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    Hitachi Debuts the Ultrastar C10K900 10,000 RPM Hard Drives

    these are essentially WD Raptors right?
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    HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source

    ha, yeah, this is true. However, and i can't remember where i was reading it but, apparently, WebOS won't be entirely open ether, the development path will be very strict and directed closely by HP. The idea is to keep product recognition tight.
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    HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source

    i really enjoy WebOS, and opening the code up is awesome. It will be nice to get some extra player in the mobile OS market, now if only MeeGo/Tizen gets its act together there will be a nice handful of choice available.
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    IBM To Help World Medicine And Beat Patent Trolls At Their Own Game

    this doesn't have anything to do with thinking in a conscious way, this is just math. This super computer is just very good at math, thats it.
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    PS3 'OtherOS' Scandal: Sony 1, Customers 0

    yeah i've come to the same conclusion. Luckily for me, there have been very, very few games i've cared/enjoyed enough to want to play online with for any extended period of time, so that helps. As well, i'd much rather play a "couch" multiplayer game with friends. If a games good enough, 5 years...
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    Google Chrome Overtakes Mozilla Firefox in Browser Market-share: StatCounter

    google chrome has a handy google voice plugin, only reason i use it, i'd use opera otherwise, but i still use opera or firefox every once in awhile anyways
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    AMD To Give Up Competing With Intel On x86? CPU Prices Already Shooting Up

    xD lol armd, thats funny to me
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    Games: The Push To Online Distribution And Removal Of Your First Sale Rights

    the best ones to right? :) i still have some unwrapped in the plastic :D waiting for that "rainy day" (more like rainy month) xD
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    Secure Apple Macs Fall Prey To Linux DDoS Trojan

    yeah basically right, i think its more entertaining that everyone overlooks something this common. also, the mac OS is based more-so on BSD. of which, i remember a hack fest no so long ago, to which apples os came in last, over windows and linux.
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    Gigabyte Intros GZ-P5 Plus Case

    :/ gigabyte used to make some cool cases.. they have fallen down pretty hard..
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    Battlefield 3 To Duke It Out With Modern Warfare 3 For Supremacy

    why are people arguing?? really? these are both first person shoots, but, they play completely different.. they are more or less two completely different games. Better yet, can't decide on one? PLAY BOTH!...
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    Zalman Announces CNPS12X High-End CPU Cooler

    i think he is talking about the surface condition, not the appearance. Its not smooth at all.
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    Sunday Special: PC Gaming On the Rise, Set To Outsell Consoles by 2014 - NVIDIA

    hi feel like i'm being sold something here... that said, i think this issue still stands that purchasing PC hardware is much more expensive vs a console, as well, while PC games are developed for ever expanding hardware, consoles obviously do not change. Therefore, PC hardware does not stay...
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    EIZO Helps Businesses Go Green with LED-Backlit 23-inch Monitors

    rotate should be a normal feature on all OE monitor stands
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    Mozilla Foundation Develops its Own Operating System

    Maemo yes, Maemo was backed by Nokia and yeah, did look pretty cool. Moblin(which is still around in various forms) was just a very small and fun linux OS. Of which, if you do an image search for Moblin you'll get a good idea of what i imagine MeeGo will look like(as maemo and moblin merged to...
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