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School shooting "hero" confesses to Xbox theft
Stories about thieves stealing games and systems are a dime a dozen, but those thefts usually don't involve a culprit that was praised as a hero by President Bush. They do occasionally, though, as is proven by a recent Philadelphia Inquirer article about Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School student Lewis Bennett III.Bennett earned fame and a meeting with the president for thwarting a planned Columbine-style attack by classmate Dillon Cossey back in October. But even heroes have their flaws, and last week, Bennett confessed to authorities that he and two friends had repeatedly broken in to Cossey's house last month to steal a variety of items, including an Xbox 360 that Bennett later sold to a classmate for $20.Bennett's attorney said the media attention may have driven his client to the criminal act."How does a child, a young adult, deal with that situation, where all these cameras are put in his face and he's required to respond and he meets the president?" The answer to that rhetorical question, apparently, is 'by stealing an Xbox 360.'
NVIDIA's 1280x720 res 1080p demo
1920x1080 isn't quite what it used to be. Especially if it's being played on a 1440x900 resolution screen, from a video file marked 1280x720. That is what the pictures revealed when The Inquirer spent a little time looking behind the scenes of an apparently 1080p demo NVIDIA showed on a Toshiba laptop at Computex.Damning evidence of a wide-ranging resolution conspiracy or even even an indication that NVIDIA or Toshiba's hardware isn't up to snuff? No, and we fully expect for them to come out tomorrow and tell us how there were two different laptops. Unfortunately however, it means with 1080p becoming such a powerful buzzword, we'll have to remain extra vigilant to make sure we are getting all the pixels we've been promised.
Developers crush PS3 rumors of console being "broken"
You probably definitely caught wind of the article that ran over at The Inquirer that Joystiq reported on earlier. Well, some key developers creating games for the system that you'll soon be playing have stepped up to the podium and have declared it bogus. Some developers, which for some reason do not provide their names, have told gameindustry.biz that the figures are nothing to worry about."I didn't see that slide at Devstation, but all the numbers add up," one coder said, "and it's a total non-issue. You never, ever need to access that memory from the Cell - I can think of some useful debugging things you might do with that access in the testing stage, but that's about it. In fact, on the PS2 you couldn't access that memory from the CPU at all, and it was never really a problem!"
ASIA--or--Another Stupid Inquirer Article
Now, this is just stupid. Here's an inquirer article that suggests Apple doesn't want Windows running side-by-side with Mac OS X because then people would see that "Mac OS X is slower than Windows." What's their proof? They installed Mac OS X and Windows on the same Intel machine then ran World of Warcraft while booted into each OS and compared framerates. The Windows version scored better. C.K. showed us this a week or so ago.Um...how exactly is this a speed comparison between Mac OSX and Windows? It's actually a speed comparison between World of Warcraft for Windows and World of Warcraft for Mac OS X. WoW is not a benchmarking tool.Everyone knows games are better on Windows, including us Mac Heads. But I guess the foobs at the Inquirer couldn't pass up a chance to snipe at Apple and Mac OS X.
