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So, if nx6125 notebooks start selling like hotcakes, will that finally persuade Dell it needs to sell AMD-infused products along with its Intel-based lineup, despite its history of offering only Intel inside? Bhavnani seems enthusiastic. "It will make it a viable concern for Dell if HP begins to make money off of this new Compaq," Bhavnani said. "Dell is all about the numbers, and if they are looking at AMD, their main question will be: 'Will AMD give us the volumes that we require?'"

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The study was commissioned to find out if the anti-piracy message was having an impact on people's attitudes. They have also pushed the idea that consumers are supporting organised crime when they buy a game or DVD from someone in the street. Despite ads in the cinema, magazines and newspapers, the message is falling on deaf ears.

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Now, researchers in Europe have observed a jet stretching 1.5 billion kilometres from a young brown dwarf in a stellar nursery called Rho Ophiuchi. Similar jets have been detected around young, massive stars and are thought to form from material in the disc that swirls around them. The stars grow when matter falls on them from the disc, but the stars' magnetic fields funnel about a tenth of that matter back through the jets

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ITER is expected to cost up to $10 billion and is the next step towards tapping the inexhaustible power that could be released by fusing together atoms of hydrogen. Scientists have been pursuing the idea, which mimics the reaction inside the sun, for 50 years.