It's a birthday present for my sister. She's always been the 'go to Best Buy and pick whatever has the nicest looking screen and is priced between $400 - $500' kind of laptop user. However, I do know she enjoys some casual games like The Sims 3 and might be interested in the new SimCity game...
My mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer (Stage Three) in Oct 2009. She had surgery to remove the tumor, a subtotal hysterectomy (removed the uterus and ovaries) and chemotherapy. Since that time, she has been getting checkups every two-three months to check for recurrence. Things were good...
I have a ton of movies all in Matroska containers. All of them are H.264 MPEG-4 Part 10/AVC (using the x264 encoder) video files with variety of audio formats (AC3/DTS/AAC/MP3) and all of them include subtitles in the SRT format. Some but not all have chapters for easy navigation.
Is there any...
OS is Windows 7 x64.
So I have a few thousand images in a 'Cool Stuff' folder that is essentially a wide range of high-res/high-quality photos and desktop backgrounds I have accumulated over an x amount of time. I want to figure out a easy way to:
1) Organize them by aspect ratio (i.e...
So I recently got back into PC gaming and things are going great so far. I don't mind updates, figuring out minor OS incompatibilities, haven't really experienced any showstopper bugs or glitches. The ones I did were mostly x64-compatibility fixes and Compatibility Mode, Windows Action Center...
Randomly browsing through Youtube and found The Fixer, first single from the new album Backspacer coming out on September 20th.
As the first rock band I truly fell in love with as young one, I suppose I'm a little biased in my opinion. On one hand, I'm not sure I would think much of the song...
Yes yes, I know you must always back up your data. I do have the data backed up - on a crapload of DVDs that would be a pain to put back on my hard drive. Essentially I have a 500GB disk, formatted as a single partition, that's only about 30% full. I just need to make a tiny 20GB partition on...
Available at Newegg
Obviously not a good value but I guess there are certain hardcore nuts out there that might want to run 16GB on a mainstream motherboard.
Around a month back, I was watching Garden State (a 2.40:1 movie) on my 4:3 monitor. This guy (friend's cousin) was at my place and he asked me, "Why do you use WMP? GOM Player is better." I asked him, "Why is that? MPC/WMP+ffdshow is the geek-standard."
He said, "GOM has this feature that...
I borrowed all four Saw movies from a friend. Saw the first three back-to-back last night. Made it about 15 minutes through the fourth movie but I decided I'd had enough of a sensory overload for the night.
I'm normally pretty queasy and I flinched and cringed my way through the second (the...
Was just listening to U2's Running to Stand Still [The Joshua Tree] and I realized that this is probably my favorite type of music. Minimal music, lyrics and vocals that exhibit a feeling of pain and loss...yeah, all the good stuff.
Another song that comes to mind is Alice in Chains' Don't...
Apparently Metallica isn't metal (wtf?) and all of us have got our genres wrong. Here are ten popular artists that just about every body must be familiar with. How would you classify them? Feel free to throw around words like 'post-modern neo-new-age pseudo-psycho-alternative gizmorgasmic...
I'm bored and forum-activity appears to be on a downward trajectory. So..
Scenario: some dude just slid his hands inside your woman's pants in a crowded club/bar. You are extremely furious with rage and it has come down to a fight in an underground parking lot.
Your enemy is a 6'2" former...
...and I felt a little whoozy. Man, I'm weak.
My Mom needed to have some tests done so I took her to the hospital. We were in the waiting room along with this old lady (mid-60s) who had come with two of her daughters. She looked pretty fine - she just sat there in her chair, just looking up...
Anandtech Blog Post
If you guys thought the Gemini's design was a little extreme, take a look at these bad boys: V8 & V10
Update: And the V12.
No performance data but going on looks alone, I must say, I'd love to have the V8 on my desk where I could gaze at its beauty for an...
I know most folks here love movies where the protagonists get fucked up beyond repair, shit hits the ceiling fan and characters crumble to bits and pieces.
Just saw the movie and I was surprised I had never heard of it before (or mentioned in the numerous movie recommendation threads that...
You are pretty sure you have seen all the faces somewhere before - but you don't know where. You are sure you have heard of the Writer/Director before - but you can't put a finger on it. You live under a rock and missed all the pre-release hype, haven't read any reviews or even seen the trailer...
I was just having this conversation with a friend inspired by the 4th of July thread on the person who had their head blown off by a mortar. So:
What is the most absurd/dangerous/reckless/stupid thing you can imagine yourself being a part of? To put it in a better way, if you had to make...
I was just looking at RAM prices and found this on Newegg.
I'm sure some people would be interested.
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB), DDR2 800, 5-5-5-15, $235.99 + $4.99 S&H
Obligatory Linkage: IMDb RottenTomatoes Metacritic
I was extremely bored and desperate for entertainment. It was either this or watching 300 or 'The Namesake' again. At the last second at the counter, I chose this - even though I had checked the RT rating before I headed out.
Bruce Willis...
This is actually from my own town (I even recognized the street). I watched this and was grinning because it is absolutely true.:D Then, I read the comments on the page and realized how utterly strange/crazy/moronic/absurd this must appear to First Worlders.
Crossing a Street in Hyderabad...
Just got back.... I went out at around five in the morning (here) for some tea and cigarettes. On my way back home, I see this old guy (~50) wearing a suit gesturing for a lift. I stop, he hops on my bike and I ask him how far up the road he's going. Now the dude was actually going 2 miles up...
A couple of years ago, I could sit down in a chair, put my feet up, stare at the ceiling and listen to music for 2 straight hours. But these days, I find it almost impossible to do that. Most of my listening is either in the car, or at the barbershop or while I'm surfing the internet or...
Link
I would like to see what ATOT has to say about this. You have the choices above, let's see what we get.
Note: point of thread is not to target above comment
Question:
You know for certain (assume you have conclusive proof in the form of photographic evidence and a witness) that a...
ATI Catalyst 7.1 for Vista and XP
nVidia Forceware 100.54 for Vista vs. 93.71/97.92 for XP
Article says the driver that will be released on the 30th will be an updated version.
Testing was done with 32-bit Vista.
-Crossfire and G80 SLI are clearly not ready and really not worth...
(In no particular order)
1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a ThighMaster.
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only...
Update: It has been nine days since the thread came. I always feel sick, deprived and have a recurring headache problem. I stuck to a 3-5 average - even had a day with just TWO cigarettes. But yesterday, I couldn't handle it so I went out and bought a pack - smoked four cigarettes in quick...
For a lot of people, I am the smartest guy they know of (thanks to my time on Internet Forums). But compared to some of the people on here, I know I'm nowhere close the uber-guru they make me out to be.
Now as a kid, I spent a lot of time with encyclopedias and books, absorbing information on...
Bullet points for easy reading:
-There's a 20-pack carton of Rothman's cigarettes that was packed in June 2005, in my storage room. Bought by my Dad back then. There's 17 packs in it.
-Dad had a moment of clarity and he quit cigarettes over an year ago.
-I was feeling kind of lazy to go out and...
Hyderabad, India
There's this major intersection half a mile away from my home that is always bustling with activity. It connects a densely populated middle-class residential area (where I live) to Jubilee Hills, 5 miles down the road where you have Dell, GE, Google and all the fancy IT...
I run Windows XP with all the latest updates. I remember using IE6 the last time around a week ago; I mostly use Mozilla. I just noticed that IE6 won't work AT ALL. Whenever I click a link or type in an address and hit ENTER, nothing happens. The status bar shows no activity...no nothing...
From the Anandtech Review which uses X1900XT Crossfire running at 1600x1200 (currently accepted as an optimal resolution for the mid-high-end market, lying comfortably between the mainstream 1280x1024 & ultra-high-end 1920x1200/2560x1600)
Considering the $1000 CPUs
(X6800's advantage over...
Clearly, not the most professional review I've ever read. But this really makes me think about the merits of this case. Antec P180 is Sexier Than You!
Check out this excerpt from Page 2:
I just had the most f'ed up dream of my life. This is roughly the gist of it...it seemed to be a strange mix of various movies and I forgot most of the details. This is what I do remember fairly clearly.
****Dream Starts Here
It starts with me, my mom & brother going to my brother's best...
This will either be viewed as a mediocre effort, or a halfway decent step in the right direction.
Using data from recent reviews on Xbitlabs.com (whom I place much faith in), I made an Excel Workbook that compares:
ATi's Radeon X1900XTX, X1900XT and X1800XT to nVidia's Geforce 7900GTX &...
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