I've got a pair of the M-Audio Studiophile AV speakers hooked up to my TV in the kitchen (18' x 12') and they sound tremendous for the price. There would be absolutely no problem filling a room with sound!! The only drawback is that there is a noticeable hum when the source is turned off so you will...

Legalise it, regulate it and tax it... but not too much :D Weed could be handed out to unemployed violent teenagers who will then stay in all the time chillin' instead of wandering the steets terrorising little old ladies. Research should be carried out into developing THC inhalers as smoking is cle...

I would think that most governments, particularly the American government would have learnt by now that if they make things up or lie about things such as those listed by whispercat, the truth will eventually come out and they will be left looking like fools. I can't see any reason why this killing ...

Since there is no such group as al-Quaeda, this is quite funny. It's probably another fake posting by the CIA who have already admitted to posting previous videos of Bin Laden. Makes sense, since Obama has had trouble selling his staged killing of Sunday night. Too many skeptics, and the story of w...

Rebellious wrote:
He should have bee tried, convicted and put in a special jail at ground zero, where visitors can see him and feed him like a zoo animal. I bet a lot of people would visit New York just to feed Osama some peanuts.

Better still - pork scratchings...

Moslems Is that like how you say "aluminum" funny? Yeah, funny like UranIUM, LithIUM, RadIUM etc.etc. I'm just surprised you guys don't spell it Aloominum. :D Moslem vs Muslem just reflects my age, these days Muslem seems to be more politically correct. A democratic governments principal function i...

As far as I am aware, Bin Laden officially declared war on the US. If so he's no longer a criminal but an enemy 'soldier' not only that, he urged Moslems everywhere to attack America in any way they could. In my eyes that makes it perfectly acceptable to shoot him dead without a trial. When the IRA ...

According to CNN he was using his youngest wife as a shield when he was shot. She got killed too. What a brave man. I'm glad he was killed and I'm glad the Seals pulled it off successfully and without loss. Operations such as this have not gone too well for the Americans in the past; maybe they've b...

It is a shame that politics is so polarised, I suppose that it may be because only the extremists on left and right are passionate enough about their beliefs to make a lot of noise. I think that the majority of people are disillusioned with the current system in both the UK and the US - one only has...

judge56988 , I realise your post was meant to be a joke that you have copied and pasted from some hilarious website/email, but parroting it just makes you come across as a prejudiced ill-informed twat. Sorry. lol "I've got some shit I'm conservative about, I've got some shit I'm liberal about. Anyo...

This amused me... But that's probably because I'm not a Liberal. Definition of a liberal 1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand. 2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity. 3. You have to believe that guns in the h...

Countries where healthcare is provided for free to everyone at half the cost of the US expenditures, are not "covered" by an insurance plan. The government is the provider of the healthcare. While I agree with a lot of what you are saying here, the statement above is not quite true in the sense tha...

This is similar to the stuff I used, it's perfect.

In this case the DVD player is built into the receiver. The TV speakers are not used, not wanted either. Can I ask what the receiver is? It's just that only yesterday I bought my mother an Onkyo all in one box that plays DVD's and CD's as well as being an amplifier and FM radio and it's connected t...

The current economic problems are not due to jobs being eliminated by technology. Although an incredible number of jobs have been eliminated in the past 100 years due to technology, they were replaced by other jobs. Is it not bleedin' obvious that jobs in Western Europe and the US are being lost be...

What I dislike is the globalisation that goes hand in hand with the corporatocracy. The rest of the world is becoming Americanised. This is not exactly correct. The world is becoming Americani z ed. When will you people learn to spell correctely? Not biting at that one. :D Anyway, English and Ameri...

Not quite true - the US has been both of these things for many years. :( Yeah well good luck getting M0002a to understand what things are like in the US. I'm pretty sure he/she understands and is probably one of those doing the cheering. What I dislike is the globalisation that goes hand in hand wi...

aristide1 wrote:The US is fast becoming a corporatocracy, a plutarchy. And many are cheering.

Not quite true - the US has been both of these things for many years.

I can't believe any of you took this for anything but an ad!
A persons first post on a silent PC website about a laptop touchpad - gushing prose with a huge glossy photo... duh.

That's exactly why I do prefer a new tab, so when I close it, I can go to the SPCR page I was previously at by clicking on the old tab. Assuming I don't accidentally close the page (and loose both the new page and old SPCR page) then I would have to reload the old page. I may have navigated several...

I was looking at donating my current PSU in my P183 the Corsair HX 620w to another PC with a failing power supply so was researching this model even though 850W is complete and total overkill. The efficiency numbers on page 5 are way off. http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/573/wrong.png If you look a...

I figured you could live with an older laptop as well since you were upgrading from a single-core Penitum M (the Core Duos were released less than 5 years ago, right?). It is actually a T2500 2 GHz Core Duo, from early 2006 so when I said 5 years old, I should have said almost 5 years old. :wink: I...

I'm not surprised there's been no answers yet. This forum is only marginally more popular than the watercooling and networking forums. :lol: Still, I did think that there might be some engineering types out there who have notebooks of this type, who haven't lost some of their hearing and who could g...

I need to replace my 5 year old Dell. It's slow, cracked and noisy. Probably the fan is clogged up with shite of various kinds. Does anyone have any experience of Dell Precision vs Thinkpad W510 vs HP Elitebook in terms of quietness? The trouble is that they all have quite power hungry graphics card...

I have a Lian-Li ( PC 7B SCAND V.3, here is a review (in norwegian): http://www.hardware.no/artikler/aatte_kabinetter/44234/2 ), and would not recommend it to those wanting a quiet computer. The fans may be quiet, but the case is made out of very thin and flimsy aluminium, and every vibration (from...

silenca wrote:I must be a bit hyper-sensitive!

I think that's the norm here.

Britain is set to generate more energy from offshore wind than the rest of the planet put together, after the opening of the world’s biggest ocean wind farm off Kent.
Nobody there to be bothered by the noise. Well, maybe a few fishermen.

Steve, how do you like your Polk's? I've been looking at the Polk 30's (because they fit on my shelf and the 40's don't) BTW- Polk 40 are $180 on Amazon US site and £298 ($480) in the UK! :shock: and that's kind of why I was suggesting $200+ amps. You could take a look at this if you haven't already...

I'm looking for a very similar type of thing at the moment... Have you come across any of these: http://techgage.com/article/nuforce_icon-1_amplifier_and_s-1_speakers/2 http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-news/power-amplifier-news/audioengine-debuts-n22-premium-desktop-audio-amplifier.html http://www....

I don't have an SSD or W7 so I can't help you there. Also, maybe these days with fast multi core cpu's and 4GB RAM being commonplace, the programme crashing is not so much of an issue. I do however like the way a computer runs when there is the absolute minimum of background services running - it ju...