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.

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.

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.

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!).

obsolete adj 1 no longer in use or in practice. 2 out of date; outmoded. 3 biol said of organs, etc: vestigial; no longer functional or fully developed.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

Not as good as YourMother.

From the article:
"The 2009 total was aided by a 28 cent increase in ticket prices from the year before to an average $7.46.

The total number of tickets sold, or admissions, is expected to reach 1.4 billion, up from 1.34 billion in 2008. Still, that figure is not expected to break the record 1.6 billion tickets sold in 2002, said Hollywood.com Box Office."

The reason for the higher revenue? Higher ticket prices. Ticket sales are down 12% since 2002. If you look at a long-term graph of ticket sales, you can see that it's been basically flat in the 2000s, compared to upper single-digit or double-digit growth nearly every year between 1970 and 2000. It's pretty much been stagnant since 2002.

Here's some numbers showing the trend:
2009 - Total Gross $9,782.4
2008 - Total Gross $9,630.6
2007 - Total Gross $9,663.7
2006 - Total Gross $9,209.5
2005 - Total Gross $8,840.5
2004 - Total Gross $9,380.5
2003 - Total Gross $9,239.7
2002 - Total Gross $9,155.0
2001 - Total Gross $8,412.5
2000 - Total Gross $7,661.0
1990 - Total Gross $5,021.8
1980 - Total Gross $2,749.0
http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/

1980->1990 = 83% Growth in 10 years, average of 8.2% per year
1990->2002 = 82% Growth in 12 years, average of 6.8% per year
Then, *mysteriously*, something happened around 2002:
2002->2009 = 9.2% Growth in 7 years, 1.3% per year (using the $10 billion number, not the $9,782.4 for 2009)
To put that in perspective, 1.3% is less than the growth of inflation.

In other news, the number of AIDS patients is higher than ever, and yet, the average lifespan continues to grow. I'm sure we all can see the correlation here: AIDS = longer lifespans. Torrent Freak spins reality even more than FOX news. I wish Slashdot wasn't such a fan of the pro-pirate spin.

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

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.