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아이폰과 관련해 또다른 액세서리 하나를 만나보겠습니다. 바로 사진 속에 보이는 아이폰/ 아이팟 보호 케이스입니다. 앞서서 나무와 대나무로 만들어진 보호 케이스를 보셨는데요. 이 아이템은 아이폰 케이스 겸 자주 사용하는 카드나 지폐를 간단히 보관할 수 있는 있도록 되어 있습니다. 휴대폰도 휴대하면서 식사등으로 인해 잠시 자리를 비울 때 출입카드, 교통카드 등 자주 사용하는 ID 카드나 지폐를 보관할 수 있도록 아이디어가 들어간 제품인데요. 취향에 맞게 다양한 색상의 케이스를 선택할 수 있으며 개당 $30(약 3만 6천원)에 판매가 되고 있다고 합니다. 다음 페이지에서 실물을 동영상으로 참고해 보세요.

Our inbox quickly lit up this morning when we received notice about this NGOHQ article, discussing how NVIDIA had removed the heterogeneous GPU restriction on PhysX in their latest beta drivers.
This struck us as a bit of an odd reversal of positions from NVIDIA, and now that we've had a chance to chat with them we finally know what's going on.

As a quick matter of background, starting with the Forceware 186 series NVIDIA blocked GPU/PPU-accelerated PhysX from working on NVIDIA GPUs and AGEIA PPUs whenever a non-NVIDIA GPU was detected as being in the system. It's been a polarizing matter for the GPU community for nearly a year now, with a tug-of-war going on between projects editing the drivers to remove the block, and NVIDIA adding further checks in to their drivers to stop those efforts. In any case, there has been no sign that NVIDIA would be changing their position any time soon.

This brings us to this week's Forceware 257.15 beta drivers and today's clarification from NVIDIA. NGOHQ was correct in that the 257.15 drivers lacked the heterogeneous GPU restriction; however there has been a question of intentions. As we stated previously NVIDIA has held steady to their desire to keep PhysX on pure NVIDIA systems, so to make this change without publically announcing it odd - if only because it deprives them of the chance to sell cards as PhysX accelerators.

We just got done talking with NVIDIA about the matter and they clarified the issue for us. In what we expect is going to be a disappointment for many of you, the lack of a PhysX restriction on the current 257.15 beta drivers is a bug, not a feature - the restriction should have been in those drivers and it was not. NVIDIA will be reinstating the restriction in new downloads of the beta driver and in the WHQL build of these drivers.

Update: NVIDIA tells us that they will also be "fixing" the 257.15 beta driver on their site, so new downloads of that driver will have the restriction in place

Yes, this is a bug in the latest build of PhysX that was packaged with the driver. We'll be fixing this issue ASAP - the WHQL driver launching in early June won't have this issue. -NVIDIA

For those of you heterogeneous GPU users out there looking to use PhysX, there is some good news that can be salvaged from this however: this won't change the fact that previously downloaded copies of beta drivers lack this restriction. With these drivers you can still have heterogeneous GPUs with PhysX without modifying NVIDIA’s drivers, but you’ll be stuck on these drivers for the time being.

• Digital Cinema 4K
  (4096 x 2160)  : 36.5MB
• UHDTV
  (7086 x 4320) : 94.9MB
• RED EPIC
  (280,000 x 9,334) : 500MB
  

  The Red Epic is announced to come in the following variants:

  Name	Physical Size	Resolution (in pixels)	Estimated Price
  Epic-X S35	30mm x 15mm	5,120 x 2,700(5K)	$10,500 (+) RED1 body
  Epic S35	30mm x 15mm	5,120 x 2,700	$28,000
  Epic FF35	36mm x 24mm	6000 x 4000(6K)	$33,000
  Epic 645	56mm x 42mm	9,334 x 7,000(9K)	$43,000
  Epic 617	168mm x 56mm	28,000 x 9,334(28K)	$53,000

  
  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Digital_Cinema_Camera_Company#Epic

삼성전자서비스센터를 찾기위해 홈페이지에 들어가보니 역시나 실망스러웠다.
홈페이지 하나도 표준웹으로 못 만들어서 특정브라우저에서만 쓸 수 있게 하다니...
대체 언제나 제대로 .... 쩝... 입만 아프다.

아이폰은 스마트폰 전용 요금제가 아니면 가입이 되지 않습니다. 즉, 무료통화와 무료문자.. 그리고 무료 데이터 용량이 기본적으로 제공됩니다. 어제 쓰지 않고 남은 데이터 용량의 경우 다음달로 이월해서 쓰도록 해준다는 발표가 있었는데.. 무료 문자는 해당 사항이 없습니다. 즉, 사용하지 않으면 그냥 소멸되는 것이니 좀 아깝습니다.

일반 요금제에서는 SMS와 MMS 요금에 큰 차이(사진을 보내는 MMS와 동영상을 전송하는 MMS 요금도 다릅니다)가 있지만.. 아이폰에서 제공하는 무료문자는 동일하다고 합니다. 즉, 문자메시지를 보내던지, 사진 MMS를 보내던지.. 또는 동영상 MMS를 보내던, 무료문자에서 1건이 차감된다는 이야기입니다.

자신의 요금제 범위 내에서 문자가 모자라는 분도 더러 있겠지만.. 대부분 문자가 남을텐데요.. 아이폰의 강력한 메시징 기능을 활용해서 MMS를 많이 소진해 보시죠.

Fans of custom video cards have undoubtedly found themselves a bit disappointed with the Radeon HD 5800 series. Due to a perfect storm of low GPU yields from TSMC and NVIDIA’s late arrival with the GTX 400 series, the first 6 months for the 5800 series was nothing other than bonkers. AMD was selling GPUs to their partners as fast as they could come out of TSMC, and their partners were selling finished boards to OEMs and-end users alike as fast as they could be assembled. Even at prices over MSRP, the 5800 series flew off the shelves, leaving AMD’s partners with little-to-no supply of GPUs to tinker with. Custom 5800 series cards effectively took a 6 month vacation.

That wait finally came to an end in the Spring of 2010, as an increase in GPU supplies allowed AMD’s partners to catch their breathes and focus on their custom cards. With 6 months under their belts AMD’s partners were able to come up with a variety of designs for their custom cards, and today we’re going to be looking at a trio of custom Radeon HD 5870s: Sapphire’s Radeon HD 5870 Toxic 2GB, MSI’s Radeon HD 5870 Lightning, and Gigabyte’s Radeon HD 5870 Super Overclock.

 

	Sapphire 5870 Toxic 2GB	MSI 5870 Lightning	Gigabyte 5870 Super Overclock
Core Clock	925MHz	900MHz	950MHz
Memory Clock	1.225GHz (4.9GHz data rate) GDDR5	1.2GHz (4.8GHz data rate) GDDR5	1.25GHz (5GHz data rate) GDDR5
Frame Buffer	2GB	1GB	1GB
Voltage Control	No	Yes (1.35v)	Yes (1.28v)
Price Point	$499	$479	$499

Custom cards are almost always interesting for a few different reasons. Often it’s a chance to see what AMD’s partners learned about a GPU over the preceding months and are trying their hand at producing something cheaper. Other times it’s throwing cost-efficiency out the window in the name of better components and coolers. And yet in other times it’s about producing a card that fills a specific niche, such as hardcore overclockers or users with cramped cases.

Today we’re looking at 3 such cards, each taking a different approach in their custom design. MSI’s Lightning is the overclocker and Sapphire’s Toxic is the build-it-better card, while Gigabyte’s Super Overclock attempts to straddle the line between the two by doing both at once. Ultimately however all 3 shoot for the same goal even if they go about it in different ways: maximizing performance.

Finally it shouldn’t come as a surprise that with all 3 cards designed to be superior 5870s that they command a superior price. At $480-$500, all 3 cards are solidly in the luxury category.