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The Old Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast :P Plus super-group extrodinaire Chickenfoot - Soap On A Rope ...Love it, Love it Love it!! EDIT Also... ...18 years ago I shared a coffee and a cafe table with a good musician friend of mine along with this other amazing classically-trained guitarist/ buske...

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umm.. thermal runaway, like I just posted? I find it highly dubious that a prismatic li-ion cell would have enough explosive energy to kill a person. The burns, sure.. but a death from something that small, with walls that thin? There's gotta be more to the story than just THAT. It has to be someth...

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well, they're not actually explosions, but rather ruptures. Ever witness a sub-c cell exploding? Goes off like a shotgun shell. A friend of mine was unfortunate enough to be near it and he caught shrapnel in the face. That might be what happened in India recently. What's interesting to me is that t...

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yep, that's what happens when a lipo battery goes into thermal runaway due to overdischarge. that smoke they're talking about in that article is actually toxic, so you would want to throw it out the window onto the street as soon as you feel it heat up. Are there any other manufacturers / devices t...

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Seems Ipod battery overheating issues are not confined to just Japan.

Please see the included link if you have a first gen ipod.

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Welcome Koolbear - good to have you back ...hopefully more frequently in future?

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Was watching Modern Marvels tonight Titled "Strange Weapons" if you ever watched the show you would see little snippets of information before a commercial one was talking about how the government was trying to make a death ray but nature beat them to it in the form of a a super massive bl...

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For the astronomy buffs out there - new stars discovered, at more than 300 Solar masses in size.

...all of a sudden I feel very small!

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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: ...In case you haven't done so yet, pause the videos and read the writing ...Damn near wet myself. :lol: :lol: :lol: In case you haven't done so yet, play Portal I and just look at text or images in it, like the billboards when you enter the level :D Done that, and lov...

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...In case you haven't done so yet, pause the videos and read the writing

...Damn near wet myself.

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WANT!!

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(Shudders)

...I find more menace and intimidation in that female, whimsical, sing-song computer voice than I do in any old disembowling, blood vomiting hellspawn you see in other games!

...CAN'T!! WAIT!!

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TheWhat wrote:... you just spend your time typing about what great Americans you are.

On behalf of myself and all the other Aussies on the board, I repectfully suggest you 'Speak for yourself ya wanker

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BUBBALOU wrote:
Grendel wrote:Maybe someone should move the topic into E&C..
Then we can find out the religious and political ramifications of Logitech using cheap labor instead of hurd wurking amerikun burgurz...

...Okay, THAT made me laugh.

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Kilarin wrote:... There is nothing wrong with the original.

It's not aging well though - saw the original yesterday with my kid - not a pretty picture.

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AlphaDoG wrote:This thread ROX and you can RIP me a new one if you like.

X2 - most fun had here in ages...

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Some new Miner Wars footage (from the E3 build) featuing dogfighting with a drone that shoots back, new SFX, faster missiles, a new 3D radar and other goodies. Looks very promising! Information on how to participate in the closed beta testing (which starts today) can be found at this affiliate link:

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X3. Everything about this stinks of false pretence to me.

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Bet51987 wrote:I didn't know him but my condolences to his family and to those of you who did.

A fellow descenter

Well said Bett - my condolences also.

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This is stupid - but I laughed anyway.

Subtitles here:

Thank God they didn't try it with Australian English

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I have found Free Studio Manager to be a great program for this purpose. It rips content off (almost) all DVDs and it is very user friendly. There is a new version available that I have yet to try, but I can certainly vouch for the previous versions ...and it's totally free. www.dvdvideosoft.com Th...

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I have found Free Studio Manager to be a great program for this purpose. It rips content off (almost) all DVDs and it is very user friendly. There is a new version available that I have yet to try, but I can certainly vouch for the previous versions ...and it's totally free.

www.dvdvideosoft.com

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...LOLWUT?

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Both of my grandfathers and my wife's father all saw combat in this region of the world during WWII. The images of Japanese helmets still standing guard over their owners gave me chills

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I remember reading ages ago about a search engine that searched for data on a contextual and quatitative basis - so if you asked it \"Can you recommend a good restaurant in Tokyo\" it would give you an answer based on a consensus of people's opinions. Haven't heard anything about it in age...

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/he ... 5869465182

Whatever your view on the nature of life, this is a landmark event. All views welcome.

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Had to laugh at this

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http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/the- ... one-calls/

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Someone else may have already posted this (If so then I apologise) - but who knew that viruses could be so much fun

www.stoneagegames.com/games/1230/phage-wars

Takes about half an hour - very addictive

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Bump. According to miner wars.com, they are building what sound like descent-clone levels to put in the game :mrgreen: See quote below: \"Another thing that we are pushing for is having levels within asteroids. Those levels will be something resembling a dungeon that you encounter in an RPG. Th...

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Good to have you posting Mobius - drop by more often. :-) ...no new Descent game or equivalent available, and none on the horizon... IMO Miner Wars is about as close are you're going to get for the foreseeable future. http://www.descentbb.net/viewtopic.php?t=16582 No it's not Descent - but that does...

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Works great on my machine:

iCore7 2.6 GHZ
Nvidia Geforce GX295
6 Gig Ram
DirectX 10
Vista Ultimate 64
P6T Motherboard

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My main business computer isn’t even on line. I envy you that. My current business would be total impossible to operate if our network was offline. Let me give an anology to demonstrate my point about the medium, and where it is. (I won’t dispute your points about ideas or content, because I haven’...

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It’s the “idea” or “content” that has the right to privacy, what it’s transported in, on or where is irrelevant, and only serves to confuse the issue. But, with that being said, privacy in a modern technological world is only an illusion. Take all the steps needed to protect your data. Don’t expect...

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No offense Woodchip & Bee, but IMO, (and as Krom and others here have already intimated) discussing cloud computing in terms of US politics is a rather redundant notion given the internet's global nature. With respect you need to take a more global view. China's (potentially state sanctioned) at...

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As long as I cite who I took the notes from, and the other needed information, it's completely legal, right? It includes almost everything needed to get an A in each class, for the last semester, and then some. I figured, it would be nice of me to share my class directory in Google docs, on my home...

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My condolences to you all.

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NUMBERZero wrote: "the screwups of yesterday's banks, are the pitfalls of today's economy, are the toilets we are going to need to climb out of tomorrow."

well said ...unfortunately.

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...WANT ONE!

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/yike ... -hands-on/

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NUMBERZero wrote:I listened very carefully to it and I heard neither. Where do you think you heard it?

It comes in threes - you can hear it at 0.46, 0.47 and 0.48 in the video. I'd swear I've heard that sound in D 1-3 somewhere...

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