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  1. Re:Unfair on Canada's CD Tax Out of Hand? · · Score: 1

    Thats the problem, you never care about the rights of the consumer. I guess thats why over 3 million early HDTV adopters will be screwed over.

  2. Unfair on Canada's CD Tax Out of Hand? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is a load of crap, I'm sick and tired of paying a fortune for blank CDR's while the Canadian Recording industry is out to call everyone a criminal and lobbying to cripple our rights by introducing ludicris laws to ruin what us Canadians take for granted. Either fuckoff trying to take our rights away, or do away with this stupid tax!

  3. Re:Hmm... on StarROMs Closes Doors · · Score: 1

    MAME is pretty much a pirate emulator anyways. Where do you think the roms originally come from? Who the hell do you think zip's each game up in a fancy package that contains one of many dumps for a single game that works flawlessly with make and even verifies as a proper dump? The MAME developers themselves. Sure they might not leak them out, but they do package them.

  4. Legal Free ROMS on StarROMs Closes Doors · · Score: 1

    Ever see those Cereal boxes with a cdrom for 100 free Atari classics? If you look carefully on the disk, you'll find .bin files for every .exe for each game. There are about 15 or 20 arcade versions of games while the rest are shoddy Atari 2600 versions. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what these .bin files are now does it? Verified working with MAME.

  5. Re:Just nuke whole ISPs and be done with it on MPAA Files Lawsuits Targeting Major Torrent Sites · · Score: 1

    Thats taken from the RIAA's favourite book. They been pumping out less releases, and pretty bad ones at that, then the previous years, now they are crying of lost sales. CD sales were at an all-time high when Napster was live and well.

  6. Let them Die on Atari Selling Studios To Avoid Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    They pissed off Epicgames, one of their most largest and successful developers, caused them to ditch Atari for Midway. They deserve to die for that reason alone.

  7. Re:Speedtraps on Britain to log all vehicle movement · · Score: 1

    Place one every mile like they have planned and average speed will become more reliable.

  8. Speedtraps on Britain to log all vehicle movement · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They also plan on using this setup to catch speeders. The time it takes to move between cameras can tell exactly how fast you're going.

  9. Re:They wont stop... on France Hostile To Open Source Software? · · Score: 2, Informative

    During the night of 22nd to 23rd December 2005, while everybody is preparing for Christmas, the French Parliament will rule about the "DADVSI" law. This vote will be made with minimal discussion, as an "emergency" has been declared on this law.

  10. They wont stop... on France Hostile To Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    Until the DMCA becomes global. Even then they still wont stop anyways so it doesn't matter.
    http://www.videolan.org/eucd.html

  11. Bah. on France Hostile To Open Source Software? · · Score: 2, Informative

    There goes VLC.

  12. Harmful it is. on The Xbox vs. PC Gaming · · Score: 1

    I can't help but be disgusted when I see games being advertised on TV for Xbox that were released on PC first then ported to Xbox.
    There are plenty of Xbox commercials that do this, and nowhere mention any existance of a PC version.

  13. Re:Good reason not to use microwaves... on Company Develops Microwave-powered Water Heater · · Score: 1

    This guy is a jackass. Microwaves are not ionizing, all they do is cause the mocules in water to rub themselves together and make friction, causing heat. This doesnt do anything to food besides cook it.

  14. Re:Microwave Oven on Company Develops Microwave-powered Water Heater · · Score: 1

    Unless they have some godlike size of a Transformer and a 10KW magnetron inside it I don't see this happening soon, but then heating elements will be more efficient at making heat so really whats the point in all this again?

  15. Microwave Oven on Company Develops Microwave-powered Water Heater · · Score: 1

    My 1200Watt magnetron in my microwave oven can heat a cup of water boiling hot. In 40 Seconds!!!!!

    Tell me how can this thing heat steady flowing water to 120C in seconds?

  16. Re:Poppycock on Company Develops Microwave-powered Water Heater · · Score: 1

    Which is why you would water cool the magenetron by piping the source water through its heatsink.

    Commercial microwave ovens that run on 240v and pump out 1500watts of microwave energy or higher all use water cooled magnetrons.

  17. Re:microwaves more than 100% efficient? on Company Develops Microwave-powered Water Heater · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Think before you post. Our mains in Canada/America comes with 2 poles of 120v. Combine the 2 together and guess what, 240v! 240v powers our hot water heaters, electric baseboard heaters, electric ranges and clothes dryers. Whos the faggot here now?

  18. Rubbish on Novell Doubts Microsoft Latest "Linux Facts" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So windows comes with no applications that need patching, and look of all the security patches required for JUST the OS! Linux on the other hand comes with hundreds of applications not related to the OS. You get a complete server in a box with all the tools needed, mysql, php, etc. THESE ARE WHAT NEED PATCHES IN MOST CASES! Microsoft provides you nothing with windows.

  19. PAL on PS3 To Run At 120 FPS? · · Score: 1

    There are already some PAL TV's that run at 100Hz so this would be doing them a favour, a big favour.

  20. Gamecube controllers work on Revolution too. on Responses To Nintendo's Revolution Controller · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't see what people have to hate about this controller design. If you don't like it, plug in a gamecube controller. Nintendo has this thought out well for everyone, including people that dislike their new controller.

  21. Re:That is impressive on Xbox 360 & Next-Gen Live Specifications Leaked · · Score: 1

    Yeah, GDDR3 is expensive. Take a look at the price of the 512M 6800U graphics cards, over 800 bucks.

  22. Re:PC getting the shaft.... again..... on Doom 3 Expansion and Xbox Version · · Score: 1

    There has been a rumour about this that Microsoft paid id for the exclusive rights to a co-op mode on the Xbox, hence why we wont see co-op mode on the PC. I have been hoping doom3 would be co-op since this is a game that would be much much enjoyable when your blasting away the minions of hell with your friend alongside of you. I guess us people with the good looking graphics wont get to enjoy this part, but the low resolution TV boys will.

  23. Good one, on $113.5 billion worth of electronics sold in 2004 · · Score: 1

    And here the US DOJ and friends are all for crippling our Electronic gadgets on behalf of the RIAA and MPAA's requests, citing piracy is ruining the economy.... I think they better focus on what is really fueling the economy. Movie and music sales are peanuts when it comes to the tech industry.

  24. Re:Sealed Case on Running a Server at Freezing Temperatures? · · Score: 1

    Great idea, keep the warmth in and the critters out.

  25. Re:Stupid Useless Advertising Sites on 66.3 Million Domain Names Registered · · Score: 1

    Actually I made a mistake...
    http://www.classicnintendo.com/