Category: Science & Geeks
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Crysis, Far Cry 2? No
We are speaking a lot about the exceptional FPS game known as Crysis which is prepared by Crytek and EA (launch in September 2007). Everything has already been said about the very high image quality and playability. However, Ubisoft announced that they bought the rights to the Far Cry franchise and are preparing Far Cry…
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AMD, wins and losses
AMD just announced two things nearly simultaneously : loosing $600 millions in operations in the last quarter (the financial balance is not good, but the message in there is: “it’s gonna be better soon”) and receiving a €262 millions from the German government (approved by the European Commission) to support the investments in their Dresden…
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All the Warner catalog for free
And it does not even look illegal: Warner signed a partnership with imeem to share the adveertisment revenues from the web site when the North American users freely listen to the music freely available from the Warner catalog (including Madonna, Linkin Park, Green Day, Josh Groban, Faith Hill, My Chemical Romance, Big & Rich, John…
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An excavator and a truck
The most ingenuous method to unload an excavator from a truck. You no longer need a crane and a ramp. From Thailand, through Neatorama.
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Palm is out of emergency care
Palm, the PDA manufacturer taht competes directly with the Microsoft technology known as Windows Pocket, has been suffering for years in an economical context very adverse to this market segment. But they received in beginning of June a nice shot of dollars in the form of financing by private-equity Elevation to the tune of $325…
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USB memory sticks
Netherlanders are really nature lovers. Even in USB memory sticks.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Latest news
You know that S.T.A.L.K.E.R., the FPS game of last month, after several years of development, was an instant hit on the market. As is usual in this kind of market, past the first three months, the game will be already old and the developers must work out the next steps. So, here are a few…
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CPU, DRAM memory: Buy now!
After several months telling you about the plumeting prices of CPU processors and DRAM memory, I have to inform you that the industry signals are changing. AMD and Intel are kicking prices down a last time in July before the rush that will only happen at the end of the year (with the arrival of…
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Emacs for the Aqua Mac
Aquamacs is a software program in development for two years, but the ambition is quite interesting: Integrate Emacs, the prfered text editor of Roumazeilles.net, into the Aqua environment for Mac. This is an impressive feat because they are at the opposite ends of technology: Aqua is associated to graphics elegance, subtlety and grace allied to…