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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:58 pm
by quantus
EE Times Link

Wheee, hard drive plus a gigabit of flash = faster hard drive than can use less power because it doesn't need to keep spinning so much. Data centers already sorta do this, except not on a per hard drive basis. Now we can all share the benefits. I wonder if they're still buffering the flash memory with a few MB of SRAM or maybe less.

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:26 pm
by Jonathan

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:50 pm
by Jonathan
www.nytimes.com

Public schools: not all they're cracked up to be?

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:46 am
by Peijen
Dwindlehop wrote:http://www.alias.com/eng/etc/fakeorfoto/quiz.html

Surprisingly difficult. 8/10
Excellent! Nine out of ten answers were correct

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:04 pm
by VLSmooth
AG: Oh Yeah! ( Comic )

Randomly started to read a few more Applegeeks strips (must get back to work!).

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:52 pm
by Jonathan

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:13 pm
by VLSmooth
Final Fantasy 11 Cosplay ( Forum Thread )

Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:35 am
by VLSmooth
How to Kill a Mockingbird ( Main | swf only )

~17 mb of randomness, pirates, flaming sharks, flaming bears, ninjas, and randomness

Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:13 pm
by Jonathan
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=8288

Sounds like someone wants to steal Puzzle Pirates' thunder.

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:14 pm
by Jonathan
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1162710

NGSCB not planned for Longhorn launch.

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:16 pm
by Jonathan

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:46 pm
by quantus
http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/potpie.html

I think this chicken pot pie is missing the chicken...

Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 12:21 am
by Alan

Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 12:41 am
by Jonathan

Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 12:50 am
by VLSmooth
POL: The Vana'diel Adventurer Recruitment Program ( Link )

Wow, voluntary level cap to party with friends:
Guide Beret and Sprout Beret
These are special hats that operate as a pair. When two adventurers equip these hats and form a party, the level of the character with the Guide Beret is restricted to the level of the character with the Sprout Beret, thus allowing them to enjoy adventuring and leveling together.
*The level restriction effect of the Guide Beret will only activate when the job level of the character with the corresponding Sprout Beret equipped is under level 50.
*Players who are under the level restriction effect of the guide beret cannot gain EXP.
To bad the higher level does get any special bonus, although being able to party regardless of level is pretty damn cool.

Randomness: I'm guessing the sidekick feature from City of Heroes would be too easily abused.

Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 1:37 am
by VLSmooth
Slashdot: Wal-Mart Parody Site Censored by DMCA ( Article | Current Site )
Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 28, @10:29AM
from the always-low-opinion dept.
davidwr writes "Wal-Mart used the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to temporarily shut down a university student's parody of the Wal-Mart Foundation." The story's details are also available via BusinessWeek. From the article: "Papasian launched the Web site April 16 for an art class at Carnegie Mellon University called 'Parasitic Media.' The class teaches students about the political uses of satire in the media. He acknowledged using Wal-Mart's graphics on his Web site but said he believed he could use the images as part of a parody."

Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 2:33 am
by VLSmooth
Top reason not to drink flaming shots ( LJ Source w/Animated Gif )

Won't direct link the animated gif since it's possibly easy to trace from the vt.edu source. (tried to upload to imageshack, but it's >1 mb)

Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 7:55 am
by quantus
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/env ... ory=634044

Hey, Arkansas made the news. Apparently, there are (nearly) extinct woodpeckers hiding out there.

Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 8:16 am
by quantus
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/29/news/fusion.php

portable fussion reactors?! Maybe that'll lessen our dependance on foreign oil eventually.

Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 8:31 am
by quantus
Dwindlehop wrote:http://salon.com/news/feature/2005/02/0 ... ndex1.html

First paragraph on this page has a couple pointers to interesting articles on Social Security. Random thought: how many people believe both the dire warnings about global warming and the dire warnings about Social Security?
I guess that I have to believe in global warming if the rate at which it is happening can be calculated. Everyone get out your 1W lightbulbs!

I forgot the link :-/ http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/29/news/fusion.php