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    FCC Votes to Move Ahead with High-Speed Internet for Schools

    Internet access is more of a distraction than a useful learning aid. I suspect this will lead the students wasting more time browsing facebook and spending less time learning.. I don't think it matters much at this point as there's little hope for the future of the western world. All the...
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    Kinect Costs As Much As The Xbox One?

    Kinect is the Xbox One's big weaknesses. Firstly, it increases the price to an undesirable level. Secondly, I don't like motion gaming so I wouldn't want it even if it were free. Thirdly, I don't like that Microsoft will be using Kinect for advertising and DRM. Finally, after all the...
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    PC Sales See 'Longest Decline' In History

    The problem with lower sales is that it's leading to higher prices. RAM prices have been rising recently due to memory manufactures cutting back PC memory production and focusing more on smartphones. Hard disk prices per TB haven't dropped for the last three years (though that's arguably down...
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    Julie Larson-Green The Next Xbox One Boss?

    She's responsible for the ribbon being added to Office and was a key player in the Windows 8 Metro interface. With such a track record of success I'm sure nothing could go wrong!
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    Microsoft's Windows Boss Leaves The Company

    About three years too late. I'd rather he'd left before he destroyed Windows. The timing is odd. Either he thinks his job is done and he's moving on, or sales of Surface and Windows 8 have been so bad he's been pushed.
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    Microsoft Surface RT Pricing Starts At $499

    After the Surface advert you'd be ashamed to own one anyway. Microsoft seem to be aiming this at hipsters who are willing to pay a high price for something lacking in functionality, but Apple already has that market well covered.
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    Ten Years Ago Today: BitBoys Edition

    Imgtec started making products for mobile devices and their PowerVR graphics cores and video cores are in a great major products including iPhones and the Samsung Galaxy line. I'm more nostalgic about the 3dfx Rampage. That looked pretty innovative and also seemed to be quite close to...
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    Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button

    This is like the Up arrow in Windows Explorer. Microsoft will spend the next two versions insisting that you don't need it, then on the third version they'll proudly announce, "we've added this great new feature" as if they've done you a favour. The Start menu isn't the only thing they've...
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    Ecuador Says WikiLeaks Founder Seeking Asylum

    Free him from where? The embassy? While I admire your enthusiasm, you probably want to wait until he's imprisoned before you demand that he's freed.
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    Utility To Force Hard Disks Into Standby?

    That removes the device from the system so it would no longer show up in My Computer and there'd be no way to start it up again without restarting the computer or unplugging it and plugging it in again. HDScan would probably be better still work better because you can access the drive from My...
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    Utility To Force Hard Disks Into Standby?

    Thanks, that looks pretty good and has a lot more features than the utility I was previously using. It does have a few drawbacks. Stopping a drive requires a few more clicks than the old utility, and it just lists the driver's model rather than the dive letter so it's hard to know which...
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    Utility To Force Hard Disks Into Standby?

    Years ago I found a free utility that enabled you to force individual hard disks into standby, so they stopped spinning and save power. This was very useful because Windows doesn't have settings for individual drives so you either have them all going into standby or none of them. With this...
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    Windows 8 Release Preview Download

    I think I'll pass on this one. After trying the Consumer Preview I'm not even going to waste my bandwidth.
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    Facebook Co-Founder Renounces U.S. Citizenship

    Good on him. According to Wikipedia Facebook employees 3000+ as of 2011. He does the nation a great service by employing 3000 people and the government wants to reward him by taking his money. I'd say that is very wrong. Just because he grew up here doesn't mean he owes the government...
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    Using the Doppler Effect to Sense Gestures

    Why use the mouse wheel to scroll up and down when you can wave your hands around like a spaz?! These days there's too much focus on being 'innovative' and not enough focus on being better.
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