Archive for May, 2008
Encryption Chip Will End Piracy, Says Atari Founder
At yesterday’s Wedbush Morgan Securities conference, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell claimed that a stealth encryption chip will “absolutely stop piracy of [PC] gameplay.”There is a stealth encryption chip called a TPM that is going on the motherboards of most of the computers that are coming out now,” read more | digg story
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In Search of the Super Easy Super-Phone
What users are clamoring for is a phone with a beautiful screen and a brain-dead-simple user interface like the iPhone, with the core business functionality and keyboard performance of a BlackBerry and the high-quality camera of some of the LG phones. We want GPS, 3G and great media management. Who will get there first? Prediction: […]
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The $1,632 copy of Windows Vista
Since Microsoft is unwilling to reverse the clearly erroneous charges, it’s time to ask the bank to stand up and fight for its customer. If conversations don’t help, leap over the hurdles of incompetence and fire an Executive Email Carpet Bomb at both Microsoft and the bank. read more | digg story
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Gears of War 2 Multiplayer Details (Opinion and Analysis)
When the first Gears of War 2 gameplay footage was revealed, it did nothing for me, at all. The only thing that instantly jumped out to me was using Locust as meat shields, but nearly everything else felt very familiar.
I shrugged off my disappointment, as I knew it was the multiplayer information that would get […]
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Clarification about Firefox 3 system-killing performance
A couple of articles have now been written about the unpleasant behaviour that people encounter with Firefox 3 in certain Linux configurations, related to the flushing of I/O. There are a lot of moving parts to this issue, and so it
’s not surprising that there’s a fair bit of misunderstanding, though some of it seems […]
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30 Beautiful And Original Product Designs
An overview of some beautiful and original product designs which will hopefully make the cut and will be available in the next years. Some of them are already available today.read more | digg story
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10 Craziest PC Case Mods
Nowadays, a computer is indispensable in our homes, but don’t you think they all look about the same? It would be nice to have something special, a PC like no other, therefore there are many people who try to create their own design for a computer and the first thing that you should change is […]
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Solar iPods in the Future
Apple just filed a patent for solar technology that would allow them to cover an entire iPod in solar cells, presumably to make the device less subject to tired batteries and the constraints of sucking energy from the socket.read more | digg story
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