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    Hurricane Sandy: Before and After

    Wow! That's horrible. I feel sorry for those poor folks up there.
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    Maine Politician Slandered Against for Playing World of Warcraft

    Good for her! That just proves that the people that voted her in aren't luddites.
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    F1 Racestars

    No Stig... not interested in a F1 game if I can't be the Stig.
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    The Best Worst Thing

    I think adoption of 8 will be another disappointment for M$. http://blogs.computerworld.com/windows/21247/windows-8-early-upgrades-beat-mountain-lion-os-x-early-upgrades-1-million-good-or-bad-news-microsoft
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    The sexiest Lamborghini ever

    Um... I kinda like it.
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    After 12 Years of Business, Danger Den is Closing Down

    While I regret the loss of his wife, it sounds more like an excuse than a reason. If DD was a profitable company and he wanted to walk away he'd simply sell out and move on. If he's closing up shop rather than selling the business I'm betting that it was already in trouble and losing his wife...
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    After 12 Years of Business, Danger Den is Closing Down

    I just looked on the DD site and there's bupkis left. Some tubing is about it. I'm guessing the retailers snapped it all up and are selling it at full price.
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    Disney acquires Lucasfilm

    The reason there is the expanded universe novels and comics and not films 7, 8 & 9 is Lucas decided that he'd die before they were done so he opened it up to fans to fill in the blanks. Just my humble opinion but I can't see Disney making any more mess of SW than Lucas did. 4 and 5 were great...
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    Disney acquires Lucasfilm

    FWIW, Lucas had originally planned to make it a 9 episode series. That is after he changed the first from a stand alone film to Episode IV, A New Hope. Episodes VII, VIII and IX were to address the changes to the republic after the death of the emperor as well as look at the family of Han and...
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    Windows 8 Review - Part One: The Things I Hate

    http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1003321/dx10-able-windows-xp FWIW, there are DX10 ports for XP out there in the wild but since M$ won't acknowledge that it actually does work on XP there are no drivers for DX10 in XP so it's pointless to bother with it.
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    When a GNU crashes a Windows 8 launch event...

    For M$ gno gnus is good gnews.
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    GTA: Vice City coming to iOS / Android

    Sweet. Now if I just had something capable of running it.
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    Windows 8 Review - Part One: The Things I Hate

    I didn't say outdated, I said dated. It essentially looks like Vista which is a 6 year old OS. Compared to newer Linux builds and OS-X versions which are slicker. The UI on those are still practical, just a bit more polished. 8 just looks like a lazy OS, everything all over the screen when...
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    Windows 8 Review - Part One: The Things I Hate

    After reading your review of the cons I can't see how you could still like it. Yeah, it's faster than 7 and has a smaller footprint due to being designed to run on lower spec mobile machines but speed and light weight aren't everything. Look at the Lamborghini Countach. Insanely fast, extremely...
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    Windows 8 Launches Friday - Will You Be Buying It?

    If it wasn't for the fact that you have to re-learn the OS (really? They need to hide the power button from the users?) and them being determined that you're going to use a touch inspired interface whether you want to or not, 8 wouldn't be a bad OS. I know when I installed in on the VM Ware on...
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    Wednesday's PS3 4.30 Firmware Update to Remove Folding@home Client

    Read through the blog comments, it seems the sheep are more concerned about some meaningless trophies than something beneficial to society. Of course that doesn't really surprise me.
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    Jaw-Dropping: Google Lets Us Peer Into its Datacenters

    The one where they mirrored the line of server racks could be something as simple as the racks being opposite a wall. I can't blame them for not wanting to show a wall or possibly the tangled wires from the rear of an adjacent line of servers. It's PR shots, might as well make it purdy.
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    When regular users give Windows 8 a go

    I have nothing on my desktop. I have a desktop shortcut toolbar but that's it.
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