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Comment Re:nVidia (Score 3, Informative) 158

by americamatrix (#42266109) Attached to: Frame Latency Spikes Plague Radeon Graphics Cards
That statement isn't true at all.

For a long time nvidia may have had the FPS crown, but the how the actual graphics looked on a radeon were MUCH better.

Quality vs Quantity, as seen here:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/graphics/display/quality_vs_quantity_3.html https://www.nordichardware.com/Graphics/ati-radeon-x1950xtx-part-1/Image-Quality.html


-americamatrix

Submission + - Gasoline from Fresh Air (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by SpockLogic
SpockLogic writes: Revolutionary new technology that produces “petrol from air” is being produced by a British firm.
A small company in the north of England has developed the “air capture” technology to create synthetic petrol using only air and electricity.
Experts tonight hailed the astonishing breakthrough as a potential “game-changer” in the battle against climate change and a saviour for the world’s energy crisis.
The technology, presented to a London engineering conference this week, removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
The “petrol from air” technology involves taking sodium hydroxide and mixing it with carbon dioxide before "electrolysing" the sodium carbonate that it produces to form pure carbon dioxide.
Hydrogen is then produced by electrolysing water vapour captured with a dehumidifier.
The company, Air Fuel Syndication, then uses the carbon dioxide and hydrogen to produce methanol which in turn is passed through a gasoline fuel reactor, creating petrol.
Company executives hope to build a large plant, which could produce more than a tonne of petrol every day, within two years and a refinery size operation within the next 15 years.
Google

Submission + - Google's New Chromebooks Ready to Battle Windows 8, Tablets (slashdot.org)

Submitted by
Nerval's Lobster
Nerval's Lobster writes: "Google is whipping the proverbial curtain back from its new Chromebook, which will retail for $249 and up. The Samsung-built device weighs 2.5 pounds and features an 11.6-inch screen (with 1366 x 768 resolution), backed by a 1.75GHz Samsung Exynos 5 Dual Processor. Google claims it will boot up in under 10 seconds and, depending on usage, last for 6.5 hours on one battery charge.

From a product perspective, Chrome OS and its associated hardware found itself fighting a two-front battle: the first against Windows PCs and Macs, both of which could claim more robust hardware for a similar cost to the old Chromebooks (which started at $449), and the second against tablets, which offered the same degree of flexibility and connectivity for a cheaper sticker-price. By setting the cost of the new Chromebook at $249, Google continues that pricing skirmish on more favorable terms."

Submission + - Google trading suspended, earnings 20% below expectations posted accidentally (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Trading in Google shares has been suspended after the internet giant released its third-quarter results early by mistake. Google blames financial printing firm RR Donnelley for filing an early draft of the results, which had been expected after the closing bell.

Shares in Google were down 9% when trading in the stock was suspended. Shares had fallen as much as 10.5% at one stage.

In a statement, Google said: "Earlier this morning RR Donnelley, the financial printer, informed us that they had filed our draft 8K earnings statement without authorisation... We have ceased trading on Nasdaq while we work to finalise the document. Once it's finalised we will release our earnings, resume trading on Nasdaq and hold our earnings call as normal at 1:30 PST."
Technology

Submission + - SD card survives real-life disaster test (stuff.co.nz)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A newly-wed couple lost their digital camera and SD card in the Christchurch earthquake in February 2011. The SD card survived flooding with silt and exposure to the weather for 20 months embedded in a gravel driveway. Amazingly, all 2.5 Gb of photos have recently been recovered. Sadly the digital camera did not fare so well. Even more interesting is that the SD card was from by a budget supplier, kudos to Adata!
Programming

Submission + - Duqu Trojan Programming Language Identified

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The sections responsible for downloading and executing additional modules in the Duqu Trojan, referred to by some as Stuxnet 2.0, were written in standard C++. A big chunk of it, the payload DLL, which communicates exclusively with the Command and Control (C&C) server so that the worm knows what to do once it has infected a system, has object-oriented code that doesn’t resemble anything seen before. Security researchers worked out what the mystery code does, but because they weren’t sure about the syntax, they asked the community for help in identifying the programming language. Over a week later, it turns out the Duqu Framework was written in C code, which was then compiled with MSVC 2008 and options /O1 (minimize size) /Ob1 (expand only __inline).
Cloud

Submission + - The Pirate Bay Plans Servers in the Sky (datacenterknowledge.com)

Submitted by 1sockchuck
1sockchuck writes: The Pirate Bay says it plans to deploy servers on airborne drones several kilometers above international waters. The site said it was experimenting with servers using Raspberry Pi, a credit-card sized Linux computer. April Fools come early? Torrent Freak says the plan is real. It's apparently a literal approach to cloud computing.
Transportation

Submission + - Futuristic Biplane Design Eliminates Sonic Boom (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: A throwback to early 20th Century aviation may hold the key to eliminating the sonic boom — at least according to researchers at MIT and Stanford University. Strongly reminiscent of biplanes still in use today, the researcher's concept supersonic aircraft introduces a second wing which it is claimed cancels the shockwaves generated by objects near or beyond the sound barrier.
Wireless Networking

Submission + - NetZero reinvents itself as America's first free 4G service provider (bgr.com)

Submitted by zacharye
zacharye writes: NetZero burst onto the scene in 1998 as the first in a crop of Internet service providers that gave subscribers free access to the Web using an advertising-supported model. NetZero’s patented ad technology displayed highly targeted ads to users as they browsed the Internet at dial-up speeds, but it was forced into a freemium model when a number of other ISPs began offering free Web access as well. NetZero continues to offer basic paid dial-up and broadband services, but now the company is going back to its roots in an effort to disrupt the wireless industry as it did to the dial-up industry nearly 14 years ago...
Youtube

Submission + - 70 Million Views in 5 Days: Kony Video Most Viral Ever (singularityhub.com)

Submitted by
kkleiner
kkleiner writes: "After being posted on March 5th, a video about a murderous leader of an Ugandan guerrilla group, Joseph Kony, has gone viral. Seriously viral, as in, potentially the most viral video ever. In just 5 days the video was viewed 70 million times. This eclipses the records set by previous viral successes, such as Susan Boyle or the Old Spice Guy. Who would have thought that a 30 minute long documentary style video would become such a viral hit?"
Microsoft

Submission + - Why Microsoft Can Afford To Lose With Windows 8 (infoworld.com)

Submitted by
snydeq
snydeq writes: "Windows 8 is an experiment that may well fail, but Microsoft will cull invaluable feedback for Windows 9 in the process, long before Windows 7 runs out of gas, writes InfoWorld's Serdar Yegulalp. 'Can Microsoft really afford to alienate one of its biggest market segments for a whole product cycle? In a word: Yes. In fact, doing something this risky might well be vital to Microsoft's survival,' Yegulalp writes. 'Microsoft needs to gamble, and right now might well be the best time for the company to do it. The company needs to learn from its mistakes as quickly and nimbly as they can — and then turn around and make Windows 9 exceed all of our expectations. Because if Microsoft doesn't ... well, then there might well be a Mac in my future after all.'"
Security

Submission + - Multifunction Printer Hacking (net-security.org)

Submitted by Orome1
Orome1 writes: A great number of multifunction printers of have the ability to integrate within a corporation's business environment and connect to its email systems, its file systems, its FTP servers and a number of other resources. In order to be able to do that, these devices have to contain credentials needed to authenticate themselves to these resources. Unfortunately, this information can also be extracted by attackers and be misused by them to gain a foothold into the internal network. Security engineer Deral Heiland talks about the types of attacks that can be mounted against multifunction printers and shares best security practices and mitigation techniques that will make the attackers' job a lot harder.

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