The Power Geeks #62
by DarthMolen on Aug.11, 2010, under The Latest Shows
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We are LIVE on Ustream!!! This week we talk GENCON!!! UberDorkGirlie gives her rundown of the venerable geek conference, but no PICS of the famed slumber party, and much more…
(JP) Happy Birthday to WOZ!!! Steve turns 60 today! so we wish him a Power Geeky Birthday!
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Deals of the Week / New Releases
- Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World hits theaters Friday. (udg)
- Based on comic Scott Pilgrim by Brian Lee O’Malley
- Looks like a whole lotta awesome that does the comic proud
- JP – Golden Pic and Golden Pic Lite for Android devices
- Both are available in the Android Market for Android devices running 1.5 or later
- Lite is a free version (ad supported) with slightly limited functionality
- Full version is only $1.99 USD
- Go Buy it! or try it, then buy it!
Geek Speak
- Gen Con- The best 4 days in Gaming
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- Indy this past weekend Aug 5-8 43rd year
- I’ve not been to one since it left Milwaukee
- Media Guests of Honor- Felicia Day, the cast of The Guild and Will Wheaton. Checked in to get my press pass, hit the goodie table, turned around – Felicia
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- Cos Play-
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- Tons of great artists, I’ll have to compile a list of all of them for ya for the site.
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- Jackass Chef there WHY? Hello stereotypes. I wanted to junkpunch.
Oh wait, there were games!
- Magic: The Gathering celebrated “Summer of Mulitplayer” with 5 multiplayer events each day
- True Adventures (producers of True dungeon live-action gaming event) raised $9,000 for the Gary Gygax memorial to be raised in Lake Geneva, Wi- the birthplace of Gen con. (JP – I met Gary at GenCon in Indy like 20 something years ago… he introduced me to the 100 sided die!
) - Atari announced they are working on something new. Wouldn’t say what, but based on new domain names they recently registered, it points to a Neverwinter Nights MMO on the horizon.
- So… AWESOME weekend!!! And lots of hugs for everyone…
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Tech,Gaming, and Geek News
- Rubiks Cube Solvable in 20 Moves (SM)
- Did you know that most human’s can solve a rubiks cube in about 40 moves?
- What you are actually doing when you combine rubiks twists is called an algorithm
- Well, the magic number for the fewest twists is called “God’s Number”
- It only took 35 total years of google computer time to get to it
- 12 Core Mac Pro Now Commercially Available (JP) – The Sticky note of infamy was up on the Store page the other day… MAC refresh was there when the sticky was gone.
- You’re gonna pay a cool $5k for the low end of this system
- two 2.66GHz six-core Intel Xeon Westmere processors, 6GB of RAM, a 1TB hard drive, and an ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card (up to 3 monitors, dx11 support)
- 21.5” iMac
- i3 processor, discreet graphics, 1080p
- $1099, No blu-ray option (Steve says this isn’t coming to any MAC despite demand from user base)
- Cookie Headset- I can haz any cookie? (udg)
- “Meta Cookie” is an “interactive gustatory display” by Takuji Narumi of the University of Tokyo
- Helmet with goggles connected to a camera
- Person chooses whatever cookie they want out of ones shown to them
- Handed plain cookie. Airtubes attached to helmet pump smell of desired cookie into nose
- Wrong… just plain wrong I tell you.
- (SM) This is a perfect way for Vegetarians to try Woookiee Cookies!
- Speaking of Wookie Cookies… I think the postman ate mine! JP
- Droid 2 to release on Verizon with Special Star Wars R2D2 Edition (JP)
- the worst kept secret from Verizon the Droid 2 will be available for pre-order aug 12th and will ship with Android 2.2
- Amusingly, Motorola and Verizon also announced that they will offer a special edition Star Wars version of the Motorola Droid 2 in September. The R2D2 Droid 2 will come with Stars Wars content and it will be made to look like R2D2 Astromech droid from the Star Wars film. Motorola didn’t share a picture of the R2D2 version of the Droid 2
- (side note regarding 2.2 FroYo on current droids – 2 hrs ago )
- Netflix getting closer to streaming 1st run movies (SM)
- Paramount, Lion’s Gate, MGM
- It’ll cost Netflix nearly 1 billion to do so
- The deal will commence Sept. 1.
- Ted Sarandos, taking a “pile of money” from USPS, giving it to studios ($600 million)
- Facebook hacked, Names and photos revealed (udg)
- A bug in FB’s login system allows attackers to match unknown email addresses with users’ first and last names, even if set to private
- If the address belongs to any one of the 500 million active users the site will return the full name and picture associated with the account.
- Facebook has been under repeated attack for revealing way too much private info about it’s users over the past couple of years.
- Their response was giving users more control over who could see what.
- The name-to-email address extraction bug proves that doesn’t really work.
- We can expect to see a fix to this soon?
- Games responsible for 5 billion of US economy (JP)
- A study commissioned by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) found that the video game industry added about $5 billion to the US economy in 2009.
- Entitled “Video Games in the 21st Century: The 2010 Report” [PDF link], claims the industry directly employs about 32,000 people in the US and indirectly employs 120,000 (GameStop employees, video game media, manufacturing and distribution).
- Average industry employee makes $89,781 a year. Obviously that’s not the GameStop employee, but that is the average of them all. (Kiddies this means video game programming pays… testing… not so much!)
- CA lays claim to 41% of the employees in the industrty
- The annual growth rate of the industry exceeded 10% between 2005 & 2009
- Starcraft 2 Tourneys offer $500k total (SM)
- We know how South Korean’s love their starcraft
- One TV network locked down Blizzard broadcast rights in SK, GomTV
- New league, Global Starcraft 2 League, hellbent on luring SC 1 players over to 2
- Offering $125,000 PER TOURNAMENT, 64 player field, 1 a month for rest of 2010
- Plans for grand finale in 2011, Nothing says progress like money
- Scintillating Starcraft commentary
Intarweb Goldmine
- Prisoners thank Plants vs Zombies (udg)
- Where? Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines
- The guard actually left the keys lying around while he became engrossed in a round of Plants vs. Zombies, DUH!! Hello Prison Guard 101
- Four of the inmates were caught soon after the escape, but one still remains at large
- interesting side note… the guard should no longer have access to his idevice since he’ll be rooming with some of his former wards!! hahahaha
- Guy wants a roomate in SoHo who isn’t a Mac Fanboy (JP)
- An ad posted to Craigslist yesterday is from an open-minded sort of guy who wants a roommate for an apartment in Soho. Sounds typical, right? Here’s the catch: He insists that prospective roommates not have an iPhone or an iPad.
- The ad states that “I refuse to live with anyone that has sold their immortal soul to Steve Jobs.” He’s also looking for a guy with Starcraft II experience, and wants any potential live-ins to post a link to their battle.net profile and to prove to him that they don’t own an iPhone.
- The New York Observer found the guy, Vince Thomas, and he said he currently lives with another fellow who is a Mac fan, and Vince says he “just can’t take it anymore.” Vince has a Droid phone from Motorola, and apparently he’d rather talk about that instead.
- Vince has a point. Some of us love our iPhones. In social situations I don’t bring it up unless someone asks. I’m even feeling a bit guilty about the ‘Sent from my iPhone’ tag on my mail. If I write Vince I’ll be sure to change it to ‘Sent from my wonderful Droid, which is so much better than the iPhone I ditched.’
- (JP) my bet is… this guy is no picnic to live with either!
- (udg) Are you sure this guy’s name wasn’t Steven????
- Woman driven mad by McDonalds
- Woman in Ohio gets incensed because MiccyD’s is serving b-fast and can’t get nuggets
- Reached through drive-thru and punches 2 employees then smashes Drive-thru window
- Gets 60 days in jail
- Proof that fast food and McDonalds CAN drive ppl nuts…
- Woman quits job in style
- Was sexually harassed at work
- revealed her quitting in 33 pictures
- Kicker? Her boss installed a spy for monitoring web traffic
- He himself played 19 hrs of Farmville a week
- UDG- SORRY THIS IS A HOAX!!! (woulda been awesome though)
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