[H]ardOCP: Do not ask for double ended male adapters at ACE Hardware, they are a fire hazard, illegal, dangerous and immoral. Yes, I said “immoral.” Wait a second, maybe ACE Hardware isn’t against same sex adapters, they probably meant “immortal.” Yeah, that’s it. Comments

[H]ardOCP: Do not ask for double ended male adapters at ACE Hardware, they are a fire hazard, illegal, dangerous and immoral. Yes, I said “immoral.” Wait a second, maybe ACE Hardware isn’t against same sex adapters, they probably meant “immortal.” Yeah, that’s it. Comments

X-bit labs: Seagate Technology May Be One Step Away from 2TB Hard Drives

X-bit labs: Preliminary Specifications of Nvidia GT212 Chip Reported by Web-Site

PC Perspective: A post over at Expreview is indicating they have source spilling some proverbial beans about the upcoming NVIDIA GT212 GPU update due in mid-2009. Here’s the table of interest: What peaks my interest here is the idea of the GT212, that we previously thought would be a pretty simple refresh and simplification ...

PC Perspective: XFX sent out a PR email blast letting the whole world know that the XFX Radeon HD 4000 series of graphics are official and should be available any day now. The company has its Radeon products website up and running at has quite a few new cards on the table including: XFX Radeon HD 4870 1GB ...

[H]ardOCP: XFX, following its recently announced collaboration with AMD, today introduced its first Radeon™ HD-powered 4000 series cards, the XFX Radeon™ HD 4870, 4850, 4830, 4650 and 4350. All five models feature exceptional memory bandwidth, board power and compute power as well as a number of industry-firsts. ...

[H]ardOCP: The NY Times takes a hard look at the year ahead for Blu-ray. The article touches on the pros and cons of the format but the overall tone seems to be “wait and see.” “Satisfaction with DVD is very high, and sales figures for the DVD, though the market is contracting, are very strong,” ...

[H]ardOCP: XFX, following its recently announced collaboration with AMD, today introduced its first Radeon™ HD-powered 4000 series cards, the XFX Radeon™ HD 4870, 4850, 4830, 4650 and 4350. All five models feature exceptional memory bandwidth, board power and compute power as well as a number of industry-firsts. ...

[H]ardOCP: China has just launched a major campaign to crackdown on internet porn and has major search engines like Google in its sights. A spokesperson for Google defended the company saying it is a search engine and does not “generate” any pornographic content. The government announcement said Google ...