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Apple has long stifled development and inovation, at least in my memory, on their computers. It was SOP for them to either write code to stifle a developer, threaten with legal action, steal and integrate, or buy the program. Likewise hardware was equally or more so restricted. They remind me...

Can't believe that guy is worth 8.3 Billion.

Just watched half of Casablanca, remastered in Bluray. Only makes Bergman look more beautiful, if that's possible.

Guys at the local Fry's recommend the games highly. Sounds like YMMV. EA sports and I don't get on much, after Tiger Woods 2004-6.

Remember, I had the OCZ Vertex Turbo fail. It was replaced with a drive that would not hold a SATA cable. That was replaced with a drive that is in the HTPC, and, as little as it's used, is working fine.

Update: The X2 3800 plus memory controller allows the 2 gigs to be recognized. All is up and running, except, it's currently headless. Thinking cheap craigslist monitor, rather then Costco... Either that, or a 50" Panasonic 1080P Plasma...

Thanks, that was a great post. Right now, I'm having a hard time imagining anything that an i7 940 can't do. I have barely got anywhere near the potential of this processor. I can't imagine a dual Xeon setup, with 4-5 times the processor speed, and absurd ram speed, and, add revo drives...

I saw one today on Craigslist, in the bay area: 20 bucks.

Took the Westinghouse back. 50" Panasonic Plasma is probably next. It's 599, and, I can see keeping a 50" TV for 3 years. I was into that pos for 563.00. WAY to much to be reiminded you were tricked by false advertizing into buying a medium to low quality panel, with a 60 hz screen, and some...

At 1200 bucks for 16 GB of ram, you BETTER be able to overclock it;-) I can see it now: everytime I come up with another 1200 dollars, another 16 GB of ram. Sort of like the 64.5 IMSA Mustang funny car I built to be street legal... A SERIOUS MONEY PIT. At least I'd get a tax break on this one...

What are these accessories, and how do they affect performance:? http://www.gigabyte.sg/support-downloads/accessory.aspx?cg=11

I was going to say nasty things about this board, but, it's growing on me. Your first cpu would have 6 processors, a Passmark score pretty much as fast as anything on the planet, for a discounted 1600-1700 dollars. For 300 dollars one might decide the -i7 2600 with a PM score at 85% of that...

I bought dual Xeons because at the time, they, and the scsi enabled motherboard seemed like a good value. In retrospect, thanks to Adaptec's pathetic zero raid card, I ended up not even using the onboard scsi. Still, the duals were fast, and reasonably priced at the time, compared to other...

I can't see having this Westinghouse for 3-5 years. Screen is obviously second rate, and, the darn thing is expensive, for what you are getting.

I have PowerDirector 9, and it feels much like having a testicle run through a garlic press, and just as intuitive....

HMMM. Mine was bad ram, and bad memory controller on the cpu. Or might be something on the motherboard that made a prior ram configuration not work?

Anyone tried Panasonic's Plasma 1080p 42" Plasmas? Or their 50" Plasmas? Feedback on the new generation of plasmas, and Panasonics' in particular? GS

Watched the first part of Star Wars Phantom Menace Part I. Got through the pod racing, and, as one would expect of George Lucas, his work is simply incredible. I'm getting them slowly but surely, and viewing them. "Thor" 2D, Bluray. So far, with my monitor set on games, the visuals are...

NOT a keyboard. Start your own thread. I don't want to look at that POS when I'm considering a new keyboard.

Another singer: Connie Crammer, married a preacher from Hawaii, and went around the world singing for the church. I missed on her, since I'd just been divorced, and, even though I saw the must marry soon signs with Connie's clock, I was too stupid to jump...

http://www.ginai.com/ This lady sang at Nick's Fishmarket, when I worked there. INCREDIBLE WOMAN. Married a shaper. I was only a polisher/restaurant worker at the time...

Sheryl Crow video smokes!!! Crow's video is smoking. She's beautiful, and it's about music, in HD, that looks REALLY incredible... Sheryl Crow, Live! Yes, and she's beautiful and her voice is incredible.

Nasty Boy is HOT. I'd like to be Steven...

I'm watching Christina Aguilera live, down under. Incredible concert, incredible voice. GREAT Stuff. Effortless voice, great range. A lot of people seem to think she's the best singer of this generation... This DVD makes a real good case for that.

Burlesque was simply incredible. I have a weakness for female singers, and Cher and Christina Aguliera are fantastic. The first singing scene with Christina is so stunning, I could watch it over and over. Cher sings one number, and, it reminds me why she's always been one of my all time...

Today I spent most of the day working on getting Bluray to play on the HTPC. Athlon X2 3800+ 2 gigs ram, Vertex Turbo boot, SATA drive for Bluray images, Sparkle 9600 video card, 2 gigs VRAM, Plextor External Bluray player. Power DVD 10, 8, Any DVD HD, VLC, Explosion 7.1 sound card, etc. I...

Our local Apple shop has been packed every time I walk by. People playing with over-priced, under functional computers. It always seems like there is something that Apple won't let you do with your ipad, etc. that you would be able to do with a normal product. Print without using airport and...

I've been burned by apple so bad, I still have scars. That was over 12 years ago. Apple has long been the MSFT wannabe, except worse, since they limit software production by limiting hardware. In other words, OS X didn't have drivers for some very expensive, prior compatible scsi cards, and...

Katia was wonderful http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/steady-as-she-goes_59483/

Seems either the Xerox Xd130 drivers, or the picturemate drivers work fine, until SP3 is installed, then it starts blue screening. Remove them, and it works fine. After going through all this, it took lots of time, invested lots of money, most of which I did get back. That said, it could...

Just wondering: Does anyone else think that updates from MSFT for XP might be designed to fail, forcing users to upgrade to 7?

THANK YOU FOR THE CLUE.! Excellent movie. Slater is Slater, and, it looked REALLY good in 2D, thanks to Imax filming0-[=\ I don't know what happened, but, my cat did 8 situps, right before biting me, and, typing the above;-)

Party isn't over on this one. As I said, we'll see how it plays out. BBB may well be right, and, the motherboard may well be flaky. It is nice having everything work, at least for a little while.

REALLY strange that the two other cpu's I have, the 3200 and the 3800, both won't see the memory, dual sticks, as well. I had both of them in the Asus board, for the time it was working, and neither saw all the memory. Likewise in the Gigabyte board. So, I have two other chips that won't see...

I've got a 1984 Porsche 928. Same deal as above. 2000 bucks? Buy it?

Sam: I put out over 600 bucks, to buy different products to test this thing. When I got done, I'm in it for 100 bucks or so, and, 90 of that is due to a scumbag roommate throwing out stuff for the shipped power supply, that I would have had near 90 for credit from newegg. That said, it's kind...

Does the power supply work? Details?

Mercutio: I spent time, which is something I had when I was doing this, and learned a bit. I don't really see tossing the components, and peripherals, of what at the time was a 2500 dollar system for something maybe twice as fast, when I can double the speed of the system with a 33 dollar...

Ram 95 dollars PS, though this is useable in a new box 95.00 Junk ASUS board 60 dollars cpu cooler 15 dollars. ... A64 CPU 25 bucks X2 CPU 33 dollars Corsair DDR ?? dollars Kingston DDR2 26 dollars ... Shipping stuff 20 dollars " RAM: No cost. Patriot lifetime warranty, replaced with better...

Emailed Gigaybte about the motherboard. They informed me that the memory controller is on the cpu. Apparently, on that CPU, the AMD 64 series, they fail. So, I've had two chips, a 3200 and 3800+ that both had failed memory controllers. They still work, just not able to use the dual channel ram...

Sprint: 80 bucks a month, for a cell phone? http://www.sprint.com/index_p.html Evaluations of their offerings, on the basis of value?

I'm at a crossroads here. My contract is up in December. A smart phone would be cool. I like tethering with the Nokia, like the 10 dollar plan that is discontinued, even though it's throttled if you use it much(T mobile). My question is: Is it really worth the prices these companies charge for...

DB: Thanks. It's a bad time for movies, so that was a great link. Plus, after watching Kelly Slater loose the New York ASP event today, it will be fun to see him ripping as usual. I ordered the Bluray 3D version to see what it looks like on my setup, or if it will even play, and the DVD version...

It does sound like a good deal, since it's been taken back to Costco for a full refund. It was a safe gamble. If your Toshiba fails, you'll, at the very least, pay shipping back. That is if you can still return it. Costco has that Toshiba 40" IIRC, but, it's about 600 dollars there. Maybe in a...

I've been using Antec Hotswap bays, at someone's suggestion here. http://www.vendio.com/stores/goldduo/item?lid=16587667&source=Vendio:Google%20Product%20Search They work well, but, I don't hotswap. I turn the computer off, switch drives, then turn it on again. Perfect setup to back up your...

Bluray for backup? Not with what the media costs. Last burning I did was using dual layer DVD disks. I use hard drives to store Bluray, not vice versa. With current pricing, I use 1.5 gig-2 gig drives(shop) and use that for storage. I also have non-critical backups on these drives. If it's...

This is the hotel the guys are staying at, in front of the break: 500-600 dollars a night.... Allegria Hotel 80 West Broadway Long Beach NY 11561 You can mapquest for the location: http://www.mapquest.com/ pretty incredible location for a surf contest. SUMPTUOUS OASIS IN EVERY SEASON...

Hi Should be a fun contest, in barreling lefts and rights, off Long Island New York. Here's the link, first round is already done: http://www.quiksilverpro.com/ For the first round, which was done in small waves, on a swell coming up...

"It's not really like that. Apple make well integrated OVERPRICED products, the software and hardware work well together, they just don't work with anything that isn't made by Apple." Essentially you are saying what I've known for a long time: Appl's desire is to completely own your entire...

That makes it even better: Samsung=Korean Apple ;-) I can imagine the wars, and crooked business dealings going on when those to sleaze ball companies try to screw each other out of any penny then can. I'm sure it's the old, "We have a contract. Now we start renegotiating all terms we agreed...