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Cryogenically treated of course.

Piggy-back the batteries on the line-out cable (sold separately) and refer to it as an "active" line-out which obviously provides superior sonic performance to those flawed "passive" cables made by everyone else.

I've never spent that much on sushi in one sitting even under the influence of Sapporo. That said I'm more of a oyakodon, sukiyaki and okonomiyaki man myself. With Japanese restaurants it's the sake bill that tends to hurt my wallet most.

One of the new 1.5TB Seagate hard drives.

Haha, I've seen a lot of whining by these designers you mention today too. If color perfection is as important to them as all that I can't imagine why they'd be using a laptop's on-board LCD to begin with. Surely something like NEC's ultra-wide color gamut LCDs would be a better choice. I do personally find the glare a pain, but it's nothing to do with color. I just use my laptop in rooms with windows behind me. Definitely easier to just put up with it than expect Steve Jobs to change his mind though like you say. It's not just Apple either. These glossy screens appear to be dominating the lines of various laptop makers these days.

Happy Birthday! Hope you have a good one!

This is what AppleInsider said about it...

A friend of mine had his ESP950 headphones modified to have a STAX connector put on the end and used them with STAX gear. The ESP950s are designed for a 600VDC bias voltage whereas STAX gear is designed for 580VDC so they are fairly similar in their requirements.

I love the new cases and the easy access to the hard drive bay on the new models. I've upgraded hard drives twice now in my older Macbook Pro and it took a lot more effort than these new ones appear to require. I'm not so keen on the glossy screens although hopefully the higher intensity display will help there. Also while I understand Job's stance on Blu-ray it disappoints me all the same. Looks overall like a decent refresh. Not enough of a jump from what I have to make me want to upgrade personally, but I'm thankful for small mercies.

I have a PAL 60GB PS3 with the software emulation (We never got the option of hardware emulation here). Personally I've yet to run into a PS2 game that doesn't run on it and I have 20+ PS2 games. If I recall correctly the hardware emulation was said by Sony to be 80% compatible with PS2 titles where as the software emulation was 70% compatible. The hardware is definitely better, but it's not the night and day difference some suggest. Personally I just play PS2 games on my Slimline PS2 anyway. Uses less power and being modchiped it plays all the NTSC imports my PS3 won't.

Many of the other sites of that kind show some pretty heavy bias or seem pressured by the industry at times, but I've never found that from Anandtech. They're one of the few places I actually do have some trust in. Of course the idea with that Asus card is that you should really be using HDMI for output rather than the analog sections.

I wonder how it'll compare with the ASUS Xonar HDAV1.3. Socketting the opamps is a nice touch. AnandTech: Computex 2008 - ASUS Brings Joy to Our Ears

I'd be surprised if they've removed the necromancer class. So far they're only showing off the barbarian and the witch-doctor, but I'd guess it's just that those two classes are mostly complete. I expect they'll highlight some of the other classes when they're in a state Blizzard are comfortable to show us.

Everything you said is true, but the company actually making the DIMM still has the chance to screw things up unfortunately. I've seen far too many memory chips driven beyond their capabilities by optimistically programmed SPD chips. The SPD is a small flash chip that you'll find on every DIMM or SODIMM which holds information on what speeds and timings it's memory chips supports. It's read by the bios and the computer will use the information it contains to determine the speeds at which it accesses the memory chips. The problem is that a perfectly good memory chip that for example is 100% stable at 533Mhz might run fine at 667Mhz 99.99% of the time, and some companies save money by shipping modules claiming to support those higher speeds (and program the SPD to say so) when they are not completely stable. The reason to pay more for a name brand is purely for the peace of mind that the RAM is fully capable of sustaining the speed claimed. The companies you mention like Corsair, Kingston and Crucial are always conservative with their SPD timings and from my experience most of the overclocker brands like OCZ are as well since they cherry-pick the fastest memory chips and have to be seen to support higher speeds. It is actually possible to reprogram the SPD chips on the DIMMs and bring them back into line with the official specs of the memory chips. I've even seen software capable of doing on the fly in a live system although usually it requires a dedicated DIMM programmer like one of these. Usually though changing SPD values is a bad idea unless you're trying to slow it down.

That's exactly how I felt after watching that video too. After much of Blizzard North bailed from the company I didn't think Blizzard had the ability or drive to make a proper Diablo 3, but that video alone made me throw those thoughts out the window.

I've got a similar Mac. It's an iBook G4 1.06Ghz but it has 768MB RAM and an ATI Mobility Radeon 9200. Tiger ran fine on it, and Leopard runs even better. It does have a 7200RPM hard drive in it which will help matters. It's not worth spending too much on an older Mac like this, but they're still perfectly usable for many purposes. I have a Leopard family pack myself so had spare licenses. Generally speaking Macs won't detect or enable RAM that doesn't support the memory timings required by the computer so if that 1GB of RAM was outright bad I'd expect the OS to still only show 256MB even with the 1GB SODIMM installed. There is RAM out there though where the DIMM's SPD is programmed with timings that the memory chips are not always capable of achieving. In this situation MacOS will enable the RAM, but it will be unstable. I have seen this happen myself with some lesser brands of RAM. Since the EFI bios doesn't allow the user to override the memory timings then in that situation the only option is to put up with less RAM, the instability, or simply buy a better stick of RAM.

Just as an aside, living in New Zealand as I do, I make heavy use of international shipping all the time. Usually it's smaller things like CDs, DVDs, vinyl etc but I've also DVD players, amps, headphones, computer parts, game consoles, large transformers and various other large/heavy objects sent from various countries including the US. I've never had any significant problems arise during transit. I've only once had to make an insurance claim on a parcel and ironically that was a local New Zealand delivery. I realize you're more concerned about dealing with an unknown person with little feedback, but thought it was worth mentioning that international shipping is not something in itself to be especially concerned about. Certainly people like me greatly appreciate those willing to partake in a bit of international trading.

It's for people who have trouble reading small type. Since not all applications allow you to zoom Apple built it into the OS. I use it quite often for zooming in on thumbnails. You zoom in with option+command+plus so it can be handy for a quick closeup.

Yeah, it sounds like you have Universal Access' zoom turned on. If you hold down option+command+minus it should zoom back out if your settings are still on the defaults. It can be a great feature once you're used to the key presses.

Wow, they've got another one out already? Trent is a machine.

It worked for me, but some on the NIN forums have complained that they aren't allowed to download and need their counter reset.

I'm glad to hear someone here got the ultra-deluxe. I was hassling my friends to buy a copy yesterday. I came so close myself, but it was a bad week unfortunately. Not regretting the $75 pack though. Managed to pull down the Apple lossless download of it last night. I installed the new version of Speed Download for MacOS X for reliability, but forgot to turn off the "acceleration" options before going to do something else. It opened multiple connections to the server of course and when I came back five minutes later the ~600MB download was 97% complete and was coming down at 750Kbps (as fast as my broadband can do). Oh? Are you referring to Silent Shout, Deep Cuts or something else? I love both of their albums so I see I need to spring for some vinyl here.

Haha, oh wow. Officially sanctioned.

I think their user interface wasn't as intuitive as it could be and options other than mp3 would have been nice. Also some of the problem was that there was no support for when anything went wrong. At one point forums were full of people asking who they could contact regarding download problems or issues with the disc box. I saw this myself because my disc box took ages to arrive and I was trying to find who I should talk to about it. Yes, I think as this kind of thing becomes more common they'll sort out the bandwidth issues.

I came very close to buying the deluxe edition as I wanted the vinyl, but the price is just a tad too high for my tastes. Especially so with the shipping to New Zealand factored in. Went for the high res pack with the Blu-ray disc instead. Really looking forward to this.