Recent content by JHutch

You were. Go find your least favorite teacher in high school. You know, the one that had been beaten down as was just counting the days until retirement. He's retired now and will be happy to tell you just how much a "c**ksucker" you and all your friends were. JHutch

Pretty easy. The camera *isn't* directly behind the actor. If it was, you'd have the actor's head in the middle of the shot (which would make for a boring shot). The camera is usually offset just enough to the side. The actor, in such a shot, is not seeing him/herself in the mirror, but...

On the bright side ... the power supply is usually one of the cheaper and easier things to replace (provided the case isn't some weird non-standard configuration ... in which case all bets are off). JHutch

The problem with the 256 MB cards (I have one myself) is there is a "pausing" bug that manifests. Basically every 15-30 seconds, your display with pause for a fraction of a second. Very annoying. Basically, if you want to sit down and play a game or do some serious work, you'll want to...

Any word when they plan on hitting open beta with this (like the GPU client is currently)? JHutch

George Carlin's take on being so anal about germs! I'm all for being clean and not sneezing on your neighbor ... but you Schadenfroh, are taking it WAY to far. :) JHutch

In my experience, the client is pretty solid (it cranks the heat on the chip, but it runs stable). However, it slows down overall system responsiveness on my machine. The CPU has to poll the card constantly and even though it isn't doing any heavy lifting, it uses an entire core on my core 2...

Wrong. They have to be 640x480 max. Which is still smaller than the 720p and 1080p trailers.

Something else is going on. Either you are mistaken about how long the temperature had been that cold (ie, the water hadn't cooled down enough to freeze yet) or there was a heat source upstream raising the water temp (a natural spring source?). I've seen huge waterfalls completely frozen in...

Happy Birthday, ya crazy coot!

No, it wouldn't. Europe came out of the Dark Ages in a VERY large part due to the influence of Islam. (Read up on how the Crusades brought many new and radical ideas to a stagnate Christian world) JHutch

Are you sure you downloaded everything? Chromosome 1 is 273.78 MB alone. Chromosome 2 is 245.99 MB, etc ... Quick glance shows that each chromosome averages about 200MB. Plus there is a separate X and Y sequence. Quite a bit more than 400MB of data there... See...

Bassyhead is right about the DMA. That being said, with a P3/500, you are going to be limited by the bandwidth of the firecard, not the CPU. Everything is funneling back through a single firewire channel, which means that all the drives together can output far greater bandwidth than the FW...

I think he means: Can the human sexual reproductive system be transplanted/replaced by a completely new system (i.e., replace a man's reproductive system with a woman's)? Answer: No. Some parts can be replaced, but to get a functional whole that can mate and reproduce, no. (At least...

Ok, here is the real story. The universe is actually a great big ball. What we call the "big bang" was actually a huge guy (we'll call him Bill) took the ball and threw it towards another big guy (we'll guy him Bubba). As the ball left his hand, it slowed down as it went upwards in the arc...