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BFG Exiting Graphics Card Market 108

Posted by Soulskill from the so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-pixels dept.
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."

Comment Re:I'll admit... (Score 3, Informative) 110

by i23098 (#30300616) Attached to: Service Oriented Architecture With Java

Aside from the familiarity of Java, what benefits would Java offer for web services?

Aside from having a huge library that helps you build your services, and a language that almost forces you to program well (A bad programmer can be bad in any language, but Java won't give you so many "liberties"), and... I guess you already see the point ;)

Comment Re:Lines of Code (Score 1) 432

by i23098 (#25482323) Attached to: Linux Kernel Surpasses 10 Million Lines of Code

I don't need an Nvidia driver for the computer to work if my video card is an ATI.

Suppose you change video card ;)

If there are drivers for a hundred different makes and models of viseo card, and you only have one card in the system, that seems to be a huge inneficiency, taking up disk space and possibly memory, and a possibly a hundred "if" statements to go through for the driver actually needed to initialize.

That's where modules take place. Only the driver modules you require are loaded. You can even delete from your harddrive the modules you don't use. It won't take any ram space the modules you don't use.

The fact that you can make an installer that only installs on your computer the modules you require, doesn't mean that there is no source code for the modules you don't use :p
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Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% 674

Posted by Soulskill from the innovation-is-a-real-gas dept.
Ponca City, We love you writes "Temple University physics professor Rongjia Tao has developed a simple device that could dramatically improve fuel efficiency in automobiles by as much as 20 percent. The device, attached to the fuel line of a car's engine near the fuel injector, creates an electric field that thins fuel, reducing its viscosity so that smaller droplets are injected into the engine. Because combustion starts at the droplet surface, smaller droplets lead to cleaner and more efficient combustion. Six months of road testing in a diesel-powered Mercedes-Benz automobile showed an increase from 32 miles per gallon to 38 mpg, a 20 percent boost, and a 12-15 percent gain in city driving. 'We expect the device will have wide applications on all types of internal combustion engines, present ones and future ones,' Tao wrote in the study published in Energy & Fuels. 'This discovery promises to significantly improve fuel efficiency in all types of internal combustion engine powered vehicles and at the same time will have far-reaching effects in reducing pollution of our environment,' says Larry F. Lemanski, Senior Vice President for Research and Strategic Initiatives at Temple."

Feed Science Daily: New Therapy Could Preserve Vessel Function After Heart Attack (sciencedaily.com)

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Scientists have identified the process that causes blood vessels to constrict during and after a heart attack. They've also demonstrated that delivering a vital molecule that is depleted during this process directly to those blood vessels can reverse damage and help restore blood flow. The medical researchers say these findings have the potential to improve outcomes for patients with acute coronary episodes related to ischemia, and to ameliorate the restriction of blood supply to the heart.

Feed Science Daily: Mouse Model For Schizophrenia Has Genetic On-off Switch (sciencedaily.com)

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The researchers developed the transgenic mouse by inserting the gene for mutant Disrupted-In-Schizophrenia-1 (DISC-1) into a normal mouse, along with a promoter that enables the gene to be switched on or off. Mutant DISC-1 was previously identified in a Scottish family with a strong history of schizophrenia and related mental disorders.

Feed Science Daily: New Lung Cancer Guidelines Oppose Certain Vitamins, Suggest Acupuncture (sciencedaily.com)

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New evidenced-based guidelines from the American College of Chest Physicians provides 260 of the most comprehensive recommendations related to lung cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, staging and medical and surgical treatments. The guidelines cite there is little evidence to show lung cancer screening impacts mortality in patients, including those who are considered at high risk for the disease.

Feed Navy Researches Vomit Beam (wired.com)

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Set phasers to "puke"? The military works on a weapon that makes people so dizzy they fall over and throw up. It can supposedly shoot through walls, too. In Danger Room.


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So my question to all the globalists out there is this: How do I survive and keep your idiotic creative distruction from destroying my world?

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