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  1. Re:How about non-perfect? on How to Build The Perfect Home Theater PC · · Score: 2, Informative

    Some fairly heavy gauge wire for the speakers will be just fine. I would go with at least 12 and 10 if I could get it in your case becuase you have a fairly long run to do.

    Speaker wise just use what you have for now. If you like how they sound then I'd say stick with them. If not visit some stores and see how much you have to pay to be able to hear the difference and go from there. I bet that unless you have a golden ear you won't hear too much of a difference without spending way more money.

  2. Re:Thursday after May 11th? on Slashback: Towel, Linkage, Drafthouse · · Score: 1

    I am similarly confused. Can these groups please come together, it loses all effect when there is no cohesion.

  3. The Universe In a Nutshell on High Table at Cambridge with Stephen Hawking · · Score: 5, Funny

    but is it published by O'Reilly?

  4. Re:Fox, ABC, NBC on More Details on the CBDTPA · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The irony of your comment when viewed along side your .sig is simply astounding.

  5. Learning in General on Higher Learning, Online? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've always been of the opinion that learning is a contact sport. Meaning that accredited or not you are not going to get as much out of an online course as a real university program.
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    That being said there are legit practical reasons to go online but I think the point still stands that often it is not just the material but the other people in the class. A traditional classroom broadens the scope of the education, allows for more interaction and therefore responsiveness, and is in general more usefull. I realize you are asking specifically about technology degrees but again I think the point is still relevant
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    The key here is that a traditional classroom has advantages that an online setting cannot begin to eumulate.

  6. Re:I remember... on Upside interviews Jerry Sanders of AMD · · Score: 1

    When the PII and K6 first came out the PII chipsets did not have support for SDRAM. Until the new boards came out, a few months iirc, the K6 had a slight speed advantage because the PII was stuck with EDO.

  7. meh on Rubber Band Machine Gun · · Score: 3, Funny

    wait until I get my potato cannon running linux

  8. Google on Robotcop: It's the Law · · Score: 1

    Perhaps not google per se but there are a lot of legit uses for spiders. Uses that are legal and good for your site and the internet in general. I would be concerned that this is going to cause them some undue issues.

  9. My Highschool on Turnitin.com - Placebo for Plagiarism or Worse? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The history department at my highschool also uses turnitin.com. I certainly don't advocate plagerism but I have a couple of issues with it.

    The Cost: Its expensive, I don't know how much it costs but its money. This means that money is being spent to catch the dishonest instead of helping the honest. Arguably there is benefit to the honest when the dishonest are caught but the level of benefit pales in comparison to what could be achieved if the money was directly spent on the honest students.

    Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The school has adopted a policy that if turnitin.com catches plagerism you must prove your innocence. I realize its not the court of law but it just seems wrong to me.

  10. Re:Geeks with active social lives.. on Robot Maker Mark Tilden: All Life is Analog · · Score: 1

    Note to self: hide semi-threatening robotic insecte when trying to impress opposite sex. nah....its funny to see them jump :) (I suppose the running out thing is bad though...)

  11. Getting the stuff home on Mining On The Moon · · Score: 3, Interesting
    will not be as expensive as one may think. The trajectory would have to be calculated but thats what we have computers for. Basically put a cannon on the moon and shoot capsules filled with the stuff and a parachute to earth into a designated landing area. They would not even have to land that soft, just soft enough to avoid breaking apart.

    Only problem is if you miss but given the distance it has to fall the chute could likely steer the payload clear of any problems.

  12. Re:Engine Explosion Reported on Another Plane Down in New York · · Score: 1

    I was always under the impression that most aircraft (especially newer onees) could stay in the air with one engine down. I do not pretend to draw any conlcusions but can anyone confirm or deny this belief?

  13. Re:We are not at war. on Preserve Your Rights Online - Act Now · · Score: 1
    WWI was not fought for individual liberty. Without going into the hundreds of years of history that can be attributed to having caused WWI I can say that WWI was about the power and influence of states. It was fought over colonies, the preservation of empires, and nationalism.

    That being said in the end it was a victory for democracy and capitalism as the victory of the democratic (France, Britain, and the US) powers led to the collapse of two empires (Austria-ended another (Russia). Now the fall of the Tsars did lead to the Soviet Union but at the time imperialism was considered worse than communism.

  14. Re:Hawking is loosing his mental edge on Stephen Hawking On Genetic Engineering vs. AI · · Score: 2, Insightful
    So what if my calculator can figure out cubic roots to the 13th place faster and more accurately than I can hope to achieve? That's not intelligence or sentience. Any mega-cascade of logic gates is never going to beat out the efficiency of a patch of neurons. In essence all your neurons are are logic gates (not necessarily digital logic mind you), they are able to strengthen certain relationships based upon positive renforcent (or weaken for negative) ie. learn. This ability to strenthen and weaken relationships can and has been coded. Yes, todays programs are still more brittle and are outperformed by the human brain but give it 20 years.

    One final point, a neuron is only capable of 200 calculations per second. Now imagine in 20 years a computer containing thousands of processors each capable of trillions of opperations per second. Right there the human brain is outperformed.