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Comment Re:quality of components isn't the only cost facto (Score 1) 935

by zontroll on Monday June 30, 2008 @10:13AM (#23999943) Attached to: Apple Laptop Upgrades Costing 200% More Than Dells

Almost all Apple products have the following on the box: "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China". Therefore, the labor argument is moot.

HDMI-Enabled Graphics Cards Debut 235

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @08:41AM from the no-way-things-can-go-wrong-here dept.

TrackinYeti writes "HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface), is the first industry supported digital-only interface, that requires a single cable to connect an output source to an HD-ready device, such as a television or monitor and deliver HD video, plus multi-channel digital audio, like Dolby Digital and DTS. Recently, Asus Computer released versions of their GeForce 7600 and Radeon X1600 cards with HDMI outputs on them, driven by an on-board Sil1930 controller. These are some of the first graphics cards to hit the market that can output HDMI natively with an integrated HDCP cipher engine and support HD-audio as well. Just the thing for that HTPC?"

Feed In a Video Era, There’s No Hiding a Face for Radio (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @09:12PM

Radio station owners are putting up more and more video fare on their Web sites — from a simple camera in the broadcast booth to exclusive coverage of special events — to tempt both listeners and advertisers.

Atom Smasher May Create "Black Saturns" 423

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @08:26PM from the distinctive-Hawking-radiation dept.

David Shiga writes "If we ever make black holes on Earth, they might be much stranger objects than the star-swallowing monsters known to exist in space. According to a new theory, any black hole that pops out of the Large Hadron Collider under construction in Switzerland might be surrounded by a black ring — forming a microscopic 'black Saturn'. This could happen if extra dimensions exist, as string theory suggests, and if they are large enough." An evocative excerpt from the article: "...there is an outside chance that in a few years in a tunnel near Geneva, physicists will make a black hole far smaller than a proton and circled by a squashed four-dimensional black doughnut."

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