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Bonus points to the first person that can rip an mp3/flac from an old cassette and get the program to load.

tests show that there is no real difference between square and sine waveforms in terms of MP3 packing. WAVs with 3675 bps can be packed as 128 kbps MP3, those with 5512.5 - at 192 kbps (of course, at max quality and with frequency filters switched off). That's for MSX though. But if the bitrate is not too high, then it ought to work.

I hope they use an open format with little or no drm. I have purchased ebooks from Baen in the past (http://www.webscription.net/) and I love their no-drm html file setup. For reading ebooks I just use my cell phone, it's small and get's great battery life, no screwing around with an ebook device. I use Tequilacat Book Reader, it's a simple, free and excellent tool (http://tequilacat.nm.ru/dev/br/index-en.html). If Baen stuck all sorts of DRM on their books I would be limited to using a small number of expensive and poorly designed devices but since it's just html I can do whatever I want with it, if Google can do something like this I would be very happy. More companies need to follow Baen's example.

I have read a couple of books with the free bookreader from Tequilacat:
http://tequilacat.nm.ru/dev/br/index-en.html

Tha small screen makes the reading quite a bit slower than usual. On the other hand it's very handy to have a good book with you anytime you get bored. And there is a lot of free books availible for download on the p2p networks.

There I looked around and found this story about this utility called S2KCt used to supposedly cool some athlon processors by using the S2K bus disconnect instruction.

The guy writes how he simultaneously ran his utility that does a cpu burn-in and S2KCt and ended up with a burnt motherboard. He says his "converter" burnt. And he wasn't overclocking the machine at the time. He seems to know enough about heat management since he develops similar programs (see below on that). Then later, he says,using similar hardware he tried to test a later version of S2KCt and his motherboard died again.

Any computer engineers who can validate the story ?

There I looked around and found this story about this utility called S2KCt used to supposedly cool some athlon processors by using the S2K bus disconnect instruction.

The guy writes how he simultaneously ran his utility that does a cpu burn-in and S2KCt and ended up with a burnt motherboard. He says his "converter" burnt. And he wasn't overclocking the machine at the time. He seems to know enough about heat management since he develops similar programs (see below on that). Then later, he says,using similar hardware he tried to test a later version of S2KCt and his motherboard died again.

Any computer engineers who can validate the story ?

And, do we want people like BG owning tanks?

Why would he need a tank?

He has major ownership* in one of the only companies that makes nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines... and... he is making sure that they run Windows also.

* At least at one time... he may have divested by now, but the point remains... this ban means nothing if you have serious money. Guns? We don't need no stinkin' guns!

It's DOOM. And it was worth the wait.

WTF? I was a horny kid that couldn't get enough of doom 2, sorry maaan but I will NOT try to get doom3 now that I am buying retirement funds! hehehe

Time with the babe is much more valuable than time with the entertainment system.

btw geeks, no tv and 2hr-a-day only pc homes rule!

ok I confess, Ring TFA has been a blessing to me heh, at least 3 is no longer vaporware; but still, 9 years ago? maybe I would have bought 3, now? UP YOURS ID!

That linux only rule I uphold at home keeps me using rgdu for those 15 min of thrills I need once in a while :)

More hardware? UP YOURS ID! :)

I will have more destinations to travel to this xmas ID, thank you :P

Is the Bush and Cheney scambait. Don't forget to click the links here and here for the trophies. That's a lot of trophy pictures for one scambait!

Is the Bush and Cheney scambait. Don't forget to click the links here and here for the trophies. That's a lot of trophy pictures for one scambait!

Is the Bush and Cheney scambait. Don't forget to click the links here and here for the trophies. That's a lot of trophy pictures for one scambait!

Here's the photos: here and here. I'll let them speak for themselves.

P.S. ever notice scars on some nigerian scammer's face? Such as an X on the forehead or slashes on the cheeks. Does anyone with knowledge of Sharia (Islamic Law) know what crimes those scars signify?

Here's the photos: here and here. I'll let them speak for themselves.

P.S. ever notice scars on some nigerian scammer's face? Such as an X on the forehead or slashes on the cheeks. Does anyone with knowledge of Sharia (Islamic Law) know what crimes those scars signify?

That's nothing. My personal favorite is this Bush/Cheney scambaiting. Be sure to click on the yellow highlited links for the trophies! I think the guy got at least a dozen pics out of the one scambaiting.

One of the Economist's annual prizes for innovation went to Raymond Damadian for his role in creating NMR. But another fascinating article about who was responsible for creating NMR explains how Raymond Damadian missed out on the Nobel prize.

...after which this is kind of like asking "Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"

He did actually invent MRI; Paul Lauterbur made a refinement in imaging technique and Peter Mansfield made improvements to the analysis of the raw data, so the absence of his name is indeed singular. More so because Damadian actually built the first working scanner, holds the patent on MRI (and 39 other patents too), and built the first commercial MRI scanner.

Perhaps even more striking and demonstrating that he was no flash in the pan, Damadian's company (FONAR) currently builds the most advanced MRI scanners available including a full 360-degree scanner with enough room in it for a full medical team (presumably using plastic and ceramic instruments).

So, yeah, you'd have to figure that something underhanded was going on.