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• Okay, since no one else did any REAL research, here:
  
  http://news.cnet.com/seagate-fixes-7200.11-drives-except-when-it-doesnt/
  
  It affected the Barracuda series of drives that had 500GB - 1.5TB of storage capacity, and it was mostly fixed by a firmware patch released later.
  
  Note that this is NOT a barracuda drive, but FreeAgent.
  
  I'm not in any way supporting a company that releases cruddy hardware, especially when it takes more than a week to provide a "fix", AND THEN the "fix" makes the problem WORSE. But DO YOUR RESEARCH before commenting.
  
  Now, if there are seperate (or similar) problems with the FreeAgent drives, go ahead and post them. But do not compare one model's failures to the entirety of a company as large as Seagate. In reply to: "A 1.5-terabyte external drive for $112.49 shipped"

  March 3, 2009

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• "We have already generated black holes, we already know how they're formed and how they work."
  
  
  HAHAHAHAHA
  
  HAAA
  
  
  wow,
  
  just wow
  
  
  In any case, kudos to this lab for keeping their collider working. Maybe they can collaborate with the LHC and compare some notes. In reply to: "Why the LHC may be beaten to the Bang"

  March 2, 2009

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• I believe the real question here is: why do we care?
  
  Let the ignorant masses who believe that Facebook is a substitute for real communication continue to support some "professor"'s raving lunacy of a theory about some slice of the human psyche. Sooner or later, Facebook will become a distant memory to some other social networking site, and people will complain about that.
  
  Its like the MMORPGs, and their related "theories" from "professors" that generalize any person playing these games as fat, antisocial, smelly, worthless creatures that loathe the sun and refuse to play any other game.
  
  In the end, "m'lady" is just sensationalizing a small part of some of our lives to make a buck. In reply to: "Why it's good that Facebook makes us infantile"

  March 2, 2009

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• There are plenty of arcade games that let you store your progress on memory cards. DDR, Tekken 5, some of the Gauntlet games and their clones...
  
  And as for programming "malicious code": I'm sure its possible, but considering you have to pay to put the machine into a mode where it can read from the memory cards...its not worth it.
  
  Speaking of "not being worth it", that's the reason arcades are dying. Game consoles have reached a point where they are powerful enough to handle multiple players either cooperatively or competitively with little to no slowdown or graphical setbacks, AND you can play with anyone in the world at any time you wish, and the overall cost of playing these games (even if you pay for a Live Gold account) is still cheaper than dumping quarters to play maybe 1-2 rounds of a 10 minute game.
  
  You also have the general atmosphere of the arcade turning from a family friendly place into a seedy hangout for unsavory people who hog machines (and other people who ruin them physically), and arcade personnel who are underpaid unsavory creatures themselves, who do not care about the shape of their machines.
  
  Finally, you have game manufacturers (like Sega), who don't care about making their games (ESPECIALLY arcade cabinets) accessible to anyone outside of their precious home base (Japan), and only releasing a handful of a certain percentage of their library to non-coastal US cities [F-Zero AX? I would have had to drive about 2 hours ONE WAY to reach an arcade that REPORTEDLY had one of these machines back when I gave a hoot about playing the game. Mario Kart Arcade? NOPE How about any of the hybrid card-game/videogame RPGs? HAHAHAHA].
  
  
  And adding to this WONDERFUL list of reasons why the arcade market is more than DEAD:
  
  It?s Sega making this new "hope" for the arcade scene.
  
  Sega has made 2 GIANT hardware mistakes in gaming the last 2 times it attempted to "compete" with the big boys (Saturn had 2 different processors that drove programmers insane...and the machine just didn't have the power to run polygons and textures like the Playstation or N64, and the Dreamcast? Listen Sega, unless you're Nintendo, you can't get away with making a machine that doesn't use a widely supported disc format [and only holds 1.2 GB of data max]....and your only shot at staying AFLOAT was your broadband modem, so that people could pay extra to play PSO...and you deliberately shorted supplies of that device), and one BIGGER software mistake: Sonic Team (The last good Sonic game that existed was Sonic Adventure 2...and that's arguable considering the near-horrid vocal tracks, camera angles from heck, and KNUCKLES/ROUGE LEVELS, ARRRGH!)
  
  
  Ok, so I'm done ranting. If Sega wishes to put my foot in my mouth and create a DECENT SYSTEM that has DECENT GAMES, and that ACTUALLY SEES THE LIGHT OF DAY IN THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES, be my guest. Until then, Sega is bottom-of-the-barrel gaming sludge. In reply to: "Is Sega planning a return to the console market?"

  February 9, 2009

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• Not really, what vista SHOULD have been is XP 2.0
  
  instead they made "HAY GUIS, LOOK AT US, WERE LIKE APPLE LOL!" and rushed it out the door without any concern for the everyday user
  
  Windows 7 is a step up: it feels more stable and has generic device drivers from the get-go that allowed me to download driver updates wirelessly...but it also has serious issues with my computer habits: internet videos don't run in full screen properly, sound comes out of the main speakers even when I have headphones plugged in, Skype doesn't run properly
  
  And then there's the horrid UI, the typical Microsoft "upgrades" of existing utilities and features (now renamed and relocated to somewhere that makes no sense whatsoever), and UAC is a horrid cop-out to real security
  
  What happened to Group Policies, Event Logs, Spyware/Adware/Virus scanners and good old common sense (translation: never using IE)? Slapping a slider bar on the UAC isn't giving any "control" over this horrid service: it just lets you set the level of stupid interruptions you will encounter while attempting to use your pc.
  
  Windows 7 is pretty, it runs ok, but it needs to break free of Vista altogether In reply to: "Windows 7 less annoying, but also less secure?"

  February 3, 2009

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• And his mullet doubles as a flotation device! In reply to: "Windows 7 less annoying, but also less secure?"

  February 3, 2009

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• I really don't see how this is anything new....there's been electric people movers for quite a long time now, filling the role of short-distance commute
  
  And its not like this van gets good mileage: 30 flippin' miles for a charge? And I'm guessing that's under optimal use, not under the wear and tear that will come from people of all shapes and sizes fitting in with their luggage, running around in non-optimal temperatures and non-optimal traction conditions (ice, snow, and rain).
  
  Seriously? 30 miles? And it takes 6 H O U R S to charge? How PATHETIC! The Tesla has more horsepower, charges in 3.5 hours with 220 volts of electricity, and has a rage of hundreds of miles! It also doesn't look ugly as sin! Now, I won't buy one of these machines, because the idea of using an electric-only vehicle is not intelligent in my books, and I'm not going to drop $100,000 on anything that isn't life-saving....but you mean to say this is the best that this company can do for under 100 grand?
  
  I'm very sure any company that uses these machines for any real work will hit these vehicles' 30 mile range rather quickly....unless they bought the vehicles in bulk and....ooooh, NOW I get it! You HAVE to pay for a whole fleet in order to get any REAL work done, as you're constantly swapping out dead vehicles for fresh ones (and you'll need a fleet, as 6 hours of charge time is quite a dent in productivity!). I wouldn't be surprised if these hunks of junk come with a battery that's only good for a few dozen charges before you start using the limited warranty that comes with them...if they have any warranty that covers the battery *checks website*
  
  @%^#$^%$^%$^$!!!!! 90 day warranty? 7 days to return it with full refund?
  
  WHAT?
  
  I also like how the author of this article decided not to post the fact that that charging time is the OPTIMAL charging time, as the website states
  
  Charging time: 12 hour max charging
  
  12.
  
  hours.
  
  
  ...I think I've used up enough of the "comment" space here...and I no longer wish to read about this "innovation" In reply to: "Zap introduces zero-emissions, all-electric van"

  January 27, 2009

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• Show me some real proof about playing 45 seconds of a song not violating copyright law.
  
  I don't agree with people having their videos pulled (especially the guy doing the tribute), but you're dealing with the law, not what is morally right. In reply to: "YouTube users caught in Warner Music spat"

  January 27, 2009

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• Yeah, I dont think I want something that the idiots in Washington believe is "secure".
  
  They've fallen behind the times and standards, and let any doofus put sensitive data on laptops, mp3 players, paper documents, etc...
  
  This just might be the year where some hacker actually recreates some action movie cliche and truly "hacks the white house". I can see it now: "4 nuclear strikes, and 433 pepperoni pizzas ordered by Obama's hacked Blackberry!" In reply to: "First e-mailing prez: Obama keeps his BlackBerry"

  January 27, 2009

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• I agree with scdecade, and I also have to note that the major telecommunication companies have already been given BILLIONS of dollars and DECADES of time to get off their lazy behinds and get fiber optic cables laid across the nation.
  
  I think its time to stop giving these greedy corporations more money and its time to start penalizing them for every day they don't make progress on getting this country up to snuff with Europe and Japan. And make the penalties come out of THEIR pockets, not the consumers. In reply to: "GOP, Dems spar over broadband 'stimulus' and FCC powers"

  January 27, 2009

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