http://onlythe411.com Your source for the latest news and notes. Fri, 09 May 2008 13:34:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Timothy's email went on for about two weeks, so we've tried to edit it for length.read more | digg story http://onlythe411.com/its-now-completely-impossible-to-sell-a-laptop-on-ebay/ Yes, even amid the housing crisis, parts of the U.S. are still expected to post price gains in the coming year, according to Money Magazine. Here are ten places where to look.read more | digg story http://onlythe411.com/10-fastest-growing-real-estate-markets/ Despite widespread declarations of the death of DRM in music, the Recording Industry Association of America insists that it's far from dead. At the Digital Hollywood conference taking place in Los Angeles this week, the organization argued that DRM is still used in the large majority of music distribution methods. ... http://onlythe411.com/if-music-drm-is-dead-the-riaa-expects-its-resurrection/ Mitch Hedberg's time machine might only go forward at regular speed, but the one here allows you to go back in time to interact with versions of yourself to solve some pretty mind-bending puzzles.read more | digg story http://onlythe411.com/chronotron-time-traveling-puzzle-game/ Blizzard is fighting against a company that sells a bot program for use with World of Warcraft, but is doing so in a novel, and scary way: using your RAM to play games is copyright infringement, until Blizzard tells you it isn't. read more | digg story http://onlythe411.com/blizzard-attempt-to-kill-wow-bot-bad-news-for-copyright-law/ The title sold about 3.6 million units on April 29, its opening day, bringing in roughly $310 million ( ?200.91 million). This is $10 million (?6.48 million) more than what Microsoft Corp.'s "Halo 3," another blockbuster game, took in during its first week last fall.read more | digg story http://onlythe411.com/gtaiv-breaks-halo-3s-record-500-million-in-1st-week-6mn/ The recent patch released for PS3 has 'fixed' the stutter and lock-up issues, it was linked with the GameSpy servers and the immense load they experienced. "Rockstar apologize for the inconvenience this has caused." GTAIV should be back in the good graces of the Sony masses once more, hopefully.read ... http://onlythe411.com/gtaiv-issues-on-ps3-fixed-rockstar-offers-apology-to-all/ Tomorrow the High District Court of Munich will hear Skype argue against the validity of the GPL.read more | digg story http://onlythe411.com/gpl-vs-skype-back-in-court/ Interesting idea about Mac making another big push into gaming. But forget a Pippin II, or an iMac gamers' edition ... this theory is all about mobile.read more | digg story http://onlythe411.com/the-next-big-apple-push-mac-gaming/ Internet visionary David Bayer gives the low-down on web 3.0 and where our emerging technologies will take us.read more | digg story http://onlythe411.com/what-is-web-30-the-upcoming-revolution/