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"STUMBLING PHONE OS VENDOR Microsoft has decided that users of Windows Mobile 6.X devices, including HTC's just-launched HD2, will not be allowed to upgrade to its Windows 7 Phone OS. This news will miff owners of HTC's highly-praised HD2 touchscreen smartphone, particularly since the HD2 meets...

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/minutes-air-france-447/story?id=9951878&page=4 "For several years now, Airbus has offered its customers a special safety program - called "Buss" -- at a cost of €300,000 per aircraft. If the airspeed indicator fails, this software shows pilots the angle at which...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35619627/displaymode/1176/rstry/35619051/

Has the tsunami passed?

Hmm, if such a program could drive a 400 disc blu-ray changer...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAyikK_Hiko&feature=player_embedded Choose the 1080p option. You will probably need to pause the player and let the stream load all the way before playing.

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17831/1/ "According to the info, the card will be as custom as it can be. It will feature a total of 4GB of GDDR5 memory, two for each GPU, paired up with a 2x256-bit memory interface. The memory will be clocked at 4800MHz, a 400MHz more than on regular HD...

I had to read that twice. First time I was 8)

It's purely a plug to fill a gap in pricing between a 5770 and a 5850. However it seems to only do about 5-10% better than a 5770 for a significant increase in power consumption, noise, and pricing. Just all the better to snuff out nvidia this gen.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd5830.html

AI would seem like the ultimate excuse for a total cock up. "Who the f### dropped that 3,000lb bomb on that house that was hosting a wedding?" "No one sir, it was plane 039". "S###."

http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/predator/ Looks like Ku band sat, here's the vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiB3vrhPDNs

Chewy, in the US they are showing an ad for the Air Force on TV, they show the video that the remote operator sees, it looks very nice. Clearly we are looking at megabits per sec (of course you can't beat the ability to snap your head around to acquire a target but given that the cost of a...

http://www.clearedgepower.com/categories/home-owner/pages/faq Interesting. A 5KW fuel cell stack that runs off your domestic natural gas supply. Looks like it's only available in Cali right now, price unknown. It's designed to run 24*7 and cover base load in addition to co-gen heat production...

http://www.sophos.com/products/small-business/system-requirements.html Sophos at least used to have a free version. There is a free trial.

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1306513 Smartphone marketshare stats for 2009

Yes, potentially more leakage in that particular derivative of the Cypress core, plus it's running at a 75MHz higher clock speed.

If you like rallying DiscoveryHD Theater has had the coverage of the WRC this year. However with many of these events the camera guys don't have HD cameras. Personally the only thing I watch in SD nowadays is the local news (they still haven't upgraded). Everything else (including free OTA that...

One of the problems that I understand faces Oz is that there is no real replacement for the F-111 bomber that we use to project power. The US isn't going to give us the stealth bombers that they use to fulfill this role, and we don't have the carriers to project either. Hopefully a few of the...

I remember a Wired print article on super milers, those who fly ridiculous amounts of miles in their road warrior jobs. Those who had millions upon millions of FF miles recognised that in the end, the truly successful stayed at home with their families and sent the young minions out to do the...

This. Had a job where we had 6 servers running Red Hat and anti-virus in front of Exchange 2003, problem with Exchange is that when you get into the larger categories in size in terms of accounts and filestore sizes, it gets to be very cumbersome. It's a huge resource in terms of sys admin time...

The C300 128GB model is $499. $100 is not much of a premium for a reputable manufacturer with a stable future, not to mention top end performance.

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/02/23/radeon-hd-5830-details-leak/ Uses the same 256 bit bandwidth for the GDDR5 as the 5850, however it looks a little crippled compared to the latter. No need to worry if you are in the GPU market, I would say a pair of 5770s or a 5850 would be a much better...

More current news: "Fox’s bid will reflect the costs of producing the Olympic Games, said David Hill, chairman of Fox Sports. CBS Corp. and Time Warner Inc. also are considering a joint bid for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, and the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, two people with...

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2003-06-06-nbc_x.htm "IOC President Jacques Rogge said NBC paid $820 million for the 2010 Winter Games, a 34% increase from the network's $614 million figure for Torino, Italy in 2006. He said NBC's price of $1.181 billion for the 2012 Summer Olympics was...

I don't think it's a matter of being "supposed to care". Just that it is available for viewing by people who do care.

$800 is a shitload when you think that you won't be able to upgrade to 7 on that hardware. Are you still in India? By October 2010 we should seee ubiquitous Android 2.1 or beyond, on all types of hardware. I know at one stage Windows Mobile was the only way to retrieve Exchange email, but that...

I am frankly disgusted with the lack of live coverage in the US, for Olympics that are occurring in Pacific Standard Time. Show it live, and then show it again in prime time, tape delayed. NBC - continuing to bring s### to the Olympics.

I don't think you can crossfire more than two of the x2 type cards, it's four GPUs max AFAICT. So up to four single GPU cards, or two double GPUs.

Apparently this a well known problem with the Sopranos on DVD: http://www.amazon.com/There-Scratched-Discs-Your-New/forum/Fx2P4OEPJWH8ZQ0/TxFL8ROKOU5K4E/1?_encoding=UTF8&asin=B001C3O6R2 "you can send them to CI-Group for free replacements. I sent my 7 scratched discs to them and received...

Surely another 5970 in Crossfire with your existing, would give you four way equivalence in two PCI slots, leaving plenty available for I/O without pissing away $400+ on a single socket mobo?

To follow up on the driver issues with 2003 (which admittedly isn't on the list of supported ATI OSs), it's been running like a dream on Win 7. Wouldn't hesitate recommending it to anyone looking for a video card in the $150-$180 range.

Bill Gates talking about innovation? MS has done nothing but make Windows and Office shiny for decades. I believe someone was once quoted as saying "MS is not a tech company, it's a marketing company."

They just dig uranium out of the ground. Trucks full of dirt. At least in Australia. Just like coal and iron ore. Now I did see a show in the US where they were pumping stuff into the ground to dissolve it and then pump it out, it seemed like an incredible waste of resources until they showed...

Win 7. It sees the receiver (Pioneer 1018AH-K) fine. I know it does 2 channel fine because I was using it to play House off the Fox website for the wife. I guess I'll just have to get a BD drive and find out.

Is it possible to utilise a BD-ROM or BD-R burner drive to playback a retail blu-ray title with lossless sound (DTS-MA or TruHD) via a 5xxx series ATI card and HDMI? Using the latest PowerDVD?

Depends on the location Tony. Back when I was in Tassie all the power is from hydro (yeah terrible destruction of ecosystems when the reservoirs fill up but the damage is done I guess). Here in the US my juice is from nuclear, though I believe half of US supply is via coal. An interesting...

I haven't followed the blu-ray ripping scene at all, but is it true that "every" disc has been cracked and allows easy drag and drop copying with no corrupted playback on the other end?

Certainly the Prius doesn't rate compared to some of the diesels available in Europe. That's 30% efficiency over petrol right there. I believe for diesels the US standards are(were) in fact tougher that the Euro spec, that's why some of the Euro cars will never see the light of day in the US...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20100215231002_AMD_s_Twelve_Core_Microprocessors_Available_for_Sale.html 48 cores on four sockets? Socket G34 it is. I for one welcome our new overlords. I can settle for 24 cores on two sockets, those four socket boards can get expensive.

SAS expanders give large capacity possibilities via daisychaining, however as you have seen they provide limited bandwidth.

I would suggest discussing your questions directly with Areca support. Whilst I have had good success with their SATA RAID controllers (fast, stable) I have no experience with the linked items.

Never deviate from the rule of simplest swapouts first.

Yup: "Under the United States income tax code, the cost of vehicles over 6,000 pounds (2722 kg) can be deducted from income. This deduction was enacted decades ago to assist self-employed people in purchasing a vehicle for business use. The weight minimum was intended to limit the deduction to...

Well that's the thing. A "high risk" loan insured by the FHA means that the bank, if the loan gets defaulted upon, gets it's money anyway. It's zero risk. CRA seems to be more to do with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae being government-sponsored enterprises?

In New York, cars have the same registration costs (once every two years for a sticker that you put in your front window. However, for a pickup truck, when you get commercial plates, you choose how much you want to be able to haul in terms of GWM, and pay the appropriate fee. So in that aspect...

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=454&Itemid=60&limit=1&limitstart=5 I want it.

The subprime loans have subprime rates to match. The banks make more money on a given subprime loan, provided the loan doesn't go into default. They weren't forced into anything.

No, the problem was that those subprime loans (which have always been available) were repackaged and sold as prime rated investments. When the subprimes went tits up, the truth was revealed. By then, the damage was done. Also, the subprime problem is moving into prime areas...

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