Evening Reading: of LAN Parties and F1 Champions

November 15, 2010 5:00 PM

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I got together with some friends on Saturday for a small LAN party. Blasphemous, I know, but we played on our 360s. Tell you what; it proved to me just how bad ass FiOS is. We ran all four of us on Live and played Black Ops and Halo:Reach without any hiccups. It was also interesting contrasting the two very different styles of play in the two games. Not a bad way to spend the day at all.

Was also a good weekend sporting-wise with Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel taking home the driver's championship for the season and my Cowboys doing a complete identity change and playing with heart in beating the New York football Giants.

Here we are back kicking off another week on the Shack with today's videogame news:

And, from around the Net:

The National Ignition Facility Wants to "create a miniature star on earth.
The new Girl Talk album 'All Day' is out and a free download
Tomorrow's big Apple announcement is evidently the Beatles coming to iTunes
As spotted by Chris Remo Our Valued Customers reminds us all how fun retail can be. (and if you've not seen it before, check the classic Acts of Gord)

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legsbrogan

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November 15, 2010 5:01 PM

ER'd Coolness.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101115090802.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily:+Latest+Science+News)
- gyokuro
  
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  November 15, 2010 5:36 PM
  
  hows it work?
  - Professor Darkness
    
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    November 15, 2010 5:38 PM
    
    magic
  - systatic
    
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    November 15, 2010 5:43 PM
    
    magnets
- MagicWishMonkey
  
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  November 15, 2010 5:41 PM
  
  So how long until RAM and HD's are merged into one huge block of memory?
  - systatic
    
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    November 15, 2010 5:44 PM
    
    But then we'd never had to explain the difference between memory and hard disk space.
    
    "You see... the HD is like your filing cabinet, and the memory is like what's on your desk... "
    - basketofkittens
      
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      November 15, 2010 6:00 PM
      
      I like that simile, I'll have to remember that.
  - r_Ed
    
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    November 15, 2010 5:50 PM
    
    when they get the whole mag ram thing figured out is my guess...go universal memory
  - Modulus
    
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    November 15, 2010 5:54 PM
    
    This will only happen if the bandwidth is the same or better. If not there will always be an argument for dedicated faster RAM.
  - rick
    
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    November 15, 2010 5:58 PM
    
    Not for a long time. Any new technology will be expensive and take a long time to become as cheap per GB as magnetic disk.
- locater16
  
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  November 15, 2010 5:59 PM
  
  There's an article every month about how cool physics thing X could make computers a million times faster. I have, as of yet, to see any of these things in a product and it's been about 6 years since I became aware of this shit.
  
  Let's just hope some memristor stuff starts to come out in two years.