Thermaltake Urban S21 Review
Thermaltake Urban S21 Mid-Tower Case Review
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Seagate Constellation ES.3 4TB Review
A look at Seagates new Constellation ES.3 4TB drives performance including RAID performance.
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USB Auto Update Guide
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AVATAR Mercury Ultrabook AVIU-145A2 Review
A close look at of the AVATAR Mercury Ultrabook AVIU-145A2
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Sapphire Radeon HD 7790 2GB OC Review
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XFX R7790 Black Edition Overclocked Review
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Bioshock Infinite Review
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PowerColor Radeon HD 7850 PCS+ Review
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Free Anti-Virus Comparison Review
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How To Install Windows 8 Guide
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How to Install Windows 7 Guide
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Noctua 140mm/150mm Case Fan Roundup Review
Noctua 140mm/150mm Case Fan Roundup
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Frame Capture and Analysis Tools Review
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Like Wine, Programmers Improve with Age
As captured by Moore's Law, the rate of technological developments follows an exponential growth pattern, with one advance leading to many. This means that one year's development is also faster than the previous, which may make it hard for some to keep up, at least in theory. Researchers at North Carolina State University decided to test if older programmers have a hard time keeping up with new technologies, compared to younger developers, and found that increasing years comes with increasing skills.
Using over 80,000 profiles of programmers at StackOverflow, the researchers assessed the knowledge of individual programmers by their rating. At StackOverflow, users are able to ask and answer questions, and they are also rated by the quality of their answers and questions. These ratings can be used to estimate a user's understanding of programming, without having to individually survey them. The researchers found that ratings consistently increased with a user's age until they were in their 40's. There was not enough information to determine anything past that age.
The researchers also considered the number of subjects the programmers were commenting on and found that those in their 30's and older were considerably more knowledgeable than those between 15 and 30. Even with newer technologies that are less than ten years old, the older programmers demonstrated equal or greater knowledge. Looks like there is something to be said for experience.
Source: North Carolina State University
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Thermaltake Releases Soft Laptop Cooler
Thermaltake has announced a new laptop cooler designed with consideration for comfort. The LifeCool Series features a padded cooler that will give users a soft cushion to relieve any pressure that other coolers might apply. Heat dissipation is provided by the aluminum surface, and laptops up to 17" in size are compatible. The LifeCool Series is available in eight colors including white, red, and orange.
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Cooler Master Releases New Laptop Stand
The NotePal ErgoStand II is a new laptop stand and cooler from Cooler Master that was designed with ergonomics in mind. The stand has five different viewing and typing angles to provide comfort when using a laptop for an extended period of time. A 140mm fan provides strong cooling potential while keeping noise to a minimum. Up to four USB 2.0 devices can be plugged into the included ports, and laptops up to 17" in size can be accommodated.
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Researchers Find what gets Followers on Twitter
At times it can be weird not having a Twitter account, because it means next to nothing to me if someone gets a new follower or loses one. I do recognize that this is important to many Twitter users though, as do others, such as the researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology who performed a first-of-its-kind longitudinal study on what gets you more follows.
To perform this study the researchers examined half a million tweets over 15 months and identified 2800 positive and negative terms, in order to label whether a tweet's content is positive or negative. After crunching all of the numbers the researchers found that people do not like it when you talk about yourself and are more likely to follow you if you post information, like a news item. Tweets should also be about positive, happy things, like how to grow your social network, instead of unemployment, illness, and death. Also, as useful as hashtags can be to show your support for something, they can be a turn off when abused, causing less people to follow you.
With this research finally done, we may start to see technologists utilize it to create tools to help grow their audiences. If you are interested in following the latest news from us, you can check out the RSS Feed link at the top of the page, below the Featured Articles.
Source: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Hardware Roundup: Wednesday Edition
Today we have a lot of items to enhance your computing experience, as well as something to help you run more hardware. Cooler Master has a new series of power supplies to fit pretty much any need, and today we have a look at the V1000, which provides 1000 watts of pure power. It's a pure modular power supply, so you only need to connect the cables you need instead of having to hide a big nest of them. For anyone needing a portable hard drive, we have a review of the Silicon Power Armor A80, which packs a 1TB hard drive into a rugged design. Moving on we have the AlienVibes W601 speakers from Ineo to help get you some better sounds. Lastly there's a look at a fan controller from Fractal Design that has six channels with 36 watts of power each.
Power Supplies
Cooler Master V1000 @ LanOC Reviews
Speakers/Headphones
Ineo AlienVibes W601 Speaker System @ ThinkComputers
Storage/Hard Drives
Silicon Power Armor A80 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Drive @ Bjorn3D
Cooling
Fractal Design Adjust 108 Fan Controller @ Benchmark Reviews
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Seagate Announces New Solid State Drives
Seagate, one of the world's largest hard drive manufacturers, has announced a new line of products. The Seagate 600 Series is the company’s first client-based solid state drives. The solid state drives will be sold in three different capacities - 120 GB, 240 GB, and 480 GB. Performance differs depending on the size:
- 120GB: 500+MB/s read, 300+MB/s write, up to 80,000 IOPS read, up to 60,000 IOPS write
- 240GB: 500+MB/s read, 400+MB/s write, up to 80,000 IOPS read, up to 70,000 IOPS write
- 480GB: 500+MB/s read, 400+MB/s write, up to 80,000 IOPS read, up to 70,000 IOPS write
A low power version will be available as well, called the 600 Pro Series. It is intended for low power server and storage solutions, such as cloud systems, hyperscale data centers, and virtualized environments. It has a typical power consumption of 2.8 W. Seagate has also announced the 1200 Series. These drives will feature dual-port 12 Gbps SAS connectors, and they are said to be twice as fast as previous generation drives. They come in capacities up to 800 GB.
Prices and availability has not been disclosed yet.
Source: MaximumPC
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Hardware Roundup: Tuesday Edition
ROCCAT is a name many know for computer peripherals, like its new Kone XTD mouse (seen here at OCC). This is the company's new flagship mouse, so check out the review to see how well it performs. We have a look at how the AMD Radeon HD 7990 stacks up with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN. It's a comparison of the two top-of-the-line video cards on the market today, and it'll be very interesting to see how the dual GPU HD 7990 compares to the single GPU GTX TITAN. There's also a review on a Toshiba 3TB hard drive for those needing a lot of storage, as well as a look at the Intel Silvermont architecture for Atom processors in smartphones and tablets.
CPUs
Intel Silvermont Architecture Updates Atom for Phones and Tablets @ PC Perspective
Video Cards
Radeon HD 7990 versus GeForce GTX TITAN @ [H]ardOCP
Keyboards/Mice
ROCCAT Kone XTD Gaming Mouse @ ThinkComputers
Hard Drives
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB Hard Disk Drive @ Madshrimps
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