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Warin

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    Handheld devices

    Blah blah blah. There is a reason Palm OS still holds 70+ percent of the market. If all you want is games and movies, PPC is ok. Â If you want something for productivity, Palm is still better. Â I havent had a hard reset on my Palm, or any loss of data, in the 5 months I've run the T. Â My buddy with an iPaq/Jornada had his one month and had to hard reset (and thus loose all currently non synced info) 3 times. Â That was three months ago. Â Since then he has the replacement Futureshop gave him do the lock up/hard reset once a month on average. Palm OS is far more robust and stable. Period. Please back this up with some fact. Â I can do IR/Bluetooth/USB/Serial sync with my desktop, to either ACT or Outlook right out of the box with my Tungsten. Â I can run any productivity program you want on my Palm, plus Documents to Go actually syncs better with Word and Excel than their PPC counterparts do (No loss of formatting/tables/graphics). As for games, the ones I have work well and have great graphics. The T is actually higher res than pretty much all PPC units
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    Handheld devices

    Spend the extra 150 bucks and get the Palm Tungsten|T2 It has the better screen than the Zire 71, comes with better software (Documents to GO) and has a full metal case, and slider than makes it much smaller to use. Definately stay away from the Pocket PC OS. It licks in a big way compared to the Palm OS. Palm OS has way more quality freeware. Mostly because developing for the Palm OS is free, whereas for PPC, you need to get a developer suite from MS that costs $$$. PM me... I am a bit of a PalmOS guru, and I have a lot of experience with the Tungsten T
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    Starwars kid

    Yeap. But he has the law on his side.
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    Us orchestrated 9/11?

    I dont think anyone would deny the involvement of AQ in the events of 9/11. What we doubt is that Iraq has any connection to either AQ or 9/11. Now, from what i hear, 26 pages of the 9/11 report are censored as 'national security concerns' and the rumours i hear are that those are hte sections dealing with the complicity and overt support of certain Saudi families for AQ, and funding for the 9/11 attacks. No wonder they are censored. Here your goernment is trying to link AQ and 9/11 to Saddam... it wouldnt do for the same government to release a report that says it was actually one of your allies!
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    Starwars kid

    Ok, AFAIK: The minute you create something (video, audio, written, etc) you have copyright on it. It isnt something that you need to file for. You have to file for trademarks though. These guys stole the camera with the tape. They didnt ask permission to plaster this guy all over the internet. So yes, they did something illegal, and they should be punished for it. If the kid had been hamming it up, and they had been taping him, that would be a whole different story. But the way they did it was wrong.
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    Bob hope dead!

    And a model of fidelity in a place where quickie weddings are invariably followed by quickie divorces. He and his wife were married for 69 years. Rest in peace, Mr Hope
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    This is a great forum

    Thanks for the thought. If you have comments on how the forum is moderated, please PM them. The rest of you should get post count reduction for spamming, but I am in a good mood, so I will just issue a warning
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    Lock on: modern air combat

    The Flash Points? Just give me an A-10 and things to blow the hell out of and I'll be happy.
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    Starwars kid

    A lot of missions only have three or four people in them You could always edit in OFPlike faces onto yourselves so it isnt obvious who you are
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    Us orchestrated 9/11?

    Sadly, it makes him look like a moronic cowboy. Sort of like telling the malcontents in Iraq to 'bring it on'. 5 dead in two days. They sure brought it on... Whats a motto? Whats the motta is that the American president is a moron
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    Starwars kid

    I was a big dorky kid like this when I was in highschool, (Now I am a big dorky adult ) and I can see how this would affect someone who wasnt vrey confidant and secure to start with. My opinion is that it's not the fame that is humiliating and degrading to this kid, it's what his real life peers are doing to him. It's tough being a big dorky kid to start with, and if you dont have a good group of friends to keep you relatively stable, then something this could easily cause a lot of problems. I think the kids who did it deserve to be nailed to the wall. They stole the camera and the tape, and then started this whole thing. If the kid had left the tape in a camera that was available to all, anytime, then it would be his fault. But there was theft involved. Plus these kids knew EXACTLY what they were doing, and intentionally set out to make this kids life hell. I hope the courts award the full amount.
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    Lock on: modern air combat

    I'm up for that, once the game comes out and I see whther I truly suck at it or not
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    New unniversal blood donors : worms

    Umm... yeah. Cept none of the rhetoric was acted on. It's quietly just slipped away. All sorts of stem cell research is still being done. Strange that the campaign promise generally stopped being enforced after Bush was spoken to by former First Lady Reagan.
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    The Iraq Thread 2

    You can bet that if there were casualties from the hospital, it would be all over Fox and CNN. Â 'Look at the evil bad guys! Â See?? Dead americans from protecting these iraqi children who are dead too!' The fact they arent talls me that this was a fairly precise attack on the american troops, not just a random RPG/Mine attack. Looks like resistance is going up now, not down. But only time will tell I cant believe my eyes.... wonder why there isnt anything about that in the CNN or that kind of media... Becouse they dont want to show anything negative about USA.... Â Â I was at Bulgary... I was watching the local news... where there was dead children, women, innocent civilians bombed to death all over baghdad... Â wake up.... the NEWS is not all what happens out there... those medias are ALL fileterd by their goverments... You miss my point If Iraqi rebels attacked US forces and killed civilians, you can bet that it would be all over the news! You wont see civilians dead if they were killed by the US though, I agree.
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    New unniversal blood donors : worms

    Am I the only one that remembers Dubya swearing up and down that he would move heaven and earth to make embryonic stem cell research illegal anywhere in the US of A? Have you heard such rhetoric since? I heard that one Nancy Reagan went and had a talk with Shrub, and explained that embryonic stem cell research was one of the only promising avenues in research into Alzheimers. It's sad that until a friend of the rich and powerful needs something, new and controversial techniques and research is usually shunned by the powers that be.
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    New unniversal blood donors : worms

    If we don´t do momma will come for her baby  Wowser. Whale shark? Where is Hellfish6 when you need him??
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    Lock on: modern air combat

    Fake cockpit? on one of the first pics , you can clearly see red round painted areas underneath the real cockpit I guess my monitor at work here sucks, because I dont see that at all. I'll have to check when I get home. I dont know why they would have to fake cockpits though... ALl the screenies I've seen have had beautiful cockpits
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    Lock on: modern air combat

    Fake cockpit? Oh man, I hope they make the F-18 available as an add-on with the CF colour scheme! That would kick ass
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    New unniversal blood donors : worms

    This is a cool concept. I was watching a show on Discovery about how many organisms there are undiscovered in the worlds oceans that might offer similar medical benefits. Hopefully we are a little more responsible harvesting them than we have been with harvesting fossil fuels and minerals.
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    The Iraq Thread 2

    You can bet that if there were casualties from the hospital, it would be all over Fox and CNN. 'Look at the evil bad guys! See?? Dead americans from protecting these iraqi children who are dead too!' The fact they arent talls me that this was a fairly precise attack on the american troops, not just a random RPG/Mine attack. Looks like resistance is going up now, not down. But only time will tell
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    Us to liberia?

    150 000 victims in 4 years , the bloodshed already started (and no i don't talk about victims of domestical accidents) :S I guess I need to do more reading on Liberia. I didnt think it had gotten to that point yet
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    Us to liberia?

    I genuinely hope there isnt anything in Liberia to give Bruckheimer (that evil bloodsucker! See 'Pearl Harbor' for clarification) a chance to make a movie.
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    Us to liberia?

    I think it's obvious what I personally think about Dubya. But if he sends aid to Liberia (who has asked for it on many occasions), and helps them avoid the sort of bloodshed that seems endemic to conflict in Africa, then he will move up a great deal in my estimation. Sometimes 'the right thing' doesnt have obvious profit involved in it.
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    Us orchestrated 9/11?

    From the report on the failures around 9/11, it's pretty apparent that the events of that day could have been prevented, had there been more sharing of information, inter-agency cooperation, and better anlysis of information. Some tinfoil hat sorts will imply that those failures point to US complicity in allowing the events of 9/11 to happen. That is utter rot as far as I am concerned. Look at the row currently ongoing over the WMD 'evidence' that Bush used. I think that is clear evidence that no matter how careful you might be, someone will spill the beans. So... orchestrated? No. Avoidable? Yes.
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    The north korea thread

    You're probably right. Â As much as I hate to admit it, if I was tortured by an occupying army I probably wouldn't turn the other cheek. I think the worst part is that there seems to be an almost cultural ignorance in Japan as to the attrocities commited by Japanese troops during WWII. Bot to indigenous populations, and to prisoners of war. Most Japanese today either dont know or deny the things that happened. And never once has there been an official apology by Japan to the people they did this to. Dont get me wrong, I dont see the Japan of today as being like the Japan of that period. But it bothers me that while the German people have repeatedly apologised for, and educate people about, what happened in WWII... The Japanese seem happy to forget. Back to Korea.. I finally picked up a copy of that National Geographic with the article on Korea and the DMZ. Very interesting. It's strange, that in spite of all the nuclear rhetoric coming out of Pyongyang, that there seems to be a slow but steady movement towards more cross border travel and understanding.
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