@mooo2a Just to clarify nutball's post for you: Release date: 24 July 2000 BP Amoco today unveiled a new, unified global brand and announced plans for a radical update of its retail sites around the world... ...Today's announcement reveals that the enlarged group will in future be known simply as B...

alleycat wrote:Actually I agree with svil. HDD vibrations do carry surprisingly well along the cable, and if it's touching the case it will resonate.

Surprising but true - I had that happen on my last build. One errant cable that was touching the side of the case but easily fixed with a cable tie.

Hint - there's no oil in Korea, Viet-Nam, Philippines, Grenada, Panama, Bosnia, Lebanon, or Afghanistan. Well, I didn't actually mention any of those countries, only the Middle East. In fact I don't think that it's only oil that brings the US into a conflict - it's anything that affects it's intere...

The idea that the US is at fault is preposterous. The mess in the Middle East was created by France and Britain who colonized the area and left it in chaos after WWII. Someone else seeing the world through stars and stripes tinted glasses! Actually, the Americans were calling the shots behind the s...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2010/06/will_bp_be_forced_out_of_the_u.html This comment on the above article pretty much sums up my feelings - This is without doubt a disaster unfolding in the gulf, regarding the oil spill, the media seems to of forgotten that 11 lives were lo...

There is evidence that the BOP was not properly maintained by British Petroleum, Where? Do you have a link? I thought that it was supposition at this point in time. If you don't have evidence you shouldn't be making allegations against BP. BOP's can fail for reasons other than lack of maintenance. ...

4. It appears (although not proven conclusively yet) that the blowout preventer failed to work because of improper maintenance, and British Petroluem is responsbile for this. This article suggests the cause is more complex and probably a combination of casing/cement job failure together with BOP fa...

31 years and no real improvement. It's 8 mins of video, well worth watching. The well that blew out 31 years ago was drilled in only 150' of water. No problems in getting divers to that depth and yet they still couldn't kill it. I think some of you are failing to appreciate the magnitude of the for...

America, as a political entity, is two things: Codependent and Fundamentalist Democratic. If this is your definition of codependent, as well as the dictionaries definition - "Codependency or Codependence is a tendency to behave in overly passive or excessively caretaking ways that negatively impact...

Question 1: Is it a good deal? Any experience with Panasonic TVs, or this TV in particular? I've been buying Panasonic TV's/VHS/DVD stuff for 25 years and never had a complaint. Their high end TV's consistently get excellent reviews and their mainstream stuff is highly regarded in it's price range....

We do this because we do not like to see civilians die. At the same time, we accept the fact that it happens, but no other nation takes the care we take. I suspect that it is a fear of the media and public opinion that matters most to your politicians. War is the instrument one nation uses to exert...

Sadly from our perspective here in Blighty, BP seems to be getting all the blame for this. Granted they were the operating company but the drilling rig was owned and crewed by Transocean - American owned, while the company responsible for cementing was Halliburton, also American owned. It is a possi...

I have a Dell latitude that is actually nosier than the desktop I've recently put together. I suppose one reason is that my ears are much closer to it as the desktop is on the floor beside my desk. The laptop fan is pretty loud when it speeds up if the processor is working hard and the hard drive vi...

What else would you expect of a population largely descended from a hotch potch of European religous extremists who weren't wanted in their own countries? Religion is now almost extinct in non-catholic Europe... Thank fuck. (I suppose it means you get plenty of volunteers to join the US army - they ...

... get the hint. computers and electronic devices are cheap because of economies of scale. even if we paid workers properly, the end costs of said devices wouldnt go up significantly. Really? Then tell me why so many companies get stuff made in places like China, Korea, India if it's not because o...

Here in England, "carzy" is slang for a toilet, so if I ever need to say Scythe Kaze, which I probably won't, I think I'll stick with kaze (to rhyme with haze or maze).

So long as people want cheap electronic goods, nothing will change. Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly sent 20-year-old reporter Liu Zhi Yi undercover in Foxconn's factory in Shenzhen, China. For 28 days, he experienced dreadful conditions that the factory's 400,000 employees endure, churning out iPo...

Summary: We (all life) are simply the product of a crude, deterministic universe. Life exists for no other purpose than to consume (/ satisfy desire) and reproduce - a useless (in and of itself) purpose. Just because this is the way nature is, doesn't make it acceptable or good. If life were to bec...

A relief well is supposed to intersect the original well just above the reservoir, cement is then injected into the original well to plug it. It's pretty difficult to do, intersecting a 7" diameter steel pipe at depths in excess of 10,000' Blow outs are a known hazard of oil well drilling - numerous...

I'm thinking of getting this system: http://www.arbico.co.uk/product.php?productid=18472. If anyone could check out the link and recommend any of the available upgrades for the system, then that'd be great - for example, is it worth upgrading the motherboard? Which graphics card...ATI HD4650 1GB or...

CPU Fan: Asus Silent Square Pro. I configured it with Speedfan so it goes up or down depending on the temp. Now Speedfan marks 47º at 1875 RPM That temperature seems to be very high for that fan speed. Is that degrees celsius? Computer idling or under load test? What's the ambient temperature? Idl...

palmtree wrote:
CPU Fan: Asus Silent Square Pro. I configured it with Speedfan so it goes up or down depending on the temp. Now Speedfan marks 47º at 1875 RPM

That temperature seems to be very high for that fan speed.
Is that degrees celsius? Computer idling or under load test? What's the ambient temperature?

Ralf Hutter wrote:You want to see zombies? Wait 'till they legalize dope here in California.....

Shows how little you know about it.

Exactly, BZ-502 is the ideal product if all you need is fan. I put one of these into a Lian Li PC- 07+ just a few days ago. It looks good, only problem was that it was slightly too small (for this particular case anyway) and I had to use small washers as spacers between it and the sides of the bays...

You can monitor the temps with whatever motherboard utility you have or check them in the bios - see what temps match and then rename them in Speedfan to suit.

Well as we've gone right off topic I'll chip in with my thoughts... It's easy to find examples from both ends of the spectrum. So long as there is a great demand for cheap meat there will be battery farming. If the public were concerned enough then they would only buy free range products; the proble...

Since this is not a bullfighting comment I'm not going against what I said earlier about no further comment... 1. God is well and truly done to death in another topic. 2. IF god exists, and I don't believe he does, how do YOU know that he only put animals on this planet for us to eat and not for ent...

I dont believe that there is a single argument that you can offer that shows this bloodsport in a good light, feel free to try and prove me wrong. Andy I can't prove you wrong because there is no wrong or right about this, it's a matter of opinion. The acceptability or not of bloodsports depends on...

I never mentioned "how much" was shaved off of the horns, sounds to me like you know more about this torture and all of the "man vs lame" animal arguments already. Andy I looked on the internet to see where you might be getting your information from - one anti-bloodsports site mentioned the same th...

Yes Andy, it's just so, so easy for the Matador... http://208.106.181.133/_media/imgs/articles2/a96730_a476_israel-lancho.jpg Add that to the one in your original post plus all the rest that get injured each year. Oh, and of course you can clearly see the 4" shaved off the end of the bulls horns. Ye...