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OK, I call BS on this statement. 200 million guns in the states. (source: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_guns_are_in_the_united_states_of_America) That would make each man woman and child in Canada the proud owner of 6.7 guns.

Chris, where did you get your information from? >BOTH< the Zune and iPod use proprietary software. With both you can look around and find alternatives if you don't like iTunes or the Zune Software. My personal pet peeve with the Zune is that when Microsoft released it they discarded...

One sunny day in 2009 an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he'd been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, 'I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.' The Marine looked at the man and said, 'Sir...

Oh man! That graphic is great. It has got to be one of the most unintentionally funny things I've seen in a long time! :D

Riiiiiight, because a NRA site is completely unbiased. *rolls eyes* These arguments are pointless as one side or the other just cherry picks a few tidbits without looking at the big picture.

Don't re-image yet! Easiest way I know to rescue your files is to use your second computer to download and burn a copy of Ubuntu live DVD. Put the DVD in your damaged computer and reboot to bypass windows completely. You can then copy your files to an external drive. Ubuntu is Linux so there...

All good suggestions. May I add two more? Watch the clock. Sometimes a simple reinstall turns into an all day project. You've got 3 papers due, you don't want to be spending a lot of time trying to fix things up. Second, go grab a Live-DVD Version of Linux and keep it in your...

I jumped a dozen times before deciding the hobby was too expensive for me. Definitely great fun, and something that everybody should experience at least once in their life. If you enjoyed the tandem jump, find out what it would take to go solo. Usually they put on a day long course, and then...

Way over done. If he managed to narrow it down to just black and white colours it would really improve the looks. Still not my taste. I like clean & simple lines. The poor picture doesn't do any justice either. Makes it look like the plumber's van in the background is growing out of...

Very little risk to trying Macs any more. If you don't like the OS you just format and install windows XP. Meanwhile you get the fun of trying a new OS and having the sexy hardware (Macbook air!) You won't have much luck finding a Mac at your $600 price point anyways, so no point arguing...

Hey Cruzrtwdgt, did you go solo in South America or go with a tour? What was it like? Can you elaborate on the "blast" part? I just finished booking my next vacation for Egypt & Jordan but South America is on the short list for the next big trip.

Sure, sounds like a great idea. I'm up here in Edmonton braving the cold too. [Broken External Image]:

Set it to the same bit rate as the original mp4 file. Any higher won't do you any good and any lower you'll be losing too much quality. Of course, the best solution is not to covert it at all. When you convert from mp4 to mp3 you are going from one lossy compression to a 2nd lossy...

Vista will get better as hardware gets cheaper. I remember reading the same test results comparing windows 98 to XP. That may have been true back when Macs were stuck in their PowerPC days, but today? I think you'd be crazy to at least not consider going that route. What other system lets...

Hi Freeport, If you're not really comfortable with computers best bet may be to return it and buy an Apple iPod or Microsoft Zune. Both of those offer much nicer interfaces than the generic mp3 players tend to. Both offer the advantage where you just put a CD into your computer, hit one...

You shouldn't have any troubles. CDs, DVDs, USB sticks and windows network shares allow you to transfer easily back and fourth and are all 100% compatible. External hard drives work too, but you have to have them formatted FAT32 instead of NTFS or HFS. As for opening files? For Microsoft...

If you don't need the 60-120 gigs of music space I'd go with an iPod Nano. I have one. It has a beautiful screen for pictures and is slim enough that you could tuck it into your wallet if you want. The 8 gig model holds a few thousand songs & pictures which is plenty enough for me. Best of...

Those cars are pretty common around here. You can usually see a half dozen of them any given day. I wouldn't mind one for a commuter. It would keep me drier than riding my donarcycle all summer. As for crash safety? I don't think there's much to worry about there. linky --> <a...

If you use iTunes, go to Options and change the "gap between songs" from 2 seconds to "none" to do the trick.

oooh, flame bait. OK, I'll bite. R Shrek, you should try using a Mac now days. I was 100% in agreement with you before OSX 10 came out. I was a die hard PC fan. Now? The only reason I even keep my PC around is for when I want to do .NET programming. One of my pet peeves with my...