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The Space theme has been updated and no longer has that tiled effect.

The science forum uses it as its theme: »http://www.aseforums.com/viewforum.php?forumid=28

I'm going to be working on new icons as well soon.

Just some stream of consciousness and mental masturbation: First, I can not emphasize how unreliable optical media can be. A study done on CDR media found that 50% of average media was UNREADABLE after 2 years in typical storage. Arhchival Media (Delkin, Memorex Pro, MAM in Optimum conditions will last 100 years, but you have to treat the media right! Iomega pushed Zip as a safer alternative for storage for most (careless) people, but face it, Zip is as up to date as cave wall etchings. Aron writes about Rev...we use it here to a limited extent and we use it for our end users where it is easy to deal with, acts just like a HD and now comes in a 70GB uncompressed format. As far as some of the more interesting ideas are concerned, there is increasing reliability of inexpensive SAN devices where a RAID mirror can be formed in a geographically disparate area. Each drive will have seperate IP addresses and now you can have a copy of your data in 2 or more seperate locations as long as you have adequate bandwidth between them. The devices I have seen are still too buggy for my tastes but they improve every day. I am using an Intel Storage Server (SS4000E) and am thrilled. It is a flexible and inexpensive NAS that hold 4 SATA drives in a variety of configurations. I use it to back up all of my systems and then write the important data from it to tape.

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn10215

The most used of the hubble cameras is back in action for the time being.

Venture trying to fob off excuses of the clones to the boys was awesome.

Well, the added space in the name really give it the needed boost .

I know this isn't really a help forum, but anyone got any particular recommendations for a class and a weapon mastery for a newbie to the Infinity Engine? (I know the basics, but I never really got all that far in the Infinity Engine games)

that is pretty amazing that they can apply shit like that to the locations of stores

Red Alert is the greatest game ever, i played that so much when i was younger. No idea where it is now... =[

id play it on my crap 166mhz POS i had when i was like 8

yah hes my uncle =P haha yeah im gonna try to fast all day

That's it. I'm moving to Canada. This has inspired me.

Who cares? The more pressing issue is where exactly did Armstrong actually utter his famous quote?

I downloaded the demo, and its horrible. Sonic is a excellent 2D game, and thats how it should stay.

There is a new news item posted at »ASE Labs

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Said By ArtemisPanthar

Aliens or no, broadcasting this to other life is going to make them think everyone is like that =( we'll be the laughing stock of the whole galaxy...well, moreso, anyway.

I thought we were that laughing stock of the universe. Aren't we some big reality show experiment?

lol ok theres a mase alright? and i THINK from what i remember theres a temple where you have to give 300,000 or something like that to the gods (charity) and you get a mase. BUT if you evil you only have to give around 30,000 and you get the same thing, besides the sword of aeons or w/e its called its probably the next best thing. sorry if its confusing but i haven't played the game in a few years.

First Tuesday after the First Monday...

The 7th is election day.

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Said By Cycle09

So you're saying Gears of War is possible on the regular Xbox, and this is only a high res 360 version?

Quite honestly, from what I've seen, other than the high-res stuff I've seen nothing that could not have been done on the original XBox, if only because nonone ever pushed the boundaries of that system like they did with the PS2 because MS dumped all support for it.

Said By Cycle09

Remember the Nintendo 64 cartridges cost $59.99? I remember Phantasy Star 2 for the Sega Genesis cost $79.99, in 1990. Waaay overpriced, I agree.

That was for a totally different reason. With the N64, Nintendo basically said STFU when developers complained that the cartridges were expensive, so they raised prices to compensate because the medium was mor expensive. Genny and SNES games were more expensive at the time because of the huge drop of the Japanese economy in 1989 all the way up to 2002, not to mention lack of a standard for game costs and the cartridge based games (Sega CD games cost considerably less on average, if I remember correctly).

Said By Cycle09

I will agree, $60 bucks per game is a lot of money to pay, but thankfully, new games like "Just Cause" is $49.99 on the 360 regular price.

Or TDU, which is only $40.

Speaking of which, CDs are way too fucking expensive, and the only recording artist who gives a shit about giving a lil' value to the fans is Weird Al. We're talking 5.1 mixes, music videos, behind the scenes extras, etc etc etc etc. Of course, he also has the very funny and sarcastic "Don't download this song".

Said By NTSCrZhao

The world won't die...

We might, but the world won't.

Yeah it'll just be like the Jurrassic period n shit. Just like a lot of the other mass extinction events. I'm sure trilobytes said the same thing when the extinction lvl event that happened that whiped them out occurred. "Oh Noes! Teh world is over! Bipeds will rule!!!!!!!!!!!! Damn those bipeds!"

Said By NTSCrZhao

I don't think Hawaii is a priority on that rollout.

I've been reading that Verizon is laying fiber in many news areas, though.

I also know that the lowest tier service is very fast and priced to move.

Yeah we'll probably get it in about 15 years or so.

It's amusing, you know this whole thing was spurred by people who could not control what they ate and decided "Why am I worried about this? The government should do all my thinking for me!" and went on a crusade to save their obvious stupidity. I remember having to do an essay last year for english about a possible 'Fat tax', a tax for foods high in fat. The obvious problem with the government regulating this thing for the dumbass people who have no self-control is that, as was suggested, the people who make the foods with trans fat will move if they can. Thus, they remove the food from the area. All the food places that stay there will've obviously had to change to a non trans fat which is more expensive. The food prices go up, as can be expected, and suddenly the poor have nothing to eat.

At least, that's the problem with a fat tax. You can only influence people with money to purchase healthier foods by raising the price of unhealthy food. You just screw the people who can't afford either

It was okay. The story was very far fetched.

I thought it was great .

Didn't I see this in a movie or something?

What type of spy satellites are these that the Chinese know about...

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060926/wr_nm/leisure_congress_gambling_dc_2

Someone sane in congress actually blocked a rider to a spending bill. Thank you for being smart.

What the hell? Do we still dare to dream and hope that we might not have to revolt in order to have some sanity in fedr'l govt?

»http://www.aselabs.com/articles.php?id=198

Please check for grammer and spelling .

Watching Tron on DVD, the entire picture got digitized with yellow dots from halfway to the end. Something wrong with the disc, "a glitch in the program". Only seems to happen on my PS2.

http://www.space.com/news/060828_spaceshiptwo_next.html

Virgin Galactic has posted some nice images of SpaceShipTwo.

It looks like a real good game when it does come out. im looking forward for this title.

You couldn't have thought of a shorter title? lol. They should just leave it alone. It is good enough the way it is now. I can picture an 80 year old grandma kicking ass in Halo 2 (not really).

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn10162-hubbles-key-camera-shuts-down-again.html

The high-res camera channel on Hubble has shut down due to an unknown problem.