The Blu-ray Bandwagon The Blu-ray bandwagon has not only gained support, but has also grown technologically. First off, recent developments by Sharp have made a new laser that will give a significant boost to writing speeds. Next on the menu, Walmart is now exclusively supporting "the Blu-ray" which is seriously bad news for HD-DVD, just because its Walmart.... Blu-ray.com - Wal-Mart To Exclusively Support Blu-ray TG Daily - 6x Blu-ray drives on the horizon NVIDIAWell, NVIDIA has been all over the place lately, and have a couple headlines these last couple days. On a quick little related side note here, its really weird how AMD's slide downwards has effected the rest of the industry. OK, so, first off, all GeForce 8 cards are going to gain PhysX support, implementation will be through CUDA, so i'm guessing there will be some driver update for support. Next on the NVIDIA list here, is there 9600GT, which reminds me of the 7600 which was a friggin little monster, so we'll see how this one turns out (hopefully not like the 8600GT, or the first 8800GTS, but i have faith in the 9 series cards) Well, i don't think NVIDIA has actually talked to AMD about any of this, didn't really say in the article, but AMD's roadmap for integrated graphics on a CPU could mean trouble for NVIDIA. Only real complication for them rate now, being AMD's not transferable x86 license with Intel. Oh yeah, not sure if NVIDIA took any notice, but IBM and AMD were actually talking about a merger of sorts, so not sure whats going on there. GeForce 8 graphics processors to gain PhysX support - The Tech Report ASUS EN9600GT retail picture ! - XtremeSystems Forums X-bit labs - Analyst Expects Nvidia to Acquire AMD Despite of Chances to Lose x86 License. Red Alert 3 I dunno, like, this whole CnC thing, its dumb in the first place that EA promotes that, like they are trying to get rid of the different game worlds, and just make them all like hey, come play our CnC games. Yeah, so i'm sure you can tell that i am THRILLED about this one, lots of cues in the article that i'm not so sure about, making naval combat a focus point, new factions, new units, i dunno. New units to me sounds like all new line-up, throwing out what was good (like they did with Tiberian Sun 3) I dunno, co-op campaign play is a really cool idea, that will be novel, but as far as everything else goes i just really hope they stick to what made everything so great, if its not broken, then don't fix it, guess we can only hope for the best. C&C: Red Alert 3 Announced for PC, Consoles - Shacknews - PC Games, PlayStation, Xbox 360 and Wii video game news, previews and downloads OPAMP Also known as the quality of the Operational Amplifier, which influences analog sound quality. Basically OPAMPs control the quality of sound on your sound card, so the better the OPAMP the better the sound. Now, what Azuzen has done is created a socket for OPAMPs, so you can upgrade them, pretty neat. Auzentech, Inc. Sound Cards. Audio You Can Believe In. World First soundcards for Music, HTPC, and Gaming. IBM PowerupIBM has created a free MMO for the classroom that allows them to save the world. The goal is to engage kids and educators in engineering, energy, and diversity awareness. http://http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23519.wss Samsung SSDSamsung has just begun volume production of a 64gb SATA II SSD, for use in some Dell and Alienware notebooks, they should be an option in the next couple weeks. Samsung begins volume production of 64GB SATA II SSD
