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High End Graphics Cards Tested At 4K Resolutions 201

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @07:38PM from the scale-it-until-they-catch-fire dept.

Vigile writes "One of the drawbacks to high end graphics has been the lack of low cost and massively-available displays with a resolution higher than 1920x1080. Yes, 25x16/25x14 panels are coming down in price, but it might be the influx of 4K monitors that makes a splash. PC Perspective purchased a 4K TV for under $1500 recently and set to benchmarking high end graphics cards from AMD and NVIDIA at 3840x2160. For under $500, the Radeon HD 7970 provided the best experience, though the GTX Titan was the most powerful single GPU option. At the $1000 price point the GeForce GTX 690 appears to be the card to beat with AMD's continuing problems on CrossFire scaling. PC Perspective has also included YouTube and downloadable 4K video files (~100 mbps) as well as screenshots, in addition to a full suite of benchmarks."

Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Answer to Dreamweaver? 300

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @10:20AM from the there-should-be-one-called-vision-quest dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I've been looking for an open source alternative to Dreamweaver, and haven't stumbled upon anything that works the way I need. Aptana and Bluefish are fantastic tools, but I cannot work exclusively with them, since Bluefish doesn't have that WYSIWYG functionality that is so important when you're also dealing with design, and Aptana doesn't have classic ASP support. I don't care much about the classic ASP support, but, even though I'm a PHP developer, I give support to classic ASP code on a daily basis. What open source tools are you guys working with out there? I'm really not looking for a Dreamweaver clone, just a tool that gets closer to cover my needs: WYSIWYG, PHP, HTML, CSS support, and less important, classic ASP support."

Oracle Acquires K-splice For an Undisclosed Amount 226

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 21, 2011 @06:15PM from the exit-strategy dept.

drspliff writes "Oracle today announced it's completed the acquisition of K-Splice, dropping support for Redhat, CentOS, and SUSE, and closing doors to new customers. Unless of course you want to become an Oracle Linux Premier Support subscriber — then it comes as standard."

Fusion Thrusters For Space Travel 192

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @06:57PM from the trimming-parsecs-off-the-kessel-run dept.

kgeiger writes "John J. Chapman, a physicist and electronics engineer at NASA's Langley Research Center, envisions a laser-pumped fusion drive. Chapman estimates the drive can produce thrust 40 times more efficiently than existing ion engines such as those on the Dawn mission now exploring the asteroid belt."

Comment Re:One Word... (Score 1) 278

by Mopatop on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @11:21AM (#35504280) Attached to: Revisiting Ebert — Games <em>Can</em> Be Art, But Are They?

+1 for Rez.

I would also count Silent Hill 2 as an artistic masterpiece.

Comment Re:What are Nintendo up to? (Score 1) 134

by Mopatop on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @09:13AM (#35417746) Attached to: Microsoft Recruiting For Next-Gen Console Development

What's wrong with another iteration? I like consoles just the way they are. More power means more capabilities, bigger worlds, more detail... better.

UK Government Wants to Spring Ahead Two Hours 554

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 21, 2011 @06:11AM from the what-time-is-now dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "In England it has been proposed that the clocks move forward by 2 hours this summer to give us more daylight time in the day, and hopefully in turn stimulate the economy. My question is what impact will this hold for computers that automatically adjust the time to British Summer Time? Could this cause another 'millennium Bug' fiasco?"

H.264 and VP8 Compared 337

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 23, 2010 @03:06AM from the one-has-4-chars-and-a-dot dept.

TheReal_sabret00the writes with a snippet from StreamingMedia.com: "VP8 is now free, but if the quality is substandard, who cares? Well, it turns out that the quality isn't substandard, so that's not an issue, but neither is it twice the quality of H.264 at half the bandwidth. See for yourself."

YouTube To Kill IE6 Support On March 13 282

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @11:11AM from the if-you-strike-me-down dept.

Joel writes "Over six months ago, Google announced it would start phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 on Orkut and YouTube, and started pushing its users to modern browsers. The search giant has now given a specific kill date for old browser support on the video website: 'Support stops on March 13th. Stopped support essentially means that some future features on YouTube will be rolled out that won't work in older browsers.'"

Comment Good move (Score 1) 279

by Mopatop on Monday January 18, 2010 @12:10PM (#30808700) Attached to: Microsoft Says Upgrade To IE8, Even Though It's Vulnerable

Seriously, while there's no security change by getting users to upgrade from IE6 to IE8 (with respect to this flaw), there's a massive net gain in getting another IE6 off the streets. Thank you Microsoft, for using every means possible to move users away from IE6.

Comment Re:Sion (Score 1) 211

by Mopatop on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @11:10AM (#30377094) Attached to: Silicon As the New Lithium

Everyone I know calls them "Lion" batteries

Hidden Fees Discovered For "Free" Windows 7 Upgrade 406

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 05, 2009 @08:51AM from the nothing-is-free dept.

An anonymous reader writes 'Thousands of recent computer purchasers who are expecting to receive free upgrades to Windows 7 when it is released on October 22 may be surprised to learn that some big computer makers are quietly tacking on hefty processing fees as high as $17 to mail out those disks to some buyers.' How about they process $0 to click a link and download a file?

Radio-Controlled Cyborg Beetles Become Reality 150

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 01, 2009 @11:14PM from the tsa-agents-didn't-show-enough-drive dept.

holy_calamity writes "DARPA's plans to create brain chips for insects so they can be steered like an RC plane are bearing fruit. Videos show that a team at Berkeley can use radio signals to tell palm-sized African beetles to take off and land, and to lose altitude and steer left or right when in flight. They had to use the less-than-inconspicuous giant beetles because other species are too weak to take off with the weight of the necessary antenna and brain and muscle electrodes."

Artificial Heart Recipient Has No Pulse 465

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @10:14AM from the just-a-low-pitched-hum dept.

laggist writes "A heart patient in Singapore has been implanted with an artificial heart that pumps blood continuously, allowing her to live without a pulse. From the article: '... the petite Madam Salina, who suffers from end-stage heart failure, would not have been able to use the older and bulkier models because they can only be implanted in patients 1.7m or taller. The 30-year-old administrative assistant is the first recipient here to get a new artificial heart that pumps blood continuously, the reason why there are no beats on her wrist.'" The story is light on details, but an article from last year in MIT's Technology Review explains a bit more about how a pulse-less artificial heart works.

Honda's Answer To the Segway 247

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 24, 2009 @02:44PM from the will-change-how-cities-are-built dept.

lcreech writes with an excerpt from the Daily Mail's description of a new Segway-style one-person vehicle being shown off by Honda: "The vehicle looks like a very modern unicycle and to ride it you simply lean your weight in the direction you want to go, whether that's forward, backwards or even sideways. It maintains its own balance travelling up to 3.7MPH. Not very fast."

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