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Tuesday Afternoon
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Tuesday, 12-October-2004 16:02:24 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Half-Life 2 is finally available for purchase. If you've already got your hands on it, IGN Gear have an optimisation guide for it. Apparently Halo 2 has gone gold, too.
Here's an interesting one from t-break, a motherboard with an AGPe slot. What's that? Basically, an AGPe slot is formed by converting two PCI slots into an AGP slot. Theoretically, the bandwidth supported by the PCI slot is 66MB/s and thus two slots would yield 133MB/s. It's a way of adding limited AGP support to a 9x5 PCI-Express motherboard.
3DCenter have an interview with Darryl Still from NVIDIA, covering the "The Way It's Meant To Be Played" logo found on many game boxes.
MSN Messenger has been down recently, due to a virus or worm. Apparently PayPal is a bit flaky at the moment too.
Computer Magazine have a lengthy article on robots that emulate bugs. Today, researchers are looking in the cupboards of their local diners and under rocks for biological inspiration to create a new generation of flying, crawling, and swimming automatons known as biomimetic robots. Amazing stuff.
NewGenerationOrder have compared DX8 and DX9 in terms of performance and image quality.
This is pretty out there: a holographic-like 360-degree 3D image projected from a new device called 3DSolar. For the very first time, computer users will be able to view 3D objects hovering a few inches away from a screen that rotates 360 degrees - without wearing glasses. The stand-out feature is the way users will be able to manipulate the virtual image directly with their hands as they would a real object.
Another cool new technology is this single electron transistor. Since it uses so many fewer electrons, his transistor will generate much less heat and require less power to move the electrons around - a feature very important in battery-powered mobile devices, such as cell phones.
Timbot sent word of GPUBench. Included in the suite are tests that rigorously exercise a system's GPU, determining statistics such as memory input/output bandwidth to floating point buffers, texture cache bandwidth, data download and readback rates, instruction throughput, and instruction precision.
Wired have an article explaining that most of the cells in your body aren't your own, thanks Raven.
CoolTechZone looked at Logitech's Frequency Directed Dual Drivers technology, designed to improve the quality of PC audio.
A few people sent in this report that "IT Manager" is the 3rd worst job, right above phone sex operator (No. 1) and ferry cabin cleaner (No. 2).
The EU and USA are teaming up to fight against spammers, while one spammer has agreed to stop spamming and pay a not-particularly-hefty fine. Customers who attempted to click on the opt-out link at the bottom of the e-mails found that it failed to work, and letters sent to DC Enterprises' Massachusetts business address did not receive a response, the lawsuit had alleged.
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