LodeHacker wrote:Excellent review!

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This is unusual for a reason. Mini-itx is not designed for powerful discrete graphics cards. You should go for micro-atx if integrated graphics is not good enough.

I have friends who are Christian, Moslem, Pagan and Athiest, as well as a few "don't knows". I've had a few discussions with some of them about their beliefs and what they have in common is a conviction that there has to be a reason for our existence, some higher pupose, but none of them seem to be...

Scoop wrote:I don't think violence in games OR MOVIES has any effect on a mentally stable person regardless of their age...

Plain and simple I can give an example of myself...
Here is another example of my nephew...

LOL
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28670

780G is still good. The important thing for HTPC is the video acceleration and you'll need to make sure you get that with Linux. Unless you're experienced with linux and know it's going to work then go with Vista or the Win7 beta or even an old copy of XP. AMD's just coming out with some 45nm proces...

Thanks for the tips guys :). Croddie, I wanted the high-powered video card for playing games on the weekends with friends, but I hate the noise so I could use some advice as to what is the best case and cooling solution to run that video card within my ~$500 budget and keep things stable as quiet a...

The desktop will be used as a main home desktop and also serve as a Digital Audio Workstation. What I'm seeking from you more up-to-date and experienced SPCR's is some part suggestions that would be better choices than the above while still staying within the following criteria: 1. Similar price bu...

1. GIGABYTE GA-G31M-ES2L LGA 775 Intel G31 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail G31 is ancient. G45 is the current generation. 2. EVGA 896-P3-1260-AR GeForce GTX 260 A high power card which will make your system noisy. Why do you need it? Does anyone know of any better value setups in the ~$500 ran...

I think you are overcomplicating the issue - belief in God is quite straightforward IMHO - you do or you don't. It is not at all linked to or dependent upon believing in "Christian" principals, morals, politics or anything else. It depends on what you mean by God. If you mean something straightforw...

Different kinds of violent games, or rather different mods in the same game, the most popular/basic types: Deathmatch or Free for all: every man (woman) for himself. Team deathmatch: same as above, every kill scores a point, but there are two teams competing. Duel or 1 vs 1: just two persons vs eac...

Thats just the Americans being retarded. "South Park the Movie's" entire point was about rude words and phrases being watched in movies by underage kids, so their parent got pissed off and the US went to war. Thus vulgar words and phrases are worse than violence. In America it seems that it's the s...

What do you, personally think that peoples under 18 play games that are R-rated ( Forbidden under 18 y-o's ) Is it harmful or not? Is there in between? Perhaps age limit are there for reason or are age limits just society that is over protective? Is there connection between violent games and school...

4. People, dead set that global warming is caused by sun spot activity, will continue to use premeditated ignorance to deny the possibility that global warming is caused by sun spots but is also currently being magnified by human activity. Having an all or nothing mentality is a sign of being an ex...

LodeHacker wrote:4. I'm sure you've seen the Al Gore movie and to be honest it's all bullshit marketing.

Was on UK TV recently. Half bullshit marketing, expertly done, half actually decent education at a popular level. Quite impressive both ways.

I was also saying that it's hard to get rid of those aspects from politics. Now I put these things together under religion because they go together. What if someone believes in hell that is nothingness; that is even a common point of view among conservative Christians and certainly in moderate and l...

My guess is subscriptions for non-broadband users would be quite low, it would take quite a long time to download a 100mb video on 56k dial-up, somewhere in the range of 8-9 hours is my guess. That wasn't my point. It was that the results were framed in a way (per broadband connection rather than p...

Please use the edit button instead of double posting. Separate posts with separate points responding to separate people. What is the statistical evidence for these surprising conclusions? Really? It surprises you? Ok, here is ~30 seconds on google. ... There is a little reading. You said that there...

... How close can the human mind come to the truth and how can it grasp the truth? Very interesting point you mention here. How close to god can we humans possibly get ? Do people, who dedicate their lifes to god, believe that by doing so they can get a little closer to God ? Do they really believe...

... I classify teaching religion to children as "child abuse", ... WOW ... that was quite to the point, and actually ... that could have been written by me really. I remember in primary school, when attending to religion lessons was duty for us children, the teacher at the time felt pleasure in dis...

Couldn't we avoid the whole subject from becoming a problem in the first place, by declaring ANY kind of religion as a private matter ? It would be an interesting suggestion to remove religion from politics. You could for example set out completely technical goals so that politicians do not need to...

A new nationwide study (pdf) of anonymised credit-card receipts from a major online adult entertainment provider The study controls for broadband use - likely to be highest in big cities which are less conservative - but not for paid use/piracy ratios, education, economic factors. So it seems rathe...

I have a bit of a problem with this, I don't think it is actually true. I think there are more conservatives who might try to abstain before marriage, or say they are abstaining, but I don't think there is any great difference. Also, people who live in more conservative areas get what is known as "...

PS: We have Dell Precision workstations (were i work), and even those are silent when idle or at half-load, they only turn up there fans under heavy load (and become noisy), so companies like HP or Dell have thermal management and temperature controlled fans. But there are also Dells and HPs that a...

They've seriously ruined the DAP (digital audio player) market with the advent of the iPod, my DAP is a Rio Karma, its about 5 years old now, its still quite possibly the best DAP ever made. Its doubtful a DAP will be made that surpasses its audio quality and features purely because Apple has muscl...

Most recent Apple computers, mainly notebooks, iMacs and the Mac Mini, are already pretty much silent. My unibody Macbook Pro is less than an inch thick (with lid closed) and the only time I hear the fans is when both cores are working at 75%+ load for a continued time. My former Macbook (white mod...

Fortunately these seem like techniques with very little usefulness, so Apple won't be harming the ability of other companies to make silent computers with these patents.

Cov wrote:... what would it be ?

Nothing precise. What does he think of our thoughts? How close can the human mind come to the truth and how can it grasp the truth?

Then there's the negative income tax set forth by the British economist Juliet Rhys-Williams in the 1940s and by Milton Friedman in his book Capitalism and Freedom from 1962. The standard redistributive flat tax has this property: if you earn Y, you get (1-t)Y+b where b is given by whatever the gov...

I believe that there exists an objective entity that is morality, and by definition moral agents (including humans) are bound by it. I see a clear distinction between descriptive claims (how the world is) and normative claims (how the world ought to be). Like Kant, I believe that the fundamental pr...

To you what do you think are human rights or should be something consider one. There are no "human rights". Sometimes things done in the name of "human rights" are good (encouraging development or attacking some of the nastier political regimes) but human rights are an illusion. Human rights means ...