Technology opinions and digital photography
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30 years of video nagware
This month we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the agreement that led to the one-minute nag at the beginning of all DVD. We all have to watch at this no-fast-forward page of information about piracy. As if this had any impact on pirates. As if it was good practice to annoy 100% of your customers.
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Nikon wants to help photographers on Flickr
How to meet the amateur photographers? Nowadays, you must go to the Internet. Even better, Nikon decided that the right place was were most amateurs were naturally going: Flickr. Nikon decided to venture into direct information inside Flickr ; They opened a kind of photo club on the web site: This is a quite good…
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Triple core AMD
THe news of the week on the CPU front line is definitely the arrival of new triple-core CPUs from AMD. There is an obvious wish to take the marketing and technical lead again on a ground where Intel was starting to appear as the unchallenged leader. But there is also an interesting technico-industrial approach. When…
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One Tera-byte of RAID data storage in a box
RAID storage is a good way to ensure a good security for your data: Two or more discs are used to give some redundancy and be sure that in case of a single drive failure you can still access your files (it will not protect you against deleting the files, though). However, the problem is…
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Crysis Multiplayer – DX10 or DX9
It’s been quite a question: What will DirectX 10 bring that DirectX 9 will not have? For the Multiplayer Crysis, the answer seems to come from Total Crysis (they have a Crytek press information). Physics and day and night cycle: With DirectX 9, you will not be allowed to break havoc on the trees and…
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1 million casualties in Iraq
This is the calculation done after a poll realised by ORB, the British poll company in Iraq, and asking the following question to 1481 people aged 18+: “How many members of your household, if any, have died as a result of the conflict in Iraq since 2003 (ie as a result of violence rather than…
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101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed
101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed, a strange list for software developers. Thanks to CodeSqueeze.
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Download free PowerPoint
You wanted to be able to produce those pro presentations with PowerPoint. But Microsoft Office seemed to expensive to buy it, so you decided to download an illegal (but free) version. No! Hold your horses. Real solutions are appearing all over the place. Up to now, you had the possibility to use Open Office (which…
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Steal Microsoft Office!
Even if I persist in advising you not to pirate-copy MS-Office, not to download Word, Excel or PowerPoint but to download OpenOffice for free, I can’t resist to the temptation to give some echo to a Microsoft proposal. Steal Office! MS-Office is still out of reach for normal people around $400 (for this price you…
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