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Use Your Web Browser's History to Identify Your Gender

Posted 07/30/2008 at 06:09:30pm

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 2%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 98%

Spot on, though I'm not sure how it works.  The list of sites and the ratio numbers are just gibberish to me.

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To Affinity and Beyond!

Posted 07/28/2008 at 04:08:49pm

For example, Bioware recommends that you set Neverwinter Nights to use a single core, and they even provide a command in one of the .ini files for the game where you can set it permanently.  I did that and noticed a minor improvement in frame rates.

So older apps may benefit, but newer multithreaded ones won't.

NewsAnother BS patent on
Patent Suit Shone on Microsoft's Silverlight

Posted 07/05/2008 at 07:05:52pm

Sounds like yet another one of those patents that under any kind of scrutiny is seen as far to general and could be applied to anybody Gotuit chose to sue.  Let's hope the patent folks finally get their heads out of their bums and catch up with technology to strike this sort of idiocy down.

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