Saturday, April 11, 2009

Show #125

News
  • The Conficker Worm
  • New Twitter Client for the Mac Desktop: Nambu
    • 1 for full featured but unresponsive
  • Time Warner set to introduce tiered pricing for bandwidth
    • 5GB: $29.99/month
    • 10GB: $39.99/month
    • 20GB: $49.99/month
    • 40GB: $54.90/month
    • 100GB: No information yet
    • Biggest argument by Cable companies: small percentage of users forcing caps
    • (my argument: If such a small percentage, target those users because the 98% doesn't need a cap)
    • Test-beds for this cap structure going into markets where no competition is available
    • Homework assignment for users: Find out how much you use per month and then compare it to the pricing structures
  • T-Mobile / HP to use Android OS for netbooks
    • Microsoft claims they have 98% of netbook market despite no rise in sales
    • Netbooks are about cost saving, why pay premium for a low feature item
    • Microsoft should be giving this OS away (like they did with Win95) in order to corner market
  • .69 songs a missing commodity on ITunes now that new Price Structure implemented
    • Promoters decide pricing structure, which give no incentive to lower prices
    • most older songs stayed put at .99 with some raising price to $1.29
    • (derek open up itunes and get me some supporting numbers)
  • MLB dumps Silverlight
    • War inside browser being waged, who controls the media delivery mechanism
    • Microsoft = Silverlight, Adobe = Flash, RealMedia = dead
    • Olympics dumped Silverlight, now the MLB?
    • last year plagued by glitches, admin needed to install, etc.
    • Big hit because MLBAM also streams NCAA tourney and 2009 Masters
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Gamer's Corner (Conferences, New Developments, Game Reviews)
  • Beatles: Rockband and Canon CD simultaneous release Sept. 9
  • Soldiers Choose Game, instead of film, to recount Fallujah
    • Notable because the younger generation of soldiers is choosing a medium that they are comfortable with to tell their story (not movies)
    • Will feature all sides of the conflict: Soldier, Villager, Insurgent
    • Konami promises that this will be realistic
  • Free Game: The Power of Paint
  • WoW note: 3.1 forthcoming
    • End-Game furthered - Ulduar: Dwarves gone wild (NE Stormpeaks)
    • DUAL SPEC - BIIIIIG game changer, only ooc and cast time to change your whole build
    • No equipment manager - got pushed
    • New holiday "Noble Garden" was pushed also
  • Jack Thompson's unconstitutional bill gets vetoed in Utah, takes fight to airwaves
    • Disbarred Florida Nut that really is just into grand standing and has chosen his target as gaming
    • Wanted law in place that forced M games to be put under lock and key and was giving stiff penalties if this didn't happen.
    • Stupid because rating system is voluntary and would force ppl away from rating their game
    • Claims on radio that Doom was a trainer for Columbine, Germany shooting was CS and Far Cry 2's fault
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