Just as Microsoft announces a drop in price of the Xbox 360 Elite to $300, they come out with a new $400 Xbox, but this one is well worth the price! At the Modern Warfare 2 press event this week, the new Xbox 360 Modern Warfare edition was announced.
This package comes with much more than the original Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 Elite. It includes the console, which is custom designed around Modern Warfare 2, with a 250-GB hard drive, two wireless controllers, a wired headset and a copy the game itself. This is the only Xbox with a HDD this big, and it is not sold separately. All this priced at only $399.99!
Sound good huh? Well, you can pick this new Xbox 360 up soon, seeing as it is already available for pre-order at retailers all over the world!
There is a term in music called "public performance fee." That is the money that artists make when their music is played for a live audience. Advocacy groups, like RIAA, believe that there are several types of "public performances" that aren't currently being bought. The most prominent of these is the preview on iTunes.
One of the most popular downloads on the Xbox 360 is the series The Guild from Felicia Day. With the popularity of the show, and the huge response to it on Xbox Live, we have all been wondering when we will see more independently produced video content in the marketplace. The answer is, not anytime soon.
This week, Apple has decided to take a page out of everybody else's book, Courtney Loves the rock and robot rehabilitation is in!
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The days of fitness gurus and cardio DVDs with people in them may very well be numbered. The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and General Robotics have developed Taizo, a small humanoid robot with 26 joints that closely resembles Frosty the Snowman wearing a space suit. Taizo's purpose is to help elderly Japanese with rehabilitation efforts by taking them through calisthenics routines.
It is capable of performing 30 different moves and can keep the workout going for up to 2 hours on one charge. Taizo is made of fiberglass reinforced plastic and recognizes simple voice commands and can even link to computers with WiFi or Bluetooth (that's awesome)!
Russia's president Dimitry Medvedev has officially made September 13th a new professional holiday, "Day of the Programmer." It has actually been celebrated unofficially around the world for a long time on the 256th day of the year,
The number 256 is chosen because it is the number of integers that can be expressed using a single eight-byte, and also is the maximum degree of 2, which is less than 365.
I am an aspiring programmer myself as most of us are at PLuGHiTz Live! so we can certainly appreciate this and look forward to one day officially celebrating it here in mother U.S.A. It's good to see Russia leading the way again.
Do you think professional holidays are appropriate? Will more soon follow?
