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You are also comparing a 7-year-old CPU with a brand spanking new one too (architectural difference aside), so I'm not surprised that the PS3 is now deemed 'inefficient'. The fact that the CPU is faster than a GPU in this case isn't a surprise either - CPUs have smarter pipelines and are...

68.1% of the smartphone market is Android... 18.8% iPhone. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/worldwide-market-share-smartphones-220747882--finance.html Something tells me it's more to do with adequate hardware capabilities and sufficient libraries. While Android is near 70% of the market, there is...

At a press event held Tuesday, Apple unveiled what has to be its worst-kept-secret to date - the iPad mini. On top of that, iMac and MacBook updates were also announced, and, so was a new iPad. Yes - despite the iPad "with Retina" being released just this past spring, Apple wasted no time in...

Yeah, I have no idea what to make of it honestly. Not going to say my soldering is perfect... but I'm having a hard time trying to figure out what's going on. Regardless, I've been moving on with other things and have multiple thermal sensors boarded out. All the thermistors are 50kOhm - there...

Remember Func? If you cared about mousepads five or so years ago, chances are you do. At the time, the company's "sUrface" pads were widely-accepted as being some of the best. We took at a look at its "Archetype" edition way back in January of 2006. I ended up using that same sample for years...

It feels like we've been talking about Windows 8 forever and to such a degree that it's sometimes hard to believe it isn't even out yet. In fact, some people have been running the RTM or preview release for months, and companies like AMD, NVIDIA and Intel have stepped up to the plate well in...

And things slowly get more complicated... Also, while testing out the Gertboard, I came across a rather weird problem. Stroking the GPIO cable would result in the various lights coming on. Think I made it self-aware... <object width="420" height="315"><param name="movie"...

GOG.com, has been around for quite some time but if you've been living under a rock. GOG is well known for having nothing but DRM free games and the ability to play old DOS based games on modern Windows or Linux platforms; today, it opens the doors to the Mac platform as well. You can...

Makes sense, Marfig. The software tells them people are not using certain features, so they remove them. Users that used it, then need to find a new method. New method is found, more people use it, use other methods less - those are then removed. It becomes a spiral of decline. Redesigning old...

I am not a programmer, my experience is mainly limited to scripting and web-dev. The ATMEGA chips (Atmel AVR in general) is not C++ though, it's a C derivative (called Processing), so a little simpler, but more complex, depending how you look at it. To be clear, the RPi IS a PC - it's just ARM...

Mechanical is definitely all it's made out to be - going back to using rubber/silicone keys, I really felt the strain on my fingers again, lol. And Doomsday - moments like that are when you use Vent, Teamspeak or Mumble.

I do have plans, most of which are not terribly interesting at the moment since I'm still working out the kinks in the setup. I will say it involves a lot of sensors with data logging, later expanded into making use of the PWM features to control fans. However, I will stop to have some fun with...

For those that don't know, the Raspberry Pi had a hardware revision, minor tweaks and some mounting holes, and swapping a couple pins round on the header board. More recently though, all new Model B Pis will come with 512MB RAM as standard. In other news Pi related, the Gertboard was shipped...

It's not hogwash, it's Science!

That resistance affects the velocity of the vehicle, slowing it down, so its speed forward is reducing, thus it is deemed 'negative acceleration'. It's one of those really silly 'relative' measurements. Funnily enough, this brings up something relating this guy going faster than the speed of...

I haven't been able to pin-point when exactly it happened, but Ubuntu-developer Canonical has introduced a donation suggestion page that prefaces the download of the desktop version of Ubuntu. While it's not uncommon for open-source projects to openly accept donations to help fund them...

Yes, the good old days when velocity, speed and acceleration were the same thing. :p This one time, in science class, I was told that there was no such thing as deceleration, it was in fact negative acceleration. Oh how our minds exploded...

If you've been anywhere near the Internet this past week, you've likely been made aware of a record-breaking skydiving attempt that was soon to take place. Well, that happened yesterday, after having been delayed due to bad weather on Tuesday. With this jump, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner...

"I mean, third place, seriously..." Also, exploding bullies are cool...

I have to admit, ordered chaos looks like a painful skill system to manage. Anarchy and Discord, with heavy emphasis on Anarchy. Best Friends Forever - heal with a full magazine? Auto Ricochet bullets? Instant shield regen to ally? I knew it was going to be an 'easy' mode, but damn...