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I currently use an Eyefinity setup in Portrait Mode with a Dell 2408FWP and 2 Dell U2410s.

Here's my trippy background http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/1050/echo.jpg (it's rather large at 3600x1920)

The setup is pretty awesome in my opinion and is pretty easily driven by my single 5870.

I do, from time to time, run into an issue where the card hits its framebuffer from being limited to 1GB or RAM so I believe I will upgrade for the sole purpose of getting that additional 1GB of RAM. I also believe the E6 cards probably come with some minor revisions to their architecture and BIOS that may allow them to be overclocked a little better than the original batch of 1GB cards that were released on Launch Day (When I got mine)

I do understand the laws of supply & demand may cause some to raise prices somewhat, but I am hoping that the new cards are not offered at some outrageous price.

http://img215.imageshack.us/i/sco.png/

find out whats really happening

Well, from above it looks like this.

News just in, a reporter was able to take a snapshot of the official in question.

Come on, you knew it was coming.

When I worked as a tech for an independent computer shop, we constantly got people coming in bitching about how Best Buy Geek Squad had ripped them off, failed to fix their problem or made the problem worse. The most amusing case was when some mouth breather over there snapped off a clip from the heat sink retainer. Instead of ordering a replacement retainer (or buying it used from me for five bucks) he used 20 bucks worth of thermal compound in an attempt to glue the sink to the processor die.

I am pretty sure this was socket A (image):
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/84/picture053z.jpg

We opted to order a new mobo, CPU and cooler new from the manufacturer, even though we had plenty of spares. Having billed Best Buy several times the value of the system for parts and labor, we built the customer a new system at cost plus 5% or 10%.

After the computer shop closed, I applied for a position at Geek Squad for interim employment. I was rejected on grounds that I was overqualified. What an operation.

This is what I got very quickly with Alien Skin's Image Doctor: http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/1785/edited28142421.jpg

It's a very cool GIMP plugin for some things, but...

This is my source image:
http://s3.images.com/huge.28.142421.JPG

I want to remove the lady on the right, so I select her:
http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/1346/resynthesizerselection.jpg

And then, per the Resynthesizer page's recommendations, I use "Script-Fu/Enhance/Smart remove selection..."
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/228/resynthesizerresultradi.jpg

Oh dear.

Anybody with access to the Photoshop beta feature want to give that image a stab? For all I know it fails just as spectacularly - but from the research it's based on, I highly suspect it'll fare better.

It's a very cool GIMP plugin for some things, but...

This is my source image:
http://s3.images.com/huge.28.142421.JPG

I want to remove the lady on the right, so I select her:
http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/1346/resynthesizerselection.jpg

And then, per the Resynthesizer page's recommendations, I use "Script-Fu/Enhance/Smart remove selection..."
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/228/resynthesizerresultradi.jpg

Oh dear.

Anybody with access to the Photoshop beta feature want to give that image a stab? For all I know it fails just as spectacularly - but from the research it's based on, I highly suspect it'll fare better.

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/9700/lolneptune.jpg

Well, if I was the aliens, I'd hold out for THE PRESIDENT OF EARTH.

APC UPS's have a tendency to cook their batteries as they get near the end of their lifetime. The results can be horrifying... bulging batteries, and if allowed to go on long enough, yes, even "sealed" lead acid batteries will rupture and you'll get the lovely sulfur smell.
I recently pulled these APC batteries out of an APC Smart-UPS 1400, which had to be disassembled (including the removal/replacement of rivets) in order to get the batteries out.
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/171/imageyv.jpg

As a footnote: http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/5308/clipboard1514df5.jpg

Nope, both spectra are continuous, at least in the visible range. Of course they aren't flat or even linear in the whole range, but they are continuous, smooth lines, not a series of spikes with almost nothing in between. Meaning every color will quite visible, while fluorescent will make some colors disappear completely.

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/5116/lightsourcesfigure3em3.jpg

And she looks just like Jackie Chan too.

Asian women are hideous.

A foolish young man of the Negro Persuasion
Devoted his life to become a Caucasian
He stopped eating pork, he stopped eating greens
He traded his dashiki for some Jordache Jeans
He learned to play golf, and he got a good score
Now he says to himself,
"I ain't no NIGGER no more."

American people: "I don't understand you, would you please speak more clearly..."
Barack Hussein Obama: "Mer-ce-deeez BEENNNNNNNNNZ!"

I think the issue is David Gelernter failed to predict how most of the Internet communities talk to each other. Not to mention it would require a massive restructuring of the Internet, but given the latest whispers of what ACTA will bring us, I guess it is more likely than not.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9062/56613036.png
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/9918/37977165.png
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/3168/65378241.png

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9062/56613036.png
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/9918/37977165.png
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/3168/65378241.png

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9062/56613036.png
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/9918/37977165.png
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/3168/65378241.png

I clicked, half expecting Kermit doing goatse, but it's legit. Mod parent up.

Obligatory picture http://img525.imageshack.us/i/1267531161634.jpg/

While jargon-heavy (and thus probably inappropriate for most users, though most users probably ought not mess with this sort of thing anyway), this error dialog used humor well.

Good story telling involves either overt fantasy or being plausible. Modern movies do neither in most cases. Story writers seem to have a very poor understanding of reality, and subsequently their work suffers. Technology is usually used as a plot device, something novel to surprise the audience. Generally it's novel because it doesn't happen in reality, which, in turn, is simply because it's impossible.

Some of the best examples of technology in non-technology oriented stories use it in the background. The seemingly mundane realities of the fictional world. The most recent examples that I've seen include Avatar's back story, and a character in A Certain Scientific Railgun using Irfanview to do bulk processing of image data from CCTV cameras.

Don't forget the hardest material known to man fuckyeahsmium.

*Yawn* this was already done in Australia in 1986.

Can't the Hungarians come up with anything original?

Hmmm, not for me. Note there are two scaling options, regular and "smooth" scale. http://img148.imageshack.us/g/kolourpaintsmooth.png/

SCALED IMAGE

Here:
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/2586/scalerbug.png

Look at the third set of images. Had this bug not been present, they should have been nearly identical. As you can see, in my case, they are radically different.

As the text reads:

(dali picture)
All four images in this page are the same one but your browser was instructed to scale it. The one below is scaled 1:2. On Opera and some versions of Internet Explorer it will show a gray rectangle. KDE Konqueror, Firefox and SeaMonkey will display it either pink or green or half-green, half-pink:

(smaller dali or grey box)
(mine draws in grey, despite using Firefox)

Below it is scaled down 1:4. The right one is one pixel wider and higher than the left one. Some browsers display them quite differently:

(two images, differing if you have the bug)

Check the "Search settings" page to see the change. Change the "?hl=en" to a different language to see how it changes the default selected language. For example "?hl=de" has deutsch selected by default. You will see the old "Search for pages written in any language" is now missing. Compare the current options with this screenshot (sorry for quality, not my picture) of how it used to look.

Seagate ST34520N

Seatools Enterprise, the software from Seagate allows changing the sector size and changing capacity (to lower than original). Here is a screenshot: http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/2497/blocksize.png

The software also allows changing of various drive settings (automatic bad block reallocation on read and write, read and write caches, number of cache segments). Some settings are grayed out (performance mode desktop/server and acoustic management) presumably because my drive is too old and does not support them. The software only works with Seagate SCSI drives (if you select a non-Seagate or a very old drive it can only perform a drive test, basically verify every single sector).

Website: http://projectfreeweb.org/
Forums: http://freeweb.whyweprotest.net/
Promo: http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/3015/fixedfreeweb.png

My Gimp

But...but...the iPad is four times as powerful as the iPhone!

Teach both theories!

Yes, that will work so well.

It's somewhat better now. I got it to look like this, with no center pane. Actually, the center pane is a tab on the bottom of the left pane, which I sometimes find nice.

the guy has made a vector based copy, you can check it out at http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3843/temp2j.jpg
check the site http://flowingdata.com/2010/01/22/engineers-guide-to-drinks/ for updates.

And here's the screenshot link. Just looking for replicants...

Or are you just thinking that not that much has changed between NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X. One could say the same thing about Windows 95 and Windows 7, they kind of look alike. But the codebase grows as new features are being added. Those usually provide faster experience on newer machines with more power, but they don't work all that well on lower end machines. Not that they are bloat, but they use extra hardware features better and also require the base power to provide more power. Here's my graph on the issue, if it helps to understand the point.

Too bad, dude:

Here's a picture of her at a party last weekend.

Audio players from the 90s? You still haven't seen todays virtual synthesizers and effects!

Managers don't (generally) have a clue about IT. What's worse, they think they do.

Yup, that's the problem right there. http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/3153/dilbertmauvech9.jpg

http://img21.imageshack.us/i/youwouldntdlacar.jpg/

Wow, just because creationists are wrong doesn't mean you have to be so blatant about suppressing them.

Ah, yes, the Christan Persecution Complex. A bunch of WATB's who need to STFU.

There sure are a lot of mentions of the word "applications" in the summary.

http://img34.imageshack.us/i/applications.jpg

I know, it's just serendipitous rendering on Chrome's part, but part of me wants to believe that the submitter was actually channelling their inner Ballmer.

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/5029/15mug.jpg

and the site its form i have taken offline for the day ......

Also bloom and lighting effects you still have to do in game because they rely on game world, can hide objects behind that bloom or make other objects dark, and because monitor just shows the color data you give it.

Also bloom and lighting effects you still have to do in game because they rely on game world, can hide objects behind that bloom or make other objects dark, and because monitor just shows the color data you give it.

Wow... Now everything is about racism nowadays?

Let's see this picture.
The guy on the left was the wanted one, the guy on the right is the one who had his brains turned into guacamole by the police.
The brazilian guy did not look like a german or a swedish, but he was perfectly passable as an italian, portuguese or spaniard.

Big thanks to NASA for this data, I've used it with the Splat! tool for radio path profiling to generate maps and estimate height above average terrain (HAAT). I've been using these maps to show what the approximate footprint is for amateur radio repeaters. See this example for a 90W 440Mhz repeater on top of the Empire State Building.

-molo