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Submission + - Vista-Induced Memory Crunch Coming?

Submitted by digihome on Monday December 11, 2006 @12:36PM

digihome writes: A hardware crunch is hovering like a cloud over the PC space as Microsoft's Vista is demanding historic levels of memory. Steep memory pricing increases may be on the horizon. http://www.crn.com/nl/crndailynews/showArticle.jht ml?articleId=196602657

Submission + - VLC 0.8.6 Released

Submitted by

h2g2bob

on Monday December 11, 2006 @12:12PM

h2g2bob writes: "VideoLAN yesterday released a new version of VLC media player. From the blurb:

Building on feedback from the 29 million downloads of VLC media player 0.8.5, we bring you version 0.8.6 with many bugfixes, as well as a couple of new features we think you will truly enjoy. Most prominent are probably Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video. Other important changes are improved H.264 decoding, better Windows Unicode support, a Fullscreen controller and Apple Remote support for Mac OS X.

A shout out also needs to go to ffmpeg for many of the codec improvements."

German Minister Seeks Jail Time For FPS Players 383

Posted by Zonk on Thursday December 07, 2006 @06:28PM from the all-i-did-was-a-little-fragging dept.

GamePolitics has the somewhat unbelievable news that German Minister of the Interior Gunther Beckstein is seeking jail time for violent game developers, publishers, and players. MSNBC has further coverage of the issue, which has pro gamers in Germany quite worried. From the article: "The draft law, a reaction to a school shooting that shook German public opinion last month, will come before the upper house of parliament next year. But it is already sending shockwaves through the 2m-strong German online gaming community. 'We have among the most drastic censorship rules for games,' said Frank Sliwka, head of the Deutsche E-Sport Bund, an umbrella federation for German online gaming teams. 'Now we are being labelled as a breeding ground for unstable, dysfunctional and violent youngsters.'"

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