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Unless you believe the rich should not be punished or deterred, why doesn't it make sense? It just pulls traffic offences more into line with other parts of the legal system. In any case, it's based on income, not disposable income, so it still has less effect on a wealthy person.

Ah, I see, the 20,000 volt cable. This is what happens when you give your Igor the afternoon off.

I think this is a category that deserves its own thread. To kick it off, here's a wonderful story about a mechanic in a customer's Lamborghini. The police confiscated the Lambo a couple of months back when they reckoned he was doing 160km/h (100mph) in a 90km/h (55mph) zone.

Thanks CougTek, I think that exquisitely sums up what we're all thinking. :poke:

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Synchronizing PST files is a giant PITA. Set your email server to auto-forward emails to a hosting service that supports IMAP. You can then access your emails from any number of PCs or phones and still be in sync.

The 7200rpm might have been a give-away too. However, I am enjoying the vision of an SSD mounted on a high-speed drill to improve latency ...

Well that's something, I suppose; the Reality Distortion Field doesn't extend to the afterlife.

I take it that utility is better than netsh winsock reset?

That was awesome. I wanted one - until I checked out other videos of the 6-year-old flying his first plane at age 3, then doing completely insane things with a helicopter at age 8 ... I guess it's not as easy as he makes it look. :o

I don't understand why this is an issue. Do you have monitors without DVI connectors? If so, surely you have tons of spare adapters? Last time I looked, they were only a couple of bucks each.

Some motherboards are too quick to vary fan speed as the temperature changes. The human ear can far more readily detect small changes in pitch than the presence or absence of noise. I used to think - like quite a few people apparently - that the power supply must be weak. :)

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I've always suspected I was chatting with someone who had already crossed to the other side.

That's the spirit Paugie. Cyclists hate to use their brakes because they lose momentum. Some people adopt the same principles when driving a car.

Not really. That's only a month's depreciation for Ddrueding. :alb:

+1 but check your RAM usage while browsing multiple pages, the modern web experience requires truckloads of memory.

My brakes don't wear out.

I agree with everything you said 100%.

It's worth spending 15 minutes reading about the Hydrogen Economy: Free hydrogen does not occur naturally in quantity, and thus it must be generated from some other energy source ... Hydrogen is therefore an energy carrier (like electricity), not a primary energy source (like coal). In other...

Hmmm, I'm not sure 300W could be called "low power". The 80+ guidelines apparently include 20% and 50% loading, so performing well at 25% isn't at all surprising. The percentage efficiency is a somewhat misleading way of expressing the issue - Wastage or Heat Dissipation focuses the mind more...

The fact that the whole process is several times less efficient than gasoline's doesn't concern you?

Coincidentally, my Office 2010 beta suddenly expired. Won't even let me view stuff read-only. Not sure what to do now. Giving money to M$ for almost worthless software doesn't appeal. I can get a 3-user Office Home & Student license for $140 ...

Are you sure you're not thinking of me?

The keys may be forever, but how will you get an activation to work once your subscription has expired?

Eh, whoops? I meant GTX 470 and 480, obviously. :oops: The only codec advantage I can see for nVidia was MVC (Blu-ray 3D). AMD has now added MPEG-4 Part 2 decoding for DivX and Xvid, as well as MVC (according to Wikipedia).

The GTX 270 and 280 appear to still be HDMI 1.3a. Really? I wouldn't know; in what way?

Are you sure you watched the same program? They did further tests apart from the aircraft windshields. The results were what I would have expected. Once sufficient velocity is reached, it doesn't matter how 'squishy' something is. Think about water. Diving into it at low velocity is harmless...

I can't tell if you're being ironic. :dunno: They found that beyond a certain (undefined) speed, there was no difference between frozen and unfrozen chickens.

Sapphire 5770 AU$158 Sapphire 5850 AU$299 Sapphire 5870 AU$423 Standard (not O/C) models, all prices include 10% GST (tax) and are pretty good for this neck of the woods.

Oh yeah, that's actually my current case on this long-suffering computer I'm usually on when I post here. It's beige and has both a matching beige DVD writer and floppy drive (no idea if it works), not to mention a Pioneer slot drive DVD reader (probably still works but is too...

The bundled 'thermostatic' fans were indeed pretty crappy. I prolonged their otherwise limited life (and reduced the noise very considerably) by adding a $5 fan speed controller. The main problem with those cases is the flap covering the front USB, 1394 and audio ports. People invariably kick...

Speaking as someone who wouldn't know, I'm curious: what does Acrobat do so much more of?

Keep in mind that's bollocks. ;) I've seen them laid past 150 feet - with ultra-low-capacitance cable, I stress. Doubtless that wouldn't support EPP/ECP, but I very much doubt that's an issue here.

Installer size doesn't mean much. We covered PDF readers in this thread. Foxit used way less memory than the 4 or 5 others I tried, most of which couldn't even render a two-page view, etc, etc. I agree the browser toolbars are annoying, but it's not too difficult to turn them off during the...

Handy, he was responding to a direct attack from Jobs, who was trying to deflect attention from Apple's failure to meet sales targets.

Customers are getting tired of being told what to think by Apple says RIM CEO.

If it's only going to be under heavy load 1% of the time, why on earth do you need a hex-core i7 overclocked to 4GHz?

Happy?

A quick clarification: I wouldn't be overclocking large amounts of RAM and DDR2000 and up isn't standard anyway.

Last time I looked, DDR1066 covered most Intel CPUs; DDR1333 should cover all of them. I think AMD can use DDR1333 straight off the bat. Note that I wrote this off the top of my head without any checking whatsoever. So feel free to look it up yourself.

According to Lunar, both the "Sapphos" X1600 and the MSI 3650 didn't work properly. Presumably, the Asus 4350 did, as did his new HIS 5450. What's the third card that works just fine? :-?

I assume you've tried uninstalling, rebooting back to VGA level, then reinstalling? I assume it works under your 32-bit version? This is pretty basic, I'd have to conclude that your 64-bit install is problematic.

According to the reviews I checked before posting that recommendation, the cooling is exceptionally good for a passive solution. Even Furmark - IMO an unreasonable GPU test - didn't get it above 74C. I acknowledge what you're saying, but in this case it looks like you're wrong. In any case...

They'll be fine for what you want, and HIS is a big enough manufacturer (just don't plan to get drivers from their website, but that's hardly unusual). The only question to ask yourself is: what ports do I want on the card? The most common configuration in low end cards is what you just...

I take it you don't have an AMD/ATI card? From Catalyst Help: There's a far more detailed explanation here, including tinkering with nVidia settings. The stats from your monitor confirm you're already using reduced blanking, so I wonder if they lied when they told you your monitor doesn't need...

Possible refresh rate issue? Are you running at 50 or 60Hz? There's a setting in the ATI Catalyst Control Center to reduce refresh rate with higher resolutions, specifically 1920x1200 - but I don't know if that's relevant. Did you try the other DVI port? I imagine you have two. Is Windows...

Another strike against Corsair then?

I don't have anything physical, including the PC, which is currently in China. I thought I implied in my post that I already called Microsoft. :p In any case, I realized that I had a copy of the Office key in an email, so I called M$ back and verified that it is in fact an MSDN license. I...

Has anyone worked out a way to identify installed M$ products that came from an MSDN license? A tech has billed my client for Win 7 Ultimate and Office 2010 Pro, but I don't believe they're OEM or retail. Particularly Office, which is 20% below the best result in a price search engine. I do...