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Some say computer games can be effective teaching tools.

The chips that make up the inside of an x86-based computer are changing. The traditional roles of the processor, chipset, and graphics chip are blurring as functions change and new roles are created.

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Built on XP Pro workstation with 17 in. LCD, RTS 2721 features 2.4 TB disk storage via 13, 2.5 in. HDDs: one handles OS, others act as dual RAID arrays dedicated for real-time recording/playback. Solution digitizes 2 analog input signals at sample rates to 125 MHz, handling IF input signals with center frequencies to 300 MHz or baseband signals to 60 MHz. With programmable decimation factors from 2 to 32,768, digital downconverter output signal bandwidths can range from 8 kHz to 60 MHz.This story is related to the following:Test and Measuring InstrumentsPlant Furnishings and AccessoriesComputer hardware and PeripheralsSearch for suppliers of: Data Acquisition Recorders | Signal Analyzers | mobile Workstations | computer Workstations

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Fontainebleau Resorts plans to provide an Apple iMac computer in each of the 5,300 rooms at its soon-to-reopen, remodeled Miami flagship and $3 billion hotel-casino being built on the Las Vegas Strip. The $15 million investment in the sleek 22-inch computers is the marquee feature in an effort to add high-tech touches throughout the resorts, says Fontainebleau majority owner Jeffrey Soffer.

Stony Stevenson brings news from Rice University about designing integrated circuits with multiple distinct identities, which could be used in new types of hardware-based DRM, among other things. From the news release: ''With 'n-variant' integrated circuits, it is possible to design portable media players that are inherently unique,' said Farinaz Koushanfar, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice and principal investigator on the project. 'New methods of digital rights management can be built upon such devices. For example, media files can be made such that they only run on a certain variant and cannot be played by another.' Koushanfar said content providers could also use n-variant chips to sell metered access to software, music or movies because the chips can be programmed to switch from one variant to another at a particular time or after a file has been accessed a certain number of times.' of this story at Slashdot.

Acer, the world's third-largest PC maker, believes that Linux software is a key to the low-cost laptop computer movement and hopes to create a community around the devices, a top executive said. Several of the new low-cost laptops announced recently come either with microsoft windows XP or with ...

snydeq writes 'The EFF and the Association of Corporate Travel Executives have filed an amicus brief with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals requesting that the full court rehear and reverse a three-judge ruling (PDF) that empowers border agents routinely to search files on laptops and mobile devices. The case in question involves US citizen Michael Arnold, who, returning from the Philippines in July 2005, had his laptop confiscated at LAX by custom officials after they opened files in folders marked 'Kodak Pictures' and 'Kodak Memories' and found photos of two naked women. Later, when Arnold was detained, officials uncovered photo files on Arnold's laptop that they believed to be child pornography. In addition to raising Fourth Amendment issues, the amicus brief (PDF) reiterates the previous District Court ruling on Arnold's case regarding the difference between computers and gas tanks, suitcases, and other closed containers, 'because laptops routinely contain vast amounts of the most p

An anonymous reader writes 'What cool things can be done with the 100,000+ cores of the first petaflop supercomputer, the Roadrunner, that were impossible to do before? Because our brain is massively parallel, with a relatively small amount of communication over long distances, and is made of unreliable, imprecise components, it's quite easy to simulate large chunks of it on supercomputers. The Roadrunner has been up only for about a week, and researchers from Los Alamos National Lab are already reporting inaugural simulations of the human visual system, aiming to produce a machine that can see and interpret as well as a human. After examining the results, the researchers 'believe they can study in real time the entire human visual cortex.' How long until we can simulate the entire brain?' of this story at Slashdot.