Sold for anything under $49.95 Pay Per View! (And the Spice channel can air the post-game ceremonies, but there's no way I want that on my credit card!)
Don't waste your money... just wait an hour and then download the avi off of kazaa.
Yes- just needs an integrated goggle crosshair that follows an infrared "laser sight" mount on a pistol. That way you can not only see through walls, but shoot from the hip with perfect accuracy...
Dude, smoke another joint and relax. There is no need to sound quite so self-righteous, even if you are right. Doubly so since your best argument is a straw man.
Anyway don't feel sorry for the "free education" guys- that is at best a misnomer (i.e. the academy is a $250,000 education, shoved up your ass a penny at a time) and at worst stupid. Everyone who signs up for a service academy knows that they could die for thir country, and those who do it for the free education either don't make it through their plebe year (because they discover how expensive the free education really is) or realize that there are more deeply gratifying motives than personal greed somewhere along the line.
Anyway what you leave out in your diatribe is the people who genuinely want to protect the country they love. When this requires aggression, then aggression is exercised (although force is a much better term to use since aggression is at best a loaded term and also quite inaccurate as a depiction of what motivates the average soldier). Anyway the use of force is quite rare; usually the nation's interests can be served through diplomacy, which only works if the diplomat has either a big stick or a few hundred cruise missiles to back up his words.
There are only 480,000 active duty soldiers (i don't know where dumbass got 1.4 million). There are 55,000 permanently stationed in Germany, and about 70,000 permanently stationed in Korea. So 1 in 4 of our active duty force is already accounted for, and basically immobile unless absolutely threated by all-out conflict elsewhere.
References available from www.army.mil if you look for 5 minutes or so. Also everything you want to know about US military doctrine, which it might be good to learn something about before you post criticism in public (else you look quite silly to everyone but slashdot moderators).
Wouldn't it be great if you if you were to drive to your nearest military installation and say that to someone's face? That would at least prove that YOU weren't a "cowardly pussy".
Actually, because the army teaches discipline and self-respect, you would probably just get laughed at by anyone in uniform. But drop by your local bowling alley or neighborhood bar and I guarantee that there will be a dozen or so army alumni present who would love to make you regret the fact that you exercised the freedom of speech that their sacrifices bought you.
Anyway your ideas on saving money are duly noted. Keep up the brilliant strategic thinking, please. It provides a source of mirth for those fat-assed cowardly people who actually have to make life or death decisions in order to keep you free.
It's been done, at least in regards to their literary inspirations (both borrowed extremely heavily from dunsany, etc)
Look for books by Lovecraft scholar S.T. joshi (among others) on the subject. Or just do a google search on the alt.horror.cthulhu newsgroup (the question gets asked often enough that it should be in the faq)
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I don't think they used many "lav seats" in these airplanes...
think about it
[though if they did, it would certainly be grounds for scandal]
In case you don't understand why the ricers laugh so loudly at you when you tell them that: no corvette will beat a well-tweaked CRX, unless the course is either downhill or very long and straight. The corvette will probably have a higher max speed, but it will take a lot longer to accelerate because it is so heavy.
I did the same thing with Blue Mars. The first two books were tedious enough, wasting a huge amount of time on unncessary "character development" that didn't really do its job. I got about half way through Blue Mars, realized that everyone I cared about was dead and that I wished all the surviving main characters were dead, and that I didn't really care what happened to Mars anymore, and went and bought the new Orson Scott card book:)
I did, however, love the images of using terraforming as a weapon- drowning cities with aquifier eruptions, creating storms to hide troop movements, etc. I believe that KSR may have unwittingly explored a new idea; at least, I can't really think of anyone else who discussed all the ramifications of terraforming (not to mention space elevators) in the detail that he did.
How realistic are super-proficient women, who just happen to dress provocatively and mouth his beliefs perfectly?
I've known several, some of whom loved heinlein because they identified with his characters, while others disliked him (possibly for the same reason). One absolutely HATED him, but she had race-related self esteem issues that went way beyond poor literature-appreciation skills. I bear some of the blame as well, for starting her on the wrong book.
IMHO Heinlein hated the idea of women-as-cattle that conventional culturalists consider "proper". I personally consider him a feminist- his protagonists embody every essential feature of a truly realized human woman. Brilliant, attractive, unyielding, loving and brave... Should he have made them ugly, or dumb, or sloe-eyed, just to keep book-of-the-month-club soccer moms from feeling inferior?
Wow, $28 Trillion is a lot of money (I got $22.8 billion when I checked the math). Still, a way would have to be found to reduce that by at least an order of magnitude before it would become practical... Anyway if cost were not a factor, it would be a much nicer trip.
And yes, 2 hours is excessive- it almost never takes that long. But you have to plan on it taking that long in order to be sure to make your flight. I have been held up longer than that for domestic flights from both LAX and DC, and missed a flight out of OKC's tiny airport because I allowed less than an hour, so I have learned the hard way not to cut it too close.
Because it takes an hour to get to the airport, 2 hours to get through security, then another hour to get your baggage, rent a car and get out of the destination airport.
If you could take the subway to the rail station, in, for instance, NYC, then take a maglev to chicago (750 miles) at 250 miles per hour, then go from the rail station to downtown on the El, you are talking about a 3.5 hour trip, doorstep to doorstep. As opposed to 5 or 6 on an airplane, even if it only takes 1.5 hours flying time.
I wouldn't want to go from NY to LA on a train, but for transit amonst the centers of the east coast megacity, I don't think they can be beaten- unless airplanes get a whole lot more time-efficient (they may be, in Europe, but they currently suck here in the US).
My gaming box has an 8500, dual 1800+ with 2GB ram and u160 raid. I haven't done any serious benchmarking, but I run with/showfps 1 or whatever so I can see the numbers all the time. Uncapped, with AA off, I get about 260-450 fps in quake 3 on 1.32 windows XP, and about 10-40 max in linux (mandrake 8.2) using the old FireGL drivers. On windows I can set the card to 4x AA and cap my fps at 125, and never fall below that. Linux cannot run with AA on. This is at 800x600 in windows and 800x512 in linux, and fov set to 106 (running on an sgi 1600sw monitor).
So IMHO ATI's linux performance sucks, but more importantly, I get incredible artifacting in linux, making it almost completely unplayable. It is a shame, because my ping in linux is much more stable and 15-30ms lower than in windows.
I will install these new drivers tonight and see if anything improves.
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The engineer thinks the glass is full- with a safety factor of 1.0.
Start throwing out numbers like 250% (and jail terms for CEO's) and then maybe companies will think twice about whether or not to cheat. Hell if the penalty is only 50% a company would be foolish NOT to rig pices- even if they get caught they still make a positive profit from the illicit activity.
Because with nanotechnology it becomes extremely easy to destroy a planet. It is much easier to abort a potential adversary than it is to guard against him once he is grown.
Think of it as evolution in action: all the naive advanced civilizations get wiped out by "baddies", leaving only baddies to make contact with. Non-"baddie" civilizations become "baddie" civilizations or perish.
We have exactly one data point for analysis of intelligent behavior, and that data point leads us to believe that intelligent beings will be aggressive, irrational, violent, sometimes psychotic. We can of course tell nothing about life evolving elsewhere from that data point, but it is possible that we are at either end of the spectrum as far as life goes. We may be unimaginably brutal, measured against the standards of other beings, or we may be unimaginably weak and naive- or we may be average (in which case we should be very afraid).
I think it would be extremely rash to risk the future of our species upon the assumed altruism of a species which we know absolutely nothing about. The one very simple explanation, imho, for the reason that we have found no evidence of advanced civilizations is that the true measure of an advanced civilization is found in how well it conceals its existence- because it only takes one wolfling race in all the universe to exterminate or enslave every single nice, peace-loving race as soon as the first primitive radio signals are detected.
So the question becomes not "what are the odds that a civilization which attains the ability to travel between the stars will be peaceful", but rather, "what are the odds that ANY psychotically xenophobic advanced civilization, ANYWHERE in the galaxy, will manage to build starships". Unless this number is zero (not vanishingly small, but literally ZERO) we have to be incredibly vigilant against detection, because it is a hell of a lot easier to destroy a planet than it is to guard yourself against its inhabitants forever, especially if you consider nanotechnology and viral warfare as legitimate tools of conquest. And we have to assume that the penalty of detection by a wolfling race is death.
And, if you want to be cynical about it, every other rational civilization must assume that we (and all other n00b civs) are a wolfling civilization in the making... which means that we might be judged worthy of deletion by even the most peace-loving B.E.M. out there. Hell from their perspective we might not even qualify as intelligent (or even alive)- maybe we are nothing more than insects or plants to them, and therefore they would have no more ethical qualms about killing us that we have about mowing our yards.
OOG was good but my favorite was TinMan00. Delusional to the point of psychosis, neurotic as hell, vaugely off-topic but intensely concentrated, there was a certain genius in what he wrote that made me question reality (and truly consider investing in tin foil). I bet I used 20 mod points trying to get this guy up out of -1 purgatory... because a great deal of what he said could have been true and rational, if the universe was only slightly different (and how do we know that the way we see the universe is not just as delusional? A shared delusion is none the less distorted). He would say something poetic and fascinating, but he would then tack on a sig which mentioned alien hoaxes, cia conspiracies and gonadatrophins and get struck down as a troll.
Insane to realize that I have been waiting for him to post again for almost two years now; I guess he is truly gone for good. Sigh... the torch has been passed; Physics Genius and others must bear the weight of TinMan's absence...
While we're brainstorming, how about a "mouse" that reads the delta your hand makes in a very weak magnetic field and translates it as movement? Like a theremin, but for quake...
Hehe. I stand corrected- sort of- it may have been done but was definitely a really silly idea:-) This interesting link talks about what actually happened when the ship was hit (although the failure mode described is almost certainly wrong):
"The Italians made the next, much more negative leap in 1934, with the Pugliese System introduced in the Vittorio Veneto Class and the reconstructions of the Conte di Cavour Class and Andrea Doria Class ships. The Pugliese design filled the volume of the TDS with a large cylinder, which was in turn filled with closed tubes reminiscent of those in HMS Ramillies. Pugiese's theory was that the torpedo would expend its energy crushing the cylinder. In practice the design failed miserably. Following the path of least resistance, the blast traveled around the cylinder and concentrated itself against the weakest point of the complex structure supporting the cylinder: the concave holding bulkhead.
This bulkhead acted much like a dam mistakenly built bowing downstream, rather than upstream against the current. This concave surface was structurally the weakest possible arrangement for containing the force of an explosion, and to make matters worse, the workmanship proved tragically defective. Conte di Cavour sank from a single torpedo hit at Taranto, and Caio Duilio had to be beached to prevent her sinking, also after one hit. Littorio suffered three hits, grounding her bow before she could sink. Vittorio Veneto twice, and Littorio once, suffered severe flooding in dangerous situations at sea when struck by torpedoes, more than such modern ships should have.
Pugliese's design also consumed tremendous volume, and foreshortened the depth of the armored belt, making the ships so fitted more vulnerable to shell hits below the waterline. Once again, practical experience proved that not every innovation represented an improvement. "
thanks for pointing me at this, I learned something from it (and have a new example to show my students).
I'm sorry, but this is simply foolish. No sane engineer would EVER design a battleship that used water as armor. Water transmits energy far too easily; the internal hydrodynamic shock produced by a torpedo or kinetic energy warhead would literally shatter the entire hull, instantaneuosly blowing out every fastener or weld joint in the ship. It would be neat to watch, but devastating for those on board... (For an example of hydrodynamic shock, try shooting first an empty soda can and then a full soda can with a small caliber firearm).
Then again, it sounds like the ship was British, and judging by some of the things I have seen on European-designed aircraft you might be right. British structural engineers have made some amazingly, umm, interesting design decisions in the past.
Yes. You can get one at Fry's for about $65, either a 1 or 2 inch and with left or right 90 degree angles. Look in the PCB prototyping section. They also have similar PCI risers. I haven't tried them, so I don't know if they have a detrimental effect on stability. Anyone know?
Also, does anyone know where to get an AGP riser card on line or near OKC? I am 200 miles from the nearest Fry's (I stopped by the Dallas store to see if they carried the part after Quakecon, but didn't buy it then because I figured I could find one on Ebay for $10... then couldn't)
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. - Exodus 22:18 KJV (Modern translations say "sorceress.")
While a literal translation would read "poisener". I.E. one of the people who tried to assassinate kngs with poisen in the glorious days that the bible was written in.
It was changed to "witch" sometime in the middle ages, as a political tool to allow arbitrary enforcement of the death penalty against people that the Church didn't like.
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Sold for anything under $49.95 Pay Per View! (And the Spice channel can air the post-game ceremonies, but there's no way I want that on my credit card!)
Don't waste your money... just wait an hour and then download the avi off of kazaa.
"let's be frank" on scifi.com: http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_ archive/aldiss2/
Yes- just needs an integrated goggle crosshair that follows an infrared "laser sight" mount on a pistol. That way you can not only see through walls, but shoot from the hip with perfect accuracy...
You're right. They should just be fined for disturbing the peace, the same way anyone else who projects 90 decibels of faux midi in public would.
Dude, smoke another joint and relax. There is no need to sound quite so self-righteous, even if you are right. Doubly so since your best argument is a straw man.
Anyway don't feel sorry for the "free education" guys- that is at best a misnomer (i.e. the academy is a $250,000 education, shoved up your ass a penny at a time) and at worst stupid. Everyone who signs up for a service academy knows that they could die for thir country, and those who do it for the free education either don't make it through their plebe year (because they discover how expensive the free education really is) or realize that there are more deeply gratifying motives than personal greed somewhere along the line.
Anyway what you leave out in your diatribe is the people who genuinely want to protect the country they love. When this requires aggression, then aggression is exercised (although force is a much better term to use since aggression is at best a loaded term and also quite inaccurate as a depiction of what motivates the average soldier). Anyway the use of force is quite rare; usually the nation's interests can be served through diplomacy, which only works if the diplomat has either a big stick or a few hundred cruise missiles to back up his words.
There are only 480,000 active duty soldiers (i don't know where dumbass got 1.4 million). There are 55,000 permanently stationed in Germany, and about 70,000 permanently stationed in Korea. So 1 in 4 of our active duty force is already accounted for, and basically immobile unless absolutely threated by all-out conflict elsewhere.
References available from www.army.mil if you look for 5 minutes or so. Also everything you want to know about US military doctrine, which it might be good to learn something about before you post criticism in public (else you look quite silly to everyone but slashdot moderators).
Wouldn't it be great if you if you were to drive to your nearest military installation and say that to someone's face? That would at least prove that YOU weren't a "cowardly pussy".
Actually, because the army teaches discipline and self-respect, you would probably just get laughed at by anyone in uniform. But drop by your local bowling alley or neighborhood bar and I guarantee that there will be a dozen or so army alumni present who would love to make you regret the fact that you exercised the freedom of speech that their sacrifices bought you.
Anyway your ideas on saving money are duly noted. Keep up the brilliant strategic thinking, please. It provides a source of mirth for those fat-assed cowardly people who actually have to make life or death decisions in order to keep you free.
It's been done, at least in regards to their literary inspirations (both borrowed extremely heavily from dunsany, etc)
Look for books by Lovecraft scholar S.T. joshi (among others) on the subject. Or just do a google search on the alt.horror.cthulhu newsgroup (the question gets asked often enough that it should be in the faq)
I don't think they used many "lav seats" in these airplanes...
think about it
[though if they did, it would certainly be grounds for scandal]
In case you don't understand why the ricers laugh so loudly at you when you tell them that: no corvette will beat a well-tweaked CRX, unless the course is either downhill or very long and straight. The corvette will probably have a higher max speed, but it will take a lot longer to accelerate because it is so heavy.
I did the same thing with Blue Mars. The first two books were tedious enough, wasting a huge amount of time on unncessary "character development" that didn't really do its job. I got about half way through Blue Mars, realized that everyone I cared about was dead and that I wished all the surviving main characters were dead, and that I didn't really care what happened to Mars anymore, and went and bought the new Orson Scott card book :)
I did, however, love the images of using terraforming as a weapon- drowning cities with aquifier eruptions, creating storms to hide troop movements, etc. I believe that KSR may have unwittingly explored a new idea; at least, I can't really think of anyone else who discussed all the ramifications of terraforming (not to mention space elevators) in the detail that he did.
How realistic are super-proficient women, who just happen to dress provocatively and mouth his beliefs perfectly?
I've known several, some of whom loved heinlein because they identified with his characters, while others disliked him (possibly for the same reason). One absolutely HATED him, but she had race-related self esteem issues that went way beyond poor literature-appreciation skills. I bear some of the blame as well, for starting her on the wrong book.
IMHO Heinlein hated the idea of women-as-cattle that conventional culturalists consider "proper". I personally consider him a feminist- his protagonists embody every essential feature of a truly realized human woman. Brilliant, attractive, unyielding, loving and brave... Should he have made them ugly, or dumb, or sloe-eyed, just to keep book-of-the-month-club soccer moms from feeling inferior?
Wow, $28 Trillion is a lot of money (I got $22.8 billion when I checked the math). Still, a way would have to be found to reduce that by at least an order of magnitude before it would become practical... Anyway if cost were not a factor, it would be a much nicer trip.
And yes, 2 hours is excessive- it almost never takes that long. But you have to plan on it taking that long in order to be sure to make your flight. I have been held up longer than that for domestic flights from both LAX and DC, and missed a flight out of OKC's tiny airport because I allowed less than an hour, so I have learned the hard way not to cut it too close.
Because it takes an hour to get to the airport, 2 hours to get through security, then another hour to get your baggage, rent a car and get out of the destination airport.
If you could take the subway to the rail station, in, for instance, NYC, then take a maglev to chicago (750 miles) at 250 miles per hour, then go from the rail station to downtown on the El, you are talking about a 3.5 hour trip, doorstep to doorstep. As opposed to 5 or 6 on an airplane, even if it only takes 1.5 hours flying time.
I wouldn't want to go from NY to LA on a train, but for transit amonst the centers of the east coast megacity, I don't think they can be beaten- unless airplanes get a whole lot more time-efficient (they may be, in Europe, but they currently suck here in the US).
My gaming box has an 8500, dual 1800+ with 2GB ram and u160 raid. I haven't done any serious benchmarking, but I run with /showfps 1 or whatever so I can see the numbers all the time. Uncapped, with AA off, I get about 260-450 fps in quake 3 on 1.32 windows XP, and about 10-40 max in linux (mandrake 8.2) using the old FireGL drivers. On windows I can set the card to 4x AA and cap my fps at 125, and never fall below that. Linux cannot run with AA on. This is at 800x600 in windows and 800x512 in linux, and fov set to 106 (running on an sgi 1600sw monitor).
So IMHO ATI's linux performance sucks, but more importantly, I get incredible artifacting in linux, making it almost completely unplayable. It is a shame, because my ping in linux is much more stable and 15-30ms lower than in windows.
I will install these new drivers tonight and see if anything improves.
The engineer thinks the glass is full- with a safety factor of 1.0.
(and he could prove it)
50% seems a bit less-than-serious to me.
Start throwing out numbers like 250% (and jail terms for CEO's) and then maybe companies will think twice about whether or not to cheat. Hell if the penalty is only 50% a company would be foolish NOT to rig pices- even if they get caught they still make a positive profit from the illicit activity.
Because with nanotechnology it becomes extremely easy to destroy a planet. It is much easier to abort a potential adversary than it is to guard against him once he is grown.
Think of it as evolution in action: all the naive advanced civilizations get wiped out by "baddies", leaving only baddies to make contact with. Non-"baddie" civilizations become "baddie" civilizations or perish.
We have exactly one data point for analysis of intelligent behavior, and that data point leads us to believe that intelligent beings will be aggressive, irrational, violent, sometimes psychotic. We can of course tell nothing about life evolving elsewhere from that data point, but it is possible that we are at either end of the spectrum as far as life goes. We may be unimaginably brutal, measured against the standards of other beings, or we may be unimaginably weak and naive- or we may be average (in which case we should be very afraid).
I think it would be extremely rash to risk the future of our species upon the assumed altruism of a species which we know absolutely nothing about. The one very simple explanation, imho, for the reason that we have found no evidence of advanced civilizations is that the true measure of an advanced civilization is found in how well it conceals its existence- because it only takes one wolfling race in all the universe to exterminate or enslave every single nice, peace-loving race as soon as the first primitive radio signals are detected.
So the question becomes not "what are the odds that a civilization which attains the ability to travel between the stars will be peaceful", but rather, "what are the odds that ANY psychotically xenophobic advanced civilization, ANYWHERE in the galaxy, will manage to build starships". Unless this number is zero (not vanishingly small, but literally ZERO) we have to be incredibly vigilant against detection, because it is a hell of a lot easier to destroy a planet than it is to guard yourself against its inhabitants forever, especially if you consider nanotechnology and viral warfare as legitimate tools of conquest. And we have to assume that the penalty of detection by a wolfling race is death.
And, if you want to be cynical about it, every other rational civilization must assume that we (and all other n00b civs) are a wolfling civilization in the making... which means that we might be judged worthy of deletion by even the most peace-loving B.E.M. out there. Hell from their perspective we might not even qualify as intelligent (or even alive)- maybe we are nothing more than insects or plants to them, and therefore they would have no more ethical qualms about killing us that we have about mowing our yards.
OOG was good but my favorite was TinMan00. Delusional to the point of psychosis, neurotic as hell, vaugely off-topic but intensely concentrated, there was a certain genius in what he wrote that made me question reality (and truly consider investing in tin foil). I bet I used 20 mod points trying to get this guy up out of -1 purgatory... because a great deal of what he said could have been true and rational, if the universe was only slightly different (and how do we know that the way we see the universe is not just as delusional? A shared delusion is none the less distorted). He would say something poetic and fascinating, but he would then tack on a sig which mentioned alien hoaxes, cia conspiracies and gonadatrophins and get struck down as a troll.
Insane to realize that I have been waiting for him to post again for almost two years now; I guess he is truly gone for good. Sigh... the torch has been passed; Physics Genius and others must bear the weight of TinMan's absence...
While we're brainstorming, how about a "mouse" that reads the delta your hand makes in a very weak magnetic field and translates it as movement? Like a theremin, but for quake...
Hehe. I stand corrected- sort of- it may have been done but was definitely a really silly idea :-) This interesting link talks about what actually happened when the ship was hit (although the failure mode described is almost certainly wrong):
"The Italians made the next, much more negative leap in 1934, with the Pugliese System introduced in the Vittorio Veneto Class and the reconstructions of the Conte di Cavour Class and Andrea Doria Class ships. The Pugliese design filled the volume of the TDS with a large cylinder, which was in turn filled with closed tubes reminiscent of those in HMS Ramillies. Pugiese's theory was that the torpedo would expend its energy crushing the cylinder. In practice the design failed miserably. Following the path of least resistance, the blast traveled around the cylinder and concentrated itself against the weakest point of the complex structure supporting the cylinder: the concave holding bulkhead.
This bulkhead acted much like a dam mistakenly built bowing downstream, rather than upstream against the current. This concave surface was structurally the weakest possible arrangement for containing the force of an explosion, and to make matters worse, the workmanship proved tragically defective. Conte di Cavour sank from a single torpedo hit at Taranto, and Caio Duilio had to be beached to prevent her sinking, also after one hit. Littorio suffered three hits, grounding her bow before she could sink. Vittorio Veneto twice, and Littorio once, suffered severe flooding in dangerous situations at sea when struck by torpedoes, more than such modern ships should have.
Pugliese's design also consumed tremendous volume, and foreshortened the depth of the armored belt, making the ships so fitted more vulnerable to shell hits below the waterline. Once again, practical experience proved that not every innovation represented an improvement. "
thanks for pointing me at this, I learned something from it (and have a new example to show my students).
I'm sorry, but this is simply foolish. No sane engineer would EVER design a battleship that used water as armor. Water transmits energy far too easily; the internal hydrodynamic shock produced by a torpedo or kinetic energy warhead would literally shatter the entire hull, instantaneuosly blowing out every fastener or weld joint in the ship. It would be neat to watch, but devastating for those on board... (For an example of hydrodynamic shock, try shooting first an empty soda can and then a full soda can with a small caliber firearm).
Then again, it sounds like the ship was British, and judging by some of the things I have seen on European-designed aircraft you might be right. British structural engineers have made some amazingly, umm, interesting design decisions in the past.
Are there AGP riser cards?
Yes. You can get one at Fry's for about $65, either a 1 or 2 inch and with left or right 90 degree angles. Look in the PCB prototyping section. They also have similar PCI risers. I haven't tried them, so I don't know if they have a detrimental effect on stability. Anyone know?
Also, does anyone know where to get an AGP riser card on line or near OKC? I am 200 miles from the nearest Fry's (I stopped by the Dallas store to see if they carried the part after Quakecon, but didn't buy it then because I figured I could find one on Ebay for $10... then couldn't)
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. - Exodus 22:18 KJV (Modern translations say "sorceress.")
While a literal translation would read "poisener". I.E. one of the people who tried to assassinate kngs with poisen in the glorious days that the bible was written in.
It was changed to "witch" sometime in the middle ages, as a political tool to allow arbitrary enforcement of the death penalty against people that the Church didn't like.