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So now he admits there were mistakes made in Invisible War? What happened to blindly backing up Harvey's "streamlining" like he did for the year or so before, during and following release?

Tomb Raider engine to power Deus Ex 3

Dec 3rd 2007 5:19PM on Joystiq

The second one used Unreal as well.

Lenovo aims for 'rural market,' announces $199 desktop for China

Aug 3rd 2007 11:08AM on Engadget

Expanding the reach of computing is a good idea regardless of who's doing it.

$199 is probably still several months' worth of work for many rural Chinese families, though, but the price will come down.

Microsoft's HD Photo format considered for new JPEG standard

Aug 1st 2007 2:00PM on Engadget

Can you take JPEG images in HD resolution? Sure. Is the compression optimal for that size of an image? Maybe not.

If you ASSUME that all the images you run through the algorithm will be HD resolution, you can then design your algorithm differently to take advantage of the properties of a massive image (for example, basic tiling instead of JPEG-style channel compression can be used).

Microsoft's HD Photo format considered for new JPEG standard

Aug 1st 2007 1:12PM on Engadget

JPEG2000 is pretty computationally expensive to work with.

I'd also expect that focusing on HD-resolution images instead of smaller ones can lend some gains based on that assumption.

More compression formats are good, because then we can have more choice.

Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.

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