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Comment Re:Notes on Mars (Score 1) 114

by G33kGuy on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @02:15PM (#29518993) Attached to: Radar Map of Buried Mars Layers Confirms Climate Cycles

It takes 9 months do get there and back, its wintertime temperature is around -100C, it has about 96% less atmosphere, there is absolutely no existent infrastructure, there is very little oxygen in the atmosphere, it has no magnetic field to shield from solar winds, and it sometimes has global dust storms. And nobody owns it yet.

Submission + - AMD Radeon HD 5870 adds DX11, multi-monitor gaming (pcper.com)

Submitted by

Vigile

on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @02:21AM

Vigile writes: "Few people will doubt that PC gaming is in need of a significant shot in the arm with the consistent encroachment of consoles and their dominating hold on developers. Today AMD is releasing the Radeon HD 5870 graphics card based on the Evergreen-series of GPUs first demonstrated in June. Besides offering new best-in-class performance for a single-GPU graphics board, the new card is easily the most power efficient in terms of idle power consumption and performance per watt. Not only that but AMD has introduced new features that could help keep PC gaming in the spotlight including the first DirectX 11 implementation and a very impressive multi-monitor gaming technology called AMD Eyefinity. The review at PC Perspective includes the full gamut of gaming benchmarks in both single- and dual-GPU configurations as well as videos of Eyefinity running on three 30" displays."

Submission + - Major volcanic eruption in Australia "well overdue (cosmosmagazine.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @10:48PM

An anonymous reader writes: Three Australian states are at risk from a major volcanic eruption which geological history indicates is "well overdue" an expert warned this week.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 2, Informative) 108

by G33kGuy on Friday September 18, 2009 @09:20PM (#29473393) Attached to: Shadowed Lunar Craters May Be Coldest Spot In the Solar System

Space isn't really cold as there isn't anything to be cold. As for tiny particles in space, their temperature would vary greatly depending on their distance from the sun (or other heat source).

Comment Classic example (Score 5, Insightful) 327

by G33kGuy on Friday August 28, 2009 @06:14PM (#29237007) Attached to: Crime Expert Backs Call For "License To Compute"

Classic example of trading freedom for "security", I can only hope this is not put through. This could also severely restrict younger peoples (legal) access to the internet, narrowing their horizons drastically.

Comment Uh-huh (Score 5, Insightful) 91

by G33kGuy on Friday August 28, 2009 @03:37PM (#29235063) Attached to: Publisher Whining Prompts Italian Investigation of Google

"Because Google does not disclose the criteria for ranking news articles or search results, he said, newspapers are unable to hone their content to try to earn more revenue from online advertising." As in, they want to change their pages to artificially inflate their page rank, regardless of relevance to what people are searching for.

BlizzCon Keynote — New WoW Expansion, Diablo 3 Details 316

Posted by Soulskill on Friday August 21, 2009 @03:48PM from the here-it-is dept.

BlizzCon kicked off this morning with a keynote address that brought some major announcements for some of their games. First, World of Warcraft's third expansion, Cataclysm, was officially revealed. It differs from the previous expansions in that they will not be creating an entirely new continent for players to explore. Instead, the two huge continents from the original game will be going through a literal cataclysm, causing some zones to be destroyed, new ones to become available, and existing ones to be entirely revamped. Big news came for Diablo III as well, with the announcement of the Monk class and a trailer showing how it plays. More details for both games as well as StarCraft II will undoubtedly become available over the next few days, but read on for more about what we already know. If you have any questions, don't forget to post them here.

Comment Re:Are there any plans to revamp Parental Controls (Score 0) 520

by G33kGuy on Friday August 21, 2009 @01:42PM (#29148609) Attached to: Ask Blizzard About Starcraft2, Diablo III, WoW, or Battle.net

You could try Xfire, it logs your hours to an online account, and I'm pretty sure you can make it private if you want to. It logs hours played that day, that week and total. www.xfire.com

Comment Re:"Why is the sky blue?" - Not so easy... (Score 0) 656

by G33kGuy on Thursday August 13, 2009 @03:59AM (#29048667) Attached to: Parents Baffled By Science Questions

"In the sky, there are lots of little bits, and the sun casts all different beams of light onto these bits, but the bits like red, so they hold onto those, but they let the blue ones go."

Comment Re:Someone has to build the vehicles (Score 1) 136

by G33kGuy on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @03:01PM (#29027545) Attached to: NASA Wants To Fund Space Taxis

I should have quoted the post. I was referring to the statement "The best kind of stimulus is the kind of stimulus that puts people in jobs." I wasn't disputing the usefulness of this stimulus.

Comment Re:Someone has to build the vehicles (Score 0, Redundant) 136

by G33kGuy on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @02:18PM (#29026727) Attached to: NASA Wants To Fund Space Taxis

So you are saying that a stimulus to have a huge amount of people dump water from one ocean to the other with buckets would be a good stimulus because it would provide jobs?

Comment Re:Supplementary Brain? (Score 1) 245

by G33kGuy on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @01:11PM (#29025601) Attached to: "Terminator Vision" Is Here For the iPhone

This statement is probably true, but is it really a bad thing? Primitive man may have learned to use bows to hunt, is it a bad thing that they are worse at killing animals with their bare hands? Only when they don't have the bow available, but this does not offset the benefits of having it, because it is much more efficient. The same thing can be applies to public water works, they enable a larger population (or a larger crop) to exist in a location, but they are dependent on the water is brings, but here, again, they are not worse off due to the dependence, as it allows them to do other things.

Comment Re:How long has this been going on? (Score 1) 791

by G33kGuy on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @01:56AM (#28848161) Attached to: Formerly Classified Global Warming Spy Photos Released

But that doesn't mean there aren't sources. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/04/water-vapour-feedback-or-forcing/

Comment Re:yeah... (Score 1) 310

by G33kGuy on Friday July 17, 2009 @12:14PM (#28731107) Attached to: US Videogame Sales Have Biggest Drop In 9 Years

Even if a significant portion of the gamer population did you what did, its not really much of a loss for them. They get the first batch of buyers at $59.99, and once it gets around $30.00 they get another sales boost.

Comment Re:Really that bad of a thing? (Score 1) 501

by G33kGuy on Friday July 10, 2009 @03:17AM (#28646665) Attached to: Korean DDoS Bots To Self-Destruct

It's more like watching them make the engine explode in flames because they never changed the oil in 80,000 miles.

Its more likely that the engine would just seize and stop.

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