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Abridged Future Inquirer Columnists, May 2009
2009-05-19 21:25:00 (I also posted here, and I ended up putting this out there "after hours" in case anyone missed it.)Well, it figures that The Sturdy Beggars would kick off the speculation as to who would end up as the next monthly columnist of the Philadelphia Inquirer here (with Brendan Calling following up here ? hat tips for both to Atrios). So I guess I?d better get my nominations in pronto.I know D-Mac shut down his site a couple of months ago; he used to do this for the Daily News, but I think it fits here also. What follows are my list of candidates and their choice of topics?Thomas Capano (in his words) ? Hey, this says that we may have had a hand in the death of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, somebody we tortured to manufacture a link to Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda as an excuse for the Iraq war. Why didn?t we just stuff him in a water cooler and shoot a couple of holes in it instead (here)? That would have worked just as well, if only Gerry had shut his mouth and Debbie had decided to have a memory...
Philly Inquirer: All Whites are Racists, ?Shouldn?t be Allowed to Vote?
2008-10-27 18:51:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Did you know that all white people are so racist that they shouldn’t be allowed to vote? Did you know that people who are armed are stupid? Did you know that President Bush caused 9/11? Oh, and did you know that most of Pennsylvania is a “long dark chicken dance of ...
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Philly Inquirer?s New Palin Slam: She Sold her State?s Plane? So What?
2008-09-10 16:46:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Mario Cattabiani of the Philadelphia Inquirer wants you to know that Governor Sarah Palin’s selling of her state’s plane is no big deal. Why? Well, because Democrat Governor Ed “Fast Eddie” Rendell sold his state’s plane, too, and he got a better deal. So, Palin’s plane purveying pales next to Rendell’s according ...
By: Publius Forum
Inquirer not precise, specific, accurate
2008-09-02 00:23:00 Headline: Davao bus blast kills 6 Is it not better to be precise and specific? Digos bus blast kills 6 Davao and Digos have the same five letters and would surely fit in the front of the Inquirer. But why did the Inquirer editors use Davao instead of the more accurate Digos as the site of the ... [ This is a content summary only. Visit PinoyBlogoSphere.com for full links, other content, and more! ]
Philly Inquirer Says No 4th For You, America is Evil, WOT is a ?Scam?
2008-07-02 00:36:00 -By Warner Todd Huston You know, I was wondering when this was going to happen, when someone in the MSM would say Bush has ruined July Fourth? The Philadelphia Inquirer didn’t disappoint by wallowing in the worst example of blame-America-above-all as well as the most extreme case of BDS that I’ve seen outside the kind of ...
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Skeptical Inquirer 32:1
2008-05-27 12:45:00 The latest issue of Skeptical Inquirer (32:1) has been released, and as usual there are a bunch of free online articles from the new mag: "Exciting UFOs Become Bland IFOs", by Joe Nickell. "A Darwinian View of a Hostile Atheist", by Irwin Tessman. "Chiropractic: A Profession Seeking Identity", by Samuel Homola, and "A Skeptical Consumer's Look at Chiropractic Claims: Flimflam in Florida?", by Bruce Thyer and Gary Whittenberger. "The Difference between Hahnemann and Darwin", by U. Kutschera. "One Large Defeat for Science in Canada", by Gary Bauslaugh. Full details of the entire contents available at the SI website.
Graphzilla prepping early G200 launch - The INQUIRER
2008-04-26 15:52:00 Graphzilla prepping early G200 launch - The INQUIRER: "THE GREEN TEAM is moving up its launch of the GeForce 9900 series to July in a bid to counter DAAMIT's launch of RV770, according to our old friend Internet Reports.The bods at VR-Zone offer no hard info for their claims beyond the usual sources, but it doesn't seem like an improbable move. If AMD actually gets its act together and RV770 - the Radeon 4800 series - actually turns out to be a performance crown-winner, Nvidia won't want to let that stand for very long.The 9900GT was previously speculated to be the first card out of the bag, given the stunning sales and benchmark performance of the 8800GT, but it may now be that all chips are being stuck into GTX and GTS cards to make sure that Nvidia stays top dog in the face of new competition."
By: Max Pc Tech
Philadephia Inquirer: Why Sen. Obama Might Take Pennsylvania
2008-04-22 01:05:00 The demographics suggest Obama does not need to win even most of the state's 67 counties, but rather concentrate winning 14 of them, what Ed Rendell did to become governor. Such demographics, plus upswing in new registrations, show PA is...
ATI cuts prices on the 3850 and 3870 - The INQUIRER
2008-03-22 15:17:00 ATI cuts prices on the 3850 and 3870 - The INQUIRER: "ATI IS GOING TO drop prices on the 3850 and 3870 in the next day or two. This is not a short term thing, it is a permanent cut.The price on the 3850/512 is going to sink to $145 or below, and the 3870/512 should hit $159 or less. At that money, many may ask, why bother with the 3850?In any case, these are screamingly good deals. You can buy three 3870s for the price of a 3870X2, or three and a mobo for less than a GX2. Not bad."
By: Max Pc Tech
NV 790i pricing leaves plenty of margin - The INQUIRER
2008-03-22 15:16:00 NV 790i pricing leaves plenty of margin - The INQUIRER: "ONE OF THE things that does not get out all that often is OEM pricing. With the recent launch of the NV 790i board, the high-end of the market went from $250 to $350. Where did that money go?Well, OEMs tell us that the money basically went into NV's bottom line. The cost to the OEMs on the 790i chipset is $110, a huge premium over the older chipsets. For comparison Intel, a company that never prices low, charges $70 for its X48.A good rule of thumb is that supplier cost ends up translating into about double the price they pay by the time you hand over your credit card. If mobo maker X adds a $5 heatsink to board Y, the price you pay for Y ends up being $10 more.Given this, the $40+ price gouge for the 790i will end up ramping board prices by $80, or most of the $100 increase. If you look at the functional differences between the X48 and 790i, there is precious little to justify the more than 50 per cent price increase, especi...
By: Max Pc Tech
Vista SP1 tips up - The INQUIRER
2008-03-18 18:30:00 Vista SP1 tips up - The INQUIRER: "ALTHOUGH SPINVOLES refuse to confirm or deny the imminent arrival of Vista Service Pack One, those helpful folk at Amazon have spilled the beans by revealing that new orders for the OS will ship with SP1 included this week.This ties in with Microsoft's earlier promise that SP1 would ship in mid March and suggests the patch will appear on Windows Update tomorrow (18th) as well."
By: Max Pc Tech
AMD quad-core B3 Phenoms due - The INQUIRER
2008-03-18 18:19:00 AMD quad-core B3 Phenoms due - The INQUIRER: "TAIWANESE WIRE Digitimes reckons AMD will launch B3 stepping quad-core Phenom 9050 within a week or two.Numbers in the series include 9850, 9750, 9650, 9550 and 9150Loose-lipped motherboard makers say the 9850 will be clocked at a core frequency of 2.5GHz. Later launches will crank up the megahurtz they whisper.With triple-core Phenom 8750, 8650 and 8450 CPUs coming in April and Black Edition dual-core offerings simmering, AMD is once again banking on product to pull itself back in the running."
By: Max Pc Tech
The Unnatural Inquirer
2008-03-13 05:48:00 The Unnatural Inquirer, by Simon R. Green, is the 8th novel in the Nightside series.
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Map your keyboard to your brain - The INQUIRER
2008-03-05 13:34:00 Map your keyboard to your brain - The INQUIRER: "N ONE OF THOSE moments where life imitates sci-fi, OCZ Technology has announced their Neural Impulse Actuator has gone into mass production. Now, what the heck is a Neural Impulse Actuator – or NIA - you ask?The device, a strap-on headband plugged to your PC via USB 2.0, reads your mind and turns whatever you’re thinking into reality. Or not. What it actually does is read electrical signals from your brain through 3 carbon sensors, and with a little getting-used-to, turns them into in-game actions - literally mapping your keyboard to your brain’s reactions. This works akin to an EEG readout, with specific signals corresponding to keystrokes on your keyboard. There’s a learning curve, as some have put it, but it’s only a matter of practice."
By: Max Pc Tech
IE8 will now conform to standards - The INQUIRER
2008-03-05 13:28:00 IE8 will now conform to standards - The INQUIRER: "AFTER MUCH grumbling by developers and users, the vole has abruptly volete faced on its strange IE8 decision to make web pages opt in to conforming behaviour, now deciding that it would in fact be a better idea to have the new browser render in full standards mode by default. This means that the new browser now passes the Acid-2-rendering test.The Vole had originally intended to make the super-standards mode an opt-in choice with IE 7 'standards' mode the default, which, the Vole reckoned, would assure improved backwards-compatibility with current Web sites and applications. Now though, IE8 will have three rendering modes: the new standards-compliant mode, the IE7 rendering engine and an option for displaying older Web sites. Sites that want IE8 to use its IE7 engine will have to add a tag to their code."
By: Max Pc Tech
Nvidia 9800GX2 clocks revealed - The INQUIRER
2008-03-03 13:32:00 Nvidia 9800GX2 clocks revealed - The INQUIRER: "WE JUST GOT hard measured numbers on the Nvidia 9800GX2. There has been a lot of speculation on clocks and speeds, so here is what the one we have access to did.The stock speeds will be 600/1000/1500MHz for core, memory and pixel shaders, but they OC a bit beyond that. With the broken OS, 64-bit edition, and an Intel quad, they score 14,4xx in 3DMark06 at default settings.You can crank up the core frequency, but at least on the ones we have access too, memory goes all of a pittance higher, and shaders don't budge at all. If you push it as hard as you can go, you can just break 16K on 3DMark06."
By: Max Pc Tech
Quoted by the Philippine Daily Inquirer; press con today
2008-02-29 04:57:00 Please check the front page of the Philippine Daily Inquirer today (February 29) and read the article titled “UP profs ask Arroyo to quit; schools go GMA-free” by Norman Bordadora. (I was quoted in the article, the online version of which may be retrieved here.) There will be a press conference today at 1 p.m. ...
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Intel CSI Nehalem and Dunnington details leak - The INQUIRER
2008-02-24 12:42:00 Intel CSI Nehalem and Dunnington details leak - The INQUIRER: "ACE’S HARDWARE has pointed to details of Intel’s forthcoming “Nehalem” architecture.It also points to information about Dunnington, apparently based on an Intel presentation, including its launch date, slated for the second half of this year.The six-core Dunnington chip means each pair of cores supports 3MB of L2 cache, while the L3 shared cache, as reported here before, shares 16MB.The chip has a 1066MT/s interconnect and will support SSE4, coming in an mPGA 604 socket and with a TDP less than 130W. It will be pin compatible with Tigerton.Nehalem is projected as arriving late, supporting two, four and eight cores, representing four, eight and 16 threads."
By: Max Pc Tech
Intel readies six-core chip - The INQUIRER
2008-02-23 18:04:00 Intel readies six-core chip - The INQUIRER: "CHIP FIRM Intel is preparing to introduce a six core chip called the 'Dunnington', a processor that will pave the way for its Nehalem architecture later this year.According to Eclipse, the “Dunnington” was designed in Bangalore, and will use three dual core 45 nanometre Penryn processors with a shared 16MB L3 cache.It will use the “Clarksboro” chipset, the report said.More here."
By: Max Pc Tech
Intel readies six-core chip - The INQUIRER
2008-02-23 14:12:00 Intel readies six-core chip - The INQUIRER: "CHIP FIRM Intel is preparing to introduce a six core chip called the 'Dunnington', a processor that will pave the way for its Nehalem architecture later this year.According to Eclipse, the “Dunnington” was designed in Bangalore, and will use three dual core 45 nanometre Penryn processors with a shared 16MB L3 cache.It will use the “Clarksboro” chipset, the report said.More here"
By: Max Pc Tech
My Name On Inquirer.net
2008-02-21 02:46:00 I was surprised when I saw my name on this article. I thought Bayani San Diego Jr. (Inquirer.net columnist) ignored my email about Mariel Jacoda. Mariel Jacoda is one of the finalists of the Dance War: “Bruno vs. Carrie Ann” show on ABC. Mariel is a nineteen year-old filipina, a guitarist and vocalist from Chi-town. ... [ This is a content summary only. Visit PinoyBlogoSphere.com for full links, other content, and more! ]
9600GT recalled, 9800X2 delayed - The INQUIRER
2008-02-19 09:43:00 9600GT recalled, 9800X2 delayed - The INQUIRER: "IT LOOKS LIKE Nvidia is firing on no cylinders lately. The firm can't seem to get a product out on time. There is one bright spot: the count on the 9600GT delays has gone up by 50 per cent.That may not be a bright spot, but the so far twice delayed 9600GT, (specs here) appears to have been recalled. Some OEMs are getting the call to yank them, others not yet, or not at the time they talked to us. What this means is more and more delay, this time we are not sure how much though. An educated guess would be CeBIT, because what else are they going to launch there?Oh yes, we probably should mention that the 9800X2, or whatever they call it, has also moved from CeBIT to the end of March, for now. Before you get all hot and bothered, this is basically a couple of downclocked G92s on 2 PCBs.It will be decently fast, but it will also be expensive. The cheapest we can find a G92 based GT with 512MB memory is about $210, and a GTS for about $26...
By: Max Pc Tech
Gov. Ed Panlilio is Filipino of the Year 2007
2008-01-13 04:18:00 The newspapers always get delivered home late, especially during the weekends when the distributors insert all sorts of ads in between the pages. Still, it’s almost always worth waiting for. Today’s Inquirer is one such issue. It surely did not disappoint me with its choice for the Filipino for the Year 2007 (chosen by 44 of ...
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Philadelphia Inquirer Ad: Impeach Cheney now
2007-12-27 18:04:00 Good for the Philadelphia Inquirer for running this ad. Let’s hope more newspapers will run this ad. It’s time to impeach now! Last month, the House of Representatives voted to send a resolution of impeachment of Vice President Cheney to the Judiciary Committee. As members of the House Judiciary Committee, we strongly believe these important hearings ...
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Philadelphia Inquirer & Philly.com Debut Wine Videos
2007-12-21 05:04:00 Might as well hear about it from the fatboy himself. Here’s the link.
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The F.C.C. Loosens Restrictions on Big Media The Political Inquirer
2007-12-19 00:32:00 The F.C.C. Loosens Restrictions on Big Media The Political Inquirer In a controversial decision, F.C.C. commissioners voted to overturn a 32 year old ban on broadcaster ownership of newspapers. The new rules apply to the nation?s 20 largest media markets and were passed despite requests from the Senate to delay to vote. Click the link above ...
World's'oldest' man dies in Ukraine, aged 116 - Inquirer.net (World News)
2007-12-17 20:08:00 World's'oldest' man dies in Ukraine, aged 116 - Inquirer.net World's'oldest' man dies in Ukraine, aged 116Inquirer.net, Philippin-es -2 hours agoLVIV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian shepherd believed by some to beworld'soldest man has died at the age of 116, authorities in the western Lviv province…'World's-oldest man' dies in Ukraine in 117th yearXinhuaWorld's"oldes-t man" dies at 116MetroWorld's'oldest- human being' dies ...
Philadelphia Inquirer Editor Gushes over Bush, Columnist Panders to Anti-Im
2007-12-12 23:01:00 by Walter C. Uhler Liberal critics of the Philadelphia Inquirer have watched in amazement while the newspaper's management outsourced much its international and national news gathering responsibilities and promoted the famously incompetent conservative ideologue, Kevin Ferris, to the post of Editor of the Commentary Page. And when we thought things couldn't get much worse, the paper added Rick Santorum - yes, THAT Rick Santorum - to a bullpen of columnists already overstaffed with right-wing warmongers, who had gotten it so wrong on Iraq. Representative of this sorry situation is the latest piece of claptrap written by Ferris: "An Iraq campaign for hope." There, he gushes like a child and waxes euphoric about the "passion and enthusiasm" of President Bush - as if Bush has ever been anything but passionate and enthusiastic, even as he has subjected the United States and the world to the most evil and error prone presidency in U.S. history. Rememb...
Philly Inquirer: Pistol Packing GOP Candidates at Debates
2007-12-10 13:53:00 Apparently, the Philly Inquirer wants us to know that the GOP candidates for president are drooling, half sentient, Bible thumping, gun toting, racists. Oh, and Fred Thompson is stupid and lazy. Just as apparently, the Philadelphia Inquirer is having trouble finding writers for their rag. I mean, what else could explain their giving a teenager ...
Philly Inquirer: Pistol Packing GOP Candidates at Debates
2007-12-10 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Apparently, the Philly Inquirer wants us to know that the GOP candidates for president are drooling, half sentient, Bible thumping, gun toting, racists. Oh, and Fred Thompson is stupid and lazy. Just as apparently, the Philadelphia Inquirer is having trouble finding writers for their rag. I mean, ...
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Sixers Notes | OT loss may be tough to forget (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
2007-12-04 10:07:00 76ers Notes The Sixers suffered one of their most frustrating defeats Saturday, a 94-92 overtime loss in New Jersey after they owned an 18-point lead in the third quarter.
Peso surges, won falls in choppy Asia - Inquirer.net
2007-12-03 10:12:00 Peso surges, won water in choppy AsiaInquirer.net, Philippi-nes -2 hours ago"Carry trades are attractive a handicap lower," said corpuscle Capital Markets contriver Sue Trinh. "We are in for more of this choppy trading as forex markets are at the … More: continuing here
Forex inflows seen likely to sustain 10% growth - Inquirer.net
2007-12-02 17:12:00 Forex inflows seen probable to uphold 10% growthInquirer.net, Philip-pines -4 hours agoBy Doris Dumlao MANILA, state BANCO DE ORO-EPCI, THE country's large bank, expects external mercantilism remittances to the state sustaining a … More: continuing here
Helllllo Dali!!! From the pages of the Philadelphia Inquirer: The Salvador
2007-11-18 23:15:00 This is the Ladies, short-sleeve t-shirt art fans have been waiting for. The Philadelphia Inquirer captured the surrealistic style of the Salvador Dali exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art thru the lens of photographer Peter Tobia. The drama of Dali's self-portrait artfully graced the famous steps of the Museum, and now the image has been faithfully reproduced on this exclusive long sleeve tee. You can only get it at phillynewsstand.com. 100% pre-shrunk combed cotton…hot off the press! The color is white. Sizes include; Small, Medium, Large, X-Large. Click to go to phillynewsstand.com then click the Add to Cart button for an extraordinary holiday present.
macpic of the Day: iphone Case Heaven - Inquirer.net
2007-11-18 05:18:00 macpic of the Day: iphone Case HeavenInquirer.net, Philip-pines - 1 hour agoReceived a ton of cases in the office for review in my magazine from Digital Walker. Here are some on my desk. Heck of a lot to go through, really. … Read the entire original post via
Quick Review: Shielding an iphone - Inquirer.net
2007-11-17 23:21:00 Quick Review: Shielding an iphoneInquirer.net, Philip-pines - 2 hours agoWas able to get a full body kit from invisibleshield (Version Two) for the iphone the other week and resolved to get it onto my unit despite my foreboding … Read the entire original post via
Helllllo Dali!!!!!!! From the pages of the Philadelphia Inquirer: The Salva
2007-11-16 04:26:00 This is the long-sleeve t-shirt art fans have been waiting for. The Philadelphia Inquirer captured the surrealistic style of the Salvador Dali exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art thru the lens of photographer Peter Tobia. The drama of Dali's self-portrait artfully graced the famous steps of the Museum, and now the image has been faithfully reproduced on this exclusive long sleeve tee. You can only get it at phillynewsstand.com. 100% pre-shrunk combed cotton…hot off the press! The color is white. Sizes include; Small, Medium, Large, X-Large, XX-Large. Click to go to phillynewsstand.com then click the Add to Cart button for an extraordinary holiday present.
Paris Hilton?s fans get a whiff of celebrity - Philadelphia Inquirer
2007-11-15 21:31:00 Andhra Cafe Paris Hilton’s fans get a whiff of celebrityPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 1 hour ago… a woman who said she was a Benedictine nun - converged on the Center City Macy’s yesterday afternoon to get a glimpse of celebrity heiress Paris Hilton. …Hilton wants to be frozen in immortality EarthtimesParis Hilton Launches Watch Line The ...
Phila.?s Paris Hilton moment - Philadelphia Inquirer
2007-11-15 12:03:00 Andhra Cafe Phila.?s Paris Hilton momentPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 2 hours ago… a woman who said she was a Benedictine nun - converged on the Center City Macy’s this afternoon to get a glimpse of celebrity heiress Paris Hilton. …Hilton wants to be frozen in immortality EarthtimesParis Hilton Launches Watch Line The Kindred Times all 17 ...
AMD prepares DX10.1 part for AGP computers - The INQUIRER
2007-11-07 16:49:00 AMD prepares DX10.1 part for AGP computers - The INQUIRER: "THE REMAINING AGP UPGRADE market will be all AMD's, it seems. After HIS launched 2400 and 2600 parts for the AGP 4x/8x interface, we were set for a swan-song for the connector which has hosted our graphics cards in one form or another since 1997. But AMD has decided to address the needs of this dying market with a DirectX 10.1 part as well. Manufacturers only made the switch to PCI Express this year, with PCI E parts taking over from AGP ones. With Nvidia screwing up the GeForce 8 series (G8x chips cannot work with BR02, Nvidia's own PCIe-2-AGP bridge chip), the market was left open for AMD's X1950 AGP and different models from 2000 series. The 2900XT was just delivered in small volumes to encourage AIB vendors to develop a special PCB with an AGP connector. Also, power consumption was such that you would need two 8-pin connectors in oder to compensate for only 35W delivered by an AGP connector (PCIe 1.0a x16 can deli...
By: Max Pc Tech
AMD HD3800 pricing shock follows down-clock call - The INQUIRER
2007-11-07 16:47:00 AMD HD3800 pricing shock follows down-clock call - The INQUIRER: "The HD 3850 will exist primarily as a 256MB part, while the 3870 will bring 512MB to the table. Some 3850 parts may come with 512MB and some 3870 parts with 1GB of memory -for 20 and 50 USD/EUR above current asking price. Pricing for both launch parts is very aggressive, and AMD claims it is all due to 55nm process working like a clockwork and achieving excellent yields. Radeon HD 3850 should retail for between $149 to 179 (USD), while 3870 should be between 200 to 230. This is brilliant pricing, going way below 8800GT.This is what will sell as Radeon HD 3850: 55nm RV670PRO GPU at 668 MHz (why not 666?)256MB GDDR3 memory at 828 MHz DDR (1.66 GT(/s)10.69 GPixel/s fillrate52.99 GB/s memory bandwidth320 Unified Stream Processors24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing supportATI Avivo HDATI PowerPlay power saving technologyGame Physics processing capability (this belongs to fairy tale land, but you know – marketing...)HDMI su...
By: Max Pc Tech
DAAMIT gets a GT of its own - The INQUIRER
2007-11-07 16:43:00 EAGER TO AVOID being the only major graphics player not to have a successful card with 'GT' as its suffix, it seems that the folks at DAAMIT are preparing a two letter wonder-card of their own - the 2900 GT. Yes, so the Radeon 2900 might have something of a bad name in enthusiast circles, but that hasn't stopped Sapphire attempting to revive its fortunes with a new variant. The memory is a 256bit bus, power is a mere single 8-pin connector, and the core and memory clocks come in at 600/800MHz. Basically, then, the GT is just a SKU made up of failed XTs - with 240 stream processors instead of 320. Unfortunately for ATI fans, we're back to the bad old days of dual-slot coolers with the GT, which appears to use the standard ATI bondoogle. The card appears to be heading squarely for the mid-range buyer with an estimated price tag of around $200. There are more pictures here, should you be so interested.Source: The Inquirer
By: Max Pc Tech
Microsoft backtracks on SP1 for Vista - The INQUIRER
2007-11-05 13:17:00 Microsoft backtracks on SP1 for Vista - The INQUIRER: "SOFTWARE giant Microsoft has backtracked on releasing a sneak preview of Vista SP1 to developers. On Friday Microsoft's MSDN developer site promised developers they could get get the latest preview of Windows Vista SP1 on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. The site also said that the new release of SP1 addresses reliability and performance problems and provides support for new hardware and several emerging standards. So far SP1 has not been available to few people outside Redmond and even those who knew the right funny handshake would only get the latest beta. A spokesVole said over the weekend that there had been a terrible mistake and that no test code was released, nor was any planned to be released."
By: Max Pc Tech
Phenom pricing outed - The INQUIRER
2007-11-05 13:13:00 Phenom pricing outed - The INQUIRER: "HOW MUCH ARE Phenoms going to cost when they debut in two weeks? Well, we told you about the model numbering, 9500, 9600 and 9700 at 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4GHz respectively, and now on to the price. Moles at our German research division have pointed us to IT4Profit.com, specifically this page, which lists Phenom X4s at $247, $278 and $288 respectively. Add in a little etail markup, and you have something that more or less sits on top of their Intel equivalents. Not good for margins, but better than what they are getting on a mid range X2. "
By: Max Pc Tech
Nvidia pimps new spin on GTS - The INQUIRER
2007-11-02 16:57:00 Nvidia pimps new spin on GTS - The INQUIRER: "THE 8800 GT is barely out of the gate, but already Nvidia is preparing to send out another mid-range revision into the packed market, this time post-RV670, in a bid to own the popular mainstream in the face of increased competition from ATI. The latest ruse is a new spin of the 8800 GTS, which was practically obsoleted by the new GT's performance. The new GTS, however, will sport 112 shader processing units, as opposed to the 96 in current cards. This will give it a tad more power, and it should leapfrog the 8800 GT again, although this will be dependent on clock configuration, which the green team is happy to let its partners play with. The folks at Hardware Canucks have a card in, and its 640MB performance is nothing to be sniffed at. You can check out the Crysis benchmark here, and wait for the release of the card next month."
By: Max Pc Tech
Stream music from your iPhone/iPod Touch to your computer - Inquirer.net
2007-11-02 08:47:00 Stream music from your iPhone/iPod Touch to your computerInquirer.net, Phil-ippines - 2 hours agoWouldn?t it be great to walk into someone?s house or office and get his Mac to play the songs on your iPhone or iPod Touch remotely on his big speakers? … Read the entire original post via
Yearend forex reserves seen at $31B - Inquirer.net
2007-11-01 21:11:00 Yearend forex force seen at $31BInquirer.net, Philippi-nes -6 hours agoThese inflows hit allowed the BSP to embellish a onerous vendee of dollars at the Filipino Dealing System. Building up its GIR is also digit artefact of edge the … More: continuing here
Crossfire X to work on Nvidia, Intel and AMD chipsets - The INQUIRER
2007-11-01 16:39:00 Crossfire X to work on Nvidia, Intel and AMD chipsets - The INQUIRER: "THE FIRST TIME Crossfire technology was demonstrated on an Nvidia board was when Rahul Sood talked about VoodooDNA in an Nforce configuration with Diamond Radeon HD2900XT boards in none other than HP's Blackbird 002 machine. And now Diamond Multimedia has expanded these horizons with its entry to the retail/e-tail frame with xDNA technology. We hear that Diamond will make a big announcement at the end of next week, as the company gears up its Radeon products and enables them to work on Intel, AMD and Nvidia chipsets in Crossfire mode. We're not certain how many GPUs will work in fture combinations, but Intel's Bad Axe 2 motherboards with 975X chipset were the first on the market with three PEG connectors (data transfer was dependent on the combination, but you could have x8+x8+x4). This was later followed by numerous motherboards and chipsets - the 680i being the prime example."
By: Max Pc Tech
Intel QX9650 Yorkfield finally comes out - The INQUIRER
2007-11-01 16:39:00 Intel QX9650 Yorkfield finally comes out - The INQUIRER: "INTEL IS FINALLY unveiling the 45 nm Yorkfield QX9650 Core 2 Extreme part, some seven months after the first salvo of seemingly fully-functional benchmark demo systems flooded the expo halls of Beijing IDF. Why not come out earlier? Well, there was obviously no competition to rush against this year, so they could take some sweet time to fine tune the process. The very first chip is a good test run for tuning its more important 'watershed ' successor on the same process, the Nehalem. And thie ship has seen some serious tuning. The QX9650 part is, by default, a 3GHz FSB1333 - multiplier 9 - part. But few of the 'early adopters' shelling out $1K or so for it will run the CPU at anywhere close that speed. [Image]"
By: Max Pc Tech
Nvidia nails Crysis demo - The INQUIRER
2007-11-01 16:36:00 Nvidia nails Crysis demo - The INQUIRER: "SO THE CRYSIS DEMO is out and folks are, unsurprisingly, loving it. The full game is out in a couple of weeks, but for now, enthusiastic hardware owners are giving their graphics boards the workout of their poor little lives and running through the short, sweet taste of Crytek's upcoming bonanza. For those who want to learn to tell the difference between the DX0 and DX10 versions of the game, there's a good page with some screenshot comparisons on here. DX10 seems to add some subtle effects to the engine rather than anything outright outrageous, but that's not going to stop Nvidia crowing about it. The green team has put out a new Crysis-optimised driver, version 169.01, which you can get from here. The company promises improved performance for those lucky enough to be spending their week fragging."
By: Max Pc Tech
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