Hi,
I am exhausted with the current level of news posted on slashdot, how can I kill my account? please help me quick.
Thanks.

KDE4 and Gnome were undoubtedly released before Windows 7.

"Xilinx XC3S50A" : of course, that's the very low-end line-of-product from Xilinx. Additionally, Spartan 3 is an old generation.

On the other hand, check the price of large, high-speed FPGA from Xilinx's Virtex 6 family : nothing below $1000. Top at $10000.
Ouch.

http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store/em/EMController/Programmable-Logic/FPGA/_/N-4294649145%204294609580%20100235?Nn=25&action=products&cat=1&catalogId=500201&cutTape=&inStock=&langId=-1&myCatalog=&proto=&regionalStock=&rohs=&storeId=500201&term=&topSellers=

IMHO, Tabula is targeting the market of large, high-performance, FPGA matrices.

200Mhz is still a very high frequency for logic mapped on an FPGA. user-compiled logic does not reach this frequency on, let's say, a Xilinx's Virtex 5.

If Tabula can provide the equivalent of 8 FPGA in a single circuit, it will be a huge win for system designer. Multi-FPGA systems have reduced performance because signals must be propagated between FPGAs, via a limited number of IO pads. A PCB integrating a single FPGA (rather than 8 FPGAs) would be cheaper to produce, more compact, while providing better performance.

I will buy!

Consumers should better be interested in the efficiency of the 3D engines, such as CryEngine, UnrealEngine or FrostByte!

In 2007, I bought an ATI HD3570 in order to play Crysis, and it performed perfectly.
Today, Crysis 2 is out, it looks just about the same graphical complexity as Crysis 1, but I am expected to get a new 3D card to play the game in good condition. NO, THANK YOU!

I am fed with the game developers artificially driving the sale of lateset expensive, 3D cards from ATI and nVidia.
It reminds me when Intel and Microsoft allied to push users to get the very latest CPU and twice more RAM to run the new version of Windows.

Want to see a GTX 590 burning because of some shitty nVidia drivers? : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRo-1VFMcbc&feature=player_embedded
Now I am wondering who has bad drivers .... ATI, really?
Anyway, I am running Linux most of the time, and nVidia Linux support is really shitty. Sometimes, I am wondering if they still hire software engineers.

slashdot is getting like Ding mixed with Fox News.

Wake-up call! David Fincher is planning an adaptation of 'Rendez-vous with Rama', with Morgan Freeman.

Also just found this other photosharing site : http://www.23hq.com/

I urge people to switch away from FlickR, to other photosharing sites like SmugSmug or others.

IPernity is a community-oriented photo-sharing site, with an interface similar to the original flickr interface.
Here is a Monkeygrease script to automatically import your flickr photos to Ipernity :
https://www.ipernity.com/apps/gm

I am uploading my new photos to both site, and when Ipernity community is large enough, I will definitely close my Flickr account.

Eric, the reduced battery life due to poor signals conditions is not related to the consumption of mobile CPUs.
The 2G/3G/Wifi modem is the circuit responsible for the increased power drain, and the modem is not integrated in the OMAP4 CPU.

TI OMAP4 includes a full set of features to reduce the power consumption while preserving performance. There is a full hardware framework to preserving power by cutting/reducing clock speed and voltage.
This seems like a huge advantage over Nvidia's Tegra. Tegra seems to be a real power hog, and for the time being it seems to be targeted at tablettes rather than mobile phones.

Just wondering : what made Atari ST a fertile ground for viruses ?
Were there more viruses on Atari than on Amiga?