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Submission + - PS3 vs Xbox 360 - examples of poor performance (hdtvinfo.eu)

Submitted by

DaMan1970

on Monday July 02, 2007 @04:48AM

DaMan1970 writes: "Game developers face difficulties with developing games for the PS3. The best examples are the current American Football games; All-Pro Football 2K8 (2K) & Madden NFL 08 (EA) The Xbox 360 versions run at 60fps, whereas the PS3 versions only run at 30fps. So the Xbox 360 versions run faster & smoother. There seems to be a lot of discussion about performance issues of the Playstation 3 on several websites, like on the Playstation Blog, were one of the Sony employees gave a statement about these performance issues."

Submission + - OpenMoko to begin selling Neo1973's July 9th (openmoko.com)

Submitted by

Jaidan

on Monday July 02, 2007 @04:26AM

Jaidan writes: "OpenMoko is to begin selling Neo1973's on July 9th according to a post on openmoko.com. According to the site the initial release will be about 1000 (400 ready now, and another 600 soon). Two versions will be sold: a base version for $300, and an advanced version for $450.

The post also indicates that a mass production version known as GTA02 will be available in October. This version will be the same as the original excepting that it will include a number of new features such as:

802.11 b/g WiFi

Samsung 2442 SoC

SMedia 3362 Graphics Accelerator

2 3D Accelerometers

256MB Flash

The mass market version according to the site will run $450 and $600 for the base and advanced versions respectively."

Submission + - Programming exercises for learning new languages

Submitted by pinkfloydhomer on Sunday July 01, 2007 @10:15AM

pinkfloydhomer writes: When learning a new programming language or library framework, I find that the most effective method is to work on a real project. The project shouldn't be too big or advanced of course, but it shouldn't be a toy project either.

I usually write a small game or something like that. But of course, that doesn't necessarily take me through the entire language or framework. I think several different kinds of projects would be needed for that. Maybe one focusing on graphics, one focusing on networking, one focusing on database access, etc.

So please give your suggestions for small-but-not-too-small projects that will be instructive to do to learn a new language or framework.

Submission + - Sixty Years of UFO Sightings -- Any Conclusions? (whattofix.com)

Submitted by

DanielMarkham

on Monday June 25, 2007 @06:18PM

DanielMarkham writes: "Sixty years ago this month a salesman flying a light plane in the Pacific Northwest spotted what he called "flying saucers". The name stuck, and over the next six decades the world went through all kinds of gyrations as we tried to come to grips with just whatever the heck is going on up there.

So aside from making lots of money for various "In Search Of" and "Unsolved Mysteries" shows, what progress, if any, have we made on the issue? The usual quote from skeptics is "where's the physical evidence?", but we have many simultaneous sighting and radar contacts on record. True believers insist on a governmental cover-up of massive proportions, which, to put it mildly, seems highly improbable.

Are there some conclusions we can reach? Is sixty years of sightings enough to reach any kind of conclusions at all?"

Submission + - The GNOME Journal, June Edition (gnomejournal.org)

Submitted by

lucasrocha

on Sunday June 24, 2007 @09:53AM

lucasrocha writes: "The latest issue of the GNOME Journal has just been published! It features an article about GStreamer audio effects, an interview with Ken VanDine about GNOME 2.18 Live Media releases, an introduction to Accerciser, and a summary of GNOME.conf.au 2007. Writers in this edition are Stefan Kost, Paul Cutler, Eitan Isaacson, and Davyd Madeley, respectively."

Submission + - NVIDIA Graphics Compared Under Linux & Solaris (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Monte on Sunday June 24, 2007 @08:35AM

Monte writes: In what appears to be the first-ever comparison between Linux and Solaris for the NVIDIA binary GPU drivers, Phoronix has tested and compared Fedora 7 with two versions of Solaris Express. In the Phoronix article they had used SPECViewperf 9.0.3 for the comparison. With all of the results shown, Linux had outperformed Solaris when using the NVIDIA drivers, but the performance results were remarkably close.

Submission + - Universal downgrade for Sony PSP (noobz.eu)

Submitted by

javipas

on Sunday June 24, 2007 @07:36AM

javipas writes: "The PlayStation Portable made by Sony is a wonderful device for all its user base, but it's even more great for those that have been able to run homebrew applications. The firmware upgrading roadmap had made impossible to downgrade certain consoles to a 'homebrewable' firmware, but a new exploit called Illuminati has been discovered to allow this task. Using a Lumines original game UMD anyone can now access the kernel mode that allows to run any kind of homebrew application. For the moment only a little "Hello World!" demo has been released, but soon a universal downgrader will allow any PSP user to access any kind of homebrew application/task. Running games from the memory card included, of course."

Submission + - Are there any new motherboards without a TPM?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14, 2007 @12:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: For those of us who don't want any piece of "treacherous computing" in our PC's, that means not having a TPM chip on the motherboard. That's easy enough if you're using an older computer, but what about the latest offerings? Are there any late-model motherboards or laptops being sold that do not have a TPM chip?

Submission + - Xbox 360's Identity Crisis (typepad.com)

Submitted by

NP

on Thursday June 14, 2007 @12:36PM

NP writes: "Upon inserting my copy of Forza Motorsport 2 into my Xbox 360 a most unusual thing happened. My Xbox 360 displayed a screen telling me that if I wanted to play the game it would have to be inserted into... an Xbox 360 console! I tried holding a mirror up to the Xbox and demanding that it take a look, but it refuses to do so."

Submission + - iPhone runs "real" OS X

Submitted by Sugar Water Salesman on Wednesday June 06, 2007 @12:22PM

Sugar Water Salesman writes: Reading through the coverage of Steve Jobs' appearance last week at All Things Digital, I stumbled across something that I haven't seen discussed before. According to Jobs, the iPhone runs a full version of OS X. . From AllThingsD.com:

"Whoa. Jobs says iPhone runs "real OS X, real Safari, real desktop email." Walt follows up: If that's true, could other OS X applications run on the iPhone? Jobs says no. "They're not designed to."

Submission + - Dell vs. System76 Ubuntu Comparison (madpenguin.org)

Submitted by toms on Wednesday June 06, 2007 @08:31AM

toms writes: MadPenguin.org's Matt Hartley compares Dell's Linux offering to System76's and concludes that System76 may be better depending on what you are looking for. He writes, "The thing to keep an eye on will be whether or not we will see Dell dedicating themselves at the same level of commitment we have seen from other Linux OEMs. Thus far, I would and have applauded them. But with the certain pressure they will be getting from Microsoft, it will be interesting to see if they can maintain their dedication to Linux. And of course at the end of the day, the true Linux-only OEM offers something that Dell is simply not able to: the promise that they will not be selling Windows boxes alongside other Linux offerings. It's something to consider when you are looking to buy your next computer.

Submission + - After Ubuntu, Windows Looks Increasingly Bad

Submitted by

mrcgran

on Wednesday June 06, 2007 @08:22AM

mrcgran writes: "An interesting article with some advantages of using Ubuntu over Windows: After Ubuntu, Windows Looks Increasingly Bad, Increasingly Archaic, Increasingly Unfriendly. From the article: "My recent switch to a single-boot Ubuntu setup on my Thinkpad T60 simply floors me on a regular basis. Most recently it's had to do with the experience of maintaining the software. Fresh from a very long Windows 2000 experience and a four-month Windows XP experience along with a long-time Linux sys admin role puts me in a great position to assess Ubuntu. Three prior attempts over the years at using Linux as my daily desktop OS had me primed for failure. Well, Ubuntu takes Linux where I've long hoped it would go — easy to use, reliable, dependable, great applications too but more on that later. It has some elegance to it — bet you never heard that about a Linux desktop before.""

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