Microsoft has announced the product name for the next release of Windows which has up until now been only known by its project name of ‘Longhorn’. It will be released as Windows Vista. More info here.
PDF files for JavaOne2005 sessions
PDFs for all the JavaOne 2005 sessions are now available online (for free).
Sun usually only release the PDFs on their JavaOneOnline site which is a paid subscription site, but I’ve noticed this site is currently not accepting any subscription renewals as they are reworking it. So download them for free while the link is there!
Cost of developing games for next gen consoles could exceed $15million
Analysts estimate the current cost of developing a console game (for PS2 or the XBox) is currently around $10million. Due the expected massive improvements in graphics and processing power of the next gen platforms like the PS3 and the XBox360, it is estimated that the average development cost may increase to between $15 to $20 million.
The agreement with Epic Games is to make the Unreal Engine 3 available to PS3 developers as an evaluation version, which can enable developers get up and running from day one of new development on the new platform.
Havok produce an advanced physics and animation engine, and Ageia PhysX SDK (also known as NovodeX) is a software development kit. All of these products are to be bundled in the SDK from Sony.
‘The Linux of Beers’ – Open Source beer
It had to happen at some point – a group of students in Copenhagen has developed a beer and have released its recipe under the Creative Commons open source license, bringing new meaning to the phrase “free, as in beer”.
The recipe has been released as open source as an experiment to see what happens to real-world analog products when released under the open source model.