A few moments ago Wolfwood comes into my office with a package. I wasn't expecting anything, how mysterious! I read who it was from and it didn't add up so I had to open it. I mean c'mon, if you received a mystery package you'd open it up....right?

The package was sealed with a wax stamp, well it was meant to look that way but it looks more like plastic. Very cool aesthetic feeling to it. The seal has a griffin on it.



Opening the package bits of what seemed like sawdust kept falling out..uh oh someone just sent me a package full of anthrax! oh well, I have to see what's inside. What I see still doesn't help me figure out just what the heck this is but I can confirm that it's not anthrax inside.



I open the note first

quote

Each Grey Warden must drink
of that which would destroy us.

Some master the blood
of the darkspawn, some perish.

Will you test your strength
against corruption itself?

Unfortunate
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I've been working on a new feature for the 360 community, cleaning up the gamercard page so it's more...well, awesome. For the past few weeks I've been playing around with the page, which, I've had some really positive feedback from the handful of members I've shown it to, and I've come to notice a few things.

Avatars

They're pure awesome. I just keep clicking around on different people because they have the most amusing avatars. Some people I've never even heard of before but just clicking around on avatars is pretty amusing.

However, I do see that a lot of people don't have one yet. I highly suggest you jump on over to your 360 and make one. Albeit, I'm not 100% sure if you need a Gold account or if you can do all of this with just the free Silver account. If someone could confirm this that would be great.

Achievements

There are a LOT of achievements and Neoseeker members have an amazing
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because I can and I have nothing better to do at the moment :S






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If you've ever wondered how sites are able to prompt a user to download a file from their servers here's how using php headers:

php code

header('Content-Type: video/quicktime'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=videoname.mov'); header('Expires: ' . gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s', gmmktime() - 3600) . ' GMT'); header('Content-Length: ' . filesize('/usr/home/tekmosis/testmovie.mov')); $fp = fopen('/usr/home/tekmosis/testmovie.mov', 'r'); fpassthru($fp);

Note that in the Content-Disposition header the filename can be whatever you want it to be. The only thing that matters pertaining to the correct filename is the fopen() and the Content-Length.

Your script actually needs to output the binary data of the file rather than directly pointing it to the location on the webserver.

Your MIME type should coincide with whatever type of media you're dishing up. For a list of MIME types see
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Reading the morning news I found a link that lead to the beta application for APB so I figured hell, why not, lets sign up. The first part, not a problem, all the normal questions and then it gets on to some very very personal information. Granted this section is optional but it's absolutely ridiculous that they would even remotely consider asking what my pay range is, martial status and how many kids I have. What right is it of theirs to even know such information for a PC game beta?

Being that it was optional I just skipped it, next section was required asking me for my address/location. I could have given them my office address but again, what business is it of theirs to even know that? it has no relevance to the beta. What, are they going to send me stuff? no. I just couldn't go on with the signup and closed the window.

I've had APB brought up to me a couple times lately but after this
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A few seekers brought up the concern that the new profiles were a bit *too* revealing for their tastes. The three biggest topics being

• Location
• Activity log
• Responses

Today we launch some features to support your privacy to help you control what others see.

If you take a look at your own Activity Settings page you can see what options we now give you.

For a more in depth article on the Location settings please read the wiki article. The provided flavor text in the Activity Settings for the Activity/Responses should be straightforward enough.
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Here's the GG article so you know what I'm talking about:
http://www.gamegrep.com/news/23729-bioshock_2_wine_bottles_wash_up_on_shore/

The Vancouver event at Kits beach started at 5:55am, sunrise. I was up by 4:40am and headed down to the beach and parked at the Marina. Walked along the beach till I saw a group of people. I was still quite a distance away but everyone was just standing around, when I could see them it was about 5:50-5:55 and by the time I got up there it was 6. All the bottles were gone and the PR person was packing up and leaving.

I'd say there were about 18 people standing around, all of which had bottles in their hands. Talking to a couple the bottles were in the sand and they had just dug them up, end of story. It didn't look like anyone had two bottles but you never know if they stuffed an extra one in their bags. I think they started before 5:55 and just let people do
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I've been a fan of Mechwarrior since it's PC days. I've never played the pen and paper RPG version of it but I loved the games so when I saw the video this morning my first thought was "omg, finally a next gen Mechwarrior"..next gen..this gen? either gen it's sexy looking.

The fact that there is terrain deformation; demolished buildings, parked car exploding, chunks of buildings falling off, smoldering holes in buildings. Yum!

What's also awesome is that the game is being worked on by Piranha Games right here in Vancouver. It seems that lately Vancouver is the Canadian hotspot for game development. <3 Vancouver.
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Major Nelson recently made a blog post in which by utilizing silverlight there will be ads on the 360's dashboard, to which I say, what?

I can see this being a viable option for silver members but gold members also get ads. What am I paying a monthly fee for? Some have argued that you pay for TV and there's ads but cable companies don't pay the actors, it's the channels themselves that have the ads and you aren't paying *them* so the argument about ads on TV is irrelevant to the discussion.

Nelson commented that the ads will enhance your experience. How exactly does an ad enhance an experience?

Now, I don't have a gold subscription but before you all rage that my opinion shouldn't count in this case, I'm still a user/customer :P I'll gladly accept ads because I'm on a silver account but if I were to upgrade to gold I would definitely not want to see any.
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Just a brief post on how you can keep track of our E3 shenanigans this year.

1) Check the front page for E3 news (we'll be putting up a special E3 section)
2) Keep an eye out on our blogs

• RabidChinaGirl's Blog
• Vegi's Blog

3) Keep an eye on our galleries

Also, follow us on Twitter

@tekmosis
@rabidchinagirl
@vegitax2

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