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    Microsoft May Limit The Number of Windows 8 Editions

    It's already been said in this thread an many others that OSX costs $30 to buy, but Apple makes so much on their hardware that it can cover development costs. They aren't making much if any money off $30 for their OS and certainly not enough to fund the whole business. Also, I don't know why...
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    Microsoft May Limit The Number of Windows 8 Editions

    I don't think windows 8 for arm is going to be a mainstream release. Just the manufactures of arm devices will get it. Much of the code base for windows 8 for arm is not the same as x86/64 windows 8 so Microsoft could most likely ditch 32 bit without impacting arm...
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    Recharge Your Cell Phone With a Touch?

    Yes, but you are missing the point. They can call this green energy and overhype their results to get hundreds of millions of dollars of federal money to start a company and continue "green energy research". They can then give the execs huge bonuses, fire employees, and go bankrupt on the public...
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    Online Role-Playing Can Zap Marital Happiness

    I agree up to a point. I'm totally comfortable with research done by an institution with an agenda as long as they neutralize alternative hypotheses that would be destructive to their findings. I don't know if this research has been peer reviewed. I think it is being published today, but all I...
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    Online Role-Playing Can Zap Marital Happiness

    I'm Mormon. I love video games and so does my whole family. In fact, most of my local congregation likes video games. Also, not at FndTheRver, but what does the study being done by BYU (Mormons) have to do with the results?
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    Tower vs. 2U in non-air-conditioned room

    It probably depends on the amount of air the fans can move in proportion to the case volume. What are your temps right now?
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    Tower vs. 2U in non-air-conditioned room

    What kind of workload do you put on the server most of the time?
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    Hawaii May Keep Track Of All Web Sites Visited

    If everyone in Hawaii got hold of a script that sent massive amounts of requests 24/7 those ISPs would would start fighting back against the bill.
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    Canadian Man Uses iPad to Enter US

    Hopefully the Canadians are nice to him when he tries to get back in...
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    Facebook Two Times More Popular Than Voting

    Not surprising. It takes a few seconds to sign up for facebook at your computer. Probably have to make a phone call, or go somewhere to register to vote.
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    Death Row Inmate Gets New Trial Because of Tweet

    This guy probably loves it that he's being judged by his peers.
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    Intel Reveals Next-Gen High-Performance Computing Platforms

    Actually Intel signed a deal with Apple to have Apple be the first platform with Thunderbolt until like 2012 when other companies can use it.
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    Corsair Giveaway - Force Series™ GT 180GB Solid-State Hard Drive

    I need one because my 40 gig SSD is full!
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