You're TV must be pretty old if it only have one A/V connection.
Even with only one A/V connection, you can still use a VCR as a video switch, or buy an external video switch for a few bucks.
Or just buy a TV that isn't 10 years old.
Hell, I have 4 systems, a vcr, a dvd player, and a directdv receiver hooked up to my computer...and everything is switched through my home theater receiver.
Actually, any life would almost require the use of water.
Here is the reason: biochemical reactions are based upon the movement of protons and electrons around. Actually, all of biochemistry is basically moving stuff around. Move a pair of electrons, form a bond, break another bond, loose a proton.
Thus, a lot of chemistry requires acids/bases to work. Since your acids and bases are basically H+ and OH- ions (along with the odd carbocation/anion, etc.) you will almost always produce water somewhere along the line.
There just aren't a lot of places to stick excess protons and electrons. After oxidation and reduction reactions, you're eventually left with some byproduct that you don't really need.
One of those happens to be water. Carbon dioxide is another one of those molecules that would almost have to show up somewhere.
The world may be a big, odd place, but the general fundamentals of biochemistry don't change. If life exists elsewhere, it is almost certain to require water at some point in its life.
Most of all biological elements are within the top 10 elements on the peridic chart. The reason these are used is because nuclear fusion within the sun allows these to be made with much greater abundance. This reason also coves why no Earthen creatures use silicon instead of carbon.
Incorrect, actually. Most biological elements are within the first few elements on the periodic table because only these elements easily form bonds with other elements. You just can't make very good molecules with anything bigger.
The very basis of much of your biochemisty is based upon the fairly small diameters of carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen. You start adding things like phosphorus and you can already start to see signs of weak bonds forming (which is a good thing in the case of ATP).
You forget that Tolkien wasn't a traditional author, he was a scholar. His job? He was a teacher. His specialty? He examines the history of languages, words, and stories. Tolkien produced a large body of work which he felt was a reconstruction of lost European mythology.
So he ended up making a book and selling it. Who the fuck cares? You would to if you had the talent that he did.
You can hardly say that he wrote LoTR "for the money." Just because Bantam wanted more hobbits, why does Tolkien adding more hobbits dilute the greatness of the book? The hobbits fit the story, whats the problem?
Incorrect. You can and do overclock the memory. Most often times the FBS and memory speeds are statically linked. In some bios revisions, you may be able to set the FBS as Memory+33mhz. This allows people to use 133mhz FSB processors with slower PC100 memory.
Ever wonder why overclockers are eagerly awaiting the widespread release of PC2700 DDR-SDRAM? Because it can be a bitch to overclock your PC2100 memory past a certain point.
So, your point is basically totally wrong.
Oh, and don't forget that You can also run 64bit/33mHz PCI cards. Nicely enough, most of these cards are backwards compatable with older busses. I have a newer 3Com Gigabit ethernet card that supports 32bit/64bit and 33mhz/66mhz/133mhz. Hell, I don't even know if you can get a motherboard with PCI-X yet, but the damn NIC already supports it.
Anyway, I don't see how this has anything to do with the original poster's point. He may have worded it poorly, but it isn't that hard to figure out his point:
Not having at least 64bit/33mHz PCI in a newer server-oriented board is a major flaw. 32bit/33mhz PCI is quickly becoming stretched thin by the likes of gigabit ethernet and Ultra160 and now U320 SCSI.
Hell, I even stress the PCI bus in my workstation systems at times. Thankfully I now have 64bit/66mhz PCI in my workstations. Thank you Tyan!
Have you ever tried taking a screen capture while playing a DVD?
All you get it a black box.
What the DVD Consortium decided what that a DVD video is sent directly to the video card as an overlay. Basically, the DVD is invisable to the rest of the system. You can't bypass the video somewhere inbetween the disc and the monitor.
I'm sure they can/will/already do something like this with HDTV.
Perhaps he is talking about the fact that the HDTV tuner card and the video card work completely independantly of one another?
The HDTV tuner basically just sends an overlay to the video card. It couldn't care less what video card you actually have or what you happen to change it to.
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a "few people" report that a problem "might exist"? That is your grand evidence?
Funny how people bash Microsoft for both a) not releasing patches and b) releasing too many patches.
I was speaking primarily of hardware.
Come back when you understand why a 32-bit system can't address more than 4GB of memory.
I'll give you a hint, it has nothing to do with Windows.
Quick tip:
Quicktime itself is just a file wrapper, just like AVI. You can use different codecs with Quicktime, just as you can with an AVI file.
Quicktime is NOT A ENCODING CODEC.
WMA7/8 and WMV7/8 are. Quicktime uses the Sorenson codec. And it happens to suck greatly.
Firewire is too slow and too processor demanding.
And Fibre Channel is for hard drives..
Soo umm, not well.
This is Apple we're talking about. Mr. Steve Jobs The Man Who Hates Leaked Info More Than Anything Else.
Of COURSE they sign NDAs.
If all users have to follow proper practices and all users have to be programmers, then opern source ISN'T "inherently" more secure.
You added inherently without even understanding the definition just to sound more impressive.
Drop the word inherently and your post makes more sense, although it still isn't correct.
And lots of cattle graze where grain can grow.
The point remains the same.
Lots of energy is wasted by maxmizing meat consumption.
Humans are part of nature.
What humans do to other animals IS part of nature.
It might not be good, but that doesn't mean anything.
If goes like this:
100J of energy hits a plant
10J of that energy is converted to biomass
1J of that energy is converted to biomass by cattle.
Only about 10% of energy consumed by an individual is converted to something useful.
Thus, you can use land 10 times as efficiently by growing grains and such than if you raised cattle on the land.
This is basic ecology here people...
If you haven't noticed, RAM prices have doubled since late December.
A 256MB DIMM of PC2100 Registered DDR from Crucial will cost you like $75 now.
Obviously you don't know that theres a vast difference between DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM.
You're TV must be pretty old if it only have one A/V connection.
Even with only one A/V connection, you can still use a VCR as a video switch, or buy an external video switch for a few bucks.
Or just buy a TV that isn't 10 years old.
Hell, I have 4 systems, a vcr, a dvd player, and a directdv receiver hooked up to my computer...and everything is switched through my home theater receiver.
So I don't see how this is "impossible."
Actually, any life would almost require the use of water.
Here is the reason: biochemical reactions are based upon the movement of protons and electrons around. Actually, all of biochemistry is basically moving stuff around. Move a pair of electrons, form a bond, break another bond, loose a proton.
Thus, a lot of chemistry requires acids/bases to work. Since your acids and bases are basically H+ and OH- ions (along with the odd carbocation/anion, etc.) you will almost always produce water somewhere along the line.
There just aren't a lot of places to stick excess protons and electrons. After oxidation and reduction reactions, you're eventually left with some byproduct that you don't really need.
One of those happens to be water. Carbon dioxide is another one of those molecules that would almost have to show up somewhere.
The world may be a big, odd place, but the general fundamentals of biochemistry don't change. If life exists elsewhere, it is almost certain to require water at some point in its life.
Incorrect, actually. Most biological elements are within the first few elements on the periodic table because only these elements easily form bonds with other elements. You just can't make very good molecules with anything bigger.
The very basis of much of your biochemisty is based upon the fairly small diameters of carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen. You start adding things like phosphorus and you can already start to see signs of weak bonds forming (which is a good thing in the case of ATP).
Uhh, Crucial PC2100 512MB DDR modules have been out for a few weeks now.
Then again, theres next to no reason to buy 512MB modules for your parent's computer.
I have 4x256MB Crucial modules in my dual AthlonMP box. What could you possibly need more than 768-1024MB of ram in a box for your parents?
Nevermind that 512MB modules are bloody expensive compared to two 256MB modules.
ASIC Blue, ASIC White, etc. etc.
See a trend? The gov't always gets the best supercomputers first.
You forget that Tolkien wasn't a traditional author, he was a scholar. His job? He was a teacher. His specialty? He examines the history of languages, words, and stories. Tolkien produced a large body of work which he felt was a reconstruction of lost European mythology.
So he ended up making a book and selling it. Who the fuck cares? You would to if you had the talent that he did.
You can hardly say that he wrote LoTR "for the money." Just because Bantam wanted more hobbits, why does Tolkien adding more hobbits dilute the greatness of the book? The hobbits fit the story, whats the problem?
Meh, this is just a pointless troll.
The Hobbit was NOT a "children's novel." Tolkien didn't WRITE "children's novels."
He didn't design and write it as one as you so stupidly state.
Man, at least go read some of Tolkien's letter before making an ass of yourself.
"Guest" hosting?
He wasn't a guest host, he was THE host.
I live in Fargo, and it IS as flat as a pool table.
:)
The entire Red River Valley is the bottom of the glacial lake Agassi that covered a few states back a few thousand years.
Being the bottom of a lake, it is completely flat.
Incorrect. You can and do overclock the memory. Most often times the FBS and memory speeds are statically linked. In some bios revisions, you may be able to set the FBS as Memory+33mhz. This allows people to use 133mhz FSB processors with slower PC100 memory.
Ever wonder why overclockers are eagerly awaiting the widespread release of PC2700 DDR-SDRAM? Because it can be a bitch to overclock your PC2100 memory past a certain point.
So, your point is basically totally wrong.
Oh, and don't forget that You can also run 64bit/33mHz PCI cards. Nicely enough, most of these cards are backwards compatable with older busses. I have a newer 3Com Gigabit ethernet card that supports 32bit/64bit and 33mhz/66mhz/133mhz. Hell, I don't even know if you can get a motherboard with PCI-X yet, but the damn NIC already supports it.
Anyway, I don't see how this has anything to do with the original poster's point. He may have worded it poorly, but it isn't that hard to figure out his point:
Not having at least 64bit/33mHz PCI in a newer server-oriented board is a major flaw. 32bit/33mhz PCI is quickly becoming stretched thin by the likes of gigabit ethernet and Ultra160 and now U320 SCSI.
Hell, I even stress the PCI bus in my workstation systems at times. Thankfully I now have 64bit/66mhz PCI in my workstations. Thank you Tyan!
Funny, the Radeon 8500 can do it quite well. :)
Have you ever tried taking a screen capture while playing a DVD?
All you get it a black box.
What the DVD Consortium decided what that a DVD video is sent directly to the video card as an overlay. Basically, the DVD is invisable to the rest of the system. You can't bypass the video somewhere inbetween the disc and the monitor.
I'm sure they can/will/already do something like this with HDTV.
Perhaps he is talking about the fact that the HDTV tuner card and the video card work completely independantly of one another?
The HDTV tuner basically just sends an overlay to the video card. It couldn't care less what video card you actually have or what you happen to change it to.