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  1. Re:What is a 100Mbit connection good for? on Rupert Murdoch Wants To Destroy Australia's National Broadband Network · · Score: 1

    Which provider are you with and where are you located? I'm finally going to be moving out of the sticks in the new year and will be looking for a decent provider with reasonable quotas and good speeds. I'd love something that cheap.

  2. Re:How good is it at its best? on Crysis 3 Review: Amazing Graphics, Still a Benchmark Buster, Boring Gameplay · · Score: 1

    To expand slightly on that, my favorite tactic was using stealth to sneak from bush to bush, then using a scoped and silenced SCAR. I'd line up my shot in stealth, quick switch to strength, take my now steady shot, then switch back to stealth, and move to another bush. You could snipe from quite a distance using that and never be seen.

  3. Re:Poor definitions on Odds Favor Discovery of Earth-Like Exoplanet in 2013 · · Score: 1

    If I remember rightly, it doesn't have a magnetic field because it was too small to keep its core active, and it has mostly solidified. At least that was the speculation at the time I heard this.

  4. Re:Ain't happening on VGA and DVI Ports To Be Phased Out Over Next 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Lower end motherboards (sub-$100) are the most likely to have serial and parallel ports these days. Most (but not all, unfortunately) mid-range boards will be free of those legacy connectors and I don't think I've seen a high end board with legacy connectors in the last 4-5 years, maybe more.

  5. Re:Performance on Zotac Releases GeForce GT 520 With Classic PCI Connector · · Score: 1

    The GT520 is a pretty pathetically slow card anyway and I'm guessing the purpose of this is for people who need more display outputs on the cheap and don't have PCI-E slots to spare.

  6. Re:Sky channel on Rupert Murdoch Claims To Own the 'Sky' In 'Skype' · · Score: 2, Informative

    but noone says "Sky" anymore, especially after they started calling it BSkyB themselves.

    They refer to themselves as Sky all the time, in their own advertising. Ask anybody in the UK or Ireland who BSkyB is and you'll probably get nothing but a blank stare from 3/4 of them. They're known as Sky to the general public, they're referred to as Sky in rival advertising (e.g. not available on Sky!).

  7. Re:foot.shoot(); on HandBrake Abandons DivX As an Output Format · · Score: 1

    obsolete adj 1 no longer in use or in practice. 2 out of date; outmoded. 3 biol said of organs, etc: vestigial; no longer functional or fully developed.


    Way to be selective with the definition you supply.

  8. Re:Until... on Ultracapacitor Bus Recharges At Each Stop · · Score: 5, Informative

    He meant Unsprung Weight, or the weight of the wheel and suspension and associated components. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsprung_weight

  9. Re:Didn't one of the card companies try this befor on The First Quad SLI Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    That would be the, now defunct, 3dfx and their Voodoo2 cards (I still have my 12 meg sitting in a box at home somewhere). Their SLI referred to ScanLine Interleave, which, I guess, could be considered a form of AFR. One card drew all the even lines on the screen, the other drew all the odd lines, and you got a pretty sweet performance bonus.

    3dfx went bust a number of years ago and nVidia bought up all the leftovers, presumably taking 3dfx's sli tech and developing from there.