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NASA's Ares I-X is fully assembled and moving closer to a test launch. For the first time in more than a quarter-century, a new space vehicle stands ready in NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building. Ares I-X will form the backbone of NASA's future human spaceflight once the Shuttles are retired.
China seems to have backed down on net filtering software. A top Beijing official said that a controversial internet filter software was optional for all users after plans to install it on computers sold in China triggered a storm of protest. "After you install the software, you can use it or you can decide not to use it," said Li Yizhong, minister of industry and information technology. Keep on top of the Australian internet filtering debate via our Wiki page, which I note Jay is still diligently updating with new info.
Diskeeper say they will be pre-emptively stopping defragmentation soon. But the filter driver is designed to weed out about 75 percent of fragmentation before it ever occurs, by intercepting the data before it is written to the file system, and organizing it appropriately. Hrm, is fragmentation really an issue nowadays? I haven't manually defragged a hard drive in years.
QuakeCon was on recently, and LegitReviews have 15 case mods they thought worthy of attention. Meanwhile AMD demoed some DX11 hardware there, with coverage on PC Perspective and LegitReviews. This SDK demo was showing off shadowing effects that are made easier in DX11 - notice the softness of the shadows as they run along the ground away from the pillars.
Still at QuakeCon, LegitReviews checked out the vendor booths, while PCPerspective has Day 1 general coverage and Tech Report have a new Rage trailer. More than 2,600 gamers (and counting) rushed the doors of the Gaylord Hotel and Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas today to kick off North America's largest computing gaming event dubbed Quakecon 2009.
Tim Sweeney has predicted (some way off, admittedly), the end of the GPU. This presentation was delivered in a context where Intel will introduce Larrabee, a graphics processor that gets rid of almost all (except texture filtering) fixed graphics functionalities.
Here's an amazing tiny Xbox mod. Enter the Xbox Micro, a 1-inch thick celebration of all that is good and holy about the world of DIY mods. It took six months to make, with a few clever design decisions along the way, but it looks good enough to make even the ninja-black Wii suck its gut in.
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