Category: Science & Geeks
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Crysis 2: We will have to wait
The boss of Crytek simply announced that Crysis 2 (the sequel to Crysis) would not be ready before 2010. The wait will be long.
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Spider mech – for real
US Rednecks did build a powerful spider mech just “because they could”. Youtube link Don’t let your kids wander around this one!
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AMD starts shipping 3-core Phenom
2008 will be the year of the triple core CPU. AMD started to ship the Phenom chips in various configurations. As said before, this is a great way for AMD to differentiate itself, but the prices are not expected to go down immediately. Either because AMD does not want to shoot itself in the foot…
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5$ a month legal P2P in Canada and USA
Nothing is for sure, but Wired has an article about this issue: paying a monthly fee to have fully legal access to unlimited music download on P2P. Wired seems to believe that it would be a piracy levy on ISPs, but I think it would be a real license paid on a monthly basis.
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Your nVidia card will get free games
If you have a nVidia graphics card on your PC, you can get a free download of recent games from Steam / Valve. For a limited time, if you qualify (you only need your PC to hold a nVidia graphics card), you can donwload a free copy of the following games from Steam just by…
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Copyright basics
Long ago, I had already published the old Copyright FAQ (“10 Big Myths about copyright explained” by Brad Templeton; You find a copy below, since it appears to no longer be available elsewhere), but here is a good post from PlagiarismToday: “10 Basics About Copyright Everyone Needs to Know“.
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Art Déco pochoirs
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MS-Office 2007: I want to read my files elsewhere
The bane (correction: “one of the banes”) of the new opus of the Microsoft Office saga (MS-Office 2007) is that the Redmond developpers once again changed the file formats. I’m sure that this is for the best. But if you went the MS-Office 2007 path and not your colleagues or friends, they no longer can…
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You do not need more graphics memory
Some of the graphics cards are available in different memory sizes (like the successful nVidia 8800 GT or 8800 GTS): 256MB, 512MB, 1GB. But how much RAM do you really need? Thanks to The Tech Report, you will know: “How much graphics memory do you really need?“. Summarized: 1GB: is worthless, the CPU of the…