BFG Exiting Graphics Card Market 108
thsoundman writes news that BFG appears to be giving up on the graphics card side of its business. The company's chairman said in a statement:
"After eight years of providing innovative, high-quality graphics cards to the market, we regret to say that this category is no longer profitable for us, although we will continue to evaluate it going forward. We will continue to provide our award-winning power supplies and gaming systems, and are working on a few new products as well. I'd like to stress that we will continue to provide RMA support for our current graphics card warranty holders, as well as for all of our other products such as power supplies, PCs, and notebooks."
Wine 1.2 Release Candidate Announced 165
An anonymous reader writes "After evolving over 15 years to get to 1.0, a mere 2 years later and Wine 1.2 is just about here. There have been many many improvements and plenty of new features added. Listing just a few (doing no justice to the complete change set):
many new toolbar icons; support for alpha blending in image lists; much more complete shader assembler; support for Arabic font shaping and joining, and a number of fixes for video rendering; font anti-aliasing configuration through fontconfig; and improved handling of desktop link files. Win64 support is the milestone that marks this release. Please test your favorite applications for problems and regressions and let the Wine team know so fixes can be made before the final release. Find the release candidate here."
Comment pam_abl (Score 1) 497
Debunking a Climate-Change Skeptic 807
DJRumpy writes "The Danish political scientist Bjørn Lomborg won fame and fans by arguing that many of the alarms sounded by environmental activists and scientists — that species are going extinct at a dangerous rate, that forests are disappearing, that climate change could be catastrophic — are bogus. A big reason Lomborg was taken seriously is that both of his books, The Skeptical Environmentalist (in 2001) and Cool It (in 2007), have extensive references, giving a seemingly authoritative source for every one of his controversial assertions. So in a display of altruistic masochism that we should all be grateful for (just as we're grateful that some people are willing to be dairy farmers), author Howard Friel has checked every single citation in Cool It. The result is The Lomborg Deception, which is being published by Yale University Press next month. It reveals that Lomborg's work is 'a mirage,' writes biologist Thomas Lovejoy in the foreword. '[I]t is a house of cards. Friel has used real scholarship to reveal the flimsy nature' of Lomborg's work."
xkcd, Devotion To Duty 167
xkcd really hit the nail on the head today.
Comment They thought it would be ok? (Score 1) 312
What gets me is that they called the kid in, presented the photo as evidence of his wrongdoing, and didn't expect any negative comeback?
That's frightening - they sooo thought what they were doing was ok, they didn't think people would go mad over this...
That mindset in a school teacher is scary
Comment Re:Blocked in my hosts file. (Score 1) 140
Its LESS DECEPTIVE that the old way.
Before, you'd see blogger.com or youtube.com or many of the others, and not necessarily know it was google.
Now, ALL google companies are using 1e100.net for the reverse, so you can tell straight away it's a google server without needing to know all the spinoffs and other companies they may have bought.
Comment Re:Don't believe it. (Score 1) 140
Both you and the parent are wrong.
They are using 1e100.net for the REVERSE LOOKUP. And to keep things right, they also have the corresponding domain name with the relevant A record.
However, they don't actively use these domain names in the web requests, and squid logs the web address request, NOT the reverse PTR.
All your accesses to google, youtube and others are 1e100.net if you look up the PTR
Comment Re:How do we know it's not already in use? (Score 2, Funny) 393
Ahhh, Gcc doesn't like the smiley face at the end of line 20
Comment Re:How do we know it's not already in use? (Score 1) 393
You are wrong.
I have released bug free software.
Here it is, under creative commons license:
10 PRINT "Hello World"
20 GOTO 10
Comment Re:I haven't used DIVX in years (Score 1) 619
oops, I mean:
echo "noembed=1" >> ~/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf
Comment Re:Dumb, Again (Score 1) 103
Your first post said "there is nothing wrong with domain squatting"
Now you appear to say that it's necessary evil because we can't 'fix' it without causing problems elsewhere.
The latter I'm more intended to agree with.
Comment Re:I haven't used DIVX in years (Score 1) 619
Well, the message you were replying to said:
"Based on the video id, the actual file location of the video itself can be found."
implying playing the video directly, or downloading it first, either of which
mplayer can do with mp4's or with flash files.
Comment Re:I haven't used DIVX in years (Score 1) 619
That doesn't matter - mplayer and just about everything else can play
