Category: Science & Geeks
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Summer PC: Graphics card
Gran Turismo: An enthusiast’s PC geared towards PC gaming Easy Penny: A very reasonable PC able to sustain a few years without letting its owner down To start with Easy Penny, the most reasonable PC, the integration of a graphics card inside the motherboard leaves the cost perfectly well managed. Added cost: 0€. Eactly on…
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Crysis, the official web site is out
Crysis is expected to be one of the biggest hits for PC games in 2007. Today, Electronic Arts launches the official Crysis web site.
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Velcro seen from very near
Velcro is a marvellous invention. And it is impressive when shot in micro-photography: A very unusual image. Copyright (C) artsyscience. Kudos to Trazy.
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Summer PC: Motherboard and memory
Gran Turismo: An enthusiast’s PC geared towards PC gaming Easy Penny: A very reasonable PC able to sustain a few years without letting its owner down Having previously chosen AMD processors for the two optimized PCs we are trying to build, things will be relatively easy. The integration of the memory controller in the CPU…
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Summer PC: Processor (CPU)
Building the best possible PC for a set budget, taking into account the current market prices has always been a difficult task. We are starting today a series of posts to define the needed PC components to build an optimised PC (not only good components, but a solution as homogeneous as possible for a given…
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Canon 40D, Nikon D300, this is heating up thanks to Olympus E-P1
On the frontline of new cameras for the digital SLR market, the Internet forums are agitated -again- with rumours and news quite surprising. There was the publication of alleged photos of the Canon EOS 40D on a Korean web site (see below). The work of the graphic artist is quite sloppy (the 4 of the…
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Integrate GNU-Emacs into Windows
Installing the GNU-Emacs text editor under Windows could not be simpler: Uncompress all files in a directory Run the ADDPM.exe program But there is still a little improvement to add if you want additional comfort. Everywhere I install this program, I want to ensure that I can open any file with GNU-Emacs just by right-clicking…
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The Ten Most Common Photographic Mistakes
André Gunther has a very nice article titled “The Ten Most Common Photographic Mistakes” that is a good starting point for novice photographers self-improvement (it is quite common that the best way to become better is to learn what are the errors you’d want to avoid, listening to others).
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Paper plane flight simulator
It is clear that Flight Simulator, Microsoft’s PC video game, has become more and more complex and less and less playable with years. What should have been a simple neat little game using efficiently the PC ressources requires today a powerful PC (sometimes more powerful than what is needed for games of a complexity that…