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Why I’d need more money… SSDs

Speed is the answer… Not a faster car (as most would think), but a faster PC. Many people think ‘throw in a faster CPU, more RAM and there you have it’ but one of the bottle necks in PC speed are hard disks (due to virtual memory. if you can’t understand what I mean its ok…) The [...]

Posted by liam on March 10th, 2009

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1,474 megapixel image of Obama’s inauguration

The image below may be familiar, but there is something really special about this one!
It has been shot at 1,474 Megapixels, basically a large set of images taken using a normal camera by a machine (hint: hit the link for more info) which does it all for you =)

Click here to see the real thing, zoom [...]

Posted by liam on January 26th, 2009

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Hudson River Simulation

I’m posting this video for 2 reasons:

Its Computer Generated Imagery of a flight simulation - thus making it possible for us to see what we couldn’t, since no one shot a video of the accident.
The guy’s a hero…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G2TLqxWM04

 

Posted by liam on January 19th, 2009

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Base Jump World Record

In May, a Brit and a Frenchman snuck on to the under-construction Burj Dubai and BASE jumped from it at 650 meters up. (base jumping is highly illegal as u will notice in this feature)

http://v.current.com/video/feeds/broadcast/Pods/PD21/724/PD21724_44703130.flv

Posted by liam on November 22nd, 2008

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