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Ah, no way! I'm a geek, not a nerd. :cool: I just knew it was Direct3D. The rest... is on the internets, baby!

Nope. DirectX was Microsoft's from the start. What you are thinking is Direct3D, the API portion of DirectX concerned with 3D rendering. The British company was bought the same year Microsoft first launched DirectX and its 3D API served as the basis for Direct3D, which was then launched with...

"The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. [...] The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about...

>> 53.23 degrees latitude, the official boundary between the North and South of England As long as my room as a view to the north side... :p As for Red Gate, they are also the ones that bought an excellent freeware product known as Reflector, and then turned it into a commercial product. They...

That would certainly be the pinnacle of my life. To be part of some stunt event for a movie like X-Men. I can see myself entering this contest. It's a beautiful vision. I get both knees capped by some overpaid stuntman because movie tickets are sold like if they were made of gold. I'm so mad...

I'm -- happily, I must add -- on the same boat. I caught it when the name was still smart phones, and just don't want to jump ship. I don't think I will ever look at a cellphone as anything more than a convenient, if annoying, object to make and receive calls. And just that. Hugely interested...

Let's see on the 24th. Right now wasn't that much impressed. the images in the video just flew by (I wish they stopped this type of advertisement) and didn't give much an idea if this is Yet-Another-Failed-Promise-At-A-Gaming-Simulator, or something that is finally working as advertised. It's...

>> The EOS-1D X is packed as it is, but taking things to another level, it includes a 1Gbit/s LAN port right on the body. This can be used to transfer photos at a rate much faster than USB 2.0, and also be used to daisy-chain multiple cameras together. Now, I'm just picturing 6 cameras...

Thanks for the great review Ryan. Boy what a headset! I have some mixed feelings about it. The price is certainly one of those things you ear about and can't avoid twitching. $130 for a gaming headset would certainly be a new experience to me. One I'm not sure I'm willing to ever consider in my...

Take a look at here first: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/serious-disk-cleanup-problem-caused-by-broken-registration/ If CCleaner uses the same registry keys to check the files to delete, you may get these odd values. In the link above you can use the author's cleanmgrfix.reg he links to...

The thread you are looking for is here. Now get out of my Deus Ex thread! :p Seriously though, seems to be some bug on the link, which points to t=0000, when it should be t=8210.

It does look great indeed. A couple of other things I also found excellent: - We will now be able to finally see a breakdown of each svchost.exe entry on the task manager. No more hunting down PIDs on the services tab. - Friendly names for processes and services. Essentially what they...

Becoming quite the common little bastards these pseudo-AI chat bots. Here's another one: http://cleverbot.com/ This one both for Android and iOS.

There's only one place over here I've seen this beer. But where I had my first taste was in Adelaide, Australia. So, while probably not the type you get to see widely exported, it should be found on some select places that go to the trouble of getting it.

It should be mentioned that on the matter of imported beers, you should find some consolation on a few rare high quality local breweries. Russian River (California) produces two worldwide recognized beers. The Pliny beers. You'll find Pliny The Younger and Pliny the Elder. The Elder is a year...

I long lost any hope of Hollywood studios to do any serious homage to Marvel Comics (although here we are talking about DC universe). Hell, even Stan Lee had to put a stop to them once and took over the direction of X-Men just to get a minimally decent version that wouldn't suck! It may not...

I have no doubts Dennis Ritchie passing will not have the public repercussion the passing of Steve Jobs had. We live in a society which cares little for why things are the way they are and elects their heroes the men of women in their immediate horizons. Several hours after the official...

I might have just been convinced. I didn't know about this service either. But took a look at their website, the game offerings, their obvious respect for the indie industry, the prices, even this youtube video where we learn a bit about the Trent Oster, the gentleman behind Beamdog, and I find...

I don't think people are less intelligent. Simply they they choose to not apply their intelligence to gain more insight into a technology that invariably will keep surrounding them at a professional and daily level. It's possible that one day the Xbox or the Playstation will make it into our...

Consoles and Computer Illiteracy This afternoon I had the son of a neighbor come by because his Xbox couldn't play most of his disks. I had to explain to him I have no clue about consoles and how to fix them. My daughters have an Xbox because it would be that or no love from them. But I...