This is somewhat of a retreat, though, from a company that’s used an anti-software trademark for more than a decade. And given the popularity of OS X, I’d be interested in a clarification on its lifespan, too.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, always game for a little tech trash talk, said that Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system would be “the end of Windows” and that “Windows is irrelevant.”
I’m curious to see if wiping my box and installing 12.10 from scratch will make Chrome and Unity behave again. Although, Gnome 3 has been working fine since I switched.
I found it strange that the article offers Elite 2 and Elder Scrolls as examples of games that generate their environments procedurally. Nethack comes to mind. But if you watch the video demo of A New Zero, the blocky graphics and soft music might remind you of another little game called Minecraft.
A 3D video game that creates a virtual world on-the-fly could change how blockbuster shoot-’em-up titles are built.
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The idea of building gaming environments from code, known as procedural generation, is not new. Austin points to an early 1990s space simulation called Frontier: Elite 2, which procedurally generated a whole galaxy for exploration. The popular Elder Scrolls series of games uses procedural generation to draw many of its dungeons, which are then touched up by artists.
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Like Captain Kirk in Star Trek II, the scurvy dogs of The Pirate Bay have steered their ship into the Mutara Nebula. “We tried it once your way, Khan. Are you game for a rematch? Khan … I’m laughing at the superior intellect.”
The Pirate Bay has made an important change to its infrastructure. The world’s most famous BitTorrent site has switched its entire operation to the cloud. From now on The Pirate Bay will serve its users from several cloud hosting providers scattered around the world. The move will cut costs, ensure better uptime, and make the site virtually invulnerable to police raids — all while keeping user data secure.
