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Submission + - How do you choose your CD/DVD media?

Submitted by on Tuesday December 05, 2006 @12:17PM

An anonymous reader writes: Ever burn something to CD or DVD, and go back to it six months later and find all your irreplaceable data gone? Its happened more to me more times than I'd like to admit. Ad Terras Per Aspera has written a guide on how to choose better CD/DVD media for archival purposes, and explains how burnable media works, and what the differences between DVD-R and DVD+R are in plain English.

Submission + - Senators attempt to silence global warming dissent

Submitted by

Phillip Toland

on Tuesday December 05, 2006 @12:12PM

Phillip Toland writes: "As a follow up to yesterday's article about anthropogenic climate change dissent, OpinionJournal.com has an article discussing a recent letter sent to ExxonMobile's CEO by Senators Jay Rockefeller (D) and Olympia Snowe (R). The full text of the letter can be found here. The authors of the article believe that the letter is an attempt by the Senators to silence criticism in the climate change debate. Indeed the letter seems to indicate that everything is settled and Exxon should just shut-up. Is this the kind of bias the BBC is looking for?"

Submission + - PureVideo HD - Is the PC ready for HD video?

Submitted by

Snowedin

on Tuesday December 05, 2006 @12:12PM

Snowedin writes: "We all know that the Toshiba set-top boxes for HD-DVD can produce some awesome picture quality. But can the PC compete with it for a lower price? Using an HTPC setup that includes an NVIDIA 7600 GT video card with HDMI output, a mobile HD-DVD optical drive (they also used the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive) and some pre-release PowerDVD HD-DVD Edition software, PC Perspective looks at what kind of experience NVIDIA's PureVideo HD technology can produce. The GPU has significant decode acceleration off-loading for H.264 titles and the software was easy to use and actually seemed faster than the Toshiba CE device in terms of start up time. Maybe a PC with HD-DVD and Blu-ray drives is our best choice?"

Submission + - Mozilla to work more closely with Linux

Submitted by

arifirefox

on Tuesday December 05, 2006 @12:09PM

arifirefox writes: "http://christopher.aillon.org/blog/dev/mozilla/200 61204-linux-alliance.html Christopher A. Aillon from Redhat blogged about the relation between Mozilla and Linux: The browser on Linux is currently in a sad state of affairs. Basically, there is a huge disconnect amongst browser distributors. I'm including the Mozilla Corp. here. There's a different set of patches in various distros, in part due to different release criteria between distros, but also due to different criteria with upstream. He writes "The big change is that the distros, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Novell, etc. will now have much more say over what happens with the Linux bits. Key contributors on Linux will start getting more sway.""

Submission + - International Jedi Growth

Submitted by

Steven Rush

on Monday November 06, 2006 @11:55PM

Steven Rush writes: "Since the 2001 census phenomenon, Jediism has grown into a large religious community. There are members from all around the world: Australia / New Zealand, Canada, Brittain, & The United States have been the most recent countries with a large growth. Jediism is believed too be the next level of religion and is showing the world its presence. I have come in contact with a group known as "The Temple of the Jedi Order". They are believed to be the first offical Jedi religious community. This Jedi Order is based in the State of Texas and has all legal rights of a religion within the State of Texas. The fast and rapid growth of this diverse religion is striking the world with its briliant philosophy. This religious group is based off the teachings of Joesph Campbell and ancient religions, which Lucas himself designed the Jedi Order from. The Jedi community is growing dramatically in the last few months and is looking as if its growth isn't going to stop. The "Temple of the Jedi Order" has been around for roughly a year and its master-apprentice relationships are making them certainly noticed. I am unsure where Jediism is going to be in the future of our world religions but I am all for it. It shows us what we truly desire and teaches us to control our negative emotions. As they say: "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to agression, agression leads to hatred, hatred leads to suffering." All in all I believe Jediism is the next generation in world religions. The fact they accept members of any faith to to join their order is truly astonnishing. The Jedi believe in equality and each other, I believe this will be the next major religion to stand beside: The Christian, Buddhism, and Moslem communities. Temple of the Jedi Order: http://templeofthejediorder.org/"

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