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FFxiv Info released from the Alpha/Beta

Morning, Corians! Final Fantasy XIV alpha testing started on April 8th, and Famitsu has their first impressions up and ready for a reading! I’ll be updating this as I get it translated, and our lovely staff will be putting the pictures up in their respective places in the translation. Please enjoy this hands-on account of what we’ve all been waiting for!

Source is Famitsu’s website. The writer is Opone Kikuchi, the same person who answered the interviews in Connect!On.

Final Fantasy XIV Alpha Test Begins
First impressions

The alpha test for …
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Dont forget there is a Labor cost to actually build it. but still, this is kinda normal for Production and cost for stuff like this. I don’t think Apple is too out of line with their price. but nice to know the actual cost.

You’re paying at least $499 for the iPad, but what’s the actual cost of its parts? According to analytics company iSuppli, approximately half of that amount.

iSuppli estimates that the total cost of iPad WiFi (not the 3G-enabled model, which will be arriving to the market later this month) is $259.60. As far …
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Translation… Steve didn’t find this funny. Steve knows what’s good for you; it makes the platform run slower and less stable. That is all, citizen.

Laura sez, “Mark Fiore just won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning for his animated works appearing on SFGate.com. I spoke with Fiore about what’s next for him, and he said he’d like to take his freelance shop mobile. Only problem: Apple denied his iPhone app because it ‘ridicules public figures,’ a violation of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement. If he can get his app past the Apple satire police, he …
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And you thought “Eyjafjallajökull” was just a foot stool in the Spring IKEA catalog.

Remember Eyjafjallajökull? Iceland’s “lazy” volcano that was the site of wacky wiener roasts and beautiful photos featuring the Northern Lights? In that last post, reader Nash Rambler predicted that Eyjafjallajökull was simply “unmotivated” and would someday “graduate from college, throw out the bong and Snoop Dogg posters, and wipe out an Italian city”.

Well, not quite. But it has managed to ground all air traffic in the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark.

Yesterday, Eyjafjallajökull erupted, sending up a huge ash plume …
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Yes, I’ve seen it. Yes, I love it. No, I have not practical use for it and that doesn’t matter one bit.

Mike Pusateri sez, “This week is the NAB Conference and I saw this steampunk style VTR controller on the show floor. I thought you might get a kick out of it. It was fully functional and not just a mockup. Each button does a real task that broadcasters need in a VTR controller. The workmanship was excellent. The guys who made it are HiTechSys.”

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