Matt Gemmell (via @alblue) posted to his Flickr account a shot of his brand new Apple Magic Trackpad ($69) right next to the oversized trackpad most of us have on our MacBook Pro’s to give an idea of the size:
At first I thought the image was clipped and overlaid, but as it turns out the [...]
Alex Blewitt tweeted an article by Paul Tyma titled: Thousands of Threads and Blocking I/O: The old way to write Java servers is new again. Paul is the Founder/CEO of ManyBrain, the creator of Mailinator.
Paul’s 65-slide presentation is a fast read for anyone interested in Java I/O, especially in a client/server setup. What makes the [...]
Wow, what a disappointment. After all the NVIDIA-spewed hype about beating down ATI when their DX 11 cards were finally out, the reviews are finally in on the brand new NVIDIA 480 and 470 cards and I’ll save you the trouble of reading every single review out there like I just did:
NVIDIA’s GeForce 480 performs [...]
Big thanks to Marc Chung for forwarding this along. Visual Economics has put together a huge visual comparison of the cost of health care from around the world. What you see above is a snippet of just the top of the comparison, the full page graphic (mirror link) is packed full of more details.
Some of [...]
What happens when you are addicted to speed and have a Seagate Cheetah 15k.6 (SCSI) drive setup in your desktop and a brand new Intel X25-M in your laptop? You benchmark them, that’s what!
In an attempt to compete with the oncoming shit-house that is Microsoft’s Bing, Facebook’s real-time Search and everyone else generally wanting a piece of the Google pie, Google has pulled version 2 of Google Search out of the garage for some beta test runs while they tighten the screws over the coming months.
You can give [...]
11points had a piece up showing 11 comparisons of celebrities from their high school year books and current date public images.
About half of the year book photos resemble the celebrity that we know, love and hate today:
While others were just down-right surprising:
Not too shabby Seacrest… not too shabby at all.
Anyway thought some of you might [...]
Summary [8.5 out of 10]
Call of Duty 5: World at War is a must-have COD title for fans of the series and a title dripping with enough polish, charm and replayability that gamers previously not enamored with the COD series might want to rent it and give it a try.
Introduction
Call of Duty: World at War [...]
Long time reader and all around great guy Gordon Walter wrote in and asked us about making heads or tails of the computer-offerings (especially the quad-core) computer offerings showing up online this holiday season.
His questions were good ones and we thought it best to answer them for everyone to read. See our answers inlined below [...]
Uh oh, it looks like we might have been wrong on this one. Preliminary reviews of Guitar Hero: World Tour suggest that things might not be as rosey in the Guitar Hero camp as originally thought with their first foray into the “full band” experience.
Unlocking Songs
In previous Guitar Hero titles songs were always presented to [...]
Kotaku is rocking the Rock Band 2 news as they got a set of the drums in and snapped off some great shots of them up close, far away and comparing the two (Rock Band 1 vs Rock Band 2) drum sets.
Overall the Rock Band 2 drum set looks about 15% bigger pads, Kotaku claims [...]
Ars has a piece up about the Tracemonkey JavaScript engine work that we will first see in Firefox 3.1 (currently in nightlies) but is the first part of major JavaScript work known as Tamarin that won’t be seen until Firefox 4.0.
Apparently the Mozilla JavaScript engine is getting worked over from the ground up with an [...]
Gametrailers has put together a comparison video for Soulcalibur IV that compares the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game. While the scenes were in motion I could barely see a difference, but at a few moments during the action stopping, I suddenly saw it… I suddenly saw the “epicly more powerful” PS3 [...]
We’ve been covering the up-coming war between Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Band 2 as the details unfold… this is mostly because I finally played one of these games and see why people like them so much; they are pretty fun.
Since Guitar Hero: World Tour got the announcement-drop on Rock Band 2, Rock Band [...]
Damn, I really thought the potential for Saints Row 2 was dead after those “teaser trailers” came out and were boring as sin, then GTA4 dropped… it was an end-game… until we all noticed that GTA4’s multiplayer was sort of lame for co-op junkies and it came out that Saints Row 2 was going to [...]
A detailed, mostly physical comparison between the iPhone and the BlackBerry Bold. If you saw the Bold and were curious how thick, wide, tall, short, heavy it was, this is the article to read.
The gist of it is that the BlackBerry Bold is a bit thicker, has almost exactly the same surface form factor and [...]
bfdtv, a user on AVS Forum took the time to do a competitive analysis if the new re-compression Comcast is doing in order to fit more HD channels on the same network without chopping out a significant number of analog channels to compensate. The end result is that your once gloriously untouched HD channels are [...]
Peter Thomas has put together an excellent blog post comparing the development of a simple “forum application” using both Wicket (now in Apache Incubator) and JavaServer Faces (JSF). I’ve wanted to do a comparison like this for a long time and while I’ve developed using both technologies I’ve never done a side by side comparison [...]
As you know there are going to be 7 or 8 versions of Vista available. It’s hard to figure out which one is right for you. The versions are presented in sort of a smallest-to-greatest fashion, but when you actually look at the feature breakdown, that’s not the case at all. For example, the ones [...]
Ran across a fairly good tabular comparison of PostgreSQL and MySQL 4.1/5.0. I’ve personally always held the belief that a good way to determine which one you should use is to ask yourself:
Do you want Oracle or MS SQL Server without the commercial prices?
NO: Using MySQL is fine
YES: Use PostgreSQL
Do you plan on coding all [...]
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