Nvidia hired Jaimie and Adam from Mythbusters to explain the difference between a CPU and a GPU. In it they used a paintball gun (computer controlled) to paint a face. That in itself sounds cool… but the monster they created to compare to a GPU “painted” the Mona Lisa within milliseconds.
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Growing up I jumped from computer to computer for a number of years. At times working on multiple systems at once. In no particular order I was on computers from Apple, Atari, Commodore, Colecovision Adam, TI 99/4A* and oh yeah the Trash 80 for dos. In that time I wrote some basic [...]
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Its a tool that is often used in school. A tool that in retrospect I would of assumed was just a typical Apple program. But the story behind it, show that it was anything but typical.
[...]Graphing Calculator 1.0, which [...]
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“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” –Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” –Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
“I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure [...]
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I love Seagate. They just sent me a stack of terabyte drives and they aren’t even my sponsor anymore.
[Twitter / Scobleizer]
Companies love advertising, even sometimes bad advertising. But in this case, they are getting a lot of bang for their buck… Especially if Robert Scoble likes the drives. And here I figured Western Digital would [...]
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I just got this in my email:
Looking at that price and after reading all the great reviews on it. I almost want to run out and get one. But I already have a laptop that works fine and is great for traveling, and my ipod touch that goes everywhere with me (It seriously [...]
I got an OLPC XO-1 a few days ago in the mail as part of the give one, get one program. Hopefully some child out there is enjoying their new laptop–there’s a certain amount of opacity in the process so I have no idea even if this laptop went to some needy far-flung village in [...]
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For the past year or so, gamers have been in a tough spot. There have been options for those who want decent DirectX 9 performance, but newer games are more demanding and some of the affordable cards in the sub-$300 price range aren’t delivering great experiences anymore. Then there’s DirectX 10. DX10 games are [...]
I blaim the fact that NBC actually has good shows on Mondays like Chuck, Heroes and Journeyman… I have run across a few interesting things (nothing earth shattering) but I think I’ll only leave you tonight with the computer of the future/past.
A 20-YEAR-OLD student was electrocuted by his computer this morning in Shanghai’s Yangpu District, Eastday.com reported.
The young man, who was identified as Wu, reportedly opened the external casing of the computer’s CPU to prevent it from overheating because he didn’t want to switch on the air conditioner in his home.
According to the report, his sweaty [...]
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