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Comment: Re:It would be really great, IF (Score 2, Informative) 298

by mikearthur on Thursday February 07, 2008 @06:28PM (#22341438) Attached to: Cell Hits 45nm, PS3 Price Drop Likely to Follow

You can get them in IBM Blades or from a company called Mercury that will sell you a Cell BE on a PCI-E accelerator board.

+ - It's Official: Halo 3 BETA - May 16th

Submitted by n9com on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @08:00AM

n9com writes "The news you have all been waiting for! The Halo 3 Beta will be available for download on May 16th. The beta test will last until the 6th of June. The full details are here and the Official Halo 3 BETA footage can be downloaded from this link or from the 360 marketplace."

Images: Wikipedia's pop culture addiction->

From feed by cnetfeed on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @07:12AM

Online encyclopedia gets far more encyclopedic when it comes to pop culture topics like Star Trek and Buffy the Vampire Slayer than historic events or science. Not that we're complaining.
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+ - Why high level languages are potentially dangerous

Submitted by

insane_coder

on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @03:43AM

insane_coder writes "The Insane Coding Blog has a nice story up about wether one can trust their applications. An interesting point from the article: "Not using a high level compiler or virtual machine gives us a layer of security in that it would be harder for one to pass out an 'evil compiler' that would understand what the developer was trying to do and instead have it do something malicious." If you're wondering where your 'evil compiler' would come from, "If you're using a Linux distro which offers binary packages, what really stops a package maintainer from compiling a modified application and putting that in the distro's repositories?""