Gkaruk's Technological Blog

The BBC has an interesting article up today relating to the way virus coders are changing the reason they write a viruses for.  In the good old days it was about showing how cleaver your were to write a piece of malicious code, gain the largest spread and biggest headline.

Today virus coders are now writing viruses for financial gain with the aim to remain hidden from virus software and detection.  The more common known name for this type of code is Spyware, but these new viruses are much more than just spying on your PC.

For the full article and an interesting read, head over to the BBC article.

Finally Microsoft have released the old Xbox games you will be able to play on your Xbox 360 from day one!  This list is quite exhaustive considering the titles can only be backward compatible if they dont use any Nvidia specific programming calls.

Sadly a few titles I would like to have seen such as Rallisport 1or 2 are missing from the list but still a good start for launch day.

Full list here:
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/news/news_story.php?id=129188

Most articles today are either in a Playstation or Xbox magazine, well I wanted to find an unbiased poit of view.  Not only unbiased but realistic in terms of hardware, games and market predictions based on real editorial talent.

Well I think I found it, this article is from the Guardian as has some quite compounding comparisons like:

...In terms of the active memory on access, the PS3 is two times as powerful as the PS2 and the Xbox 360 is twice that.
Nick says,

The reason memory speed is an issue is purely for framerate. If you have a massive polygonal monster (err literally) to display that's a lot of vertices to process, on top of texture mapping, normal mapping, light mapping, per pixel shading etc etc yawn. And you're trying to squeeze all that data down a pipe to be processed and spat out at the other end. The faster your memory the more you can squeeze down the pipe at once, meaning the more data you can process. So memory and processor speed are very connected....