OS/2 was XP a decade earlier, IBM just dropped the ball in their marketing department. I have fond memories of dual booting Warp with Slackware. Good to see eComStation is at it still. I might just have to pay the $159 or whatever it is for a personal license now that it can be ran inside VirtualBox.

Not only that, you can just keep signing up for free tier every year. I've done it myself, & all I needed to do was transfer configs to my local machine, close down my AWS account, open a new one, upload, off I go again.

It may only be a year, but they don't check names, credit card details, or address, just email address.

My situation was a little different. When Linuxworld.com launched back in '98 or so, it was it's own site and didn't redirect to networkworld.com. Not too long after launch they made user registrations available. For some reason I was screwing with the URL in the address bar and accidentally hit enter.. they had left 'directory browsing' enabled and stored the username/email/password list in clear text inside the webroot. I emailed them and didn't get a response. The next day I emailed them the list and within an hour they disabled all user registrations, the feature was completely removed from the website but still didn't ever get a response. I never visited the site that much so I have no idea if they ever went back to it, but I still can't believe someone would develop something that stored passwords, email adresses and usernames in clear text in a flat file, inside the webroot.

When I first created my account on /. I remember getting excited about the sequel that was going to be released soon.

It doesn't work like this though. Even if you take the 50% performance increase on face value (not taking into account higher AA/ASF/Shaders) that would mean a game running at 15fps would increase to 23fps. Not exactly much of an increase. Even if you were getting 30fps on the GTX 260, that's an increase of 15fps (which is what the tests essentially saw), hardly worth $300.

Meanwhile, if you spent the money on CPU/MBD/RAM & a mid range graphics card (say a GTX 480 at around $150), you'd see actual performance increases of around 3.5x that of sticking a GTX 660 on a crap motherboard with a crap processor.

Sure, if you had every intention of upgrading the rest of the components, the graphics card is going to be the easiest to swap out, but you're still going to need to upgrade the CPU/MBD/RAM.

The article hides the fact that the increase of a GTX 260 vs GTX 660 card in a modern system would be a ~400% increase in performance. Not sure what they're trying to prove, but to me it proves they know nothing about hardware, gaming or value for money.

Exactly my thoughts. 50% increase in performance? Not really impressive when you look at the graphics card charts out there. GTX 260 has far from 1/2 the performance of a GTX 660.

According to PassMark:

GTX 660: 4038
GTX 260: 1123

So with only a 50% increase in performance, I'd say it's a waste of money. The bottom line is that modern processors, chipsets, & RAM will make a massive difference in performance for modern high end graphics cards. If you're going to upgrade your graphics card, you need to reduce the bottlenecks in the system.

Actually, Counter-Strike originally had all the correct names before it went retail. It was only after it went retail did they change the names to avoid paying the fees.

Aside from this, it's not a "shady world", as gamers, we've known this was the case for years. Not sure why there's a huge beat up, maybe worry more about governments subsidising said manufacturers.

Because the whales being hunted for "research" are not only endangered, but are being fished on a commercial scale.

I'm dubious of this research as it goes against nearly every other peer reviewed paper I've read recently, which all state climate change is observably worse than predicted. I'm not sure where they get the info that temps have leveled off post-2000, but GISS, NOAA, etc, data does not show this.

Lets face it, none of you have even tried any of the girlfriend versions, your still stuck on hand 1.0.

Some of us don't just use Twitter to stalk celebrities. I personally use it for political commentary, getting blog hits (I don't run ads, so no, not for revenue), & getting news before news websites get it.

It's probably the most powerful medium for journalists & bloggers.

That being said, I don't see Vine as adding anything to Twitter, nor do I see it being taken up in a hurry. I'll give it a go, but I don't think I'll rush out & "Vine" everything I see.

Firstly, our gun control laws have prevented massacres, not banning games or movies, secondly the "wowsers" have no influence on the ratings board.

The reason why there was no R18+ before was because an Attorney-General (Michael Atkinson) was being influenced by the wowsers. The lack of an R18+ rating, not the wowsers, is the reason so many games were refused classification or modified for Australian audiences.

If you want to talk stupidity, go no further than your post.

Unabomber manifesto comes to mind.

I am an hardcore gamer, and most hardcore gamers I know don't use Razer because it's cheaply made overpriced junk. More than likely hardcore gamers are going to go with what works, not what's aimed at them.

This tablet is not nice, it's overpriced junk like everything else Razer produces. Again, us hardcore gamers already have tablets, we already have portable consoles, we have gaming laptops, we don't want or need another proprietary device that adds nothing new to the market.

Yet another poorly thought out tablet aimed at cashing in on the market. The problem is it seems to be aimed at "hardcore gamers", which rarely ends well. Most of us already have tablets to browse & play touch based games, so I don't see what this will add other than a hole in your bank account.

Gravitational Lensing does allow us to see along the arms of our galaxy though. While this may not let us see everything, it does allow us to see more than just our local cluster.