In the final debate, the two candidates focused mainly on how to manage military spending and come to Israel’s aid in the event of an attack from Iran. While these are undoubtedly important issues, there was little to no mention of America’s role in other international affairs.
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Today was the day that the Wikipad Android gaming tablet was scheduled to launch. Sadly, October 31 is almost gone and there’s still no sign of the rather interesting looking tablet. As it turns out, the Wikipad has been delayed, with the device’s developers issuing a statement to announce that it has been pushed back. Bad news if you were looking forward to it too, as the developers didn’t give a new release date for the Wikipad.
Judging from the statement, it appears that the device itself is mostly ready to go, but the developers want to make some last minute changes to the bundle that will be offered at launch. “The Wikipad team has been relentlessly working with our manufacturers and partners to perfect the Wikipad bundle to ensure our first product is the best tablet and entertainment experience at launch,” the developers said. “There is a last minute opportunity to enhance the Wikipad bundle as well as a minor refinement needed to ensure our first customers are completely satisfied with the Wikipad.”
The Wikipad team says that its retailers have been notified of this delay, and those who pre-ordered will be getting the “refined and updated bundles” that are the cause of the delay. If you pre-ordered the Wikipad, you’ll also be getting a “special bonus gift” for your trouble, but of course the statement doesn’t spill the beans on what that gift is. As stated above, there isn’t a new release date for the Wikipad yet, but the developers say that they’re in the final stretch and will announce a new date soon.
The Wikipad features a NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor running at 1.4GHz, 1GB of RAM, and a 10.1-inch 1280×800 display. It’s being marketed as an Android tablet for gamers, but can it win the gaming masses over? We’ll find out soon enough. Did you pre-order a Wikipad, or do you use another tablet to satisfy your Android gaming itch?
Wikipad hit with a delay on launch day is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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ASK Inc. Japan will release a new graphics card from MSI namely the N650GTX ARMOR 1G OC. Specs-wise, the card is packed with 384 CUDA Cores, a 128-bit memory interface, a core clock of 1084MHz and a 1GB of GDDR5 memory set @ 5000MHz, and features 1x dual-link DVI-I, 1x dual-link DVI-D and 1x mini HDMI outputs. The N650GTX ARMOR 1G OC will become available from November 1st around 12,000 Yen (about $150). [Product Page]
Black Moth Super Rainbow returned to Miami Tuesday night for a performance at The Stage on the night before Halloween — so, as expected, there plenty of costumed concertgoers. A couple of weird Cobra Juicy masks were in the crowd, and coincidently there were lots of animal theme costumes, not sure why… but interesting nonetheless.
The band played and I hung around for a few tracks, but what really excited me were their spinoff act, The Casket Girls, who opened. With just couple of singles out, this three piece band is more my tempo: sad, yet sweet, there’s something about them that’s pretty infectious. Check them out for yourselves here at casketgirls.org.
It was a good night to be out at The Stage. Great weather in Miami for October. There were tasty Zignum shots being poured out in the back courtyard of the venue, and I found a new band to obsess over! — Jipsy
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It’s time to have a peek at the next big smash gaming experience developed for the Tegra 3 quad-core environment on Android: Zombie Driver THD! This game brings on what the developers at Exor Studios make clear is “massive amounts of zombie carnage and unprecedented destruction effects.” And that it is, folks, we’ve had our own peek at this game and can readily assure you – there’s no better way to spend your late night candy-filled sugar coma this Halloween (tonight or whenever you just so happen to want do down a bunch of Snickers bars) than to slay some zombies in a destruction derby-style massacre.
Inside the game you’ll be rolling out in one of three different modes – the first is a storyline: that’s what you see above. Inside storyline mode you’ll quickly understand that you’re mission is almost always to take out the enemies, those being the undead! It’s the style with which you destroy that gets you up in the ranks! Once you’re ready to let the blood shower over you, you’ll be saving survivors left and right as you take on zombie packs and bosses like a death-dealing monarch.
You’ll drive anything from a bulldozer to a fire truck to a tank. This game brings on 7 arenas for you to dish out the insides, and in the second mode – a race sort of situation – your choices for massacre machine matter more than ever. You’ve got to balance the destruction you’re able to deal out with your ability to maneuver: it’s not just about the death of the dead, it’s about cold, hard speed as well!
The third mode is all about survival – wave after wave of puss-oozing bone-chompers making your mission to survive: with great rewards awaiting you! Each level will have you addicted to upgrading your machine and your score – more destruction each time you destroy!
Each weapon has three upgrade levels, you’ve got combo moves to make everything just a bit more interesting, and of course there’s a way to upgrade your Taxi into a Chariot of Death – their words, really! In all there’s 13 different vehicles to choose from and you’ll most certainly be having flashbacks to Twisted Metal before you murder your first 100 bodies of undead filth.
“Thanks to Tegra 3′s fantastic GPU performance we were able to use the same quality textures in Zombie Driver THD as on the PC. The outstanding quad-core CPU performance makes it possible to support Tegra game development in parallel to other high-end platforms!” — Pawel Lekki, Chief Operating Officer, EXOR Studios
The graphics in this game are made lovely by PhysX by NVIDIA and you know good and well that the physics, top to bottom, are above the line. This game will cost you just about 7 bucks on the Google Play app store through the NVIDIA TegraZone and it’s available right this very minute. It’s perfect to get some candy-less aggression out too, if that’s your aim – blast away!
Zombie Driver hits TegraZone and hands-on with buckets of blood is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Many Catholics are angry at being told how to vote and at being told to keep quiet if they disagree with the hierarchy. They say it is un-American. Some are quitting churches in disgust. There are yard signs all over that say “Another Catholic Voting No.”
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Few Hollywood families have owned as much intellectual property within a specific film genre as the Curtis family once owns within horror.
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It’s that time of year again, so gather ’round, kiddies, for our spine-tingling and bone-chilling tales of political horror! This Hallowe’en, we’ve got three frightful nightmares to recount.
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It takes a natural disaster like Hurricane Sandy to remind us of how quickly we begin to take technology for granted. Take the Internet, for example. It’s only in the utter absence of it that we realize how integral it is to even the most mundane of our daily tasks.
Imagine, then, life without a reliable way to connect to the world outside our small communities. Imagine, for a minute, life in a rural hamlet or an urban slum in a developing country.
In a recent interview with Rainmakers TV, Tae Yoo, Senior Vice President of Cisco, talked about the essential role that broadband Internet can play in the both the economy of a country as well as in the wellbeing of its citizens.
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