Comment Re:Visual Feedback (Score 1) 168
Lets see. visual feedback!=audio. So, No.
Comment Re:Where do they store 4.5TB off site (Score 1) 235
This is also the reason real loud amps go up to 11...
Comment Re:Without having RTFA... (Score 3, Interesting) 423
New defence for the Pirate Bay: We are only helping the police. We hyperlink in an effort to prevent a crime by pointing out those servers
Submission + - Microsoft admits the Xbox 360 scratches discs
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft admitted this after 2 broadcasts on the subject by the dutch television program Kassa. Microsofts states: "It is possible that scratches on discs can arise as a result of regular use." The hardware magazine that examined the complaints has some aditional information on the case. Dutch customers can get their consoles fixed, and broken games replaced. The situation for customers from other countries is unclear.
Submission + - Shooting Massacre at Virginia Tech
ConcernedStudent writes: "A violent gunman has apparently unleashed a deadly massacre on the famed science and tech campus, Virginia Polytechnic University (better known as Virginia Tech). The first reports of gunshots were received by police around 7:15 A.M. but shooting continued across the campus for hours longer. Over 25 people are now confirmed dead with many more injured. The shooter appears to have either killed himself or to have been killed by responding police officers. The New York Times has posted front page coverage, and the local Roanoke Times has been providing blog-style coverage, updated regularly.
NYT Link — http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/us/16cnd-shootin g.html?hp
Roanoke Times Link — http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/breaking/wb/113294 "
Feed Xbox 360 scratching discs? Maybe, says Microsoft (engadget.com)
So far the Xbox 360 has had its fair share of hardware problems, both large and small, and while Microsoft has dealt with most of these challenges by extending warranties and offering up free fixes, it usually takes its own sweet time to come around, which seems to be the case here. After completely ignoring a minor public outcry over what appeared to be a problem with a decent number of the 360s produced in December 2006 -- where a missing part in the drive caused the Xbox to scratch the disc it was reading -- Microsoft is finally confessing that there might actually be a problem and promising to look into it. This statement comes after Dutch TV show "Kassa" gave the movement some PR and ran its own tests on the 360, proving it to be the scratching culprit. Microsoft's still pretty wishy-washy about the whole thing: "We are not able to respond in detail on the results. It is possible that scratches on discs originate from frequent use. However, we have no indication that the results of the tests from Kassa are a large scale problem." But at least now Microsoft is willing to hear out customer complaints on the matter, and recommends that affected users contact support to deal with the issue. We're not quite sure what kind of pyrotechnics it'll take for Microsoft to actually run its own tests on these things, but at least things are moving in the right direction.
[Via gadgetzone.nl]
[Via gadgetzone.nl]
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Submission + - Microsoft Acknowledges Xbox scratches DVD's
morie writes: After the dutch TV show "Kassa" (dutch link) brought up complaint from over 1.000 Xbox users, Microsoft acknowledged that normal frequent use of the XBox 360 can cause scratches on DVD's and CD's. Earlier, Microsoft claimed that the scratches were the users fault.
Microfoft NL: "Als gevolg van regelmatig gebruik is het mogelijk dat er krassen op discs kunnen ontstaan." (regular use can possibly cause scratches on the discs). So, how are your disks?
Microfoft NL: "Als gevolg van regelmatig gebruik is het mogelijk dat er krassen op discs kunnen ontstaan." (regular use can possibly cause scratches on the discs). So, how are your disks?
