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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    12/07/09

    In reply to Intel Confirms Larrabee Graphics Card is Dead
    I was pretty surprised by this (well, by the original announcement last week that effectively admitted it was dead). It was already slightly delayed, true, but they seemed to be making real progress - I wonder if ATI's recent uber-card, the 5970, had anything to do with it? (at 5 TFlops, it's a monster).

    @ECAsh - Larrabee wasn't even related to the "standard" Intel graphics (GMA, etc), it was a discrete card with a LOT of x86 cores on it, like 40+ in the demo version I think. I don't know that Intel has ever shipped a discrete graphics card; not lately, anyway. This was (we presume) going to be a PCI-x card that would've competed with AMD's ATI cards, and NVidia's cards.

    At least they've got experience with making many-core architectures and CPUs now - should come in handy when I get that 16-core Core i9 chip in 2012 or so !!!
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    Image of Benguin Benguin
    12/06/09

    In reply to I'm so Passé That I Don't Know 95% of These Social Networking Sites
    Ah, Habbo. I remember thee (somewhat) fondly. It was all the rage back when I was a freshman in high school. Now nobody gives a bobba.
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    Image of jinushaun jinushaun
    12/04/09

    In reply to I'm so Passé That I Don't Know 95% of These Social Networking Sites
    The difference between Facebook and the rest is that it shed its childish "social networking" roots pretty quickly and involved into something much more than exchanging pictures, stupid status updates and stalking hot girls.

    A Facebook account is this generation's version of an email address or a phone number.
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    Image of onlysublime onlysublime
    12/04/09

    In reply to Intel's High-End Larrabee Graphics Card Won't Be Released Anytime Soon
    hahahaha. did anyone think it'd be any different? Intel graphics. think about that. Intel graphics. has anyone ever had a good experience with Intel graphics? onboard graphics that score like crazy on artificial benchmarks but then you load up tetris and it chokes.
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    Image of blash blash
    12/04/09

    @onlysublime: Actually, the X4500HD is a pretty damn good performer for what it tries to do. It's low power, it runs Aero quite nicely, does HD video OK, and can even run Trine on 1776x1000 (damn monitor overscans on 1920x1200 and 1920x1080 over HDMI) albeit at "Very Low" settings but at a high frame rate. And the drivers are a HELL of a lot more stable than nVidia ones.

    People get Intel graphics when all they want to do is do word, browsing + email, power point presentations, etc. - and have good battery life while doing it. The X4500HD never claimed to be able to run Crysis so don't lambast it for not doing so.
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    Image of taniquetil taniquetil
    12/05/09

    @blash:

    Eh, the X4500 is a fine chip, but like a lot of previous generation solutions, it's running into a "just-not-good-enough" wall in a world of "good-enough" computing. Does that make any sense? The same thing happened to Intel Celeron and AMD Turion. They were fine when they came out, but then they kind of fell by the wayside as they just couldn't cut it.

    The reason netbooks have risen up in style is because of "good enough" computing, because people don't need Core2Duos to do what they want to do.

    However, the X4500 is falling behind because of HD video on Hulu, Youtube, and GPU acceleration for Flash and Web Browsers, and that little bit of stuttering is just enough to make it "not good enough".

    And throw in
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    Image of blash blash
    12/05/09

    @taniquetil: I'm not saying nVidia hardware is bad - just nVidia drivers. My X4500HD does 720p YouTube HD just fine - 1080p is where it stutters, but I mean, honestly - it's running on a tablet with a 1280x800 display (the 1776x1000 is additional real estate and atypical). You'd be an idiot to even want 1080p because you're not going to be able to view it on that screen, even theoretically. Most people want something that just works not something that works fast (coughApplecough).
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    Image of taniquetil taniquetil
    12/05/09

    @blash:

    Like I said, the X4500 is a fine solution for the everyday user, but it's slowly becoming just not powerful enough.

    Even if it can push 720 video online, once GPU acceleration hits the market in force beyond just making things look pretty, it just might not get there any more.

    I would take the 9400M over the X4500 any day, because to me, it's better to have the power when you need it than risk the extra $25 and having something underperform.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    12/04/09

    In reply to I'm so Passé That I Don't Know 95% of These Social Networking Sites
    Xanga was my gateway drug into social networking, though it started out more like Blogger that just had the ability to add friends.

    ....Which leads me to believe many of these shouldn't really count as social networking sites in the traditional sense. I mean, LiveMocha? Really? I mean, I love the site, but it's primarily for teaching you other languages. You just happened to have the ability to meet and have your work reviewed by other members of the LiveMocha community. I mean, if anything, it functions more as a way to meet new people, not keep in touch with everyone you currently know. Unless every person you currently know is trying to learn Spanish and Russian.
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    Image of bagellord bagellord
    12/04/09

    In reply to I'm so Passé That I Don't Know 95% of These Social Networking Sites
    I used to be on Xanga
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    Image of PN - gooapplesoft PN - gooapplesoft
    12/04/09

    In reply to I'm so Passé That I Don't Know 95% of These Social Networking Sites
    some of those are international so you may not be as Passé as you think you are.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/03/09

    In reply to The FTC Still Wants to Slay the Intel Monopoly Monster
    And it still sucks that Netbooks with ION processors have to cost more because of the fact that "standalone" Atom procs cost significantly more than the full integrated versions. I hope Intel gets a big swift kick in the ass so this sort of thing can change for the better.
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    Image of Panzer23 Panzer23
    12/03/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: With you there my friend.
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    Image of Monty Monty
    12/03/09

    In reply to The FTC Still Wants to Slay the Intel Monopoly Monster
    Is it just me or does it seem that every time the FTC gets around to stepping on a monopoly they are usually about half a decade late? Just curious.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    12/03/09

    @Monty: Cases take a while to build. I wish they could step in earlier, but by the time they have enough to mount a case, it's 5-10 years too late.
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    Image of Michai Michai
    11/14/09

    In reply to This Is How an Earthquake Propagates Through the Entire Planet
    Great graphics on this article, very cool. #earthquake
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    11/14/09

    In reply to This Is How an Earthquake Propagates Through the Entire Planet
    And here I thought the first picture was a diagram of nerve impulses from a tweaked nipple... #earthquake
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    Image of jeffk jeffk
    11/13/09

    In reply to This Is How an Earthquake Propagates Through the Entire Planet
    I puzzled over the 3-D atmosphere illustration for a while.

    The F-15 (12.3 miles high) looks higher than the balloon (20.8 miles). And they both look higher than the 32.9 mile-high balloon. #earthquake
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    Image of 32ndnote 32ndnote
    11/13/09

    In reply to This Is How an Earthquake Propagates Through the Entire Planet
    Usually graphic designers are the ones that make you say "Wow!" Sometimes, though, they are definitely the ones that make you say "What the hell? Why?" #earthquake
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    Image of phunnyballs phunnyballs
    11/13/09

    In reply to This Is How an Earthquake Propagates Through the Entire Planet
    This model isnt entirely accurate.

    When the S waves hit the outer-core, they should refract and create P waves at the boundary. when those hit the opposite boundary of the core, they will refract again and create a S wave making a final SKS wave. #earthquake
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    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    11/12/09

    In reply to Single-Slot Graphics Card Drives Eight 2560x1600 Monitors Simultaneously
    That fan, it looks ... small. #matroxm9188pciex16
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