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Submission + - Thrustmaster Releases The 1st Flight Stick For PS3 (xuecast.com)

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XueCast
XueCast writes: "Today, Thrustmaster ( A well known joysticks, gamepads, and steering wheels designer and developer for PCs and video gaming consoles ) has just announced that they are releasing the first flight joystick for Sony Playstation 3, the T. Flight Stick X. The flight stick which is in the USB standard, is also compatible with PC, and it has many new features that will enhance the stability and the smoothness of the flight stick's control."
Math

Submission + - A New Theory of Everything?

Submitted by goatherder
goatherder writes: The Telegraph is running a story about a new Unified Theory of Physics. Garrett Lisi has presented a paper called "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything" which unifies the Standard Model with gravity — without using string theory. The trick was to use E8 geometry which you may remember from an earlier Slashdot article. Lisi's theory predicts 20 new particles which he hopes might turn up in the Large Hadron Collider.
AMD

Submission + - First 55nm GPU, ATI's RV670, Evaluated (hothardware.com)

Submitted by RL20-II
RL20-II writes: AMD has officially unveiled the RV670 GPU, a derivative of the R600, manufactured using a more advanced 55nm process. The RV670 will be the GPU that powers the new and more affordable ATI Radeon HD 38x00 series of graphics cards. Please note, however, that the RV670 isn't a straight-up shrink of the 90nm R600. In this iteration of the 55nm RV670, AMD has tweaked the GPU in a few key areas in an effort to increase relative performance and efficiency. In this article, both the Radeon HD 3870 and HD 3850 are tested in single- and dual-card CrossFire configurations and compared to a host of competing products at higher and lower price points.
AMD

Submission + - AMD Radeon RV670 Preview and Benchmarks (firingsquad.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: AMD's RV670 GPU is finally here in the form of the Radeon HD 3800 series. The Radeon 3870 and 3850 feature 320 stream processors, DirectX 10.1 and PCI Express 2.0 support, as well as 4-Way CrossFire. FiringSquad takes these two new boards and compares them with NVIDIA's latest lineup such as the GeForce 8800 Ultra and GeForce 8800 GT using the latest benchmarks.
Power

Via Unveils 1-Watt x86 CPU 276

Posted by CowboyNeal from the new-and-improved dept.
DeviceGuru writes "Taiwanese chip and board vendor Via Technologies has introduced a new ultra-low voltage (ULV) processor aimed at industrial, commercial, and ultra-mobile applications. Touted as the world's most power-efficient x86-compatible CPU, the 500MHz 'Eden ULV 500' processor debuted at an Embedded Systems Conference in Taipei this week. Via says its chip draws a minimum of 0.1 Watts, when idle, and a maximum of 1 Watt, making it a great candidate for consumer electronics devices such as UMPCs, PVRs, and such."
Software

Submission + - Who Owns a Hosted Open Source Project? 1

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An anonymous reader writes: Just over a year ago I convinced my company to release a framework we had created, under an open source license. Since then, a lot of hard work has been put in by myself and others outside of normal work hours and we've managed to turn it into a fairly substantial project with a solid user base. Now I've reached a point where I'm going to move on to something else and the company I work for is taking the typical corporate position that they own the project and everything related to it. Since it's hosted on a popular project hosting site, I'm curious who actually owns the project and it's SVN repository? I originally established the project and no one but the core developers have access to it, so can we refuse to hand over full access to the open source project? Clearly, it's within my right to fork it, but that seems like a bad solution especially since the company just wants to shut it down. I've spent sometime looking around for information on this, but it seems like this either hasn't happened before or it's happened behind closed doors. Does the slashdot community have any thoughts on this?
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Copy Protection Goes Too Far (kotaku.com) 2

Submitted by Synner
Synner writes: Anti-piracy is squeezing the legitimate user once again. The new Bioshock game from 2K Studios only allows you to install the game twice, no ifs ands or buts. Even though the "Update" for the article says that 2K has replied with a solution, if you read the following forum posts, users have tried the fix and has not been confirmed to work. You might want to hurry before the thread is locked and or deleted, like so many others. This might fuel the fires of piracy, to give legitimate customers a work around until they get the official company line.
Displays

U of CA Constructs 220 Million Pixel Display 145

Posted by samzenpus from the wider-than-wide-screen dept.
eldavojohn writes "Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have built a 220 million pixel display across 55 high-resolution tiled screens. Linked via optical fiber to Calit2's building at UC Irvine, the display can deliver real-time rendered graphics simultaneously across 420 million pixels to audiences in Irvine and San Diego."
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - US Launches "MySpace for Spies" (ft.com)

Submitted by
adamofgreyskull
adamofgreyskull writes: "The FT is reporting that the US Government is planning to introduce "A-Space", "an internal communications tool modelled on the popular social networking sites, Facebook and MySpace" in order to better share information within the intelligence community. Various agencies, domestic and foreign seem to have voiced concerns about the security and efficacy of this solution to a problem that I'm not sure should exist for any intelligent intelligence agency..

FTFA:

A-Space will be equipped with web-based email and software that recommends areas of interest to the user just like Amazon suggests books to its customers. The site will also allow users to create and modify documents, and determine user privileges, in a similar fashion to Google Documents.
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The Internet

Submission + - German semantic Web project seeks experts (linuxworld.com)

Submitted by
ruleant
ruleant writes: "Theseus, the german semantic web project, is getting up to speed, having defined several projects like Ordo (organize users' digital content) and Medico (search technology for medical images). In order to progress fast, first results of the projects are expected in 18 months, Theseus is looking for Open Source experts, especially programmers. The project will organise contests in november to select who can participate :

We want to attract bright minds to the project and let them work with the many other experts we have on board from the participating businesses, research institutes and universities.
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The Almighty Buck

Linux Credit Card Re-Launches 178

Posted by kdawson from the we're-in-the-money dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The all-new Linux Fund Visa Card launched on July 24th. The Linux Fund began in 1999, and lasted until Bank of America bought MBNA and canceled the program earlier this year. Before that time the fund had distributed $100,000 a year on average. US Bank has inked a new deal to resurrect the program with new features. Currently, the project is open to ideas for supporting well-loved and community-supported software that is underfunded. The current list of supported projects includes Debian, Wikipedia, FreeGeek, Freenode, and Blender."
IBM

Submission + - STT-RAM: The next generation of flash

Submitted by
bain
bain writes: "IBM has a new joint venture with memory company TDK to produce a new flash memory using "spin torque transfer" that will allow scaling beyond 65nm. The new standard called STT-RAM marks a change of strategy for IBM who had been working on a more conventional type of magnetic memory called MRAM."

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