Just Back From Game Developers Conference

Wow.
I am not a gamer... lets be clear. I attended the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week - some great sessions and saw a lot of really cool technology - hardware and software. It's amazing how this industry, is growing and maturing. The level of talent and technology that is required to create a game is incredible.  

The big take away? Violence. I have never seen so much blood, guts, decapitations, amputations and sheer physical violence as I did watching the demo's of the latest and most popular games. It was truly unbelievable. I was left wondering what affect it was truly having on our kids. 

I am not a prude nor am I self righteous - but witnessing this - and it was everywhere - was a bit unnerving. 

There's something seriously wrong with our culture when kind of physical violence is seen and used as entertainment - by our youth.

Ouch.

Other than that the conference was great.

Biofuels make greenhouse gases worse, scientists say

Almost all biofuels used today cause more greenhouse-gas emissions than conventional fuels if the full emissions costs of producing these "green" fuels are taken into account, two studies published Thursday have concluded.

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Yahoo Will Reject Microsoft's Bid

Yahoo's (YHOO, +0.6%) Board of Directors will reject Microsoft's (MSFT, +1.6%) $31/share unsolicited bid according to a Wall Street Journal report citing unnamed sources. The decision is based on the belief the bid, which totals about $44.6 billion, "massively undervalues" Yahoo. The source said Yahoo is unlikely to consider offer less than $40/share, upping the purchase price by $12 billion.

Who Will Apple Buy?

I am a big Adobe fan. I am a bigger Apple fan. When I consider the two companies I see great synergies between them. Why not a merger or outright acquisition?

Hmmm #1

Hmmm #2

It think it'd be great.

Project Wonderland

Some excellent news from the the Sun's Project Wonderland team. They are replacing Java3D with the more modern jMonkeyEngine (JME) scene graph. This change will also involve making some core changes to JME to better support Wonderland features. The change is needed for a number of reasons. There are features in JME that will substantially help to upgrade the look of Wonderland including render-to-texture and multi-pass. Additionally, there is an existing and growing tool chain around JME.

Major Slacker Award Goes To...

Ok. I admit it. I thought blogging was going to be easy. It isn't. I now have a deep appreciation for those who can keep up with it.

I am going to try again... this time changing up the format a bit into a news headline type format.