Stage 6 - Joining the Dodo Bird
February 25, 2008
Stage6 to Shut Down on February 28
You may remember the Stage6 service as the sole provider of illegal movie downloads and serious copyright infringements. But in reality it was the first innovative provider and pioneer of VOD for people in any country, no restrictions.
It’s a shame that people will no longer be able to build their illegal movie collections by simply clicking “download.” Damn you Hollywood!
Also say goodbye to aggregator sites such as Joox & Quicksilverscreen (using Google Video now).
Hit the link to read the message from “Spinner”
The Time Fountain - Optical Illusion
February 25, 2008
Start with the video…
How are the effects possible?
Strobe lights work by only allowing us to see an object a few times a second. Because our brain is still merging the images it’s getting from the retina, the effect is that we perceive the object in “slow motion.” Some objects, such as a dripping water, can even be made to appear “frozen” by matching the flashes of light to the speed of the object.
You can check out more detailed info here: http://cre.ations.net/creation/the-time-fountain
Phun - 2D Physics Sandbox
February 25, 2008
Check out PHUN in this video –
“Phun is a Master of Science Theises by Computing Science student Emil Ernerfeldt for supervisor Kenneth Bodin at VRLab, Umeå University. The solver is based on work by Claude Lacoursière
Phun is meant to be a playground where people can be creative. It can also be used as an educational tool to learn about physics concepts such as restitution and friction.
Phun was coded in C++ using OpenGL, GLEW, SDL (for window management), SDL_image (for reading images) and boost, including boost_filesystem. Everything was coded by me, including the physics engine and user interface.”
– http://www.acc.umu.se/~emilk/index.html
Download the Beta version here
Enjoy all of the 2D physics that you can handle.
If you design anything interesting record it and we’ll post the video.
Xbox 360 - HD-DVD player $50
February 25, 2008
This doesn’t come as a big surprise! Xbox 360’s HD-DVD player is now available for the bargain basement price of 49-dollars. So you now have two options — Purchase the player and use it as a High-Tech coaster or throw your money into the sewer. The choice is yours.
Intel’s Dunnington - Previewed
February 25, 2008
What is Dunnington?
Dunnington is Intel’s not yet released 45nm 6-core Xenon Processor. Slated to succeed Intel’s Tigerton 65nm Xenon Processor.
What’s with the Hype?
The specs and details were not supposed to be made public for some time. However, “somehow” SUN mismanaged their resources and spilled the beans earlier this week.
These sexy beasts include 16MB of L3 cache that will be shared by all six cores. Seperated into pairs, the “core-pairs” will also have 3MB of L2 cache available for use. Each chip will contain updated instruction sets such as — SSE4. Intel will also be abandoning the dated Front-side bus model for a system similar to AMD’s Hypertransport.
When can you expect to see these running your servers?
Speculation has led us all to believe that we will be able to pickup Dunnington sometime during Q4 2008.
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