This is awesome.

...gays in the military. Now, I dunno how y'all feel about it... here's how I feel about it: Anyone dumb enough to want to be in the military should be allowed in. End of fudging story. That should be the only requirement. I don't care how many push ups you can do, put on a helmet, go wait in that ...

On CDs and DVDs a small scratch probably ruins the data, but on data discs the data isn't stored linearly. Data CD's/DVDs essentially store data in the same way that CDDA's and DVD-Video's store data. One thing I've noticed is that DVD-Rs often have sandwich layers of plastic protecting the data la...

Who cares about file size when you've got a hdd-based portable player? Podcasts, short for Personal On Demand broadCast That's truly pathetic. The whole idea of "podcasts" as some new internet revelation is a joke, people have been making internet broadcasts for years. Why anyone would wan...

All I know is that before George Bush there was Bill Clinton and the U.S. and it's interestes had been attack six times by terrorists without any significant plan to stop or retaliate these events. Also before the patriot act the fbi and cia had no legal way of passing information to each other to ...

Vinyl suffers/benefits from warm compression. Which of the two you think it is depends on so many variables that it isn't worth debating. It's interesting that electronic music in general has such a love for vinyl as a format. Obviously there's a practical concern, mixing, but even for music that is...

Positive progress? I thought the idea had gone out of fashion.

This is great to see. But smoking legally all over America in half a decade? Call my a cynic, but I'd put money against it...

Check the pins on the IDE socket. Sounds like it's mangling data somewhere along the line. I've repaired a hdd which was acting exactly as you describe - one of the pins had got pushed through, just needed to be pushed back and (carefully) soldered into place. Works fine now, in fact I'm using it at...

Hm, in the US, the Micro is 100 dollars new while the SP is 80 dollars. I wonder why the SP is more expensive in the UK... *Everything* is more expensive in the UK. Which is great when I'm buying from abroad, but shitty when I just want to nip down to a local gameshop and pick up a new game. Living...

Well the problem is the 98 has VERY little hard drive space left only about 79 mb left.So he was thinking of installing starcraft on my computer then sharing the files with him is this possible? You mean running the game off your hdd on his computer over the network? I wouldn't advise it. Delete: c...

I posted the link as the wide sweeping ridiculous paranoid generalisation of that "60%" statement was absolute nonsense and without any foundation, i figured a humourous and equally ridiculous post from me would go down well. Saying that those people interviewed are of no representation o...

It's not representative of anything. It's sensationalist journalism, you could do it to any country you liked - just don't show the ones who pointed out the problems. It's as factual as saying that 60% of the world prefers china to the United States. That at least implies some research has gone on ...

Having worked in PC support before now I understand where you're coming from, but in fairness the people you're speaking to sound as much the victims of frustrating beurocracy as you, often put in place by people who are management types who don't know what they're talking about, or by power-crazy s...

Lack of texture compression and multipass rendering = muddy bland textures. Poly count should be about the same though, unless the port has been botched. I'd be interested to see how much of the "sparkle" of the game is missing in the PS2 version. Is it due out soon or has it come out alre...

It's not representative of anything. It's sensationalist journalism, you could do it to any country you liked - just don't show the ones who pointed out the problems.

"Notebook" usually means "tiny". I've seen a logitech notebook mouse before and it was hopeless even for my relatively small hands. Find out some dimensions before you buy it.

That's Weak atheism. Agnosticism is saying there's no way of knowing. He didn't say that. He said nothing occurred to him that proved he does exist, therefore he doesn't believe (and doesn't care). You wrote this before and I understood it then; it depends how you interpret what he wrote. I can see...

Yeah that Kate Moss thing was ridiculous. "What she does in her private spare time is her own business and nobody elses" was muttered by a lot of people at that time. In most situations I would agree, but I think this was slightly different because: 1) It is illegal 2) She has a child I t...

Was reading this earlier, not exactly news to the British though is it? :lol: What might be news is how well we compare - unsurprisingly that kind of honest, comparative journalism is lacking. I also loved the way it threw in "The French national statistics also revealed that on average around...

There's a difference between hearing of an idea and accepting it's likelyhood, no? He's refusing to comment on the probability of God's existence. Sounds pretty close to refusing to determine God's existence, ie saying it's unknowable.