Now imagine that on a much finer-grain scale, allowing you to choose even the on-board options. Choose a processor, a sound chipset, a wireless chipset, a video chipset, an IDE interface, and a LAN chipset. The OEM then literally builds a motherboard to exactly your specs and sends it to you.
You can't really do this anymore because motherboard features are determined, solely, by the MCH and ICH chipsets. This is the first thing you should research when looking for a new board, once you know what can be connected to the chipsets you can simply power search newegg.com for the boards that meet your requirements... If newegg doesn't carry it you can still use them to get a list of companies that might make what your looking for.
Ahh to quote my earlier reply... "Iran has large stock piles of refined U-235 and the whole nuclear industry here is in a buzz about it, but the press is not reporting it... I have family that works in the industry and this is what they tell me."
Much of the nuclear industry is military reserve (like the Civil Reserve Air Fleet) and the government keeps the company executives abreast on international affairs.
I'd like Iran to go nuclear, nor do I believe their claim of only being interested in power generation (after watching what happened to their neighbor, there's simply no way Iran could not want that protection).
It will be the latter... Iran has large stock piles of refined U-235 and the whole nuclear industry here is in a buzz about it, but the news is not reporting it... I have family that works in the industry and this is what they tell me.
Nice comparison, but there's really only two that matter (at least on PCs):...
That's not the conclusions I made! I just tried SBC and it managed to compress a 619MB ISO to 293MB! For comparison WinRAR compressed it to 353MB, and WinZip to 382MB.
SBC archiver is worth the extra hassle... If your dealing with billable network transfers. Someone needs to reverse engineer the application so we can implement it on *nix systems.
How about physics? They're just coming into fashion, and fast. Yeah, we make do at the moment with piss-poor approximations, like Oblivion's bump-into-a-table-and-watch-plates-fly-off-superso nic engine. There's no reason we couldn't do better
"The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power." -- Noah Webster.
Yes I know it's a fantasy. Around 52% of the veterans are disabled or over the age of 70, leaving 12,679,627 who could fight. Assuming 50% are indifferent your down to 6,339,814 vets.
The little popguns available to the civilian populace isn't going to do a damn thing against the military force of the US.
Do you really think the US military would fight it's civilians? haha. umm lets see...
26,403,703 veterans versus 2,685,713 active duty and reserve? No contest, the military would be completely subjugated in a matter of days. You also failed to realize that most military personal will refuse orders to kill family, friends, and neighbors. It's more conceivable that the military would turn on the government or refuse to take sides if we had a mass revolution.
* 1st Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble.
* 2nd Amendment: The right to protect your 1st amendment rights by any means necessary.
Consider: you are carrying a concealed weapon and you hear gunfire coming from the room down the hall (or maybe from the floor below). You draw your weapon, and the next thing you know someone carrying a gun walks into the room. Is it another student from elsewhere in the building responding to the gunfire, or the nutcase? Do you shoot them before they can shoot you? Now add plenty of screaming and panic, and multiply this scenario by the number of different panicked scared students all carrying firearms.
Good point. But carrying a gun doesn't automatically make you a police officer. The gun only comes out if you can win a justifiable homicide case.
This is why it is wrong for your second amendment rights to end at the boundary of a school.
I agree with you... But I'd restrict carry on campus to teachers, staff, and postgrad students. Your typical undergrad college student is not responsible enough to carry a handgun... anywhere.
Google is not an OSS company. Little of what they do has been released as free software. How much have they changed linux to optimise their operations? Who would benefit from the same patches? Nobody knows.
Google is a marketing analytics company, they have no intention of pissing off their statistical sample space with obtrusive crap through doubleclick... Gmail, Froogle, Google News and Maps, Youtube, and Doubleclick are just a means to an end. If you still haven't figured it out I'll spell it out for you...
They want to know everything you do, say, and think so they can sell it to other companies... for a hefty sum.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mJ5kwVqkqg
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Don't be silly, it's Quartz Extreme... and Steve Jobs is Jesus resurrected.
I believe he's thinking about NT4, DirectX 3 was the last version supported.
Ahh to quote my earlier reply... "Iran has large stock piles of refined U-235 and the whole nuclear industry here is in a buzz about it, but the press is not reporting it... I have family that works in the industry and this is what they tell me."
Much of the nuclear industry is military reserve (like the Civil Reserve Air Fleet) and the government keeps the company executives abreast on international affairs.
SHA-256 would work better* for this... and even though you were joking... This could be useful for recovering corrupted files.
*Less collisions etc.
SBC archiver is worth the extra hassle... If your dealing with billable network transfers. Someone needs to reverse engineer the application so we can implement it on *nix systems.
*help = more people, free parts, money, or whatever.
I'm refering to Kandid... To top it off the dam thing isn't even in vectorized.
"The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power." -- Noah Webster.
Yes I know it's a fantasy. Around 52% of the veterans are disabled or over the age of 70, leaving 12,679,627 who could fight. Assuming 50% are indifferent your down to 6,339,814 vets.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/c2kbr-22.pdf
26,403,703 veterans versus 2,685,713 active duty and reserve? No contest, the military would be completely subjugated in a matter of days. You also failed to realize that most military personal will refuse orders to kill family, friends, and neighbors. It's more conceivable that the military would turn on the government or refuse to take sides if we had a mass revolution.
* 1st Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble.
* 2nd Amendment: The right to protect your 1st amendment rights by any means necessary.
Move to a different county if you don't like it.
1. Freedom of speech.
2. Right to bear arms.
Move to a different country if you don't like it.
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Does Google think your a gynecologist?
To a degree.
They want to know everything you do, say, and think so they can sell it to other companies... for a hefty sum.