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  1. Not the biggest power eater on 32 GB Flash Storage Drive Announced · · Score: 5, Informative

    During heavy disk read activity, the HD is only uses 15% of all the power. (source) The real key to decreasing laptop power consumption is dimming the screen, which can reduce power consumption percentage from 26% down to 7%.

  2. Re:20 Years Later.. on Legend of Zelda Celebrates 20 Years · · Score: 1

    And the batteries on their Famicom Disk System have run out by now...

  3. Re:You were supposed to call Nintendo when you won on Legend of Zelda Celebrates 20 Years · · Score: 1

    Aardwolf, not aardvark.

  4. Aladdin on Shiny Founder Quits To Aid Sale · · Score: 1

    The only memory I have of any Dave Perry game is that cheat code for Sega Genesis Aladdin which displays Dave Perry's face on the screen, then enters a cheat mode.

    Go to the options screen, move the cursor over Difficulty, and type out ACACACACBBBB.

  5. Re:Interesting... but... on Opera on the Nintendo DS · · Score: 1

    Clear evidence that code runs from ram:

    A Cartridge Header contains a load and execution address which is inside in the 02000000h Main Memory (4MB) region.
    Mario Kart's program area can be loaded into ram, modified to make all tracks playable online, then be executed, loading the rest of the game off the DS card.
    Far less pins on the DS slot (17) vs the GBA slot (32).

  6. Re:Interesting... but... on Opera on the Nintendo DS · · Score: 1

    DS Cartridges are not randomly addressable, data must be loaded off them into RAM, more like a CD-ROM or SD card than a usual video game ROM cartridge.

  7. Re:So how long... on Opera on the Nintendo DS · · Score: 1

    You mean like taihen or r0mloader?

  8. Dragon Warrior 4 is NOT 1MB in size! on Games That Push System Limits · · Score: 1

    Dragon Warrior 4 is NOT 1MB in size, it is 512k. I'd love to see this myth die.

    The only 1MB version is an overdump which contains each 16k page duplicated somewhere else in the file.

  9. Re:hi-freq TV noise, fluorescent lamps on Shark 6th Sense Related to Human Evolution? · · Score: 1

    You're probably hearing that 217hz interference that GSM cell phones make. It's audible in unshielded speakers.

  10. Re:Download link to latest version. on Spyware Tunnels in on Winamp Flaw · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's some information guaranteed to piss off the Winamp employees:
    Change the download URL from this:
    http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/client/winamp5 13_full_emusic-7plus.exe
    to this:
    http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/client/winamp5 13_full.exe

    Then there's no more Emusic bundle. This url is not listed anywhere on the site.

  11. Re:Familiarity on Square-Enix Sees Profits Sink · · Score: 1

    No, Dragon Warrior 4 is not the largest NES rom. The 1024k version circulating the net is an overdump, the real version is 512k in size.

    As far as largest officially licenced games go, that honor goes to Kirby's Adventure, at 768k. If you count unlicenced US games, Action 52 weighs in at 2048k.

  12. Re:I don't know what you're all complaining about. on Google Agrees to Censor Results in China · · Score: 1

    That's not Chinese mode. You're telling google to search pages only located in China, not the same as Chinese Language mode.

  13. Will it catch on? on Microsoft's Sparkle a Flash Killer? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sparkle will never make it until it gets its own Newgrounds.com or Homestarrunner.com. A community of users, and large amount of created content is what really matters, otherwise games which use the Vitalize Plugin would be sweeping the internet.

  14. Re:Mario flash series on Super Mario Bros. Super Show DVDs · · Score: 1

    There's about 134894754749 different mario flash movies out there... A tad more details perhaps?

  15. Re:For better or for worse on Three Games That Didn't Make It · · Score: 3, Informative

    Final Fantasy 2 was 100% translated (though unedited) when the plug was pulled on a US release.

  16. Re:wxWidgets? on Why Use GTK+? · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked, a hello world button program takes up 500k on disk. Why is all that unnecessary support code being included?

  17. This test is worthless on A Look at Data Compression · · Score: 3, Informative

    They are testing 7-zip at the FAST setting, which does a poor job compared to the BEST setting.

  18. Just another inaccurate famiclone on Reincarnating the NES · · Score: 1
  19. Re:It's not just the mac version on Microsoft Ends IE for Mac · · Score: 1

    On a website I developed, Mac IE had much more broken CSS than even IE5. The site looked good on IE6, Firefox, and Opera, and sucked on IE5 and was worst on Mac IE.

  20. Re:It was 1958. on The Earliest Documented Video Game · · Score: 2, Informative
  21. Re:It could be worse, it could be .NET on Microsoft Bows to Eolas, Revamps IE · · Score: 1

    The sum of the 7 CDs was actually more like 3 CDs, Microsoft just decided to use more discs with less on them.

  22. Re:Scrooge's real fortune on Forbes Fictional 15 · · Score: 1

    If a cubic acre is defined as a cube with a base area of one acre, then Uncle Scrooge's 3 cubic acres of gold (4,968,599,633 kg) is worth $80,347,224,663,581.60 based on the current price of gold.

  23. Re:What about those of us on Usenet? on Nielsen Adapting To Modern TV-Watching · · Score: 2, Funny

    The rules of usenet:
    1st RULE: You do not talk about usenet.
    2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about usenet.

  24. Re:Okay, dual channel is great, but... on Blazing Dual Channel Thumb Drive · · Score: 1

    That sounds more like a horrible write caching system to me.

  25. Re:Tribal fusion on IT Workers Worst Dressed Employees · · Score: 1

    Adds *tribalfusion.com/* to Firefox Adblock

    Thanks for the reminder!