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Price fixing... in the tech industry? Never... :p OCZ is largely after Fusion-IO's market, but 8x controllers in RAID 0 on MLC NAND... it makes me very uncomfortable. It's the metaphorical lightbulb, twice as bright, half as long. The thing is, with these silly IOPS numbers, they pretty much...

Skynet's gotta start somewhere, can't rule the world by pretending to be some online chat client called Alice. :p

There was the NVIDIA ESA system as well back in 2007, which was supposed to have done the same thing, it even had a number of OEM and system component manufacturers backing the system, so the PSU, CPU cooler, MB, various thermal sensors and such would all be connected to a unified system...

At CES, Corsair talked a bit about its upcoming 'Link' hardware monitor / control peripheral, but at the ongoing Computex conference in Taipei, the company showed off actual product and has even released pricing details. At launch, set to occur in July, there will be two kits to choose from...

Quote hunt or not, I should not make statements based on a hunch and assumption, unless otherwise required :)... I do not mind being called out, it was valid and just. DRM is a touchy subject, some it angers, to others it is a mild annoyance. Personally, I am in 2 minds over it, to protect IP...

I should avoid blanket statements and think a little more carefully - it should be that 'one of' the ideas behind DRM... but needless to say, it covers a broader range of ideals, most of which can be circumvented. Prevent disc copying, prevent resale of PC games, prevent play without a digital...

The combat to begin with in the first chapter is frustrating. I died more times than i could count - not even taking into consideration the boss fight. After completing the game once and replaying it, i found the combat much easier. I still have the same basic equipment, but i can handle the...

The idea of retail DRM is to prevent distribution and play before the game's initial release, not so much prevent zero-day piracy. Since retail copies are sent out weeks in advance, they needed the date lock from DRM to prevent an early release, both from leaked copies from the manufacturer and...

Furthering the idea that our smartphones should be able to do it all, Google has announced its "Wallet" mobile app that should soon become available for public consumption. Acting as a digital wallet, this app will be able to store multiple credit cards (no word on bank cards), gift cards and...

I think another indicator would be stock price - Microsoft has pretty much flat-lined over the last couple years. Recession based? Possibly... It's price goes up for a bit, then dips sharply, then up for a bit, then another dip; actually, looking at the last 5 years, its price is almost the same...

It's been over ten years since Steve Ballmer stepped into the CEO position at Microsoft, and since then, he's retained a lot of control over the company's direction. With the major success of select Windows releases, not to mention the Xbox and other Microsoft entities, it's hard to refer to...

It's not too often that someone will encourage someone else to drop out of college, and it's even rarer for someone to encourage twenty-four people to do it. Leave it to Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder and holder of a B.A. in philosophy and J.D. in law, to be the one to do it. You can read...

NVIDIA has long claimed that its Tegra SoC could deliver the best-looking mobile games on the market, and with Madfinger's upcoming Shadowgun, there could be proof of that. Building on the success of its Samurai series, Madfinger is looking to take things to the next level with Shadowgun by...

After I posted our news item of Fedora 15's release, I got restless. I had to install it. It's been a long time since I last used the distro for something other than a quick test, so I figure I'm long overdue for a return. And because I haven't given GNOME 3.0 a single test since its release...

True to its word, Mozilla this week released an official beta version of Firefox 5, with the final build slated for release next month. Firefox 5 will mark the first release to be issued under Mozilla's revised versioning scheme, and if all goes according to plan, we should still be seeing...

I right gud yo? Rob's a master of digital Dorodango, otherwise you'd end up reading about how much people are 'payed', companies referred to as people, and the shotgun effect as words randomly disappear from a sentence as they transfer from brain to fingers to keyboard... IRC can be a cruel...

Fedora, the Linux distribution that prides itself on being 100% free (as in freedom), has just seen the release of its 15th major version, codenamed "Lovelock". For regular users of the distro, there's a lot of change to take in, and for those tempted to take Fedora for a test drive, there's a...

A war is brewing. Monarchs, Lords and Nobility squabble away over fractured lands, the Mages fight amongst themselves, deception runs rife, corrupt officials, over-taxation and a world full of monsters to cast asunder - Geralt of Rivia is back, in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. You...

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Google last fall announced a complement to its WebM video encoder called "WebP", destined for photos. Similar to WebM, Google looked to make WebP a much more efficient codec to JPEG - one that offers equal or better quality at a smaller file size. Since Google hosts billions of JPEGs, it's no...