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Dan sent in this site which features lots of different high speed videos of things. Each video clip is accompanied by a small paragraph of text explaining the equipment used and describing what happened. Definitely worth checking out especially for those photography buffs out there.
ChileHardware has interviewed the CEO of Ageia, the company behind the PhysX physics processing unit. We got the opportunity to interview AGEIA, the manufacturer behind the first specialized physics calculation card. In the following article you will see what is AGEIA planning on subjects like their PPU technology, Windows Vista, Overclocking, all of this from the CEO itself, Many Hedge.
A petition on a Government website is calling for price reductions of Windows Vista in the EU where it is unusually expensive. It points out the "huge difference in the price that people in the US and the UK are paying for Windows Vista", claiming that Vista Ultimate (the premium version) costs £350 in the UK but can be bought for £150 ($298) in the US. It's not clear where these figures come from, as retail prices vary. For example, according to the recommended retail prices on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, Vista Ultimate is pegged at $399.99 (£203) in America, and £369.99 in the UK.
If you thought the PR disaster of the PS3 couldn't get any worse, it seems that the European version will be stripped of its PS2 legacy hardware relying on software to do the PS2 emulation instead. There is a lengthy thread discussing this here which describes the change occurring to not just the European version but the PAL version which means we will be getting this version if that is correct. More linkage on this can be found here. Now it turns out that the European version of PlayStation 3 will play fewer PlayStation 2 video games when it launches on March 23 compared with models launched earlier in Japan and America. The Euro model will be designed differently from the US and software will take over some of the functionality that was originally taken care of by dedicated chips. Dedicated chips cost a bit more than software so Sony is actually skimping its EU customers despite charging them more. But the result is that if EU people were hoping that their PS2 games will run on the PS3 you might be out of luck.
Bittorrent Inc is set to launch digital content store in a similar fashion to the Apple iTunes store. They will be using Bittorrent P2P file sharing to deliver the content which means faster downloads and cheaper bandwidth costs. NYTimes also has some coverage on this. BitTorrent today is launching its digital content store, featuring movies, TV shows and video games from partners including Fox, Lionsgate, Paramount, MGM, and MTV Networks. It also has content from several indie distributors, such as First Look, Palm Pictures and Japanese company Kadokawa, as well as TryMedia, an online vidgame distributor with titles from Activision, Ubisoft and Vivendi Games.
It seems that users who want to stick with XP are facing limited choices when the PC industry has almost completely moved to Vista and XP commonly is not being offered on new PC's. So what if your PC dies this week and you need to buy a new one, but don't want to upgrade to Vista? Good luck finding a Windows PC with XP on it at your local retail store, let alone a desktop or notebook that you actually want. "Consumer retail is almost exclusively Vista," said Samir Bhavnani, an analyst with Current Analysis, which tracks the U.S. retail PC market.
TechArp has started a series of articles on security entitled Security Boot Camp which aims to make you a bit more aware of diagnosing and preventing security risks. I'm going keep this guide simple, so that anyone can use it to keep their system security in tip-top condition. Security and privacy are common issues for all of us so my objective would be to keep it simple, with education as the main objective. So, don't worry. I'm not going to delve into anything complex like 801.X authentication, KERBEROS, AES, auditing, EM attacks, traffic analysis or anything like that. This guide is squarely aimed at teaching you how to safely surf the Internet and keep your PC in good health.
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