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    AMD Blocks Unlock; Gigabyte Fights Back

    Sorry for the double post...
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    AMD Blocks Unlock; Gigabyte Fights Back

    scenario: AMD produces 500,000 chips, 25,000 are scrapped for errors that make them unusable, 75,000 are good for 2 cores, 100,000 are good for 3 cores and 300,000 are good for all 4 cores. The market demand for chips is 300,000 2 core chips, 150,000 3 core and 25,000 4 core chips. The problem...
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    AMD Blocks Unlock; Gigabyte Fights Back

    scenario: AMD produces 500,000 chips, 25,000 are scrapped for errors that make them unusable, 75,000 are good for 2 cores, 100,000 are good for 3 cores and 300,000 are good for all 4 cores. The market demand for chips is 300,000 2 core chips, 150,000 3 core and 25,000 4 core chips. The problem...
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    Electric Hummer 2X More Efficient than Toyota Prius

    How about, we are just a small footprint on the earth. Even with our great expansion of 200 years, we do not touch the vast majority of the land, almost none of the ocean and have absolutely negligible effects on the atmosphere. Plants change the earth in far more and in more pronounced ways...
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    Tesla Motors Model S to Use Mercedes-Benz Parts

    fuserPower from power plants -- even the ones powered by coal -- is much more efficient and clean than power from an ICE.The added benefit to an electric vehicle is that it becomes cleaner as the power grid becomes cleaner. A vehicle with an ICE only gets worse after it's purchased. Go ahead and...
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    Tesla Motors Model S to Use Mercedes-Benz Parts

    I concure with fulle.
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    Broussard: 3D Realms NOT Closed/Closing

    If it takes more than 30 seconds to come up with a rebuttal, it is a fabricated one, on either side.
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    RIAA Settle With Mother, Kids for $7,000

    nirvanabahIf the mother got away with it, couldn't they argue an 11 year old honestly didn't know any better? Yeah, that is always a winning position to take. I hate RIAA and MPAA for how they do business, but if you are going to argue with them, then you need a much better argument than, I was...
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    Windows 7 Release Candidate: Answers

    I would really like to see the part where is in Windows 7, because the UAC setting does not give me anywhere near this amount of control. If it did, I would be as happy with Windows 7 as all of the Windows 7 lovers out there. As it stands, I have not found the setting for individual programs or...
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    New "PSP Go!" to Show at E3 2009?

    what does PSP stand for? I was thinking Play Station Portable. So the new system is Play Station Portable Go? And the next generation will be Play Station Portable Go Small? After that it is anyones guess as to which synonym for portable they will add to the name.
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    DoJ Launches Antitrust Case Against Google

    It is one thing to digitize a copyrighted item. It is another thing to make a profit from it. There is nothing wrong with me digitizing my own library of books. There is also nothing wrong with me sharing this copy with someone who also owns a particular book I digitized. I just save them the...
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    KBB's Top Ten Greenest Cars Mostly Hybrids

    The green cars are the ones that over the life cycle of the vehicle, from getting raw materials from Mother Earth, until its final deconstruction causes the least negative impacts on Mother Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere and ecological systems. The only ones that meet this requirement on this...
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    Hackers Paying $32K for Obsolete Nokias

    UnlicensedHitmanYou know what I could buy with $30,0000. A NEW CORE i7 EXTREME PC with GTX 295 in quad SLI and a 22" 2ms moniter! You had me interested until you hit the 22" monitor. WTF is the point of all the horse power if you can only drive it at 22" and crappy resolutions?
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    Hackers Paying $32K for Obsolete Nokias

    I wonder if any of the 5,000,000,000 phones my wife has bought in the last few years is one of these.... $30,000, sweet!!!!
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    California Proposes Ban on Power Hungry TVs

    grieveMost people don’t even recycle cans/bottles/Cardboard… Why should we? When all is said and done, recycled plastic costs more than non-recycled and is of lower quality. Same goes for cardboard, it costs more money to recycle cardboard than it does to make it from virgin materials, and you...