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Weekend tech reading: MS man tasked with destroying IE6
YouTube wants you to sit and stay awhile Two weeks ago, YouTube celebrated when the number of videos viewed daily on its site reached two billion, a milestone. But it also used the occasion to express its envy of television’s continuing hold on viewers: “Although the average user spends 15 minutes a day on YouTube, that’s tiny compared to the five hours a day people spend watching TV,” the company observed on its blog. NY Times
Google Wave had its first birthday yesterday, but got no presents When the folks at Google posted a Happy Birthday to Wave yesterday, it was difficult to tell whether or not they were being sarcastic or serious about it. It's now been a year since the first Wave demo wowed audiences the world over, only for those audiences to be sorely disappointed months later to find out that they not only couldn't get ahold of invites to use Wave, but that it offered little to no usefulness once they did. Download Squad
Nvidia driver bug removes hybrid PhysX blockage Windows 7 allows two display drivers to be used at once - like in Windows XP. Therefore, it is possible to use an Nvidia card for PhysX and ATI card for graphics rendering. As you already know, Nvidia has robbed its customers by disabling the PhysX technology (GPU and PPU) anytime a Non-Nvidia GPU is present in the system (even IGPs) since the release of 186 GeForce drivers, to prevent consumers from using hybrid PhysX. NGOHQ
Foxconn retracts letter asking employees not to kill themselves Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry's Chinese Foxconn unit has been having some problems at its Shenzhen plant lately. A string of suicides has compelled Apple, Dell, and HP to launch a string into the supplier. Foxconn previously responded by playing Buddhist music, offering employee counseling, and most requiring employees sign a letter promising not to kill themselves. Daily Tech
171 Republicans say net neutrality up to Congress Not to be outdone by those 73 Democrats who told the Federal Communications Commission this week not to go forward with its plan to reclassify ISPs as common carriers, over twice that number of Republicans have sent the agency a letter on Friday with the same message. Ars Technica
The huge disaster within the Linux 2.6.35 kernel For the past six months we have been monitoring the performance of the very latest Linux kernel code on a daily basis across multiple systems. We have spotted a few regressions -- both positive and negative -- on occasion using our automated daily testing of the Linux kernel, but nothing like what we have encountered the past few days: the Linux 2.6.35 kernel performance has fallen hard. Phoronix
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There is no question that IE 6 is now one of the most dangerous software programs to have on your computer, because of how it allows (or provides the mechanisms and opportunities, properly tweaked) for the transmission of nearly unlimited evils...
Wise users will switch to IE 7, or IE 8, and the IE 9 soon coming for Windows 7.
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Timonius said:
raybay said:Wise users will switch to IE 7, or IE 8, and the IE 9 soon coming for Windows 7.
Yup, and those still using Windows XP will use some other browser because Microsoft doesn't want to support their 'legacy' OSes.
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matrix86 said:
From the Foxconn article at Daily Tech:
requiring employees sign a letter promising not to kill themselvesOk...so signing a letter is supposed to stop someone from killing themselves?
"I hate my life and this job!"
*puts gun up to head*
"Oh crap, I can't do this. I signed a letter. I might get in trouble."
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I guess better working conditions have been considered and discarded as a solution.
I would be willing to bet that many a blog post decrying the plight of the world's workers was written on an Apple product.
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Mikymjr said:
hey will those nvidia drivers with physx work if there were an ati 4890 card in one slot an an nvidia 8500gt in the other. Not linking them toghether offcourse.
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Mikymjr said:
it would be neat if there were physix controlled by an nvidia card while originally working with the main ati card
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tengeta said:
I would hate to be told I had the task of killing IE6. Mostly because you aren't convincing the companies that have stuck with it to this day to get rid of it.
Also the terrible attempts all those managers and CEO's would be giving at saying things in a technical sense, I would end up slapping someone.
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