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  1. Rob Williams

    Rogers Actually Listens to Customers; Hell Freezes Over

    From our front-page news: In a way, I'm speechless. Maybe, just maybe those thousands of unhappy Canadian voices finally got through to the folks at Rogers. Or, I'm seriously hallucinating. I'll take it as the former until someone pinches me. According to a press release from Rogers, the...
  2. Rob Williams

    iPhone Reviews Start to Trickle Out

    From our front-page news: The first batch of iPhone reviews started to come out late last night from the big three Apple reviewers: Walt Mossberg, David Pogue and Edward Baig. The verdict? It's what we all expected. The hardware and software have been long revealed to us all, which leaves little...
  3. Rob Williams

    NVIDIA Supporting PhysX-on-Radeon Effort

    From our front-page news: NVIDIA's PhysX technology has been getting a lot of attention lately, and in case you happened to miss our coverage from two weeks ago, be sure not to skip it as we take a hard look at the performance factor, and also see where the technology stands today. But where...
  4. Rob Williams

    Mega Man 9 to Resemble Old-School NES Title

    From our front-page news: If you consider yourself to be a true gamer, then chances are that you fully believe that gameplay should always come before graphics. There is no shortage of great-looking games on the market today, but many of them fall far short in the gameplay department. I won't...
  5. Rob Williams

    PC Gaming Isn't Dying, EA's Games Just Suck

    That game was quite good... a lot of the tracks I found to be quite enjoyable. Some of the later races were ridiculously hard though, especially where you are the cop and had to nab a certain amount of drivers. I still remember the frustration I had, haha. Haha, that happens to the best of us...
  6. Rob Williams

    Voodoo Envy 133 is Expensive, but Gorgeous

    From our front-page news: Big notebooks are out and small notebooks are in. I personally didn't realize how great smaller notebooks could be until I first took a look at a Hypersonic offering back in May, then proceeded by an ASUS offering which shared the same form-factor. I don't recall a time...
  7. Rob Williams

    Hasselblad's Kodak CCD-equipped H3DII-50 Offers 50 Megapixels

    From our front-page news: No matter the technology, people enjoy seeing higher numbers. Faster processors, more memory, more horsepower and of course, more megapixels. The company to reign supreme in that arena for a while has been Hasselblad, who are now offering the H3DII-50, a 50 megapixel...
  8. Rob Williams

    Hans Reiser Leads Authorities to Wifes Body

    From our front-page news: We haven't covered the Hans Reiser trial to any great degree, due to it not being something of particular interest to most of our readers, but it's a twisted tail regarding what used to be a very popular software developer. Hans was first accused of murdering his wife...
  9. Rob Williams

    Outside the US, iPhone Plan Prices are Asinine

    From our front-page news: With the iPhone 3G right around the corner, are you getting ready to make the 11th a fun-filled day? Many aren't, and unless you have been living under a BlackBerry, you'd know that most people outside of the US are getting the roughest end of the deal. The...
  10. Rob Williams

    Surprise: People are pissed off about Rogers iPhone plans

    It's a bad situation, that's for sure. It's truly ridiculous that we have to care so badly about who we go with for our cellular service, and the fact that there is NO selection doesn't help things. Rogers sucks and overcharges, and Bell sucks even more and still overcharges. It's a total...
  11. Rob Williams

    PC Gaming Isn't Dying, EA's Games Just Suck

    The biggest issues with the NFS series lately is that they just don't have the fun-factor that the games use to have. The last NFS game I really enjoyed was Underground 1 and 2, but some may agree that even the older ones were when the series was at its prime. One thing to bug me for a while...
  12. Rob Williams

    Surprise: People are pissed off about Rogers iPhone plans

    I am not sure where I heard it (it was some news programme), but it appears that there are certain US-based carriers that are working to come into Canada, and it should happen within two years. I am almost positive the carrier in question was Virgin Mobile, and I'm not sure how good they are in...
  13. Rob Williams

    PC Gaming Isn't Dying, EA's Games Just Suck

    Well, I've found their NFS series in general has been getting worse with age, which is a shame. I've loved that series since the beginning. The last game was just such a massive disappointment... I have to wonder if EA cares about any of their franchises anymore that aren't sports.
  14. Rob Williams

    Pioneer Develops 400GB Blu-Ray Disc

    Sweet, enough for half my porn collection. Seriously though, it's cool to see such discs in the future, and hopefully we will actually see them by the time we need them. I do wish we'd see a relative upgrade to the DVD, though. When backing up large collections of things, a 4GB disc does seem...
  15. Rob Williams

    Keeping PC's Cool During Summer Months

    Please no piracy talk here. Kougar, folding is a tough one, haha. I don't think I've ever met a serious folder who has turned off their machine on purpose.
  16. Rob Williams

    Against all good judgement

    That sucks, hopefully you can get it figured out soon. The motherboard is one of the worst things to go in a PC... once it's on the way out, there's rarely any recovering possibilty :-/ Let us know if you figure anything out.
  17. Rob Williams

    An interesting read...

    On the first Top Gear for the new season, they did a test like that. Toyota Prius vs. BMW M3... driving responsibly, and at the same speeds, the M3 achieved something like 2MPG better than the Prius. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq9ilgw1plc
  18. Rob Williams

    Tiësto

    That's the problem with music in general... there are hundreds of sub-genres for some genres, so it's hard to know what's what. I love punk, for example, but it all falls into punk (NoFX), punk rock (Bad Religion), pop punk (Exploding Hearts), psychobilly (Tiger Army), ska (Sublime), ska punk...
  19. Rob Williams

    NVIDIA's PhysX: Performance and Status Report

    Hi guys, Just a note that this article in no way concludes the testing for PhysX I have planned. When the new drivers come out with support for older GPUs, things are going to be a little interesting. At that time, I'll be able to test the benefits of adding in a second card for SLI (8800 GTS...
  20. Rob Williams

    PC Gaming Isn't Dying, EA's Games Just Suck

    From our front-page news: Way back in April, EA Sports President Peter Moore opened the "PC is dying" floodgates by announcing that Madden 09 would not have a computer-counterpart. The reasoning was that the games are selling less and less, and less, with each year that passes. Fair enough, and...
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