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AFAIK - the international rules regarding credit card fraud is that you are only liable for the first $50 - maximum. Your credit card company should instantly return the transaction, and wipe any interest charged. If not, cancel your card - and get a new one from a company which has a better fraud p...

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My ancient A7V133 is reporting the following voltages: <pre> VCore......1.75v +3.3.......3.49 +5.........4.48 +12........12.40 -12........-12.84 -5.........-5.51 </pre> These seem kida poor to me. The 5 volt rail in particular is identified by the BIOS as being undervolted - since it is over 10% low...

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Hmmmm. I just cancelled my Prescott order, and went for a standard P4. Recent reports on the 'net indicate Prescott has a pipeline that may be 35 instructions deep!!! This will mean that using todays apps, at the release-speeds, Prescott will be slower than Pentium 4. The Prescott process is apparen...

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Here's an idea. Poop in a box for about a week. Package it - and send it to him!

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Nah, I'm not crying. Feces Occurs. It is going to cost many, many, many billions more dollars before *any* kind of conventional wisdom is acquired about Mars, how to land there, what conditions are like on the ground, and how to successfully run long term missions there. If Opportunity lands success...

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Yeah- I tried D3 help to Jamie. But it doesn't handle DHTML - so it's not MY fault their 8 lines of code can't retain my stylesheet and formatting!

Bloody funny man. Try adding some porn site content to Yahoo.com or newegg.com - fall down laughing!

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Press Release from the Whitehouse: Today, President George W. Bush announced his upcoming military plans for 2004. "We're gonna put the smackdown on them candyass Descent players. We plan to provide them with Shock & Awe  and then we're gonna go totally postal on 'em." A spok...

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Shame the election result is most probably already decided. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3419775.stm Seems the Republicans are determined to turn America from the world's once premier democracy into a totalitarian state by subterfuge, brow-beating, chest-pounding, lies, corruption, and any ...

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Well, it's that time of year again - and the Cicadas are taking over the city. http://www.descentbb.net/ubb/smile.gif These have got to be, gram-for-gram, the loudest animals on the planet. I love 'em. http://www.descentbb.net/ubb/smile.gif http://www.naturespic.com/wildlife2/9453.html That's what t...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Poozilla: ... buys the best car on the market, a brand new Ferrari GTO. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> o_0 Make mine a Lamborghini Murcielago please.

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Nice quote Topher. One of my favourite movies: 2001. Mars is a pretty hostile environment in which to run a rover. There's no conventional wisdom about the place as yet. And there's still hope it can be revived. Remember: this is space exploration - and explorative missions have often failed in the ...

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Wow - she's a real cutie! Good one Robo

And I'm old enough to be her f-f-f-f-friend

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Although, saying that, you wouldn't want many items to come WITHOUT warnings - would you? Maybe these warning labels actually DO work: Jim: Watcha got there Bob? Bob: New Chainsaw - like it?? Jim: Yeah - lemme check it out... Hey, it says here you aint meant to juggle with these things! "Greivo...

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W5 is (for me at least) very stable. Previous versions crashed often (every few days) and the visualisations would seldom run for longer than 5 minutes without crashing and taking Winamp with it.

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Nice numbers. You forgot these ones though: ???: percentage of Americans who turned out to vote for President in 2000. ???: percentage of votes cast which were invalidated for whatever reason. ???: percentage (or number) of (probable democratic) voters who were legally permitted to register but were...

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Yeah Cops - you might spill some! Follow my advice: Get piston, drive cars! http://www.descentbb.net/ubb/wink.gif Think about it.... Anyway - yeah snowmobiles are WAY fun! Best in the pow-pow - but be careful not to roll one - and of course - wear a full face crash helmet - and watch out for wires! ...

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Beautiful! I once brought a Lava-Lamp that had a label on the bottom: "Do not turn this device upside down." http://www.descentbb.net/ubb/biggrin.gif Also, some fireworks I had a few years ago said on them: "In event of Fire, leave area immediately and call emergency services". T...

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Dead Mail #2 has come back. I think it's safe to say that Kevin won't be completing 1.5 any time before my eyes are still good enough to play D3. I'm sure Kevin fully intended to do what he said he would - but things tend to get in the way of non-paid work; life, paid employment, women, booze, drugs...

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http://www.asi.org/adb/02/09/he3-intro.html

Well worth the read. No maths involved (skip those bits). Explains why the USA needs to get to the moon, and monopolise the He3 market.

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What somebody hasn't mentioned is that the PCB design and build quality of the RAM is a highly contributing factor to memory performance. Great RAM chips won't work well on a poorly designed/built PCB. I have no information about who makes the best PCBs, but given that all RAM comes from only about ...

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No. Colour is detected by Cones. Black and white is detected by Rods. Rods and cones are the two types of light receptors in the Retina. Rods are very very good at working in low light levels, while cones react poorly in low light. In the human eye, the vast majority of receptors close to the centre...

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Biology was always my best subject at school - and human anatomy was always my favourite topic. Female anatomy to be precise! http://www.descentbb.net/ubb/wink.gif I had Biology as a subject (as distinct from "Science" - I had classes for Physics, Biology, Chemistry and I took Mechanics as...

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Why bother? Simply by hacking the correct gene sequence you could cause the human eye to invert the retina, such that the light-sensitive ends of the rods and cones faced outwards (like they should) instead of inwards (as they do). This is why you get the "red eye" in flash photos. On top ...

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Funny. Lorry was a word that was on the way out when I was a small child. It just means "truck" - the size is immaterial. Anyway, when I was learning to talk, I had great problems with the letter combination "TR" and I always used to say it as an "F" sound. So, my paren...

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Actually, I wish the guy luck. If it was me, the tack I would use is this: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Dear Microsoft legal team. Here's how we'll play the game. I'll agree to hand over the domain name t...

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That's because the square wooden peg that held the two rocks together has long since vanished - leaving just the sockets where the martians glued the two rocks together using the wooden pin. Pretty obvious really! http://www.descentbb.net/ubb/tongue.gif Let's say it together people: COINCIDENCE CAN ...

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Looks like my health is in no danger WHATSOEVER! http://www.descentbb.net/ubb/tongue.gif <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Delivery Failure Report Your document: D3 1.5 patch was not delivered to: kevin@kevla...

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Yeah - Samsung memory is found on many of the leading brands. I'd say Corsair was the most respected memory maker of recent times. Things to remember though - the RAS-CAS numbers of memory mean more than the name on the stick. SPD settings which are aggressive and headroom for pushing the RAM faster...

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I have asked the same question many times - and I guess the answer is that Motherboard makers do not want to tield that space to GFx card makers. Often, RAM is hard to replace already - but massive heatsinks and fans would encroach on the Northbridge area - and round there it gets plenty hot already...

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Yep, ICS is your friend.

Remember - you need software firewalls though!

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Tetrad - you're funnay. I like the way you "defend" IE. Remind me NEVER to hire you to defend ME in a court of law! http://www.descentbb.net/ubb/wink.gif As to the Thunderbird/Firebird downloads. IIRC, each has a standalone gecko engine for rendering HTML - so a monolithic download of the ...

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Hmmmm. This whole issue is indicative of a society out of balance. I've said it before, and I'll say it again - the USA is a government OF the lawyers, BY the lawyers and FOR the lawyers. You guys have specialised in it. Your legal system is a complete mess. Here's two really good examples from my o...

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E-mailed Kevin today.

Honestly, I'll fall over if the mail doesn't bounce.

I'll have a heart attack if he replies.

And I'll flat out have a cerebral hemorrhage if 1.5 is EVER released.

*sigh*

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IIRC - If I Recall Correctly
IANAL - I Am Not A Lawyer
WTF? - What On Earth?
BMG - Be My Guest
TTFN - Ta Ta For Now (Goodbye)
STFU - Please Be Still And Silent

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The new dual-GPU video card from Club3D is reviewd over at XBitLabs. If you were hoping for something that would push ATI-nVidia then you're going to be greatly disappointed. The card is an unmitigated failure - and unless driver performance increases in excess of 150% are possible, then this card i...

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Compatibility reasons? PFFFFT.

You are just a masochist. Admit it. You love being the butt of the best joke MS ever played on the world. Yes, Win9CRAP is the funniest joke ever played on PC users...

Now, go out there and UPGRADE! To 2K AT LEAST!

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Hey peeps, I'm getting really keen on buying a box for the living room. Originally, I planned to build a kicka$$ HTPC box but it's gonna be too expensive. I'm torn between two options: 1) Dumb unit - all it'll do is stream content from a server PC running dedicated software. LAN or Wi-Fi. 2) Full PC...

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