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If you believe this Washington Post article, damn near everyone cheats. Now, it may be true that people use cheat codes to beat a game and so on, but should all cheats be lumped together like this article has them?
Here's the ugly, sometimes dirty, often-overlooked truth in games: Everyone cheats. In many instances, cheating is built into the game. It's a multimillion-dollar industry, legally sanctioned. Well, at least most of it.
Intel is set to release development tools to programmers to help them take full advantage of multicore systems.
The chip giant has forecast that by the end of this year, about 70 percent of its chips will be multicore. That is, each processor will host more than one processing unit, a design that increases performance without increasing power consumption.
DigiTimes is reporting that high-capacitance multi-layer ceramic capacitors are in short supply because Sony’s PS3 will use twice the amount that the PS2 used. Manufacturers are reportedly asking Japanese suppliers to raise allocations and bump up production.
The sources claimed Japan-based makers of high-capacitance MLCCs are tightening their supply for other clients in order to meet the demand from the PS3 games console, which is expected to hit the market in October or November this year. Each PS3 game console needs about 2,000 high-capacitance MLCCs, double the amount for the PS2, the source added.
It looks like Google will have an exclusive deal to sell text ads on eBay at the same time allowing buyers to call an online merchant by clicking a text link.
The arrangement announced Monday promises to introduce "click-to-call" Web site technology to a broader audience and potentially speed its adoption as a means to more quickly connect online consumers with advertisers. It allows potential buyers to call up sellers by clicking a link in a Web page.
Memory
OCZ PC2-6400 SOE Urban Elite Memory @ hardCOREware
ETC
MicrosoftR Lifecam VX-6000 Review @ hi-techreviews
Super Talent 2GB MEGA Screen MP3/FM/Recorder Player @ Hardware-Review
Ultimate Ears super.fi 5 EB Earphones @ Hardware-Review
USB Little Mice Speakers from Brando WorkShop @ DragonSteelMods
USB Notebook Cooling Pad with 4 USB Ports from Brando WorkShop @ DragonSteelMods
Vizo Lan Dock @ Rbmods
The guys at BBSpot are it again, this time with their list of the Top Eleven Google Products we won’t be seeing anytime soon, which is a shame because I could see a serious use in the market to this one:
11. Google Hitman Assistant - Find, schedule, and collect on all your assassinations with this suite of products.
Overclocking
Overclocking the Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Processor @ Legit Reviews
Overclocking Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 @ NordicHardware
Motherboard
Tyan Tempest i5000VF & i5000VS @ Phoronix
ASUS P5WD2-E Premium 30-day Test Drive @ techFEAR
Cooling
Enermax Marathon Enlobal 120mm Fan @ ThinkComputers
OCZ Tempest AMD/INTEL CPU Cooler @ Futurelooks
Jetart VC2600 GPU Cooler @ XSReviews
Conferences
ATi Tech Day @ Tech ARP
PAXtravaganza! Day 1 @ OCModShop
I am sure a lot of you have used a driver or bios mods before to squeeze some additional power out of your system. If you have been reading up on the softmod that supposedly makes your Audigy2 an Audigy4, you might want to read this before making any moves.
The buzz has actually been around for a while, but I didn't notice it until I saw this thread in our forum. Started by longtime member 5-Clicks, it is titled "Softmod your Audigy/2/Live! into an Audigy 4 Pro!". In it, there is a link to another forum describing how to install Audigy 4 drivers on an Audigy 2 card. Some of the comments in the forums made me curious:
Cooling
RaidSonic IcyBox IB-360StUS-B-BL @ Cooling-Station
Cases
Silverstone Temjin Series TJ08 mATX @ Overclockers Melbourne
Sunbeamtech Tuniq 2 @ Bjorn3D
Power Supplies
Kingwin Absolute Power ABT-600CW @ PCApex
About 22 billion people freaked out yesterday when the word on the internet was that the 32-bit version of Vista couln’t play Blu-ray or HD DVD content. Apparently the developer who made those remarks was incorrect. So, there is no reason to panic, the bundled DVD software that comes with your new HD drive will work just fine.
"The information he provided to that audience was incorrect," a representative told CNET News.com. "Playback is possible with Windows Vista in 32-bit." The decision of whether to offer that support, the representative said, won't be made by Microsoft but rather by the third-party software makers that create DVD playback software, folks like CyberLink and InterVideo.
If you are like me, sitting on a 7 - 10Mbps broadband connection and think you are hot stuff, this article about broadband abroad ought to make you feel inadequate pretty quick.
For example, in the United Kingdom, you can buy DSL service with a download speed of up to 24 megabits per second. In Denmark, some people have fiber-optic connections as fast as 100 mbps. And in Italy and Spain, broadband service is cheap, and dial-up service is free (except for the cost of the local call). Still, many countries have their own connection quirks; read about them below.
There is an update due out today for the Intel PROSet software that is hogging system memory. According to an Intel spokesman, the problem affects the Intel PROSet software version 10.5.
"One of the processes used by the Intel PROSet software was not releasing the (file) handles correctly, which caused more and more memory to be used by the process," Martin said. As a result, a PC slows down, she said.
