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Submission + - Chinese gamers get to execute corrupt officials (smh.com.au)

Submitted by

enharmonix

on Thursday August 09, 2007 @02:45PM

enharmonix writes: "The Chinese government has launched an online game where players advance by killing corrupt government officials using weapons, magic, or torture. Apparently it's very popular — the game has already reached 100,000 downloads and even had to be taken offline while they upgrade their systems to handle the load."

Submission + - Commodore's new gaming PC - specs revealed

Submitted by

steven williamson

on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @03:15PM

steven williamson writes: "Following on from the press release earlier today announcing new details for Commodore's range of gaming PCs, the spec for have been revealed before CeBIT 2007 in Hanover launches tomorrow. HEXUS.gaming have gatecrashed the show early and have a full list of what we can expect.

So we all got excited over the news that Commodore are entering the gaming PC market, but what we've all been gagging to know is what the spec of these new PCs will be...
Check out the full list : here"

Submission + - SETI@Home is now the World's Fastest Supercomputer

Submitted by jemecki on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @02:37PM

jemecki writes: I was looking through the distributed computing statistics at BOINCstats today and I noticed that SETI@Home distributed computing grid just passed 280 TeraFLOPS in computing power. The reason this is so remarkable is that the fastest supercomputer in the world Blue Gene/L ALSO operates at a sustained 280 TeraFLOPS. So while governments are busy using their supercomputers to model bombs and nuclear weapons, the geeks have put together the world's fastest computer and they're using it to look for aliens. Awesome.

Submission + - The birth of Semiconductor 2.0

Submitted by

Roland Piquepaille

on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @02:08PM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "According to several articles in the press, an Austrian company has opened a new chip printing factory. But there is a twist. The chips produced by this factory, dubbed Semiconductor 2.0 by the company, will be organic semiconductors, and will be produced by inkjet printers. Here are two links to the CNET News.com and to the Red Herring comments. According to the company, the new factory will be able to produce 40,000 square meters of semiconductors per year, mainly for the biotech, clean tech, and defense industries. Read more for additional comments and a picture showing the structure of Nanoident's organic sensors."

Gnutella Creator Releases New Free Software 71

Posted by Hemos on Sunday August 06, 2000 @12:20PM from the spread-it-on-crackers dept.

Compenguin writes: "Justin of Nullsoft released three new pieces of free (as in speech and in beer) software, an installer, a pinger/grapher, and a throttlable file copier. They all use the zlib license. The source is available now, marking the first time nullsoft has actually released source to their "Open Source" products *Cough*Gnutella*Cough*."

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