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The article cites prominent machinima such as Jake Hughes' [1]Anachronox: The Movie and the [2]machinima-created music video for Zero 7's 'In The Waiting Line', and according to Bill Rehbock of Nvidia, "..machinima methods, in addition to providing a hobby for aspiring filmmakers, are starting to be used in the creative industries far more than is apparent. For example, George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic is using the Unreal engine to storyboard Star Wars movies." There's also a significant cash prize for machinima makers as part of Epic's [3]Make Something Unreal competition we [4]mentioned a few weeks back. Links 0. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59566,00.html 1. http://www.machinima.com/displayarticle2.php?article=322 2. http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/zero_7 3. http://www.makesomethingunreal.com 4. http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/164210&tid=204 Restrictive Sales Practices on the Web? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/10/0215211 [0]Ed Almos asks: "I don't know about other Slashdot readers, who happen to live outside the US, but I'm in Hungary, and am finding it more and more difficult to purchase goods and services over the web. The sites are there, the money is in my account, but the sites won't sell me anything! Can someone come up with a logical reason for these policies? Last time I checked I was using the WORLD Wide Web, and there seems little point wasting bandwidth to post your website to the world when only those living in the USA can buy and/or use the product. Then again, is this yet another example of the Internet and the rest of the world becoming more and more centered on the continental USA? The final irony? I'm originally from Maine. These folk won't even sell to one of their own!" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Russians Order Mobile Phone Encryption Removed http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/10/0036232 [0]PenguinRadio writes "The Moscow Times is reporting that Russian security officers (The FSB, formerly the KGB) [1]ordered all mobile phone providers to switch off their encryption systems for 24 hours, so the police could eavesdrop on all calls. An alert, either an exclamation point or an unlocked padlock, was sent to the phones in question. This is the second time such an order was given - the last time was after the hostage crisis involving Chechnya fighters in a Moscow theater. At least the Russian has the courtesy to warn all their phone users that this was going on. Not sure what the standard FBI procedure is on something like this..." Links 0. http://www.penguinradio.com 1. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/07/10/012.html Those Amazing Antigravity Machines? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/09/2256210 [0]surfimp writes "Wired is running an [1]interesting article about 'lifters', hovering UFO-looking vehicles that have no moving parts, no onboard power supply, and are capable of levitating simply through the application of high amounts of electrical current. Enthusiasts claim their vehicles are examples of a nascent antigravity technology, while more traditional scientists - including some funded by NASA - view them as nothing more than contraptions harnessing ionic winds." Links 0. http://www.stevelange.net 1. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.08/pwr_antigravity.html Switch On For Powered Data Networks http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/09/2220256 ReLik writes "The BBC has an article regarding [0]power supply via networks. 'Instead of needing adapters, computer networks could soon be supplying the devices they interconnect with both data and power. Some makers of network equipment are already putting the power via data cable system into their products. The basic plugs for computer networks are the same all over the world, raising the possibility that powered data cables could become a universal back-up power supply.'" We've talked a little about [1]specific 802.3 spec advances previously. Links 0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3054894.stm 1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/19/110248&tid=100 VIA Introduces A New Laptop Motherboard http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/09/1955239 arrasmith writes "It looks like there is going to be an upgrade to that non-expensive [0]$800 Linux laptop. VIA just came out with a [1]new laptop motherboard based on the faster Nehemiah core for the C3. You can get all the specs at the [2]Antaur homepage. If they stay near the $800 cost I can see this one selling pretty well. And they would have a great mobile media system if they added a hardware DivX decoder on top of the hardware DVD decoder. :) And now that the Linux [3]drivers are starting to mature and the [4]sources are finally starting to come out, by the time this is released to the U.S. market it should be a great little Linux laptop." Links 0. http://www.idot.com/TheStore/Desktop/787Spec.asp?Product.id=787&Cate.id=2 1. http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR030708Antaur.jsp 2. http://www.via.com.tw/en/antaur/antaur.jsp 3. http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=2 4. http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=186 Webcaster Alliance Threatens To Sue RIAA http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/09/2037258 [0]detroitindustrial writes "The Washington Post reports that the [1]Webcaster Alliance is [2]threatening to sue the RIAA under the Sherman Antitrust Act. In their [3]letter to the RIAA, the Webcaster Alliance alleges that the RIAA and the [4]Voice of Webcasters negotiated in collusion and, 'were apparently intent on either eliminating their competitors and/or raising barriers to entry in the market for small commercial webcasting.' It goes on to say that the RIAA also wanted to eliminate smaller webcasters, who tend to play more independent material, in order to maintain their monopoly on music distribution." Links 0. http://www.detroitindustrial.org/ 1. http://www.webcasteralliance.com/ 2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31245-2003Jul9.html 3. http://www.webcasteralliance.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=93 4. http://www.voiceofwebcasters.org/ Few Companies Change Linux Plans Despite SCO Suit http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/09/1910205 [0]gaurab writes "A [1] survey on Internetweek says 'SCO's Linux lawsuit and threats seem to be having little affect on IT managers except to make them angry. Fully 91 percent of people responding to an InternetWeek Reader Question said they will not change their Linux deployment plans as a result of SCO's actions.' The article is [2] also available at Yahoo!" Links 0. http://gaurab at lahai,com 1. http://www.internetweek.com/webDev/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=12800009 2. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=74&ncid=74&e=2&u=/cmp/20030709/tc_cmp/12800009 Wal-Mart Cancels RFID Trial http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/09/1834210 EABird writes "CNet is reporting that Wal-mart has announced that they have [0]canceled the RFID trial they were planning. Unfortunately, it looks like they are canceling it to focus on the use of the same technology in the warehouses and distribution centers instead, and waiting for the cost to come down before using the RFIDs in the stores." Links 0. http://news.com.com/2100-1019_3-1023934.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed FreeBSD 5.1 Review and BSD Roundup http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/09/1822237 [0]securitas writes "Both [1]eWEEK's review of FreeBSD 5.1 and [2]ExtremeTech's BSD overview and roundup ([3]single page) will be of interest to BSDers and anyone else who wants to explore their open source OS options. The review of [4]FreeBSD 5.1 says it lacks the stability of v4.8 but adds features that some may find useful (for example, more processor architectures are supported) so it shouldn't be considered for critical deployments yet. And the BSD round-up speaks for itself." Links 0. http://geartest.com 1. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1185897,00.asp 2. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,555398,00.asp 3. http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,3998,a=31573,00.asp 4. http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/1657219&tid=122 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe - If you do not wish to subscribe to Slashdot, go to: http://www.osdn.com/newsletters/unsubscribe.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright (c)1999-2002 Open Source Development Network. All rights reserved.
