All of a sudden, everyone’s selling off their PCs.. From xwar:
Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.06ghz
1.5 gb Corsair DDR 160.00
BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC 256mb
19in LG LCD - 8ms responce time
2 WD Raptor 10,000 RPM HDs -
1 40 gig WD
1 80gig WD
Creative Audigy 2 Gamer [...]
My friend Richie just bought a laptop and is selling all his PC parts. E-mail spenc119 at gmail.com if you’re interested.
EVGA Geforce 6800 GT 256MB, oc’s to 6800 ultra speeds w/o heat problems easily (purchased 1/2005)…NewEgg price = $309
Athlon XP 2500+ Barton , oc’s to 3200 w/o heat problems easily [...]
Everyone’s favorite Russian MP3 music service is the subject of a rather extensive FAQ at Museekster.com. Some good info on the service, its origins, and how they are able to get away with selling music so inexpensively.
I e-mailed the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) about this topic and here’s what they have to say.
Thanks for [...]
My cousin Tim sent these photos from Iraq
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This is strangely addicting…
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The Technologies of Cooperation maps out various technologies that invove cooperation. Peer Production Networks include Creative Commons & the Apache Software Foundation. Knowledge Collectives include flickr and del.icio.us. Dvorak writes “This is one of the most intersting charts I’ve seen for a long time.”
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View Newspapers in their original format, layout and pagination. PressDisplay delivers the world’s leading newspapers to you before they appear on newsstands in their home countries. 225 newspapers from 55 different countries. The best part is probably the interface. It’s completely run by AJAX.
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Could Star Trek weapons be just around the corner? Wired News reports:
For years, the U.S. military has explored a new kind of firepower that is instantaneous, precise and almost inexhaustible: beams of electromagnetic energy. “Directed-energy” pulses can be throttled up or down depending on the situation, much like the phasers on Star Trek could [...]
From Engadget:
It’s not really a competition or anything, but the FCC just released a report confirming that as of late last year the number of cellphone lines in the U.S. officially surpassed the number of landlines. It’s still pretty much 50/50 - at the time of the survey there were 181.1 million cellphone lines versus [...]
This is a great comic about micropayments. Good read.
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