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and that is why the attitude in personal relationships keeps getting worse. if even a former worker at the helpdesk recommends being mean to his former colleagues...
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i didnt know mac filters could be spoofed. can anyone elaborate on that? thats a security risk id like to know more about, as i use it as one of the primary defenses in my network. also, can you get mcafee wireless protection suite as a standalone product?
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while the MAC is usually hardcoded most devices can be made to use a MAC address of your own choosing. so if you know tha MAC address of a permitted device you can assign that to yourself to confuzzle the router.
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justin: it is most definitely not his first bike. from the billboard it's germany and it's a Frankfurt tag. This may well be the first bike he buys (which is why someone would be filming it momma) and if he just got his license that means he has completed the mandatory lessons which include overland, highway and night driving in addition to regular urban traffic and of course preliminary exercises on a parking lot or similar to learn basic bikehandling skills at slow speed. all done while accompanied by the instructor on a 2nd bike or car with radio hookup. so he would have probably 30 or so hours of experience before being able to buy his own and ride off with it. (enough at least to make him not appear like a bloody amateur, at least until he drops his new crotchrocket)
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he would be the last to tell him. now he gets to sell him another one...
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CA3LE! NO! DON'T DO IT!
This guy just steps out of a motorcycle dealership with his brand new bike wearning his brand new helmet and his brand new gear. He hits the gas and makes it about 25 feet before wiping out.
http://www.break.com/index/biker-crashes-brand-new-bike.html
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ram as a moneymaker is a point. but i don't think it is valid.
first of all, the low end cards we are talkin about are in a price range that doesn't have much profit left over. (while the careds may be low end compared to current rigs, they are still fairly complex pieces of kit.)
second, video ram (whatever flavor a specific card needs) is some of the most expensive ram you can get. so plopping a bunch of it on an inexpensive card for cosmetic reasons is a waste of profits
third, the chipsets that come with that amount of memory were designed for it. so cutting a card from 256 to say 32 megs without sacrificing bandwidth by simply reducing the number of ram chips means replacing say 8 32 meg chips with 8 4 meg chips. while the 4 meg chips may be cheaper than the 32 meg chips (in fact they may be more expensive due to low demand) a minor reduction in component cost and no reduction in complexity lead to a severely hamstrung card. and that just doesn't make sense.
that is why i think the manufacturers keep on cranking out the old design with the same specs and sell it for the low price rather than wasting development effort on designing a new card with an old chipset.
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you misunderstood.
the amount of ram installed on the card has nothing to do with the absolute speed of the GPU. of course larger textures slow down overall processing. The large amount of ram is there because it /can/ be used. it is not stuck on for shits and giggles to make the card 'look' better.
it goes without saying that a current generation 256 meg card will run circles around an older one. that does not render the ram useless though.
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I f he really wants to get a card isn't this on a lot better?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102152
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102073
well, the first one is pci express, so no go, and the second one seems a tad too big for an older system. (big as in so powerful that it would spend half its clock cycles waiting on the rest of the system)
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thanks a lot guys. i think i will go for 7300 GT.
But the prob is it can go outta my budget. the price here is reasonable but in my country i.e. India i don't think that i will get rates like this.. it will surely touch clouds
can anybody tell me for how much will i get 7300 gt or xfx 6200 in India?
i would be thankful to u
no idea, and i don't read the lingo. you would have to find a local dealer, a local internet shop or a major international distributor and check their prices versus shipping to get the total. as for going to a store, do you have any major electronics stores near you? most will have a selection of older generation cards for older systems.
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if the system has an agp he won;t be able to run any of the current games anyhow. so a card that was great a few years ago and now ships for under fifty clams would be well matched to the system.
as for the ram on the card: 256 meg or however much on the card is not just to "make it look like it has some processing power."
believe it or not the older cards (yes, those before your time) didn't have the 3 THz processors of current rigs but they were the fastest you could get at the time and more than adequate for games that came out at the same time. and the ram was and is actually used, sincethe size of a texture in memory hasnothing to do with the speed of the GPU.
hitesh, post your budget and you will likely get a dozen or so opinions on what is the "best" card in that price range. but it should help nonetheless.
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look up friends that have a zune and or an ipod and compare them, see if it was what you want. you can read reviews all you want but only actually handling it and fiddling with the thing will tell you if it is what you expect.
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well, since you want to sell it you have to ask yourself how much you want to invest. (you are going to getback for the graphics card about 10% of what you aid for it.) (imo selling a used computer is a losing proposition in any case (unless you find a really clueless buyer))
pick a price range and then go to tigerdirect (or wherever you want to buy) and have it show you only cards in your price range.
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The riots tell me they want to be shot. But then again, that's just me.
from what i pieced together from the media outlets is that there was one incident between "fans" that the police wanted to quell. a fan sitting in his car got shot by the police. possibly a warning shot. later games were postponed but still there were riots in the street and one game had to be called off after 10 minutes because the fans stormed the pitch. (that's field to you).
the whole thing turned quite ugly.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7080000/newsid_7089800/7089807.stm?
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Well, a fan got himself shot in his car (supposedly by a warning shot(how does a warning shot end up killing a bystander?)) as police try to quell a brawl between opposing soccer fans. now there are riots at several games all over italy.
the interesting thing is the way the headlines from other news sites carry this:
Washington Post
Riots Ensue After Soccer Fan Is Killed - 51 mins ago
Factually correct and informative
Time
Soccer Fan Killed, Hundreds Riot - 1 hr ago
still factual, "Soccer Fan Killed" is a bit out there.
Daily Mail
Italian policeman shoots dead Lazio supporter after football fans' clash - 1 hr ago
Huh? so was the fan that got shot already dead after a clash? after what clash? the riots or the small initial incident?
Factualism sacrificed on the altar of sensationalism.
CNN
Cop kills soccer fan in 'tragic error' - 1 hr ago
"Cop Kills Soccer Fan" and run that blinking in 32 point bold sans serif!!!!!
Telegraph Fan killed as football riots sweep Rome - 1 hr ago
again, confusing. the fan was killed before the football riots swept rome, not during or afterwards.
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I Salute all Veterans that have fought for freedom in conflicts spanning the globe.
Something for our US forces
A very interesting BBC article about WW I Veterans
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7084764.stm
Some more vids:
http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=155828&page=1
http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=155940&page=1
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if you want to learn before building from scratch, get a dell, pay for the three year warranty and you can do whatever the heck you want to it. (just so long as there is no #2 phillips screwdriver rammed through the board when the tech replaces it) it will cost you a bit for the warranty, but the comp itself is cheap and comes with a free Vista and an ms works that makes you eligible to upgrade to the office. (saving more money)
but seriously. if you don;t have the skillz needed or know someone that does, then you should probably work on picking them up with a big box vendors system first.
if you still want to build it yourself (and do keep in mind while pricing components that the retail boxes usually do come with an OS and offer better service contracts) then you will find plenty of help here on what to combine with what.
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well, tim said it. but note the usually. i don't know what the wired infrastrucutre looks like in the phillipines. i am going to go out on a limb and say that it is probably not much better than here in puerto rico. and the wired infrastructure for dsl (the whole phone system in fact) sucks donkey nads.
if they base it on cable TV you have a better chance at a good connection. you should still ask around with friens and neighbors to see who has the service and how the uptimes are. (rule of thumb: the cable TV dies, the cable modem is dead as well. although you will see more outahes on the modem than on theTV.)
another thing worth trying iscalling their tech support on the graveyard shift (if they have a 24/7/365 hotline that is) and seeing if you get right through to a tech (a good sign, can't be too many problems) or if you end up on terminal hold (bad sign. either they are busy or they just don't care). once you get a hold of a tech talk to him about the technical side of the service. the techs will usually be more forthcoming with info than the salespeople...
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State Dept. To Order Diplomats To Iraq
As Many as 50 Positions Are Expected to Be Open
By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 27, 2007; A01
The State Department will order as many as 50 U.S. diplomats to take posts in Iraq next year because of expected shortfalls in filling openings there, the first such large-scale forced assignment since the Vietnam War.
On Monday, 200 to 300 employees will be notified of their selection as "prime candidates" for 50 open positions in Iraq, said Harry K. Thomas, director general of the Foreign Service. Some are expected to respond by volunteering, he said. However, if an insufficient number volunteers by Nov. 12, a department panel will determine which ones will be ordered to report to the Baghdad embassy next summer.
"If people say they want to go to Iraq, we will take them," Thomas said in an interview. But "we have to move now, because we can't hold up the process." Those on the list were selected by factors including grade, specialty and language skill, as well as "people who have not had a recent hardship tour," he said.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice previewed a possible shortfall in June, when she ordered that positions in Iraq be filled before any other openings at the State Department headquarters in Washington or abroad are available. At the time, Rice said it was her "fervent hope" that sufficient numbers would continue to volunteer. Her order followed a request by Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker in Baghdad for an increase in the number and quality of economic and political officers.
Although a few skilled individuals were ordered to "hard-to-fill" diplomatic posts in past decades, there have been no mass "directed assignments" in the Foreign Service since 1969, when an entire class of 15 to 20 entry-level officers was sent to Vietnam, Thomas said.
Those who receive the selection letters will have 10 days to file a written notice of objection. The review panel will consider the objections, but Thomas made clear that a serious, documented medical condition is likely to be the only valid excuse. The department has the authority to fire anyone who refuses to accept an assignment. (ed.'s note: and they better kick out anyone that makes the commitment to join and then pussies out when asked to put out)
The union representing U.S. diplomats has officially objected to the Iraq call-up.
"We believe, and we have told the secretary of state, that directing unarmed civilians who are untrained for combat into a war zone should be done on a voluntary basis," said Steve Kashkett, vice president of the American Foreign Service Association. "Directed assignments, we fear, can be detrimental to the individual, to the post, and to the Foreign Service as a whole." (ed.'s note: no. putting personal issues before the execution of your duties is detrimental to the Foreign Service)
Kashkett said the association had contended in meetings with Rice and Thomas that a diplomatic draft is unnecessary and that "thousands" of diplomats have volunteered for Iraq over the past five years. "We're not weenies, we're not cowards, we're not cookie pushers in Europe," (ed.'s note:so what, in your opinion, would the diplomats have to do in order to qualify as a weenie?) he said. "This has never been necessary in a generation."
Thomas also praised the service and noted that more than 1,200 of 11,500 Foreign Service personnel have already served in what has become the largest U.S. embassy in history. But the embassy's sheer size and the truncated, one-year diplomatic tours there have strained the service. The embassy and other U.S. diplomatic outposts in Iraq employ about 6,000 people, including several hundred Foreign Service officers, other State Department specialists, American contractors, third-country nationals and Iraqi hires.
The number of diplomatic positions in Iraq has increased every year since the embassy was opened in 2004. The expansion of Provincial Reconstruction Teams -- made up of diplomats who work with local communities outside of Baghdad -- from 10 to 25 last summer as part of President Bush's new strategy added another 30 Foreign Service personnel and many more outside contractors. Volunteers have filled all but about 50 slots that will be empty as of next summer, Thomas said.
At congressional hearings last summer, Kashkett testified that medical and psychiatric symptoms have become a growing problem for personnel serving in high-danger zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan. At the same time, the constant need for personnel in Baghdad has drawn new dividing lines between those who have volunteered and those who have not. (ed.'s note: so medical and psychiatric symptoms have become a problem. that is the reason behind refusing to do anything for our troops that can also complain about "medical and psychiatric problems"? if it is so bad over there then why aren't the best people being shipped out to work on the political end of the problem. just because they prefer silk boxers they can't be send to "hardship posts"?)
Although the secretary of state has the authority to direct assignments, "State Department discipline exists on paper only," (ed.'s note: no sh*t, sherlock!) one senior official said. "They rarely make people go to places they don't want to go." (ed.'s note: Heaven forbid!)
Crocker requested a management review of the embassy when he became ambassador in March. In a cable to Rice two months later, he asked for more -- and more experienced -- political and economic officers. "In essence," he wrote, "the issue is whether we are a Department and a Service at war. If we are, we need to organize and prioritize in a way that reflects this, something we have not done thus far."
At the time, President Bush had declared a new push for political reconciliation and economic progress in Iraq, and the State Department was struggling to meet those ambitious goals. When it could not quickly mobilize enough diplomats and other civilians to fill the new Provincial Reconstruction Teams, the far larger Pentagon agreed -- with barely concealed resentment -- to provide temporary manpower.
"The military in the last 12 months has been fed a diet of how the State Department failed and sent a bunch of second-stringers" to Iraq, the senior official said. (ed.'s note: I wonder what gave people that impression. the riots that ensued in the State Department when mandatory tours in the sandbox were announced?) Some department officials took umbrage at Crocker's cable, which seemed to confirm that assessment, but the end result was a determination to marshal whatever resources it took to fill the need.
Those who are ordered to Baghdad as part of the new call-up will receive incentives, known as the Iraq Service Package, already offered to volunteers. It includes additional pay of about 70 percent for most mid-level officers, plus another 20 percent of basic salary to compensate for long hours. Officers are not allowed to take their families to Baghdad, but the package allows them to leave spouses and children in whatever post they transfer from for the length of their tour, or to send them back to Washington. (ed.'s note: a 90 percent pay hike?)
U.S. diplomats in Baghdad are given five "rest and relaxation" breaks during the year, including up to three of them in the United States, for a total of 60 days outside Iraq. Those completing a Baghdad tour are also given preference in choosing their next assignment.
(ed.'s note: and with all that they are having trouble finding people that will volunteer? maybe they should publicize that policy more. but that could let joe public see what a bunch of cookie pushers they are...)
(ed.'s note: sorry for the extensive commentary. but this thing just ticked me off.)
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Too Close
While filming a documentary, a Spitfire comes a little too close for comfort.
Wear Your Armor!
So why should you wear body armor in Iraq? For situations such as this one!
Tank Launch
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say what? the US would not show off engineering examples? whyever the hell do you think that?
besides, the fact that you draw attention to the fact that the JSF is not delivered yet pretty much busts yor argument wide open. how long have the F-35, the F-22, the V-22, the C-17, the Future Combat System, the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle and the list goes on been shown to the public before they were put into service/more than a CAD?
sorry, but if you think the US doesn't publish info on future gear you are mistaken.
as for the US using the Brit Lid i wouldn't say no to that so quickly either. since the UK is funding development of the bird and has agreed to buy some (making it cheaper for the US) they also get some parts of it for their own defense industry.
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Why destroy a perfectly good dump truck?
50 Ton Explosion 1963
Gulf Wars: Episode II.V - Attack of the Boredom
Halo the Movie
from what i know, this is just to show what the movie will really be like.
Welcome to the Fleet...
A hilarious video of what it's like to be the new guy in the Fleet. From the VFA-192 JOPA.
Angry Wasps
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I mean, is this the craziest helmet ever? It looks like bogies could die of fright before being shot down.
Gazette and Herald (Wiltshire, UK)
Fighter pilots get a clear vision
By Gazette Reporter
Futuristic new helmets will enable fighter jet pilots to see through their own aircraft, the Ministry of Defence said today.
The head gear being developed for the hi-tech F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is being tested by MoD scientists at Boscombe Down in Wiltshire.
An MoD spokesman said: "Unlike other jet aircraft the JSF, which is planned to replace the Harrier, does not have a traditional head-up display
Instead the computerised symbology will be displayed directly on to the pilot's visors, providing the pilot with cues for flying, navigating and fighting the aircraft.
"It even will superimpose infra-red imagery on to the visor to allow the pilot to look through the cockpit floor at night and see the world below - like something out of Terminator.
"This is absolutely the cutting edge of technology. No other helmet will be able to do this."
The head gear, currently at prototype stage, is being developed by Vision Systems International and Helmet Integrated Systems Limited.
via www.defensetech.org
How To Tweak Smart BRO WiFi
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i wonder if a sat dish is the right way to go for the terrestrial radio connection. you might be better off using a Yagi Type antenna (which you can find all over the place for amateur radio enthusiasts.) while the maximum signal strength with that would be less than what you could do with a dish getting a dish configured and aimed properly is more difficult than the Yagi which has a wider signal club.
also one thing to consider is the existence of safeguards in smartbros equipment. if you shoot your uplink at the antenna with a dish you could get a signal far beyond that of the normal signal. if the equipmenthas built in fail safes then it could shut itself down upon being 'spiked', killing your connection entirely. i am not versed in the legal situation in the phillipines but i would think that such an event could land you in pretty hot water if not with the authorites then at least with smartbro.