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Shredder has quite an extended rant on his blog about the frustrations of computer use nowadays. And yes, Logitech, I much enjoy the re-arranged edit block on my keyboard, because accidentally selecting and deleting random blocks of text from my documents on a regular basis is a complete barrel o’ laughs.
PCPerspective had a look at AMD's 4th quarter results. There is a lot of good information here about AMD's upcoming CPU and GPU products for the rest of 2008 as well as our opinions on how AMD's financial situation will affect their product line.
I still don't have my flying car, but at least I can have a hover chair, thanks Justin. Defying gravity with the use of repelling magnetic forces in both the bed and base this contemporary lounger is comfortable, practical and stylish.
AT sent in a few links about some recent "UFO sightings" in Texas. Info here, here, here and here (video). Dozens of eyewitnesses have reported seeing a mile-long UFO being pursued by fighter jets last week in the small town of Stephenville, Texas.
PCMech wonder if 2008 will be the year for desktop Linux. Something not mentioned too often in year-in-review articles is that a ton of people tried out Linux for the first time. While it’s true Linux didn’t stick around as their primary OS for most, the fact so many people tried it out is a huge step towards making Linux more mainstream.
tkArena have an article about widescreen gaming. To be honest, I have used 4:3 monitors for a very long time and I wasn’t really too sure what going to a widescreen would give. I kind of expected that it would just stretch out most of my images, which is what I had seen in widescreen gaming in the past. I was very wrong.
Also on PCPerspective, an article about ray-tracing and gaming. Daniel Pohl's latest work takes a look at how ray tracing engines have developed over the past year and discusses how ray tracing can be advantageous when compared to current rasterization techniques.
Interestingly, it seems playing video games can help surgeons do better in the OR. Dr. Kanav Kohel and Dr. Marshall Smith, of the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Centre in Phoenix, Ariz. found that surgeons who “warmed up” by playing games such as Marble Mania for an hour scored 48 percent higher on a virtual 3D training tool called ProMIS than those who were did not play the Wii beforehand.
NordicHW interviewed Antec Senior VP Scott Richards. Antec chassis and power supplies have been with us for some time now and over the last couple of years, Antec has managed to stand out even more through innovative products and fresh thinking.
From Ambush: Netstumbler is not at this time working on Windows Vista. Vistumbler is a netstumbler-like program for Vista, basically acting as a GUI for netsh.
Timbot sent a story close to my heart (or belly, anyway) .. a top 10 list of funny beer commercials. Some "not work safe" stuff on that site though. Some commercials are super funny and they make me laugh while I'm drinking my beer and it comes out of my nose and it stings but I don't care cause it makes my nostrils smell like beer.
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