I have a freind who's very email address is a call to \"Colonize Space\". He's very into the idea, as am I to be honest. But he's very much a \"fast-track\" guy, and talks about putting people on Mars on a permanent basis as soon as possible. To which I ask: \"To do what, ex...

Just a little FYI... The RIP team maintains a public forum with an entire section devoted to D3 server requests. It doesn't get used nearly as much as it should. You just have to register and stuff, and a post in that forum will be seen by all the RIP server ops. No gaurantees, of course, but we're ...

But wouldn't the discs themselves be ridiculously expensive? I'm pretty disconnected from the replication end of the business, but here's what I've been lead to undersand. Much of the added cost of Blu-ray right now is that the manufacturing technique is new. Not only are they harder to make, but t...

You know who's gonna win? Whatever the porn companies choose as their format. Kinda like the last time. Porn? I thought that's what the internet was for? Neither will win. Microsoft wants the download model of getting movies (or any media) into your home, no hard media, and thus full control of all...

This was a rumor floating around last week at the office. I had also heard that the deal may be off. Someone (I'm guessing Microsoft or more likely, Toshiba) was looking to bribe Warner Bros. This is basically what happened with Paramount/Dreamworks. I think MS did the big payout there. Toshiba paye...