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  1. Rob Williams

    Intel Begins Construction On Fab 68 In Dalian

    From our front-page news:Intel has announced plans to open up Fab 68, a 300mm wafer fabrication facility in Dalian, China. This major fabrication facility will cost $2.5 billion, effectively bringing Intel's total investment in China to $4 billion. Once construction completes in 2010, it will...
  2. Rob Williams

    Microsoft Launches Online Translation Service

    From our front-page news: Over the years, there have been few worthwhile online language-translation tools, namely because all of them offer foolish results. One I have relied on for a while though, has been Babelfish, which was actually one of the first such tools on the web. Microsoft, not...
  3. Rob Williams

    Smile detection?

    Haha. I never smile. I would so fail that test.
  4. Rob Williams

    Smile detection?

    Sensing component company Omron has created what it calls "smile measurement software," which rates the amount of happiness that human subject of a photo are exhibiting. On the face of it (ouch!), the applications aren't too obvious: then you consider that this could easily be used by robots to...
  5. Rob Williams

    Window'd 150gb WD Raptor X - $224.99

    Or a 750GB Seagate drive for $10 less: http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=18411&vpn=ST3750640AS&manufacture=Seagate&promoid=1055 God Raptors are way overpriced, and for absolutely no reason. Sure it has a window, but unless the drive is side mounted, who is going to see it?
  6. Rob Williams

    Savant's $35,000 Coffee Table.

    $35,000 for, "We'll be the first to say that the resolution on the screen could certainly be improved, and the touch response seemed quirky as well"? If it costs that much, it should be -perfect-.
  7. Rob Williams

    Urine-Powered Batteries?

    I'll get right on it, battery or not :cool:
  8. Rob Williams

    Urine-Powered Batteries?

    Now that would take a while to charge up. Need a lot of beers, no doubt.
  9. Rob Williams

    looking for soundcard which one ?

    Sounds good man, enjoy!
  10. Rob Williams

    Alienware unveils Hangar18:HD 1080p Media Server

    Alienware -- always at the forefront of rocking your ever-loving world -- has delved deeper into the media server fray with its new Hangar18:HD high definition home media center announced today at CEDIA. Apparently the "higher end" media center we mentioned last month is rearing it's power-heavy...
  11. Rob Williams

    LG Updating Dual-Format Super Blu Player

    One thing that bothers me about the PS3 or any console in general for web use.. is that it's clunky. VERY clunky. Half the time, web-standard technologies like Flash are not even supported, though I believe it is on the PS3. Also bad is the resolution... unless you run the TV at 1080p, the...
  12. Rob Williams

    Urine-Powered Batteries?

    Aqua Power System, from Japan, has unveiled the NoPoPo batteries that are rechargeable via liquid that’s injected into the battery chamber. Yes, it will run off your urine if that’s where you thought this was going to lead. But let’s try and be mature about this. The rechargeable batteries come...
  13. Rob Williams

    Is Microsoft worried about the new iPods?

    From our news:With Apple's impressive showing the other day, should Microsoft be worried? No, but getting to work on an iPod threat would be a great idea. As CNET reports, Microsoft cut their Zune down to $199 the other day, but even then, it's a difficult sell considering some of the new iPods...
  14. Rob Williams

    Hi, Dad. I just saved your life. PS3 please!

    Let's just pretend that I'd be saving an entire elementary school from a huge fire, which happens to be situated beside a BMW facility. Then I'd get my M3.
  15. Rob Williams

    AMD opening up ATI Linux drivers

    From our news: It was only yesterday that we posted about AMD's "possible" opening up of their ATI drivers for Linux, and we sure didn't have to wait long to find out it was absolutely true. In a press release issued today, AMD said that they will be releasing an information and development...
  16. Rob Williams

    OCZ Intros Rugged ATV Thumb Drives

    From our news:Although thumb drives are the norm, they've really only become popular over the past few years. Now, it's second nature, and we are at a point where it's difficult to purchase a normal drive. So, it's no surprise when companies try something new, and give you a good reason to...
  17. Rob Williams

    KDE 4.0 Beta 2 Released

    From our news: It's only been a month since Beta 1 was released, but Beta 2 looks like it has come quite a way, as you will be able to see with the available screenshots on the official site. New since Beta 1 is an updated KOffice alpha release, new code gained from Google's Summer of Code and...
  18. Rob Williams

    Holy Freakin' Crap iPod

    $100 back for early iPhone adopters: We posted yesterday that Apple lowered the price of their iPhone to $399, to much expected angst by all of the early adopters who essentially paid a $200 premium for owning the phone for two months. Well, the reaction was so intense that Steve...
  19. Rob Williams

    D-Link DNS-323 NAS

    Welcome to the club! I also have the problem of not finding a secpol.msc, but you might want to try the rest of the steps and see if the issue is fixed.
  20. Rob Williams

    The Ups the Downs... It's Gamestop!

    I have been told numerous times to just get a gamepad... but this is an MMORPG... there are people to chat to. I don't want to have to bother setting down the gamepad every other minute to type out a message. For offline RPGs, it's sensible, but not for an MMOG.
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