PS3 kullanıcılarının doyasıya oynadığı beta şu sıralar Pc içinde çıkmış olması gerekirken 2010 yılına ertelendiği duyruldu.
Pc için konsol versiyonlarından farklı olarak Dx11 kullanılacağı da kesinleşmiş durumda. (K)

This week I’ve been down in Canterbury visiting my brothers, and had the opportunity to drop in on the 20th anniversary of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology. DICE is 20 years old, and has now trained more conservationists than any other institution in the world. Among this year’s crop is my brother Paul, co-founder of Make Wealth History.

DICE was founded with a unique vision – a practical realisation that conservationists need to work in both natural and social sciences to be successful. This approach sets conservation in its full context, taking in development and community studies, law, and international trade, as well as the science. In the field, DICE’s work is characterised by an understanding that local people are stakeholders, and the best solutions are the ones that benefit both the environment and the community.

“DICE was started with a very simple idea”, said founder Ian Swingland, “and that was that I believed firmly that the questions and problems in the world concerning the environment, ecology, and behaviour, could only be resolved by a multi-disciplinary approach.” The success of that idea is proved in the institute’s hundreds of graduates at work in conservation, in environmental policy and treaties, and in a number of species that have been successfully saved over the years.

The institute celebrated with an evening of lectures looking back at past successes, and with the launch of a scholarships appeal. Many people who would like to train with DICE are unable to do so, and a new endowment could create 35 bursaries for students from strategic areas, including the Middle East, China and Eastern Europe.

Among the guest speakers was Edwin Sapohoro, visiting from Rwanda, where he has been working to re-train gorilla poachers into farmers. His innovative work earned him the IUCN Young Conservationist of the Year title in 2008. He has a great story, and you can read our interview with him here next week.

This is war.

No seriously, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 gives you that feeling that you are fighting for territory.

That every kill counts in the grander scale of things, that while you cautiously push forward or even make a daring renegade dash for the enemies base that you are making difference.

I’d been playing and enjoying the multiplayer on Modern Warfare 2 for a few weeks when I stumbled upon a link to a site offering access to the beta for Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

Needless to say I leapt at the chance.

Graphically the game is stunning, despite the level being mainly desert – it has three sections to fight through, each with a slightly different flavour – and the destruction of buildings is something to marvel at (not for too long though or someone will kill you ).

The gameplay is as you’d expect, likewise with the controls – fairly standard.

They seem to have pitched it between Killzone 2’s more realistic heavy handling and Modern Warfare 2’s almost comedic light handling, which is (in my opinion) just about the right balance.

The inclusion of a selection of vehicles (tanks/jeeps/quads etc) is a great touch that adds to the proceedings.

There are a few problems – mainly a seemingly invisible force pushing you back (could be done on purpose if it’s supposed to be desert wind but still a bit annoying) and also the occasional glitch leaving me unable to walk or stuck trying to get in a door (which I was also actually having in the finished product of Modern Warfare 2 )

However it’s the beta so I’m guessing those will be straightened out by the time of release.

You get a few classes to choose from, all regular stuff (Medic, Engineer etc) – not sure how many different classes there will be in the final product.

However it’s the aforementioned destruction damage that means that nearly every round is different.

You can’t have a regular hiding place, at least not for long, because chances are if there is a hint that you’re there tank shells or grenades will destroy whatever cover you have.

For the record I have to also say that the beta is only one level and one game mode! Yes, it’s this good and that is all I’ve played.

I honestly haven’t touched Modern Warfare 2 since I played this.

To give this some perspective I offer a further viewpoint as well as my own.

A work colleague who is also on this beta said, having played multiplayer of both games, “I don’t think I’ll bother picking up Modern Warfare 2 now, might as well play this, it’s much better.”

I cannot praise it enough and I just hope it can maintain this level of awesomeness until, and beyond, it’s release in March 2010.

Analisa data Multidimensi sangat berbeda dengan analisa data tabular pada umumnya, pada Data Multidimensional dapat dilakukan analisa data dengan fungsi-fungsi sebagai barikut:

Slice
Dalam terminologi Multidimensional Analysis, Slice digunakan untuk mendefinisikan sebuah member atau sekumpulan member
yang dipisahkan (dari ALL Dimension-Dimension lain) lalu dievaluasi melintang pada semua Dimension.
Sebuah member dari suatu Dimension berarti suatu nilai dalam sebuah level pada Dimension tersebut.

Untuk lebih memahami konsep Slice perhatikan contoh dibawah ini:
Misalkan kita hanya mempunyai tiga Dimension dengan nama Poduct, Store, dan Date dalam suatu Dimensional Model yang
sederhana. Kita hanya mempunyai satu table Fact yang dinamakan Sales.
Asumsikan bahwa kita memisahkan tiga member dari Product Dimension, ketiga member ini adalah Soda, Milk dan Juice.
hal ini ditampilkan pada gambar dibawah:

Jika kita menjumlahkan penjualan ketiga member tersebut (Soda, Milk, Juice) dengan fungsi SUM untuk ALL Stores dan ALL Dates
berseberangan satu atau lebih Member dari satu Dimension (Dimension Product), maka konsep inilah yang disebut Slicing.
Tanda panah pada gambar diatasnya menunjukkan bahwa SUM meliputi ALL Stores dan ALL Dates.

Slice pada Product Dimension ini membuat kita dapat memilih pada member mana kita akan fokus (dalam hal ini kita
fokus pada member Soda, Milk, dan Juice) dan berseberangan dengan Dimension yang lain (Store dan Date).

Dice
Konsep Dicing berarti kita menaruh beberapa Member dari suatu Dimension pada suatu Sumbu koordinat lalu meletakkan
beberapa Member dari Dimension lain pada sumbu yang lain. Dengan cara ini akan memungkinkan melihat hubungan antar Member dari Dimension-Dimension yang berbeda.

Dicing adalah analisa hubungan antar Dimension-Dimension yang berbeda atau Member-Member Dimension tersebut. Gambar dibawah menunjukkan contoh Dicing.

Dice

Pada gambar diatas kita dapat lihat beberapa Members pada Dimension STORE ditempatkan secara vertical salah satu sumbu.
Member tersebut adalah CA, OR, dan LA. Dengan cara yang sama beberapa Member pada Dimension DATE ditempatkan secara horisontal.
Dengan cara ini kita dapat melihat hubungan antar members dari Dimension yang berbeda, lebih tepatnya kita dapat melihat hubungan antara CA dengan tanggal 1/1/09, 2/1/09, 3/1/09 dan sebaliknya.

Selanjutnya pada gambar berikut kita dapat melihat hubungan antara Members dari Dimension STORE dan PRODUCT.

Dice

Contoh analisa yang dapat dilakukan dari gambar diatas adalah sebagai berikut:
- Berapa kontribusi masing-masing toko pada total penjualan
untuk setiap Product (Soda, Milk, dan Juice)?
- Berapa kontribusi Product tertentu pada total penjualan untuk
setiap lokasi Toko?

Pivoting
Pivoting pada Multidimensional Modeling berarti menukarkan Baris dengan Kolom dan sebaliknya. Gambar berikut menunjukkan contoh Pivoting.

Pada gambar diatas kita menukarkan Dimension STORE pada Baris dengan PRODUCT pada Kolom.
Ini adalah cara yang cepat dan sederhana untuk melihat dengan perspektif yang berbeda.

Drill-Down dan Drill-Up
Drilling dalam Multidimensional terminologi berarti perpindahan dari satu level Hierarchy ke level yang lain. Dengan kata lain Drill-Down dapat didefinisikan sebagai kemampuan untuk melihat informasi pada struktur Hierarchy dibawahnya.

Pada contoh gambar dibwah ditunjukkan Drill-Down pada tiga level hierarchy sederhana dalam Dimension PRODUCT.
Hierarchy tersebut adalah :

‘GROUP CASS’–>’GROUP’–>’PRODUCT’.

Pada akhirnya dengan melakukan Drill-Down pada attribute GROUP, kita akan sampai pada level terendah dari Dimension PRODUCT (yang mana mmerupakan Product item) seperti ditunjukkan pada gambar dibawah:

Drill-Down

Drill-Across
Drill-Across adalah suatu cara dimana kita dapat Drill dari satu Dimension ke Dimension yang lain. Fungsi ini umumnya digunakan pada ROLAP, Pada gambar dibawah dapat dilihat contoh dari Driill-Across dari Dimension STORE CA ke Dimension PRODUCT.

Drill-Across

Pada gambar diatas dapat kita lihat Drill-Across dari STORE CA ke Dimension PRODUCT. Pada tabel pertama menunjukkan
Penjualan dalam Dimension STORE dari tiga negara bagian, dan kita akan fokus hanya pada CA (California).
Dengan fungsi Drill-Across ke Dimension PRODUCT kita bisa melihat lebih detail tentang product mana saja yang menentukan penjualan pada STORE CA.

Roll-Up and Roll-Down
Roll-Up and Roll-Down adalag fungsi OLAP yang memberikan aggregate lebih tinggi atau lebih rendah dari seluruh Dimension pada lebel Hierarchy yang diberikan. Pada contoh gambar dibawah kita Roll-Down Dimension PRODUCT dari level 3 ke level 2 and ke level 1.
hal ini bisa diselesaikan lewat Hierarchy PRODUCT level:

GROUP CLASS–>GROUP–>PRODUCT.

Roll-Up dan Roll-Down

Konsep Roll-Down mirip dengan Drill-Down, dan Roll-Up adalah kebalikan dari Roll-Down. Juga bisa dikatakan Konsep Roll-Up
mirip dengan Drill-Up.

Reff:
IBM, Dimensional Modeling: In a Business Intelligence Environment, RedBook, 2006

Recently, Green Ronin began publishing design diaries about their upcoming Dragon Age tabletop RPG. The latest design diary explains the core dice system for the game. In essence, it’s 3d6 plus a modifier of -1 to +7 (attributes range from -1 to +5, and skills can add an additional +2) vs. a difficulty. So far, it’s not too different from GURPS: it should have a strongly center-weighted distribution where each +1 bonus is exactly equivalent to -1 difficulty. The meaning of a +5 vs. +0 should be exactly 5 steps of difficulty (i.e., the +5 will hit DC 15 exactly as often as the +0 hits DC 10).

The interesting change is the introduction of the Dragon Die: one of the d6s, designated before rolling, indicates the success amount for successful rolls. This is fairly counter to the Margin of Success (MoS) systems that are common, and makes the die system into a strange hybrid of GURPS and In Nomine. And, as with In Nomine, players already worry that the Dragon Die concept will produce strange results at the table: because the Dragon Die also adds to the chance of success, successful rolls at higher DC/lower skill will succeed grandly more often than successful rolls at lower DC/higher skill.

The math behind this is quite simple: once DCs hit the point that the player must roll well on all three dice, it’s going to be very hard to get a success without getting a good roll on the Dragon Die. Meanwhile, a character that succeeds most of the time has a far wider spread of possible results on the Dragon Die that still result in success. Against DC 10, a character with a -1 modifier will expect an average of 4.3 on the Dragon Die for successes, while a character with a +7 modifier can only expect a 3.5. Meanwhile, the MoS for the -1 is 1.9, while it’s 7.5 for the +7. This obviously seems counterintuitive: The higher bonus is going to beat the DC by an average of 5 more points than the lower one, but actually get one point less success based on the Dragon Die.

If this is an issue, there are a couple of ways to deal with it without completely reinventing the wheel or adding lots more math: direct MoS and Governed MoS.

In direct MoS, you ignore the Dragon Die completely and just take the Margin of Success (Result – DC). This is how most games seem to do it, but it might cause problems with the expected results; with the Dragon Die concept, the rest of the game engine will probably be based around only successful results of 1-6, and a straight MoS result could get as much as a 15, which may drastically skew the results of high-bonus play.

In Governed MoS, you take the MoS as long as it’s not higher than the Dragon Die. This system removes the advantage of the Dragon Die for low bonuses: because your Dragon Die result can’t be higher than your MoS, the greater bonus retains the advantage. Because your MoS can’t be higher than the Dragon Die, it preserves the maximum of 6 for results (though it does add a 0 that might need to be dealt with). The real flaw in the system is that it’s pretty punishing for lower bonuses: in order to even out the results, it lowers the average for most of the range by 1-2 points off the base system, and, at the higher end of the bonus scale, is exactly the same as the Dragon Die system. It’s essentially just penalizing the lower bonuses with no benefit for the higher ones.

And, overall, the high Dragon Die on successes for high DCs might just be an acceptable wart if the rest of the system manages to be good. Because, taken in with the actual average of total results (where clear misses count as a 0 on the die), the average success for a straight Dragon Die system still follows a curve that favors having a higher bonus.

¿Nos quitará el multiplayer de esta segunda parte el sabor agridulce del primer Bad Company? ¿Recuperaremos las sensaciones de Battlefield 2?

Como ya saben todos la beta de este gran juego que es Battlefield Bad Company 2 es exclusivo de la consola de Sony el ps3 y ahora puedes ser parte de esta gran aventura en ser uno de los primeros en probar este gran juego lo único que tienes que hacer es ingresar aquí una vez que entres hay un link que dice click here to grab your beta key en color rojo y letras grandes después te mandara a otra pagina la cual hay un botón inmenso que dice get your beta key, es donde le vas a dar clic después te preguntara si ya eres miembro de la página de IGN para que ingreses tus datos o si no para que te registres es muy sencillo llenas los campos y a disfrutar se ha dicho te dan tu código para descargar la beta así que ahí nos vemos y para después comentar que tal esta el juego.

PD: Gracias a Ícaro porque él me paso el dato de la beta.

PD2: Aquí no solo es un código, es para todos y no necesitas hacer nada solo ingresas en link indicado y es todo recuerda esto es una exclusiva mas de Press the Ps Button.

Moin,

vielleicht wissen es schon enige, Anfang bzw. 1. Quartal 2010 kommt der neue Shooter von EA und DICE: Battlefield Bad Company 2 ist der Nachfolger des überaus bekannten und hochgepriesenen Konsolenshooter, welcher nicht für den PC released wurde.

Heute möchte ich euch einen kurzen Einblick geben in das Spiel und auch ein 10-Minutiges BETA Walkthrough zeigen.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 ist kompromisslose Multiplayer-Kriegsführung der Extraklasse! Die Spieler können außerdem in 4-Spieler-Teams in zwei exklusiven Squad-Spielmodi gegeneinander antreten und zusammen kämpfen, um exklusive Team-Belohnungen und -Errungenschaften zu erhalten. Spawnen Sie bei Ihrem Squad, um sich direkt in die Action zu stürzen und benutzen Sie Zusatzgeräte wie die Peilsender-Pistole in Verbindung mit dem Raketenwerfer mit zerstörerischer Effizienz.

Herausragende Leistungen auf dem Schlachtfeld werden mit einer Vielzahl Orden, Abzeichen und Sternen, sowie 50 verschiedenen Rängen belohnt. Diese Vielfalt setzt sich auch bei den verfügbaren Fahrzeugen und Anpassungsmöglichkeiten der Waffen-Kits fort. Mit vier verschiedenen Charakter-Klassen, 46 Waffen, 15 Zusatzgeräten, 13 Charakter-Spezialisierungen und mehr als 15.000 verschiedenen Anpassungsmöglichkeiten der Kits, die es zu entdecken und zu meistern gilt, werden die Spieler die Möglichkeit haben, ihren Charakter an ihren Kampfstil anzupassen, um so im Kampf einen Vorteil zu erlangen. All diese Features zusammen ergeben die spektakulärsten und unberechenbarsten Action-Momente, die nirgendwo sonst im Action-Genre zu finden sind.

Features:

• 8 riesige Multiplayer-Karten - Jede Karte spielt in verschiedenen Umgebungen und erfordert daher unterschiedliche taktische Vorgehensweisen.
• Ultimativer Online-Fahrzeugkampf! 15 Land , Wasser-und Luftfahrzeuge – wobei jedes einen taktischen Vorteil bietet. Rasen Sie mit einem ATV direkt in die Action oder bringen Sie mit dem UH-60 Transporthubschrauber und seinen beiden Railguns den Tod von oben.
• Brandneues Squad-Gameplay - Schließen sie sich mit drei weiteren Spielern zu einem Squad zusammen und kämpfen Sie gemeinsam, um spezielle Belohnungen und Erfolge in zwei squadspezifischen Spielmodi zu erlangen.
• Destruction 2.0 - Machen Sie komplette Gebäude dem Erdboden gleich, sprengen Sie Schießscharten in Deckungen oder zerstören sie diese komplett! In Battlefield: Bad Company 2 gibt es keine Verstecke!
• Belohnungen und Erfolge - Herausragende Leistungen auf dem Schlachtfeld werden mit einer Vielzahl Orden, Abzeichen und Sternen, sowie 50 verschiedenen Rängen belohnt.
• “Play It Your Way” - Experimentieren sie und verfeinern dabei Ihren idealen Kampfstil dank 4 verschiedener Charakter-Klassen (Sanitäter, Sturmsoldat, Aufklärer und Ingenieur), mehr als 15.000 Kit-Variationen, 46 Waffen (mit 200 verschiedenen Anpassungsmöglichkeiten), 15 Zusatzgeräten und 13 Charakter-Spezialisierungen.

Die Videos des Walkthrough können bei Youtube angesehen werden:

Teil 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T-X1eDrE88
Teil 2:    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xttxsuSOq0

The number of jobs on Dice for C# is now higher than the number of jobs for C++.  They were about even last year, but it seems C# has taken the lead and C++ is on the decline.  C# fans rejoice.  On the other hand Java has as many postings as C# and C++ combined:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – La Cuba del presidente Raul Castro continua a usare i metodi che il fratello Fidel impiegava per reprimere i critici, rifiutando di scarcerare numerose persone in carcere da anni e imprigionandone altre per “pericolosità”.

Il giudizio di Hrw arriva mentre il presidente Usa Barack Obama dice di voler “rivedere” i legami con Cuba e il Congresso sta valutando se togliere il bando sui viaggi verso l’isola governata da un regime comunista che si trova a soli 145 chilometri dalle coste della Florida.

La repressione sistematica ha creato un clima di pausa tra i dissidenti cubani, e le condizioni di detenzione sono inumane, dice ancora Human Rights Watch, i cui ricercatori si sono recati per due settimane sull’isola durante l’estate per elaborare il rapporto.

“I dissidenti che cercano di esprimere le loro opinioni sono spesso picchiati, arrestati arbitrariamente, e sottoposti ad atti pubblici di ripudio”.

Fonte:
http://it.reuters.com/article/topNews/idITMIE5AI08J20091119

I’m always up for a new challenge especially if it involves game pieces.  Last night someone, we’ll call her Katie, suggested I make a bracelet for that can be passed from one Farkle champion to the next.  Every Thursday a group of crazy Farkle players gathers at the pool for 1 1/2 hours to take their chances at the dice.

I’m always up for a challenge.  I was given one day to create an adjustable (Farkle players come in a variety of sizes) bracelet with appropriate dice and various other doodads.   Now it may not be perfect or overly elaborate, but I think it is heavy and gaudy enough to meet the requirements.

Since the timeframe was short and I neither wanted to go out to buy materials or spend a lot of money, I chose to use materials I had on hand.  I have a jar full of letter dice that I really wanted to use.  I also had a set of 4 black and white dice and a set of 5 black and white dice.  Since Farkle uses 6 dice, I decided to use 3 dice from each set.

I drilled the holes in all the dice so that I could make some wire-wrap head pin charms.  I added some red glass beads, some silver metal beads and some glass pearls.  Since I know how wild those Farkle players can get, I attached all my charms to the silver chain with split rings.  HAH!  Try getting those charms off the bracelet.

I decided to put a hook and eye clasp on the bracelet.  The hook can be attached to any ring along the chain.  Big (not gigantic) or small anyone should be able to wear this bracelet!  Personally I’m waiting for one of the few men to win the opportunity to wear this one.

ImagineArt7 offers a huge inventory of vintage paper goodies that I absolutely want to raid as soon as possible. You might want to do the same.

And there plenty more where that came from, trust me. No, seriously: like, 29 pages more. See them all HERE.

Part 1:

Part 2:

Alcuni dei giochi sportivi di Nintendo Wii — che comprendono serie di allenamenti che richiedono agli appassionati di alzarsi dal divano — possono aumentare il consumo di energia e un esercizio di intensità moderata senza nemmeno uscire dalla stanza della tv, hanno detto i ricercatori della American Heart Association (Aha) ad un convegno scientifico a Orlando.

“E’ un modo molto facile e divertente di iniziare a far movimento”, afferma Motohiko Miyachi, a capo di un programma di attività fisica al National Institute of Health and Nutrition di Tokyo, che ha condotto lo studio.

Lo studio finanziato da Nintendo ha rilevato che circa un terzo dei giochi e delle attività comprese nei pacchetti Wii sports e Wii fit richiedono un consumo di energia da 3,0 Met in su, che è considerato un esercizio di intensità moderata, secondo le linee guida Aha.

Mentre lo studio non prova che questi giochi abbiano effetti positivi per la salute, Miyachi ipotizza che un tempo superiore trascorso giocando con essi “possa contribuire alla prevenzione di disturbi cardiovascolari”.

Fonte:
http://it.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idITMIE5AF0QD20091116

This time, I remembered to bring your dice: red precision dice with sharp corners so they’ll roll true. As you open the package, I say, “I think we should try them out – we never properly playtested Sex Twister yet.” “Mmmrrr,” you agree, and pull up http://Www.kermanenterprises.com/sexy.html . “I just so happened to bring my precision twenty sider,” I say, bringing out the blue die in question. “Ready?” “Roll it!”

The dice spin across the bedside table. Mine reads 8, yours is a 9. We consult the charts. “Right ball on left thigh,” you announce, shifting position accordingly.

Now we’re lying face to face, and decide you’ll roll both dice, since your right arm is free. I chuckle. “My left foot on your right nipple.” I fold my left leg over to achieve this without losing contact with your testicle. You roll again. “Your left foot on my chest. It’s practically there already,” you grumble. “You roll this time.” I stroke your chest with my foot as I roll.

My die reads 11, yours is 17. “Your anus on my right nipple,” you read off. “That’s just silly!” I laugh. “Have we done enough playtesting yet?”

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Este es un nuevo video multijugador de Battlefield: Bad Company 2, son más de 10 minutos de pura maldita fucking action, tiros explosiones, vehículos y demás…

No me canso de ver los videos de este juego que parece ser que comprare en lugar de Modern Warfare 2, estoy en duda, quieren ver porque:

Ehhh quihubolobo, ¿De webisimos no?, sin duda será compra segura para este su humilde servidor.

Fuente | ºlagzero.net | G4TV.comº

Bilgisayarlarımızın limitlerini zorlayacak olan Battlefield: Bad Company 2′nin şimdide DX11 destekli olacağı açıklandı. (K)

DX11 desteği içermesi beklenen diğer oyunlar:

BattleForge:  (çıktı)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat:  (çıktı)
DiRT2 (yama yolda)
Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Q1/10
Aliens vs. Predator: Q1/10
Lord of the Rings Online: Q1/10
Dungeons and Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited: 2010
Genghis Khan MMO: 2010
Unigine Engine (Heaven Demo / Benchmark): Now