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Comment Re:What an interesting contradiction (Score 1) 687

by SpikeSpiff on Thursday August 23, 2007 @01:19PM (#20333453) Attached to: The "Loudness War" and the Future of Music

Another way to deal with too-loud sound effects it to up the volume of your center speaker. That increases the volume of dialogue, while keep the effects on the sub-woofer and sides more reasonable.

Why "Upgrade" To Office 2007 598

Posted by Hemos on Monday January 15, 2007 @09:50AM from the a-question-asked-everywhere dept.

walterbyrd writes "IMO: Office-2007 is a contender for the least useful upgrade in the history of computing. It's expensive, has a steep learning curve, and it's default format is even less compatible with anything else. Stan Beer discusses the "upgrade" in his article: Question: why do I need to upgrade to Office 2007?."

Official WoW Expansion Talent Information 226

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 28, 2006 @04:47PM from the feeding-off-table-scraps dept.

smartidiotaz writes "Blizzard has finally released more information about the talent trees after leaks broke out over the internet. " As typical, every class thinks every other class got a better deal, but the Pallies get to mean it ;)

Another Ornithopter Takes Off 166

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 09, 2006 @09:39AM from the only-way-to-not-travel dept.

mnmn writes "Ornithopters have been around for a while, but a professor at the Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies has made progress with his. It flew for 14 seconds and covered a third of a kilometer. However it landed with a bit of a crash. Interestingly it uses a glow jet turbine from RC aircraft."