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    Wanted: Surrogate for Neanderthal Baby

    That's an outdated depiction. Okay, yes the only real way to know is to have an actual group of Neanderthals and test them, but currently they do feel that they were probably as smart as us. Now if their brain developed differently and thus they excelled in areas we don't, but were mediocre...
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    Duke Nukem Forever Gone Gold

    So hell truly did freeze over then. I'm actually going to have to think on if I want a copy of this. I just have this gut feeling it's going to really suck..but I'm hoping I'm wrong.
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    Sony Takes PSN Offline for Account Maintenance

    As a random comment, I know SOE or at least Everquest 2 was down Thursday May 19th for "maintance", but it was only for maybe 2 or 3 hours in the morning, and they did announce it in game. Mind you, ignoring the timing of all the hackers and so forth (SOE was down due to that from May 2nd to...
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    Goofy USB Devices of the Day

    I used to do a lot of photography as a hobby, so the Canon SLR USB drive would be something I might like if it's not too overpriced. As an aside, I wonder if they are also promotional gifts used by sales reps. Otherwise someone from Canon goes to a show, sets up his stand to advert their new...
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    Sony "Rebuilding" PlayStation Network After Attack

    Except that Everquest 2, a game for the PC has similar issues. The Everquest 2 website was down until early morning the 24th (I think, may have been the 23rd) and the official forums for the same game were down for a good day and a half or two days. Although it didn't hit every server, some of...
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    Thermaltake Announces The Highly Anticipated Level 10 GT

    Not flaming those who liked the Level 10, but it really wasn't my taste. This update/new version isn't really either. Price isn't even the issue per-se, just never was one I liked personally. As for quality, they have came a long way with regards to quality and their more recent products...
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    New intel ssd's?

    I got the idea that Crucial's C400 might ship next month from an article that's only 4 days old. http://www.anandtech.com/show/4086/microns-realssd-c400-uses-25nm-nand-at-161gb-offers-415mbs-reads Near the end of the article. Anyway, I have one SSD now but I'm waiting for it and/or SF...
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    Kicked for Being Deaf

    Uh-huh. Even if he knew they used Vent, if they never had a deaf member before him in the guild, the issue of "what to do if someone joins or becomes handicapped" may have never come up. That, and how DO you know if they have exhibited selfish behavior before? Then again, to be blunt YOU...
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    WikiLeaks Supporters Downloading Botnet Toolkit

    I've been lurking on /b/ on 4chan a tiny bit, not enough to say I really know what it's like day to day on that site, but based on posts from the day they yanked down Visa, Mastercard & Paypal, they tried for amazon.com but couldn't get enough people rallied, and I didn't see a mention of trying...
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    WikiLeaks Supporters Downloading Botnet Toolkit

    Can't edit, so I'll say "real damage" as in pull down a webpage that doesn't do long term damage and can be restored quickly, but that pisses off the wrong people. Or at least pisses off the wrong people directly.
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    WikiLeaks Supporters Downloading Botnet Toolkit

    Maybe this is pure wishful thinking here, but I don't think they are organized enough to do much more then be obnoxious. I think they can do crap like take down the front page of something like Visa or PayPay again, but not much else, even with more of them downloading rootkits. I'm hoping...
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    How do B&M stores get away with these shenanigans?

    For what it's worth, Newegg has two PCI Radeon 7000's for sale as well. Although for $39 and $34 before shipping though. The card is, as Neonardo says for people using an old PC. But figure this, some PC for grandma to read her e-mail and play solitare or Farmville on doesn't really need...
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    GeForce GTX 580 $599 at Launch?

    And AMD doesn't either. Both are corporations that exist to make their owners/stockholders money. So what's your point?
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    GTX 480 vs GTX 580

    I'd assume the same thing, you'd go up 20 percent from 2x GTX 480 to 2x GTX 580's, all else being equal. Anyway, IMO if you already have 2x GTX 480, unless you just HAVE to have the "latest and greatest", I'd skip the 580's. The 580's (and 6970's) will be great for those who skipped the...
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    NVIDIA Enters Retail with Direct Sales at Best Buy @ [H]

    Well, someone else may have already mentioned this. And I'm obvioulsy not Kyle Bennett so all I can do is assume. But gee, could it be he ONLY bought them for the article? I'd have to read it again but I think he's going to do a follow up with regards to the "Platinum service", and Nvidia is...
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    Duke Nukem Forever Live Demo

    To be more on topic: Is it bad if I expect this game to flop? If I expect it to be all hype and no substance? I want to anticipate this game. But, I don't. Oh, it might have good initial sales, but I truly don't expect much after that. But maybe I'm wrong, and I honestly hope I am.
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    Duke Nukem Forever Live Demo

    Right now, someone in Las Vegas is dressed in a kitten costume and letting a hooker punch them in the 'nads while sitting in a bathtub filled with low molarity acid. Erm..or so I assume.
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    Is this an acceptable way to ship hard drives?

    To be honest, I've never done a RMA with Samsung. And I've never had anyone ship multiple drives like what the OP got or the even worse situation you described. Maybe I've been lucky, I don't know. Anyway, even if I did somewhat miss your point (due to my experience being more limited) I...
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    Is this an acceptable way to ship hard drives?

    That's well and good, and obviously I'm not knocking your experience with eWiz. How can I, I've never shopped with them. My only real experience is a few second hand accounts like the one in this thread. Having said that, IMO one shouldn't have to juggle one's order and only get one drive...
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    Is this an acceptable way to ship hard drives?

    Were these guys drunk when they put them in the box like that? It doesn't look like how sober people would package 3 hard drives for shipment. Even looks like the clear plastic shell on the drive to the far right is cracked. So those drives bounced around hard enough to damage the shell...
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    AX1200 just destroyed 3 SSDs, 1 HDD, life?

    For what it's worth I have an AX1200 that I installed last week. The vinyl bag with the cables I didn't use is still in my computer room. I just pulled two out at random, one is a SATA cable with two SATA plugs, the other is a PCI-E cable. Both on the end that goes into the PSU say "AX1200...
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    New Video Game Will Let You Play as the Taliban

    Okay, how about the Grand Theft Auto series? Plenty of people have had car stolen or have been victims of the numerous other crimes one can commit as the protagonist of those games. Do we stop people from playing them because there are people whom have been crime victims? To said victims...
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    Corsair AX1200 1200W Power Supply Review @ [H]

    Well, it says it's in stock now, but for $319.67. And from a partner with amazon.com that isn't offering Prime shipping, so no free shipping with them regardless. Newegg does have it in stock now for $299.00 with $12.37 shipping.
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    S.O.E. Sells $25 Everquest 2 Mounts

    Both Antonia Bayle and Lucan d'Lere are "RP preferred" servers. So yes, there will be more roleplayers on those then a normal server. But believe me, plenty of people at least on LDL and I believe on AB don't RP. And plenty do RP but only with others who do, and then drop it if they are with...
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    S.O.E. Sells $25 Everquest 2 Mounts

    And I'm on Lucan d'Lere server, been playing there since 2005 and I'd call it far from dead. And this is on a server that is considered mid-population, not high population like Antonia Bayle. No, it doesn't have the millions of players like WoW. More like 200,000 or so total players if I...
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    Spam a Judge, Go To Jail?

    QFT, all of his infomercial products to the best of my knowledge are utter crap and worthless. At least his "megamemory" and the "natural cures" products are from what I heard.
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    Man Pays Internet Bill With Huge Cardboard Check

    I've heard of that being done in the US. Now you can refuse the check, and if you took it into the bank they can look at it and say it's too difficult to process, but it's legal to write it on anything, and if someone does take it, it's their problem with what to do with it. The item just...
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    Hitler's reaction on GTX480

    Yes, the English title is "Downfall", I own a copy with the English subtitles.
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    Is 3-Way GTX 480 SLI Worth It?

    Oh come now, don't mince words. Tell us how you really feel! Don't be so shy and beat around the bush!
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    Nvidia AIB's struggling/betting on GTX480?

    Gigabyte and MSI also markets both, other motherboard manufactuers that also market video cards may do so as well. Someone else already pointed this out I think but the money to be made is with mid range and low end cards. The top end cards might make the news, but Ma and Pa Kettle going...
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    Any 5XXX owners SERIOUSLY secretly contemplating selling their cards for Fermi?

    No. My plan was this: 1) If Fermi was a 5870 killer, then get 1 or 2 GTX 480, put that in my main PC, move the 5870's to my spare. 2) If Fermi was about the same amount of power per dollar, then probably not get one, wait until end of the year and see what both ATI & Nvidia has then, and...
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    what's wrong with the gtx 480?

    Rosie O'Donnell was made by goblins?
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    Newegg's 480 Listing

    Newegg might not "adjust", and they may adjust the price by let's say $50.00, who knows. But at the same time amazon.com's pre-order, EVGA's pre-order direct from them and so forth is at the same prices as Newegg's listing. So although it might not prevent them from adding $50.00,it might make...
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    It's starting to show (Fermi) (NEW official MSRP's)

    Looks like if registered within 30 days, limited lifetime. If not then 2 years. From their website (http://www.zotacusa.com/support/warranty): For our retail Graphics Processing Unit and Mainboard products that carry a limited lifetime warranty, and were purchased on or after January...
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    GTX 470 Listed $450 @ ZZF | GTX480 $550 @ ZZF

    Not quite as good as the Provantage price, but Zotac GTX 480 at Amazon.com, $499.00, Preorder of course: http://www.amazon.com/Zotac-GeForce-384-bit-Graphics-ZT-40101-10P/dp/B003DTKU82/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1269595359&sr=8-1
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    It's starting to show (Fermi) (NEW official MSRP's)

    Amazon.com Pre-order for a Zotac GTX 480: http://www.amazon.com/Zotac-GeForce-384-bit-Graphics-ZT-40101-10P/dp/B003DTKU82/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1269595359&sr=8-1
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    It's starting to show (Fermi) (NEW official MSRP's)

    It's been a couple years since I bought from Mwave, but when I did they seemed fine. They have some listed with a "notify me" button on each: http://mwave.com/mwave/ViewProductGrid.asp?PID=CASE-GIGABYTE&DPDID=#aStockNote
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    It's starting to show (Fermi) (NEW official MSRP's)

    If people have ordered from these guys before and know they are legit, that's good. Maybe I'm clueless but I've never heard of them before. Me, I'd wait to see a few more stores post at least. There's always at least one place that jumps the gun and starts accepting money for pre-orders, but...
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    Thermaltake Level 10 Unboxing @ [H]

    Nope. I don't loathe it, nor am I envious of it. It is possible to not like how it looks without being envious or loathing it. Using your "logic", if I said I dislike mint flavored ice cream, I must be envious and loathing that. No, it's just not the flavor of ice cream I'd want to eat...
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    Suspect Eats Flash Drive, Requires Medial Attention

    Well..this gives a new definition to "data recovery!". I just love the pun of "Medial" attention with both (I assume) "Immediate" and "medical". :)
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