http://www.furious-angels.com/ Furious Angels multigaming community play many different games ranging from FPS to MMO and everything in between. Join us or stop by to discuss games and gaming in general en Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:17:45 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.furious-angels.com/images/portokalli/misc/rss.jpg http://www.furious-angels.com/ http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100120&goto=newpost Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:01:24 GMT garymortimer writes "EADs have successfully flown an electrified Cri-Cri aircraft. The Cri-cri (short for cricket) is the smallest twin-engined manned aircraft in the world, designed in the early 1970s by French aeronautical engineer Michel Colomban, the Cri-cri aircraft is the world's smallest twin-engine . At only 4.9 m (16.1 ft) wingspan and 3.9 m (12.8 ft) length, it is a single-seater, making an impression of a dwarf velomobile with wings at close range. After its manned flight trials the airframe will be configured for autonomous flight. Obviously once the pilot is removed payload increases dramatically and the airframe itself has been approved for manned flight so certifying it for UAV flight should be simpler."

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Slash Comments: ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100120 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100119&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:02:33 GMT I'm Not There (1956) writes "Sociologist Clifford Nass is talking about how people think of their computers as something like human beings. In one of his experiments, Nass found that people are more willing to 'help' computers when the computer helped them previously: 'When people were then asked to help optimize the screen resolution on a computer where the program had been "helpful," they were much more likely to do so than with the less helpful version.' He also found that people evaluating software's performance were more forgiving if the evaluation was done on the same computer the software was tested on. Nass has recently published the book The Man Who Lied to His Laptop, in which he 'uses our interactions with machines to investigate how human relationships could be improved.'"

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Slash Comments: ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100119 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100118&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:01:38 GMT The UK trade organisation formerly known as ELSPA - the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association - has officially relaunched with a new identity. UKIE, which stands for United Kingdom Interactive Entertainment, has now expanded... The UK trade organisation formerly known as ELSPA - the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association - has officially relaunched with a new identity.

UKIE, which stands for United Kingdom Interactive Entertainment, has now expanded its remit from focusing purely on the publishing sector with a new aim of representing the entire videogames business community, including developers and academia.

The move has become necessary, says director general Michael Rawlinson, because of the significant changes that the industry has undergone in the past few years.

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Read More... ]]> Game Industry Press releases FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100118 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100117&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:01:38 GMT Iftekhar25 writes "The NY Times is running an article about soaring unemployment rates for IT in the US (6 percent) despite a tech sector that is thirsting for engineering talent. Quoting: 'The chief hurdles to more robust technology hiring appear to be increasing automation and the addition of highly skilled labor overseas. The result is a mismatch of skill levels here at home: not enough workers with the cutting-edge skills coveted by tech firms, and too many people with abilities that can be duplicated offshore at lower cost. That's a familiar situation to many out-of-work software engineers, whose skills start depreciating almost as soon as they are laid off, given the dynamism of the industry.'"

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Slash Comments: 1 ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100117 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100116&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:01:38 GMT itwbennett writes "Kosuke Tsuneoka, a Japanese freelance journalist held captive in Afghanistan since April 1, was released over the weekend. His freedom came a day after he sent two Twitter messages from a captor's phone. 'i am still allive [sic], but in jail,' read a message sent at 1:15 p.m. GMT on Friday. It was followed a few minutes later with a second message, also in English, that read, 'here is archi in kunduz. in the jail of commander lativ.' The message referred to the Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz where he was being held. On Tuesday, speaking in Tokyo, Tsuneoka revealed how he managed to convince his captors to give him access to the Internet. 'He asked me if I knew how to use it, so I had a look and explained it to him,' said Tsuneoka. 'I called the customer care number and activated the phone,' he said."

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Slash Comments: ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100116 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100115&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:28:31 GMT wakawaka wa wa ? wakawaka wa wa

? ]]> Working Hours Micky http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100115 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100114&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:59:16 GMT CWmike writes "Hewlett-Packard is reported to be suing former CEO Mark Hurd, who was named co-president of rival Oracle on Monday. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news, and has now posted the full text of the suit on Google Docs. Among other things, it says, 'In his new positions, Hurd will be in a situation in which he cannot perform his duties for Oracle without necessarily using and disclosing HP's trade secrets and confidential information to others.'"

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Slash Comments: ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100114 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100113&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:15:11 GMT RyuuzakiTetsuya writes "Destructoid is reporting that the 3.42 firmware has been released for the PlayStation 3, and it has fixed the USB vulnerability that allows the PSJailbreak exploit to work." Sony's brief announcement of the update refers only to "additional security features," though the EU blog post acknowledges that a vulnerability was addressed. PS3-Hacks.com confirms that the patch is effective against the various jailbreak tools, and they point out a different tool for bypassing the update. Sony told the BBC, "... as we always have, we will continue to take necessary actions to both hardware and software to protect the intellectual content provided on the PlayStation 3."

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Slash Comments: 10 ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100113 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100112&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:15:11 GMT Tommy Christopher, who writes for mediate.com, has reporting in his blood, so much so that he livetweeted every part of his recent heart attack. "I gotta be me. Livetweeting my heart attack. Beat that!" and "This is not like the movies. Most deadpan heart attack evar. Still hurts even after the morphine," were among his updates as he was rushed to the hospital. Christopher is now in stable condition after recovering from emergency surgery.

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Slash Comments: 7 ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100112 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100111&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:15:11 GMT eldavojohn writes "For decades, Stanford has been working on a different kind of Wikipedia. It might even be considered closer to a peer-reviewed journal, since you have get submissions past a 120 person group of leading philosophers around the world, not to mention Stanford's administration. It has several layers of approval, but the authoritative model produces high quality content — even if it only amounts to 1,200 articles. Content you can read straight through to find everything pertinent — not hop around following link after link like the regular Wikipedia. You might question the need for this, but one of the originators says, 'Our model is authoritative. [Wikipedia's] model is one an academic isn't going to be attracted to. If you are a young academic, who might spend six months preparing a great article on Thomas Aquinas, you're not going to publish in a place where anyone can come along and change this.' The site has articles covering topics from Quantum Computing to technical luminaries like Kurt Friedrich Gödel and Alan Turing. The principal editor said, 'It's the natural thing to do. I'm surprised no one is doing it for the other disciplines.'"

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Slash Comments: 1 ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100111 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100110&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:15:11 GMT 7th September, 2010: Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE: HAS) today released the Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Roleplaying Game. Also known as the D&D red box, the game is the first release in the new Dungeons & Dragons Essentials line. The D&D red box celebrates the heritage of D&D and includes all the elements for new and lapsed players alike, to embark on their own epic adventures.

"We are thrilled to be re-introducing such a beloved product to existing, returning and new D&D players around the world," said Liz Shuh, Brand Director for Dungeons & Dragons. "Millions of players fondly remember the original version of this product and we are excited to be offering it once again for fans to enjoy world-wide."

Since its introduction in 1974, Dungeons & Dragons has long been setting the standard for tabletop gaming. With millions of players worldwide, D&D continues to be one of the most popular roleplaying games. Each day, players are embarking on fantasy adventures, solving dilemmas, engaging in battles, gathering treasure and accumulating experience points to help their characters become increasingly powerful.

The D&D Fantasy Roleplaying Game will be sold in Waterstones, Amazon.co.uk, Play.com, as well as all good gaming retailers, RRP £16.99.

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About Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons is the iconic roleplaying game of fantasy and imagination that is part storytelling, part social interaction and part chance. Players take on the role of characters that go on a journey together through a fantasy realm to discover treasure, fight monsters and battle adversity while one member of the group (the Dungeon Master) creates, narrates and referees the game. Together, the Dungeon Master and the characters bring the game to life.

About Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE:HAS), is the leader in entertaining the lifestyle gamer. The company holds an exclusive patent on trading card games (TCGs) and their method of play and produces the premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering, among many other trading card games and family card and board games. Wizards is also a leading publisher of roleplaying games, such as Dungeons & Dragons, and publisher of fantasy series fiction with numerous New York Times best-sellers. For more information, visit the Wizards of the Coast Web site at www.wizards.com.

Esdevium Games Limited is the UK's largest game distributor, supplying specialist and mass-market board games, card games, miniatures games, role-playing games, and other specialty games.

Samples available on request.

For more information please contact Louise Hathaway at the D&D press office on:
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07-09-2010 16:06 ]]> Game Industry Press releases FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100110 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100109&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:59:23 GMT kkleiner writes "The latest in a line of 'modsnakes' from Carnegie Mellon's Biorobotics Lab, Uncle Sam can move in a variety of different ways, including rolling, wiggling, and side-winding. It can also wrap itself around a pole and climb vertically, and even scale a tree. You have to watch this thing in action. There is something incredibly life-like and eerie about the way it scales the tree outdoors and then looks around with its camera 'eye.' Projects like Uncle Sam show how life-mimicking machines could revolutionize robotics in the near future."

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Slash Comments: ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100109 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100108&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:25:26 GMT Done worlds collide only it was different from what I normally done, I expected it would be the same, so I fitted for the rats in the first room and expected the rats in the second room too be of same type. Warped in see angels thing humm not tanked to them, dumb fucking me stayed there long enough... Done worlds collide only it was different from what I normally done, I expected it would be the same, so I fitted for the rats in the first room and expected the rats in the second room too be of same type. Warped in see angels thing humm not tanked to them, dumb fucking me stayed there long enough for them to scram me and I was melted in about 30 seconds not even my dual large perma rep could save me, I feel stupid ahaha.

Always read every mission on http://eve-survival.org/wikka.php?wakka=MissionReports

Works ingame, had I bothered to check I'd have actually declined the fucking mission knowing i'd have to fly to amarr to buy a cap injector so i could omi tank.

Lesson learned for next time I guess. ]]> New Eden Micky http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100108 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100107&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:04:01 GMT Trailrunner7 writes "The United States has a responsibility to take a leadership role in securing the Internet against both internal and external attackers, a duty that the federal government takes very seriously, the country's top military cybersecurity official said Tuesday. However, Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and commander of the US Cyber Command, provided virtually nothing in the way of details of how the government intends to accomplish this rather daunting task. 'We made the Internet and it seems to me that we ought to be the first folks to get out there and protect it,' Alexander said. 'The challenge before us is large and daunting. But we have an obligation to meet it head-on.' It's unlikely that any of Alexander's comments Tuesday will do much to quiet the criticisms of the Obama administration's security efforts thus far. Speaking mostly in generalities, Alexander emphasized the administration's commitment to the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, a plan developed by the Bush administration and recently partially de-classified by Obama administration officials."

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