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Submission + - MIT Tetris Hack: Source code released (mit.edu)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @11:15AM

An anonymous reader writes: The MIT Tech published an article with technical details behind the Tetris hack. The article includes photographs of the LED modules, as well as a link to some of the source code used in the hack. The hackers have released some of the source code on GitHub are looking for people to contribute code that could run on the system.

PS3 8x More Power Hungry Than PS2 260

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday November 01, 2006 @02:19PM from the hungry-beast dept.

MonsieurCreosote writes "The Playstation 3 apparently demands eight times as much electricity as the Playstation 2, and more than twice as much as the Xbox 360. It also consumes much more power than a top-end PC gaming rig. It's not clear what's causing the massive drain, but Sony is now denying reports that the PS3 experienced overheating problems at the Tokyo Games Show last month. From the article: 'While an Intel Core 2 Duo PC with high-end graphics card chews politely on a 160 watt entré, the PlayStation 3 gorges itself on 380 watts... The extra power consumption of the PS3 over the PS2 suggests that we're not really getting much better at designing efficient systems, we're just pumping more 'fuel' into existing paradigms'. Are modern console hardware designers getting sloppy?"

Comment Re:Thanks Slashdot! (Score 1) 610

by mike5904 on Sunday May 08, 2005 @09:08PM (#12472901) Attached to: Malicious Web Pages Can Install Dashboard Widgets

Sorry, next time I read the article I'll realize that

"Other browser users will probably find it on their desktop."

doesn't mean that other browser users will probably find the file on their desktop. Oh, and I'll also realize that

"Nothing happened to me (I'm running XP at the moment), but there's a friggin ZIP file sitting on my desktop. OK, time to bring out my tin foil hat! And to the /. editors, don't link to shit like that, damn! That's just common sense."

doesn't imply unexpected behavior under Windows XP. Perhaps it doesn't do anything at all outside of those conditions, but that doesn't mean that the article and the post I replied to don't indicate otherwise.

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