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I honestly don't really notice my phone, it fits in my pocket and it's not uncomfortable or anything. When I carried 2 phones doing on call work that got annoying, but mostly because I kept them both in the same pocket and it got kinda crowded... I think replacing my small phone that I only...

I would think with the functionality you want and need an inexpensive-ish palm device (The E2 looks like it has everything you want for under $200) and the most basic phone (tried to find an example but the US phone market is nuts) that meets your requirements would be the best bet in your price...

From reviews I have seen the Thermalright ultra-120 performs marginally better than the ninja even with fairly low flow fans like the Scythe S-Flex. With a SilenX 18db fan on one it should be nearly silent and outperform a ninja whilst weighing a little less at 745g (a newer version which is...

The only problem your likely to have with the DQ6 is that you'll probably have to replace the backplate to mount the ninja and the backplate on the DQ6 has a heat pipe which connects to the top of the board. Apparently it's not overly difficult to get it off though. Keep in mind that that board...

I've had good experiences with SilenX fans, their specs just look like BS compared to everything else, really high flow with really low noise, but they do seem to be that quiet and move that much air. Not cheap but well worth it in my opinion...

If you actually want to use an existing Windows box to do media on the TV as well Zoomplayer from inmatrix is a life saver. It is by far the best media player I've found for playing stuff on a second screen so you don't need to much arround with primary and secondary monitors you just drag...

It's worth noting also that if you have some time to tweak them Opterons tend to be far more overclockable than their X2 counterparts. I have an 939 Opteron 170 (2Ghz stock) that I managed to get up to 2.75 Ghz and keep rock solid. (Full disclosure I did water cool it but it wasn't strictly...

That is only the case if you accept that the greatest thing that it is possible to imagine is necessarily a being. Since "Great" is kind of subjective I see no problem with an elegant complex system which evolved based on simple principles being "Greater" than a being that could create a...

As for the second version of the argument I would disagree with the point 4. But we cannot imagine something that is greater than God. A universe in which there is no God and yet existence ticks on seems to me to be a good candidate.

To my mind Howell that classic version of the ontological argument, which is what Dawkins criticized and which bears pretty much no resemblance I can see to the other description defended in the other article and expressed above falls down right at point one. I would contend that we can not in...

I was looking at switching over my basic wireless router for one with QOS since my internet connection is my source of all data and my phone and it's a pain to stop the information flow when I want to talk with my family. I looked at the Linksys WTR54Gs and ended up looking at an Asus router...

Yeah Dawkins does definitely come across as, extremely harsh and confrontational. I think this is a fairly deliberate attempt to point out the hypocrisy of treating religion in a way which no other subject would ever be treated (well perhaps a few others come kinda close these days like any form...

If anyone needs some further convincing of the non-existence of God I can recommend "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. For me it hasn't contained anything revolutionary but it is a fairly well put demolition of most of the arguments used to try to justify the existence of religion, focusing...

I have to say I honestly don't believe having a gun in your house makes you any safer. I say this as a person who keeps 4 guns in his house (Well not at the moment since I live in the UK and don't have a licence here, but normally) but there is no way I would make any attempt to grab one in the...

It would be interesting to know how people who believe God is the moral fibre that hold society together explain animal social interactions... Do ants have morals handed down from god to stop them killing and eating each other? Do canines have a divine code or monkeys? Did God say to the clown...

I think Australian gun laws, whilst still odd in parts, are much more sensible than the US laws. The only semi-autos allowed are rimfires (.22s mostly) and shotguns (pump actions are in here too). Both require a class C licence (so you have to a primary producer who needs to protect livestock...

I too have been handed that disturbing "without God there would be no morals" argument... It's really, really creepy and disturbing to hear that coming out of someone's mouth and know that they have totally convinced themselves of it's truth...

I've always found that copying from Linux is much faster even if your copying to a Windows box. It's so noticeable that I've had several people ask if there is a version of Samba for Windows...

I think the problem is that the Bible doesn't boil down to "be nice". A lot of people take it that way and a lot of people preach it that way but that's not really how a literal interpretation reads. The Bible advocates homophobia, racism (old testament more than new admittedly) and the murder...

I don't think they'll be buying Samsung any time soon so unless Samsung buy them I think we'll have a duopoly for some time... Which if you ignore brands which price themselves out of the market (Hitachi) or produce drives of questionable quality (Maxtor, WD), we've kind of had for a while...

Mercutio, I took up target shooting as a social(ish) activity that wasn't overly sporting, didn't require a huge commitment and didn't involve large crowds or popular music (Admittedly this wasn't a primary concern but since I was living in a small country town at the time and popular meant...

I think the price difference was quite low so people said "hey I'm spending this much I may as well get the good one". Which totally ignores the fact the 20GB is a hell of a lot of save games and 60GB is still bugger all for media files or anything else you might want to chuck on it so the...

I guess 24 1GB drives would heat the box up quite a lot anyway but surely Hibachi drives could only compound the problem...

It doesn't look like Sony will be releasing the 20GB version in Europe and a reverse engineered openGL driver for Linux seems likely to be a long way off at best... I think I'm better off investing in an R600 for my PC and leaving this particular experiment for when the PS3 is a lot cheaper.

I was under the impression that most of the people here who ever watched TV had already seen the first 3 episodes... Man TV is bleak right now... All the good shows are in remission... Does anyone know of anything airing at the current time that's worth watching... If not I may have to resort...

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By all accounts S*ny lose a few hundred bucks every time someone buys a PS3 console so in fact S*ny would not get any of your money if you bought one, they'd give some of the money they already have to several of their suppliers. I'm not entirely sure the extent to which some of those...

Actually I was thinking of getting a Japanese console anyway, they're about £60 cheaper (I can only guess that some importers trying to make some extra cash overestimated the demand prior to the UK launch and are now having to dump the consoles cheaply) and contain a real PS2 chip so they're...

So I've been looking a little bit at the PS3, from a hardware perspective it's a fairly impressive machine, nice video chip, cell processor... And it runs Linux... And it costs S*ny money if I buy one and no games... It seems like these things would make ideal media-centre style machines...

The only downside is that MS deliberately (or accidentally, but not likely) break things so they won't work with the N editions. I found MS games particularly used to crash or not start up occasionally on XP N. Any in game videos or whatever still played fine and no non-MS apps/games showed any...

My cable company just told me I might have to have my modem replaced as they're bumping my download speed from 10Mb to 20Mb so there must be some limitations. Of course my cable modem is a cheap POS thing which doesn't even tell me what brand it is and came only with a set of instructions for...

MS reduced their proof requirements for academic software a few years back in Australia so you no longer required proof to get the academic price (I'm guessing no one was checking anyway or something). I don't know about Quicken but I get the impression that on the whole it's more trouble than...

I'm not a huge fan of the recycled cartridges. If the drum has been damaged at all, even slightly, you can get a serious hit in print quality (big lines of light or dark). HP do recycle the cartridges as well though so I guess it comes down to weather the other companies quality control is up...

I suspect the main difference between our experiences was that I was using DDR not DDR2 so you'd pretty much expect it to be totally different I guess. It is good to hear that the current Geil overclockability is good, it was really the only reason I would ever have bought any other brand of RAM...

If you use an open source firmware you can up the power on Linksys' WRT54G routers... Might help with the brick wall, I'm not sure if you can change the antennas on them though which could also be helpful... I'm guessing there is some reason that Cat5 and a hammer drill is out... It's not the...

It seems like something like that would produce a fair amount of carbon as output. Would that just get dumped on the road or would you need to clean out your cars carbon tray every few days/weeks... If you actually could catalyse a reaction to get the C out of CO2 it'd be great but I have a...

When playing the C&C3 demo in skirmish mode click on the side selection box (the box not the arrow) and hit "n" on the keyboard, then click again to select and play Nod. This works for you and the AI. You can set the AI type in the same way. I'm not sure if the GDI AI just sucks but NOD seems...

You can probably get a bit of extra compression on jpegs produced by your average digital camera. I usually find that saving a jpeg in Photoshop, for example, with exactly the same size and everything gives a much smaller file. Admittedly that's another stage of lossy compression but it suggests...

As much as trains seem like a bizarre subject for a game that's not aimed at people with Asperger's syndrome I found the original transport tycoon to be one of the most enjoyable games of it's time. It was very open ended and re playable. It's like their slogan says... EA Games... Buy...

It's not the electronics that cost money though it the fact that you can only get it from one supplier and the lack of economies of scale. Unless there are a whole heap of cars out there with compatible windscreens replacements are going to cost a fair bit more. To be fair though I've never...

You say that but how can we be sure...?

I've been playing the PC port of Jade Empire the last few days. It's an action RPG with a nice combat system involving a whole heap of different martial arts styles and a pretty good if somewhat predictable plot. If I hadn't known it started life as an XBox game then I would never have guessed...

I'm not sure I agree 100% with you on number 3. We have identified things which may help mitigate/stop/reverse global warming but I don't think there is any conclusive proof that they will... We should certainly try, especially since many of the things identified will likely be helpful...

One of my co-workers back in Aus had a BMW with a rain sensing windscreen. When it inevidibly got cracked the BMW replacement was a good $1000 more than a standard non rain-sensing one (He figured he could probably tell when it was raining himself for that money). The point being that most of...

Who'd of thunk that drink driving would one day be considered a safe thrill... :P

Generals is a bit of a pain with it's fixed display. You really have to get used to clicking on the mini map and using space to look at what you want to see. For strategy though I still believe it to be the best RTS ever. A well executed tactical strike can turn the tide of battle far more than...

Well if logic for pure gaming dictates the fastest single core you can get the duel core kind of makes sense as a logic-free alternative... And wouldn't a raid0 array of iRAMs be faster than just 1? I mean not practically obviously, no-one would write software that expected to be able to read...

Company of Heroes is actually pretty good... I don't generally go in for turn based strategy except for Civilisation/Alpha-Centauri and the UFO series so my WWII strategy experience has been pretty much exclusively real time. IMHO CoH works, none of the others I've played have actually been all...

What's the rationale that says hard drive speed is of any use in games... All I can see is a load time reduction... That's nice for Oblivion and the like, although a 7200 is still plenty fast in my opinion, but I wait around in FEAR servers for a few seconds waiting for people to load in...

I'd swap the WDs for a couple of Samsung 500GB drives it's too much money for too little space and not enough reliability... I'd probably use OC-Z ram instead of geil, I love geil ram for it's stability in stock systems but in my experience it doesn't overclock all that well even with heinous...