I recently upgraded my graphics card to a Gigabyte 6600GT. When I had instability issues the first things blamed were heat and PSU. Heat was a problem, but not the central one. Cleaning out the heatsink and adding a case fan was worth doing. However it I think it was an issue with drivers and motherboard. (Turning off AGP direct writes seems to be the thing that fixed my game and system freezes).
However note that I am running the following on a generic 400W unit. P4 2.4 clocked up to 2.6 1 Gig memory 3 hard disks 2 optical drives 6600GT Geforce 440MX PCI SB Live USB 5 port card Extension board for SATA Case fan All stuffed into a mini tower
4 external 4 port USB hubs Memory card reader Joysticks, gamepads and driving wheel I also have 2 external drives, one hooked up USB and the other SATA but of course these aren't powered by the PSU.
I look at the calculators out there and I should be running a 500W, but the fact is not everything gets used at the same time, and the system copes quite well.
When I say I run stable I'm talking marathon sessions of FS2004 3 screen or games like the incredibles (which was my best test for freezes).
I do have some issues with the USB occassionally. Devices, particularly the card readers start generating errors in the system log. I don't know if that's a power issue or just XP and crappy drivers. USB 2 support on my motherboard doesn't seem to be the best.
When I buy my next system I will go for a better brand PSU, however I wonder how much of this "you need a good PSU" stuff is hype drummed up by the PSU manufacturers. I certainly won't be upgrading the PSU on my current machine.
Of course I'm not running a 6800GT or a newer processor so perhaps that's what would make the biggest difference.
...roll over and play dead then whine about nothing being safe, do nothing about it and rock yourself to sleep at night while whispering "the boogey man's out to get me" in your nice padded cell while waiting for the nice man with the big needle.
Compact fluorescent is no longer 10x the cost of a old bulb, though they are more expensive by several times. They last 10x as long though.
That most certainly has not been my experience. I'd say I'm averaging 2-3 times as long, with some dying in roughly the same amount of time as the old incandescents.
Oh yeah this message is flamebait but being told "You'd make less of a fool of yourself if you didn't waffle about subjects that you clearly know nothing about" is not.
You'd make less of a fool of yourself if you didn't waffle about subjects that you clearly know nothing about.
Ok troll, I'll bite. You'd make much less of a prat of yourself if you showed at least as much social skill as a gnat and didn't abuse people you didn't know. Tell me do you get many dates this way?
No, it's not. It actually works pretty well if you RTFM. It's certainly a damn sight better than the old system.
You're one of those retards aren't you? RTFM. RTFM my arse. Not everyone wants to be a computer expert just so they can use the system. Likewise not everyone wants to be a tax accountant or tax law specialist (since we have no choice about using that system if we wish to avoid jail). How would you feel if when you broke down by the side of the road and called the auto service they told you to RTFM and work out what was wrong with your car. Imbacile!
Now you're trying desperately to support a weak argument with a total non sequitur
Well fuck you very much too. I don't need a definition of non sequitur you condescending git, and the fact that you feel the need to define it shows that you're using an idea that's new to you as if no one else has ever heard of it. If I did need it defined I could look it up on google. Ever heard of google? Take your childish sarcasm and you're newly learnt reasoning skills and shove them where the sun don't shine.
For the record, I have plenty of goddamn evidence in the form of tax bills and other documentation. Forgive me for not broadcasting them here. What was I thinking!?
Property taxes in Australia, particularly the ones you describe, are state matters, and have absolutely nothing to do with the Federal tax system that the article is about.
State tax, Fedral tax, yours truely has to pay it. Yes GST is a Fedral tax. So what. You can still talk about the tax system in this country as a whole. Every state has land tax here, though its adminstered differently. Who died and made you king of the scope of this argument?
If you're going to make an argument and abuse someone at least do it well, not like some incompetent high school student who thinks they're king shit because they made the goddamn debating team.
If someone gets arrested with bolt cutters breaking into a building, it's reasonable to use the presence of the bolt cutters at trial, just as it's reasonable to show any other tools (such as crypto) that were used to commit a crime
If the bolt cutters were a tool of legitimate trade, this would be looked on differently.
Equally admitting a kitchen knife as evidence with no specific evidence linking the specific knife would be seen as barely relevant. It's a common thing to use a kitchen knife.
I'd argue that crypto software is a common tool to protect business information. Hell I try not to make any internet transactions for personal use that aren't encrypted.
Another example. How would you like it if someone busted down your door and confiscated your computer whilst charging you with counterfeit because you own a printer?
Are we going to have to start charging tax on purchases at our Yard/Tag/Garage sales?
In Australia that's exactly what you're required by law to do.
Tax system here is a goddamn joke.
(It's worse for land. You're charged income tax on the money you use to buy the land, stamp duty when you buy, land tax every year by the state government, and land rates by the local council every quarter. Then when you sell the property there's a vendor tax. If you've made any money by renting it out that's more income tax you've got to pay.).
I'm not a fan of layoffs either but a company is there to make money, nothing else...and that is the problem. Companies aren't held accountable for their rape and pillege of resources natural and man-made UNLESS it breaks a law. If the world's legal systems were horses they'd have all been shot and sold for dog food years ago.
There's another name for 'Futurologist'. It's 'Fortune Teller'. There's nothing scientific in his 'prediction'.
Anyone with an ounce of intelligence avoids paying ridiculous amounts of money to fool themselves into believing that what they want to hear is true because some nut job con artist says it shall come to pass.
In any case, if I had to place bets, I'd bet this guy was wrong about the timescale. But guess what in 2050 he'll be dead and you won't be able to tell him I told you so. (Funny that his prediction comes to pass after he does. Coincidence? I think not.) Meanwhile he's invested the money he made making BS predictions and lived a full and happy life at the expense of idiots he could fool.
Reminds me about a certain CEO at a certain large database company rabbiting on about thin client taking over the world. Only he was dumb enough to make a prediction that would have to come true in his own lifetime.
Definitely 4-5-6-1-2-3, or if you prefer 3-4-5-6-1-2.
Basically 1 was so weak that when I took my cousins to watch it one fell asleep and the other went to the bathroom for 15 minutes and missed the end. They were about 7 and 11 at the time, and they were bored out of their minds. (I actually got a "Can you take us to see a good movie next time").
If you show kids 1 and 2 first you'll never get them to see 4,5, and 3 which are the best ones.
disagreeing with corporate practices doesn't justify theft
It's not theft at all. You've been brainwashed into thinking that. Theft requires that you take someone's possession away and deny them access to that. It's not piracy either. That requires theft, rape and pillage on the high seas.
What copying music does is increase its availability without compensating the record industry. They lose revenue. Never mind that you weren't going to buy it in the first place, you've devalued its worth to the record company by making it available without having to go through them.
Should it be illegal? Well I personally think that's arguable since I don't believe that restricting access to information or art is good for society in the long run. Should the penalties be large sums of money and years in jail? Hell no! That should be reserved for rapists and murders. Making the penalty for copying songs the same as for drug trafficing devalues prison as a form of punishment and crowds jails with people who shouldn't be there (which the tax payer then foots the bill for).
I have no love of or sympathy for record companies. They're leeches whose time is gone but who don't want to let go...and as for the artists yes they should be compensated but not with inordinate amounts of cash, and at the expense of people being fined into the stone age and jailed.
There's something very perverse about taking (arguably) the movie with the most action and special effects ever made, and breaking the law to watch it in crappy low-fi divx. Can you say cheapskate?
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Um I thought the Antecs were suppose to be good???
I recently upgraded my graphics card to a Gigabyte 6600GT. When I had instability issues the first things blamed were heat and PSU. Heat was a problem, but not the central one. Cleaning out the heatsink and adding a case fan was worth doing. However it I think it was an issue with drivers and motherboard. (Turning off AGP direct writes seems to be the thing that fixed my game and system freezes).
However note that I am running the following on a generic 400W unit.
P4 2.4 clocked up to 2.6
1 Gig memory
3 hard disks
2 optical drives
6600GT
Geforce 440MX PCI
SB Live
USB 5 port card
Extension board for SATA
Case fan
All stuffed into a mini tower
4 external 4 port USB hubs
Memory card reader
Joysticks, gamepads and driving wheel
I also have 2 external drives, one hooked up USB and the other SATA but of course these aren't powered by the PSU.
I look at the calculators out there and I should be running a 500W, but the fact is not everything gets used at the same time, and the system copes quite well.
When I say I run stable I'm talking marathon sessions of FS2004 3 screen or games like the incredibles (which was my best test for freezes).
I do have some issues with the USB occassionally. Devices, particularly the card readers start generating errors in the system log. I don't know if that's a power issue or just XP and crappy drivers. USB 2 support on my motherboard doesn't seem to be the best.
When I buy my next system I will go for a better brand PSU, however I wonder how much of this "you need a good PSU" stuff is hype drummed up by the PSU manufacturers. I certainly won't be upgrading the PSU on my current machine.
Of course I'm not running a 6800GT or a newer processor so perhaps that's what would make the biggest difference.
...roll over and play dead then whine about nothing being safe, do nothing about it and rock yourself to sleep at night while whispering "the boogey man's out to get me" in your nice padded cell while waiting for the nice man with the big needle.
Gotta love the wording!
Compact fluorescent is no longer 10x the cost of a old bulb, though they are more expensive by several times. They last 10x as long though.
That most certainly has not been my experience. I'd say I'm averaging 2-3 times as long, with some dying in roughly the same amount of time as the old incandescents.
Oh yeah this message is flamebait but being told
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"You'd make less of a fool of yourself if you didn't waffle about subjects that you clearly know nothing about" is not.
Some days I just love
You'd make less of a fool of yourself if you didn't waffle about subjects that you clearly know nothing about.
Ok troll, I'll bite. You'd make much less of a prat of yourself if you showed at least as much social skill as a gnat and didn't abuse people you didn't know. Tell me do you get many dates this way?
No, it's not. It actually works pretty well if you RTFM. It's certainly a damn sight better than the old system.
You're one of those retards aren't you? RTFM. RTFM my arse. Not everyone wants to be a computer expert just so they can use the system. Likewise not everyone wants to be a tax accountant or tax law specialist (since we have no choice about using that system if we wish to avoid jail). How would you feel if when you broke down by the side of the road and called the auto service they told you to RTFM and work out what was wrong with your car. Imbacile!
Now you're trying desperately to support a weak argument with a total non sequitur
Well fuck you very much too. I don't need a definition of non sequitur you condescending git, and the fact that you feel the need to define it shows that you're using an idea that's new to you as if no one else has ever heard of it. If I did need it defined I could look it up on google. Ever heard of google? Take your childish sarcasm and you're newly learnt reasoning skills and shove them where the sun don't shine.
For the record, I have plenty of goddamn evidence in the form of tax bills and other documentation. Forgive me for not broadcasting them here. What was I thinking!?
Property taxes in Australia, particularly the ones you describe, are state matters, and have absolutely nothing to do with the Federal tax system that the article is about.
State tax, Fedral tax, yours truely has to pay it. Yes GST is a Fedral tax. So what. You can still talk about the tax system in this country as a whole. Every state has land tax here, though its adminstered differently. Who died and made you king of the scope of this argument?
If you're going to make an argument and abuse someone at least do it well, not like some incompetent high school student who thinks they're king shit because they made the goddamn debating team.
Our products pretty much sucked (sorry)
No no -I'm- sorry...sorry for you that is.
You haven't learnt that no one likes to hire someone who's going to bad mouth them later.
If someone gets arrested with bolt cutters breaking into a building, it's reasonable to use the presence of the bolt cutters at trial, just as it's reasonable to show any other tools (such as crypto) that were used to commit a crime
If the bolt cutters were a tool of legitimate trade, this would be looked on differently.
Equally admitting a kitchen knife as evidence with no specific evidence linking the specific knife would be seen as barely relevant. It's a common thing to use a kitchen knife.
I'd argue that crypto software is a common tool to protect business information. Hell I try not to make any internet transactions for personal use that aren't encrypted.
Another example. How would you like it if someone busted down your door and confiscated your computer whilst charging you with counterfeit because you own a printer?
Are we going to have to start charging tax on purchases at our Yard/Tag/Garage sales?
In Australia that's exactly what you're required by law to do.
Tax system here is a goddamn joke.
(It's worse for land. You're charged income tax on the money you use to buy the land, stamp duty when you buy, land tax every year by the state government, and land rates by the local council every quarter. Then when you sell the property there's a vendor tax. If you've made any money by renting it out that's more income tax you've got to pay.).
I'm not a fan of layoffs either but a company is there to make money, nothing else ...and that is the problem. Companies aren't held accountable for their rape and pillege of resources natural and man-made UNLESS it breaks a law. If the world's legal systems were horses they'd have all been shot and sold for dog food years ago.
There's another name for 'Futurologist'. It's 'Fortune Teller'. There's nothing scientific in his 'prediction'.
Anyone with an ounce of intelligence avoids paying ridiculous amounts of money to fool themselves into believing that what they want to hear is true because some nut job con artist says it shall come to pass.
In any case, if I had to place bets, I'd bet this guy was wrong about the timescale. But guess what in 2050 he'll be dead and you won't be able to tell him I told you so. (Funny that his prediction comes to pass after he does. Coincidence? I think not.) Meanwhile he's invested the money he made making BS predictions and lived a full and happy life at the expense of idiots he could fool.
Reminds me about a certain CEO at a certain large database company rabbiting on about thin client taking over the world. Only he was dumb enough to make a prediction that would have to come true in his own lifetime.
Me cynical? Nahhhh!
...and the starwars line is less detached from reality.
Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!
Ahem...
Definitely 4-5-6-1-2-3, or if you prefer 3-4-5-6-1-2.
Basically 1 was so weak that when I took my cousins to watch it one fell asleep and the other went to the bathroom for 15 minutes and missed the end. They were about 7 and 11 at the time, and they were bored out of their minds. (I actually got a "Can you take us to see a good movie next time").
If you show kids 1 and 2 first you'll never get them to see 4,5, and 3 which are the best ones.
disagreeing with corporate practices doesn't justify theft
It's not theft at all. You've been brainwashed into thinking that. Theft requires that you take someone's possession away and deny them access to that. It's not piracy either. That requires theft, rape and pillage on the high seas.
What copying music does is increase its availability without compensating the record industry. They lose revenue. Never mind that you weren't going to buy it in the first place, you've devalued its worth to the record company by making it available without having to go through them.
Should it be illegal? Well I personally think that's arguable since I don't believe that restricting access to information or art is good for society in the long run. Should the penalties be large sums of money and years in jail? Hell no! That should be reserved for rapists and murders. Making the penalty for copying songs the same as for drug trafficing devalues prison as a form of punishment and crowds jails with people who shouldn't be there (which the tax payer then foots the bill for).
I have no love of or sympathy for record companies. They're leeches whose time is gone but who don't want to let go...and as for the artists yes they should be compensated but not with inordinate amounts of cash, and at the expense of people being fined into the stone age and jailed.
No No No it's not thin client, it's low end...
This means instead of costing you an arm and a leg it will cost you your rear.
There's something very perverse about taking (arguably) the movie with the most action and special effects ever made, and breaking the law to watch it in crappy low-fi divx. Can you say cheapskate?
...both in Cinemas and in American Congress.
I guess that's the power of the dark side of the farce.
...earl-eye in the mornin'? ...put him in bed with the OS from Redmond ...she's so ugly she looks like a honeymonkey...
How many different versions of Windows are there?
A lot less than Linux distros and a lot more than Mac OS versions, but I'll still stick to windows because unfortunately it's got the best app base.
Look its clear you're just trolling. End of conversation.
No cause then the RIAA would have you in jail for having anything to do with it!
I doubt they'd except it, unless you had proof, such as signed letter from educational institution or employer.
Let's start a music and film appreciation and study society...
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