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Posted by Scotty
on Wednesday, 26 November 2008
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 Fears concerning the potential of the Large Hadron Collider to end the Earth -- once dismissed as naive -- were nearly made manifest earlier this month, when a crowbar-wielding hero was forced to repel an alien invasion brought through a temporal vortex that was accidentally opened by the mammoth doomsday machine.
Okay, that didn't actually happen. But in the picture above (and the ones below), we can see the next best thing. You may recall that back in September, an anonymous CERN researcher working on the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator gained a small amount of Internet infamy when it was pointed out that he bared a striking resemblance to Half-Life hero Gordon Freeman. Since there was some concern at the time about the potential of the Large Hadron Collider to explode the world, the bloggers at Reddit took the necessary precautions by sending this researcher a few safety tools: a crowbar, a headcrab hat, and a Half-Life strategy guide. Not only did he receive this survival package, but it seems he put it to fantastic use.
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Posted by Scotty
on Monday, 27 October 2008
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 Ever heard the phrase, "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned?" Well, that applies to the online world just as much as in real life. One Japanese man found this out the hard way recently when his virtual "wife" in MapleStory got so angry that she effectively killed his online avatar (via Yahoo News).
The 43-year-old woman carried out the digital murder after the 33-year-old man suddenly "divorced" her in the game. She was quoted as saying, "I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry." So angry, in fact, that she used login information she got from her former "husband" to access his account and then kill his character. The man notified police when he realized his avatar was dead, and the woman was arrested on "suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data." She hasn't been formally charged yet, but she could face up to five years in prison or a $5000 fine.
Fellas, let this be a lesson to you: never EVER give out your personal info to people you meet online. No, not even to your virtual spouses.
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Posted by Scotty
on Thursday, 16 October 2008
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 The idea that “time is money” often escapes all but the wealthiest of enthusiasts, and even a few bucks-up buyers would prefer the experience of building things themselves. But game time is worth far more than build time to the folks who buy fully-configured gaming systems. These results-oriented buyers typically place high value on their leisure time and have no problem paying someone with more experience to deliver an often higher-quality product with backing in the form of a warranty.
Boutique builders have catered to high-end buyers since the earliest days of PC whiteboxes, but only the most competitive survive. Among these are VoodooPC, Falcon Northwest and Vigor Gaming, which are responsible for the three systems in our lab today…almost.
VoodooPC was so successful that it couldn’t escape the lustful eyes of the big-box builders and was acquired by HP to be the jewel in an otherwise boring behemoth’s crown. The name lives on in original VoodooPC models along with “VoodooDNA” for high-end HP branded gaming systems. Both Voodoo-branded product lines use popular, high-end, industrial-standard architecture components of the highest quality.
[Via TomsHardware]
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