Comment: Re:I Just Don't Get It... (Score 1) 296
Joesixpack00 probably meant that Intel has the performance crown (i7), but when it comes to bang for buck in more reasonable market segments AMD wins, especially with Phenom II processors.
Comment: Re:Sorry if I'm not impressed... (Score 1) 135
It takes fully charged body shot to one-hit kill you and you can't aim that well when you're on the run from that shot.
Yeah, soldiers can be really annoying for snipers, I don't see many of them harassing them though, at least on the public servers.
Comment: Re:I gave up on TF2 cause it's too laggy on my PC (Score 1) 135
Run it in DX8 mode. You loose shader effects but it runs leaps and bounds better on hardware of this class and doesn't actually look much worse. One of the computers I'm playing TF2 on has Athlon64 3500+ (single core), 1GB of RAM and GeForce 6600 (not 6600GT, big difference).
Comment: Re:Sorry if I'm not impressed... (Score 1) 135
Spies have better things to do which makes snipers the only viable countermeasure for other snipers. That's a problem IMHO.
Comment: Re:Still haven't played it. (Score 1) 135
Meet the low-poly TF2.
Class Teaches Nerds Social Skills 639
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from the geeks-need-love-too dept.
from the geeks-need-love-too dept.
PeterAitch writes "According to Reuters, Potsdam University in Germany is now teaching social skills as part of their IT courses. This is intended to 'ease entry into the world of work'. The 440 students enrolled in the master's degree course will learn how to write flirtatious text messages and emails, impress people at parties and cope with rejection(s)." The class is taught by a superficial model, who will fall in love with the nerdiest student at the end of the semester after realizing that he is beautiful on the inside.
Czech EU Presidency a Disaster for the Internet?->
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Glyn Moody writes "The first details of the tech priorities of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union have emerged — and they don't look good. As well as "protecting" intellectual monopolies, the Czechs want to push through the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), build on the efforts of the preceding French Presidency (such as "Three Strikes and You're Out") and — of course — shield children from "illegal" content online. Could this be the worst EU presidency for the Internet so far?"
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Xbox 360 boots Ubuntu Linux
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curry684 writes "After a security hole was uncovered last month, it was only a matter of time before someone would succeed in booting a Linux distro on the system:
Video and screenshots are supplied for your leisure."That's Ubuntu, running our favorite Mozilla Firefox web browser in the Gnome desktop environment, and a console window dumping the system's processor info, showing a sweet total of 3 Xenon CPUs running at an approximated 3192Mhz.
De Icaza Pleads for Cooperation Between Mono, .Net
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suka writes "In a recent interview with the online edition of the Austrian daily Newspaper "DER STANDARD", Mono project-lead Miguel de Icaza pleads for a cooperation between Mono and Microsofts .Net: 'I think that the deal should include a technical Mono/.NET collaboration, and even go as far as Microsoft recommending Mono for all of their developers looking at migration'. The whole interview has some other interesting bits, like de Icazas thoughts on an open sourced java and infos about upcomping versions of Mono."
Saudi oil production in trouble
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IamTheRealMike writes "As one of the worlds most prolific producers of oil, Saudi Arabian production is of vital importance to maintaining our standard of living in the west. A new analysis from Stuart Staniford appears to show large, fast declines in production throughout 2006 that are uncorrelated with price, world events or OPECs own announced production cuts (in fact, no evidence for those cuts occurring is found at all). Given that the apparent steep decline (8%/year) matches the rates seen in other areas where horizontal drilling and water injection were used, and high prices give the Kingdom every incentive to produce, is this the beginning of the end for Saudi oil?"
