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»French Fine Amazon Over Free Shipping

Leave it to the French to do something like this. <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080115-amazons-free-shipping-costing-1000-per-day-in-france.html">They are suing Amazon over free shipping due to some archaic law about book prices</a>.

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No, it's not funny, but that's because it's not a joke. The Tribunal de Grande Instance (a French appeals court) in Versailles ruled back in December that Amazon was violating the country's 1981 Lang law with its free shipping offer. That law forbids booksellers from offering discounts of more than 5 percent off the list price, and Amazon was found to be exceeding that discount when the free shipping was factored in.

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»OnAir HDTV GT

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The OnAir HDTV GT is a true mobile HDTV receiver for your laptop. It lacks polish in some areas, but the package as a whole is excellent.

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Not sure why they need to do this. MS actually has nice enough PC peripherals as is. Buying out their primary competion, I suppose...

aye i was actually lookinh at that XD

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»Wed Reviews

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<a href="http://www.hardwarelogic.com/news/135/ARTICLE/2032/2008-01-16.html">Sigma Luna Type-W Case Review @ HardwareLogic.com</a>

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"*What is it enthusiasts look for in their cases? Style and looks, or functionality at an affordable price point? Sigma attempts both with it's Luna lineup of aluminum mid-towers, aiming to win over the crowd with a fusion of stunning appearance and sleek yet practical design. All at a decent price point to boot. Is the Luna ready for prime time, or is it back to the drawing board? HardwareLogic has the intel on where the Luna stands."

<a href="http://www.3dgameman.com/content/view/11652/103/">Kingwin Z1 Series External Enclosure</a>

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The Kingwin Z1 external SATA hard drive enclosure sure was a battle for me to review. On the one hand, it looks absolutely gorgeous. Each color is rich and vibrant at the same time. The matted-brushed aluminum created a very nice effect but I was a little let down that there was no activity LED included. Performance wise, this enclosure is nothing to write home about. While not be a slug by any means, the 109.9mbps was nothing near the 192.8mbps of the AC Ryan TFX enclosure. Sure we tested that enclosure with a slightly faster Western Digital drive, but at almost 50% faster, there is something to be said for the external hard drive controller that is housed within.

<a href="http://www.pro-clockers.com/review.php?id=311">Aerocool M-40 Small Form Factor Case @ Pro-Clockers</a>

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For those that say no, the question may want to take a look at the Aerocool's newest cube case titled the M-40. Aerocool is fast becoming known as a company that is very innovative. That is the ExtremeEngine case. This company was one of the first to implement a larger than normal fan to a case. A fan that measures a whooping 25cm. The M-40 is just as cutting edge as it utilizes two halves to assemble the rig. Mixed with a black and red theme, the M-40 has a sort of dark look to it.

<a href="http://www.thinkcomputers.org/index.php?x=articles">CES 2008: ASUS @ ThinkComputers.org</a>

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"ASUS was one of the hottest names this year at CES. With all the hype from the Eee PC and ASUS's keynote earlier in the week their booth was crowded, but they took the time to take us through and check out all of their new products. They have new notebooks, motherboards, video cards, and other CE products. Read on to see what we saw from ASUS at CES this year."

<a href="http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=8104">Linux Users to Blame for Lack of Linux Popularity @ MadPenguin.org</a>

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A lot of us spend a lot of time talking about how we are preaching the value of Linux to our Linux using friends, but how hard are we collectively working to make sure others outside of our comfort zone understand that popular Linux distros are a viable OS alternative? If you are like me, you probably are not doing nearly enough.

<a href="http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=103&Itemid=1">Hiper HPU-5K880 and HPU-5B680 Type R Mk II PSU's @ BmR</a>

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Fresh from our review of the HPU-4M880/HPU-4M630 Type M Series,Hiper returns with an all new concept for power supply units. By combining the passive cooling of an open-grill chassis design with a set of integrated High-Speed USB ports, Hiper introduces their Type R Mk-II power supplies in 680W and 880W versions. Benchmark Reviews reveals the innovative HPU-5K880 & HPU-5B680 PSU's with our set of power regulation tests.

<a href="http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1274/foxconn_x38a_digital_life_motherboard/index.html">Foxconn X38A Digital Life Motherboard</a>

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Today we have a new board from Foxconn who are always trying to push further into the motherboard sector. If you want to get ahead today, you have to be creative or reduce costs as much as possible without sacrificing features. Foxconn has been one of the first to give an X38 based motherboard both DDR2 and DDR3 support on the same board. In total you get four DDR2 memory slots which are coloured dark blue and yellow. Two light blue DDR3 memory slots are also included to allow you to upgrade to DDR3 later down the track if you so desire.

<a href="http://www.3dgameman.com/content/view/11661/103/">Thermaltake Xaser VI Case</a>

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The Thermaltake Xaser VI Case comes in six different all aluminum models. The VG4000BNS & VG4000SNA models include mesh on the side panels, the VG4000BWS & VG4000SWA models have windows on the side panel and there are the VG400LBWS & VG400LSWA models which include a liquid cooling system. This case has 14 drives bays (7x5.25

<a href="http://www.dragonsteelmods.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5872&Itemid=38">SteelSeries 5L Mousing Surface Review @ DragonSteelMods.com</a>

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I've reviewed many SteelSeries products and they've always been excellent in their quality and very good at doing what they were made to do. They recently sent me two mousepads for review, the one I will be looking at today is the 5l Gaming Mousepad, it's a hybrid pad that I was actually kind of excited to get for review. It combines hard and soft surfaces to make something that is a bit different and unique, but I found that it's not perfect, the pad itself is great but the construction is a bit lacking... So read on to learn what I found in my time with this product...

<a href="http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=11696">ASRock 4Core1600P35-WiFi+</a>

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"For years ASRock has been regarded as very much a budget motherboard manufacturer, while over time they've begun to introduce motherboards with more enthusiast-level features and even products that are more overclocker-friendly. It wasn't until recently that they finally started offering Gigabit ethernet and IEEE-1394a Firewire on their motherboards, but this month with their 4Core1600P35-WiFi+ they have made another step forward showing that they are able to offer an economically-priced motherboard with Intel's P35 Chipset and even integrated 802.11g WiFi. We have our hands on the ASRock 4Core1600P35-WiFi+ for testing and we will be seeing how well this P35 creation performs on Linux."

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»Sun Buys MySQL AB

Sun has purchased the company that head develops MySQL. <a href="http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-01/sunflash.20080116.1.xml">Sun has been really pushing open source lately</a>. I just hope that MySQL will continue to flourish under Sun. If not, PostgreSQL is a good alternative.

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"Today's acquisition reaffirms Sun's position at the center of the global Web economy. Supporting our overall growth plan, acquiring MySQL amplifies our investments in the technologies demanded by those driving extreme growth and efficiency, from Internet media titans to the world's largest traditional enterprises," said Jonathan Schwartz, CEO and president, Sun Microsystems. "MySQL's employees and culture, along with its near ubiquity across the Web, make it an ideal fit with Sun's open approach to network innovation. And most importantly, this announcement boosts our investments into the communities at the heart of innovation on the Internet and of enterprises that rely on technology as a competitive weapon."

Seeing is believing... we'll see how Sun handles MySQL.

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I can do them as well.

well I know 3 people so far who want to help they said they'll be ur cd branch so if u want i can pm u some of there info.

I'm still a bit upset by the fact that there's no cover system in cod 4. I dont understand why all the new fps's lack a cover system, at this point all fps's should have a cover system considering they're all trying to be as realistic as possible, at least put in a cover system for hardcore team deathmatch or somthing. However cod 4 is by far the best multiplayer fps out there for the time being imo. But to me all the new games are just holdovers for battlefield 3!

btw halo 3=hoppers cod 4=less hoppers so cod 4 wins in my book.

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»KDE 4 Released

KDE 4 has been released for a few days now. <a href="http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.0/">You can see the announcement at kde.org</a>. KDE 4 is really one of the shining moments of the Open Source community and this year will be very interesting.

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The KDE 4 Desktop has gained some major new capabilities. The Plasma desktop shell offers a new desktop interface, including panel, menu and widgets on the desktop as well as a dashboard function. KWin, the KDE Window manager, now supports advanced graphical effects to ease interaction with your windows.

Lots of KDE Applications have seen improvements as well. Visual updates through vector-based artwork, changes in the underlying libraries, user interface enhancements, new features, even new applications -- you name it, KDE 4.0 has it. Okular, the new document viewer and Dolphin, the new file manager are only two applications that leverage KDE 4.0's new technologies.

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Most bloggers are losers...

isnt that also a game homieg
-brandyj

I went to this show last night, and Louis XiV did not disappoint. The other guys were good, but not who I really wanted to see. Here's me with the lead singer, Jason. I prefer them with smooth faces but I'm sure they know what they're doing. More pics on my myspace, I think I have a link in my profile. I've got the cheesiest smile in this pic, but that was on purpose anyway. I didn't want a serious photo.

I'll be back home and in the swing of things on Sunday.

Las Vegas is fun and all, but I want to go home. I'm currently up by about $700 which is the first time in Vegas than I'm up. I've made many contacts and ASE Labs is going to rock this year.

Version 4 will usher in many changes.

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»CES 2008 Day 4

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Day 4 coverage of CES 2008: One of largest consumer electronics shows in the world. The Sands has some very intersting things to show off.

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»CES 2008 Over

Well, CES this year was great for seeing some cool technologies and for ASE Labs in general. We met with a bunch of great companies and we're looking forward to the many reviews that will be done this year.

If you haven't seen the CES coverage so far, please »start at Day 1.

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coolness. lucky you. say hi to steve for me....

AAAHHH Didn't realize you got hooked up, where is the aseforum taht i originally signed in to?

Well I can go look myself, i thought you just re-vamped the place!

TSG!

I've had minor issues. There's been times when I couldn't track a package online and when things have come to me later than they were supposed to.

Whether it's worth it? Depends if you gotta lot of time on your hands. I didn't think it was worth it because I spent $55 on Prophecies alone and I hardly have time to play these days (hell, even when I did have time, I didn't think it was all that fun either for the reasons mentioned above. I'm probably never going to touch another MMO, but if you're still looking for a one that's worth playing, good luck.

Tri-SLI! Image-stabilizing DSLRs are pretty cool as well.

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»CES Day 2 Coverage

»ASE Labs has posted its day 2 coverage right here. Day 3 should provide a different set of technologies to see.

More CES coverage at:

»ASE Labs.
<a href="http://www.legitreviews.com/article/635/1/">Legit Reviews</a>.
<a href="http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/2008/01/08/ces_2008_content_index/1">Bit-Tech</a>.

I'll update this list during the day. Please send me an email if you have coverage.

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gOS = "Good" OS, created by the company Good OS LLC.

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»CES Day 1 Coverage

»Our CES day 1 coverage is now up. Day 2 will provide much more content.


Here are more sites that have CES coverage:

»ASE Labs
<a href="http://www.legitreviews.com/article/628/1/">Legit Reviews</a>
<a href="http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=11664">Phoronix</a>
<a href="http://www.ocia.net/articles/unveiled/page1.shtml">OCIA.net</a>
<a href="http://www.thinkcomputers.org/index.php?x=articles">ThinkComputers.org</a>
<a href="http://www.techwarelabs.com/articles/events/ces2008day1">Techwarelabs</a>


I will update this list with more as they come in.

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Haven't gotten past the Devil vs Freiza's henchmen in the What If saga so I wouldn't know if there were only three.

It took me forever to get past Arale.

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»CES Coverage Soon

The first day of CES was fun and tiring. I'm happy to be able to get online with no problem using my Verizon EVDO enabled phone.

Day one coverage will be up either tonight or tomorrow morning.

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This year looks to be quite an interesting one, if I do say so myself. Particularly over how the WB Blu ray announcement goes over.

By "closest to Ron Paul," I meant most likely to not follow Republican lines. Besides, his comments on that video have been blown way out of proportion, and Ron Paul's policy surrounding Iraq is his weakest one by far.

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»Intel D201GLY2 ITX Motherboard

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The D201GLY2 is Intel's latest ITX series board. It combines good power for a great price. Intel has been doing some good things lately and this board is proof.

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