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AMD Multi-Display Tech Has Problems, Potential 138

Posted by Soulskill on Monday May 17, 2010 @05:55PM from the emptying-my-bank-account-is-a-problem dept.

EconolineCrush writes "While AMD's Eyefinity multi-display gaming tech is undeniably impressive at first glance, digging deeper reveals key limitations. Some games work well, others not at all, and many are simply better suited to specific screen configurations. A three-way setup looks to be ideal from a compatibility perspective, and given current LCD prices, it's really not all that expensive. But would you take that over a single high-resolution display or a giant HDTV?"

Comment Re:hopefully.. Control-F is NOT the same! (Score 1) 168

by Gumby on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @03:04AM (#31683862) Attached to: Adobe Flash Now Officially a Part of Google Chrome

No! In Firefox - when I search for a term on a page - I can hit enter and FOLLOW a link! In Chrome, (unless I have the extension type-ahead-find) pressing Enter during the search just closes the Find window - and DOES NOT leave the link selected! This kills keyboard navigation - which in some cases is far quicker than mousing to the link.

Comment Re:This was already posted on /. 2 days ago! (Score 2, Informative) 260

by Gumby on Thursday March 25, 2010 @02:20AM (#31607650) Attached to: First Anti-Cancer Nanoparticle Trial On Humans a Success

And that time they spelled Caltech correctly!

Comment It is spelled Caltech NOT CalTech (Score 3, Informative) 260

by Gumby on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @11:35PM (#31607052) Attached to: First Anti-Cancer Nanoparticle Trial On Humans a Success

http://media.caltech.edu/press_releases/13334

If you cannot spell Caltech properly - please turn in your nerd card.

Hand Written Clock 86

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 14, 2009 @02:11PM from the up-to-the-minute dept.

a3buster writes "This clock does not actually have a man inside, but a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009."

DX11 Tested Against DX9 With Dirt 2 Demo 201

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday December 03, 2009 @02:20AM from the shadows-with-shadows dept.

MojoKid writes "The PC demo for Codemasters' upcoming DirectX 11 racing title, Dirt 2, has just hit the web and is available for download. Dirt 2 is a highly-anticipated racing sim that also happens to feature leading-edge graphic effects. In addition to a DirectX 9 code path, Dirt 2 also utilizes a number of DirectX 11 features, like hardware-tessellated dynamic water, an animated crowd and dynamic cloth effects, in addition to DirectCompute 11-accelerated high-definition ambient occlusion (HADO), full floating-point high dynamic range (HDR) lighting, and full-screen resolution post processing. Performance-wise, DX11 didn't take its toll as much as you'd expect this early on in its adoption cycle." Bit-tech also took a look at the graphical differences, arriving at this conclusion: "You'd need a seriously keen eye and brown paper envelope full of cash from one of the creators of Dirt 2 to notice any real difference between textures in the two versions of DirectX."

Submission + - Google Announces Chrome OS (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

derrickh

on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @01:35AM

derrickh writes: "Google has announced its own operating system named 'Chrome OS'. The OS is planned for use in netbooks with the the first retail systems planned to ship in late 2010. The company says the code will be open source, not based on Android, and will run on x86 and ARM cpus."

Submission + - Google Annouces OS

Submitted by Gumby on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @01:33AM

Gumby writes: It's not Google OS — It's Google CHROME OS.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html Insta-booting GNU/Linux with some kind of lightweight window manger and CHROME.
It will ... browse the web.

Comment Doc Savage (Score 1) 860

by Gumby on Saturday June 20, 2009 @06:35AM (#28400633) Attached to: Who is your favorite fictional doctor?

Well - I had a hard time selecting between Doctor Who and Bones, but I wanted to give a shout out to Doc Savage. Not only was he a doctor, but also a hacker extraordinaire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Savage

Comment Re:High-end graphics cards went away a long time a (Score 1) 618

by Gumby on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @02:10AM (#27755967) Attached to: A $99 Graphics Card Might Be All You Need

Hmm - Professional products from Nvidia site:
http://store.nvidia.com/DRHM/servlet/ControllerServlet?Action=DisplayProductDetailsPage&SiteID=nvidia&Locale=en_US&Env=BASE&productID=67049700

Quadro FX 5600 $2,999.00
Quadro FX 4600 $1,999.00

and...
PNY Quadro FX 5800 Graphics Card - nVIDIA ... $3,039.35

I heard about these from my co-worker who is shopping for a couple. Perhaps the high-end cards are still around, just not where you are looking for them.

"Microsaccades" Help To Refresh Your Field of View 96

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday February 15, 2009 @02:12PM from the adding-a-new-word-to-the-spellchecker dept.

Ponca City, We love you writes with news of research from the Salk Institute into small, unconscious eye movements called "microsaccades," the purpose of which has been in question for many years. A recent study showed that those movements were essentially responsible for maintaining a coherent image for interpretation by the brain. They are also the cause of a famous optical illusion in which a still image appears to move. '"Because images on the retina fade from view if they are perfectly stabilized, the active generation of fixational eye movements by the central nervous system allows these movements to constantly shift the scene ever so slightly, thus refreshing the images on our retina and preventing us from going 'blind,'" explains Hafed. "When images begin to fade, the uncertainty about where to look increases the fluctuations in superior colliculus activity, triggering a microsaccade," adds Krauzlis.'"

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