users by e-mail over the next few days.

What you're accepting for this is a affairs that makes the open-source activity Wine an accomplishing of the Windows API (application affairs interface) on top of the Unix/Linux operating arrangement ancestors simple to use. Wine has added than 15 years of development abaft it. In addition, CrossOver supports ActiveX, a Microsoft COM (component article mode) that's acclimated on such Web pages and DirectX, a Microsoft multimedia API that's usually acclimated in games.

What Wine isn't however, is simple to apparatus on your own. That's area CrossOver comes in. CrossOver makes it simple to install both the Wine framework and Windows programs on both Linux and Mac OS X.

Once installed, you can run abounding accepted Windows applications and games. This isn't just what CrossOver claims, I've acclimated CrossOver Linux for years and it works acutely well. In my own case, I generally use Windows applications active on Linux acknowledgment to CrossOver to plan on Word 2003 documents, Excel 2003 spreadsheets, Internet Explorer 6-specific Web pages, and adequately complicated Quicken 2006 banking statements.

I aswell use it to play WoW (World of Warcraft) and, my own admired game, Guild Wars. I'm a adequately austere amateur vs. amateur Guild Wars amateur and I can assure you that if Guild Wars, a 3D MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) didn't plan able-bodied on Linux, I'd be active it on Windows.

How abundant do I like CrossOver? I pay my own money for it. How was I to apperceive that gas would bead beneath $3 a gallon!?

CrossOver doesn't run everything, and it does accept some quirks. That said, it does run a lot of of the important Windows applications and, hey, today, you get the abounding adaptation for chargeless so you can try it out for yourself. Go for it! You've annihilation to lose, and you ability just acquisition yourself able to accord up your awful Windows addiction for good.

Source : blogs.computerworld.com

We realized, though, that some of our Firefox 3 users ability aswell wish to get a arch alpha arena with gelocation Today.

Introducing Geode, an alpha add-on to analyze geolocation in Firefox 3 advanced of the accomplishing of geolocation in a approaching artefact release. Geode provides an aboriginal accomplishing of the W3C Geolocation blueprint so that developers can activate experimenting with enabling location-aware adventures application Firefox 3 today, and users can acquaint us what they anticipate of the acquaintance it provides. It includes a individual alpha geolocation account provider so that any computer with WiFi can get authentic accession data.

The abeyant actuality is for added than just resturant lookups. For example, brainstorm an RSS clairvoyant that knows the aberration amid home and plan and automatically changes it’s behavior appropriately. Or a account website whose bounded breadth is, in fact, in fact local. Or Web website affidavit that alone allows you to login from assertive concrete locations, like your house.

What abroad will breadth accomplish possible? Even if you can’t code, you can allotment your thoughts by commenting on this column or via the Concept Series, a appointment for surfacing, sharing, and accommodating on new account and concepts.

How It Works & Aloofness Implications

With Geode if a web website requests your breadth a notification bar will ask how abundant advice you wish to accord that site: your exact location, your neighborhood, your city, or annihilation at all.

We’re application Skyhook’s Loki technology to map the Wifi signals in your breadth to your location. Unlike accustomed GPS-based methods which can yield upwards of 45 abnormal for a lock, Geode works both central and alfresco with an accurateness of amid 10 to 20 meters, commonly aural a second.

Please agenda that in this aboriginal implementation, both breadth and IP advice is beatific to the accepted provider, Skyhook, everytime a website is accepted admission to your location. Skyhook’s aloofness action is that they do not abundance or use any claimed anecdotic information, and they affiance to alone accumulate abstracts in anonymized agregate. The ultimate plan for Firefox is that account providers and geolocation methods will be pluggable and user selectable — to accommodate users with as abounding choices and aloofness options as possible.

As an experiment, Geode is aswell the alpha of a chat about location-based aloofness and amalgam casework that allotment claimed abstracts into Web browsers.

You can download Geode here.

Brandon LeBlanc, Windows communications administrator on the Windows Applicant Communications Team, appear that Microsoft had been harder at plan attempting to get aegis providers to action anti-virus for Windows 7. No beneath than three companies accept rushed to Microsoft's call, and are alms their articles even if Windows 7 is still in Beta.

“The afterward anti-virus solutions are accessible [for Windows 7]: Symantec offers the Norton 360 3.0 Beta, which works on the Windows 7 Beta; AVG offers AVG Internet Aegis and AVG Anti-Virus that works with the Windows 7 Beta; Kaspersky is alms a abstruse examination of Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows 7. It is abundant to see that these ally were able to accept their solutions alive so aboriginal in our development process,” LeBlanc added.

Norton 360 3.0 Beta is available for download here.

VG Antivirus Professional 8.0 is available for download here.

AVG Internet Security 8.0 is available for download here.

Technical Preview Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Microsoft Windows 7 is available for download here.

source: softpedia.com

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