frenchkiss's Comments (37)

I liked Tomb Raider Underworld , especially for the graphics, gameplay has the same problem as previous episodes, ennemies are too easy to kill due to their total stupidity... ( View formatted comment » )

I have both a desktop and laptop and even an old laptop turned into a very small desktop by removing the screen (Thinkpad R51 with broken screen, was just too good to throw away...) They both have pros and cons you can only choose one or the other depending on specific needs, laptops have a lot of restrictions due their size obviously and when some part breaks it's more expensive to replace (when possible) recently a surge on the phone line passed though my modem/router and burned the LAN port on the desktop mobo, juste replaced it by an E... ( View formatted comment » )

Those test shots look flat with evidences of heavy noise correction by the cam, quite common for indoor shots with poor lighting, nothing to worry about... All pics look rather blurry though, either steady shot feature is switched off or it doesn't work... Also make sure you use macro mode for close-ups on figures... ( View formatted comment » )

Computer mice are in the top 30 spots for bacteria at home... http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=82119 ( View formatted comment » )

It may be because it's edited by french speaking algerians as wel as french people of algerian origins who can have very different opinions about colonisation, war, etc... Also those old stats show only about 2K edits for the article about Algeria which is not a lot for the description of a country BTW, single users often make dozens or hundreds of edits on some articles , that doesn't necessarily mean much, it includes correction of typos etc.. ( View formatted comment » )

At least on the English and the French wikipedia, those stats have not been updated since december 2006. (updates are disabled) ( View formatted comment » )

On my last bill price of electricity is EUR 0.0472 per kWh during night, and EUR 0.0803 per kWh during day... ( View formatted comment » )

Apparently it's dangerous for bats too... http://www.ucalgary.ca/news/aug2008/batdeaths ( View formatted comment » )

Actually since 2004 EDF is a regular company (one can buy shares), government still has a majority of the shares though. Nuclear energy costed a hell of a lot of money to develop over time, so i'm not really sure whether the cost of electricity is lower than with other energies, especially since nuclear power plants can't run forever and have to be replaced, there is one next to where i live, they said it wuld take 50 years to dismantle... As for the cost of electricity, I pay around EUR 50 every 2 months (including a lot of taxes) a ... ( View formatted comment » )

I believe Nissin used that product to protect their factory from Mothra... ( View formatted comment » )

I remember a few years ago Apple used to make fun of PCs because they were white and/or looked like bricks... ( View formatted comment » )

price around $700 for the 2TB, you'd better build a NAS yourself with a small PC and Freenas or something... ( View formatted comment » )

The important thing is the video format not the region of the disc, US (R1) and Japan (R2) both use NTSC video so no conversion is necessary for the video stream, it would be a waste of time and a useless extra cost so the quality is probably exactly the same... On the other hand European R2 DVDs require NTSC to PAL conversion which decreases quality a little... ( View formatted comment » )

BTW European DVDs (including United Kingdom) are R2 not R1... ( View formatted comment » )

If it is a mirror then the whole reflection is wrong, the Tv shoul be on the left and monitor on the right, the keyboard and mouse should be inverted as well... ( View formatted comment » )

"Even" caucasian ? LOL, probably the most racist post i've read in months... ( View formatted comment » )

Actually that study showed that for their hdds that were 3 years old or older, the annualized failure rate of drives running above 45c was 3 times higher (15% !) than those running at 30c, so temps do not do "nothing"... The problem is also that if the temp rises above max temp it can be recorded in the SMART informations and can void the warranty... ( View formatted comment » )

I use Speedfan to monitor all temps including HDDs, not sure if it works over USB though (I only use eSata) If you run your drives in fanless enclosures temperature monitoring is critical since drive temp can easily rise 25 celsius above ambient (sometimes more depending on the number of platters), for most drives max temp is usually around 55 celsius (but of course it's not recommended to use them at max temp for a long time...) I used to make backups on DVD-R but they are too small now and BD-R are too expensive here, HDDs are a lot chea... ( View formatted comment » )

There is still quite a difference between drinking a little alcohol and drinking a lot of it, so it's not like being pregnant... Drinking just a glass of wine will not really let you experience the effects of alcohol... ( View formatted comment » )

number 15, because she has 3 legs... ( View formatted comment » )

I think Vista Home cannot use 4 GB of memory, the total addressing range is 32 bits but a part of it is reserved and cannot be used to access RAM. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us ( View formatted comment » )

Price depends on the brand and timings too, cheaper sticks are usually generic ddr2-800 with 5 or even 6 CAS latency and won't support overclocking (sometimes they don't even work reliably but you only see this when you test them with a bootable memtest86 CD). That being said the good sticks are quite cheap too here nowadays, I had trouble selling the good CL4 G-Skill sticks I had before for EUR 15/GB and it was already a few months ago... In France you can get 2 GB sticks of decent ddr2-800 memory for aroud EUR 34 (Kingston brand... ( View formatted comment » )

I think the one on the right looks like Shoko Hamada and I would choose her... ( View formatted comment » )

Actually in France it's easy to find beer or even wine cheaper than gasoline (cheap beer is around 0.6 euro/litre gasoline is around 1.5 euro/litre...) ( View formatted comment » )