Episode 987

Brian Cooley goes all Noel Coward on me when we ask if he wants to share viewing over the Xbox 360. We also talk about the Project Natal coolness and lost of other E3 stuff. And of course robots still plan to kill usall. The latest developments involve them building themselves.
==Stories Covered==
Xbox Live gets 1080p Zune video store, Netflix browsing, Twitter and Facebook integration
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/01/xbox-live-gets-live-tv-streaming-netflix-browsing/
Microsoft announces “Project Natal” motion controller for Xbox 360!
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/01/microsoft-announces-motion-controller-for-xbox-360/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8077369.stm
Beatles come together for launch
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8078280.stm
Complete E3 coverage
http://reviews.cnet.com/e3/
Toshiba introduced facial rec for cars
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/06/facial-recognition/
NVIDIA unveils 12 Tegra devices
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/nvidia-unveils-12-tegra-powered-devices-claims-the-mobile-comp/
Intel launches new CPU’s for thin, low cost laptops.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10254094-64.html
Motorola wants to be the wireless in everything CE
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10254063-94.html
Acer to sell Android netbook PCs in Q3
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSTP18980620090602
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10254258-1.html
Android goes Canadian: Rogers launches HTC Magic and Dream http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/android-goes-canadian-rogers-launches-htc-magic-and-dream/
Nokia N97 hitting 75 countries in June
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/nokia-n97-hitting-75-countries-in-june/
DARPA killer AI robots to ‘participate in own construction’ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/02/darpa_self_industry_day/
==Voicemail==
Kevin in Alabama about HD radio tagging on the Zune
Carl the Help Desk Czar has an idea for accelerometers
==Emails==
Hey Buzz Crew,
I came across this article while doing some research at my job on social networking and Web 2.0 (Yes I’m getting paid for it!!). It is about the process of using the missed call log of cell phones to convey messages in a cheaper form then making calls or text messaging. Its a great summary of BOL goodness in preparation for the 1000th Episode, cheeting the phone company, full of acronyms to keep the squares confused, lack of voice mail in India, and some great retro HTML Coding. Hope you like it, see you in the live show today, @z1g1
raw URL http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/donner.html
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Thank You,
Zack
Palm Pre working with iTunes. Palm is promoting this precarious pairing, but perhaps people purchasing the Pre should prepare to be pissed-off presently; the iPod program probably won’t permit the provided product to perform properly post-patch, as previously pondered on the podcast: http://daringfireball.net/2009/06/webos_itunes_integration
-Andres
Hey guy,
You knew I would write in on this one….
Indeed xbxo live achievements were developed by a psychologist (among
others). John Hopson, a Duke PhD in animal cognition (obviously a wise
young man) helped come up with achievements. We met at FuturePlay 2007
where he was giving a keynote, and I was speaking, blogging and podcasting.
We got to talking, and I mentioned how achievements were clearly “…simply
a Variable Interval…” and he interrupted me and said “reinforcement
schedule”. To learn more about reinforcement schedules just pick up a copy
of “Schedules of Reinforcement” by Ferrster and Skinner (1957). It is even
better than reading Conditioned Reflexes (Pavlov, 1927) for putting one to
sleep…
Oddly enough, we talked some more, and had I taken the job at Duke I was
offered in 1998 I would have been John’s PhD supervisor.
Dave (the Psychologist) 
==Extra Notes==
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==After The Credits==