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Ars Technica is a technology-related website catering to PC enthusiasts. Started in 1998, the site covers technology news and provides editorial and analysis. The name "Ars Technica" is a Latin phrase for "(The) Technical Arts." The main content is a blog-style presentation of news stories, interspersed with advertising. Featured articles are less frequent but go into more depth than the news stories. Download high resolution version (990x724, 81 KB)The main page of Ars Technica. ... Download high resolution version (990x724, 81 KB)The main page of Ars Technica. ... A stylised illustration of a modern personal computer A personal computer (PC) is usually a microcomputer whose price, size, and capabilities make it suitable for personal usage. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language. ...

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Ars Front Page

The Ars Technica Front Page has two main sections: From The News Desk and Featured Articles. The News Desk generally consists of short articles featuring analysis of technology and science-related news, but often contain political opinion and commentary, leading John "Hannibal" Stokes to defend the inclusion of political content at Ars.[1] The News Desk came under scrutiny in March of 2006, when IP Democracy blogger Cynthia Brumfield accused Ars Technica of using material from her site without attribution. Ars writers Eric Bangeman and Nate Anderson apologized for the incident.[2]


Featured Articles are sub-divided into two subsections: Journal.Ars and articles. The bulk of the entries are a part of Journal.Ars, which are quick, blog-style postings of rumors and news about technology and the sciences. They are often staff opinion pieces, and are categorized into four distinct topics: Infinite Loop (Apple Computer centric), M-Dollar (Microsoft centric), Nobel Intent (science centric), and Opposable Thumbs (video game and technology gadget centric). Apple Computer, Inc. ... The Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual sales of US$44. ...


Featured Articles outside of Journal.Ars are further divided into reviews, guides, columns, and other articles. The reviews are largely limited to video games, software applications, operating systems and hardware reviews. The guides contains only the Ars System Guide, as AskArs! is now defunct. The columns (Linux.Ars, Mac.Ars, Science.Ars, and Ye Olde Games.Ars) are a subset of the general articles, and the columns are presented as general articles on the articles page. For example, the Linux.Ars column includes content contributed by members of the Ars Technica Linux community.


There are additional article sections that provide content not contained in the Ars Technica columns: Technology and Culture, CPU Theory & Praxis, Hardware, and Paedia (itself consisting of CPU Theory & Praxis and Hardware articles). The content of articles often overlap the various categories, but the non-column articles tend to be more technical.


Appearance

  • 1999-2001: Black background with white text.[3]
  • 2001-2004: Black background, with more orange detail.[4]
  • 2004-present: White background with adjustable color, scheme and fonts.[5]

Ars OpenForum

Ars Technica also maintains the OpenForum, a mostly-public Internet forum with references to Latin and Ancient Rome in places such as the ranks and titles of the forums.[6] The OpenForum is primarily dedicated to discussion of technology issues. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...


Members of Ars hold meets for members to meet one another in person, with an annual meet held in Indianapolis.[7] The Indianapolis skyline Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana. ...


History

  • 1999-2000: OpenForum was moved to UBB.classic.[8]
  • 2000-2004: Forum moved, code changed to OpenTopic.[9]
  • 2004-present: Forum moved from OpenTopic to UBB.x (later renamed Eve/Groupee).[10]

At one time the hallmark of all message board software, UBB.classic has seen its market share steadily decline. ...

Moderation

Moderators use the site's posting guidelines to moderate the forum and rely in part on reports from Ars Technica readers.[11] Ars Technica's Terms of Service note that they do not monitor the entire contents of their forum.[12] In computing and telecommunication networks (including of course the Internet) terms of service or ToS is an agreement under which a service provider agrees to provide services to the users of the service. ...


References

  1. ^ http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20040122-3327.html
  2. ^ http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/001363dubious_blogosphere_web_journalism_ethics.php
  3. ^ http://web.archive.org/web/19990422164255/http://www.arstechnica.com/
  4. ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20000815053602/http://www.arstechnica.com/
  5. ^ http://arstechnica.com/articles/redesign.ars
  6. ^ http://arstechnica.com/site/postguide.ars
  7. ^ http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050626-5039.html
  8. ^ http://web.archive.org/web/19990824222354/forum.arstechnica.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi
  9. ^ http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/2q00/openforum-1.html
  10. ^ http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20031114-3112.html
  11. ^ http://arstechnica.com/site/contact-mods.ars
  12. ^ http://arstechnica.com/site/postguide.ars

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Overall there are some good things and they are trying to move parts of the CPU in the right direction but its going to be different than out current desktop CPUs.
They have a PPC front end which is simply an arbiter telling each cell what to do, so a2jfreak, start bugging Stanford to get their hands on a PS3 dev kit ot start cranking away on F@H version.
broadband help » Forums » Up and Running » Security » ArsTechnica Misdefines "Malware" (1483 words)
I actually think the Arstechnica definition may reflect recent general usage patterns, even though it might not be thought of as technically correct.
I might go so far as to say that an AV program that accidentally deletes hundreds of files due to a false positive in the signature database is, for that short period of time until the problem is corrected, malware.
It could be argued that this is stretching the definition too far, but certainly not corrupting it to the extent those ArsTechnica interns have.
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