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Real Name

Scott Michaud

Title

News Editor, Troll

Location

Kingston, ON, Canada

Bio

Scott joined PC Perspective in May 2011. Prior to PC Perspective, Scott has worked on personal projects and has completed degrees in Physics and Education from Queen's University. Currently PC Perspective is the only place to find his published works. Other ventures related to computing, physics, math, education, and technology are currently in progress. He is also a geek, go figure.

Beyond PC Perspective, you can find Scott at several places throughout the internet:

• Email: smichaud@pcper.com
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/scottmichaud
• Google+: Scott Michaud
• Online games as Phopojijo

 

History

Member for

2 years 3 weeks

Recent Posts

Recent Posts

Epic Games is disappointed in the PS4 and Xbox One?

05/23/2013 - 18:40

Unreal Engine 4 was presented at the PlayStation 4 announcement conference through a new Elemental Demo. We noted how the quality seemed to have dropped in the eight months following E3 while the demo was being ported to the console hardware. The most...

You know that thing you trust to accept untrusted data...

05/22/2013 - 01:53

They might be a good means of guarding you from momentary lapses of judgment, but security is not equivalent to antivirus packages. You always need to consider how much your system is exposed to untrusted and even unsolicited data. Any software which...

Xbox One announced, the games: not so much.

05/21/2013 - 17:26

[inline:files/news/2013-05-21/xbox-one-head.jpg] Almost exactly three months have passed since Sony announced the Playstation 4 and just three weeks remain until E3. Ahead of the event, Microsoft unveiled their new Xbox console: The Xbox One. Being so...

IE10 is the safest web browser in one way; checkmate!

05/16/2013 - 15:45

If you consider your browser security based solely on whether it will allow you to manually download a malicious executable: IE10 is the best browser ever! Rod Trent over at Windows IT Pro seems to believe this when NSS labs released their report, "...

HP SlateBook x2: Tegra 4 on Android 4.2.2 in August

05/15/2013 - 21:02

Sentences containing the words "Hewlett-Packard" and "tablet" can end in a question mark, an exclamation mark, or a period on occasion. The gigantic multinational technology company tried to own a whole mobile operating system with...

Haswell Laptop specs! NEC LaVie L to launch in Japan

05/14/2013 - 15:54

While we are not sure when it will be released or whether it will be available for North America, we have found a Haswell laptop. Actually, NEC will release two products in this lineup: a high end 1080p unit and a lower end 1366x768 model. Unfortuantely...

Corsair has, well, Haswell PSU support chart

05/10/2013 - 16:23

I cannot do it captain! I don't have the not enough power! We have been discussing the ultra-low power state of Haswell processors for a little over a week and how it could be detrimental to certain power supplies. Power supply manufacturers never...

AMD to erupt Volcanic Islands GPUs as early as Q4 2013?

05/08/2013 - 21:32

So the Southern Islands might not be entirely stable throughout 2013 as we originally reported; seismic activity being analyzed suggests the eruption of a new GPU micro-architecture as early as Q4. These Volcanic Islands, as they have been codenamed,...

Unreal Engine 3 compiled to asm.js

05/07/2013 - 00:07

Over the weekend we published a post which detailed Javascript advancements to position the web browser as a respectable replacement for native code. Asm.js allows for C-like languages to be compiled into easily optimized script executed at near native...

Cloth simulations in Javascript, optimized for asm.js

05/04/2013 - 18:47

Web browsers are getting really good at being general-purpose application platforms. You can write most applications in web standards if you are willing to give up some level of performance for the gained ubiquity. HTML5, Javascript, and CSS are very...

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