I read this as "French magazine shoots handguns through beards - much to our amusement".

Sorely disappointed.

Hey Mac, did you hear? Windows 7 is out, and it's not gonna have any of the problems that the last operating system did. Trust me.

Hey PC, did you hear? The new iMacs are out, and they're not going to have problems they didn't have before. Trust me.

No! 3D is the only thing driving people to manufacture 120hz displays. Let 3D die AFTER everyone owns a 120hz+ set.

Why does "rugged" have to mean the same thing as "freakin' ugly"?

Excellent for someone with "I use my mouse like a puff" syndrome.

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Peltier devices use electricity to transfer the heat, making one side very cold, and the other hot. The problem is that with the use of electricity, they output additional heat. So in the example of, say, a CPU heatsink, sure it'd keep the CPU cold, but the heatsink itself would have to be able to deal with the additional heat, or it'd eventually build up and heat up the CPU MORE than if the peltier wasn't there. Plus, with CPU's, it's possible that the peltier could create temperatures below room temp, and cause condensation on the chip. Which, as we all know, water and electronics don't mix. Also, if a peltier fails, it isn't a particularly good conductor of heat, essentially making it worse than useless.

However, these "heat diodes", paired with a peltier device, could be very useful because it would be much harder for the heat to build up in the CPU. Sure, the heatsink might get very hot, but who cares?

Also, thermal computing could be quite an interesting prospect. Additional computing power generated by the waste heat in a computer. I can't imagine using it by itself - it'd be quite impractical to use electricity to generate heat for the computer, but utilizing the wasted heat would be interesting.

They forget to mention the white bit is the coverage.

Uhm, it might just be me, but I'm pretty sure the 250GB is already out in the UK. There are boxes in GAME and they don't say preorder. In fact, I think we've had them for a couple of weeks now.

Rubber shells are also designed not to kill, yet they are designated as "less-lethal" because they CAN. A taser can also kill, although as we've seen it doesn't usually happen unless you get tasered more than once. I think they should be labeled less-lethal for the simple reason that it might deter police from thinking they're fine to go tasing people multiple times, but I don't know.

And UK