Quote: Originally Posted by Alu Kubrick's movies, The Godfather, Fight Club also is a pretty close call. Fight Club book was WAY better than the movie. The mood, the confusion, it all permeated the scenes in the book; less so in the movie. Plus the ending of the movie ruined...

This video is awesome. http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...44027821122670

Quote: Originally Posted by bahamaman Ouch, my head hurts! I know now why I do so poorly at math. Care to provide a simple explanation? Basically, when you initially choose the door, there is a 2/3rds chance that you choose a goat. Given this situation, as soon as the...

Taking 2nd semester latin right now... I'm liking it way better than Spanish back in high school.

60C will NOT hurt your chip. They're designed to withstand higher temps than that.

Quote: Originally Posted by DrewWinters The first time I noticed a cable difference was actually video quality. When your S-video looks better than your Component, you know you have a problem. It was a mildly-upgraded S-video cable (Monster Power) vs. stock super-cheapy component cables...

Quote: Originally Posted by ken36 What does lame mean? 2 : lacking needful or desirable substance : WEAK, INEFFECTUAL <a lame excuse>

I'm a big fan of the HP line. I have a 49G+. Very nice. Can't live without RPN. I had an 83+ in highschool, and I've used 89s a fair bit before, but man, there's no turning back now that I've gone down the HP path. But yeah, if you want spreadsheet-esque stuff, it seems like it'd just be...

Quote: Originally Posted by dhwilkin And of course, whenever a rpg thread comes up, it's mandatory I recommend my favorite of all time, Final Fantasy IV. Yes, IV. Final Fantasy IV is really really fun. Definately the best replay value of any of them. I think VI is a better game...

Quote: Originally Posted by Claus1100xx What programs are you thinking about. Are you a senior allready? For programs specifically, I'm not to that point yet. I'm still trying to get a feel for all the different programs, their admission expectations, and the like. Getting into a...

So there are only half a dozen of us here? How disappointing!! I'm majoring in economics (+ math + philosophy). I intend to go to grad school. However, given the low-prestige of my university, with virtually no chance for undergraduate research, I'm extremely apprehensive about my chances...

If you're concerned about pricepoint as well, you can get a 5GB Rio Carbon for really rather cheap nowadays. It's a nice, small little player.

Quote: Originally Posted by TheReds IstariAsuka, i was wondering, do any creative cards have a bitperfect dig out? i game a good amount and if i could just find an audigy *maybe x-fi* that has a bit perfect dig out, then i could attach a dac to that and my "music" cans to it and my...

Quote: Originally Posted by krazygluon Regarding a dac, what would adding a dac to an audigy do? It seems slightly redundant, although I guess it makes sense in terms of having the audigy do all the 5.1 decoding, pumping that out the digital out and using the dac's presumably better...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kestrel Oversimplifying however? Distortion issues I can understand. But to claim improved musicality / bass / treble / whatever when double amping is a joke... Nothing is going to increase beyond the capabilities of the original amp in this case. Well...