nVIDIA has been at the top of their game for the last few years, delivering value priced mid-range cards and beefy high-end GPUs that dwarf most of ATi’s offerings. With their sense of market control in check, nVIDIA has begun it’s foray into more software applications in order to increase their video card profits. With their excellent 3d graphics rendering software, Gelato, nVIDIA is also getting into film production.

A small sample of their progress on the new short film created with version 2.2 of the Gelato final-frame rendering software, and is available on their web site. While simply a sneak peek at the power and capabilities of the software, this film, titled The Plush Life, seems to be on the right track. Later this month, nVIDIA will release the final film produced on their rendering platform with the power of their GPUs.

Here is a direct link to the video, available for download.

Wireless technology is getting better all the time. I just bought an N1 router from DLINK (with Gigabit LAN!) and a Belkin N1 PCI card. With local access at a staggering 300 Mbps over the air, I am fairly pleased with the performance. I do not have anything that supports Gigabit yet, but expect to have something later.

Now, researchers from Georgia Tech have devised a method to push data through the air at speeds reaching 15 gigabits a second… at one meter. Also, each additional meter between the source and the client drop the speeds 5Gbps. Okay, so at this point, you might as well buy a Gigabit router and a 50 ft ethernet cable and get 1Gbps at farther range, but this device has its advantages.

Apply this to a media center PC (I am currently building a Linux-based Media Center, coming in a future NextLust article) or a laptop on a couch right next to an access point, and the potential for awesomeness expands. While the technology is still officially unnamed, it is referred to as standard 802.15.3c. Heres to hoping that they increase the range to at least 15 meters, so that this would be a much more interesting product.

[Via Georgia Tech]

Old people that don’t know anything about technology or campout lines for new releases should just stay home and watch Jag. Seriously. Imagine for a second that you are out of touch with modern technology or trends, and you get all your news from television and newspapers only. Now imagine that you saw the somewhat substantial profits made from XBOX 360s, PS3s, Wiis, Tickle Me Elmo Xs, and other hard-to-find items on eBay and thought “Oh my dear, that is easy money. I could retire right now!”.

As Keyser “The Lex” Spacey would so eloquently say: WRONG!!!!!!

First off, in retrospect, there were plenty of iPhones to be bought and not enough buyers. As a matter of fact, all the people who thought that they were smart, clever, or great business-minded folks because they were gonna purchase an iPhone just to sell for profit on eBay should just be sent to Gitmo. The second most obvious thing that this lady didn’t know is that the common stipulation among new releases is the customer limit on items bought, meaning that she could really only buy one or two iPhones anyways. She should have stayed at home and got another cat or something.

Watch her reefer madness in this well edited feature below:

Try driving around with this thing for a month- your life will be forever changed. Of course, you will probably get beat up by whoever it is that your avoiding.

**UPDATE: EFFECTIVE NOW**
AT&T customers will be lucky enough to have free use of Wi-Fi hotspots in 10,000 locations across the country. Anyone who subscribes to the Pro, Elite, and FastAccess plans can access the hotspots that are located in hundreds of airports, coffee shops, restaurants, Barnes and Noble stores, and McDonald’s.

For those lower plan people who are still members of AT&T’s phone service, an extra $1.99 per month will allow them to take part in the convenience. Other customers who wish to use the Wi-Fi but do not use AT&T can still purchase a plan that costs a whopping daily fee of $7.99.

According to statistics, nearly 13 million customers have broadband services through AT&T, which means that encouraging customers to upgrade or add the Wi-Fi plan will bring in huge piles of cash for AT&T.
[Via Yahoo]

The rootkit developed by famous security researcher Joanna Rutkowska known as “Blue Pill” was once unstoppable, with claims that the malware was 100% undetectable and therefore extremely dangerous and useful for hackers (so why did she make it then- it’s like making a nuclear bomb just to see if you could). Now, Tom Ptacek and some close research buddies have found a way to detect the rootkit, and have challenged Joanna to a Secure-off aka SecureDown. This is all kind of like how the agents were impossible to beat until Neo came along, i.e. Tom Ptacek = Neo and Joanna/Blue Pill = Agent Smith.

In response to the offer of a showdown

Rutkowska posted a message saying she was ready for the challenge. But she stipulated that the challenging researchers—Ptacek, Nate Lawson of Root Labs, Symantec researcher Peter Ferrie and Matasano’s Dino Dai Zovi—fund two people, full-time for six months at $200 per hour, to develop the rootkit to a state of readiness.

Since the “Blue Pill” operates in the hypervisor level of the computer host, it is much harder to detect than a simple rootkit on the hard drive. Of course, most security enthusiasts think that this undetectable rootkit is a scare tactic or exaggeration, I somewhat agree. Even though hardcore system protection analysts can see right through this problem, an average novice computer user would have a lot more trouble realizing exactly how this rootkit even works (find out more about the Hypervisor Level in computers).

Either way, the challenge date between the two teams for rootkit supremacy is set to be at the Black Hat Briefings on August 1 or 2, loser goes home. Read the rest of the story here.

As if all of us were asking for it, the far right people over at the local U.S. Government “Bar and Hot Right Wings” have cooked up a new means of spreading the good word of crazy. The Tig Wigs from the best conservative web design groups present to you, the uniformed and apathetic reader, Conservapedia.

With such wonderful and extremely hilarious entries like Porn, Homosexuality, Marriage, Evolution, Hot Carls, and unfortunately not this, whats not to love? At the very least, this site is a one-stop source for ridiculous theories, mal-contrived values, and awkwardly attractive conservative babes. Without Conservapedia, some Liberal-Haters would starve.

The only immediate problem with all these “-pedias” out there is that there is no Moderapedia. Since Conservapedia was made to show that Wikipedia was too liberal, where is the online user-edited encyclopedia for Moderate or Middle of the Road politicos? The first one to make it gets the site traffic (not it!).

Try it out and tell us what you think! Enjoy it quickly, since sometimes they get a little trigger happy:

Here is a quick list of cool features of the iPhone that are confirmed to not be in the first version:

• Songs as Ringtones
• Games
• Any flash support
• Instant Messaging
• Picture messages (MMS)
• Video recording
• Voice recognition or voice dialing
• Wireless Bluetooth Stereo Streaming (A2DP)
• One-size-fits-all headset jack (May have to buy an adapter for certain headphones)

Along with this list:

Stuff we already knew it didn’t have
• 3G (EV-DO/HSDPA)
• GPS
• A real keyboard
• Removable battery
• Expandable Storage
• Direct iTunes Music Store Access (Over Wi-Fi or EDGE)

This iPhone thingy is looking better and better everyday. Thats what I would say if I was lying.

[Via Gizmodo]

Okay, so there is MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Reddit, Digg, blah buh blah buh blah… All of these type of sites have certain things in common, and the most notable one is simple: People spends hours on these sites talking to people, sending messages, changing their profiles, adding photos, looking for hotties, and everything else in between. The other thing that these users have in common is the fact that they sit on their ass while they do all of this “work”, therefore making their life a waste.

Instead of putting on about 10 lbs of worthlessness, instead of spending thirty minutes taking pictures of yourself with stupid expressions or revealing clothes on, instead of stalking that cute girl that sits behind you in class, instead of blogging about how lonely you are…(and it goes on like this), go to MEETin.org and find people that want to socialize outside.

This is a free, clever site dedicated to helping the bulk of America (pun intended) get outdoors and see people in real life. Although they do not have a section for Los Angeles, which is entirely confusing to me, they do have hundreds of major cities and locations to meet real people to go to bars, go hiking, bike riding, surfing, or whatever else people that leave their house may possibly do with other people. They even have groups in Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, and will probably expand as the site becomes more popular.

If your lucky enough to live in one of the areas that this site caters to, go ahead and try it out. There are plenty of events that people have gone too, and most are fairly safe and comfortable settings. As you can see here, thousands of people have already participated, and it looks like all the events are pretty fun.

Oh my gawd! I’m back after a week of adjusting to a new job, trying to get a new schedule into my body’s natural rhythm. After a long five days playing video games (my new job is a QA tester for a major video game company), and a celebratory weekend of parties, beaches, and friends, I am back on top writing for NextLust and whatnot. I bring with my return a nice article for those lonely geek guys out there, one that will give you some advice on how to score with a hot geeky girl.

Here is an excerpt:

1) Why do geek girls find geek guys attractive? Does it go beyond the
ill-fitting clothes, the recent stench of stale pizza and spilled mountain
dew, and the CRT radiation-burned eyeballs?

That look is one of a man who is almost guaranteed to know a few good Borg jokes, think you look cute with glasses on, and would jump at the chance to spend the entire weekend watching all three extended versions of LOTR in a row (while going through six pots of coffee) with you.

2) What can a geek guy do to get a geek girl to notice him?

OK, boys. This goes for every girl, not just the she-geeks: Remember the names of her pets. They double as her best friends, roommates, and babies, so you’d better know who is who. Oh, that works if she has kids too.

If she is nobody’s mommy, then ask her permission to add her as a friend on__(web 2.0 site)__. Why? Because you get an auto-halo for extra manners, and it makes you stand out.

3) Does a geek girl judge a geek guy on the technology that he surrounds
himself with?

No, as long as nothing is from pre-2002. Or the technology of personal pleasure.

The rest of the top ten tips can be found here, along with a nice photo gallery of the girl in the bikini using the Mac, .