Computers & Technology News Comments 2006-12-29
Great DVD quality review site! You have to get the Media ID to use it.
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Final Fantasy V is NOT hard. It just requires patience and proficiency with the job system. Same for Final Fantasy Tactics-GBA, but more so (FFT-Adv is cooler in that it has 10-30min time chunking built in intrinsically). Final Fantasy V’s grinding requirement is a lot less than the orginal NES’s Final Fantasy I and Dragon Warrior 1 and 3 (Dragon Warrior 3-R for SNES and GBC improves alot for required grinding). I am so GLAD they did not make Final fantasy V GBA easier like they did Final Fantasy 1 & 2.Dawn of Souls GBA.
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Looks like 1 gigabit in a single ship with regular dram. It looks like that 2 gigabyte ramsticks for PCs and laptops (8 chips on each side of the DIMM) are on their way. Looks like phones can get 128-256 MB of RAM now (1 or 2 chips), but top-of-the-line density is very expensive. Mushkin currently only offers 512mbit-per-chip DIMMs (128Mx64bits — 2 sets of 8 64Mx8bits chips on 1 DIMM) right now. Gotta wait until late next year. I did see 2GB dimms available on Dell Inspiron XPS laptops though (to get 4GB on a 2-slot MoBo). VERY EXPENSIVE.
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Yeah! Cheaper, More compact non-volitile memory! Drop any hard-disc based device while it’s on, and its life either immediately ended or its lifespan is dramatically reduced.
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Well, more difficult to hack than e-passports though. Phishing and poorly secured website databases are still the best things to hack to get these.
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If you are a substantial uploader of any content (both legal and illegal), RIAA, MPAA and other corporate vigilante hackers will be always attacking you like the hackers in this article. I learned that being up to date on windows security patches is absolutely important as well as a up-to-date ip blocker, becasue they attack your machine directly as well as your eMule. My eMule is finally stable now (11 days so far) now that my patches are up to date after having to reinstall from a crashed hard disk the day after thanksgiving. Firewalls are relativitly irrelavent because both eMule and BitTorrent need to be able to accept incoming connections to function to their fullest. Widows firewall is very easy to hack. But at least it will protect your non-P2P ports from script-kiddy attacks.
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Games make all the difference. The Wii-for-PS3 trading isn’t *that* widespread though. If it was, then it would be a straight trade, with no price-difference in cash being exchanged
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I’ve had SATA external drives since 2004. You need a SATA-2-SATA enclosure (still a little bit expensive) and you need either a SATA PCMIA card (cheap) or to snake SATA cables into an open card-door in the back of your PC’s case. I hope eSATA turns out to be cool. SATA PCMIA cards’ SATA ports are hot-pluggable.
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Blah for Apple. Go Pirate Bay! YouTube is cool too, and cache-rippable. Still better off with eMule though. YouTube’s size limits hamper video quality. Hopefully Azureus’s Zudeo service can compete directly with YouTube, allowing substantially higher quality (b/c of BitTorrent protocol) video’s that I get to DOWNLOAD AND KEEP WITHOUT DRM.
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Funny. Kid figures out the parental code system and sets a code, so the kid’s less computer literate or just overworked (Adults don’t have the time that kids do regardless of computer literacy) parrent can’t go dabble with it and impulsively set a code (usually to default rating settings).
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Still bulky. Max ouput 20W. 12000 watt-hours / 20 watts is 600 hours though - 25 full 24/7 days. Good for hyperportables, but ruins the hyper-portability as they need a bulky docking station. Bulk is not bad for gaming laptops, but these guys need 70-180W of sustained power output. One has to consider that these things consume oxygen and pollute CO2, though 20-180W is nothing compared to a 700-watt human (a human pollutes CO2 like a 1hp lawnmower engine 24/7) or a 125hp car engine (93250 watts), but still more CO2. Then one has to consider how much vendors will abuse and mark-up the cost of the methanol fuel.
