Thursday, April 28, 2016
Land Rover Discovery Sport Review: Ownership Report 2
We decided to do the unthinkable and take the Disco Sport off-road, as part of Land Rover’s experience package that comes for free when you buy the car. Having spent countless hours doing similar things, this was a day entirely for my wife to get used to the idea that the Disco can do more than just take the kids to kindy and fit the week’s groceries.
Even so, we brought the kids, who thought the idea of going off-road in the Land Rover was so foreign that they wanted to see the car roll down the mountain, as my four-year-old put it.
Of course, if there’s one…
Land Rover Discovery Sport Review: Ownership Report 2
Minecraft on Gear VR is Mojang's latest surprise release
Minecraft: Gear VR Edition is now on sale, Mojang announced. The game had been teased for a 2016 release, but instead of giving Samsung Gear owners a heads-up, the publisher launched the game on the Oculus Store.
Releasing games with little fanfare is becoming a trend for Mojang. Last week, it announced Crown and Council, a free game on Steam — just as it made the game available to download.
The mobile VR game is on sale now for $6.99, although it also requires the separate gamepad peripheral. It offers every mode and feature from Minecraft: Pocket…
Minecraft on Gear VR is Mojang"s latest surprise release
Sarcasm Spurs Creative Thinking
“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but the highest form of intelligence,” that connoisseur of witticisms, Oscar Wilde, is said to have remarked. But not everyone shares his view. Communication experts and marriage counselors alike typically advise us to stay away from this particular form of expression. The reason is simple: sarcasm carries the poisonous sting of contempt, which can hurt others and harm relationships. By its very nature, it invites conflict.
Sarcasm involves constructing or exposing contradictions between intended meanings. It is the most common…
Sarcasm Spurs Creative Thinking
OpenStack Security Project Continues to Help Secure the Cloud
The leader of the OpenStack Security Project details technologies and processes now in place to help build, configure and deploy the cloud securely.
AUSTIN, Texas—There are a lot of projects, configurations and code that make up an OpenStack cloud, presenting what could potentially be an attractive attack surface to a hacker. At the OpenStack Summit here, Robert Clark, leader of the OpenStack Security Project, detailed the different ways that security is addressed by OpenStack.
Clark is a familiar face at OpenStack Summit…
OpenStack Security Project Continues to Help Secure the Cloud
Surprise! Valkyrie Anatomia looks like a solid, little JRPG
When word got out that the prequel to the legendary Valkyrie Profile was going to be a mobile game on iOS and Android, the classic JRPG crowd let out a deep and defeated sigh. This RPG franchise, famous for its brutal time limits and deep, complex battle systems, would almost assuredly be missing the point on the casual, mobile crowd.
At least, that was the general thought moving into Valkyrie Anatomia: The Origin. With the game available now in Japan, I would say that the damage is far less than any had anticipated, as seen by this gameplay…
Surprise! Valkyrie Anatomia looks like a solid, little JRPG