Posted 10/30/2009 at 05:11:23pm

I thought it was a machine that went "bing!" ("...the most expensive machine in the entire hospital!")

Posted 10/23/2009 at 07:55:39pm

Perhaps the ads will trigger only when their software detects that it's running on a windows system.

Posted 09/23/2009 at 04:03:02pm

"We were more interested to see how the H50 did against CoolIt’s similarly priced Domino (reviewed June 2009). "

It would have been useful if you actually *had* compared the H50 against the Domino.  Since you didn't and since there aren't any test system specs posted in the Domino article, there's no way of telling if the test systems used to evaluate the H50 and the Domino were the same.  If not, then the temps from each article cannot be compared against one another - making it really difficult (actually, impossible) to tell which cooler performed better.

Posted 09/22/2009 at 01:34:52pm

Any idea when we might see something on the market that uses this stuff?

Posted 08/18/2009 at 03:21:48pm

This remindes me of the cigarette company funded lab tests done in the 1960's that conclusively demonstrated smoking did NOT cause cancer.

Yea, right...

Posted 07/02/2009 at 01:22:31pm

I think this was supposed to be announced last April - somewhere around the first of the month.  Actually, if you solve the puzzle, creatures from hell will appear out of nowhere and take you away!

Posted 06/23/2009 at 06:22:44pm

I suspect that the jump in HDDVD purchases were because their price dropped through the floor when they were declared the "loser" of the format war.  I'd be surprised if there wasn't a noticible drop in the HDDVD purchases number for next year's poll (assuming that this same poll will be done next year).

As the HD format disks are still a relatively new technology - and given the economy (coupled with the added expense of BR over SD disks), it's no real surprise that the adoption rate is still relatively low.  I also suspect that most people who do not have televisions with HDMI connectors (which includes all SD televisions and all HD sets that are more than a few years old) see little added value in spending the extra money for something whose advantages they cannot currently enjoy.  They will be inclined wait (at least) until they have a new HD set which, given the current economy, could be a while.

I also agree that on-line downloads are probably going to take a bite out of all disk purchases (SD and HD) in the future.

Posted 06/10/2009 at 02:16:32pm

*Very* nice!  The steampunk key is definately the cooler of the two.

Posted 05/19/2009 at 05:05:24pm

...tera, peta, exa, zetta, yotta  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga)

Posted 05/19/2009 at 03:27:42pm

500 exabytes a.k.a. .5 zettabytes