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A $99 Graphics Card Might Be All You Need 618

Posted by kdawson from the market-beater dept.
Vigile writes "With the release of AMD's latest budget graphics card, the Radeon HD 4770, the GPU giant is bringing a lot of technology to the table. The card sports the world's first 40nm GPU (beating out CPUs to a new process technology for the first time), GDDR5 memory, and 640 stream processors, all for under $100. What is even more interesting is that as PC gaming has evolved it appears that a $99 graphics card is all you really need to play the latest PC titles — as long as you are comfortable with a resolution of 1920x1200 or below. Since so few PC gamers have screens larger than that, could the world of high-end PC graphics simply go away?"
Democrats

Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat 1124

Posted by kdawson from the crossing-the-aisle dept.
Akido37 was one of many readers letting us know that US Sen. Arlen Specter has changed parties to become a Democrat. This gives the Democrats 59 seats in the Senate, and 60 if and when Al Franken gets seated from Minnesota. However, Specter said in his announcement that he will not be an automatic 60th vote for breaking Republican filibusters. While the senator's move seems to have surprised many Republicans, it is understandable to moderate Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, who said, "You haven't certainly heard warm encouraging words of how they [Republicans] view moderates. Either you are with us or against us." Specter noted that in his home state of Pennsylvania, 200,000 formerly Republican voters switched party allegiance last year.
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Town Fights Cricket Plague With Led Zeppelin 190

Posted by samzenpus from the certain-mariah-carey-notes-make-dolphins-abduct-and-eat-small-children dept.
The residents of Tuscarora, Nevada are getting ready to fight the annual invasion of mormon crickets with the power of Rock-N-Roll. Trial and error has shown that the crickets don't think much of Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones. The residents circle the town with boomboxes at regular intervals to drive off the millions of crickets. "It is part of our arsenal. You'll wake up and there'll be one sitting on your forehead, looking at you." says Laura Moore, an unemployed college professor and one of the town's 13 residents. The crickets devastate crops, cause slicks on the highway and evidently love rap.
Businesses

Cablevision To Offer 101 Mbps Down, No Caps 375

Posted by kdawson from the like-a-drug dept.
nandemoari alerts us to news over at DSLReports that Cablevision will be offering subscribers 101-Mbps download service, a new US record. That's fast enough to download an HD movie in less than 10 minutes. The package, known as "Ultra," will launch on May 11 and will cost $99.95 a month. Upload speed is 15 Mbps and there are no monthly limits. Cablevision is also doubling the speed of its Wi-Fi service, which is available free to subscribers using hotspots across the Northeast. "...the company will be launching a new 'Ultra' tier on May 11. The new tier features speeds of 101Mbps downstream and 15Mbps upstream for $99.95 a month. That's an unprecedented amount of speed at an unprecedented price, suggesting that Cablevision just took the gloves off in their fight against Verizon FiOS. ... Cablevision spokesman Jim Maiella confirmed for me that the $99.95 price is unbundled, and the new tier does not come with any kind of a usage cap or overage fees."

Comment Re:Cold war in the making (Score 1) 86

by udowish (#25697687) Attached to: Canadians Plan Robot Sub Missions To Aid Claim For Arctic
what I find interesting about these types of comments, while I am sure are in jest, truly disclose the dyslexia and hypocrisy of the Canadian public. They bitch, laugh and complain about the shape of the CF yet they are the ones who voted successive governments (primarily Liberal) in year after year who's made no attempt at hiding their disdain for the Forces as a whole and made gutting it a top priority. Chretien was quotted many times that he hated spending money on the military. Yet, here we are. Those same Canuks also bitch about the 'revolving' door justice system when again, they voted in 'hug a thug' liberal governments that clearly are and will always be soft on crime, and then complain about it. YOU GET WHAT YOU VOTE FOR. hopefully some sanity will arise from the Conservatives second win.
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Journal Journal: Humm maybe..

Journal by udowish
I think the US election is tomorrow or there abouts. Maybe they will become more sane and get rid of that Bush guy. It scares me that a guy who can not pronounce nuclear is the president of clown land.

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