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Monday, 20-September-2010 20:10:25 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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People are up in arms over Intel's plan to charge to enable CPU features. Certain PCs, such as Gateway's SX2841-09e, are running an artificially limited Pentium G6951 processor and asked to buy a $50 Processor Performance Upgrade Card to get the built-in feature set. More here and discussion here.
The ACCC are taking Optus to court over their "supersonic" internet plans. The ACCC fingered 11 television, print, billboard and internet advertisements that state Optus "Supersonic" services are "four times faster than standard broadband" but fail to disclose the near dial-up shaping speeds.
Forget 3DTV, how about retinal projection? The prototype Retinal Imaging Display (RID) projects safe, fast-moving light directly onto your retina that appears to the viewer as a 16-inch display floating transparently at a distance of about 3 feet.
Games.on.net report that Internode are providing Australian CoD: Black Ops servers soon. Internode customers will enjoy free, unmetered data to and from all GameServers.com hosted servers. Of course, any member of the gaming public can join and play on these servers, regardless of their choice of ISP.
On a similar note, StarCraft II players will have access to north american servers soon. You, along with your New Zealand and South East Asian brethren, will be able to access the North American Battle.net servers from this Thursday, September 23. That’s when the upcoming Patch 1.1.0 for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will be launched, including a handy region selector, so you’ll be set to go without needing any extra downloads.
From dasuperham, PCI Express 3.0 will be finalised soon. The third-generation incarnation of PCI Express has numerous advantages over existing bus specifications. The PCIe 3.0 will operate at 8GT/s (8.0GHz) speed, will have different electrical models and will move to 128-bit and 130-bit encoding schemes (from 8- and 10-bit schemes). In 2008 Advanced Micro Devices and Hewlett Packard proposed a number of extensions for PCI Express 3.0.
Meanwhile TG Daily expect USB 3.0 to take off in 2011. "The high-rate of SuperSpeed adoption illustrates that USB 3.0 is a thriving and advanced ecosystem. It is already driving and creating a new generation of devices and components," USB-IF president and chairman Jeff Ravencraft told TG Daily at IDF 2010.
Tech Report went to the MSI OC Arena finals in Taipei. TR contributor Matt Trinca was on the scene, and he's shared the results of the competition and some impressions of the event, which included a stormtrooper dance routine that words simply can't describe. But we have video.
BenchmarkReviews meanwhile examined NVIDIA's APEX PhysX. While adding PhysX support to a video game is nothing new for NVIDIA, allowing APEX PhysX features to be computed by the computer's central processor is new territory. For this NVIDIA APEX PhysX: CPU vs GPU Efficiency demonstration, our tests compare GeForce and Radeon GPU's against the Intel Core i7 CPU.
Terry Pratchett was recently knighted, and of course made his own sword. Using meteorites. Pratchett, believing the sword would not truly be his own unless it was made from metal he had produced, found a field with deposits of iron ore near his home in Wiltshire, west of London. Thanks Ohmigosh.
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