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quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a sailor who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Petty Officer 1st Class Regina R. Clark, 43, of Centralia, Wash., died June 23 in a convoy that was attacked by a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device in Fallujah. She was a culinary specialist deployed with Naval Construction Regiment Detachment 30, Port Hueneme, Calif., and was temporarily assigned to II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Cpl. Ramona M. Valdez, 20, of Bronx, N.Y., died June 23 while traveling in a convoy that was attacked by a suicide, vehicle-borne, improvised explosive device in Fallujah, Iraq. She was assigned to Headquarters Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Spc. Charles A. Kaufman, 20, of Fairchild, Wis., died June 26 in Baghdad, Iraq, where a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. Kaufman was assigned to the Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry, Arcadia, Wis.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of two Marines who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Pfc. Veashna Muy, 20, of Los Angeles, Calif. Cpl. Chad W. Powell, 22, of West Monroe, La. Both Marines died June 23 while traveling in a convoy that was attacked by a suicide, vehicle-borne, improvised explosive device in Fallujah, Iraq. Both Marines were assigned to 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. 1st Class Christopher W. Phelps, 39, of Louisville, Ky., died June 23 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. Phelps was assigned to the Army's 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Carson, Colo.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Cpl. Carlos Pineda, 23, Los Angeles, Calif., died June 24 as a result of wounds sustained from enemy small-arms fire while conducting combat operations in Falluhah, Iraq. He was assigned to 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lance Cpl. Holly A. Charette, 21, from Cranston, R.I., died June 23 from wounds sustained when a suicide, vehicle-borne, improvised explosive device struck her vehicle in Fallujah, Iraq. She was assigned to Headquarters Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Joseph M. Tackett, 22, of Whitehouse, Ky., died June 23 in Baghdad, Iraq, of a non-combat related injury. Tackett was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 76th Field Artillery, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga. The incident is under investigation.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Arnold Duplantier II, 26, of Sacramento, Calif., died June 22 in Baghdad, Iraq, where he was providing cordon security, and was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire. Duplantier was assigned to the Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 184th Infantry Regiment, Auburn, Calif.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of an Air Force pilot who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Maj. Duane W. Dively, 43, of Rancho California, Calif., died June 22 in Southwest Asia, in the crash of a U-2 aircraft. Dively had completed flying a mission and was returning to his base when the crash occurred. He was assigned to the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, Beale Air Force Base, Calif. The cause of the crash is currently under investigation.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. James D. Stewart, 29, of Chattanooga, Tenn., died June 21 in Ar Rutbah, Iraq, where an improvised explosive device detonated near his military cargo truck. Stewart was assigned to the 57th Transportation Company, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died on June 21 in Ramadi, Iraq, where their unit was conducting combat operations, and were attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire. Both soldiers were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo. Killed were: Spc. Christopher L. Hoskins, 21, of Danielson, Conn. Spc. Brian A. Vaughn, 23, of Pell City, Ala.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Spc. Nicholas R. Idalski, 23, of Crown Point, Ind., died June 21 in Ramadi, Iraq, where his unit was conducting combat operations and were attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire. Idalski was assigned to the Army's 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Pfc. Christopher R. Kilpatrick, 18, of Columbus, Texas, died June 20 in Tal Afar, Iraq, during convoy operations when enemy forces attacked his HMMWV with an improvised explosive device and small arms fire. Kilpatrick was assigned to the 603rd Transportation Company, 142nd Corps Support Battalion, Warrior Brigade, Fort Polk, La.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died on June 17 in Al Qaim, Iraq, while conducting combat operations. Both soldiers were assigned to Headquarters, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, N.C. Killed were: Master Sgt. Robert M. Horrigan, 40, of Austin, Texas. Master Sgt. Michael L. McNulty, 36, of Knoxville, Tenn.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died on June 18 in Baqubah, Iraq, from injuries sustained on June 17 in Buritz, Iraq, when they were conducting a mounted patrol and their HMMWV was attacked by enemy forces using rocket-propelled grenades. Both soldiers were assigned to the Army's 2nd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Ga. Killed were: 1st Lt. Noah Harris, 23, of Ellijay, Ga. Cpl. William A. Long, 26, of Lilburn, Ga.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lance Cpl. Adam J. Crumpler, 19, from Charleston, W.Va., died June 18 as a result of small-arms fire while conducting combat operations against enemy forces during Operation Spear in Karabilah, Iraq. He was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.Link May you rest in peace...

Link quote:By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News With just two days to spare, Microsoft on Tuesday posted the final update to Windows 2000, which is scheduled to roll off mainstream support Thursday, June 30. Carrying the unwieldy name of Update Rollup for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, the collection of 51 security-related fixes contains all patches produced for Windows 2000 between the November 2003, release of Windows 2000 SP4 and April 30 of this year, when the rollup's features were locked in place. Earlier, Microsoft had promised to provide the rollup before June 30, when Windows 2000 slips out of mainstream technical support and heads into what the Redmond, Wash.-based developer calls extended support. In late 2004, Microsoft announced that it would not offer up an expected Service Pack 5 (SP5) for the venerable operating system, but would instead assemble all existing fixes, including some not related to security, in a so-called "rollup." At that time, it defended the move, saying the number of not-seen-before updates were few. Tuesday, the company again deflected criticism of its decision to forgo SP5 in favor of the rollup. "Microsoft believes the Update Rollup will meet customer needs more appropriately than a new service pack," a spokesman said. "The Update Rollup should require less pre-deployment testing because the number of updates is significantly lower than a Service Pack, and Microsoft [has] already released most of the contents of the Update Rollup as individual updates and hotfixes." Yet Microsoft urged all Windows 2000 users to apply the rollup, and said that the update package would be listed as a "critical" update in Windows Update. "Update Rollup 1 contains additional important fixes in files that have not previously been part of individual security updates," it reasoned in the Web document detailing the new package. Initially, the rollup won't be pushed to users' machines via Automatic Update, because Microsoft's migrating Windows 2000 users to version 6 of that service over the next few weeks. By "early July," Microsoft said, the rollup with be part of Auto Update. Although Microsoft has offered blocking tools for major security updates in the past -- for 2004's Windows XP SP2 and this year's Windows Server 2003 SP1, it's not going to give companies a chance to block Auto Update of the Windows 2000 rollup once it's listed on Automatic Update. "There will not be blocking tool [for Update Rollup 1], because it's not a service pack, and doesn't require the same level of deployment as a service pack," said the spokesman. More than a few analysts have taken Microsoft to task for snubbing Windows 2000, which by one metrics firm's count retains a 10 percentage point lead over Windows XP in enterprise operating system usage share. "I could see doing a rollup in the middle of a product lifecycle," said Michael Cherry, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft, an independent research firm based in Redmond, Wash. "But then at the five-year milestone, when support moves from mainstream to support, I think Microsoft should have a final service pack instead, to reset the baseline as to what users have to have installed." What Cherry doesn't think is appropriate is exactly what Microsoft is doing: crossing an important support landmark with a rollup rather than a service pack. "Let's talk about the policy versus the reality," said Cherry. "The official [Microsoft] policy is that when you call for support [for Windows 2000] all you need is SP4. But the reality is different. How interested will that support rep on the phone be if you haven't put that rollup in place? If they find any hint that your system's different, or not up to date, they rapidly lose interest in helping you." This isn't the first time that Microsoft substituted a rollup for a service pack; it did the same for Windows XP in October 2003, when it released a rollup between SP1 of September 2002 and SP2 of August, 2004. The 32MB Windows 2000 rollup file can be downloaded directly from Microsoft's Web site or through the Windows Update service.

quote: "This anti-'Close Encounters' is a spectacular technical exercise, but in the final analysis it's as loud and soullless a piece of equipment as the aliens' Tripod Death Stars." -- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINIONouch! anyways, here's to hope

Well, it earned 10.2 million over the weekend, which for most movies is just dust in the wind, but the cost to make this movie was a dirt cheap 15 million and it is currently raking in an estimated 2 million a day. There is still hope though, perhaps people will spread the word just how bad this movie is before this coming weekend

be on the ready for a sequel Looks like this one is going to turn a profit!

It looks like they are expecting 190 Million at the end of its run.

You going to join! maybe you could get 3000AD to sponsor.

GeForceÔäó 7800 GTX quote:SAN FRANCISCO, CAÔÇöJUNE 22, 2005ÔÇöNVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processing, today unveiled the NVIDIA┬« GeForceÔäó 7800 GTX graphics processing unit (GPU), the new flagship of the NVIDIA GeForce GPU line-up. Available immediately to consumers, GeForce 7800 GTX GPUs feature a completely redesigned architecture that brings with it a number of groundbreaking achievements, including: A brand new programmable shader architecture, with more than twice the shading horsepower of the previous generation Film-quality, high dynamic-range lighting supportÔÇöthe must-have developer feature for the latest games Second-generation NVIDIA┬« SLIÔäó technology, for the absolute highest performance and best image quality Second-generation NVIDIA┬« PureVideoÔäó technology, for home theater-quality video on the PC Release 75 of the NVIDIA┬« ForceWareÔäó driver, for improved SLI performance with support for the latest games, new HDTV and PureVideo settings, as well as support for OpenGL┬« 2.0 ÔÇ£With more than 300 million transistors, the GeForce 7800 GTX GPU is the most advanced graphics processor ever built,ÔÇØ stated Ujesh Desai, general manager of GeForce GPUs at NVIDIA. ÔÇ£With this new graphics architecture, we are able to create a GPU so powerful that game developers can start to make their visions a reality, and real-time gaming can now rival offline film rendering.ÔÇØ Full-Throttle Graphics Performance The single-slot GeForce 7800 GTX features measured game application throughput up to 2.3x the dual-slot GeForce 6800 Ultra. A testimony to the breakthrough in GPU architecture, the single-slot 7800 GTX achieves this while consuming 50 percent less power than a single-slot GeForce 6800 Ultra. Advanced Visual Effects The GeForce 7800 GTX's all-new Microsoft┬« DirectX┬« 9 Shader Model 3.0 engine features a new 128-bit floating point core. This powerful design provides film-quality visual effects, such as high dynamic range (HDR) lighting, at real-time frame rates. ÔÇ£High dynamic-range lighting and parallax mapping make a huge difference in the way a game will look, and will ultimately bring a whole new level of realism and polish to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion,ÔÇØ said Todd Howard, executive producer at Bethesda Softworks. ÔÇ£NVIDIA continues to deliver the caliber of GPUs that support these tech features and more, which is exactly what we need to create true next-generation games today.ÔÇØ In addition to HDR support, the GeForce 7800 GTX GPU also enables new image quality features such as transparency supersampling and multisample antialiasing. Through these new methods, high-quality antialiasing is applied to entire scenes, not just to the edges of polygons. These new antialiasing modes help improve the image quality of outdoor scenes that make heavy use of transparent or semi-transparent objects such as fences and vegetation. The result is stunning lifelike images and improved realism. ÔÇ£New antialiasing modes from NVIDIA enable us to deliver even more realism in Battlefield 2,ÔÇØ said John Vifian, senior development director at Electronic Arts. ÔÇ£These new modes provide stunning visual quality without sacrificing performance, and that is a real testament to the new GeForce 7 architecture.ÔÇØ GeForce 7800 GTX GPUs also support NVIDIA SLI technology, which allows users to combine the power of two GPUs in a single PC system for the absolute highest frame rates and 3D rendering quality attainable today, allowing for superhigh-quality settings in even the most demanding games. With two GeForce 7800 GTX GPUs and SLI technology, gamers can now crank their screen resolutions up to 2560├ù1600 with 4x antialiasing. TomorrowÔÇÖs High-Definition Video Now! A home theater PC outfitted with a GeForce 7800 GTX GPU featuring NVIDIA PureVideo hardware and software technology offers superb picture clarity and precise, vivid colors across all high-definition (HD) ATSC video formats. The highest quality 1080p HD-output is made possible through three separate PureVideo engines, support for both 3:2 and 2:2 pull down (inverse telecine), and a host of other features. The advanced scaling and de-interlacing capabilities offered by NVIDIA PureVideo technology allow DVD and other non-HD interlaced content to display incredibly clear, smooth, and artifact-free video on progressive displays, ranging from PC screens to large-screen HDTVs. ForceWareÔäó Release 75 Graphics Driver In conjunction with the announcement of GeForce 7800 GTX GPU, NVIDIA announces immediate availability of its new Windows Hardware Qualification Labs (WHQL)-certified NVIDIA ForceWare Release 75 graphics driver. The new driver supports more than seven different operating systems and more than 250 NVIDIA products. This new driver features: Support for OpenGL 2.0ÔÇöthe latest API and new extensions enable rich shader effects on NVIDIA GPUs Improved SLI performance and featuresÔÇöAllows end users to achieve incredible performance for games and applications and enable SLI in every game for maximum flexibility; includes broader SLI validation and optimizations for the latest games Improved video functionalityÔÇöincluding support for PureVideo inverse 2:2 pull-down detection and correction, high-definition 1080i de-interlacing, improved HDTV display setup and calibration and more Availability The NVIDIA ForceWare Release 75 driver is available immediately at www.nvidia.com/drivers. NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX GPU-based graphics cards from leading add-in card partners such as BFG, EVGA, PNY and XFX are available immediately at major online retailers. NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX GPUs are also powering systems from the worldÔÇÖs leading systems builders including Alienware, Falcon Northwest, Velocity Micro, and Voodoo PC. ÔÇ£We've never seen this sort of volume availability at launch from any vendor. The fact that we are selling PCs today with the awesome new GeForce 7800 GTX GPU is a testament to the flawless execution that NVIDIA is known for,ÔÇØ said Kelt Reeves, CEO of Falcon Northwest. ÔÇ£NVIDIA redefined high-end gaming PCs with the introduction of their SLI technology last year, and their technology leadership has never been more evident than in the powerful GeForce 7800 GTX GPU,ÔÇØ added Ravi Sood, CEO of VoodooPC.The latest and greatest graphics card yet from Nvidia. If you can afford it.

Link quote:CAMDEN, N.J. - Three boys whose bodies were found in the trunk of a car following a massive, two-day search died from accidental suffocation, not foul play, authorities said Saturday. The bodies were discovered Friday when David Agosto lifted the trunk of a banged-up maroon Toyota Camry in the yard where the boys were last seen. There, he found the bodies of his 6-year-old son Daniel Agosto; 5-year-old Jesstin Pagan and 11-year-old Anibal Cruz. Officials said no foul play was suspected, but it was not clear why searchers ÔÇö who combed the yard next to Cruz family home ÔÇö did not find the boys sooner. The car was searched when police first responded to the report of the missing children Wednesday at about 8:30 p.m., Police Chief Edwin Figueroa said, though prosecutor Vincent Sarubbi said it can be inferred that the trunk of the battered car had not been checked. He said police and prosecutors will issue a report on the handling of the search within 30 days. A neighbor was watching when David Agosto made the tragic discovery. He broke out in tears, throwing himself against a car, and was later taken away on a stretcher by paramedics, crying and flailing his arms and legs. "I saw him open the trunk and he just started screaming and he collapsed to the ground," said Carmen Villa, 37, who lives across the street. "It's just a tragedy," said Melissa Martinez, 25, weeping as she watched from Villa's front yard across the street as police began cordoning off the scene. "They've been there all the time. We were just standing here yesterday saying `Where could they be?' and the whole time, they were right there. It's just heartbreaking." The boys vanished without a trace Wednesday night while playing in the yard, according to authorities. For two days, searchers combed alleyways and woods, abandoned houses and vacant lots. Helicopters scanned from the sky, and boats searched the nearby Delaware River. Strangers handed out missing persons fliers to passing motorists, civilians aided in the search and everyone wondered how three children could suddenly go missing at once. Sarubbi said an uncle of one of the boys wanted to look in the trunk because he was searching for a set of jumper cables. Agosto accompanied him because "the thought may have crossed his mind that the boys may have been in that trunk," the prosecutor said. The car belonged to Carmen Lopez, the maternal grandmother of Anibal Cruz. The car was not working properly and had been parked in the shady, weedy area for about three weeks, Sarubbi said. He said one of the boys had in the past played in the car, but did not say which one. The prosecutor said the hydraulic plunger that keeps the trunk from closing was not working, so the lid was able to swing close and lock as soon as the boys stopped propping it up. Some periods of hard rain on Wednesday evening may have muffled any noises from the well-insulated trunk, which was parked far enough from the house to make it difficult to hear any voices coming from it. A full report from the medical examiner is expected, but no timeline for that was made public. That report is also expected to reveal the time the boys died, which authorities said they did not yet know. Figueroa said if any law enforcement officials broke department rules in the search they would be disciplined, but otherwise he might simply order more training for officers. "I feel very bad, just like the community and law enforcement agencies, that three children were found in the trunk of the vehicle," Figueroa said. Cruz and Agosto both lived in the vibrant multiethnic Cramer Hill neighborhood where the bodies were found. Pagan lived in neighboring Mount Ephraim and was visiting Cruz's home when they disappeared. Relatives said Cruz often played with younger children, in part because he suffered from neurological problems and had just finished the fifth grade at a school for special needs students. "He may be 11 years old, but his mind is more like a 4- or 3-year-old," said his grandmother, Carmen Cruz. Agosto, who disappeared a day before his last day of kindergarten at the H.C. Sharp Elementary School just down the block from his house, had never been off the block alone before, according to his mother, Iraida Roman. She described him as a regular kid who liked to "ride bikes, play in the dirt ÔÇö simple kid stuff." Pagan also attended a special needs school, said a family friend, Cornell Worlds Jr. The boy idolized the Los Angeles Lakers and star player Kobe Bryant, Worlds said. He was "a good-spirited type of kid," Worlds said.