Ever since Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) first appeared on the Web scene in the late 1990s, a plethora of books have been written and published that purport to explain how CSS works, and how to make it work for you.
So then this isn't the "missing" manual, it's a "new and improved" manual.
Subliminalbits: If you had read more carefuly, you would have seen that the performance increase with their NIC gave you more bang for the buck that spending that much on a video card.
No, what they *said*, was
"Dropping $300 to switch between one generation of graphics card and the next will generally get you a lot less than a 10% fps gain."
Which is a pretty fucking generic statement, considering the specificity of the results. This bullshit article would have held a lot more water had they run a scripted benchmark with the KillerNIC, then taken them out, put in $300 video cards (or more ram, etc), run the test again, and compared the numbers.
But that's obviously not what they're trying to accomplish. What they're trying to do is muddy the waters a bit so everyone can't see what should be completely clear: that the killerNIC is an overpriced load of crap developed by their marketing team, not a revolutionary new piece of gaming technology.
We suspect, however, that the fact that these computers were marginal at running F.E.A.R. in the first place had an impact in the comparison.
Which is why spending 300 bucks on a NIC is such a retarded move. Why not spend that money to upgrade the video card, or add more ram, or do something that's going to bring the level of the machine up a few notches?
CrossOver Mac will be the very best way to run your Windows applications on your Intel based Mac. It will let you install and run Windows programs as though they were native, all without having to buy or run a copy of Windows itself.
In other news, the guys over at CherryOS have announced that they have a new product...
Others are less well known: video surveillance systems are being tied to software that can recognize specific types of activity and identify individuals; and data-mining software is being used to analyze everything from shoppers' habits to irregular register activity.
Yeah, I'd love to see the false-positive rate on these. I've used that travesty they call a "self-check-out" at Home Depot enough times to know that they can't even put together a machine that can correctly detect a bag of nails, much less flawlessly predict which customer is going to shoplift.
These are exciting times for Microsoft Haters. Google is growing in strength, serving up online ads by the bucket, even making headway in the corporate software market.
What adult writes like this?
Blogs are the new Op-Ed page, only with no journalistic standards.
Technology is certainly not where the old predictions had anticipated. Where is my flying car!
Well, you're going to have to let a German scientist hack your foot off. Then, while you're unconscious, he and his friends can have their way with you. All for the flying car.
The fundamental nature of that change, the fundamental trend of that change, is to open up more than before, and to become more of a wiki than ever before. If you have read otherwise in the mainstream media, well, digital culture is hard to understand,
How can a wiki becomre "more of a wiki"? When you use the defined term in your definition of that term, i can see how it might be hard to understand.
New Firefox 2 feature: Inline spell checking -- A new built-in spell checker enables users to quickly check the spelling of text entered into Web forms.
But will this detect antiquated Elglish, such as when people use "ask" instead of "ax"?
It's 2006 and Backups For Home User Still Tricky? - What is it about backups that always seems so difficult?
Well, your first misstep there is assuming that your experience is indicative of the average home user. I can tell you that your average home user doesn't really have more than 4.7 gigs of critical data that they would be interested in backing up.
(The ones that do, just back up the less important stuff to an external drive. At leastr that's usually what I recommend)
The rumored laser shortage could result in shipment delays for new models of Blu-ray and HD DVD players and drives past the upcoming holiday season, cooling the next-gen DVD format war until 2007.
arises from the requirement in British law that prohibits publication of prejudicial information about the defendants prior to trial.
as much as I love freedom of the press... I could really do without the 24/7 coverage of John Mark Karr.. (But I guess it's worth it to get the other benefits from the 1st Amendment:)
Specifically, the problems a spouse can face when their loved one is working in bed.
I don't know if you'd call looking at pr0n "working". Although it's certainly a good excuse if you've got one of those fancy laptop privacy screens with the limited viewing angle... (you know, for airplane travel and such).
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These folks are being told that tape backups with their information were mistakenly thrown away back in July.
Well, they better go Chase it!
Ever since Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) first appeared on the Web scene in the late 1990s, a plethora of books have been written and published that purport to explain how CSS works, and how to make it work for you.
So then this isn't the "missing" manual, it's a "new and improved" manual.
Subliminalbits: If you had read more carefuly, you would have seen that the performance increase with their NIC gave you more bang for the buck that spending that much on a video card.
No, what they *said*, was "Dropping $300 to switch between one generation of graphics card and the next will generally get you a lot less than a 10% fps gain."
Which is a pretty fucking generic statement, considering the specificity of the results. This bullshit article would have held a lot more water had they run a scripted benchmark with the KillerNIC, then taken them out, put in $300 video cards (or more ram, etc), run the test again, and compared the numbers.
But that's obviously not what they're trying to accomplish. What they're trying to do is muddy the waters a bit so everyone can't see what should be completely clear: that the killerNIC is an overpriced load of crap developed by their marketing team, not a revolutionary new piece of gaming technology.
We suspect, however, that the fact that these computers were marginal at running F.E.A.R. in the first place had an impact in the comparison.
Which is why spending 300 bucks on a NIC is such a retarded move. Why not spend that money to upgrade the video card, or add more ram, or do something that's going to bring the level of the machine up a few notches?
You're obviously not female.
That's not exactly a huge revelation. We're on slashdot.
Roger on that. Medium regular, and the shirt pockets are the perfect size to fit a burned CD or DVD.
CrossOver Mac will be the very best way to run your Windows applications on your Intel based Mac. It will let you install and run Windows programs as though they were native, all without having to buy or run a copy of Windows itself.
In other news, the guys over at CherryOS have announced that they have a new product...
Could this be the latest in the criminal world's security strategy?
Anyone planning this far ahead is just going to use steganography and hidden, encrypted volumes with a false, destructive 'duress' password.
I make most of my own clothes; I have not shopped new clothes for 10 years
If you know your size and generally just wear the same styles, you can just order your clothes on the internet.
Others are less well known: video surveillance systems are being tied to software that can recognize specific types of activity and identify individuals; and data-mining software is being used to analyze everything from shoppers' habits to irregular register activity.
Yeah, I'd love to see the false-positive rate on these. I've used that travesty they call a "self-check-out" at Home Depot enough times to know that they can't even put together a machine that can correctly detect a bag of nails, much less flawlessly predict which customer is going to shoplift.
the End of MAC Spoofing?
Nah, we'll only see the end of Mac spoofing when they stop making commercials with that goofball that looks like Bill Gates.
These are exciting times for Microsoft Haters. Google is growing in strength, serving up online ads by the bucket, even making headway in the corporate software market.
What adult writes like this?
Blogs are the new Op-Ed page, only with no journalistic standards.
Technology is certainly not where the old predictions had anticipated. Where is my flying car!
Well, you're going to have to let a German scientist hack your foot off. Then, while you're unconscious, he and his friends can have their way with you. All for the flying car.
The fundamental nature of that change, the fundamental trend of that change, is to open up more than before, and to become more of a wiki than ever before. If you have read otherwise in the mainstream media, well, digital culture is hard to understand,
How can a wiki becomre "more of a wiki"? When you use the defined term in your definition of that term, i can see how it might be hard to understand.
Lockheed Martin has won a contract to build the Orion crew exploration vehicle that will eventually take humans to the moon
Great, the US will finally make it to the moon.
jokes on my typo in 3...2...1....
:)
I guess if I were using Firefox 2 I'd be all set.
New Firefox 2 feature: Inline spell checking -- A new built-in spell checker enables users to quickly check the spelling of text entered into Web forms.
But will this detect antiquated Elglish, such as when people use "ask" instead of "ax"?
Radio Shack E-Fires 400 workers
ouch.. I predict someone's going to use real fire on their building.
It's 2006 and Backups For Home User Still Tricky? - What is it about backups that always seems so difficult?
Well, your first misstep there is assuming that your experience is indicative of the average home user. I can tell you that your average home user doesn't really have more than 4.7 gigs of critical data that they would be interested in backing up.
(The ones that do, just back up the less important stuff to an external drive. At leastr that's usually what I recommend)
Amateur astronomers will be excited to note that they can witness the impact of the SMART-1 probe crashing into the moon.
Didn't Chairface already do this?
The rumored laser shortage could result in shipment delays for new models of Blu-ray and HD DVD players and drives past the upcoming holiday season, cooling the next-gen DVD format war until 2007.
Great! That's just in time for me to NOT BUY ONE.
arises from the requirement in British law that prohibits publication of prejudicial information about the defendants prior to trial.
:)
as much as I love freedom of the press... I could really do without the 24/7 coverage of John Mark Karr.. (But I guess it's worth it to get the other benefits from the 1st Amendment
I have no interest in trial & erroring for an hour when I'd rather kill monsters. But there really is somethign to this.
Well, it's clear that you're not spending the time working on your typing skills.
Meanwhile, we can't even get regular dual-SIM cell phones here in America, because the service providers are so paranoid about losing customers.
Specifically, the problems a spouse can face when their loved one is working in bed.
I don't know if you'd call looking at pr0n "working". Although it's certainly a good excuse if you've got one of those fancy laptop privacy screens with the limited viewing angle... (you know, for airplane travel and such).