Valve mastermind Gabe Newell and his cohorts had an ulterior motive for bringing reporters together, however, and unusually for an ulterior motive, it wasn’t a wholly self-interested one. It was this: to evangelise the PC as the games platform of the future.
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To the surprise of no one, Google is now offering software that streams video, photos, and music from your PC to your television.
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So in short, the deal is, you get the card, but the only way to use it is to rent a driver to which you have an incomplete access, thereby making your fruitful use of the card consistently dependent on Nvidia and, quite obviously, therefore limiting the control you as a supposed owner of the card really have over it
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Microsoft gets more crap than any other company in tech. That’s partly because it’s given us garbage like Clippy, Microsoft BOB and Windows Vista. And it’s partly because it’s arguably the most important company in personal computing.
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Blizzard announces the highly-anticipated Diablo 3.
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MobiComp is a mobile application company that offers backup and restore features, a social networking tool, and a news ticker for mobile phones. Microsoft hopes to integrate the company’s offerings into Windows Mobile and Windows Live services. Eight-year-old MobiComp offers three main mobile products
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Crytek’s CEO Cevat Yerli is an interesting guy. He says PC gamers are the biggest pirates ever with a ratio of 20 to 1 for pirated games. He also blamed the high system requirement for Crysis on a “naming convention issue,” apparently “very high” should have been ‘ultra high”and “high” should have been “very high” and so on.
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It is estimated that the data storage sector consumed about 61 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2006 (1.5 percent of the U.S. total, or more than the electricity consumed by the nation’s color televisions and similar to the amount of electricity consumed by approximately 5.8 million average U.S. households. These numbers are only expected to grow.
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Steve Langasek has announced the availability of the delayed first alpha release of Ubuntu 8.10, code name “Intrepid Ibex”: “Welcome to Intrepid Ibex Alpha 1, which will in time become Ubuntu 8.10. Alpha 1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Intrepid development cycle. The primary changes from Hardy
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Damn, Bill, you have come a LONG way. Look at you there back in ‘82, you handsome devil. As part of our tribute, let’s take a quick look back at the top ten greatest (and not so great) products created on Bill-time, shall we? Don’t worry, it’ll only sting a little.
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Think you paid too much for your Playstation 3? Don’t expect any sympathy from Sony.
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The team at HotHardware decided to RAID up not two but three WD VelociRaptor drives in a RAID 5 configuration with an Areca PCIe X8 hardware RAID card, to see what the numbers looked like. This is only a quick-take on read performance but it certainly gives you a sense of scale and what these drives are capable of in the right environment.
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