You've got your view and I've got mine. You say you've got your view, but I'm not entirely clear what it is yet. Given that deliberately inflicting a slow, drawn-out, painful death on an animal for entertainment doesn't constitute "torturing" it in your book, can we take it that you believe bullfig...

Putting aside the argument about what constitutes an equal contest and whether bullfighting is morally acceptable or not; the fact is that it is very popular with many people while others find it sick and barbaric. I was just wondering why that is. Off topic: I never use ropes and I only climb a spe...

If this was a fair fight to the death between a man and an animal then it's all good. Put a man in the bull ring without ANYTHING and let him kill the bull with a loin cloth and his bare hands thus proving his superiority. There have been recorded instances of people going up against lethal animals...

I didn't say I thought bullfighting was torture. It's a contest between a man and an animal, and as is apparent, the man can lose. Obviously the bull will end up dead either way and obviously it has no choice in whether to participate or not. The fact that bullfighting is so popular in some countrie...

Fayd - that's not my quote.

Bullfighting is a huge sport in Spain, virtually as popular as soccer. It is part of the national culture. I've been to several bullfights, the atmosphere is tremendous and the Spanish people revere their top matadors in the way that David Beckham or Wayne Rooney are revered in the UK - probably mo...

Bullfighting is a huge sport in Spain, virtually as popular as soccer. It is part of the national culture. I've been to several bullfights, the atmosphere is tremendous and the Spanish people revere their top matadors in the way that David Beckham or Wayne Rooney are revered in the UK - probably mor...

I'm puzzled - with $200 you could just buy a Titan fenrir yourself, try it out, and if not happy then still have money for yet another cooler or even two. May I ask what's the point of donating that much by yourself??? Good point. I went ahead and bought the power supply mentioned in my earlier pos...

Well, I didn't go for the X-650. I've just ordered a Seasonic M12 II Bronze 620W, based on this review and Seasonics reputation and track record. Not reviewed by SPCR yet but I'm expecting it to be virtually silent at the loads I will be putting on it (crossed fingers) and it is just about two third...

What survives and replicates is that which is most successful at surviving and replicating. How much more circular can you get? Fixed! "Most" has no place in your statement - there is either success or not-success. "Success" means the completion of some action. Your statement reduces to: "What subj...

And one group of intrepid Samaritans tried to evacuate stranded travelers by dinghy from Calais, France, to Dover, England. :lol: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011642758_volcano19.html More on that here The cynical side of me suspects some kind of publicity stunt - he is a TV p...

Never mind a Mercedes, this is the car that will get you the most envious looks:


More ideas here

Are you sure that your hatred towards Apple doesn't come from the fact that most of you Apple bashers can't afford their products ? Apple haters ALWAYS point out the fact that "you can get cheaper stuff that does the same thing"... So what ? A Mercedes will get you to work just as any old (still fu...

Hotel owners must be grinning from ear to ear. The first day, every room in London was sold by midday, according to the BBC news.

Can't help but think of Pompeii - no reason why an eruption like that couldn't happen again at any time.
Could be worse though - like this.

When I was a kid, one of my aunts married an American airman based in England; his pronunciation of Gloucester was 'Glow-cesster' with the 'Glow' rhyming with 'cow'. (It's pronounced Gloss-ter) Well it used to amuse me anyway, as did his accent in general. He was from California. Odd to think that I...

MikeC wrote: If you don't want to wait for a sample/review through spcr's usual sources, go ahead, nominate the item for review w/ a donation.

Well, I gave you $25 a few weeks ago...

There are other things more interesting than yet another boring run of the mill "looks the same as 1000 others" heatsink? I'd go along with that comment. I'd be much more interested in a review of the new Seasonic S12 II Bronze 520W psu (or it's modular equivalent). It had a very good review on Jon...

ces wrote: This is a unique site. I think the people here are fairly smart and thoughtful people. That is not a plentiful commodity on the internet.

That's why this is the only site I go to on a regular basis - and thank you for your excellent input on fans.

Ces, maybe you should be asking these questions on a more general site? There are plenty of them out there. I'm pretty sure that there must be some information on the web that can explain the mechanics of a cpu in a basic way; how about this to start with? I don't imagine that anyone here begrudges ...

nutball wrote:
For the uses you're describing it's not even clear that there'd be a real noticeable performance difference between any of the CPUs you listed in your OP, clock speed, cache or anything else. Only difference is cost.

'nuff said.

Can You Help Me? I can tell you a few things that I've been told/read, (sorry if it's a grandma and egg sucking thing, but hey.) How many services do you have running in Task Manager? - Turn off anything you don't need. Defragment your hard drive on a regular basis and get rid of crap you don't nee...

ces wrote: So if I am going to use a smaller 775 socket chip, I am trying to figure out what it should be.

Well, if it were me and I was positive that I didn't want to do any serious gaming, video editing or 3D CAD work; I'd go for the E5400 and stick the Quad core on e-bay.

There is a lot of data there, but I think I need a human being who understands that data and convert it into a practical assessment. The benchmarks are synthetic, about gaming, or about encoding. None of which applies to me. What I use a lot are browsers, Microsoft office, windows explorer, bloated...

danimal wrote:uriah heep?? lol, that's mid-'50's territory... you never know tho, kids today are still rocking to led zep.

Yeah I know... I'm 51. I didn't want to offend Aristide.
Amazing to think that they are still touring Europe, with one original member!!

accipiter wrote: I am able to change fan speeds using SpeedFan, but cant seem to get the computer to remember settings between reboots.
any ideas?

Sorry if this may be stating the bleeding obvious, but it caught me out when I first used Speedfan - have you put a shortcut to speedfan.exe in the start up folder?

Based on your recent Uriah Heep post, together with some remarks you have made in other posts, I would guess that you are in your early to mid forties?? That does put you in a difficult category if you are looking to change fields and need on the job training. Almost all companies prefer recent (i.e...

while i'm no fan of the lobbying system, i really can't think of a better way to do it. people vote with their dollars in addition to their votes. it gives a gauge of how much people want some specific legislation passed or something. Which serves to illustrate the point being made in this and othe...

Was itthis?

Someone said that they have stopped selling the HR-01 in the UK. I hope that doesn't mean they are phasing it out in the US. You might want to hurry up and buy one while you can. There's a couple of places here that stock the HR-01 ( Not plus version - I can't find that anywhere) but only for some ...

I guess I must be lucky - my day rate has gone up by 65% since 2000 - and I'm doing the same job now as then.
Per Diems (Daily living allowance when working away from home) has not changed though.