Some say you can port just about any top PC game to Linux on your PC. Naysayers maintain that most games don't run on Linux, and the ones that do, run badly. This article decided to cut to the chase and detail what works and what doesn't, with some input from ATi's and NVIDIA's top software developers.
Gosh it looks so cool, but I am dubious about sound quality. But the cool factor of sunglasses w/ mp3 player is so overpowering... Take a look and be mesmerized...
Sony is inching closer toward meeting its self-imposed deadline for the worldwide delivery of its PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld gaming device. Amazon.com's UK Web site has revealed that the PSP will be released to suppliers on March 18, 2005, firing the opening shot in Sony's mission to unseat Nintendo as the dominant player in handheld gaming.
Although rumors about component procurement problems continue to persist, the company has already managed to distribute the PSP in Japan where it sold approximately 510,000 units inside of a month.
Product pricing was equivalent to $185 USD; however, the Amazon listing retails for £179.99 which, at today's exchange, amounts to $338.83 USD.
The PlayStation Portable wears many hats. At its heart it is a handheld gaming device, but Sony has equipped the PSP with the capacity to play music and display movies on a high resolution screen.
Rival Nintendo has taken a more conventional approach to its latest design and does not currently provide digital media playback on its DS system. The Nintendo DS was first available in mid-November for suggested retail price of $150 USD.
Additional features Sony has packed into the PSP include a new optical media format and battery life of four to six hours. A Sony spokesperson was not available for comment.
Considering in procuring a laptop for my work. Candidates are Asus M5x/S5x series, the HP/Compaq nc40xx or Fujitsu Lifebook S62xx series. Requirements: ultraportable, <4 pounds, 12.1"/13.3" Intel Centrino 1.7Ghz Dothan with 512Mb Ram, 60Gb HDD. Budget is $2000 Canadian. Possible?
On January 27, 2005, Hattrick surpassed 500 000 active users for the first time. Half a million people in the same place, sharing the same interest – that’s not half bad. In fact, it’s pretty much what we could ever have hoped for when Hattrick started way back in 1997!
Did you know that Hattrick now has a population larger than those of 72 real life nations?
That our site reaches more people than the home page of Fifa?
That 100 000 messages are posted on our forums – every day?
Who would have thought that almost 8 years ago, when the first users stumbled upon the beta version of the Hattrick site…?
We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved – from the most recent newbies to our most veteran users. Thank you, truly - for spending your time here, for bringing your friends here as well, and for creating such a generous and interesting community for us all to enjoy!
It is a new year, and a new season, and we are getting ready for the challenges ahead. Hattrick and the Hattrick community may be bigger than ever, but what makes us really proud is that it is also better than ever. We are looking forward to the years ahead; to many seasons of exciting play and to the day we can welcome our millionth manager.
When it comes to Intel's server processors, cache is king. A server roadmap posted on the company's Web site indicates that Intel plans to double the amount of on-chip memory available on the Xeon processor MP, which is designed for use in 4-way servers. The enhancement will be included in a forthcoming release of Xeon MP, code named Potomac, which is expected in the second quarter of this year.
Intel had previously disclosed that the Potomac cache size would be larger than the 4MB available in the company's current 3-GHz Xeon MP chips. The roadmap indicates that Potomac will have a clock speed equal to or greater than 3.5 GHz and a cache size of 8MB.
While faster frequencies were once the standard way of improving processor performance, Intel has encountered difficulty moving its processor to 4 GHz. In October, the company backed off on a promise to release a 4 GHz version of its Pentium 4 chip, and none of the Pentium or Xeon processors on the server roadmap list frequencies higher than 3.8 GHz.
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Intel has also made design decisions that limit the speed with which Intel's processing cores can communicate with memory, forcing the company to boost performance by building larger and larger caches, says Kevin Krewell, editor-in-chief of the Microprocessor Report in San Jose, California. "Because they lag in that feature, that's one of the reasons they have to build up the cache size," he says.
Initial Evan: Perhaps this is why AMD's lower clock cycles are still faster.
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