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Key collaborators include comic veterans Jim Lee (who serves as the game’s Executive Creative Director), Ale Garza, Carlos D’Anda, and Scott Iwahashi, in addition to EverQuest developers, Chris Cao and Shawn Lord. Check out official website here –>Link |
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Archive for July, 2008
J. TECH - Jul - 24th
J. TECH - Jul - 24th
By Practical Technology July, 23 2008
KACE, a systems management appliance company, announced that their recent survey of IT administrators showed that 60 percent of them have no plans to deploy Vista. That’s almost 10% more turning their backs on Vista then in KACE’s last survey in November 2007. According to the company press release, “42 percent of them said they would consider deployment of alternative operating systems, such as Mac OS and Linux, in order to avoid a migration to Vista.” 11% of Windows users have already decided to switch rather than ‘upgrade’ to Vista. Of that number, 29% plan to changeover to the Mac, followed by 24% to Red Hat Linux, 21% to Ubuntu Linux, and 15% to SUSE Linux. The remainder plan on switching to another version of Linux.If you thought the release of Vista SP 1 would make business IT professionals think more kindly about Vista, think again. 92 percent of those surveyed said “the release of Vista Service Pack 1 has not changed their plans for Vista deployment.” Indeed, according to the report, “only 2% of participants responded that SP1 had accelerated their Vista adoption plans and 3% reported that SP1 had actually delayed their plans for Vista adoption.”
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J. TECH - Jul - 24th
By Damon Poeter, Jul. 24, 2008
Intel’s war on ARM and other RISC-based micro-architectures went from cold to hot Wednesday with the chip giant’s release of eight new x86-based “system-on-a-chip” (SoC) processors for the embedded market. Following the so-called CISC vs. RISC battles of the early days of personal computing, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip maker seemed content to own the bulk of the PC and server markets with its wildly successful Intel architecture (IA), or x86-based microprocessors, leaving the embedded and consumer electronics markets largely to makers of RISC-based chips. But a new age of computing that demands Internet connectivity in all manner of devices has Intel on the warpath again. Intel’s agenda now is to place its Internet-friendly x86 chips in a much broader swath of what Intel’s Doug Davis said was $10 billion market for embedded silicon.
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J. TECH - Jul - 24th
By Shane McGlaun – July 24, 2008
Nearly two years ago in September 2006, HP announced that it purchased gaming PC maker Voodoo for an undisclosed amount of money. Originally, Voodoo remained a separate entity from HP and continued to focus on creating gaming machines for high-end gaming customers. Today HP announced that it is folding the Voodoo brand into its HP line. HP says that it will maintain Voodoo as a brand name. That statement frightens some Voodoo enthusiasts who fear that the Voodoo name will be just that — a name slapped onto anything HP wants to market for more money to the gaming crowd. PC World quotes HP spokeswoman Ann Finnie saying, “It is just the next step of integration into the business units that deliver Compaq Presario and [HP] Pavilion.” The good part about the folding of Voodoo completely into HP is that the gaming systems would be easier to get at retail locations and with the significantly larger staff of HP systems would be faster to build and deliver.
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J. TECH - Jul - 22nd
By Eric Brown Jul. 22, 2008
A Silicon Valley startup called CherryPal announced a two-Watt, $250 ultra-mini PC that runs Debian Linux. Based on a 400MHz PowerPC-based system-on-chip (SoC) from Freescale, the solid-state CherryPal C100 Desktop offers managed “cloud” computing paid for by advertising rather than a monthly fee. With its touted two-Watt power consumption and lack of moving parts, the 10-ounce, 1.3 x 5.8 x 4.2-inch CherryPal C100 uses 98 percent less energy and includes 80 percent fewer components than a typical PC, claims CherryPal. The CherryPal C100 is also said to boot in 20 seconds. Like another fruit-flavored mini-PC, the mobile LimePC, the CherryPal is based on the Freescale MPC5121e. Positioned as an automotive telematics processor when it was announced in May 2007, the MPC5121e powers an automotive Linux PC reference design from Wind River and Freescale. Yet, the chip appears to have made itself at home on the desktop as well as the dashboard.
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J. TECH - Jul - 22nd
By Jason Mick July 22, 2008
Last week, Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini went on the record to say about Intel’s Atom processor, “You’re dealing with something that most of us wouldn’t use.” The remark left many quizzical as the processor is being placed in the wildly successful Eee PCs, the MSI Wind, and the Acer Aspire One and is looking to fuel strong sales, in time perhaps surpassing Intel’s own quad and dual core offerings. It now appears that Mr. Otellini’s remark may hint at a bit of remorse on Intel’s part for opening Pandora’s Box by creating a low power, efficient, affordable processor and helping to fuel the booming netbook market. Throughout the past decade, first with the Pentium 4 and Athlon processors, then with dual core processors, and finally with quad core processors today; Intel and AMD have tried to push expensive, high power (both in a computing and electrical sense) processors on consumers. In reality, the average home user who performs simple functions like browsing the internet, word processing, storing photos, and watching DVDs has no need for this much power.
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J. TECH - Jul - 22nd
by Don Reisinger July 22, 2008
For quite a while now, we’ve heard Microsoft claim that when it unleashes its barrage of advertising, Apple and the rest of the software industry will be put on notice. “You thought the sleeping giant was still sleeping?” Microsoft’s VP of Windows Vista consumer marketing said recently. “Well, we’ve woken up, and it’s time to take our message forward.” And it looks like the company has done just that. In what will surely prove to be just the first salvo in an ongoing marketing struggle with Apple that could bulge to an astounding $300 million investment, Microsoft has unleashed an ad campaign saying we all need to learn the facts about Vista.
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J. TECH - Jul - 21st
Gets by with a little help from its friends
By Wily Ferret: Monday, 21 July 2008
CONTRARY TO WHAT you may have read around the wibble last week, the folks at AMD are very happy indeed to have Nvidia’s Physx standard running on ATI hardware. Mostly. Whilst the green team has made plenty of hay out of the fact that Nvidia Geforce GPUs can now process physics routines in games like Unreal Tournament 3 (and benchmarks like 3D Mark Vantage), amateur coders have had fun in the past few weeks trying to get the same routines running on AMD hardware – with the full support of Nvidia. The chaps at NGOHQ.com report that they got both software tools and developer assistance time from Nvidia to help get Physx running on ATI hardware – presumably since Nvidia considers this not just a marketshare bonus for Physx, but a major kick of sand in the face to Howling Hector, Dodgy Dirk and his crew, who not only couldn’t afford to buy Ageia, but can barely afford to buy a sandwich at the moment after losing $2.5bn of its $3.2bn of ATI goodwill. In a bid to get back some goodwill – albeit rather less than a few billion – ATI has now decided to help the amateur coders do their thang.
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J. TECH - Jul - 21st
Cheap and cheerful laptops winning out
By Emma Hughes: Monday, 21 July 2008
A RANGE OF NEW low-cost ultra-portables with improved specs is lined up to hit the shelves in time for the back-to-school season. With economic uncertainty postponing IT sales and affecting many business sectors it isn’t surprising that there is a demand for ‘basic’ or low-cost ultra-portables and a slowdown in desktop sales. The notebook market is reported to have driven the market growth by 53 per cent year on year while desktops did marginally better than expected at 0.7 per cent despite global economic pressure and rising energy costs. The demand for lower-priced, portable PCs is expected to rise as the school season passes and Christmas approaches, remaining popular in both the education and business sectors.
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J. TECH - Jul - 21st
Nvidia responds to Pat Gelsinger’s comments about CUDA being just a ‘footnote’ in computing history
by Ben Hardwidge 21st July 2008
Intel may have put the wind up the graphics business with the development of its Larrabee graphics chip, but Nvidia reckons that Larrabee is just a reaction to what Nvidia has already achieved with its GPGPU CUDA technology. What’s more, the comments from Intel’s Pat Gelsinger earlier this month have also stirred up a debate about the future of multi-core programming. Nvidia’s general manager of its GPU computing group, Andy Keane, told Custom PC that the high level of interest in CUDA ‘s causing Larrabee. Larrabee’s the reaction.’ He then added that ‘these comments from Gelsinger; if we were not making a lot of headway do you think he’d even give us a moment’s notice? No. It’s because he sees a lot of this activity. The strategy is to try to position it [CUDA] as something scary and unique, and it’s really not; it’s something that’s very accessible.’
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