Comment Re:OT: Whatever happened to Quantum ? (Score 1) 153
"In April 2001, Maxtor Corporation acquired our hard disk drive division..."
Comment Re:What did they spend the $40-50 million on? (Score 1) 305
This is a trend -consulting fees, otherwise how did the CND gov spend 1.5billion$ on the federal gun registry to register maybe 7 million guns (that really no one wanted anyway) .....
Comment Re:So who is really behind this search engine? (Score 3, Insightful) 87
nah - this smacks of the Ohio State Police
Comment Re:Holy crap! (Score 1) 198
this is a typical drive in toronto on the DVP or 401 -- it SEEMS like 9 days
Comment Re:Not a very good way to date a painting... (Score 1) 137
I drew a dinosaur - therefore they still exist
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Comment Re:Looks like the discrediting is well begun (Score 0, Offtopic) 116
AYBABTU
Comment Hopefully this will go to committee (Score 1) 2
"And we'll go along with it, no doubt. Our government only cares about sovereignty when it involves Arctic dick-waving"
Submission + - EU Demands Canada Gut Its Copyright & Patent L (michaelgeist.ca) 2
An anonymous reader writes: Late last year, a draft of the European Union proposal for the
intellectual property chapter of the Canada — EU Comprehensive Economic
Trade Agreement leaked online.
The leak revealed that the EU was seeking some significant changes to
Canadian IP laws. Negotiations have continued and Michael Geist
has now obtained an updated copy
of the draft chapter, complete with proposals from both the EU and
Canada. He says the breadth of the demands are stunning — the EU
is demanding nothing less than a complete overhaul of Canadian IP laws
including copyright, trademark, databases, patent, geographic
indications, and even plant variety rights.
Comment Re:Hey, wait a minute (Score 1) 460
according to that graph - a cursory look at it indicates in times of major conflicts there is a temp spike upwards....
so .........
well that will never work anyway .......
Comment Re:How about a free option? (Score 2, Informative) 205
codec packs are really never required and often just crap up your system ..
Media Player Classic Home Cinema http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/ has built in EVR renderer and plays 1080p files (at at least up to 40mps bitrate) on ION netbooks and ION 330's using the GPU instead of the CPU ..
also - XBMC has two different branches out now that use GPU acceleration for perfect 1080p playback hardware like above ...
Comment Re:Suprise surprise... (Score 4, Insightful) 147
computers ARE magic to 99% of the population (if they own one or not) --- i fear that also goes for 'those in charge' (of us?)
Comment Re:Could be one of the best HD DVRs out there... (Score 1) 329
Rogers signal quality and compression of HD channels -- don't get me started !!
Comment Re:What about INSTEON? (Score 1) 409
as a dull mater of interest - the control4 system runs on a linux kernel
