Comment Re:its just more selective than allowing every LEA (Score 1) 231
Or the police will break out the $5 wrenches and rubber hoses, which runs into its own set of problems.
They should have a Obligatory xkcd upmod...
Comment active people have 30% lower risk of death? (Score 1) 200
From TFA "Although previous research has found that physically active people have at least a 30% lower risk of death compared with inactive people, the ideal amount of exercise remains somewhat uncertain. In this study, strenuous joggers — (omitted)— had a mortality rate that is not statistically different from that of the sedentary group."
No. Everyone will die... Inactive people may just die sooner.
No. Everyone will die... Inactive people may just die sooner.
Comment Re:Comcast Business Class (Score 1) 291
The other two are already dead....
Comment Re:Why at a place of learning? (Score 1) 1007
D.C
Comment Secretaries? (Score 1) 786
Who's to blame for the lack of men being secretaries? A lot of these discussions are pointless. People will do what they want to do. If that means breaking social norms, be my guest. Good for you.
Comment Re:That's not the reason you're being ignored. (Score 1) 406
To be fair, he did say "yadda yadda yadda".
If I had any mod points left, I'd vote this post up....
DX11 Tested Against DX9 With Dirt 2 Demo 201
MojoKid writes "The PC demo for Codemasters' upcoming DirectX 11 racing title, Dirt 2, has just hit the web and is available for download. Dirt 2 is a highly-anticipated racing sim that also happens to feature leading-edge graphic effects. In addition to a DirectX 9 code path, Dirt 2 also utilizes a number of DirectX 11 features, like hardware-tessellated dynamic water, an animated crowd and dynamic cloth effects, in addition to DirectCompute 11-accelerated high-definition ambient occlusion (HADO), full floating-point high dynamic range (HDR) lighting, and full-screen resolution post processing. Performance-wise, DX11 didn't take its toll as much as you'd expect this early on in its adoption cycle."
Bit-tech also took a look at the graphical differences, arriving at this conclusion: "You'd need a seriously keen eye and brown paper envelope full of cash from one of the creators of Dirt 2 to notice any real difference between textures in the two versions of DirectX."
Mafia Wars CEO Brags About Scamming Users 251
jamie writes with a follow-up to our recent discussion of social gaming scams:
"Mark Pincus, CEO of the company that brought us Mafia Wars, says: 'I did every horrible thing in the book just to get revenues right away. I mean, we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this Zwinky toolbar, which was like, I don't know... I downloaded it once and couldn't get rid of it.'"
TechCrunch also ran a interesting tell-all from the CEO of a company specializing in Facebook advertisements, who provided some details on similarly shady operations at the popular social networking site.
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