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• Design Plan for Freedom Tower

  Published: Thursday, September 16, 2004 | By: Dennis

  This is kind of old news to some but I think it is still relavent.
  "This asymmetrical form of the tower evokes the dynamic twisting form of the Statue of Liberty. The tower's soaring offset spire further evokes the Statue's profile and marks the symbolic height of 1,776 feet above ground."
  It is artistic expression and symbolism like this that really fueled my passion to do Architecture.
  
  I really miss that.

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• A trio of PCI Express graphics cards compared @ The Tech Report

  Published: Thursday, September 16, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "If you're in the market for a mid-range PCI Express graphics card and can afford to wait a month or two, you'll probably end up deciding between variations of the GeForce 6600 or Radeon X700.
  
  But what if you need a mid-range PCI Express graphics card today? "
  I was in that very boat not more than 2 weeks ago.

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• Thermalright SP-94 Review @ OCIA

  Published: Thursday, September 16, 2004 | By: Dennis

  Though I have never actually owned this heatsink I've always been impressed with its design. I mean com'on heatpipes are the way of the future.... or something.
  "The tips of the heatpipes were a bit surprising. Instead of them being clamped parallel to the ground, they are bent in an unusual manner. I don't feel this has any affect on performance of the heatsink, but it would help with the overall aesthetics."

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• Beer in Moderation Could Be Good for You

  Published: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "A study from the University of Western Ontario finds a brew could be good for you. The researchers say beer has antioxidant boosters that could help fight cancer, heart disease and diabetes.
  
  But the key is moderation. The researchers found three beers would have the opposite effect. "
  Not to mention getting phat and sleeping lots.

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• Motherboards - The Designing Process @ MBReview

  Published: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "Yet another important topic that must be addressed by designers is the tuning of the high speed interconnect traces, such as the front side bus connections running from the CPU socket pins to the MCH pins. If you take a look at either the top or bottom layer of a motherboard, you’ll notice that many of the traces do not follow a straight line path, rather they seem to snake around. Some traces do go in a straight line, while a trace next to it might twist and turn. This is referred to as “serpentining” for obvious reasons."
  Some of these serpentining traces are so they will fit while others are designed to act as capacitors.

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• Seniors Rule: A Parody

  Published: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 | By: Dennis

  Here is a collection of Senior pictures with a funny little analysis of the concept behind the image.
  "A variation of the hand on chin pose, only with the added benefit of white satin gloves. It's both Virgin and Vogue all at once."

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• Soltek SL-K8AN2E-GR Review Posted

  Published: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 | By: Dennis

  This is the first nForce3-250Gb motherboard to be tested here in the Ninjalane Labs and though it is clearly designed for mainstream use it also has enough features to satisfy many power users as well.

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• ATI speaks about SLI

  Published: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "Between NVIDIA and Alienware’s offerings in multi-card solutions, she thinks Alienware has it right with their Video Array system. Alienware has the ability to engineer a system with the capacity to deal with heat and power requirements. And if there are problems, you have one point of contact instead of trying to deal with say the motherboard manufacturer or the video card manufacturer or even the dealer you purchased the components from. But as far as SLI being mainstream with the 6800 GT series, she thinks that part of the public is not ready. "
  I sense some truth and a few trembles however the fact of the matter is even though SLI is built into current nVidia PCI Express GPUs there isn't any motherboards out there that fully support the 2(16x) video configuration.

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• Cisco routers get an upgrade

  Published: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "Cisco Systems on Tuesday will introduce faster, more feature-laden versions of its hot-selling access routers, in an attempt to fend off competition from rivals Juniper Networks and 3Com."
  Kind of makes you wonder why they didn't do that in the first place, oh ya... cause they are cheap greedy bastards.

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• Man Arrested Over Tiny Tip

  Published: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "Humberto A. Taveras, 41, faces a misdemeanor charge of theft of services after he and his fellow diners argued with Soprano's Italian and American Grill managers over the legality of requiring an 18 percent tip for large parties.
  
  "They chased us down like a bunch of criminals," Taveras said. "It killed our weekend." "
  Take note: stop being a arrogant bastard at restaurants, it not only makes you look like an ass to the other customers but also loses any bargaining chip you might have with the staff.

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