Motherboard maker Abit has decided to leave the market. Apparently with motherboards becoming more complex and expensive, margins have dropped and the smaller guys are getting squeezed out.
It’s too bad, Abit had pretty high quality. I had noticed that they hadn’t had much in the way of boards I wanted to buy recently though.
Dubai has a plan to house 1.1 million people in a giant, shiny, carbon-neutral, ziggurat of doo… er, environmentalism.
All I can say is, if it doesn’t have an obsidian throne, I don’t care.
The evolution of Soul Calibur games has been somewhat interesting. Fairly subtle changes in the engine and design seem to make a huge difference on the play experience. Soul Calibur 4 seems to have achieved a nice balance. It’s a lot more like SC 2 than SC 3, which is good, because not many people liked SC 3.
I’m mostly a casual player, so I can’t comment in relentless detail on many things, but my impressions just from playing the game:
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Via the all-seeing eye of the intertron, I bring to you the news that an 800-core supercomputer has beaten an 8-dan go professional in a 9-stone handicap game.
Next week’s article in Go Magazine: “Go community says ‘Holy Shit’, requests change of pants”
Search Results - THOMAS (Library of Congress)
H.R.6753
Title: To provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp on the subject of inflammatory bowel disease.
Sponsor: Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. [NJ-6] (introduced 7/31/2008) Cosponsors (None)
Wake n’ Bacon wakes you with the smell of breakfast | Geek.com
The way it works is that a person puts a slice of frozen bacon into the tray of the clock before going to bed. In the morning, the alarm clock then activates ten minutes before the alarm time and turns on two halogen lamps which slowly cook the bacon. Ten minutes later you are supposed to wake with the delicious smell of cooked pork in your bedroom. If that doesn’t do the the trick, then a backup alarm sounds to wake the individual.
Via the ever-present Slashdot, Comcast has apparently decided that their absolute-bottom ranking in the American Customer Satisfaction Index means they need to go out and read your blog to fix problems that you are having with them.
Personally, I think hammers are a better way to get your point across.
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