A lot of musicians are not buying nForce 4s because of the problems with PCI-Express and audio performance http://www.rme-audio.com/english/techinfo/nforce4_ tests.htm. How does this chipset compare? I want to upgrade my PC soon and go with PCI express but nForce doesn't appear to be an option and, well, VIA boards used to have so many stability problems that I can't bring myself to trust them. And Athlon64s don't run so well on Intel mobos;)
This is one of those areas that no review ever touches, because most buyers don't give a shit about it. I've never read a review which mentions that (older?) Geforce cards look like crap compared to ATIs and Matroxes and I've rarely read a review of a graphics card or mobo which takes one line to tell the reader how loud the fan is; all you see is benchmarks because that's what sells I guess.
So? How is it for audio? Can I trust a VIA motherboard?
Yep, you're right. If a catalyst such as a disease (obviously polio wouldn't really work because it doesn't just paralyse arms) became part of the environment then survival of the fittest would kick in and, assuming it stayed around, the apes would develop the ability to walk upright.
I don't think that would be a step towards a species of bipeds because the only advantage of this trait is being able to stay alive after contracting a disease. the ones who weren't afflicted would have no reason to walk on two legs and the ones who were afflicted would be forced by circumstances into doing something unnatural. i absolutely agree that it is a survival method and that it is an environmentally evolved one with the disease as the catalyst.
I still don't see how this would be a step towards walking on two legs. It's a new ability they got through evolution which they only use when they can't do it the normal way. I'm imagining a few generations of kids being born without arms and learning to hold a pen between their toes and write. If there's no advantage or disadvantage to using a foot or a hand then we wouldn't end up a society of people who wrote with their feet; we'd be a society of people who *can* write with their feet. It's a cool thing to be able to do but not key to survival and not key to genetic superiority.
So you're spot on with your first point, the ability would develop through evolution, but I don't believe it would have an effect one way or the other on walking upright.
I could go on about maybe the disease becomes a permanent part of their lives, like SIV, and then they would all be walking upright but it would still be a case of calling their backup system into service after their primary had failed. But then maybe they would be born with shorter and shorter arms because the disease affected their DNA, who knows? But I won't because I have to go to bed, my girlfriend is already pissed off. Evolution ain't going to help me there.
Yeah but it's still not genetic, it's adapted behaviour. The new apes would walk on four legs until they got polio and then would walk on two. The walking on the hind legs is a redundant backup system but there's no environmental advantage to it.
It would have to be genetic for it to contibute towards evolution. The gorilla would have to be able to pass it on to its children. Also this is only a behaviour and not a physical trait; the gorilla is doing it on purpose because it causes him less discomfort than using four limbs. His children won't be in the same position since all of their limbs will function properly.
Evolution happens after some slight genetic mutation gives an individual an advantage in the environment he and his fellows live in. Slower runners will get eaten by lions, less resistant to disease will die of diseases, stuff like that. The individual who is stronger or better looking or has a longer neck, etc. will get the most food, the best mate, the tastiest leaves and his children will also have the same genetic advantage that made him so great. multiply by a million years, etc.
This gorilla's condition was not at all genetic, it would be the same as becoming a paraplegic and developing excellent upper body strength and doing cool wheelchair tricks. Your kids would have working legs, weak upper bodies and couldn't pop a wheelie either.
Here you are, Mr. Bowie, your studio is finished, you can start recording your next 'Space Oddity' now!
"How come I'm not hearing any sound?"
Oh yeah, I forgot, here's the manual. And a copy of 'How to learn C++ in 21 days'. Don't forget to recompile your kernel once you've written the driver.
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Middle-click (click the mouse wheel) on it. That's the same button people generally use to open tabs.
I'm not normally one to say RTFM but your triple-question mark sequence and definitive "it's impossible" assertation indicate an aggressive, belligerent attitude and that, combined with an - on its own - perfectly forgivable ignorance, have mixed together and fermented to create such an offensive little post that i feel a certain sentence coming out of my fingers.
I feel it, I don't think I can stop it, no... it's too late... here it comes...
READ THE FUCKING MANUAL BEFORE YOU GO AROUND WHINING LIKE A FOUR YEAR-OLD! THE SOLUTION EXISTS BUT YOUR STUPIDITY BLINDS YOU TO IT!
Like I say, I normally wouldn't write that but the compulsion was overwhelming. Sorry for any inconvenience. You may continue with your activities now. Thank you for your attention. Happy to help.
BMW vaulted to one of the top teams because they put some of their best engineers and spent a buttload of money(350 million+) initializing the team.
A small(?) nitpick, there is no BMW team in Formula One, they just supply the engines for the Williams team, just as Michelin supply the tyres and HP supply computer systems.
Williams is one of the most successful Grand Prix teams of them all with a long and rich history and this is my real pet hate, living in Germany, to always hear it being referred to as BMW when BMW has no influence over anything to do with the car or the team. They just make the engines, like Honda, Renault, Judd and many other companies have done before them.
Not picking on you, it just gets my goat when people get this wrong.
convert.exe seemed to convert fat to ntfs pretty well back in the NT4 days...
Right, but that's not what I meant. I wasn't very clear 'cause it's late. FAT and NTFS are just (more or less) different ways of organising the disk and they have native support. What about the new Longhorn Journalling filesystem? That's not native to XP, nothing in XP is designed for that. This then would be a patch which potentially alters every part of the OS which accesses the hard drive. Might be easy to patch that in, might be stupendously catastrophic.
Basically I was talking about dramatically modifying core OS components on-the-fly. Out of all the companies in Redmond, which one would you trust most to achieve the catastrophic result?
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when? let us know.
that just means it's hidden
can you get him to bring me something back from panthip plaza?
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wow, i'm glad i don't live where you live.
maybe you wanna take a gun with you, for 'protection'?
A lot of musicians are not buying nForce 4s because of the problems with PCI-Express and audio performance http://www.rme-audio.com/english/techinfo/nforce4_ tests.htm. How does this chipset compare? I want to upgrade my PC soon and go with PCI express but nForce doesn't appear to be an option and, well, VIA boards used to have so many stability problems that I can't bring myself to trust them. And Athlon64s don't run so well on Intel mobos ;)
This is one of those areas that no review ever touches, because most buyers don't give a shit about it. I've never read a review which mentions that (older?) Geforce cards look like crap compared to ATIs and Matroxes and I've rarely read a review of a graphics card or mobo which takes one line to tell the reader how loud the fan is; all you see is benchmarks because that's what sells I guess.
So? How is it for audio? Can I trust a VIA motherboard?
I missed your point too, I think. The parent poster interpreted it the same way I did..
:)
You didn't make your point very well. Could you please make it again? And type slowly, for dummies among us
buy an XBox?
What?
Eight hundred bucks for a thin client? Seriously?
No, no, it's because they shut Suprnova down and eliminated the piracy.
It piqued your interest.
Mods, that was funny. Ironic social comedy which nobody got. I laughed.
Yep, you're right. If a catalyst such as a disease (obviously polio wouldn't really work because it doesn't just paralyse arms) became part of the environment then survival of the fittest would kick in and, assuming it stayed around, the apes would develop the ability to walk upright.
:)
I don't think that would be a step towards a species of bipeds because the only advantage of this trait is being able to stay alive after contracting a disease. the ones who weren't afflicted would have no reason to walk on two legs and the ones who were afflicted would be forced by circumstances into doing something unnatural. i absolutely agree that it is a survival method and that it is an environmentally evolved one with the disease as the catalyst.
I still don't see how this would be a step towards walking on two legs. It's a new ability they got through evolution which they only use when they can't do it the normal way. I'm imagining a few generations of kids being born without arms and learning to hold a pen between their toes and write. If there's no advantage or disadvantage to using a foot or a hand then we wouldn't end up a society of people who wrote with their feet; we'd be a society of people who *can* write with their feet. It's a cool thing to be able to do but not key to survival and not key to genetic superiority.
So you're spot on with your first point, the ability would develop through evolution, but I don't believe it would have an effect one way or the other on walking upright.
I could go on about maybe the disease becomes a permanent part of their lives, like SIV, and then they would all be walking upright but it would still be a case of calling their backup system into service after their primary had failed. But then maybe they would be born with shorter and shorter arms because the disease affected their DNA, who knows? But I won't because I have to go to bed, my girlfriend is already pissed off. Evolution ain't going to help me there.
Thanks for the good argument
Yeah but it's still not genetic, it's adapted behaviour. The new apes would walk on four legs until they got polio and then would walk on two. The walking on the hind legs is a redundant backup system but there's no environmental advantage to it.
It would have to be genetic for it to contibute towards evolution. The gorilla would have to be able to pass it on to its children. Also this is only a behaviour and not a physical trait; the gorilla is doing it on purpose because it causes him less discomfort than using four limbs. His children won't be in the same position since all of their limbs will function properly.
Evolution happens after some slight genetic mutation gives an individual an advantage in the environment he and his fellows live in. Slower runners will get eaten by lions, less resistant to disease will die of diseases, stuff like that. The individual who is stronger or better looking or has a longer neck, etc. will get the most food, the best mate, the tastiest leaves and his children will also have the same genetic advantage that made him so great. multiply by a million years, etc.
This gorilla's condition was not at all genetic, it would be the same as becoming a paraplegic and developing excellent upper body strength and doing cool wheelchair tricks. Your kids would have working legs, weak upper bodies and couldn't pop a wheelie either.
Unless the sniper snipes you in the thing that you don't want to be snipped.
Here you are, Mr. Bowie, your studio is finished, you can start recording your next 'Space Oddity' now!
"How come I'm not hearing any sound?"
Oh yeah, I forgot, here's the manual. And a copy of 'How to learn C++ in 21 days'. Don't forget to recompile your kernel once you've written the driver.
"Colonel? Chauffeur??"
Middle-click (click the mouse wheel) on it. That's the same button people generally use to open tabs.
I'm not normally one to say RTFM but your triple-question mark sequence and definitive "it's impossible" assertation indicate an aggressive, belligerent attitude and that, combined with an - on its own - perfectly forgivable ignorance, have mixed together and fermented to create such an offensive little post that i feel a certain sentence coming out of my fingers.
I feel it, I don't think I can stop it, no... it's too late... here it comes...
READ THE FUCKING MANUAL BEFORE YOU GO AROUND WHINING LIKE A FOUR YEAR-OLD! THE SOLUTION EXISTS BUT YOUR STUPIDITY BLINDS YOU TO IT!
Like I say, I normally wouldn't write that but the compulsion was overwhelming. Sorry for any inconvenience. You may continue with your activities now. Thank you for your attention. Happy to help.
BMW vaulted to one of the top teams because they put some of their best engineers and spent a buttload of money(350 million+) initializing the team.
A small(?) nitpick, there is no BMW team in Formula One, they just supply the engines for the Williams team, just as Michelin supply the tyres and HP supply computer systems.
Williams is one of the most successful Grand Prix teams of them all with a long and rich history and this is my real pet hate, living in Germany, to always hear it being referred to as BMW when BMW has no influence over anything to do with the car or the team. They just make the engines, like Honda, Renault, Judd and many other companies have done before them.
Not picking on you, it just gets my goat when people get this wrong.
Oh, hey, it's raining!
But we *are* superior to them.
(count how many "hell, yeah!"s I get before someone stops to question whether I'm European or American)
When you have a system crash core that you'd like a programmer to examine do you tell him "Sniff my dump"?
(BOFH rules!)
Maybe that's why it costs $20 instead of $300?
convert.exe seemed to convert fat to ntfs pretty well back in the NT4 days...
Right, but that's not what I meant. I wasn't very clear 'cause it's late. FAT and NTFS are just (more or less) different ways of organising the disk and they have native support. What about the new Longhorn Journalling filesystem? That's not native to XP, nothing in XP is designed for that. This then would be a patch which potentially alters every part of the OS which accesses the hard drive. Might be easy to patch that in, might be stupendously catastrophic.
Basically I was talking about dramatically modifying core OS components on-the-fly. Out of all the companies in Redmond, which one would you trust most to achieve the catastrophic result?