I believe the line " a more perfect union " is actually in reference to the Articles of Confederation , which was the first governing document of the United States. The Constitution replaced it. Not quite. It is in the Preamble of the US Constitution: You need to do a better job of reading other's ...

Ok, maybe I should rephrase, show me significant voter fraud in the 20 years. I have no obligation to show anything, and even a single instance of fraud is sufficient reason to protect the integrity of the voting system by requiring a photo id. Ok, you made two statements here. They are both false....

There was massive voter fraud in Chicago during the 1960 election won by JFK, and many claim when LBJ was elected to the House of Representatives. But it is virtually impossible to prove fraud if there is no voter id law. Showing a photo id is a common part of life in virtually every country in the...

So provide a source of your own that shows documented significant voter fraud.

Oh, yeah, an old person who doesn't drive would have no trouble getting to the DMV, and waiting in line for hours, and then getting a ride back. Also, a person who is working three part time jobs to make ends meet could totally take an afternoon off and be sure that they would not lose their job. Ag...

Ok, so are you just accusing me of being partisan, and leaving it at that? Or are you disagreeing that this would cause more people to be denied their vote than it would prevent from voting fraudulently? Because that is the most rational criterion. According to that criterion, voter ID laws are a ba...

I don't want to get into a heated debate about this, but it isn't laziness. Many people don't have drivers licenses because they don't drive. Many elderly people haven't renewed their drivers license because they don't drive. Your examples of needing an ID for medical care is simply false. I have go...

Lots of people in the states, particularly the elderly, the poor and students don't have ID that is sufficient for these laws. Some states (Tennessee for instance) specifically exclude student ID's even from state universities. This is pretty much a blantent attempt by the Republicans to suppress th...

According to this site: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html an IVB or SB cpu will have a "better" graphics chip than your card. However, I don't think your card should be having trouble playing that content, but it might just be me. You should head over to the...

IANAP, but I think the relevant concept is partial presure. The partial pressure of the helium inside the drive is higher than the partial pressure of helium outside the drive, so helium will difuse out. Nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide and water vapor will difuse in for the same reason.

Helium is monoatomic as a gas, just He, not He2. I belive it is even smaller than diatomic hydrogen.

Also in the US

Actually, if some of the heat is leaving via radiation, then you want a black object ideally, and red is actually closer to black than other colors.

I do not want to diminish whatever injustices were done to American Indians, but I believe you overall perspective is not correct, and your facts are wrong. But the main point is that comparing accidental deaths caused by European diseases, or accidental deaths during in the Trial of Tears, should ...

Take hundreds of years to do what? ..... I really don't want to get into this with you, but here is the basic facts. Before 1492, there were no Europeans in North America, and millions of Native Americans. By 1900, there were millions of Europeans and almost no Native Americans. The Europeans had a...

I certainly don't blame any German people who had nothing to do with Nazi Germany for what happened in WWII. I have been to Germany several times and enjoyed my visits and the people were very friendly and civilized. I have also worked with Germans who have come to the US. But if you keep making ri...

This page may help.

http://www.playtool.com/pages/psuconnec ... ctors.html

Mondrian is awesome!

I am looking to get a STB like a Boxee or Roku largely for playing dvds (as iso's shared via SMB) and Netflix streaming.

I know that this isn't quite up SPCR's alley, does anyone have any suggestions for a good forum or site to get information about these?

Great article. However, I still find the tables confusing, perhaps a graph like CA_Steve posted for your fan roundup would be clearer.

Thanks for the great review. Here's the data in graphical form. It could be fine tuned to help show the overlapped data points, but this picture really helps to focus the results. Hopefully, there weren't any transcription errors :) http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/3176/fanperformance.jpg I think...

Just a heads up. Some manufactures implement most of their fan control in BIOS, and some in applications that run in Windows. This mostly only matters if you are going to be running an OS besides Windows (Linux, BSD, OS X, etc)

Science, by the way, is not really published at little or no cost for anyone to read. To download the full text of a scientific paper will generally cost you about $30. And this, by the way, is the case even with publicly funded studies. So the public usually has to get it filtered, and greatly com...

He said that all boards "standard and up" will have the new software.

matt_garman wrote:Depending on your Linux distribution, you should generally be able to get good stability and performance out of Intel Sandy Bridge graphics (at least for the purposes of a HTPC)...

Thanks for your excellent report! I've been considering getting a new HTPC, and this is a very good report.

If you are concerned about the state of linux video drivers you should check out phoronix.

The four extra pins on the 24 pin connector versus the 20 pin connector are not the same as the four pins on the CPU connector.

The 24 pin connector has an extra 12V, 5V, 3.3V and ground wire. The CPU connector has two 12V pins and 2 grounds.

Looks very similar to the the shopping list I've made for my htpc when I get the money. I second the Celeron or Pentium suggestion. You don't need that cpu for what your are suggesting. I only say Pentium to give yourself a little breathing room for inevitable mission-creep. I also looked at the Gra...

Ok, taking into account thermal expansion, it works out to be 74.6 degrees.