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DX11 Tested Against DX9 With Dirt 2 Demo 201

Posted by Soulskill 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."
Security

Cameroon the New Hotbed of Malware 92

Posted by samzenpus from the none-more-infected dept.
garg0yle writes "According to McAfee, more than a third of Cameroon domains (TLD of .cm) are infested with viruses or other not-so-fun party treats. Given that it's very easy to mis-type .com as .cm, this puts the computers of a lot of fat-fingered typists in peril. Second place on the most-infested domains list goes to China (.cn), while Hong Kong (last year's 'winner') is now comfortably middle-of-the-pack."

Comment Re:Xlink (Score 1) 635

by LoveMuscle (#28351609) Attached to: You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What?

Essentially yes. you have to plug all the land lines into the back of the thing. In my case the wiring in the house is disconnected from Qwest so I just drive the wall jack next to the Xlink backwards and do the usual thing with the rest of the phones. Ie. Use the existing house wiring to distribute the signal.

Comment Re:Xlink (Score 3, Informative) 635

by LoveMuscle (#28203135) Attached to: You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What?

I have an Xlink BTTN and I love it. I am no longer running around the house wondering where I left my cell phone, because it's in its charging cradle right next to the Xlink. The only major draw back to this device is that text messages are not forwarded to the landline so my friends texting me while I'm at home tend to get ignored until I leave the house. I'm not sure how you would actually forward them however, since I know the landline phones in my house couldn't deal with it..

Comment Re:Who's in charge? (Score 2, Insightful) 498

by LoveMuscle (#26979289) Attached to: Terry Childs Case Puts All Admins In Danger

I can't tell if your joking or if you're a douche.

He was following orders. He had a legal agreement with the company not to share his passwords with ANYONE which presumably included his boss. What his boss was asking contradicted that agreement. Since his boss admitted that he didn't have the authority to override that agreement, what he did was 100% correct, even if it did cause his loser boss heart burn.

Had he been fired for that he would have had excellent cause for a big wrongful termination suit. You can't ask an employee to do something (don't share their passwords), then fire them for doing it (not sharing their passwords) without consequences.

Comment Re:Hmmmm. (Score 1) 835

by LoveMuscle (#26567965) Attached to: How To Diagnose a Suddenly Slow Windows Computer?

This is not a design flaw for XP, it's a limitation if the 32 bit architecture.

BZZZTTT... Wrong..

It is a design flaw, as it's NOT a limitation of current 32-bit architectures. It's the result of MSFT not taking advantage of PAE. The enable it, but (for what I can only assume is marketing reasons) they still limit you to 4GB.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension

PAE lets you address 64GB of RAM. For some mind boggling reason they haven't fixed this with 32 bit Vista either.
Microsoft

Submission + - "Vista Capable" PC's are good for...

Submitted by jetkins
jetkins writes: According to Dell's web site, Vista Capable PC's are " Great for... Booting the Operating System, without running applications or games". Yeah, that's useful; I can almost taste the Vista advantage.
Red Hat Software

Submission + - Fedora metrics help whole Linux community

Submitted by
lisah
lisah writes: "When Fedora released Fedora Core 6 late last year, the team decided to track the number of users with unique IP addresses that connected to yum in search of updates for a new installation of FC6. According to the data they collected, FC6 crossed the one million user mark in just 74 days. Fedora Project Leader Max Spevack says that while it's great to use metrics to better understand what users want, the real value lies in its ability to encourage hardware vendors to more offer more Linux-oriented goods and services.

Spevak told Linux.com, '...we always say we wish hardware vendors had more [Linux-capable] drivers. Well, if you can go to them and say, 'Hey, there's millions of people using this,' then maybe they will listen. In the real world, you need data to prove your case. Well, here it is.'"
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Transistor made from a Bose-Einstein condensate

Submitted by holy_calamity
holy_calamity writes: US researchers have made a transistor from a Bose-Einstein condensate. They claim it to be the first step towards "atomic circuits" that run with atoms instead of electrons. "A small number of atoms can be used to control the flow of a large number of atoms, in much the same way that an FET uses a gate voltage to control a large electric current," says lead research Alex Zozulya. The abstract of their paper is freely available.
Power

Submission + - Nanoengineered concrete to fight global warming

Submitted by
Roland Piquepaille
Roland Piquepaille writes: "While hundreds of scientists are gathered in Paris to draw plans about how to fight global warming, MIT engineers are also working on the reduction of world emissions of carbon dioxide. As cement, which is the primary component of concrete, accounts for 5 to 10 percent of the world's total carbon dioxide emissions, they're looking at how nanoengineered concrete could cut CO2 emissions. They found that the source of concrete's strength and durability lies in the organization of its nanoparticles and that it would be possible to cut world carbon dioxide emissions by up to 10 percent within five years. Read more for additional references and illustrations."
Intel

Submission + - Ask an Intel IT drone

Submitted by
Jeff Moriarty
Jeff Moriarty writes: "[MODERATOR: My email is jeff.moriarty@intel.com if you would like to talk about this directly. Feel free to edit the text as you see fit.]

I work in IT at Intel, am one of Intel's "official" IT bloggers, and am looking for a little abuse. Intel launched these external IT blogs late last year to open the lines of communication, and perhaps show the world we're not entirely as evil as you may have heard. Since I've been given some leeway in talking about Intel as a blogger, I thought I'd push things a bit and see what the Slashdot crew would like to know.

I've been at Intel seven years, all of it in IT, but I'm not an Intel apologist. We do great things, and we do ridiculous things. Intel IT really gets to see both sides of the coin, trying to contribute to Intel's bottom line by supporting our products, but facing the same technical and budgetary challenges as most of our customers. I'm hoping our blogs and this Q&A will help us share how we deal with those challenges. All IT related questions are fair game, as are personal questions about working at Intel, our culture, etc. Give me the Top Ten, and if I don't know the answer, I'll ask around until I find someone who does. I've got my kevlar armor on, so bring the love."
The Courts

Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Trademark 556

Posted by samzenpus from the that-didn't-take-long dept.
lucabrasi999 writes "It appears that Apple may be running out of items that they can prefix with the letter "i". Cisco is suing Apple over trademark infringement. Cisco claims to own the rights to the "iPhone" trademark since they purchased Infogear in 2000. Infogear filed for the rights to the trademark in 1996."

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