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Intel definitely. Although AMD has been marketing on their high instruction per cycle feature, their more efficient use of power and their being the pioneer in affordable 64 bit CPU, AMD?s CPU fail to deliver what a good CPU should deliver, a large clock time and a good RAM bandwidth. AMD?s CPU generally outperforms Intel?s in terms of floating point and computing power, but when high clock frequency is needed, e.g. during movie compression, AMD?s CPUs generally become much slower. Its limitation on on-chip cache is also preventing its CPU from getting a higher performance. Although AMD?s FX series has been the gamer choice for many years, with support from nVidia highend chipset and SLI, these advantages are not very marked when the price is considered. When you talk about mobile CPUs, then AMD?s market share is even smaller. I don?t know why AMD has not been in the mobile market for so long and I think the reason is that they are not able to produce CPUs with a large amount of cache. Intel?s mobile CPUs generally has a slower clock frequency but owes to its size of cache, their CPUs are usable in low-voltage environment. This is something that AMD should work hard on. Also, I don?t like AMD labeling of CPU using CPU benchmarks instead of clock time, FSB and Cache. CPU benchmarks are very vague thing, with different benchmarks giving conflicting results. On the other hand, clock speed and FSB are more objective readings of performance of CPUS. There is no reason why AMD is afraid of competing with Intel on this front.

Well, I think the reason behind the double standards is that most of us learn about lesbianism from the mass media, which have the tendency to portray lesbianism as something very pleasing to the eyes (particularly to men). They make you to belief that lesbianism is an FFM situation without the man. That?s exactly how porn movies portray lesbianism. Also, the female body is more beautiful then the male body (please pardon my prejudice), making lesbianism more awesome.Back to brokeback mountain. I think that the movie is particularly weak at depicting homosexuality. The main problem with the homosexual relationship in the movie is that both characters are too muscular, a cowboy and a man who would throw down his gloves impulsively while homos unusually work with one of the two being more feminine. The script writers (there are two) seemed to have intended to make Jack the more feminine character, with the first shot showing him shaving meticulously in front of the car mirror. However, by portraying him being the conqueror of cows, and a father who got crossed with his father-in-law who insisted on football TV live show being turned on and challenged him with a fight, the plot went out of balance.Therefore, I don?t think brokeback mountain is accurate at telling a story about the day, which is the same problem with movies with the lesbians. I won?t recommend the film.

Age of Empires 3 is not a very appealing game, I think. The troops are simply to homogeneous, no matter you are playing the Spaniards or the British, or the French, you command basically the same troops, the only difference being the colors and the language they use. In my opinion, Warcraft III designers did a better job creating the units, with each race a different team of troops and different buildings. The sea troops are also too powerful that they limit number of galleons you can have, which is really strange. Age of Empire 3 disappoints me.

I think the architect has the swastika in mind when building this premise. After all, the swastika has been around for thousands of years well before the crux, the star of David, and the crescent were born. There is absolutely no reason why the architect, which may well be a Hindu or Buddhist, should not want to build this building in society as diverse as the United States and especially in California. Do you notice the ?dots? inside the building? They seem particularly similar to those of the swastika in wikipedia, hinting that the architect is more likely be a Hindu then a Buddhist. Personally, I don?t see any reason why the symbol is such a taboo in the so-called western world. Even if the party of the Third Reich did use it as their symbol, they could not rob the symbol away from world.

Skype has a VoIP component which makes much profit to its producer. Their charge over VoIP is not that attractive. Both Skype and MSN have video conferencing. Skype?s voice chat and conferencing look more stable to me. Perhaps Skype is not using the old H263 audio codec which really sucks. I don?t really realize Skype has become so popular these days despite there are plenty of similar programs on the market. Being cross-perform is perhaps one of the reasons. Perhaps people are only asking for something simple and fool-proof. However, it is not at all impressive to me, who grow up in the age of ICQ and had long given it up before it became popular and later, unpopular.

Cone on, everyone hates school. But despite the hatred, it is a necessary evil that we all have to go through. In the good old days, we used to finish school somewhere around high school and university. Now, most of us go for a postgraduate degree. We have to be prepared to go through a long (and bad) time in school.

I have been using the print screen button for a long time. There is one limitation, though, that you cannot capture directshow's screen and so without a proper VFW codec, you will end up capturing a black out screen if you try to capture a shot in Windows media player playing Xvid or DivX or DVD movies. You can work around this by using another media player (a proper media player, I mean, not WMP), say KMP (korean media player). KMP has a built in screen capture function. However, yo capture screen shots from games, you still need other software.

ATI x1900 is a good card. There are quite a few x1900 on the market. The original XT card, the XTX card and the crossfire card. Personally, I don't think ATI's crossfire is as mature as GeForce's SLI at the moment, in terms of hardware (e.g. motherboard and chipset) support and game support, so if you really want to set up a SLI system, GeForce series may be better, even 7800 GTX is comparable to X1900 series on single card performance. GTX has 3D mark03 of 8177 compared to 8111 of X1900 and 6001 compared to 7389 of X1900. X1000 series seem to be good at pixel shader, so they generally get better benchmarks on newer tests. There is an X1900 from HIS, quite good a R580 card. Try look for it.

I just wonder how much bandwidth will I need in order to make my radio station stream seamlessly. I have listened to online radio before and a bit rate of about 8kbps in wmv gives very good quality indeed. However, when it comes to personally hosted radio shows, there are interruptions occasionally, probably due to problems with the network. I know that many people are now switching to VDSL or FTTB, which offer 10Mbps or more upstream bandwidth. For those people, hosting a radio station seems highly feasible, but you have to get a good ISP, or the overseas bandwidth may be inadequate despite high speed connections locally. For people on ADSL like me, podcast seems to be a better option to online radio. In terms of technology, I think many software can now perform the same task in more or less the same way. Some of my friends use Real Producer on Helix Server, which is also quite good an option.

But I also never cease to be amazed by the stupidity of M$. The stupid idea to introduce update validation came after M$ ECC encryption algorithm had been broken to the core by two warez groups. The first keygen on the internet was, people think, leaked from inside, by the later keygens by another group on a series of M$ stupid products, from 32bit Server 2003 to x64 OSes to ISA server, are genuinely written by some geniuses working on ECC. Thats why M$ feels so threatened that they introduced this stupid validation thing, which was cracked just two days after its introduction. The people at M$ never realize that the scene was there well before they wrote DOS, and it was like the revolutionary spirit. You can kill the martyrs, but you cannot kill the spirit. From IRC to BT to encrypted file sharing (say, Japaneses Share), the scene will go on and on and will live longer than M$. I think with those geniuses at the scene, Vista will be the next target. M$ may have to switch from ECC (which is also in M$ DRM with WMV) to other algorithm.

I have mp3 playing in my mobile phone as the default ringtone too. I edit my favorite songs from animes with Nero Wave editor, applying the fade in and fade out and than put then into my mobiles to be the ringtones. Mp3 ringtones are much better than electronic midi songs from the phones.

I would suggest dreamweaver 8 too. It is far more advanced than any other free builder. With syntax highlights and browser compatibility test, it offers much more than code writing. If you want flash in your webpage, then you need flash 8 too. Most of the pages I visit are written by these two software.

Pigeons. I don't think many people would agree that pigeons are "eatable", especially in a time when avian flu is lurking in the dark. But eating pigeons is actually quite common in the place that I am living. Pigeons are not as meaty as chickens, but are more or less of the same texture.

When the majority of PC games nowadays utilizes DirectX, there aren't many way that you can get away not having it. VMware works quite fine with me. I even debug with Soft-ICE using VMware. But I notice that you say dual boot causes you a lot of time, which is not true for most of computers at home (I use BootMagic for the job instead of Fedora's built-in GRUB). If you really have a very old computer, I don't think VMware will work well. An old computer does not give good gaming performance too. Gaming on Linux does not seem very feasible on your case to me.

I like the layout too. I like the two columns design too. But I think the The font side is a little bit too small by default. And the calendar can be improved so that dates with a post can be highlighted. You don't seem to have a bot protection against spam comments yet. I would suggest that you add some lines of script to protect yourself against spam comments, which sometimes can take up your space at the database and dry up the bandwidth.

It seems to me that it is a site which specializes with searches about Microsoft. Somewhat like a news center that gathers all information people need about Microsoft. It is unofficial, in the sense that it is maintained by google, not Microsoft though, and so when bad news about Microsoft appear, the search engine may be the first search engine to spread them widely. I really like this design. We need a watchdog to closely look at Microsoft?s day to day operation and this site seems to be the first step.

Yes, I leave my computer on for 24/7. The reason behind is simple, it is my gateway to the internet. I leave it on, just as I did with my old router. Computers are designed to be used 24/7, so there isn't really any problems with that. You must have good ventilation inside the box and a sound transformer though. Get a transformer of the higher grade and your computer will be sound then. You are adviced to reboot it, as someone has mentioned, regularly however, to prevent worms attack and etc. Electricity is cheap, don't worry about that. Plus, if you download all the time, leaving the box on overight save you a lot of worries.

Yes, I leave my computer on for 24/7. The reason behind is simple, it is my gateway to the internet. I leave it on, just as I did with my old router. Computers are designed to be used 24/7, so there isn't really any problems with that. You must have good ventilation inside the box and a sound transformer though. Get a transformer of the higher grade and your computer will be sound then. You are adviced to reboot it, as someone has mentioned, regularly however, to prevent worms attack and etc. Electricity is cheap, don't worry about that. Plus, if you download all the time, leaving the box on overight save you a lot of worries.

Yahoo has one grave disadvantage when compared to google: its ads policy is too agressive. Nearly half of the screen is occupied by stupid flash or animated gif when you open a typical yahoo mailbox. I have to block all of those with my firewall and the adblock add on in my browser. The other bad thing with yahoo is that its pop server is very slow. People sending me emails often complain of the time lag in delivery. Gmail is quite stable and it is quite fast. I am actually very happy with gmail service now.

That's a very good reason for having a flip phone. I switched to a flip phone recently and I found out that this is a big advantage too. I often received stupid calls and SMS from my friends who have forgot to lock their key pads. These calls are quite annoying. Flip phones also offer better protection to the TFT monitor from scretching and damaging. I like flip phones more now.

Creative's players are quite nice. My sister got one which has 512MB flash memory. Apple's Ipods look horrible to me and I wonder how it becomes a hot thing among young people. The white design looks plain and there are not many functions that worth mentioning. Apple also bundles their online music store with the stupid software which I think is not fair to other music stores. I would prefer Creative's players instead of Apple's.

The efficiency of gigabit depends on mainly the CPU power of your computer as well as which gigabit chipset you are using. Some dual gigabit models use a chip from realtek, which is not very well performing as far as efficiecny is concerned, as the bandwidth will have to go to the southbridge before being usable. Also, if you are using PCI-E card, there will be bottleneck at the PCI-E interface. So the best chip I think should be nforce's gigabit and it can which more then 80MB.

Just wonder what GPU they are choosing. Intel's 945P does not seem to have an integrated display and judging from the configuration of the computer, there should have been room for SLI or Crossfire display cards, while there is none. I wonder why there is no duel PCI-E x8 slots for the purpose.

This is a very mind provoking question. When you are small, you will probably think that twenty years old is very old, or any age which is double of yours as very old. But when you grow to that age, you will think that that particular age is not old at all. As for me, I am older than twenty one now and I now think that being twenty one is considered to be very young and immature. Sometimes, I looked back at things I did at that age and I would now say that those are very childish compared to adult standards. I am then glad that I have learnt quite a lot from life during these years. I am sure you will feel the same when you gain experience from school and from work, you will be amazed by how immature a 21 years old is.

I am using Boilsoft's RM converter too, and it works satisfactorily. The Boilsoft's RM converter actually lets you choose which decoder to use to decode the RMVB and you should choose Boilsoft?s built-in codec instead of the RM plug-in that you get when you install real player or real player alternative. The only problem I am having with Boilsoft's RM converter is that the video is not in sync with the audio must of the time and this is causing many troubles during trans-coding. I still haven?t worked out a way out of this trouble and the only alternative that I have is the use Macromedia?s Flash 8 encoder together with real alternative to get some clips in flv, which is quite handy when posting them somewhere online (you know, most hosts ban wmv or avi files). Alternatively, you may extract the video and the audio from the rmvb separately and to mux them later. There is a piece of software called EO Video which can turn rmvb to avi too. You may try if it works. I think the problem you are having may also be related to the rmvb file itself. There are quite a lot of rmvb encoders on the market and some of them do not quite conform to the original rmvb format (say Easy RMVB encoder). This is quite problematic.