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Phenom IIs, Core I7-920 Win Out In Value Analysis 214

Posted by kdawson on Friday March 20, 2009 @10:49AM from the computes-per-buck dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We've all seen processor benchmarks, but how do today's enthusiast CPUs look when you account for performance per dollar? Using a smorgasbord of charts, scatter plots, and performance tests, The Tech Report attempted to single out the highest-value offerings out of 16 popular Intel and AMD processors. The results might surprise you: AMD's 45nm Phenom IIs (both triple- and quad-core) prove to be strikingly competitive with Intel's Core 2 Quads. And, on the high end, Intel's $266 Core i7-920 turns out to be a compelling step up despite the higher costs of Core i7 platforms in general."

Comment Open up Korean internet for real now? (Score 1) 386

by canithappenhere on Monday February 02, 2009 @08:19PM (#26702247) Attached to: All Korea To Have 1Gbps Broadband By 2012?

If Korea used this opportunity to take some steps toward a truly open Internet where installing a buggy ActiveX control isn't a requirement for everything from banking to shopping to government services, then they'd really be getting somewhere. http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/07/activex-law-in-korea.html

Google's PageRank Predicts Nobel Prize Winners 101

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @12:31PM from the that's-a-little-strange dept.

KentuckyFC writes "The pattern of citations between scientific papers forms a network that has remarkable similarities to the network formed by the web. So why not use Google's PageRank, the world's most effective search algorithm to rank these papers in the same way it ranks websites? That's exactly what a couple of US researchers have done for physics papers published by the American Physical Society since 1893 (abstract). The results make interesting reading because almost all of the top ten papers resulted in (or were linked to) Nobel Prizes for their authors. Which means that studying the up-and-coming entries on the list ought to be a good way of predicting future winners. Better get your bets in before the bookies get wind of this."

Apple Disclosures About Jobs To Face SEC Review 187

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @11:48AM from the they-really-hate-turtlenecks dept.

suraj.sun writes "US regulators are examining Apple Inc.'s disclosures about Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs's health problems to ensure investors weren't misled, a person familiar with the matter said. The Securities and Exchange Commission's review doesn't mean investigators have seen evidence of wrongdoing, the person said, declining to be identified because the inquiry isn't public. Bloomberg News reported last week that Jobs is considering a liver transplant as a result of complications after treatment for cancer, according to people who are monitoring his illness."

New Massive Botnet Building On Windows Hole 223

Posted by kdawson on Monday December 01, 2008 @11:29PM from the so-patch-it-already dept.

CWmike writes "The worm exploiting a critical Windows bug that Microsoft patched with an emergency fix in late October is now being used to build a fast-growing botnet, said Ivan Macalintal, a senior research engineer with Trend Micro. Dubbed 'Downad.a' by Trend (and 'Conficker.a' by Microsoft and 'Downadup' by Symantec), the worm is a key component in a massive new botnet that a new criminal element, not associated with McColo, is creating. 'We think 500,000 is a ballpark figure,' said Macalintal when asked the size of the new botnet. 'That's not as large as some, such as [the] Kraken [botnet], or Storm earlier, but it's... starting to grow.'"

Techniques and Styles of Video Game Music 68

Posted by Soulskill on Monday December 01, 2008 @11:05PM from the badap-bop-boodop-beep!-boop! dept.

MarkN writes "Video game music has come to represent much more than just the beeps and boops of early video games that often got muted out of annoyance. It's a genre that stands on its own, stylistically and musically. It necessarily differs from typical soundtrack fare in a few important ways — it's written to accompany an activity rather than meant to be listened to passively, it is often required to loop and extend indefinitely, and it has the potential to be adaptive and respond to player feedback. In this article, I talk about some of the techniques used to make game music effective within its constraints and with all of its potential, and discuss how different styles and musical techniques can relate to the gameplay."

Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms 420

Posted by kdawson on Monday December 01, 2008 @10:14PM from the courtroom-battles-not-ended dept.

The Bush administration and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are poised to square off in front of a San Francisco federal judge Tuesday to litigate the constitutionality of legislation immunizing the nation's telecoms from lawsuits accusing them of helping the government spy on Americans without warrants. "'The legislation is an attempt to give the president the authority to terminate claims that the president has violated the people's Fourth Amendment rights,' the EFF's [Cindy] Cohn says. 'You can't do that.'"

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