Do you have an UPS?
I always said that it is not worth to buy a PC just for gaming. You have to spend a bunch of money and you can bet that in just 6 months will be obsolete.
Well, someone wanted to see what kind of hardware do you need to run at the best (setting the graphic level and details to "I-want-to-see-the-hair-in-your-ass") one of the latest PC game on the market: Crysis.
The people at PcGamesHardware spent more than 1800$ (just for the video cardS) for a kicking-ass system: in the picture you can notice 3 (T-H-R-E-E) Nvidia SLI Cards and a huge 1200 Watt PSU.
The result: playing with Crysis at "Very High" detail, the system barely gets 38 frames per second, when normally 60 FPS is the desired level for a smooth gaming.
Did you ever think about buying a game console ??
[Here the complete report in german from PcGamesHardware and here a brief abstract in english]
Korea by night
From StrangeMaps I found this interesting picture (the original uploader is Isak Asgeirsson as pointed out by strangemaps).
Here is a "satellite" view (directly from WarGames :) by night of the Korean Peninsula.
A couple of numbers: in spite of the huge difference in night-time illumination, the total population of the two countries is 50 millions for South Korea and 27 millions for North Korea.
A joke for my korean friends Julie and Jae Ho: I guess that most of the 50 millions are named "Kim".... :P
A Dirty Job
I just finished to read "A Dirty Job" by Christopher Moore (here the cover of the italian version). If you're in a hurry: it's strongly suggested! :)
This is first book from Moore that I read and I've to admit that I bought this book just for the cover and for a couple of comments on the backside. Something like "the best of Stephen King together with the best Monty Python" or "Charlie Asher [the main character] has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It's a dirty job. But hey, somebody's gotta do it". The last thing that made me buy the book was the whole story was set in San Francisco... :)
Well, I really like this book and I'd like to suggest you to give it a try.
Last week, then, speaking with G, I found that _maybe_ a new TV Series called "Reaper" is somehow based on this story; I already bought on iTunes (AH! :)the first 10 episodes. During the holydays I'll take a look and give you notice!
Happy ending
That's a good story: the Babyshambles leader Pete Doherty has been somehow involved in a street fight (well, this is what our beloved "La Repubblica" wrote, but the Telegraph writes about an illness) and could not not show up at the concert in London.
So, the bassist and the drummer asked the fans if someone knew band's songs and could play the guitar. "Here! I can do that!" answered a fan and... bum! He was on the stage, playing his beloved songs!
Do you think I'm wrong?
Am I wrong or the expression "screw someone" means (or could mean, but as you'll notice there is no doubt here) "fuck"?? and, as far as I know, isn't the more polite way to say it.
2 minutes ago I took a look at the newspaper site "La Repubblica". I found the news that a pornostar will sell her silicon breasts implants trough ebay to raise money for fair (for a charity sale).
Nothing's odd here... but I'm pervert and I began to browse the gallery, hosted and provided by "La Repubblica", finding this picture [here my screenshot, then here the link to the original picture on their website and here the complete gallery]
Do you think that it's normal to find kinda pictures on a newspaper site?? I'm not speaking about the butt...ehm, the picture but just about the sentence.
I'm not prude but I've the terrible feeling they didn't know the meaning of the sentence here and they just inserted the picture in the gallery...