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Shooter tireur d'élite

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div class='rss_chapo'p class=spipDate de sortie : 18 Avril 2007/p p class=spipRéalisé par Antoine Fuqua/p p class=spipAvec Mark Wahlberg, Michael Pena, Rhona Mitra, Kate Mara, Dean McKenzie, Jonathan Walker .../p p class=spipFilm américain - Genre : Action/p p class=spipDurée : 2h 04min/p/div div class='rss_texte'p class=spipstrong class=spipSynopsis :/strongbr/p p class=spipL'éclaireur et tireur d'élite Bob Lee Swagger s'est couvert de gloire sur divers fronts avant qu'une odieuse trahison ne l'amène à quitter les Marines et à se couper du monde. Reclus dans un chalet, au sommet d'une montagne quasi inaccessible, Swagger pense avoir tourné la page et se croit désormais à l'abri de toute nouvelle mésaventure. br Mais lorsque le colonel Isaac Johnson vient le relancer et lui demande une fois de plus son aide pour déjouer un complot imminent contre le Président des Etats-Unis, le shooter ne peut se dérober à son devoir.br Comment pourrait-il anticiper le piège diabolique qui lui est tendu et deviner qu'il va bientôt se retrouver accusé de tentative de meurtre ? Traqué à travers tout le pays par une meute de mercenaires, il est obligé de mobiliser toutes ses ressources pour survivre, retrouver son honneur et déjouer la plus terrifiante des conspirations./p/div div class='rss_ps'divobject width=520 height=411param name=movie value=http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/k5VeHDGQLmoZrPqW6Vrelated=1/paramparam name=allowFullScreen value=true/paramparam name=allowScriptAccess value=always/paramembed src=http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/k5VeHDGQLmoZrPqW6Vrelated=1 type=application/x-shockwave-flash width=520 height=411 allowFullScreen=true allowScriptAccess=always/embed/objectbr /ba href=http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3tlmt_shooter-tireur-delite_adsShooter, tireur d'élite/a/bbr /i/a/i/div/div

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Reggie talks MotionPlus timing, avoids Wii HD

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- 15 hours and 15 minutes ago

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/wii/" rel="tag"Nintendo Wii/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/06/qa-with-nintendo-of-america-chief-reggie-fils-aime-on-game-industry-competition/"img vspace="4" hspace="0" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/10/reggiegelato.jpg" //abr //div Thanks to the journalizing of one Dean Takahashi, we may finally have an answer to one of our favorite questions: Why wasn't the Wii MotionPlus, the thing that makes the Wiimote work the way you thought it would before you bought it, included when the system launched? According to Reggie Fils-Amie (and this should come as no surprise) Nintendo was aware of the tech when it was putting the Wii together, but deemed the price "too high" at the time. Now that it's cheaper, it's bringing it to the masses.br /br /What Reggie won't discuss is when the next Wii will go public, calling a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/01/rumor-new-wii-due-by-2011-says-former-1uper/"rumors of a 2011 release/a "pure rumor and speculation." Meaning: The release of Nintendo's new console is emcompletely/em dependent on Shigeru Miyamoto lowering his crystalline hovercastle from Planet Flowerkiss and dropping it off ... and it's not like he ever emcalls/em first.p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/06/qa-with-nintendo-of-america-chief-reggie-fils-aime-on-game-industry-competition/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/07/reggie-talks-motionplus-timing-avoids-wii-hd/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1335352/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=amp;fc=1amp;url=http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/07/reggie-talks-motionplus-timing-avoids-wii-hd/" title="Linking Blogs"Linkingnbsp;Blogs/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/07/reggie-talks-motionplus-timing-avoids-wii-hd/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=ubWNm"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=ubWNm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=IEjfm"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=IEjfm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/414022237" height="1" width="1"/

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AMD's foundry spin-off may save company

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- 16 hours and 50 minutes ago

div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"AMS#39;s decision to spin off its chip-manufacturing business into a separate company just may save the floundering firm, analysts said./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"AMD#39;s decision to split into a chip-designing company and a chip-making company should help return the company to profitability sooner, said several analysts who watch the chip-making industry. AMD would remain as the chip-designing company, while the new company, tentatively called The Foundry Co., would focus on chip-making under the plan, unveiled Tuesday./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ See this related story on#160;a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/07/AMD_to_split_into_two_companies_1.html?source=fssr"AMD splitting up into two companies/a. ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;I think this is a good move for AMD, especially in the current financial environment,quot; said Dean McCarron, principal analyst for Mercury Research. quot;It frees AMD of the heavy-debt burden of owning a fab and lets it focus on its primary microprocessor and graphics businesses.quot;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The move should allow AMD to return to profitability much faster than if it kept its foundry business, and it allows AMD to stop worrying about under-use of factories during economic downturns, McCarron added./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"But the move is not without risks, added Jack Gold, founder and principal analyst at J.Gold Associates. The Foundry Co., despite a huge investment from the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), faces a competitive marketplace, Gold said. ATIC is a company set up by the government of Abu Dhabi to invest in tech companies worldwide. It will invest $1.4 billion directly in The Foundry Co. and pay another $700 million to AMD, giving it 55.6 percent of the new company. AMD will own the rest of the company./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The Foundry Co. will assume about $1.2 billion of AMD#39;s debt. AMD#39;s revenue from continuing operations for the second quarter of 2008 rose 3 percent from a year earlier, to $1.35 billion. However, the company posted a net loss of $1.19 billion for the quarter./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;AMD gets a sorely needed cash infusion,quot; Gold said. quot;But, the new company will need to get business in the door from other players, not just AMD, if it is to be successful longer-term. While semi-outsourcing to foundries is a major trend in the industry, it is also highly competitive and not always a good margin business.quot;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Most analysts suggested the deal will put some added pressure on AMD competitor Intel./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;This is good for Intel in that it will offer renewed competition for Intel, which will in turn require it to maintain market leadership in designs and especially in its fabs,quot; Gold said. quot;Intel has not always been the low-cost producer, and this deal will likely force it to see how it can cost-reduce and #39;lean out#39; its manufacturing, which it has been doing already anyway.quot;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Gold sees little potential for a negative impact to Intel, he said. quot;In fact, anything that makes AMD more competitive forces Intel to increase its own innovation, which is good for everyone #8211; Intel, system vendors, and consumers,quot; he added./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The deal should put pressure on Intel to improve its technology, added Roger Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"quot;The deal makes AMD much more viable over the long run, which directly challenges Intel, and that it will chase Intel into process manufacturing down at least to a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22_nanometer"22nm/a (nanometers) both as a chip company and as a foundry,quot; Kay said. quot;The deal also puts other Intel competitors, like nVidia, in a better position by supplying a great alternative foundry.quot;/pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Intel doesn#39;t yet know enough about the deal to understand how it will work, said Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy. Mulloy called on AMD to allow the details of a confidential cross-licensing agreement between the two companies to be released to the public so that investors can understand the relationship./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Intel will stick with its approach of both making and designing chips, Mulloy said. An integrated design and manufacturing process can reduce time to market and result in better quality and lower costs, he said./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"quot;We have long believed there are significant advantages to being an integrated device manufacturer,quot; he added./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"The deal could have a larger impact on other chip foundries, such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), which supplies chips for AMD#39;s ATI graphics processor arm, said Kay and Gold./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"ATI#39;s business with TSMC will continue for now, Gold said. quot;But eventually I would expect AMD to consolidate its designs around one fab process and one manufacturer,quot; he added. quot;With the large investment they are making in CPU designs with the new foundry company, I expect that they will ultimately move their GPU designs over as well, cutting business with TSMC substantially.quot;/p/div

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Jasper Hunting 101: Waiting for the all 65nm Xbox 360 blog at AnandTech

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- 21 hours and 21 minutes ago

Quote: Jasper Hunting 101: Waiting for the 65nm Xbox 360

Date: October 6th, 2008
Topic: Gadgets
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Author: Michael Andrawes

I've been pestering Anand for the past coupled of months with every shred of evidence or rumor that relates to the launch of Microsoft's updated Xbox 360 motherboard codenamed "Jasper." Finally, he got sick of hearing about my obsession, so he asked me to write it up for AnandTech. I think the real reason is just to reduce the clutter in his IM logs ;) So here I am...

So, what's the big deal with Jasper? Well, it finally brings a 65nm GPU to the console, which should run much cooler than the current 90nm GPU that's been there since launch. Why does that matter? The 360 is now infamous for the "Red Ring of Death" (aka RRoD) failure and many hypothesize that this is related to overheating issues. The Falcon motherboard introduced a 65nm CPU shrink to help combat heat issues, but unfortunately, the GPU remained at 90nm (possibly with a slight redesigned or possibly even a half-node 80nm shrink). Overall the Falcon-based 360s run cooler and quieter than earlier models and seem to be more reliable so far. The RRoD has not been completely eliminated, however, and many of us have been waiting for the 65nm GPU update before actually buying a 360 - myself included. The exact reasons for the Xbox 360 reliability issues is not the purpose of this article, but I hope that Jasper will fix it. That said, we won't know what impact Jasper will have on reliability until they've been out for about a year or so.

I had a variety of reasons for waiting until approximately this point in time to buy a 360, but with all speculation pointing towards Jasper being out sometime around now, I couldn't help but wait a bit longer for the latest and greatest. At the same time, I have a fiance breathing down my neck about getting Rock Band, so I've been doing my best to track down a Jasper-based 360 before she kills me. Unfortunately, that's easier said than done.

You see, the Jasper has not been documented in the wild just yet, so we're all working on speculation and rumor at this point. Engadget jumped the gun the other day based on some bad information from another site. The story was then picked up by a number of media outlets despite the retraction from Engadget. The result is mass confusion about the true status of Jasper and my primary goal here is to set that straight. My secondary goal is to help others identify Jasper as well.

Ok that's not true at all - my real goal here is to help identify Jasper in the wild so I can get one ;) If I help you guys find one too, that's ok :)

What has been known for a while:

1. TSMC has reportedly been producing 65nm GPUs for Microsoft since early this year. Note, this is just the GPU chips themselves.
2. A number of rumors pointed towards a late August or early September build date for Jasper motherboards.
3. Delays can happen.

Thanks to a thread over on 8bitjoystick, a number of us have been trying to track down any additional information that might help us ID these consoles, preferably without actually opening them and looking at the GPU directly. Here's what we've found (we being myself, 8bitjoystick, Knoxximus, Jediman, and others in that thread).

1. Microsoft has registered a 150W PSU with a model number virtually identical to some of the 175W PSUs currently included with Falcon-based 360s. Both 110V and 220V models are listed.
2. The current output on that PSUs 12V rail is rated at 12.1A.
3. All of this is right in line with estimated power reduction from a die-shrunk GPU.
4. The 12V current demands of the console are clearly listed on the console itself, right next to the serial number. Falcon was 14.2A; earlier models (Zephyr and Xenon) were 16.5A.

I propose that the 12.1A power rating listed on the back of the console will be the most reliable way to ID a Jasper without opening it up. It still requires opening the factory packaging, but once you do, you should know what you've got inside. The first units may still come with 175W PSUs, just like many of the first Falcons came with the original 203W PSU. Unfortunately, Microsoft has stopped listing the PSU power output on the outter packaging, so we can't use that as an indicator of what's inside. At least one person has stated that their early Falcon still had a rating of 16.5A, but I've been unable to verify this.

Some other potentially useful power information: Anand has already documented the Falcon to use ~100W at the dashboard and ~120W while playing Halo - a full 50W less than Zephyr. I'd expect Jasper to also be up to 50W less than that, although that's just an educated guess for obvious reasons. This is power draw at the AC outlet with a Kill-a-watt or similar meter. The numbers may not work out perfectly on an early Jasper if it's using a 175W PSU, but it should still be less than the Falcon numbers.

So far, nobody has found a Jasper, so the exact weeks of manufacture and therefore lot numbers are still unknown. The original rumors would point towards weeks 34-38 being the first Jaspers, which corresponds to a lot # of 0834 to 0838. This information of course has not been verified since none have actually been spotted in the wild. Then there's the issue of which manufacturing team will make them first. Again, we don't know since nobody has one, but team FDOU had the first Falcons last year. What I can tell you is that 0833 from FDOU is the newest I can find documented anywhere and it's still a Falcon by all accounts.

The last trick that may or may not be beneficial is trying to look through the vents for changes in the heatsink design or inductor layout. These tricks were well documented for identifying Falcons, but nobody knows for sure exactly what Jasper will actually look like. More than likely, we'll see a revised GPU heatsink that's cheaper to produce since the cooling requirements will be reduced. That would likely mean no copper heatpipe, something that is currently visible through the vents.

Other things that need to be clarified:

1. I mentioned it above, but it's worth reiterating: nobody has actually laid hands on a Jasper outside of Microsoft and their manufacturers.

2. Microsoft is not going to officially talk about Jasper. There will be no press release. They will not respond to questions about it. Not from us, and certainly not from any random person calling them up. If they announced anything, it would make it quite hard to sell the old stock and it would admit that their old units were less reliable. Besides, this running change would have happened even if there were no effect on reliability because it's a cost cutting measure - the very same one that enabled the recent price drops. Their repair centers doesn't know anything either.

3. Retailers don't care. Being an unofficial, running change in the manufacturing means that nothing official will go to the retailers either. In other words, they have no idea what models they have, and nor do they care. A Jasper-based 360 will look just like a Falcon or even Zephyr-based 360 to them. They make the same amount of profit on each unit and they have zero incentive to try to sell all the old stock first. Forget all the conspiracy theories regarding the retailers or their employees.

4. Employees don't care. Getting employees to check this out for you is difficult. Most of them don't get it and wouldn't care even if they did. A refusal to check is more an indication of lack of motivation to do something so seemingly strange rather than them trying to prevent you from getting the latest and greatest.

5. The whole Jasper thing is a hardware revision for cost savings and is completely unrelated to any software updates, such as the upcoming dashboard experience.

6. We have no way of knowing if Microsoft has a plan to specifically implement Jasper in certain models first (ie Elites before Arcades), but to date, the faster selling Arcades seem to be the most recently produced models at my local stores. This may vary by locale however. I'd expect this to be a running change that will not be targeted at a particular model though.

7. I've been wrong once or twice before, so take this all with a grain of salt ;)

Thanks again to all the guys/gals in the 8bitjoystick/Seattle PI thread. They deserve as much credit as I do as it was our work together that helped uncover most of this. I'm just trying to make this more public and clear up some of the confusion that's out there.

That's all I have for now. I'll post more as I find it. Link: http://anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3424

And also of note is the SeattlePi blog:

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/d...ves/147899.asp

Quote: The Xbox 360 motherboard "Xenon" had a 90nm CPU and 90nm GPU and no HDMI.
The Xbox 360 motherboard "Zephyr" had a 90nm CPU and 90nm GPU and HDMI.
The Xbox 360 motherboard "Falcon" had a 65nm CPU and 90nm GPU and HDMI.
The Xbox 360 motherboard "Opus" had a 65nm CPU and 90nm GPU, no HDMI and only included in repaired "Xenon" system cases from Xbox repair centers.
The Xbox 360 motherboard "Jasper" will have a 65nm CPU and new 65nm GPU and HDMI.

They are currently working on the Xbox 360 motherboard "Valhalla" and that will have a combo 65nm CPU/GPU on a single super chip and HDMI. Valhalla is not going to be out for a long time, at least a year or more. Finally the article by Dean Takahashi who wrote "Opening the XBox" on XBox1 and is writting a book on XBox 360 as well as reporting/recording the RRoD problems many gamers experienced up to and after Microsoft took action with the extended warranty and is still a very important article because many of those gamers who got RRoD ended up buying a newer XBox 360 consoles revision hoping to avoid the RRoD problem:

http://venturebeat.com/2008/09/05/xb...-console-woes/

This should be helpfull information for people curious about the new Jasper XBox 360 revision that Microsoft is making available, whether it will fix the Red Ring of Death failiures is still unknown but with a 65nm CPU & GPU the obvious benefits are cooler running chips that consumer less electricity current and probably less fear of the system crapping out during heavy gaming sessions or even movie viewing sessions as one of my friends is getting a 2 red light error on his XBox 360 premium and another experiences framerate slowdown during extended Halo 3 gameplay on his Falcon X360 Elite.

It would be extremely interesting if someone could compare all the XBox 360 revisions with reguards to power consumption and extended gameplay reliability such as 12 continous hours of heavy nonstop online play (some are guilty of doing this and I myself used to do this back in XBox 1 Halo1 Lan parties)

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