March 27, 2006
First Digital Simulation of an Entire Life FormPosted by Zonk on Monday March 27, @04:42PMfrom the who-doesn’t-love-alife dept.ScienceAn anonymous reader writes "LiveScience is reporting on what appears to be the first digital simulation of an entire life form. Researchers created more than a million digital atoms to reverse engineer the satellite tobacco mosaic virus, a relatively simple organism. But is it really a life form? From the article: ‘Viruses are tiny bundles of protein and genetic material that straddle the line between life and non-life. Many scientists prefer to call them "particles" because even though they contain RNA or DNA like other lifeforms, they can only replicate inside other living cells.’"
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March 23, 2006
You just have to see this !!!
http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1
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March 22, 2006
Dell starts selling $9,900 overclocked gaming PC[Print][Mobile]By Tony Smith22nd March 2006 16:38 GMTDell will today begin taking orders for its "limited edition" XPS 600 Renegade quad SLI, physics engine-equipped desktop gaming rig, the computer giant said today. The kit will set you back a whopping $9,930, though that includes Dell’s 30in LCD monitor.The XPS 600 Renegade comes in a custom-painted case inside which sit four GeForce 7900 GPUs each with 512MB of video memory ready to run games at 2,560 x 1,600. The unit also features an Ageia PhysX processor on which games can offload all their complex physics calculations to free up the CPU – a dual-core Pentium D Extreme Edition "factory overclocked" to 4.26GHz, no less – for stuff like artificial intelligence work.
Dell starts selling $9,900 overclocked gaming PC | Reg Hardware
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March 22, 2006
Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 22, @09:27AMfrom the only-a-matter-of-time dept.AppleOSXpert writes "Sure, we all know that Windows can now run on intel Apple Computers. Alas, the solution does not include drivers, and until now Mac users could still only hope to be able to use every application available to their Windows counterparts. However, with drivers now working 100% on the Mac Mini and drivers for the MacBook Pro only lacking video (which, by the looks of the 2nd link is only days away), Mac users now have a complete and working Windows solution."
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Posted by robobobo
March 22, 2006
Wow ! I remember the days when 2MB cards were considered top of the line. Well, it me feel old 
ATI’s 1GB Video CardSignify writes "ATI recently released pics and info about it’s upcoming FireGL V7350 graphics card. The card features 1GB of GDDR3 Memory and a workstation graphics accelerator. From the article: ‘The high clock rates of these new graphics cards, combined with full 128-bit precision and extremely high levels of parallel processing, result in floating point processing power that exceeds a 3GHz Pentium processor by a staggering seven times, claims the company.’"
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