| Isn’t it great? It’s 2008! What's in and out as the year kicks off
On the classic rock front, reunions are in, with Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, the Police, Genesis, the Eagles and others all getting their post-middle-aged butts back on the concert stage. But it's not about the money — it's just a coincidence that the Police reunion took place after Sting's album of 16th-century lute songs sold two copies, both to his mother. And for those keeping track of the Van Halen soap opera, David Lee Roth is back in, and Sammy Hagar is still out. Also, Wolfgang Van Halen (Eddie's kid) is in, and original bassist Michael Anthony is out. Buttless chaps and spandex tank tops: still out. (Sorry, Dave.) Hip-hop is back in, thanks to the likes of Jay-Z, with his one-two punch of "Kingdom Come" and "American Gangster" (with an "er" at the end … you've got to admit, that's refreshing).
Rendering Performance Jumps to Real-Time Levels with New Gelato ...
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rendering is the cornerstone of 3D creativity and the most performance-driven task in the production pipeline. From animation and visual effects to automotive and architectural design, the fastest way to streamline creative workflow is accelerate rendering to interactive speeds without sacrificing image quality. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) has taken a major step forward in this regard by demonstrating its next-generation, near-real-time, high-quality rendering product with performance improvements capable of re-lighting 60 frames of a complex scene in 60 seconds.(1) Along with a new release of NVIDIA(R) Gelato(R) GPU-accelerated software renderer and the announcement of the NVIDIA Quadro(R) Plex Visual Computing System (VCS) Model S4 1U graphics server, this advanced technology demonstration shows NVIDIA's continued technical leadership in the field of high-quality rendering.
We want our Scrabulous!
Call it the latest pet rock, the game that took over where Texas Hold 'Em left off, or an utter waste of time. My loved ones prefer the latter. Whatever name you attach to this fad, I'm one of the many people across the world whose chant has become: "Save Scrabulous!" For those who don't know, Scrabulous is an online word game played by hundreds of thousands of people on the Facebook social networking site and at Scrabulous.com. But now, the fact that it is not-so-loosely based on the board game Scrabble is getting the brothers from India who created Scrabulous in trouble. "Quick!" I recently typed to one friend. "Let's play another game before they pull the plug!" True, there are so many more important things to be worrying about - the war, the stock market, freezing pipes, emptying the litter box or the dirty diaper bin.
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