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    Microsoft: Buy Office 365, Not Office 2013

    I don't think this true. The EULA implies you only get one installation, which is where this seems to come from. But the instructions for how to remove Office 2013 include references to the same 5 installations as previous versions.
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    Galaxy 6 Weeks of Christmas GPU Giveaway! Week 6

    I believe that Galaxy makes a superior product, and that their GTX 680 continues that tradition. I would be very happy to add this to my current machine.
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    Your Thoughts On Xbox Smartglass?

    It's gimicky in alot of ways, and I agree with earlier posters that I don't really see much of a need in gaming, but it has some interesting implications for entertainment. I already use my xbox mostly as a media hub. I really can't stand many console games that I can play in PC instead. So...
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    Windows 8 Could Have Nine Different Editions

    We (CTO, Senior Mangement and testing group) met with Microsoft last Friday about Windows 8. According to what we were told, a few of those SKU will not be available to the public, but only to OEMs, the ARM and Starter editions in particular. What they indicated is that the publicly...
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    Getting Gouged By E-Books?

    They're both charging more...the publisher and the retailer...because they can. We're buying the books at the price. They both gouge and so far, we've let them...and probably will continue to do so. The infrastructure to store and distribute E-books is pennies on the dollar compared to the...
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    Getting Gouged By E-Books?

    It is gouging. I had a meeting with Hought-Mifflan last year talking about going electronic for textbooks and in the school system. They spent $85M in 2009 on shipping to resellers alone...just for textbooks. First runs of a book are usually around 50k with an expectation of a 52% sell through...
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    Four Weeks of Galaxy Give-Aways!

    Count me in. I'm building a new system for my son, who's finally old enough to do some serious FPS gaming with the old man. His 9600gt was fine when all he wanted to do was play Zynga games and watch youtube, but it just doesn't cut it for BF3 or MW3. ;)
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    EU Data Protection Reform To Replace National Laws

    I think there won't be a European Union this time next year after Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain and Ireland default, so this law is a moot point.
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    The WTF Video of the Day

    What's more disturbing than the fact that they made it is that they got done, watched it, and someone said "yeah...this rocks...we need to put it on YouTube!"
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    Bon Jovi: Steve Jobs 'Killed' The Music Business

    I'd say that's pretty dead on. We are not the norm. It just seems to me that the sheople make up the majority of consumers are missing out with the new paradigm. Uh...yeah. It happens all the time. It happened all the time when they sold 45s fifty years ago, and it happens all the time with...
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    Bon Jovi: Steve Jobs 'Killed' The Music Business

    I'm going to have to say that in a way, he's right. Sure...crappy music and a stupid pricing model helped. And yes, there's no stopping the forward march of progress. But the essence of what he said is pretty much dead on. That whole process of saving your money, going down to Tower...
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    AT&T Deflecting Defectors

    For a company that's supposed to be all that worried about defections to Verizon, you'd think maybe they wouldn't price Atrix the laptop dock for the cost of a full laptop when all it is is a keyboard, screen and battery. They had the golden goose in the Atrix...but decided that rather than...
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    NASA Offers View of Major Winter Storm

    Yeah...I was thinking the same thing, heh.
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    U2 to Stream Entire Concert Live on YouTube

    I'm not a big U2 fan either, and always felt they were a bit pretentious but a few years ago I got the opportunity to go see them for free and it really changed my mind about them. They played here at the Jacksonville stadium and we got tickets on about the 50 yard line about halfway up. They...
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    Windows 7 House Party Packs Arrive

    Got all the party crap (streamers, bags, placard, etc) and one copy each of Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit and 64 bit.
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    HP Overpacks Just a Bit for Power Cord

    I work in a fairly large data center that uses HP exclusively for the servers, so I've seen them do some pretty excessive packing for things like power cords before (although never a full pallet for a single one). But the one that just floors me is this one, also on the Register. 17 boxes to...
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    Mythbusters’ Adam Savage Hammered by Roaming Fees

    No...actually, you don't. It's thinking like this that allows these companies to get away with crap like this in the first place. They're blatantly overcharging people and too many people think the customer "deserves" it because he or she had the temerity to go outside of the coverage area...
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    Thermal Paste Shootout - Q209 @ [H]

    That is a very cool review. The groove for the thermocouple is brilliant. I was feeling like I'd try it as I read the pdf until I got to the soder instructions. I'm not that confident in my soddering skills, heh.
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    Remembering the '1984' Super Bowl Mac Ad

    I do, but by virtue of the fact that it was my first time hosting a superbowl party in my first apartment my first year in college. Anybody else look at that commercial and think "that's one pissed off Hooters chick?"
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    Windows 7 BETA Demo

    Even if they were, who cares? I don't use OS X...I use windows and pretty much always will unless Apple decides they don't want to suck in the enterprise. If OS X, or Linux or anyone else has a great feature I might like and Microsoft includes it in the next release, then that's all the better...
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    Windows 7 BETA Demo

    I think that the multi-touch is going to be fairly useful, although many will probably find it a gimmick. It runs a helluva lot better than Vista. Much faster and we've had zero driver issues with it.
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    NF200 "True" 3-Way SLI Preliminary Results @ [H]

    Yeap...that's pretty much where I am as well. The layouts of the other boards preclude me using them for my planned build.
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    Gigabyte EX58-Extreme Sneak Peek

    Well...even after 20+ years of too loud concerts and things going bang and boom while I was in the military ringing in my ears, I can hear something in those videos. I don't know what it is, but I can definitely hear it. Certainly odd. I've never had an MB that did something like it, although...
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    Lian Li A01 htpc - watercooled - 56k warning

    Wow...just...wow /applaud. Very nice.
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    Post your Mobile Devices!

    Mine does the transformer sound for the simple reason that my daughter giggles almost every time I do it, heh
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    HTC Touch HD

    I'd rather see the Marvell Tavor 624MHz processor that the Asus P522w has and a 1600mAh battery, but other than that is a pretty sweet phone.
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    What phone do you have?

    I'm somewhat of a phone junkie. I have a Vox, which was my last smartphone, an 8125, and 8525 running the latest Schapps and a Tilt running the latest Dutty. I'll probably stick with HTC phones for the forseeable future if only because of the xda-developers site, although the new Asus phone...
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    Best place for HTC + WM

    They are, hands down, the best site for HTC phones, especially if you want to re-image a smartphone.
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    Monster Chain Jerker

    Now that is classic, haha. I paid 6 bucks and change for the last hdmi cable I bought...and that's about all they should cost.
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    ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 Drawing

    I'm in.
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    Which Lian-Li?

    The G70 is a full tower...and it's pretty big. He's looking for a mid.
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    Which Lian-Li?

    The p7 or the pc60 are pretty much the same builds and much more readily available. About the only difference is which way the drive cage faces. The new PC-A08 also should fit the bill, although it doesn't have an external 3 1/2". You might try them. peace, Aielman
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    MSI P6N-SLI Platinum @ [H]

    Any chance of a review of the P6N-SLI Diamond in the near future?
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    Do We Really Need a Security Industry?

    Give that man a ceegar...
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    eBay Bans Auctions Of Virtual Goods

    Or it might say that I remember my high school english class /shrug. To each their own, I suppose. ;)
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    Sex Offenders To Register E-Mail Addresses?

    Yes...but you can say the same thing about any crime really, can't you? Why try to stop murder...no matter what you do to prevent it, it will always happen on one level or another? Right? I would think that the idea would be to set up some due dilligence to prevent what you can...and deal...
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