Show #125
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- 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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- 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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