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a lot of times if you look through the device manager you can find out, even with integrated graphics.if not, you can most definatly find out what kind of chipset you're running the device manager, and then just google that, or go to the manufacturer's website.like everyone else said, integrated graphics show their shortcomings really really quickly compared to a dedicated card.

if artificial sweetners make you think sugar isn't bad for you, thats kind of a head game... not the fault of the sweetners.the flip side to that argument is, if artificial sweetners get rid of your sweet tooth, they've helped you a lot.i have, however, heard of some instances where its been proven that some of the chemicals in artificial sweetners can cause your appetite to spike, making you more hungry after you eat something with the artificial sweetner in it than you were before, but i have never noticed that.as far as the chemicals harming you, it generally seems that most of the studies done on rats (not humans) give the rats such a ridiculously large amount of these sweetners that a human being would never consume in a lifetime.keep in mind, for most artificial sweetners one pound of sugar equals anywhere from 200-400 pounds of the artificial sweetner, they're very very powerful.

yes, it will make a huge difference. back in the netburst/k8 days, amd had a huge advantage, but ever since the core 2 architecture came out, its been all intel. The core 2 duos and core 2 quads really tear everything else up... amd can't even come close except on some budget offerings. and if you plan on doing any gaming, you shouldn't go with onboard graphics... even a $50-$70 video card will way outperform anything onboard. i think "factory overclocked" is a bit of an oxymoron.... maybe? i dunno all of the next generation processors, made out of 45nm silicon instead of 65 nm, will have 6 mb l2 cache for dual core and 12 mb cache for quad cores... unless they are coming out with a few budget versions that have less.

i'm drivin a 1998 Oldsmobile 88.its a four door passenger car, same as a buick lesabre or pontiac bonneville from that era.between the three models, there must be millions of em on the road.... not a bad car, pretty cheap, decent fuel mileage, gets me where i need to go.i have no problem driving it in college but my dad might insist i get something better... more reliable.

i like them both, family guy is probably a little funnier, but i think the simpsons has more non-comedic quality to it.the simpsons really peaked in seasons like 8-13 though.... watch some reruns sometime... those episodes are way better than the new ones.i don't think family guy will last as long as the simpsons though, it seems like its going to wash up kind of fast.but there are some GREAT family guy skits out there.... like the "armless second baseman" clip... oh man

well in that case i guess i'm not really part of the group your criticizing, as i take the time to make relevant forum posts, respect my parents, and am going to go to college to be an engineer but, i totally agree with you that these days a lot of people aren't really studying relevant/useful things.... the world only needs so many people with english, political science, or history degrees. and thats why if you can go to college and get a degree in some kind of math or engineering degree, you usually can make a lot of money.... supply vs. demand.

i read somewhere where someone tried to say that any science which needed the word "science" on the end was not actually a science... but he was taking a stab at computer science, not political science. I guess political science is a science, but i dunno where a political science major gets a job at after college

i find this kind of stuff fascinating.... not only does fibonachi's sequence show up in nature, but it is supposed to be very visually appealing.fibonacci's sequence relates to the golden ratio, which is supposed to be a very visually appealing ratio used in architecture and what not (some people have even commented that the golden ratio can be found many places in the faces of people we consider to be "beautiful"), and i find that to be true... etc in America 3 X 5, 5 X 8, and 8 X 13 are all very very common photo sizes.my math teacher spent like an entire day showing us some of this stuff once, and how he tried building a dog house once that used fibonacci's sequence so that he hoped his dog would actually use it, which it didnt.

ive been running avast and avg free on several computers ranging from windows 2000 to vista ultimate, and they've never gotten mad at each other. Might use a few extra resources, but for what most of those systems are doing, it doesnt matter... they would be running slower because the users would load them with viruses without the double anti-virus.

or, you could just buy a low quality pci video card... only instead of buying one buy like six plug as many monitors as possible into each.... i think that would call for rounding up a few oldie crt monitors!

what if P=0 ?then PHP = HP, along with PHP = 5HP, or furthermore, PHP = nHP and if PHP = HP, it simplifies all the way to H = H, which is a true statement but if P = 1 or 0, PHP would just be H, which doesnt sound like a very interesting programming language

thats surprising, evga seems like a pretty popular brand these days.im running one of their 680i SLI boards and an 8800 GTS 640 MB (built before the G92's came out...) and they've given me no trouble. anyways ill have to post an update once i get a chance over spring break to install all of my new cooling.

i don't even think that would be that fasti've read stuff on toms hardware about the skulltrail being terrible, almost slower than a singular quad core.and what fun would water cooling be if it was already done for you?we had a contest like this once in my computer hardware class... suddenly $15k printers seem really popular heh--edit--i just remembered that skulltrail only supports crossfire anyways so sli wouldn't even work.

i don't think the sat has nearly the importance it used to... many schools now (except some on the coasts) accept the act, many put more importance on the act than the sat, and some dont even take the sat.i didn't even bother with the sat...i took the act and got a 33 which was more than enough to get me into college and more or less get me a full ride scholarship,most colleges look at your act/sat scores and gpa/strength of schedule about equally... my experience has been that extracurriculars (church, sports, work, etc) have been a bigger issue for private scholarships.

yea i have 4 gigs of ocz ddr2 800... pretty good rami thought about getting an asus mobo back when i built my rig but i went with evga instead, they're a pretty rock solid company too.

my school used to have a lot of a bomb threat problem.... back when i was a freshman. i do not recall having any bomb threats since that year however... so once my class graduates (im a senior now) my school will not have any kids who experienced bomb threats and they will go into my high schools legends and lore forever <_<but my freshman year, we had a countdown thingy.someone hung a big sheet with a 6 on it from the roof, then the next day they found a 5 on the wall, and then the next day a 4 in a bathroom stall.... threats stopped appearing but we basically didnt have school on the "0" day. it all the local news stations and everything, but nothing ever happened.

yea, sonesay, i know what you mean. i was afraid forever that i would kill my computer, but once i finally did it... it was no big deal and it was like... free power. and if your computer is not custom built, everything will be all locked up. im going to be happy if i get mine to 3.25 but theres some people out there with some sick overclocks on the q600... 3.6 ghz+... ill be more than happy with 3.25.of course, many people who have the best overclocks are the smartest overclockers, and therefore the safest with their equipment.... but some of the stuff out there is crazy.... phase change cooling, or lapping your cpu (basically when you take sandpaper to the metal cover on your cpu to flatten it out... i would be terrified) at a certain point it definatly becomes more of a hobby than a money saver.but i will gladly brag about my $300 q6600 running faster oc'ed than a $800 intel proc at stock speed

bill gates decline in wealth doesn't have much to do with vista at all...he is becoming a philanthropist, he wants to give most of his money away.he is stepping down from microsoft to spend his time finding worthwhile charities to give money to.i've always had a lot of respect for bill gates despite what other people say and in my opinion, his philanthropy efforts just prove that he is a good man.

i was wondering if any of the other members of this forum are big into overclocking?i have the q6600 on an evga 680i sli, both of which are known to be fairly good overclockers, running at 3.0 ghz on stock cooling (stock speed is 2.4). i'm going to order some aftermarket cooling fans for the cpu, mcp, and spp, and try to get to at least 3.25 ghz (and quiet my case down a bit )i'm really starting to dig this whole overclocking/ computer modding thing, its a lot of fun and adds some individualism to your computer.anyone else a big overclocker?

i've been very succesful in the last two years with losing weight & maintaining weight loss.i used to tip the scales at 250 lbs, but in the last 18 months or so ive varied between 180 and 210 lbs... im about 200 right now.it really takes a lot of personality changes and motivation to be succesful at weight loss.... i try to exercise every day and im very strict about what i eat.... too strict a lot of the time.when i got down to 180 lbs i was pretty much anorexic... and i'm still stricter than i should be about what i eat, i try to loosen my standards all the time, which is harder for me than it sounds like it would be.

I don't feel like America's youth is headed in any worse a direction than the youth of generations past. The old are always criticizing the young, and yet society moves on. There will always be upper, middle, and lower classes.At my school, i feel like for the most part people realize the value of an education, and study hard and stay in school.That being said, I feel like in order to keep kids out of trouble you have to limit their free time. Notice i said free time, and not "unoccupied" time or "stress-free" time. Kids need structured activities around them to keep them out of trouble. This doesn't have to be something stressful or hard, it can be something fun, like a sport or something. This structured time gives them something to be motivated about, and reduces the time they have to get in trouble. Kids get in trouble when they are bored, unsupervised, and the only thing to do is drink a six pack and smoke some weed.Sure, there are people who drop out of high school, but its their choice to not go anywhere in life. Theres plenty of people who want to get a education and be successful, and they will gladly be the bosses of those who didn't care about the future while it was still the future.I, personally, am one who studies hard and tries to be successful. I don't try to "fight the man" but i am not going to repeatedly do things against my own will... for the most part i realize that "the man" is right and his ideals will help advance myself along with "himself". I worked hard on school rather than having a full time job (i do work 10-15 hours on the weekends), and the studying has paid off via college scholarships way way way more than fast food would have ever made me. But I am probably going to graduate #1 in my class and have the highest ACT score so maybe i am an exception rather than the norm.

this is an error i have dealt with for a long time and it doesn't really make much sense to me. if i am parsing a string, and try to put an array variable in it, it returns an error example: echo "This is a variable: $array['var']";that will return an error. I have tried to get around it by doing $array[\'var\'] and $array[\"var\"] but those just return different errors. I can get rid of the error by using this: $array[var] but it says right in the php manual that that is a no-no the only two ways i know to escape are to assign the value to a string variable or to concatenate. $var = $array['var'];echo "This is a variable: $var" echo "This is a variable: " . $array['var']; the first is rather cumbersome with large arrays, and the second is kind of messy the way i see it. does anyone know how to get around this?

yea i watched it a few times... pretty coolsome guy was in a corn field next to our house with a ski mask and a telescope... it was kinda funny/creepy/weird considering yesterday was the coldest day in like 5 years here.but last night was the eclipse, and today is my 18th birthday, so im feeling some kind of prophecy going on here

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ i ended up rewriting the css using sonesay's page as a guide. works in IE7 IE6, FF2, and Opera 9.25. safari won't work with vista x64 (or at least not for me) so if someone is running that and wants to check it for me that'd be awesome. i still need to work out a few little things here and there so it will validate as strict thanks to everyone for their help.... i am absolutely jumping for joy now because i got this to work.

okay, first i'll give a little more background info on what i'm coding.... this piece of code here is being written to be reused as content boxes all throughout my website.... http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ that gives an idea of what i'm trying to do (it's all done in nested tables however) so, jihaslip, i'll add that bit about centering the content to the container div that establishes the header and left and right column... when i code that up.... and i read about the align=center thing not being standards compliant for divs. now, i googled faux columns, read some articles on it.... seems like a simple concept. i coded this up: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ the faux columns works in IE7 and Opera, but not in FF2.... any ideas for how to make it work? heres the css: .wrapper{margin: 0px; padding: 0px; clear: both;}.topLeftCorner{margin: 0px; padding: 0px; height: 100px; float: left; background-image: url(theme/black_frost/index_r2_c2.jpg); background-position: 0px, 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; clear: left;}.topCenterBanner{margin: 0px; padding: 0px; height: 100px; float: left; background-image: url(theme/black_frost/index_r2_c3.jpg); background-position: 0px, 0px; background-repeat: repeat-x;}.topRightCorner{margin: 0px; padding: 0px; height: 100px; float: left; background-image: url(theme/black_frost/index_r2_c4.jpg); background-position: 0px, 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; clear: right;}.sideLeft{margin: 0px; padding: 0px; height: 75px; float: left; background-image: url(theme/black_frost/index_r3_c2.jpg); background-position: 0px, 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; clear: left;}.mainCenterContent{margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; background-color: #FFFFFF;}.sideRight{margin: 0px; padding: 0px; height: 75px; float: left; background-image: url(theme/black_frost/index_r3_c4.jpg); background-position: 0px, 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; clear: right;}.bottomLeftCorner{margin: 0px; padding: 0px; height: 50px; float: left; background-image: url(theme/black_frost/index_r5_c2.jpg); background-position: 0px, 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; clear: left;}.bottomCenter{margin: 0px; padding: 0px; height: 50px; float: left; background-image: url(theme/black_frost/index_r5_c3.jpg); background-position: 0px, 0px; background-repeat: repeat-x;}.bottomRightCorner{margin: 0px; padding: 0px; height: 50px; float: left; background-image: url(theme/black_frost/index_r5_c4.jpg); background-position: 0px, 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; clear: right;} and the html: <div style="width: 400px;" class="wrapper"> <div style="width: 400px;" class="wrapper"> <div style="width: 50px;" class="topLeftCorner"><img src="theme/black_frost/index_r2_c2.jpg" /></div> <div style="width: 300px;" class="topCenterBanner"><img src="theme/black_frost/index_r2_c3.jpg" /></div> <div style="width: 50px;" class="topRightCorner"><img src="theme/black_frost/index_r2_c4.jpg" /></div> </div> <div style="width: 400px; background-image: url(image.php?type=bg&dir=theme/black_frost&width=400); background-repeat: repeat-y; background-position: 0px, 0px;" class="wrapper"> <div style="width: 50px;" class="sideLeft"><img src="theme/black_frost/index_r3_c2.jpg" /></div> <div style="width: 300px;" class="mainCenterContent"><p>Hello World<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/></p></div> <div style="width: 50px;" class="sideRight"><img src="theme/black_frost/index_r3_c4.jpg" /></div> </div> <div style="width: 400px;" class="wrapper"> <div style="width: 50px;" class="bottomLeftCorner"><img src="theme/black_frost/index_r5_c2.jpg" /></div> <div style="width: 300px;" class="bottomCenter"><img src="theme/black_frost/index_r5_c3.jpg" /></div> <div style="width: 50px;" class="bottomRightCorner"><img src="theme/black_frost/index_r5_c4.jpg" /></div> </div></div>a couple last notes: the entire page is generated out of php, it is meant to be that a content box can be created of any size. it is because of this varying size that the width of the div is defined in the div rather than in the stylesheet. this is also why the background for the faux columns is defined in the div, and why the image is a php file- in order for the background image to be the right width, it has to be created at runtime.