Apple enraged me back in the '90s when they ran an ad wherein they equated themselves with Gandhi and various other brave social reformers and free-thinking types. Yeah. like Gandhi would have admired this epitome of capitalism. Well, it's only an ad, but it shows how they try to appeal to people's ...

There are too many needless wars going on. The war against drugs is one needless war too many. The War On Drugs is a real war, with a human enemy and material targeted for destruction. The fact that the enemy is not a sovereign state makes no meaningful difference. Nevertheless when Nixon began it ...

If the Taliban hadn't been so recalcitrant about the oil pipeline running through their country, then the Sept. 11 attacks might have just provoked assurances of an international manhunt, and a begrudging one at that. So now they got him, the figurehead. As much as destroying two office buildings 'd...

I heard that he was deliberately shot in the side of the head rather than the front so his face would not be disfigured. This would tend to indicate that there was the luxury of time and positioning. Also, no Americans were injured. We don't know what happened, hopefully details will emerge.

If someone engages in criminal activity you apprehend them, then you give them a fair trial, and then to prevent them from inflicting more damage you incarcerate them. Killing a criminal perpetuates the idea that murder is a way to solve problems and thus it perpetuates murder. This act of barbarism...

In a recent study, two groups of similar age range, etc., one group consisting of individuals self-identified as liberals while the other consisting of self-identified conservatives, underwent brain imaging (the study was done at University College London.) It was found that the liberals had a large...

ces wrote: Seems like it will require a new solid state memory technology than the ones the SSDs are using now (something that is not to big a jump away from current techniques).

Memristors, perhaps?

Not much that anyone can do when it comes to international acquisitions.

I'd strongly advise against experimenting with mercury. It's so toxic that just working with it and breathing the vapors can cause brain damage. I appreciate the creativity involved in the idea, but..... Plus, if you should happen to spill a drop of mercury on your aluminum heatsink, the heatsink wi...

The trouble, ces, with picking out heads to roll, is that that seems to satisfy the public. Whenever there is any kind of disaster, people are always looking to assign personal blame, even when the causality for the event is beyond the scope of any individual's actions. This placates the hordes call...

If I remember correctly from over a year ago: Windows 7 upgrade will only preserve files and settings from Vista. From XP you essentially do a clean install.

It's easier to imagine that it was the incredible devastation that has prevented them from restoring electricity on site. While it's been mentioned that the Japanese central government is relatively weak, and that it can be pictured that corporations there have a more assumed/expected paternalistic ...

I found this article to be very clarifying: http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/12930_japannuclearcrisiswhatisafullmeltdown All the experts in the articles I've read say the situation is much closer in severity to Three Mile Island than to Chernobyl. You have to remember that these reactors are early...

The closest I've tried is a keyboard from Rosewell (NewEgg's house brand) called the Rosewell RK7431. It's a little smaller, doesn't have the classy appearance, and is not quite as quiet as the UltraX, but it's basically an attempt to copy. It's quite inexpensive. Another alternative I tried is the ...

Oh, no way! There was far more socialism in the U.S. -- not to mention northern Europe -- than there ever was in the Soviet Union or China. In fact there was pretty much no socialism at all in those two countries. There was 'nationalization' of industry, but without democracy it was meaningless in ...

The interesting thing about is neither China nor Russia ever managed to achieve a true communist government. Socialist at best, with a handful of old men running the show. Hey that's no different than the US, is it? Oh, no way! There was far more socialism in the U.S. -- not to mention northern Eur...

I disabled Google Instant soon after it was implemented, doing it by the "Search settings" link (as ces described.) I've used only Firefox since then (as far as I can recall), but just now out of curiosity I visited Google in IE and it was disabled in that browser as well. Which leads me to think th...

Almost simultaneous to the merger, Keith Olbermann, one of the few progressive-voiced commentators on network television, was apparently fired from MSNBC. Comcast has a history of indicating a conservative bent. The nitty-gritty has yet to come out, but if indeed there is a willful strategy on the ...

Almost simultaneous to the merger, Keith Olbermann, one of the few progressive-voiced commentators on network television, was apparently fired from MSNBC. Comcast has a history of indicating a conservative bent. The nitty-gritty has yet to come out, but if indeed there is a willful strategy on the p...

The most telling thing about all of this is that the FCC can't just simply say "no" . They have to bargain with the interested parties. It's maddening to think of the lack of actual authority, but that's the way all the Federal agencies are. They assure us that they negotiated with Comcast/NBCU and ...

I don't have experience with this model, but Lite-On drives have, or at least had, a reputation for being unusually noisy. The one Lite-On drive I did own was indeed noisy. So, a word of caution. That being said, though, the sins of the fathers need not necessarily be visited upon the sons.

The last person I want to argue with is Neil -- he's far too well-intentioned and far too knowledgeable for one to have the heart to do so. What does make me angry is when people object to the sight of wind turbines. Sorry to spoil your million-dollar view! -- you wouldn't mind if it were a lighthou...

Yeah, well, but they run day and night. Machine noise is a lot more apparent in the quiet of night. Anyone's dreams of rural tranquility would be shattered by one of these. Is it worth it for the common good? I don't know. Also, too, aren't these machines often built in arrays of multiples? Add 3 dB...

Thanks for two informative posts.

Also, MikeC's article on the Samsung LN55C650 TV was very pertinent. Talk about timing!

http://www.silentpcreview.com/Samsung_LN55C650_HDTV

I've never laid eyes on a LED backlit LCD monitor, so I have a couple of questions: With a CCFL backlit monitor you can only dim the backlight so much, so that even at "0" setting it can be too bright, so you then have to use the display adapter brightness etc. controls, to varying degrees of satisf...

A report from a Canadian company is here:- http://www.canwea.ca/images/uploads/File/CanWEA_Infrasound_Study_Final.pdf Conclusion: Infrasounds (sub-audio) are present, but at safe levels Merge, please, the following two phrases together: 1) After thinking about it last night, 2) Much as I don't like...

A report from a Canadian company is here:- http://www.canwea.ca/images/uploads/File/CanWEA_Infrasound_Study_Final.pdf Conclusion: Infrasounds (sub-audio) are present, but at safe levels The 1 Hz modulation of the broadband frequencies is still infrasound in some "ghostly" respect, as the amplitude ...

rpsgc wrote:http://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/style ... _styles-12

Plenty of themes there


Maybe something like Hestia (blue), or Avalon (blue).

Oh, man, a plethora of beautiful themes there.

We could all start fighting over which one we liked best.

I liked Hestia (cyan)

With the new format your posts won't belong to yesterday. ---- That is, they'll always appear on the hourly update instead of sometimes being relegated to a thread title that's deep in the list. It should get the attention it deserves. One thing I don't like is that the content of the posts is displ...

Replacing the PSU on a Dell computer might be problematic. Dell is known for its use of proprietary parts that differ from the off-the-shelf parts used by other assemblers. A Dell computer that was new four years ago had a different pinout on the power connector on the motherboard. EndPCNoise used t...