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Asian Quake Comms Disruption To Continue
News As reported on Wednesday, the quake damaged the key ultra high-speed connection linking several Asian countries to the US and Europe, called the Asia Pacific cable network 2 submarine cable (APCN2).It now appears that six of the seven submarine...
[December 28, 2006, 13:26]
Dell Also Hit By Quake
News Dell is the latest major US computer maker to feel the effects of the quake which devastated industrial production in Taiwan. Last month's earthquake in Taiwan has claimed another victim: Dell Computer.
[October 19, 1999, 8:19]
How About A BA In Quake?
News "Your homework is to play Quake and then write about it. It sounds like an adolescent boy's dream come true, but this is no dream. Next autumn, students at the University of California (UC) at Irvine can begin taking courses in its newly announced...
[March 3, 2000, 10:03]
Third Quake In Six Weeks Hits Eastern Taiwan
News On this occasion -- the third major quake in just over a month -- both local residents and the country's IT infrastructure escaped any serious harm. On 21st September, a quake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale left 2,400 people dead and vital...
[November 3, 1999, 7:01]
Running Quake II On A Grid
White Papers Provides a practical implementation example—the extension of the id Software Quake II game engine This white paper explains how IBM transformed a single-server online game engine into a multiserver MMOG (massively multiplayer online game) engine...
[February 11, 2008, 23:00]
Asia Restores Communications After Quake
News Asia Netcom's EAC (East Asia Crossing) cable system was one of seven affected by the quake last Tuesday evening. In addition, he noted that the company has inked agreements to provide its spare bandwidth to carriers affected by the quake until...
[January 4, 2007, 8:35]
Lessons To Be Learnt From Indian Quake Pt II
News The bigger the quake, the more serious the disaster management plan must be. Post-quake rescue operations can be severely skewed by misleading technical information. This leads to the corollary that a seemingly slight difference in the readings of...
[January 30, 2001, 13:00]
Lessons To Be Learnt From Indian Quake
News Take me to Pt II/ Quake must shake up our confidence Earthquakes occur every day around the world. Each day there are about 1000 very small (magnitude 1-2) earthquakes on somewhere on the planet (that is about one every 87 seconds).
[January 30, 2001, 12:51]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News It's not alcohol, it's Quake. Toshiba's customers keep phoning me while I'm trying to play Quake. But the important thing is, Quake is supposed to be really, really amazing on a Voodoo Rush chip from 3DFX (as mentioned in previous Diaries) and I...
[August 16, 1997, 1:00]
Professional Gaming: The Perfect Job?
News A few years ago, Johnathan Wendel was just another kid in high school with a yen for playing fast-paced computer games such as "Quake III". Nowadays, the 22-year-old is drawing the attention of MTV documentarians, courting endorsements from major...
[February 10, 2004, 13:05]
700MHz Shoot-Out, Intel Comes Out On Top (Part 2)
News Quake III Test Scores Jane's WW2 Fighters, 1024x768x32 37.99 37.44 Expendable, 1024x768x32 33.70 33.29 Quake II, 1024x768x32 52.10 50.80 Battlezone II, 1024x768x32 24.00 24.00 Powerslide, 1024x768x32 61.04 59.90
[October 27, 1999, 12:44]
Sharp Prepping 3D Monitors, Laptops
News For example, bodies and bullets appear to fly all over the place in a version of the popular game "Quake" that has been adjusted to work on Sharp's 3D monitors. Turning traditional 2D "Quake" into a 3D program took only a day, Nakagawa said.
[December 20, 2002, 7:56]
Techies Bring More Aid To Earthquake Zone
Blog TSF's Oisin Walton writes: "Our humanitarian calling operations for survivors of the quake continue in Pisco to allow people to call their loved-ones outside the affected area and abroad. Our team will enable civilians living in this remote region...
[August 24, 2007, 15:30]
And The Chip Champ Is...debatable
News The 2GHz Pentium 4 showed higher performance on tests related to 3D graphics, such as the game "Quake 3. Tests at Source Magazine echoed a similar theme, finding the 2GHz Pentium 4 won out on "Quake 3" benchmarks and 3D Mark 2000.
[October 10, 2001, 10:17]
NVidia Sharpens Image With GeForce3 Titaniums
News With the Detonator XP driver, nVidia claims the GeForce3 Ti 500 is half as fast again as the standard GeForce3 chip when playing Quake III at a resolution of 1600 by 1200 with a 32-bit colour depth. For the GeForce2 Ti, the company claims more than...
[October 1, 2001, 16:49]
Macworld Expo: Apple Goes After Gamers
News I'm here today because Apple finally has gotten their act together," Carmack said, giving a preview of the upcoming Quake Arena adventure game. On Tuesday, Jobs also promised that 12 major gaming titles -- along the lines of Quake and Tomb Raider...
[January 6, 1999, 10:18]
Pentium 4 Delay Gives AMD Top Spot
News The Pentium 4 won out on the "Quake 3" benchmark, some media compression tests, and on tests involving applications optimized for the processor. If they do a 1.6GHz chip, they could very well close the gap on everything else but 'Quake,'" said Dean...
[October 12, 2001, 16:52]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News Now reality: in an attempt to get a really fast Quake machine, I am trying to get my hands on a Videologic display card. The day ends with a complete failure to get a single "frag" in the office Quake deathmatch.
[August 9, 1997, 8:00]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News The good news: Quake II already comes with a version that directly addresses Voodoo2, on the CD. In an effort to pre-empt this, I normally play Quake under the name Hot Slag which serves the dual purpose of making my colleagues think I'm a woman of...
[December 13, 1997, 7:00]
Linux Fuels Game Console Plus
News It was sort of a brainchild that my partners and I had, while playing Quake late at night," said Gildred, looking back at the genesis of his year-and-a-half old startup. We were thinking: wouldn't it be great if somebody created an open source game...
[July 7, 2000, 16:49]
