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Monday, 12-November-2007 00:49:06 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Here's a new OpenGL benchmark: Lightsmark. Before Lightsmark, realtime global illumination was limited to small scenes, small resolutions, small speeds, specially crafted scenes with handmade optimizations. Lightsmark breaks all limits at once, running in reasonably sized scene (220000 triangles) in high resolution (1680x1050) at excellent speed (100-400fps).
Check out this cool-looking helmet that pilots of the Joint Strike Fighter will be wearing. Pilots flying the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will have an astonishing array of technology encasing their heads - enabling them to see right through their own aircraft fuselage to the ground below. Australia will apparently be receiving up to 100 JSF's from 2013 onward.
Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency have provided the world's first high-definition footage of the Moon. The first shooting covered from the northern area of the "Oceanus Procellarum" toward the center of the North Pole, then the second one was from the south to the north on the western side of the "Oceanus Procellarum." The moving image data acquired by the KAGUYA was received at the JAXA Usuda Deep Space Center, and processed by NHK. There's a video on the linked page.
Developing nations can now enjoy the same productivity-crippling slacking off that we do, because EA will be putting SimCity on the OLPC for free. "'SimCity' is entertainment that's unintentionally educational. Players learn to use limited resources to build and customize their cities. There are choices and consequences, but in the end, it's a creativity tool that's only limited by the player's imagination," said Steve Seabolt, vice president of global brand development for the Sims label.
Engadget had a play with Samsung's 64GB SSD. They seem to be coming along nicely, but not quite there yet. Won't be long now tho. Once we switched over from cleanroom drive tests to formatted drives running operating systems, though, the FlashSSD started to mop the floor with its platter-based counterpart. In Xbench it doubled sequential and random uncached read and write speeds over the platter drive in most cases, topping out at about 52MBps read / 32MBps write.
A Chinese submarine recently popped up in the middle of a U.S. Navy exercise, leaving them a little red-faced. One Nato figure said the effect was "as big a shock as the Russians launching Sputnik" - a reference to the Soviet Union's first orbiting satellite in 1957 which marked the start of the space age.
Microsoft have launched a licensing system for PC refurbishers, thanks Craig. Windows XP Home for Refurbished PCs and Windows XP Professional for Refurbished PCs are the two operating systems available and the PCs that are being refurbished need to have a Certificate of Authenticity.
Ambush spotted 40 free fonts over on SmashingMagazine. Some exceptional free fonts; some are even Public Domain or licensed under GNU GPL.
Bit-Tech interviewed Mark Rein about PS3, PhysX, DX10 etc, while DriverHeaven talk to the president of content relations at NVIDIA about the "The Way It's Meant To Be Played" program.
From LinX: In case this hasn't been posted before, I've spotted a remake of Wing Commander Privateer. Information can be found here. They have Windows, Linux and Mac Ports. This was like my favourite game the best parts of 13 years ago.. rofl. Seems to be free, too.
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