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Halo The Movie: Microsoft > Hollywood
"However, negotiating a movie deal proved as challenging as taking down a Covenant dropship, as several studios surprisingly passed on producing a Halo movie. The reason: Film studios may be used to kowtowing to A-list actors' demands, but they don't typically cave in to requests from non-Hollywood players. Initial reports saw the software giant asking for $10 million against 15 percent of the gross (whichever is higher), a below-the-line budget of $75 million (budget before hiring actors and crew), near-immediate production of the movie, and a large say in the creative development of the movie.
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Screenweaver
The popular Screenweaver tool that gives Flash applications native API support is now open source.
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Google Talk Review
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BitTorrent.net
If you need to implement bittorrent functionality in your .NET application, you will most likely come across btsharp in your initial googling. However, if you do manage to get the site to load and download the source/dlls you will notice that they are all designed to work with VS.NET 2005. After much frustration and many google queries, I now present you with an alternative that works fine with Visual Studio 2003: BitTorrent.net. Initial tests show the torrent files downloading perfectly.
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Xamlon vs. NeoSwf: Initial Impressions
So, I've had a chance to play with both the Xamlon and GlobFX (NeoSwf) C#->SWF compilers. Here are my thoughts:
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Another C#->SWF Tool
I just ran across this tool from GlobFX:
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You Snooze You Lose
PDC is sold out.
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David Mendels Needs a Blog
David Mendels is one of those guys at Macromedia who I really would like to see get a blog. He is active in the online community and sure does a lot of blog reading and commenting. I'm sure he has plenty of interesting things to say. So, all you MM folks like JD, you need to start bugging him about getting one.
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Another One Bites the Dust. Palm + Windows = Love?
"In an interview, Palm Chief Financial Officer Andrew Brown said that building a Treo that runs on the mobile version of Windows might help the company woo corporate customers who have been reticent to buy its Palm OS-based gadgets. " [1]
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Goodbye RISC. OS-X runs faster on Intel
Wired has an interesting tidbit about a group of hackers that have managed to get OSX running on the PC.