Category: Film
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Rip DVD with Linux – Tutorial
Rip DVDs in Linux the (Semi-)Easy Way
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Tailstrike at take-off for the Airbus A380
This was a test flight to meet the most extreme take off conditions, not the usual day-to-day routine of the airplane. But, you have to admit that being a test pilot is not always fully safe. Youtube link
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Designer of futuristic computer interfaces
You knew that Hollywood had to hire somebody to create those computer interfaces that look completely futuristic, that look so good and that look credible. Actually, Mark Coleran in one of these designers Hollywood pays (handsomely) for creating man-machine interfaces (for movies like Island, Mr & Mrs Smith, etc.) Recently, we can see, things went…
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CPU performance decoding HD-video
ArsTechnica has a very interesting article showing how nVidia and AMD-ATI show different performance while decoding High-Def video. There is no clear winner. It all depends on the type of video applied.
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Toco toucan, in flight
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it This bird is supposed to be very easy to spot, but it’s only one of the three toucans I saw in nearly three weeks. Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco, Toucan toco). Brazil, 2007. To give you an idea of the difficulty of shooting some of these bird pictures,…
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Masai Mara Safari Camp
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Crysis: The physics engine and 3000 barrels of TNT
Watch what a good level editor can do to Crysis if you really want to push the limits of the physics engine. YouTube link
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Amazing: Duke Nukem Forever comes back again, and again
After years of multiple announcements but a launch always pushed far into the future, the oldest PC First Person Shooter on the planet comes back again with a video trailer supposed to thrill us with anticipation. However, it’s been years that we’ve been thrilling and the vibration is now dampened. Link to GT