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Redirection. Looking at the cost of a 50" HDTV, and aware of where you will be putting it, I would instead get a projector. Cheaper, bigger screen, less expensive.

I have far from 20/20 vision. I have a ~140" screen and sit about 8-10 feet away. I still get more detail on 1080i with my glasses.

With that many features I'm not surprised.

The N680LSI-DQ6 does look interesting. But isn't the 680 an older chipset? How does it perform?

I found the air drawn past the lower drive in a P180 from the power supply sufficient to cool 1 or 2 7200RPM drives, but more drives or a faster speed caused the drive to exceed my 40C comfort zone.

I love projector-based systems. A new basement installation where wiring could be concealed and lighting controlled sounds ideal. You won't find anything else in that size category, particularly for the price.

That is on the list ;) I just need to figure out what parts to use for a video-based solution. I live close to NASA Ames, a buddy will be starting there soon. They have a few wind tunnels big enough...

For my car? Drag coefficient.....0.320 Frontal Area..........2.22 m2 Cx.......................0.71 Need to do something about that...

With new technologies, the amount of waste from a nuclear power plant is significantly reduced. More importantly, that waste is easily collected. That proper storage has not always been done does not mean that it cannot be done.

The chassis holds 12 ;) The second RAID0 array of Raptors is only online part-time, when I'm doing more intense video encoding stuff.

Certainly get anything Norton off the machine. That is a bad idea regardless. After that, Cybersitter sounds like a second likely thing. See if you can ping on port 80...it might be blocked completely.

This is important. It was better back then because there were less people. If there are only a million people on the planet, they can be doing pretty much whatever they want for as long as they want. The more people, the less each can pollute/consume. At some point, less people is going to be...

But they put out methane! We'll need to retrofit a filtration device (I'm sure they'll love that). ;)

I can testify to a 1997 Chevy Suburban towing a sailboat bouncing off the speed limiter at ~107mph ;)

Enforcing speed limits and forcing auto makers to make more efficient vehicles is too narrow a scope. Let's restate the problem we are trying to solve: Petroleum is a limited resource, the consumption of which is bad for the environment. True? Why are we so worked up about exactly how we...

Re: Speed limit. I fail to see how making more people spend more time being unproductive can be done in the name of efficiency.

Howell, I have to assume that you are misinterpreting to make a point? If so, I don't get it. I live 1 mile from the freeway. On that mile there are about 10 traffic signals. I burn many times more fuel idling and accelerating 10 times than I would driving the mile directly. Optimization of the...

I picked up a Seasonic M12 700W the other day. I am really impressed with it; I even threw some extra drives in to see what additional load it could handle (sig).

There is a flaw in this assumption as well. There will be more people on the roads because there will be more people. This is the problem we most desperately need to fix.

People are cattle. They cannot be trusted to make decisions that are in their long-term best interest. Even smart or powerful individuals are tempted by short-term profits; just look at sub-prime loans, leveraged buyouts, or some acts of our current administration for examples. I am against...

I'm tired of needing everyone to be protected from everything all the time. Eventually we will all be in padded cells, fed the exact balance of nutrients our body needs. Seatbelts, Airbags, crumple-zones. Fine. We are quickly entering the narrow-end of the cost/benefit equation. I will nod to...

After reading your post, this is the part I agree with ;)

No more laws! Taxes if necessary.

Here you go. Very promising technology, IMHO.

For retail disks, I have never encountered any resistance on "replaced/upgraded hardware" stories. But IIRC, their policy on OEM is "1 key, 1 motherboard" regardless of failures. I haven't tried it, so I don't really know.

??? I don't think so...

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I have that book as well ;)

A lot of people I know who used to do 2CPU systems (Santilli, etc) kept them much longer than people who bought single CPU systems. I'm now on my third dual-core CPU, and the next will likely be a quad. The biggest thing I'm noticing is the number of things my system does at once has increased...

Merc is on a break; he'll be back. Tannin/Tea? Buck? Clocker? I don't know.

Welcome back indeed. That system should keep you surfing for quite some time.

I have a Gateway that requires input via pen. If I got another I would make sure that it could accept input from touch. The next one I am looking at is this small one by Asus.

Wow John, you've managed something I didn't think was possible; make my insane system (see sig) look somewhat reasonable. You do realize that 10k SCSI drives and bonded GbE is insane overkill for just about anybody? I'm not sure what you paid for those drives, but that plus the cost of the SCSI...

Interesting guess. I ran a Verify of the array overnight and now all the drives read "OK". Oh well...

3 Drives in a 3 Drive Stripe are showing status as "UNCONV DCB". The 3Ware manual only mentions that this could be the displayed status, without giving any indication of what it means. It shows as a warning, not a failure; and the drive is part of a striped set that is still fully functional...

For me that is never the issue. Long before then I "need" something better. ;)

Those are some really severe cuts...I do hope they survive the current price war.

BIOS detects just fine. XP without extra drivers detects it just fine at first, and only after copying files, rebooting, and going into the GUI-based portion of the install does it pop up with the I/O device error.

Distance? 10-20 feet; I'll be shooting from the edges of the room. I will have a mini-tripod, as my hands are useless at holding still.

The motherboard in question (and all the motherboards I've used for at least 3 years) have SATA integrated into the BIOS. No F6, no special drivers. Hard drives and opticals are detected in the BIOS and boot successfully.

Sorry e_dawg, the cat was just an analogy. I am interested in shooting tango dancers at events. These events are typically very dark and very crowded. The one I host is in a 6000 sq.ft. ballroom and I use 5 100W wall sconces (indirect at that) to light the room. I'll be shooting at a distance of...

Mid-priced. Right. ;) I assume that means anything short of insanity? I'm still enjoying my cheap Onkyo system.

Any experiences? Good/bad combinations? I've got a Samsung SH-S183 DVD-RW connected to a Gigabyte GA-945GZM-S2. Vista works fine, Feisty works fine. XP crashes in the GUI part of the install with an IO error, both MSDN w/SP2 and TinyXP.

What I'm looking for I fear is impossible. Something similar to photographing a cat jumping off a candle-lit table without flash. From 20 feet away.

Good to hear. I wish him well on whatever he is doing, and look forward to hearing about it upon his return.

Agreed. I am no Linux guru, but I thought it wouldn't be too difficult to pull the software off and just put on Firefox and Open Office. Boy was I wrong. So many packages and sub-packages, and so many dependencies.

I've had my eye on this camera for quite some time. I'm specifically interested in its performance in low light motion shots where flash is not allowed.

I think you got it.

With an 800Mhz FSB...doesn't that give it a multiplier cap of 2? I suspect that would be rather limiting.

Merc is showing incredible restraint. It's a good thing I didn't hold my breath (or start a congratulatory thread early) ;)