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    AMD GPU Generational Performance Part 1 @ [H]

    I really like these articles - as someone who generally skips a generation or two between updates, it's great to see what the real difference between my 290 and a modern high-end card is. Gotta say though, while I know everyone has their own performance preferences, calling performance that...
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    Undercover Cops Selling Stolen iPhones

    It's not interesting, it's soul-crushingly depressing. "Technikal", don't make the mistake of assuming that just because you're a selfish, entitled scumbag that everyone else is too. I wouldn't buy a stolen phone unless, like another poster said, it was cheap enough that I could just buy it...
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    AMD Radeon HD 7970 CrossFire Bundle Lucky Draw

    They're fast and quiet
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    Gaming Before Bed Negatively Impacts Teens' Sleep

    Just because you don't like the result of a study, doesn't mean it's not valid. There have been a lot of studies on television and computer use (not specifically video games) that show that staring at a bright screen before going to bed negatively affects your sleep, as your brain releases...
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    Ubisoft's ‘I Am Alive’ on PC September 13

    You can't differentiate the two. I am not going to play this game, no matter how great it is, because I refuse to support Ubisoft. Their restrictive DRM, indifference to customers, and abuse of their developers is simply unacceptable. It's a shame when you have to miss out on a good game in...
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    Ubisoft CEO: 95% Of Our Customers Are Pirates

    "who are also amoral selfish twits". If you hate their outdated DRM model, don't buy their software. Doesn't give you a right to steal it.
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    Ubisoft CEO: 95% Of Our Customers Are Pirates

    No, 95% of people playing Ubisoft games are not customers... and are scumbags.
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    Ubisoft CEO: 95% Of Our Customers Are Pirates

    Just wanted to share a bit of my experience with Ubisoft. For one, I don't pirate anything - no games, software, music, TV. I pay for my content or I don't consume it. I bought HOMM6 a few months ago on Steam. It worked for awhile but was super buggy and there was a lot of problems with...
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    This Is Why I Pirate

    If he were arguing for why he boycotts digital media, he'd be making a lot of good points. But he doesn't make a single coherent point about why he's entitled to get this stuff for free. Don't like the distribution methods? Don't like DRM? Don't like the contracts artists sign with their...
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    Free Music For You!

    I've been trying to get a tour together for ages and one of the plans was to tour the west coast (it's a lot shorter to go Vancouver - Los Angeles than to go Vancouver - Montreal, and you hit about as many big urban areas) but man, booking a tour is hard. Really hoping we'll get to Seattle and...
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    Free Music For You!

    You can also stream the album or download tracks individually from http://www.versa-music.com. Thanks so much for posting this Steve!
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    Why Skyrim is Not My Game of the Year

    " I can’t let myself give it that honor" Get off your high horse, asshole.
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    Comedian Makes $200k Selling Video With No DRM

    I know I'm jumping in to this thread very late but I just had to say: Kyle, there are no good justifications for being a thieving scumbag.
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    Cool Serious Sam 3: BFE Game Options

    I don't understand why the narrator can't say "noir". It's not pronounced "noor".
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    Windows 95 Start Up Music Revelation Revealed

    This isn't a recent revelation, this has been known for years. Robert Fripp did the Vista sounds on a Mac too. I'm a die-hard PC user, but I don't blame Eno - PCs were awful for audio work pre-95 (and didn't really get good for audio work until the XP era). Fripp has less of an excuse...
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    6970 worthy upgrade from 5870 ?

    I can't get behind spending $300+ for maybe a 20% boost in performance, especially for a card that's been out for a year, and for games as graphically unsophisticated as TF2 and WoW. If your stuttering problem in WoW is caused by lack of video RAM, adding a second 1GB 5870 isn't going to do a...
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    Is Your PC Ready For Battlefield 3?

    I have a Radeon 5870 and it's telling me I "didn't pass" and I ought to replace my 5870 with a GeForce 560. How about no, thanks, I'll stick with my superior graphics card. Useless scam marketing "utility".
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    One Hour of TV Equals 22 Minutes Off Your Life

    First, look at the source. Health news reported in a mediocre British newspaper? Probably BS. Second: "In a paper published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Dr J Lennert Veerman and colleagues looked at the results of a survey of 11,247 Australians taken in 1999-2000, which...
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    Beats by Dr. Dre Studio Headphones Review @ [H]

    You sir are a braggart and a liar (or are incredibly self-deluded).
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    Beats by Dr. Dre Studio Headphones Review @ [H]

    @PoopsMacClaude Yes, you can damage your ears with headphones, and more easily than with speakers. But no, more expensive headphones do not increase this risk when listened to at the same volume. My favourite headphones are the AKG 271 MkIIs. Their MSRP is $269 but you can find them on sale...
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    Why HDMI Brands Don't Matter

    I was unaware that the thousands of factories and millions of people employed in said factories in China all manufactured things in the exact same way. "Made in China"=Crap may have been true thirty years ago. It has absolutely no bearing on quality today - what matters is the standards to...
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    VIA Announces New VIA QuadCore Processor

    Really? I still have fond memories of Via for the days when they were making great chipsets for Socket 7, after Intel abandoned the platform but AMD was doing some fun things with the K6 line.
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    Clean Your Damn Computer!!!

    Nothing like spending $75 on a high-end heat sink only to let it clog with dust and be totally ineffective.
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    Antec Kuhler H2O 620 Liquid CPU Cooler

    Did anyone else read this headline as "Ashton Kutcher H2O 620 Liquid CPU Cooler"?
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    [H] Readers With Musical Talent

    Aww thanks Mad Cat. You're beautiful too :D
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    Pirate Bay Returning as Music Bay?

    Yes, it's "Taking something that doesn't belong to you without permission". Piracy is theft, and everyone here defending it is a greedy, selfish, ignorant, amoral scumbag. Don't like the music industry, fine. Don't buy its products. That does not give you any entitlement to steal from...
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    FREE Music For You!

    We have vocals on a few songs (Common Things, Dear God! Am I Heavens Bound? on this album, a couple more songs that have been written since). I'm a fairly decent singer, as is Ben (our guitarist), but we are not in the business of writing lyrics, which can be a problem. Plus, I love...
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    FREE Music For You!

    Hey folks, Just giving this a little bump to mention that *finally*, after some unexpected delays, the album is available on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/id385196659 We're leaving the album up on our website for free for a few more days - http://www.versa-music.com. We'll...
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    FREE Music For You!

    Thanks so much everyone for your help in getting this stuff working. We (the band) all really appreciate it!
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    FREE Music For You!

    Here's a more permanent version of the alt-zip file: http://versa.wireden.com/VersaDaF.zip
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    FREE Music For You!

    If anyone is still having trouble opening the ZIP files, try this link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1448493/VersaDaF.zip Please use this link ONLY if the others don't work for you - don't want to lose Dropbox again - this ZIP file will be on our server later this afternoon and I will update...
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    FREE Music For You!

    When did you download that file? About an hour ago, the ZIP files were changed to remove the '...' from the folder name which should have fixed that issue with unzipping the archive. If you rename the folder inside the ZIP file "Decline" instead of 'The Decline & Fall Of...", it should work...
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    FREE Music For You!

    It's just you ;-) (Yeah Uncommon Things 2 is a bit explosions-in-the-sky-esque - I think you'll find the rest of the album is less so. I do love that band, though). For those of you trying to having trouble unzipping, try WinRAR - we made the archives with WinRAR and a couple friends have...
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    FREE Music For You!

    Are you guys finding both the MP3 and FLAC archive to be password protected? We're trying to replicate the problem and have tested on several machines running linux, XP, and Win7 so far but haven't been able to replicate the problem.
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    FREE Music For You!

    A couple of people have reported trouble opening the ZIP files (they're not password protected!!) - we think the problem is from the long file name with brackets in it. We're goign to reupload later today, but in the meantime an easy workaround is to just rename the file Decline.zip after you...
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    FREE Music For You!

    Hey guys, FLAC and MP3 zips are back: http://versa.wireden.com/Versa%20-%20The%20Decline%20and%20Fall%20of%20(FLAC).zip http://versa.wireden.com/Versa%20-%20The%20Decline%20and%20Fall%20of%20(MP3).zip
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    FREE Music For You!

    I was just standing off camera making faces and waving my arms. Nothing fancy. If you guys are interested in all-instrumental stuff, you can download our first album as well from the discography section for free - it's not time-limited and it's entirely instrumental. Should have a...
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    FREE Music For You!

    Thanks for the offer, but the only way I have to send you a 300MB file is to dropbox it to you, and my dropbox account is suspended!
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    FREE Music For You!

    It's mostly instrumental - Common Things and Dear God! Am I Heavens Bound? are vocal pieces. The link to the ZIP file got hammered, but you can still download the songs individually from the website by clicking on their names in the Discography section. I will have a solid link to the zipped...
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    FREE Music For You!

    Band's bassist's ex-girlfriend. She was wearing a corset (yes, very hot).
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