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Cebit 2004 Coverage
Koen writes "March the 18th, Teamhardware.com visited Cebit 2004, the largest IT fair in Europe. We made tons of pictures and gathered a lot of information. Topics of discussion: Intel, nVidia, ATI, XFX, Abit, Epox, Shuttle, DFI and more." Espectr0 writes "BBC News has an article with pictures of the new gadgets being shown at Cebit 2004. Some of them are: 3D screens, heads-up displays, all-in-one USB memory sticks and portable video players!"
I wonder if it's true that we've reached a technology plateau or were there fundamental new technologies on show. Anyone?
I'm no troll, buy maybe a bit off topic.
It's wonderful how the consumer technology market is always ahead.
But about the technology to help save humanity(eco, stupidity, famin.. etc)!
I know that people rarely think about these kind of things, let alone do something about it, cuz we have better things to do, but one day all these things that we push to the side will bite us when we least expect it.
If you don't believe me, just wait and see!
"Cebit 2004, the largest IT fair in Europe." Funny. Here we say that it is the largest IT fair in the world (www.heise.de) !
Here is the pocket multimedia player we have heard so much about recently. Sporting an 80 GB hard drive, this beauty can store and play all your pictures, music files and video files, (in Windows WMV format).
Nuff Said.
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a gorgeous box using the nano-itx layout referred to earlier on /. I think a set-top box is coming my way :-)
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
I think that new 17 by 17 cm motherboard is certainly deserves merit. If it's as modular as a normal sized motherboard I think it would be useful. They only problem is that there probably isn't anything available to put on it yet. I wonder if any new standards will come out of it as well.
If the dollar is an "I owe you nothing", then the Euro is a "Who owes you nothing." - Doug Casey
the next big leap after flat screens, if they manage to make them affordable and harmless to the long term for your vision.
Can't wait to work on a 3D desktop or to play Quake-like on these babies...
...booth babes as hot as Ceren?
This may or may not be true, I am not sure. However, I am a Master of the Obvious, and common sense tells me that the old saying "Don't shit where you eat" also applies on a global scale. How about "Don't shit where what you eat - eats"? Hmm.. unless it is a mushroom.. then I guess its ok
There is no evidence of any human connection to global warming.
Mr. President,
So we should sit around and do nothing until there's proof of causation? Then, again, it'll be too late. While by reducing CO2 and other polutants, we'll make the environment better: less polution, less repiratory illnesses, cleaner air, etc, etc, etc... So, so what if there's no link - we'll still benefit.
Biotech breakthrough creates biggest apple ever :)
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
It doesn't matter that we'll all benifit, that doesn't excuse fraud. Humans have raised the amount of CO2 and hydrocarbons by a miniscule amount, 0.6%. A single volcano erruption unleashes more char, ash, sulphur, CO2, CO, and hydrocarbons, than all of human history. Also, the sun has been getting hotter for the past decade...perhaps that has something to do with the rising surface temperatures. Further more, we already know that Earth's climate has dramatic cycles. We are still coming out of the last ice age, so a consistent rise in temperature is to be expected.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with reducing pollution. I don't want to breath smog. Coal power contributes to acid rain and mercury poisoning. But those very problems should be the issue.
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
This is the supposed iPod-killer we've been hearing about for a while. Looks like Microsoft is focusing on video rather than music, since I doubt they could get something like iTunes to work (MSN Tunes? I don't think so...). Frankly, I'm not about to buy either, but there you have it.
If my answers frighten you, stop asking scary questions.
Apparently you haven't met a European woman since the Dark Ages, right? Why are Americans so unbelievably ignorant about Europe so that they honestly and truly believe that women do not shave their legs or wherever? I've heard about "ignorance is a bliss," but this is getting ridiculous. Get rid of your prejudice.
Just posted this entry on my blog.
this is the same Cebit fair where knoppix announces/showcases their 3.4 release (Kernel 2.6 included in the bootCD).
my blog
Look here to see the main difference between Europe and USA.
It's no goatse.cx link..
There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't.
i know, don't feed the trolls, but this much ignorance DOES actually hurt me! "pro-Saddam-Hussein rallies" if you had spent just a few minutes actually informing yourself about those rallies you would now be less likely to appear so utterly stupid! the rallies were actually AGAINST war and in the US there were actually similar rallies! maybe attacking a country without provocation ISN'T such a great thing after all! "massive 'Down with the Jews!' rallies" i don't find it fair to judge a whole continent on some minor rallies! sure, europe has minor problems with racism/xenophobia, but so have other countries! the USA have their fair share of neo-nazis and hooligans... "despite the fact that socialism was responsible for the mass execution of tens of millions" yep, you are SOOO right! make sure not to mix up the socialism of former russia with the socialism practiced in the rest of europe. were you to read the papers from time to time you might find out that they have little to nothing to do with each other! i could go on, but if you'd care, i wouldn't have to anyhow! just get an education, jethr0
Man, did anyone see the pricing for the Motorola Windows phones? $920 in the US for the benefit of running Windows?!?! Give me a Linux phone any day. Estimated cost: $50 for the parts :-)
It's interesting, too, to see how little times have changed since then--the patent office saying that it was overloaded and needed more resources.
...but my boss and the software I have written are.
And in the middle of the presentation on friday it crashed.
So I sit here, read slashdot and wonder how long I'll keep my job.
Conservatism: The fear that somewhere, somehow, someone you think is your inferior is being treated as your equal.
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I understand that MythTV is being demonstrated at CeBIT by Axel Thimm (the AT-RPMS guy). Good to see these projects getting some publicity.
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... and patriotisim spot on me:
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You got it wrong. It's the largest IT fair in the _world_.
Things I consider interessting for foreign visitors to Hannover, if you have some time of you might want to check them out:
1) Food: "Das Pfannenkuchen Haus" in the city 'district' Calenberg. German style Pancakes and good german beer in original-stle potterware beermugs. And patented beer-scales. Go and see what I mean.
2) Recreational: Herrenhauser Gaerten (The Herrenhaus Gardens): A large baroque style Garden complex north west of central Hannover. They've got opening times - check with the tourist information for details. Just before it are the Georgengarten and the university. Also good enough for a walk.
3) Maschsee. The towns semi-artificial lake. Runners and Skaters paradise. Right on the townside shore is the Sprengel Museum, specialised in modern Art. They have an large awesome Richard Deacon piece in their collection - if you're lucky it's in exibit.
3) A more quiet and comfortable shopping area is the pedestrian zone 'Lister Meile', leading straight north away from downtown. You can actually walk from 'Kroepcke' all the way under the Main Train Station all the way through a subterran mall to the 'Raschplatz' (some nice cinemas focues on more indepentent and european movies) all the way to 'Lister Tor', where the 'Lister Meile' starts. Here a lot of the old prewar buildings are still intact. Nice old europen town architecture here - could be interessting for people from the US.
5) Downtown itself. Kroepcke being the center, you'll notice all the crappy 70ties architecture around you. The old stuff was bombed during the 2nd world war. The opera is still intact though. If your standing at Kroepcke, the remaining old town is to the south, just behing that you'll find Calenberg and the afore mentioned 'Pfannenkuchen Haus'. All this in walking distance, conected by pedestrian zones.
Note that Hannover is a somewhat compact large city. You can reach each spot by bike in roughly half an hour. It's large enough to offer anything you can think of but small enough to be centralized. If you have access to a car you may want to take a ride south, something like 40-50 kilometers you'll come to the norhtern outskirts of the Harz 'Mountains'. Some very nice medieval castles in that area (again, cool for RPG afiliated geeks, US visitors and... everybody else aswell actually), and a freeckimbing area too (The 'Ith' ridge).
Have a nice time in Hannover.
I studied in Hannover. It's a very nice City and I miss it (I currently reside in Krefeld, west germany) which is the crappiest town of the country and is world second only to Bombay in terms of dirtyness.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
You have no idea how right you are. Over 60% of Americans are obese. Man, when those Aliens come down to eat us all, the Yanks will go first!