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  1. Re:Sounds good. on One Video Card, 12 Monitors · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The post I responded to never mentioned how they are using citrix. There are many ways.

  2. Re:Matrox? on One Video Card, 12 Monitors · · Score: 1

    These don't cost thousands, the outputs are all digital, and these can play games.

  3. Re:You can always install HOW many? on One Video Card, 12 Monitors · · Score: 1

    You can install 3 of these cards, for 36 displays, if you use one of the more extreme motherboards (that are loaded with PCIe x16 slots). Heck, those motherboards support 4-way CrossFire (or SLI), so if they can get the cards down in size, 48 displays from one motherboard would be trivial to implement. Tasty.

  4. Re:Can You Install Three? on One Video Card, 12 Monitors · · Score: 3, Informative

    Like this one? It supports 4-way CrossFire (or SLI), and has enough PCIe x16 slots to cope with three of these cards.

  5. Re:Sounds good. on One Video Card, 12 Monitors · · Score: 1

    What O/S are you using? If it's Windows, are you using the ATI drivers? Native multiple-display configuration in Windows will never put a pop-up across the centre of your screens. I've been running multiple displays for years, and I've yet to see one.

  6. Re:War is not pretty on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    The reticle an Apache gunner has appears a lot larger than a PC display. It fills up the pilot's entire eye. And the guy is TRAINED to do this. If the idiot can't tell the difference between a tripod and a gun, what the fuck is he doing in a helicopter trying to tell the difference between a tripod and a gun? He's useless. As I said, the guy is woefully under-trained. You seem to agree with me. You are saying the very conditions he's expected to operate in are enough to throw him off track. That's about as pure a definition of "woefully under-trained" as you can hope for.

  7. Re:War is not pretty on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    I've only seen reports that an RPG was recovered from the scene, I've yet to see a single video frame showing one. As for why would armed Iraqis be in their streets? Probably trying to protect themselves from the looters the US army flatly refused to do anything about, forcing the average Iraqi to either defend themselves, or simply watch their hard-earned lives be stolen from right in front of them.

  8. Re:War is not pretty on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He couldn't even tell the difference between a tripod and an AK-47. He didn't even know that Iraqi citizens were allowed to have AK-47s (without being shot at). You can hear the difference between what they can see on the camera, and what they report. One AK-47 instantly becomes 6, and an indistinguishable shape becomes an RPG. So yeah, he was woefully under-trained. None of those folks should have been killed. They weren't firing on anyone, and didn't appear to have anything illegal on them. The call for clearance came before any RPG was ever seen (if there was one), so basically your lovely "hele-gunner" wanted to attack people who were doing nothing illegal. I somehow doubt you'd be fine if a local policeman shot one of your loved ones in the face for doing nothing. Double standards, much?

  9. Re:Feh on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    The helicopter crew was given clearance for the attack before they reported an RPG, and AK-47s are perfectly legal for Iraqi civilians to own. Pro-war people are so stupid.

  10. Re:War is not pretty on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's the difference between civilians being killed when the enemy tanks near their house draw fire, and civilians being killed because a helicopter gunner is woefully under-trained. Can't you tell the difference?

  11. Re:So ..... on SpaceX's Falcon 9 Appears As UFO In Australia · · Score: 1

    New types of propellant, new types of engines, new designs of rocket design, more frequent launches, sheer coincidence - you name it. Leaping to some retarded conclusion that it's some nefarious or secretive conspiracy is, well, retarded. Very retarded. It makes Carl Sagan cry, and makes you look like a nut job.

  12. Re:ECHELON on Mysterious Radio Station UVB-76 Goes Offline · · Score: 1

    If the person had actual evidence of this place's existence, while it was not known, then they are a conspiracy theorist. If they just guessed that something like this was in the works, without any actual evidence to show so, and claimed that it definitely existed, they are a paranoid fantasist. There's a difference.

  13. Re:ECHELON on Mysterious Radio Station UVB-76 Goes Offline · · Score: 1

    That's not a conspiracy theory. That's a fact. That doesn't stop the loonies ascribing all sorts of scary spooky tales to what it does, but it's no massive secret.

  14. Re:Actually it usually does on Mysterious Radio Station UVB-76 Goes Offline · · Score: 1

    No, a conspiracy theory is when people have evidence of various parts of a conspiracy, and then strive to put the missing pieces together. They have actual evidence. Nearly every single "conspiracy theory" I've seen online has absolutely no evidence behind it, just paranoia and a dangerously loose grasp of facts. The folks that discovered the Watergate scandal were true conspiracy theorists. People banging on about reptilians or the NWO are just lunatics. They have no evidence to convince others, yet somehow are magically convinced of it themselves - that is delusional.

  15. Re:The reason on Mysterious Radio Station UVB-76 Goes Offline · · Score: 1

    That's all fine and well, but until there is actual evidence of some nefarious scheme, to claim there is one (as conspiracy theorists usually do) is somewhat delusional. That's the problem most (reasonable) people have with conspiracy theorists - they don't have evidence of their theories, just wild paranoid guesses that suit whatever world-view they have (NWO, reptilians, aliens, whatever). They don't seem to get what critical thinking is, or why it's so important to learning.

  16. Re:So ..... on SpaceX's Falcon 9 Appears As UFO In Australia · · Score: 1

    Not this shite again. Any object travelling in space, ejecting something not exactly from its centre of gravity will start to spiral. As space is a near-vacuum, the ejecta will continue, and create a spiral. Get a fucking grip - it's insanity like yours that makes the internet look retarded.

  17. Re:Actually it usually does on Mysterious Radio Station UVB-76 Goes Offline · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nearly all of the "conspiracy theorists" I've spoken to online (including on Above Top Secret) aren't actually conspiracy theorists (akin to investigative journalists of days gone by), but seem to actually be paranoid fantasists. They don't have, or seem to require, actual evidence of a conspiracy before they will accept it as fact, and get rather upset if others don't believe it too.

  18. Re:Labeling on Urine Test For Autism · · Score: 1

    Without being able to diagnose a disease ('labelling' the person) there is simply no way to find a cure for it. Easy methods of diagnosis means more will be known about the disease. That can only help the current and future sufferers. If we adopted your strange views on medicine, in the early 1980s medicine should have stopped even bothering to diagnose people with AIDS, as there was nothing they could do about it. Brilliant logic.

  19. Re:Wait, what? on Windows 7: The Missing Manual · · Score: 1

    You seem to be confusing "books for people to learn Windows 7 who have never used Windows before" and "books for people to learn Windows 7 who have used Windows for years". But yeah, as the mods say, you're a troll.

  20. Re:Libraries on Windows 7: The Missing Manual · · Score: 1

    Because libraries actually puts everything in one location, as opposed to still having shortcuts to different locations, where your stuff is actually kept. People used to just make shortcuts to their various folders, then put them in one folder called "Music", say, but now you just set up a library, go to "Music", and everything's there - no digging deeper, it's right there. Fuck soft links - they're so 1990, and have been completely outdated for purposes like you say.

  21. Re:not to be an asshole... on Windows 7: The Missing Manual · · Score: 1

    If a letter is underlined, you can press that letter without any modifier to select it. That is making applications keyboard-friendly, something completely different to actual hot-keys.

  22. Re:Verizon isn't "3G" on Six Major 3G and 4G Networks Tested Nationwide · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Those nice little names also come with real minimum performance requirements, so if something claiming to be, say, 4G, and it actually isn't 4G (like Sprint's offerings - just WiMAX), then that's an issue.

  23. Re:It's time. on Apple Blindsides More AppStore Developers · · Score: 1

    You didn't even bother to read the brief introduction, did you?

  24. Re:Need a statistician here... on Australian Schools To Teach Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    You should go back to school. This is embarrassing.

  25. Re:Another point of view on Pakistan Lifts Ban After Facebook Deletes Offending Page · · Score: 1

    We're talking about a company, not the government. Companies want to make money. Being banned in several entire countries generally tends to hurt profits, and so they try to do what they can to alleviate such concerns. So the options are to either have a group that achieves nothing but telling people who don't know much about Islam what they already (incorrectly) think they know, and losing money in the process, or simply removing the group (pissing off the rednecks who use it), and keeping all the profit.

    You can leave your preachy-ness at the door. Facebook is a company and can do what the fuck they want.