Category: Science & Geeks
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Paris without a speed ticket
C’était un rendez-vous is a short film from Claude Lelouch that turned into a short visit to Paris jail after publishing it in 1876. Speeding through the streets of Paris as seen from the bumper of a Ferrari sports car equipped just for the occasion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLC3-BciWlk Lelouch never revealed who was the driver. The speed…
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OpenOffice nearly compatible with 2007
OpenOffice, the free desktop suite competing directly against MS Office, reached an important milestone with the availability of version 2.2, Release Candidate 3. This time, we believe, the officiel release of v2.2 is near. Some of the most sensitive improvements were expected by the users: Calc should improve notably the management of dynamic pivot tables…
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. requirements
I admit I have been surprised when I recently read the official recommended requirements from THQ for their upcoming FPS game, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Shadow of Chernobyl: Minimum Requirements None given, but compatible with DirectX 8 (as well as DirectX 9). Recommended Requirements CPU: AMD Athlon 64×2 4800+ or Intel Core 2 Duo Graphics: 3D Hardware Accelerator…
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Waiting for Crysis, Ballad of the Black Mesa
For all of you lovers of the FPS games, here is a musical hommage to Half Life 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTbL5elVXrU
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MacBooks burn too
We thought that last year’s story of burning and exploding laptop batteries from Sony was a dead one, but everybody is speaking about this now: A MacBook burned while charging its battery. And this is not one of the batteries recalled by Sony. The problem may not be fully under control.
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GeForce 8600: Starting in silence
According to PCinpact, the availability of the next generation of nVidia graphics cards, GeForce 8600, will happen with immediate presentation of passive cooling (thus 100% silent solution). It is definitely true that this has become a major problem for the most powerful graphics cards. They usually come with a fan that reminds us of the…