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Tivo has partnered with Yahoo to give users web integration with Yahoo’s TV listing pages.
Users will be able to browse the listings on Yahoo from any internet connected PC, and by clicking a button remotely instruct their Tivo box to record the selected show. Very cool.
Current rumor of this moment around the XBox360 launch party is that Microsoft are planning on staging the event in a Californian desert, like Burning Man meets E3.
This should be an interesting event – if not only for the location, but for the logistics of staging an electronics event in an electronics unfriendly location such as a desert. My guess would be that it would be on one of the dry lake beds, similar to Burning Man, but even still, when the wind picks up theres plenty of dust blowing around.
From Kite Buggying (land sailing with kites) on dry lakes in Southern California, I can tell you that after a few hours on one of those lake beds, everything is covered in fine dust, and it gets everywhere. You’l be finding it in your XBox CD slot for days…
Up until Java SE 5.0 the length() method on a String used to give you the correct length of a String. Now that 5.0 uses additional chars to store character information, (ie a character may take more that 1 char of storage in memory), there is an aditional method, codePointCount(), that now accurately returns characters in a String.
This guy has a screenshot of the PS3 user interface, which shows a whole load of stuff going on in the background.
Apparently from the news conference from where it was taken, the demo was showing how the PS3 can simulataneously run and display multiple HDTV streams, a web browser, a PS2 game, and various other images on the screen at the same time. Wow – talk about information overload, but that is surely impressive.
Notice how the icons follow the same style as what is currently used on the PSP.