When I first saw this mouse I wasn’t too impressed, compared to other gaming mice it was lacking the initial wow factor that draws you to it. The M3x offers an on the fly DPI adjustment, however you must pick between eight predetermined settings (no customizing here). The eight options are associated with a colored LED so you would have to memorize which color coincides with each resolution. The DPI selection is on a cyclic system, in other words you have to cycle all the way through to get to a lower DPI. I found this irritating, and almost counter-productive.
The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament -- a path that puts the fighter on a collision corner with his older brother.
Electronic Arts today announced that it is working with FUNimation to translate their popular video game franchise, Mass Effect, into a feature length anime.
It has only been announced so far that the story will take place in the Mass Effect story-world, in which the entire universe has been mapped, and humans and several other races move freely from galaxy to galaxy, system to system, traveling, trading, and waring.
The protagonist of the series, Commander Shepard, must save the entire universe a couple of times from a malevolent extra-universal force which is attempting to cull the universe’s population.
She is joined by a team of highly skilled, and highly specialized operatives, which she has recruited from across the galaxies, and which represent many races and viewpoints.
The Mass Effect series received a bit of gruff early on when it was discovered that the protagonist could engage in a physical relationship with one of her female teammates, no matter which gender the player chose for her, resulting in the possibility of homosexual relationships. This is similar to the flak BioWare is currently deflecting for the relationship engine in Dragon Age 2.
Hopefully, this film will not try to tell any part of Shepard’s story, mainly because every single person who played this game played Shepard their own way, and so there would be no way to make the Shepard in the film match up with the Shepard already in people’s imaginations. The default Shepard is male, but there is no default personality. Players could choose to make shepard nice, noble mean, apathetic, horny, abusive, or any combination thereof.
In my head Shepard is not only female - thus the pronouns I've been using - she is a fiery, no-nonsense, red-head who cares deeply about her crew, but cares nothing for anyone else. She’s gruff and impassive with those who try to control her, and reacts poorly to authority figures. Every one of those traits was my decision in playing the character, and if the Anime depicts Shepard as anything else, it will be unwatchable.
Interestingly, some of the production team for the film are coming directly from the BioWare production team for the games, which is a rarity in cross-over productions. Casey Hudson, executive producer of the Mass Effect series, will serve as executive producer.
"Over the last few years, we have revealed different pieces of the Mass Effect world through different media. Extending the story through an anime medium is another amazing opportunity for us," said Hudson, "Partnering with FUNimation ensures that we will bring this rich universe to life with the utmost quality and the same attention to detail that the Mass Effect games are known for."
The film is slated for a Summer 2012 release, direct to digital home video.
Karanbir Singh has announced the release of CentOS 5.6, a Linux distribution built from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6: "We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS 5.6 for i386 and x86_64 architectures. CentOS 5.6 is based on the upstream release EL 5.6 and includes packages from all variants including Server and Client. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to make it easier for end users to work with. CentOS 5.6 is the sixth update to the CentOS 5 distribution series; it contains a lot of bug fixes, updates and new functionality." Read the release announcement and release notes for further information. Download (mirrors): CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-DVD.iso (4,065MB, MD5, torrent), CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso (4,052MB, MD5, torrent). Besides the standard installation DVDs, live CD and "netinstall" images are also available.
This may sound like a silly thing to have in general, but I can think of at least five or six different examples where a Porn Detection USB Stick would come in handy. The prime two examples being helping someone to quelch an addiction, and in the workplace where possession of porn is a crime. Trying to figure out what sort of weird stuff you roommate looks at so you can blackmail them is probably not the best use.
A lot of people may say that to own porn is within their rights, and while that is true, where you stash your porn can get you into trouble (like on a company laptop). This flash will look into archives, and check headers for image and video data, even in files with obscure file types. This would be very useful for a computer illiterate probation officer or even a company IT manager who needs to check some 20-30 computers. This will cost about $100, and will make sure that no one has anything they shouldn’t have.
Patrick Volkerding has once again updated the Slackware "Current" changelog, announcing one last release candidate before the final release of Slackware Linux 13.37: "Hi folks, one more. We'll call this 13.37 RC 4.6692. Thanks to Nicola for suggesting the first Feigenbaum constant could be useful since we used pi, and it's too late for e. This is pretty much it, but last call for any show-stoppers." Other recent changes include upgrade to Linux kernel 2.6.37.6, a bug fix to pkgtools, upgrade to KDevelop 4.2.2, addition of Linux kernel 2.6.38.2 to the testing tree, and various security fixes to libtiff, DHCP and ProFTPD. See the detailed changelog for a complete list of changes. Recent unofficial installation DVD images (built 5 April) are available for download from here: slackware-current-05_Apr_2011-DVD.iso (1,976MB, MD5), slackware64-current-05_Apr_2011-DVD.iso (1,933MB, MD5).
