Recent content by Konman

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    Apple Launches Two Crazily Skinny MacBook Airs

    $999 - without the external DVD/Blu-Ray disk player and without the DVI/Mini-Display port converter. Obviously they released this to help compensate for the failure of the I-Pad and to make investors happy while keeping the Mac drones connected to the I-store (I bet the easiest thing to do on...
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    Wall-Sized 3D Gaming With Nvidia 3D Vision

    One complaint that I heard from a friend about 3D glasses recently is that they tend to do a poor job of fitting over regular perscription glasses. My friend wears perscription glasses when he watches TV or plays games - I wonder if there are decent 3D glasses out there which do a good job of...
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    Blizzard Banned Over 5,000 StarCraft II Players

    Are the cheating players going to be able to get their money back? I assume that Blizzard has conveniently included an agreement within the game to not cheat on battlenet, but is that a legal agreement that could stand in th court of law? Someone could argue that if a customers buys the game...
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    Over 320K Warcraft III, Diablo II Accounts Banned

    micky_lundcostumer - costumier: someone who designs or supplies costumes (as for a play or masquerade I thought a costumer was someone who looks at the recent cost of games and software and says "umm" "umm" (cost "umm" er)
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    Did Steve Jobs Steal The iPad? Genius Inventor Alan Kay Reveals All

    JohnnyLuckyGreat article that provides insight and historical perspective to what is happening today. Why look at some guy`s writings back in 1972 or at Star Trek mockups? - when there is already something out there which is like the I-pad . . . its call HP tablet PC which Hewlett Packard has...
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    Intel’s Atom D510 And NM10 Express: Down The Pine Trail With D510MO

    I wonder if the Atom can be utilized to built a render farm. The D510 with TDP of 13 watts and a dual core and hyperthreaded architecture would make a good candidate. Certainly a single D510 is not much. . . but in system with multiple atom CPUs good rendering power could be achieved. The...
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    ATI Radeon HD 5970 2GB: The World's Fastest Graphics Card

    Wow, it sucks 294 watts of power on the full load. I remember in the late 90s I had a PC which had a 300 watt power supply and it was good enough for the whole PC. Having a couple of these in crossfire configuration and you will need a 1000 watt power supply for your PC.