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So this is who started all those ugly HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray wars?

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"...area nearly 5,000 times the size of a full moon"

This statement makes no sense. Seeing as how the moon is 4.57e^6 kilometers in area, it would be:

((4.57 * e)^6) km = 3.8846214 × 10-7 light years

in area, according to Google calculator.

Galaxies are hundreds of thousands of light years in diameter, and even multiplying by 5000 times that area yields an area of 0.00192 light years. What are they trying to say when these stars cover such a small area??

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It is a shame that this failed, considering all that HD-DVD has going for it. While Blu-Ray does have a better sounding name, it's also got DRM, and no one wants that.

Now, people are not going to be very impressed with HD-DVD. Considering all the effort that they put into the demo, they should have at least tried it before giving the presentation!

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Atari is also the French Infogrames company. I remember buying one of their games... Monopoly, I think.

It was not too terribly great, as the animations were lousy and the computer AI would gang up on you.

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"...But two of the catch bottles indicated levels of gaseous oxygen in the compartment about two minutes into flight were higher than Nasa (sic) allows."

They forgot to account for the fact the crew had just eaten an Arby's Roast Beef Sandwich.

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Except you must replace the donkey theme with cows; Indians save the cows! :-)

Oh, and if perchance you don't which game this is, check it out!

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Now that they have reached close to a million articles, they think they don't need any help getting 10 million+. Seriously, it is a "free" encyclopedia. If I read something on there that I know not to be true, I can edit it. If no one catches the error, and they believe it to be "fact", well, that's kind of why you are not supposed to use Wikipedia as a scientific reference in the first place.

Wikipedia's success has come from people joining together and creating new articles, not just editing them. We need to be able to post new facts, new ideas, and new discoveries that are going on in the world. New users are the primary source of these articles.

I would rather have a "free" encyclopedia where I can post articles of my subjects of interest than having to edit those that already exist. Besides, I, like most other people out there, use Wikipedia not for scientific research, but to broaden my perspective on the various subjects out there which old fashioned books are "out of the scope" to provide insight for.

Daniel
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I think it means that Jean Luc just got back from a fight with Q and needed some means with which to explain his newfound mental fright.

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