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Submission + - Bioshock requires valid uninstall to be reinstalle (kotaku.com)

Submitted by

Trillian_1138

on Wednesday August 22, 2007 @11:56PM

Trillian_1138 writes: "Many /. readers have undoubtedly been following the development of Bioshock, particularly with the release of the game for Windows and XBox 360 in the US earlier this week. However, 2K Games recently revealed that the game not only requires an Internet connection during PC installation (disappointing, but not shocking) but during uninstallation. That is, if the game does not 'deauthorize' with 2K servers, the SecuROM DRM system in place will prevent the game from being installed on more than two total computers without 'officially' uninstalling the game from at least one of them. From the Kotaku article, a 2K rep has said the game only needs to be connected to the Internet to install and uninstall, not to play."

ISP Guarantees Net Neutrality, For a Fee 217

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @02:29AM from the what-price-fairness dept.

greedyturtle writes "Ars Technica has up an interesting article on the first ISP to guarantee network neutrality. It's called COmmunityPOwered Internet, aka Copowi. The offer of neutrality comes at a higher price — mostly due to uncompetitive telco line pricing schemes — $34 for 256K DSL, $50 for 1.5 Mbs, and $60 for 7 Mbps. The owner claims to need only 5,000 subscribers to move his ISP into the national arena from the 12 Western states where it now operates. Would you be willing to spend the extra bucks for network neutrality?"

Submission + - Powerful Data visualization tools for Linux

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 20, 2007 @08:49PM

An anonymous reader writes: Applications for graphical visualization of data on Linux are varied, from simple 2-D plots to 3-D surfaces, scientific graphics programming, and graphical simulation. Luckily, there are many open source possibilities, including gnuplot, GNU Octave, Scilab, MayaVi, Maxima, OpenDX, and others. Each has its advantages and disadvantages and targets different applications. Here's a look at six popular open source graphics utilities for Linux graphical visualization.

Submission + - The Most Anticipated Games of Winter 2007 (benchmarkreviews.com)

Submitted by

Das Capitolin

on Friday August 17, 2007 @01:19AM

Das Capitolin writes: "The summer didn't exactly bring all of the DirectX 10 sizzle we hoped for, but this winter is looking like things will really begin to heat up for gamers. Benchmark Reviews walks though five of the most anticipated video games ending 2007. We have: World in Conflict, Medal Of Honor: Airborne, Unreal Tournament 3, Crysis, and Assassin's Creed. Feast your eyes on some of the most exciting games to hit the widescreen!"

Submission + - Richard Stallman, missing in Peru

Submitted by rockwood on Friday August 17, 2007 @12:55AM

rockwood writes: WikiNews is reporting that according to e-mails and forum posts obtained by Wikinews, Stallman was traveling from Lima to Chimbote with a man named Mario Ramos on August 15, when the quake struck and was expected to arrive in Chimbote on Monday August 20, but he has not been heard from since the disaster.

Submission + - Intel's 'Penryn' to launch 11 November (reghardware.co.uk)

Submitted by

Tech.Luver

on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @04:08AM

Tech.Luver writes: "theRegister reports, " Intel's anticipated 45nm chip design, 'Penryn', looks set to be formally launched on 11 November, reports citing the chip giant's own website claim. More are coming in Q1 2008. Some seven Xeon CPUs are listed: the 2.00GHz E5405, the 2.33GHz E5410, the 2.50GHz E5420, the 2.66GHz E5430, the 2.83GHz E5440, the 3.00GHz E5450 and the 3.16GHz X5460. All seven chips operate on a 1333MHz frontside bus. ""

Submission + - Further delays to hit AMD's Barcelona (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by

Tech.Luver

on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @03:56AM

Tech.Luver writes: "theinquirer reports: Another glitch hits flagship microprocessor, " SYSTEM INTEGRATORS who were told to expect supplies of AMD Barcelona processors during mid-August said there's a hitch which is preventing AMD from delivering on its promises. As we reported here in June, AMD Barcelonas will officially launch on the 10th of September. But the channel was promised 2GHz and 2.3GHz Barcelonas in August. Now they've been told that the only part widely available at launch will be at 1.9GHz. ""

Submission + - AMD previews new processor extensions

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @10:06PM

An anonymous reader writes: It has been all over the news today. AMD announced its "x86 extensions for parallelism", a series of x86 extensions to make parallel programming easier. The first extension are the so called lightweight profiling extensions [that] would give software access to information about cache misses and retired instructions so they can optimize data structures for better performance. The specification is here and it has much wider applicability that parallel programming. It can be used to accelerate Java, .Net and dynamic optimizers.

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