"Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveil the revolutionary new iPad."
"A large, high-resolution LED-backlit, IPS display. An incredibly responsive Multi-Touch screen. And an amazingly powerful, Apple-designed chip. All in a design that�s thin and light enough to take anywhere. iPad isn�t just the best device of its kind. It's a whole new kind of device."
Except it's just a Kindle killer and for a market that only a small percentage care about.
Anyway, get your Apple fix here with the Steve Jobs keynote.
Happy Australia Day! Let's hope our Internet isn't brain dead from government filters by this time next year ... anyway, not to begin on a sour note, as today is a day to enjoy, as it's also time to celebrate the Top 20 Drum n Bass of 2009.
Once again we teamed up with Dancenode, but I'm also joined by Melon and N3B for comments on our favourite tracks over the year. So without further ado, here is the 4th Annual Top 20 Drum n Bass of 2009.
Will you be as surprised as one of our judges was with the Number 1 ?
"Australia Day won't just be celebrated with the usual barbecues, pool parties and the Top Drum n Bass of 2009 [oh and Triple J Hottest 100] this year.
A throng of Australian websites will mark the event by fading to black as part of a week-long, national protest against the Federal Government's proposed internet filter."
Internet filters are bad, mkay?
Click here for the full story and how to blackout your site.
Borderlands is an RPG first person shooter from
2K Games and has just been named the
Shooter of 2009 by IGN and honestly, it's a great game with a slick artistic style, great AI (pisses all over COD games) and a procedural weapon system the likes of which hasn't been seen before. Fantastic.
Which makes you wonder -- how could they f--k up the multiplayer aspect of this game ? Left 4 Dead made it just too easy for a group of friends to get together online and start enjoying the game. No port forwarding on routers. No need to disable firewalls or allow anything. It just worked. Perhaps Valve should have gotten more kudos for this, but it is the year 2009, so it's not an unlikely scenario for us PC gamers to expect this sort of thing.
However, it seems 2K Games dropped the ball bigtime on this one, relying on GameSpy to look after the network code and so what do we have ? A half baked solution that works some of the time (or sometimes not at all), requiring you to practically sacrifice a goat to the gamer-gods praying that this time you won't get "Connection refused by host".
In November, 2K Games said a patch was being worked on and that was released on 9th December, however, only for people who bought the retail copy, not for people that bought it via Steam or Direct2Drive.
Plot thickens, is
Steam now at fault because they haven't delivered the patch or have 2K Games not provided Steam with what they need ? All I know is, us paying customers are left out in the cold.
