I jumped straight into a Galaxy S III as my first smartphone with minimal experience in the entire category.  My expectations were high.

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http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php this GPU benchmark list, while not necessary reliable, amazing because it tests such a wide range of hardware.

My history:

Geforce 2 era, 2001, $100, 70 points or so
Geforce 6600 GT, 2006?  $100, 247 points
Geforce 9600 GT, 2008, $100 or so, 930 points.  
Radeon 5850, 2011, $140, 2500 points

When I ( Read more... )

Lost.  I DON'T EVEN KNOW.

The STX Soul coach managed to guess the timing KT would use Flash, and snuck in Dear, a PvT "sniper" - player who trains to take down the best Terrans.

The dude is 6-1 against Terran this season, with his only loss to Flash.

Dear went for Reaver drop.  He made an insane series of choices designed specifically for Flash, ( Read more... )

One part of the Megaupload case which has not received significant attention is the company's move to compete with record labels and service independent musicians.

When Megaupload was indicted and shut down, they were in the process of transferring control to record producer Swizz Beats (Alicia Key's husband) as their new CEO and pioneering a new ( Read more... )

justified repeatedly taking down the Megaupload song and censoring the artists involved (kim kardashian, puff daddy, will.i.am, alicia keys, snoop dogg, chris brown, kanye west, lil john, jamie foxx, and others) by saying they have the right to demand the removal of any video on Youtube regardless of copyright.

If they were able to browbeat Google ( Read more... )

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/oblivious-supreme-court-poised-to-legalize-medical-patents.ars

THIEVES splinting legs and stopping bleeding.

What gives them the right to use the same techniques that innovators pioneered?  What gives them the right to steal the hard-earned lifesaving methods inventors discovered?

The only unfortunate ( Read more... )

Copyright owners steal

IBM has a very interesting business model: systematically patent everything and sell them off. Not only has it been the unchallenged leader in number of patents approved, it sold over two thousand to Google alone for use in the patent wars.

In response to the chaos of patents, Congress approved patent reform which will move us from a first to invent ( Read more... )

 I wonder how anyone manages to buy any sort of computer.

HP's laptops.

AMD laptop:  quadcore, new architecture, 2.3 ghz.
Intel laptop;  quadcore, new architecture, 2.0 ghz.

The Intel is 3x as fast..  3.5x as fast on Cinebench and 3Dmark Vantage.  In fact, even dual core Intel Sandy Bridge chips are faster than the quad AMD.

Now, granted, your average ( Read more... )

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