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Submission + - AMD's DX11 Radeons can drive six 30" displays (techreport.com)

Submitted by J. Dzhugashvili on Thursday September 10, 2009 @02:49PM

J. Dzhugashvili writes: Eat your heart out, Matrox. Whereas most current graphics cards can only drive a pair of displays, AMD has put some special sauce in its next-generation DirectX 11 GPUs to enable support for a whopping six monitors. There's no catch about supported resolutions, either. At an event yesterday, AMD demonstrated a single next-gen Radeon driving six 30" Dell monitors, each with a resolution of 2560x1600, hooked up via DisplayPort. Total resolution: 7680x3200 (or 24.6 megapixels). AMD's drivers present this setup as a single monitor to Windows, so in theory, games don't need to be updated to support it. AMD showed off Dead Space, Left 4 Dead, World of Warcraft, and DiRT 2 running at playable frame rates on the six displays.

Submission + - Pedophile Social Networking Site Goes Online

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10, 2009 @02:13PM

An anonymous reader writes: Billing itself as the "first-ever child-love social network" ToyBOX purports to allow pedophiles to seek each other out to share "that wonderful affection for the littler ones" by way of blogs, forums and chat groups. With all the recent discussion over the Illinois prohibition of Sex Offenders from participating in social networking sites, is this the beginnings of a constitutional challenge in the making? Or is it a sign of something more sinister?

How will it be possible to know whether these pedophiles are simply talking about the latest child actor or plotting to commit the next Jaycee Lee Dugard attack? Are there some groups who simply should not be allowed access to social networking? Not even the pedophiles themselves think the site will last--a sign of danger on the horizon?

Microsoft Launches Its Own Open Source Foundation 344

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 10, 2009 @01:58PM from the said-the-spider-to-the-fly dept.

darthcamaro writes "Microsoft already had its own open source (OSI-approved) licenses, its own open source project hosting site and now it's adding its own non-profit open source foundation. That's right, the company that is still banging the patent drum against open source now has its own 501(c)(6) open source foundation. Officially called the CodePlex Foundation, it's a separate effort from the CodePlex site and is aimed at helping to get more commercial developers involved in open source. Considering how they continue to attack Linux and open source, will anyone take them seriously?"

Watered Down Phishing Protection In IPhone OS 3.1? 98

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 10, 2009 @11:27AM from the i-feel-better-already dept.

CrazyCanucklehead writes "Security Researcher Michael Sutton discusses his findings when looking at the advertised anti-phishing features in the recently released iPhone OS 3.1. It turns out that the protection is far less than what is provided in OS X and the feature may not provide any protection at all."

Pigeon Turns Out To Be Faster Than S. African Net 406

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 10, 2009 @07:57AM from the fast-and-pigeon-fast dept.

inject_hotmail.com writes "The results are in: it's faster to send your data via an airborne carrier than it is through the pipes. As discussed Tuesday, a company in South Africa called Unlimited IT, frustrated by terribly slow Internet speeds, decided to prove their point by sending an actual homing pigeon with a "data card" strapped to its leg from one of their offices to another while at the same time uploading the same amount of data to the same destination via their ISPs data lines. The media outlet reporting this triumph said that it took the pigeon just over 1 hour to make the 80km/50mile flight, whereas it took over 2 hours to transfer just 4% of that data."

Comment So, if current trends continue... (Score 1) 366

by ericn32 on Thursday September 10, 2009 @03:39AM (#29375801) Attached to: Teenager Invents Cheap Solar Panel From Human Hair

... Martian barbers will rule the planet by 2025? btw, someone should read the tag "hoax" in this article...

Comment Re:Looks Like a Duck (Score 1) 410

by ericn32 on Thursday May 28, 2009 @03:02AM (#28120023) Attached to: Zune HD Unveiled, Set For Fall Release

While Microsoft has never made anything "cool" on their first try, they have made some really nice stuff, especially for developers. While people say that Vista and Win7 are copied from OSX, it's kinda true- but there are things like jump lists and other new Win7 Aero things (which have a practical purpose) that no one's implemented before.

And at least they don't shove people into a DRM-locked walled garden of media and limited phones.

Microsoft products are infinitely more open and flexible than Apple's eye-candy-yet-in-all-honesty-not-very-useful devices. Sure Apple stuff looks nice and feels intuitive, but I love my Windows phone's functionality, even if the UI looks like puke.

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