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Comment My favorite part of the original article (Score 1) 619

by fredg3 on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @09:24AM (#21335015) Attached to: Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PC Sells Out

My favorite part of the original article:

Even at the low end, however, image is everything. The gPC is built using tiny components, but put inside a full-size case because research indicates that Wal-Mart shoppers are so unsophisticated they equate physical size with capability.

Wow... that's classic.

A New Lease On Internal Combustion 431

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @05:31PM from the more-power-to-ya dept.

Somnus suggests we check out the latest issue of MIT's Technology Review, where researchers describe how they can dramatically boost engine output and efficiency by preventing pre-ignition, or "knock." How they do it: "Both turbocharging and direct injection are preexisting technologies, and neither looks particularly impressive... by combining them, and augmenting them with a novel way to use a small amount of ethanol, Cohn and his colleagues have created a design that they believe could triple the power of a test engine."

Why Are There No Highbrow Video Games? 424

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday August 08, 2006 @12:35PM from the easier-to-do-boobs-and-guns dept.

simoniker writes "In his latest 'Designer's Notebook' question, columnist Ernest Adams asks a very simple question: are video games' lack of cultural credibility partly due to the fact that "we don't have any highbrow games"? Titled 'Where's Our Merchant Ivory?', Adams asks: 'Almost every other entertainment medium has an elite form... We produce light popular entertainment, and light popular entertainment is trivial, disposable, and therefore culturally insignificant, at least so far as podunk city councilors and ill-advised state legislators are concerned.' Do games have an image problem compared to other popular media, and how do we fix it?"

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