The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask 3D Coming Next Year

The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask 3D Coming Next Year

Well it is official! After a year or so of fans asking, Nintendo is finally going to deliver. Just as the N64 classic "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" was touched up and released for the Nintendo 3DS, its follow up Majoras Mask will receive the same treatment... Which actually makes the already dark game a bit freakier. Check out the trailer below for more!(Special thanks goes to GameXplain for capturing the trailer)



While the game hasnt undergone any major changes from its original release (apart from rounding out some of the jagged edges in the character models and what not), the game is still a great classic worth checking out. Not only is it one of the darkest Zelda games to date, it is one that challenges the player, and it offers a few good "scares" from time to time. It is a twisted world, but a great one with great gameplay and a unique time based mechanic.

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The next Overwatch event is coming sooner than youd think

The next Overwatch event is coming sooner than youd think

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� Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) January 19, 2017

I guess they took the complaints about Meis holiday skin to heart.  I really hate the shoulder mantle though :(

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Thats neat though!  Finally, a new legendary for D.Va.

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The Next tutorial

The Next tutorial

Just update about the next tutorial, which I mentioned in last blog post, will be the variables...

But this may be mostly about things that Ive already mentioned in other tutorials (Such as in kill/collecting quest tutorial...)

But anyways Ill work on it within the next week, because its less busy week for me.

Also I want to remind that you guys can suggest new tutorials for me to do if you got something in mind, of course if its not that big thing, I may decline your suggestion.
(I am myself running out of ideas for tutorials...)

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The Next Generation of Browsers

The Next Generation of Browsers

Its been noted all over the place that the browser wars are starting again (well, theyve been going strong for the last few years). Ive been a long-time Firefox user ever since I forced myself to live with the browser for a month just to try it out. I coudnt go back to IE.

Ive tried Safari, Opera and Chrome without feeling too tempted. I was impressed by the design of Chrome but the lack of familiar features (add-ons and scripting) failed to win me over. Ill admit though that Ive found Opera to be the browser of choice on the Blackberry.

Recently, I decided to give IE8 a go. Ok, so it was on the morning of the FIRST day of release but that doesnt mean Ill be lining up for any other MS products. I decided to see how well it worked doing the normal things I do every day.

It almost made 45 minutes but then it crashed and I havent used it much since then.

I then switched my attention back to the Chrome 2.0 beta browser I had been testing. Ive been using this as my main browser for nearly three solid weeks now. Ive left it running overnight on most nights and its still as fast as ever. Remember, this is a BETA product. I was willing to tolerate some crashes but thus far, I havent experienced one.

I also expected to have problems accessing some sites but Ive had no problems so far. Ive been right through all the major Google apps, iNotes and many of the major news and social networking sites. It also works with our intranet and extranet.

Im impressed.

Im not sure that I can live without Sharaholic or my "Copy as plain text" menu option but Ive discovered that I need to start Firefox up for one of these less than three times per day. Im also missing my Google Toolbar (for some reason it isnt available in Chrome).

Im not ready to dump Firefox for Chrome yet - but I dont want to dump Chrome 2.0 either since it has proven to be even more stable than Firefox. I cant afford to have three browsers, so I guess its goodbye IE8.

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The Next Gen Skype Meetings No Sign Up No Client Meetings

The Next Gen Skype Meetings No Sign Up No Client Meetings

Microsoft keeps rolling out new features in the Skype product and I just got a moment to play with some of the new Skype meeting features, which are quite impressive. The features I will underscore:

Frictionless Meetings with No Sign-Up/Login Whatsoever Directly from a Browser

Just go to www.skype.com and click on �Start a conversation� (Note: make sure you are not logged into your Microsoft account to see pure guest functionality.) Type in a name for yourself, and the meeting is in progress.

Nice Chat/Audio/Video Meeting Functionality�Without a Login

From playing with it the functionality seems quite nice. The guest user who sets up the meeting is the Admin and can do quite a bit:

• 1-name the meeting
• 2-Just give anyone an URL and they can join without a login as well
• 3-toggle whether you want to hear notification on each IM
• 4-make chat history available for new joiners
• 5-Easily toggle allowing new people join (toggling this off means no one can join while it is off, but as soon as you toggle it on the original join URL works again)
• 6-remove a user from the group/meeting
• 7-change the picture for the meeting

What is the Capacity?

I was in a meeting that Tom Warren started and noticed that at that time there were 499 participants! (I noticed on the webpage I would get some script timeouts, not sure if my pc needs a reboot or not)

Note, the above was a chat (instant message) meeting only.

Edge Browser Seems to Need No Plugin for Audio/Video

IE and Chrome do.

How to Easily Avoid Joining Using the Skype Client?

Just cancel the browser request to use the Skype client

Then click �Join Conversation� on the web page

What Collaboration Methods are supported?

• Video
• Group Chat
• Voice
• Share Photos and Files
• Send Emoticons & Mojis

Note: Desktop sharing is not supported.

Conclusion

I�m impressed. It would be quite cool to have an API where you could do an http post and give your name and it would return the meeting URL. But in any event, this is nice functionality.

Try it yourself in a minute: Just go to www.skype.com and click on �Start a conversation��

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The Fate of the Furious DLC coming to Rocket League next week

The Fate of the Furious DLC coming to Rocket League next week

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The next SoC design working title Transmute begins

The next SoC design working title Transmute begins

I have a fun new hobby - designing the digital part of a new, mixed signal SoC which we are building here. It is my intention to blog the full design flow discussing the various challenges and issues as we encounter them.

Design Basics

• Foundry
• Technology
• IP
• Flow
  

The importance of these choices of these depends on the following thoughts:

• What have we done before
• Who have we worked with before
• What have we got that works
• What we need to do and what we would like to do
  

Planning a chip begins after you decide the basics above, i.e. foundry, technology and the needed parts and finally tool support. Sometimes in industry you have the luxury of a couple of other choices e.g.:

• Cell library (we use the ST supplied one but there are others, Faraday for example)

Basic Overview Spec

1. Two full custom ADCs for testing and evaluation
2. A single core SoC to test our mixed signal integration and apply tests
   
3. Simple connectivity to the SoC

Initial Decisions

In our case after some mulling over our experiences we decided on:

1. ST Microelectronics via the Circuits Multi-Projets MPW broker
2. Their HCMOS9 130nm process
3. IP Blocks (see below)
   
4. The flow, more on that later

 IP Blocks

As a university our access to IP is somewhat limited. Making a SoC requires quite a few modules like memory controllers etc.

However to the rescue rides Synopsys DesignWare Library. It includes a basic selection of AMBA AHB/APB bus connected peripheral set and a memory controller which supports SDRAM and Flash.

To drive the the DesignWare library is the coreTools GUI (which is surprisingly hard to find) which in a nice graphical environment enables you to construct AMBA bus structures containing DesignWare peripherals. So this drives our choice of some of the tools (coreTools and DesignCompiler Ultra) as well as their DesignWare basic IP.

Onto a much more interesting question. What core to use? Considering our other IP is AMBA an ARM is the most likely choice however there are others we might use:

• The LEON3 from Aeroflex is a Opensource (GPL), VHDL 32 bit SPARCv8 CPU with an AMBA bus. It is, however, very much bound to its peripheral library and autoconfiguration so would take a lot of work. It would also need to be customised to use the HCMOS9 SRAM blocks
• The IBM PPC 405 is a 32 bit PowerPC core designed for embedding which is licensed to universities for teaching and education. It is the distribution created for the Synopsys flow which allows easy integration with AMBA peripherals. It is a softcore, i.e. it would need to be synthesised from RTL

In this case we wish to reduce our risk and design effort. Licensable from CMP is a foundry guaranteed ARM946E-S hard IP (i.e. they have already synthesized it and checked it) on their 130nm process. So we are going ahead with DesignWare soft IP surrounding a hard IP ARM946E-S. The benefits of hard IP are that ST have de-risked the design for us.

The features of the ARM946E-S are:

• Excellent compiler/OS/application support. ARM is one of the best supported architectures in both Opensource and commercial software
• Small and quick, approximately 3mm² and clocking at 200MHz (both of these are significantly derated estimates at this stage of the design
• MMU allowing full OS support
  

In addition we need the following types of IP:

• A PLL - this is pretty much required for any SoC these days (available from CMP)
• Level shifters and isolators - needed to try advanced power saving strategies in digital logic

The current initial design of the digital segment of our chip is best shown in a block diagram below:

We will talk of flows and the analogue integration later.....

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The next thing from Cellar Door Games is Full Metal Furies

The next thing from Cellar Door Games is Full Metal Furies

Hm.  Steam and Xbox seem to be the only platforms.  One less game to worry about yayyy.  (Cellar Door Games are the folks who made the excellent Rogue Legacy.)

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The Next Clue TMI Tag

The Next Clue TMI Tag

Are yall ready for the next clue?

Good, because its up. And this time, its an easy one, because its in this post.

TMI Tag
So, this has popped up a lot recently around the blog-o-sphere, and, because I feel like being mainstream, I decided to do it XD

1) What are you wearing?
My school uniform.

2) Have you ever been in love?
Yep. IRL and fictional characters.

3) Have you ever had a terrible breakup?
Oh my god, when I had to hand Jace over to Clary...now that was something that you never want to see.

4) How tall are you?
Not tall enough.

5) How much do you weigh?
Every time I hold a helium balloon, I have to hold onto something, otherwise Ill fly away XD

6) Any tattoos?
I have a fake sparkly one somewhere :D

7) Any piercings?
Nope.

8) OTP?
ALEC x MAGNUS 4EVERRRR

9) What is your favourite show?
Doctor Who! //fangirls//

10) Who are your favourite bands?
The Script! Coldplay!

11) Something you miss?
Homework that doesnt take three weeks to complete :(

12) Favourite song?
Electric Angel - Kagamine Len & Rin (BTW, its a J-Pop song)

13) How old are you?
Teenagerish.

14) Zodiac sign?
Leo :D

15) Quality you look for in a partner?
Caring, can make me laugh, loyal.

16) What is your favorite quote?

17) Who is your favorite actor?
Any actor from Doctor Who.

18) Favorite colour?
TARDIS blue!

19) Loud music or soft?
Soft, I guess.

20) Where do you go when youre sad?
To my room, to cry. Or sometimes I go all blank and pretend Im tired when theres nowhere to go.

21) How long does it take you to shower?
Depends. It ranges from 10 minutes to half an hour :P

22) How long does it take for you to get ready in the morning?
Ages. Dragging myself out of bed takes an hour.

23) Have you ever been in a physical fight?
I wish! Nope.

24) Turn ons?
Smiles a lot, funny, texts me first.

25) Turn offs?
Talks only about themselves, answers everything with "k", hurts people intentionally then calls it a joke.

26) The reason you joined the blogging community?
So I could share the side of me no one sees.

27) What are your fears?
What lurks in the dark, blood when its related to hospitals (blood in tubes, blood in packets, just thinking about it makes me squeamish), being truly alone.

28) The last movie that made you cry?
Red Dog.

29) Last time you said you loved someone?
Today :)

30) Meaning behind your blog name?
It was meant to confuse people :P

31) Last book you read?
"When Dogs Cry" - Markus Zusak

32) The book youre currently reading?
"Blood Land" - R.S. Guthrie

33) The last show you watched?
Merlin. (And I am addicted now.)

34) Last person you talked to?
My very very close friend.

35) The relationship between you and the last person you texted?
Read above :)

36) What is your favorite food?
Ice-cream! Sushi!

37) Place you want to visit?
France or Japan.

38) Last place you were?
In my bedroom, eating Skittles.

39) Do you have a crush?
Nope. Unless you count fictional characters (SIMON).

40) Last time you kissed someone?
I kissed somebody virtually today. Dont judge XDD

41) Last time you were insulted?
Today. "Youre soooo manipulative!" Excuse me, Im just very persuasive, thank you very much. XD

42) Favorite flavour or sweet?
Watermelon!

43) What instrument do you play?
I did play the trumpet for a bit, although I was horrible at it :D

44) Favorite piece of jewellery?
A bracelet I made that says "Fangirl".

45) The last sport you played?
Basketball! (And if Wii Sports counts, then bowling.)

46) Last song you sang?
"Bad Blood" - Taylor Swift

47) Favourite pick up line?
You must be a time lord, because you have two hearts...yours and mine :D

48) Have you ever used it?
Hahahahahaha no.

49) Last time you hung out with anyone?
If school counts, then I hung out with people at school.

50) Who should answer these questions next?
Anybody who wants to do it :)

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The Next Form Factor for Apple to tackle or…Ladies and Gentlemen the Mac micro!

The Next Form Factor for Apple to tackle or…Ladies and Gentlemen the Mac micro!

I love my Mac Mini. It fit into my tight budget when I bought it, and it physically fits onto my computer desk without dominating it as a PC tower would.�

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So what do I think the next form factor Apple will use for the Mac Mini and other Macs? I believe Apple will look into the compute stick form factor pioneered by Intel.

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The largest element of a computer remains its screen. The other components, such as memory and mass storage, continue to shrink as chip fabrication techniques squeeze more and more computing elements onto ever-smaller squares of silicon.�

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Right now, limits to wireless connections between the compute stick and various peripherals, such as a big honking 5 TB hard drive for storing all of Game of Thrones in 4K, limit the usefulness of the compute stick. When someone develops a compute stick whose internal� mass storage is the same cost as a cheap external 1 TB hard drive and can handle a 4k display with no sweat along with the wireless protocols eliminating the need for a rat�s nest of cables in the back; Then you can just plug in one or more of these compute sticks into a display.�

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Will a cheap big-screen TV suffice instead of a dedicated computer monitor? Hell, I don�t� know. I don�t have a big-screen TV to test out these ideas. I�ll leave that up to the smart women of the 2020�s and 2030�s.�

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Another thing. I don�t believe that the future of computing lies in touching the actual display. Most work at a computer occurs when you sit down some distance from the display. As David Pogue observed, reaching across the table to touch a screen from a sitting position causes chronic pain in your arm and shoulder.�

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I will make a prediction, though. The keyboard with its physical keys will be replaced by a touch-surface capable of physical feedback and the ability to reconfigure itself based on immediate need. One moment you use a keyboard to type in text, the next moment you use a touch-board to illustrate a graphic element. The board recognizes your changing needs and� immediately reconfigures itself.�

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So look for smart Indian, Chinese, and Middle Eastern refugee women to develop these technologies. Look for 60+ year-old nerds sitting in their Costco underwear in Canoga Park to write, �See? I was right.�

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Editor, MacValley Blog

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The next wave of malware might kill more than just your PC

The next wave of malware might kill more than just your PC

Ransomware is the biggest threat that has ever hit customers says Bogdan Botezatu, senior threat analyst at Bitdefender, and worse is coming according to him.

"It is ironic that encryption, a technology designed to keep us safe, is being used against the customer," he said. Encryption-based ransomware is essentially someone transforming your files into a mish-mash of bytes that need a key to be translated.

And it is only the perpetrator that can provide you with that key � for a fee. "Interestingly, most of the time they are giving the encryption key to the victim if they pay," Bogdan added, "except when they go to jail first."

Mobile hostages

And dont think that ransomware is limited to desktops only. Yes, it is very prevalent in that segment because customers tend to take security very lightly (think Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6) but the threat is very rapidly coming to mobile.

Only one in fifty smartphones on the market have antivirus protection, and devices older than two years are unlikely to get any sort of updates or patches especially as Google, smartphone makers and network carriers are all part of the equation.

What can be done to mitigate this threat? Well, installing an antivirus program on your devices � any sort of antivirus � would help. Most of them are free, either on mobile or desktop.

Keeping it up to date and upgrading your operating system would be a good thing, too. Backups are also a very good idea. With cloud-based storage now available almost by default on most recent devices, ransomware is yet another powerful incentive to get the end user backing up.

"Backup as often as possible as ransomware can hit anytime even if youre not doing anything wrong," our interlocutor warned. "Because ransomware developers are very apt at using zero-day exploits, you dont even need to click to get the payload."

Polymorphism problems

Sometimes just browsing a website is enough to be infected. Add to that the fact that ransomware has resurrected an old technique called polymorphism and one starts to grasp the challenges faced by security experts on a daily basis.

"Each piece of ransomware has its own unique ID, every single one of them is different from the other one. The more you rely on polymorphism, the more you can evade traditional antivirus solutions."

He then quoted a worrying figure: 2,000 is the number of ransomware files uploaded in one day by hackers to VirusTotal, a free service that checks whether a file is a virus or not by matching it against a malware database from more than 40 antivirus solutions.

None of these files were in the database, which is why relying on behaviour analysis rather than just analysing a file is where the industry is heading.

The boom in ransomware can be attributed, Bogdan said, to the more mature encryption technologies as well as the wide availability of DIY kits that allow you to, well, build your own ransomware factory and start taking peoples data hostage.

He also cited the death of three people, all suicides that are directly linked to ransomware. All three chose to end their lives rather than giving in to ransomware criminals.

IoT dangers

But the worst is yet to come. The rise of the Internet of Things could provide ransomware developers with a much bigger and potentially lucrative "audience".

Want to continue using that pacemaker of yours? Please pay in Bitcoins only. How about saving your house from an impending blaze? That would be a few more Bitcoins.

"Theres no cure to ransomware and it could change the face of cybercrime forever," Bogdan pointed out as we ended the interview.

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