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+-   Designer of indie MMO project, "Love", int-> on Tuesday August 11, @01:56PM PsxMeUP

Submitted by PsxMeUP on Tuesday August 11, @01:56PM
rts
PsxMeUP writes "Love is a persistent online first-person shooter that will let players build structures, permanently manipulate the environment and share resources all in real-time. Action will be similar to a real-time strategy game as seen through the eyes of a grunt. Love is completely being designed by one single person, Mr. Eskil Steenberg, and GameObserver had a chance to interview him.

In the interview, Eskil talks about how all MMOs offer an egocentric experience where character growth is the most important aspect, and how he intends to change that. He also explains how mainstream MMOs have too many players, which basically trivializes accomplishments that have an impact on the entire server. "If you imagine Civilization where you invent your stuff or build new stuff, imagine playing one of those characters on the ground doing that. And being able to do something minute in your world and see that impact in the major world," Eskil explains when asked what his game will be like.

"I want to scare people in a direction that is different from this sort of me-centric style of games. It feels that pretty much all games are going into that Diablo direction of collecting and building up my characters, and it's all sort of very egocentric about creating your own powerful character," he clarifies when asked how his game will be different from other MMOs. "I think people should care about the environment because if they care about the environment — if they built something cool — other players will see that as well. To me the environment and making things that other players can experience is a lot more interesting than the idea of having something that is just fun for you as a single player."

The game is well into development and its designer has already posted some incredible gameplay demos. Levels, for instance, are all procedurally generated. The game also offers open-source tools, like UV editing, not a small feat considering the whole thing was designed by one man."
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Comments: 1 +-   Bjarne Strosutrup speaking about concepts, C++0x on Friday August 07, @03:00AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 07, @03:00AM
programming
Anonymous Coward writes "http://www.devx.com/cplus/Article/42448/0/page/1 Danny Kalev interviews Bjarne Stroustrup about the failure of concepts, the technical issues of concepts, whether the ISO committee's days are over, and whether C++ is at a dead-end."
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+-   "Innovation travels from browser to browser-> on Monday August 03, @01:17AM suka

Submitted by suka on Monday August 03, @01:17AM
mozilla
suka writes "In a recent interview with derStandard.at" Mozilla's Christopher Blizzard talks about the current situation in the browser market. He also goes in-depth on the chances and challenges for Open Video, the reason why everybody hates IE6 and why Firefox still is the innovation leader."
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+-   Microsoft's Kevin Dallas on Windows Embedded-> on Monday July 13, @06:34PM angry tapir

Submitted by angry tapir on Monday July 13, @06:34PM
microsoft
angry tapir writes "Microsoft plans to use Windows Embedded to combat rival operating systems in smartbooks and a number of other devices meant to always be connected to the Internet that Microsoft calls CIDs, or consumer Internet devices. In this interview Kevin Dallas, the general manager of Microsoft's Windows Embedded business, discussed Microsoft's strategies for smartbooks and other devices, such as the company's Haiku concept device."
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+-   GameObserver interview with Bethesda on Gamebryo-> on Thursday July 09, @07:58AM PsxMeUP

Submitted by PsxMeUP on Thursday July 09, @07:58AM
fps
PsxMeUP writes "GameObserver.com conducted an interview with Ashley Cheng, Production Director at Bethesda. They asked him questions on the Gamebryo engine, why they prefer it over other engines and the advantages it presented while making Fallout 3. Cheng also talks a bit about what inspired their designers while making Fallout 3, what is in store for the PS3 and elaborates on various other topics relating to their game design process. Apparently, much of the team has read Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," which inspired the look and story of Fallout 3. Bethesda, according to Cheng, will never create a game like Final Fantasy because the Gamebryo engine is better at handling "open ended worlds ripe for exploration," which pretty much means Bethesda doesn't think Final Fantasy games have a lot of exploration in them."
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+-   Interview with Daniel Schmitt from WikiLeaks-> on Monday July 06, @07:10AM Lars Sobiraj

Submitted by Lars Sobiraj on Monday July 06, @07:10AM
censorship
Lars Sobiraj writes "Daniel Schmitt of WikiLeaks interrogated. He encourages all readers and warns his opponents — WikiLeaks has the means to make our society better, to create a world which stands united and strong against abuse — locally and nationally as well as globally. Modern, fast, world-wide technology makes it possible. In the interview, Daniel explains in detail how this will be done, with the help of WikiLeaks and all its supporters."
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+-   KOffice 2.0.0 now open for Firefox-like extensions on Thursday May 28 2009, @05:14AM jakeb

Submitted by jakeb on Thursday May 28 2009, @05:14AM
kde
jakeb writes "After a massive three-year development effort KOffice 2.0.0 has been released (packages for Kubuntu are available) aiming to be a lightweight, cross-platform office suite that supports third-party apps and extensions. With its new design (everything, including the core components, is a module) and bindings you don't need to know C++ to hack on KOffice as extensions can be written in Python or Java, among others. TechWorld has an interview with KOffice marketing coordinator Inge Wallin about the vision for an easy to use office suite that supports click-to-install extensions like Firefox. Will this be the key to KOffice rising above all other free office suites? The KOffice devs think so. An online repository of exntensions, templates and content for KOffice? I like the sound of that."
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+-   RMS on Alex Jones on Tuesday May 19 2009, @08:02AM antisocialbutterfly

Submitted by antisocialbutterfly on Tuesday May 19 2009, @08:02AM
gnu
antisocialbutterfly writes "Stallman discusses Net Neutrality & Internet 2 with Alex Jones... video description:

"Richard Stallman is the founder of the Gnu Project, launched in 1984 to develop the free operating system GNU (an acronym for "GNU's Not Unix"), and thereby give computer users the freedom that most of them have lost. GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. He is the principal or initial author of GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, the GNU Debugger GDB and parts of other packages. He is also president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZWKXNo_vA0"
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+-   Kaspersky: Govt snooping doesn't go far enough-> on Tuesday April 28 2009, @10:29AM Barence

Submitted by Barence on Tuesday April 28 2009, @10:29AM
security
Barence writes "Eugene Kaspersky has told PC Pro that governments should be monitoring the internet activity of their citizens more closely. The security firm boss, who was educated at the KGB-sponsored Institute of Cryptography, said that monitoring "the internet so closely would be a positive step" and that "the [UK] Government is not a Big Brother which wants to watch everyone — and taxation is not high enough to have such a budget.""
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+-   Microsoft: Azure aims to build and shape the cloud-> on Wednesday April 01 2009, @01:45AM inkslinger77

Submitted by inkslinger77 on Wednesday April 01 2009, @01:45AM
microsoft
inkslinger77 writes "Microsoft's new Director of Developer and Platform Evangelism, Gianpaolo Carraro speaks in this article about the software giant's cloud development platform and Microsoft's approach to cloud computing. He mentions Microsoft's plan to support other languages other than .NET, even though the software giant would prefer developers use its own tools. "Obviously, we would like our ecosystem to use our own development tools, technology and languages. We believe that that is the right choice. But if the developers don't agree, we can still give them value from our platform," he said. "We have the specific tooling structure to help you use Azure with .Net, but you can also access it using Java and other means if you choose to." The company also announced recently that it would support PHP."
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+-   Pwn2Own 2009 Winner Charlie Miller Interviewed on Wednesday March 25 2009, @04:54PM crazipper

Submitted by crazipper on Wednesday March 25 2009, @04:54PM
security
crazipper writes "Tom's Hardware interviewed Charlie Miller, winner of this year's Pwn2Own contest and formerly with the NSA. He discusses the effort it took before the contest to be able to take down a MacBook within seconds, sandboxing, and the effectiveness of the NX bit and ASLR. His outlook on end-users protecting themselves against attacks? "Users are at the mercy of the products they buy.""
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+-   Sign Language In Information Systems-> on Thursday March 19 2009, @09:58AM volume4

Submitted by volume4 on Thursday March 19 2009, @09:58AM
software
volume4 writes "I recently had the privilege to talk to Guillaume Olivrin On Open Source, NAP And Sign Language In Information Systems. They are doing some really awesome work over at Meraka and CSIR and Guillaume shares the details about their projects, research and their activities to make information systems more accessible to all."
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+-   Scientology confirms Xenu exists-> on Tuesday March 17 2009, @05:18AM Kingcanute

Submitted by Kingcanute on Tuesday March 17 2009, @05:18AM
court
Kingcanute writes "In an interview with on ABC channel 3, spokesperson for the Church of Scientology, Tommy Davis, admits the legitimacy of the infamous OT documents, and by extention, the existence of Xenu."
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+-   Google to give away netbooks?-> on Wednesday March 04 2009, @03:55AM Barence

Submitted by Barence on Wednesday March 04 2009, @03:55AM
google
Barence writes "Google chief Eric Schmidt has raised the possibility that companies such as Google may subsidise the cost of netbook hardware in the future. "What's particularly interesting about netbooks is the price point," Schmidt told the Morgan Stanley Technology conference. "Eventually it will make sense for operators and so forth to subsidise the use of those books so they could make services revenue and advertising revenue on their consumption. That's another new model that's coming." With Google's ever-expanding repertoire of netbook-friendly services and Asus hard at work on Android Eee PC, Google has all the pieces in place to capitalise from wider adoption of netbooks. Will it pay to push Microsoft out of the market?"
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+-   Joe Zonker Brockmeier Fights FOSS LIcense FUD-> on Monday March 02 2009, @09:35AM rsmiller510

Submitted by rsmiller510 on Monday March 02 2009, @09:35AM
linuxbusiness
rsmiller510 writes "I spoke to Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier, who is openSUSE Community Manager, about FOSS license FUD. Brockmeier explains in detail what you need to understand when using open source software, and that it's really no more complex than the commercial stuff (and usually less so)."
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Comments: 3 +-   Five Questions With Michael Widenius-> on Monday February 09 2009, @05:13AM volume4

Submitted by volume4 on Monday February 09 2009, @05:13AM
sun
volume4 writes "With two MySQL execs leaving Sun in the last week the internet is a buzz about what is going on at Sun, what is the future of MySQL and what lies ahead for Michael Widenius. Over at Open Source Release Feed, Michael Widenius spoke candidly regarding his split from Sun, the future of MySQL, Monty Program AB and the open source ecosystem in general."
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+-   Rupert Grint 'Cherrybomb' Interview-> on Friday February 06 2009, @02:46PM Stephanie

Submitted by Stephanie on Friday February 06 2009, @02:46PM
movies
Stephanie writes "Actor Rupert Grint speaks about his role in the upcoming indie film "Cherrybomb." Best known as Ron Weasley from Harry Potter, Rupert tackles his most serious adult role to date."
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+-   Deficiency of the Russian budget has made 20 perce-> on Tuesday January 20 2009, @08:12AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 20 2009, @08:12AM
quake
Anonymous Coward writes "Deficiency of the federal budget of Russia in December, 2008 has made 805,312 billion roubles, or 20,4 percent of gross national product."
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+-   Interview with an Adware Author-> on Tuesday January 13 2009, @02:48PM rye

Submitted by rye on Tuesday January 13 2009, @02:48PM
security
rye writes "Sherri Davidoff conducts a fascinating interview with Matt Knox, a talented Ruby instructor and coder, who 'talks about his early days designing and writing adware for Direct Revenue. (Direct Revenue was sued by Eliot Spitzer in 2006 for allegedly surreptitiously installing adware on millions of computers.)'"
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+-   LittleBigPlanet's Best Amateur Dev Talks-> on Monday January 12 2009, @07:15AM SlappingOysters

Submitted by SlappingOysters on Monday January 12 2009, @07:15AM
playstation
SlappingOysters writes "Ole-Marius Lakselv is going to be making games for a living, sooner or later. Under his PSN moniker of Geosautis he has become arguably the most popular and famous LittleBigPlanet level maker in the world. His works such as World of Colour! and Haunted Mansion are shining examples of what a talented user with a bit of time on his hands can build using LittleBigPlanet's powerful creation tools. Gameplayer has just interviewed him to get the full story on being an amateur developer making waves in LittleBigPlanet. The site has also awarded the game The Best Exclusive of 2008."
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